1910

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 - 1910 - 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915

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Births

• March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director

Deaths

• May 27: Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (German bacteriologist)
• November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace)

Events

• creation of the Union of South Africa

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
• Chemistry - Otto Wallach
• Medicine - Albrecht Kossel
• Literature - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
• Peace - Permanent International Peace Bureau