February 10 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on February 10 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 21 Bahman 1404.

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Famous people born on February 10

Events (41)

1258 (768 years ago) The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.
1306 (720 years ago) In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1355 (671 years ago) The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1392 (634 years ago) Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.
1502 (524 years ago) Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1567 (459 years ago) Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
1712 (314 years ago) Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.
1763 (263 years ago) French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1814 (212 years ago) Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
1840 (186 years ago) Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
1846 (180 years ago) First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
1861 (165 years ago) Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1862 (164 years ago) American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1906 (120 years ago) HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.
1920 (106 years ago) Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1920 (106 years ago) About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
1923 (103 years ago) Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1930 (96 years ago) The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.
1933 (93 years ago) In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
1936 (90 years ago) Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1939 (87 years ago) Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
1940 (86 years ago) The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 (79 years ago) The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
1954 (72 years ago) U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 (64 years ago) Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1964 (62 years ago) Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
1967 (59 years ago) The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1972 (54 years ago) Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
1984 (42 years ago) Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
1989 (37 years ago) Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 (30 years ago) IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
2003 (23 years ago) France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2004 (22 years ago) Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport.
2009 (17 years ago) The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
2013 (13 years ago) Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
2016 (10 years ago) South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
2018 (8 years ago) Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.
2021 (5 years ago) The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 (5 years ago) Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts.
2026 Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead and 27 injured.

Births (218)

