1910
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1910 was the 10th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1910s decade.
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Art and culture
- Post-Impressionism coined
- The term expressionism is coined by Antonín Matějček
- Theodor Reik meets Sigmund Freud
- First cases of nasal damage from cocaine snorting are reported in medical literature
- Gaumont-Palace Paris
- The first important purpose-built cinema was the Gaumont Film Company's Gaumont-Palace in Paris, which opened in 1910 and could seat 5,000 people.
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Literature
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- "Ornament and Crime" by Adolf Loos
- Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood by Sigmund Freud
- Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
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Film
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Births
- Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
- Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999)
- April 12 - Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic and philosopher (Kitsch: The world of Bad Taste) (d. 2018)
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Deaths
- Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
- Henri Rousseau (1844 - 1910)
- June 5 - O. Henry, American writer (b. 1862)
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