February 10

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Events

Births

  • 1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
  • 1524 – Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
  • 1606 – Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
  • 1609 – John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
  • 1685 – Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
  • 1775 – Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
  • 1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
  • 1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
  • 1795 – Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
  • 1846 – Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
  • 1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
  • 1859 – Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
  • 1868 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia, son of Emperor Frederick III (d. 1879)
  • 1884 – Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
  • 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
  • 1890 – Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1918)
  • 1892 – Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
  • 1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980)
  • 1893 – Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
  • 1894 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1957-1963 (d. 1986)
  • 1897 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
  • 1897 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985)
  • 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
  • 1898 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
  • 1901 – Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
  • 1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
  • 1903 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
  • 1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
  • 1904 – John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963)
  • 1905 – Walter A. Brown, Boston Celtics Owner (d.1964)
  • 1906 – Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
  • 1906 – Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
  • 1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
  • 1913 – Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
  • 1914 – Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
  • 1920 – Alex Comfort, British physician and writer (d. 2000)
  • 1924 – Bud Poile, Canadian hockey player and executive (d. 2005)
  • 1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
  • 1927 – Leontyne Price, American soprano
  • 1927 – Brian Priestman, British conductor
  • 1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
  • 1929 – Jim and Lou Whittaker, American mountaineers
  • 1930 – E.L. Konigsburg, American author
  • 1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor
  • 1931 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
  • 1931 – Doug Young, American voice actor
  • 1933 – Richard Schickel, American film critic
  • 1934 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
  • 1935 – John Alcorn, American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
  • 1935 – Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer
  • 1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer
  • 1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
  • 1940 – Mary Rand, British athlete
  • 1941 – Michael Apted, British director
  • 1943 – Bill Laskey, American football player
  • 1944 – Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
  • 1944 – Frank Keating, American politician
  • 1944 – Frances Moore Lappe, American writer and activist
  • 1944 – Rufus Reid, American musician
  • 1944 – Vernor Vinge, American novelist
  • 1946 – Eliot Wald, American comedy writer
  • 1947 – Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
  • 1947 – Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
  • 1947 – Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
  • 1948 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
  • 1949 – Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter
  • 1949 – Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
  • 1949 – Nigel Olsson, British musician
  • 1949 – Harold Sylvester, American actor
  • 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
  • 1951 – Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
  • 1952 – Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
  • 1954 – Larry McWilliams, baseball player
  • 1955 – Chris Adams, British wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
  • 1955 – Jim Cramer, American television personality
  • 1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer
  • 1958 – Michael Weiss, American musician
  • 1959 – John Calipari, American basketball coach
  • 1959 – Dennis Gentry, American football player
  • 1959 – Lisa McPherson, American Scientologist (d. 1995)
  • 1960 – Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
  • 1961 – Alexander Payne, American film director
  • 1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator
  • 1962 – Cliff Burton, American musician (Metallica) (d. 1986)
  • 1962 – Bobby Czyz, American boxer
  • 1962 – Piero Pelù, Italian singer and songwriter (Litfiba)
  • 1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
  • 1963 – Philip Glenister, English actor
  • 1964 – Glenn Beck, American radio and television host
  • 1964 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
  • 1964 – Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
  • 1964 – Francesca Neri, Italian actress
  • 1965 – Mario Jean, Quebec comedian and television actor
  • 1966 – Daryl Johnston, American football player
  • 1966 – Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
  • 1967 – Laura Dern, American actress
  • 1967 – Jacky Durand, French cyclist
  • 1967 – Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
  • 1968 – Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player
  • 1968 – Garrett Reisman, NASA astronaut
  • 1968 – Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
  • 1969 – Laurie Dhue, American television personality
  • 1969 – Joe Mangrum, American artist
  • 1970 – Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
  • 1970 – Melissa Doyle, Australian TV personality
  • 1970 – Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
  • 1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
  • 1970 – Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
  • 1971 – Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
  • 1971 – Lisa Marie Varon, American wrestler
  • 1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress
  • 1974 – Ty Law, American football player
  • 1974 – Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
  • 1974 – Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
  • 1975 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
  • 1975 – Kool Savas, German rapper
  • 1976 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player
  • 1976 – Keeley Hawes, English actress
  • 1976 – Vedran Runje, Croatian footballer
  • 1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
  • 1978 – Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
  • 1978 – Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
  • 1979 – Daryl Palumbo, American musician
  • 1979 – Ross Powers, American snowboarder
  • 1980 – César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
  • 1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer
  • 1981 – Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
  • 1981 – Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
  • 1982 – Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
  • 1982 – Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
  • 1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
  • 1984 – Alex Gordon, American baseball player
  • 1984 – Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
  • 1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
  • 1986 – Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
  • 1986 – Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
  • 1987 – Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior)
  • 1989 – Bunmi Mojekwu, British actress
  • 1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress
  • 1994 – Makenzie Vega, American actress
  • 1997 – Chloë Moretz, American actress

Deaths

  • 1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
  • 1162 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
  • 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
  • 1278 – Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
  • 1576 – Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
  • 1645 – Dorothea Sophia, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1587)
  • 1686 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
  • 1722 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
  • 1755 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
  • 1758 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
  • 1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
  • 1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
  • 1837 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
  • 1857 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
  • 1865 – Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
  • 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
  • 1904 – John A. Roche, American politician (b. 1844)
  • 1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
  • 1912 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
  • 1917 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
  • 1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
  • 1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
  • 1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
  • 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
  • 1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
  • 1944 – Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer (b. 1870)
  • 1945 – Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
  • 1950 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
  • 1952 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist (b. 1880)
  • 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
  • 1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
  • 1964 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
  • 1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
  • 1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
  • 1984 – David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
  • 1985 – Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
  • 1987 – Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
  • 1990 – Bill Sherwood, American filmmaker/composer (b. 1952)
  • 1992 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
  • 1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
  • 1995 – Paul Monette, American author and gay rights activist (b. 1945)
  • 1997 – Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
  • 2000 – Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 2001 – Abraham Beame, American politician (b. 1906)
  • 2001 – George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
  • 2002 – Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
  • 2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
  • 2003 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
  • 2003 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
  • 2003 – Clark MacGregor, American politician (b. 1922)
  • 2003 – Al Ruffo, American politician (b. 1908)
  • 2003 – Ron Ziegler, American press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
  • 2004 – Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
  • 2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
  • 2006 – J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
  • 2006 – Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
  • 2007 – Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
  • 2007 – Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
  • 2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
  • 2008 – Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
  • 2008 – Adeline Jay Geo-Karis, American politician (b. 1918)
  • 2009 – Jeremy Lusk, American freestyle motocross racer (b. 1984)
  • 2009 – Leila Hadley, American travel writer and socialite (b. 1926)
  • 2010 – Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
  • 2010 – Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1925)

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