1486 (540 years ago) George of the Palatinate, German bishop (died 1529)
1499 (527 years ago) Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (died 1582)
1514 (512 years ago) Domenico Bollani, Bishop of Brescia (died 1579)
1606 (420 years ago) Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (died 1663)
1609 (417 years ago) John Suckling, English poet and playwright (died 1642)
1627 (399 years ago) Cornelis de Bie, Flemish poet and jurist (died 1715)
1685 (341 years ago) Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (died 1750)
1696 (330 years ago) Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (died 1765)
1766 (260 years ago) Benjamin Smith Barton, American botanist and physician (died 1815)
1775 (251 years ago) Charles Lamb, English poet and essayist (died 1834)
1785 (241 years ago) Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (died 1836)
1795 (231 years ago) Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (died 1858)
1797 (229 years ago) George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (died 1883)
1821 (205 years ago) Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1908)
1824 (202 years ago) Samuel Plimsoll, English merchant and politician (died 1898)
1829 (197 years ago) Julius von Szymanowski, Russian surgeon of Polish-German origin (died 1868)
1842 (184 years ago) Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (died 1907)
1843 (183 years ago) Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (died 1919)
1846 (180 years ago) Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician (died 1919)
1846 (180 years ago) Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (died 1927)
1847 (179 years ago) Nabinchandra Sen, Bangladeshi poet and author (died 1909)
1856 (170 years ago) Fredericus van Rossum du Chattel, Dutch painter (died 1917)
1859 (167 years ago) Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (died 1943)
1867 (159 years ago) Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and public servant (died 1957)
1868 (158 years ago) Prince Waldemar of Prussia,
1868 (158 years ago) William Allen White, American journalist and author (died 1944)
1869 (157 years ago) Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)
1879 (147 years ago) Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (died 1932)
1881 (145 years ago) Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (died 1954)
1883 (143 years ago) Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (died 1959)
1883 (143 years ago) H. V. Hordern, Australian cricketer (died 1938)
1888 (138 years ago) Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet (died 1970)
1890 (136 years ago) Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist (died 1918)
1890 (136 years ago) Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
1892 (134 years ago) Alan Hale Sr., American actor and director (died 1950)
1893 (133 years ago) Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and pianist (died 1980)
1893 (133 years ago) Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach (died 1953)
1894 (132 years ago) Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
1897 (129 years ago) Judith Anderson, Australian actress (died 1992)
1897 (129 years ago) John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
1898 (128 years ago) Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (died 1956)
1898 (128 years ago) Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (died 1979)
1899 (127 years ago) Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (died 1982)
1901 (125 years ago) Stella Adler, American actress and educator (died 1992)
1902 (124 years ago) Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
1903 (123 years ago) Waldemar Hoven, German physician (died 1948)
1903 (123 years ago) Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (died 1939)
1904 (122 years ago) John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1963)
1905 (121 years ago) Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (died 1964)
1905 (121 years ago) Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (died 1939)
1906 (120 years ago) Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (died 1973)
1907 (119 years ago) Anthony Cottrell, New Zealand rugby player (died 1988)
1908 (118 years ago) Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (died 2000)
1909 (117 years ago) Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, scholar, and politician (died 2004)
1910 (116 years ago) Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1969)
1914 (112 years ago) Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (died 2001)
1915 (111 years ago) Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (died 2016)
1919 (107 years ago) Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (died 2014)
1920 (106 years ago) José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (died 2001)
1920 (106 years ago) Alex Comfort, English physician and author (died 2000)
1920 (106 years ago) Neva Patterson, American actress (died 2010)
1922 (104 years ago) Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (died 2015)
1922 (104 years ago) José Gabriel da Costa, Brazilian spiritual leader, founder of the União do Vegetal (died 1971)
1923 (103 years ago) Allie Sherman, American football player and coach (died 2015)
1924 (102 years ago) Max Ferguson, Canadian radio host and actor (died 2013)
1924 (102 years ago) Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2005)
1925 (101 years ago) Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (died 2012)
1926 (100 years ago) Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (died 2013)
1926 (100 years ago) Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish soldier, footballer and manager (died 1993)
1927 (99 years ago) Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano
1929 (97 years ago) Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (died 2004)
1929 (97 years ago) Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
1929 (97 years ago) Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer (died 2024)
1930 (96 years ago) E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (died 2013)
1930 (96 years ago) Robert Wagner, American actor and producer
1931 (95 years ago) James West, American inventor and acoustician
1932 (94 years ago) Barrie Ingham, English-American actor (died 2015)
1933 (93 years ago) Faramarz Payvar, Iranian musician and composer (died 2009)
1933 (93 years ago) Richard Schickel, American journalist, author, and critic (died 2017)
1934 (92 years ago) Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet (died 2024)
1935 (91 years ago) Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor (died 2018)
1935 (91 years ago) Barbara Maier Gustern, American vocal coach and singer (died 2022)
1937 (89 years ago) Anne Anderson, Scottish physiologist and academic (died 1983)
1937 (89 years ago) Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2025)
1939 (87 years ago) Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor General of Canada
1939 (87 years ago) Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida, Angolan nationalist (died 1967)
1940 (86 years ago) Mary Rand, English sprinter and long jumper (died 2026)
1940 (86 years ago) Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (died 2009)
1941 (85 years ago) Michael Apted, English director and producer (died 2021)
1941 (85 years ago) Dick Carlson, American journalist and diplomat (died 2025)
1944 (82 years ago) Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 1992)
1944 (82 years ago) Frank Keating, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
1944 (82 years ago) Frances Moore Lappé, American author and activist
1944 (82 years ago) Rufus Reid, American bassist and composer
1945 (81 years ago) Delma S. Arrigoitia, Puerto Rican historian, author, educator and lawyer (died 2023)
1945 (81 years ago) Glynn Saulters, American basketball player
1946 (80 years ago) Dick Anderson, American football player
