List of Famous people who died in 1910

Edward VII

Albert Edward
First Name Edward
Last Name VII
Born on November 9, 1841
Died on May 6, 1910 (aged 68)

Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens
First Name Mark
Last Name Twain
Born on November 30, 1835
Died on April 21, 1910 (aged 74)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

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Robert Koch

Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch
First Name Robert
Last Name Koch
Born on December 11, 1843
Died on May 27, 1910 (aged 66)

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. As one of the main founders of modern bacteriology, he identified the specific causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax and also gave experimental support for the concept of infectious disease, which included experiments on humans and animals. Koch created and improved laboratory technologies and techniques in the field of microbiology, and made key discoveries in public health. His research led to the creation of Koch's postulates, a series of four generalized principles linking specific microorganisms to specific diseases that proved influential on subsequent epidemiological principles such as the Bradford Hill criteria. For his research on tuberculosis, Koch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905. The Robert Koch Institute is named in his honour.

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Florence Nightingale

First Name Florence
Last Name Nightingale
Born on May 12, 1820
Died on August 13, 1910 (aged 90)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Florence Nightingale, was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.

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Elizabeth Blackwell

First Name Elizabeth
Last Name Blackwell
Died on May 31, 1910

Elizabeth Blackwell was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social awareness and moral reformer, and pioneered in promoting education for women in medicine. Her contributions remain celebrated with the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, awarded annually to a woman who has made significant contribution to the promotion of women in medicine.

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Bass Reeves

First Name Bass
Last Name Reeves
Born on July 1, 1838
Died on January 12, 1910 (aged 71)

Bass Reeves was an American law enforcement officer. He was the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River. He worked mostly in Arkansas and the Oklahoma Territory. During his long career, he had on his record more than 3,000 arrests of dangerous criminals, and shot and killed 14 of them in alleged self-defense.

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George Franklin Grant

First Name George
Last Name Grant
Born on September 9, 1847
Died on August 21, 1910 (aged 62)

George Franklin Grant was the first African-American professor at Harvard. He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of a wooden golf tee.

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William James

First Name William
Last Name James
Born on January 11, 1842
Died on August 26, 1910 (aged 68)

William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".

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Chulalongkorn

Born on September 20, 1853
Died on October 23, 1910 (aged 57)
Born in Thailand, Bangkok

Chulalongkorn, also known as King Rama V, reigning title Phra Chula Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua, was the fifth monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri. He was known to the Siamese of his time as Phra Phuttha Chao Luang. His reign was characterised by the modernisation of Siam, governmental and social reforms, and territorial concessions to the British and French. As Siam was surrounded by Western expansionism, Chulalongkorn, through his policies and acts, caused Siam to avoid direct colonisation. All his reforms were dedicated to ensuring Siam's survival in the face of Western colonialism, so that Chulalongkorn earned the epithet Phra Piya Maharat.

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Luo Yixiu

First Name Luo
Last Name Yixiu
Born on October 20, 1889
Died on February 11, 1910 (aged 20)

Luo Yixiu, a Han Chinese woman, was the first wife of the later Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader Mao Zedong, to whom she was married from 1908 until her death. Coming from the area around Shaoshan, Hunan, in south central China – the same region as Mao – her family were impoverished local landowners.

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