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Born on Sunday August 7, 1910
Died on Sunday August 7, 1910

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from August 7, 1910 at Delpher


Born on August 7
  • 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
  • 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
  • 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
  • 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
  • 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)
  • 1911 » Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter († 1979)
  • 1913 » George Van Eps, American guitarist († 1998)
  • 1916 » Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer († 2008)
  • 1918 » C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator († 1985)
  • 1918 » Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author († 2007)

Died on August 7

Names that were popular for boys in 1910
  1. Johannes
  2. Jan
  3. Cornelis
  4. Hendrik
  5. Willem
  6. Pieter
  7. Petrus
  8. Jacobus
  9. Adrianus
  10. Antonius
  11. Gerrit
  12. Wilhelmus
  13. Gerardus
  14. Jacob
  15. Hendrikus
  16. Joseph
Names that were popular for girls in 1910
  1. Maria
  2. Johanna
  3. Cornelia
  4. Anna
  5. Wilhelmina
  6. Elisabeth
  7. Catharina
  8. Hendrika
  9. Adriana
  10. Petronella
  11. Jacoba
  12. Helena
  13. Geertruida
  14. Antonia
  15. Margaretha
  16. Marie

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1910
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
  • April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
  • November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
  • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
The weather on Sunday August 7, 1910
The temperature on August 7, 1910 was between 9.5 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.

Source: KNMI