1947 (79 years ago) Louise Arbour, Canadian lawyer and jurist
1947 (79 years ago) Butch Morris, American cornet player, composer, and conductor (died 2013)
1947 (79 years ago) Nicholas Owen, English journalist
1949 (77 years ago) Nigel Olsson, English rock drummer and singer-songwriter
1950 (76 years ago) Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, Mexican economist and politician (died 1994)
1950 (76 years ago) Mark Spitz, American swimmer
1951 (75 years ago) Bob Iger, American media executive
1952 (74 years ago) Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
1955 (71 years ago) Jim Cramer, American television personality, pundit, and author
1955 (71 years ago) Tom LaGarde, American basketball player
1955 (71 years ago) Greg Norman, Australian golfer and sportscaster
1956 (70 years ago) Kathleen Beller, American actress
1956 (70 years ago) James Martin Graham, American Roman Catholic priest (died 1997)
1956 (70 years ago) Enele Sopoaga, Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
1957 (69 years ago) Katherine Freese, American astrophysicist and academic
1958 (68 years ago) Ricardo Gareca, Argentine footballer and manager
1959 (67 years ago) John Calipari, American basketball player and coach
1960 (66 years ago) Jim Kent, American biologist, computer programmer, academic
1961 (65 years ago) Alexander Payne, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 (65 years ago) George Stephanopoulos, American television journalist
1962 (64 years ago) Cliff Burton, American musician and songwriter (died 1986)
1962 (64 years ago) Bobby Czyz, American boxer and commentator
1962 (64 years ago) Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963 (63 years ago) Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
1964 (62 years ago) Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
1966 (60 years ago) Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician
1966 (60 years ago) Daryl Johnston, American football player and sportscaster
1966 (60 years ago) David Cordani, American businessman
1967 (59 years ago) Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
1967 (59 years ago) Jacky Durand, French cyclist and sportscaster
1967 (59 years ago) Vince Gilligan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 (58 years ago) Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1968 (58 years ago) Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
1969 (57 years ago) Joe Mangrum, American painter and sculptor
1969 (57 years ago) James Small, South African rugby player (died 2019)
1970 (56 years ago) Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist and author
1970 (56 years ago) Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer and manager
1970 (56 years ago) Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist and author
1971 (55 years ago) Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (died 2015)
1972 (54 years ago) Michael Kasprowicz, Australian cricketer
1973 (53 years ago) Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and politician
1974 (52 years ago) Elizabeth Banks, American actress
1974 (52 years ago) Ty Law, American football player
1974 (52 years ago) Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
1974 (52 years ago) Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1975 (51 years ago) Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player
1975 (51 years ago) Tina Thompson, American basketball player and coach
1976 (50 years ago) Lance Berkman, American baseball player and coach
1976 (50 years ago) Keeley Hawes, English actress
1977 (49 years ago) Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1978 (48 years ago) Don Omar, Puerto Rican rapper, singer, producer, and actor
1979 (47 years ago) Joey Hand, American race car driver
1980 (46 years ago) César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 (46 years ago) Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer and manager
1980 (46 years ago) Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 (46 years ago) Bruno Šundov, Croatian basketball player
1981 (45 years ago) Uzo Aduba, American actress
1981 (45 years ago) Stephanie Beatriz, American actress
1981 (45 years ago) Max Brown, English actor
1981 (45 years ago) Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1981 (45 years ago) Barry Sloane, English actor
1981 (45 years ago) Holly Willoughby, English model and television host
1982 (44 years ago) Hamad Al-Tayyar, Kuwaiti footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
1982 (44 years ago) Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
1983 (43 years ago) Vic Fuentes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984 (42 years ago) Greg Bird, Australian rugby league player
1984 (42 years ago) Alex Gordon, American baseball player
1984 (42 years ago) Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1984 (42 years ago) Zaza Pachulia, Georgian basketball player
1985 (41 years ago) Selçuk İnan, Turkish footballer
1985 (41 years ago) Paul Millsap, American basketball player
1986 (40 years ago) Jeff Adrien, American basketball player
1986 (40 years ago) Josh Akognon, American basketball player
1986 (40 years ago) Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Nahuel Guzmán, Argentine footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Roberto Jiménez, Spanish footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
1987 (39 years ago) Justin Braun, American ice hockey player
1987 (39 years ago) Jakub Kindl, Czech ice hockey player
1987 (39 years ago) Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine footballer
1988 (38 years ago) Francesco Acerbi, Italian footballer
1989 (37 years ago) Travis d'Arnaud, American baseball player
1989 (37 years ago) Liam Hendriks, Australian baseball player
1989 (37 years ago) Birgit Skarstein, Norwegian Paralympic athlete and social entrepreneur
1990 (36 years ago) Yuri Berchiche, Spanish footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Trevante Rhodes, American actor
1990 (36 years ago) Choi Soo-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
1991 (35 years ago) C. J. Anderson, American football player
1991 (35 years ago) Rebecca Dempster, Scottish footballer
1991 (35 years ago) Emma Roberts, American actress
1992 (34 years ago) Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer and actress
1992 (34 years ago) Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
1993 (33 years ago) Yasser Ibrahim, Egyptian footballer
1993 (33 years ago) Max Kepler, German-American baseball player
1993 (33 years ago) Luis Madrigal, Mexican footballer
1993 (33 years ago) Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer
1994 (32 years ago) Son Na-eun, South Korean singer and actress
1994 (32 years ago) Kang Seul-gi, South Korean singer
1994 (32 years ago) Makenzie Vega, American actress
1994 (32 years ago) Miguel Almirón, Paraguayan footballer
1995 (31 years ago) Sterling Brown, American basketball player
1995 (31 years ago) Bobby Portis, American basketball player
1995 (31 years ago) Carolane Soucisse, Canadian ice dancer
1995 (31 years ago) Lexi Thompson, American golfer
1995 (31 years ago) Naby Keïta, Guinean footballer
1996 (30 years ago) Alexandar Georgiev, Bulgarian-Russian ice hockey player
1996 (30 years ago) Emanuel Mammana, Argentine footballer
1997 (29 years ago) Josh Jackson, American basketball player
1997 (29 years ago) Lilly King, American swimmer
1997 (29 years ago) Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
1997 (29 years ago) Nadia Podoroska, Argentine tennis player
1997 (29 years ago) Josh Rosen, American football player
1997 (29 years ago) Adam Armstrong, English footballer
1999 (27 years ago) Tiffany Espensen, American actress
2000 (26 years ago) María Carlé, Argentine tennis player
2000 (26 years ago) Yara Shahidi, American actress and model
2001 (25 years ago) Sergio Camello, Spanish footballer
2006 (20 years ago) Megan Skiendiel, American singer, dancer and actress
2009 (17 years ago) Antonio Arena, Italian footballer

