List of Famous people who born in 1910

Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan

First Name Patrick
Last Name Heenan
Born on July 29, 1910
Died on February 13, 1942 (aged 31)
Spy

Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan was a captain in the British Indian Army who was convicted of treason, after spying for Japan during the Malayan campaign of World War II. Heenan was reportedly killed by his wardens while in custody during the Battle of Singapore. According to Heenan's biographer, Peter Elphick, these events were suppressed by British Commonwealth military censors.

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Hillevi Svedberg

First Name Hillevi
Born on December 20, 1910
Died on June 19, 1990 (aged 79)

Hillevi Svedberg (1910–1990) was an early Swedish female architect whose work was inspired by Functionalism. She is remembered for introducing showers and bathrooms in working-class housing and for her low-cost collective housing developments with children's care centres. One of her most successful buildings was the Yrkeskvinnornas Kollektivhus or YK-House (1939) in Stockholm's Gärdet district which she designed in collaboration with Albin Stark (1885–1960).

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Joseph Kasa-Vubu

First Name Joseph
Last Name Kasa-Vubu
Born on January 1, 1910
Died on March 24, 1969 (aged 59)

Joseph Kasa-Vubu, alternatively Joseph Kasavubu, was a Congolese politician who served as the first President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1960 until 1965.

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Nail Çakırhan

First Name Nail
Last Name Çakırhan
Born on July 14, 1910
Died on October 10, 2008 (aged 98)
Born in Muğla Province

Nail Çakırhan was a Turkish poet and journalist in his career in the beginning, and later a self-taught and award-winning architect and restorer who left his print particularly in the architecture of the coastal township of Akyaka in southwestern Turkey through old houses he had repaired and restored or new houses built in accordance with the traditional styles and approaches of Turkish/Ottoman/Aegean houses, supplemented with innovative conceptions and designs.

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Jeanne Hersch

First Name Jeanne
Last Name Hersch
Born on July 13, 1910
Died on June 5, 2000 (aged 89)

Jeanne Hersch was a Swiss philosopher of Polish-Jewish origin, whose works dealt with the concept of freedom. She was the daughter of Liebman Hersch.

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Wolfgang Preiss

First Name Wolfgang
Last Name Preiss
Born on February 27, 1910
Died on November 27, 2002 (aged 92)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Wolfgang Preiss was a German theatre, film and television actor.

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Charles Crichton

First Name Charles
Last Name Crichton
Died on September 14, 1999 (aged 29)

Charles Ainslie Crichton was an English film director and editor. Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, he became best known for directing many comedies produced at Ealing Studios and had a 40-year career editing and directing many films and television programmes. For the acclaimed comedy A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Crichton was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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Benzion Netanyahu

Benzion Milejkowski
First Name Benzion
Born on March 25, 1910
Died on April 30, 2012 (aged 102)

Benzion Netanyahu was an Israeli historian. He served as Professor of History at Cornell University. A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state. His field of expertise was the history of the Jews in Spain. He was an editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia and Ze'ev Jabotinsky's personal secretary. Netanyahu was the father of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yonatan Netanyahu, ex-commander of Sayeret Matkal, as well as Iddo Netanyahu, a physician, author and playwright.

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Luis Rosales

First Name Luis
Last Name Rosales
Born on May 31, 1910
Died on October 24, 1992 (aged 82)
Born in Spain, Andalusia

Luis Rosales Camacho was a Spanish poet and essay writer member of the Generation of '36.

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Mikel Dufrenne

Louis Joseph Michel-Ange Dufrenne
First Name Mikel
Born on February 9, 1910
Died on June 10, 1995 (aged 85)

Mikel Dufrenne was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of existentialism and is particularly noted for the work The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience.

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