Deaths (86)

547 (1479 years ago) Scholastica, Christian nun
1127 (899 years ago) William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (born 1071)
1163 (863 years ago) Baldwin III of Jerusalem,
1242 (784 years ago) Emperor Shijō of Japan,
1280 (746 years ago) Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (born 1202)
1306 (720 years ago) John "the Red" Comyn, Scottish nobleman
1307 (719 years ago) Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (born 1265)
1346 (680 years ago) Blessed Clare of Rimini,
1471 (555 years ago) Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg (born 1413)
1524 (502 years ago) Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (born 1468)
1526 (500 years ago) John V, Count of Oldenburg, German noble (born 1460)
1567 (459 years ago) Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1545)
1576 (450 years ago) Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar, translator, and academic (born 1532)
1660 (366 years ago) Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (born 1609)
1686 (340 years ago) William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (born 1605)
1752 (274 years ago) Henriette of France, French Princess (born1727)
1755 (271 years ago) Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (born 1689)
1782 (244 years ago) Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and author (born 1702)
1829 (197 years ago) Pope Leo XII,
1831 (195 years ago) Peter Heywood, British naval officer (born 1772)
1837 (189 years ago) Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (born 1799)
1846 (180 years ago) Maria Aletta Hulshoff, Dutch feminist and pamphleteer (born 1781)
1854 (172 years ago) José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general (born 1792)
1857 (169 years ago) David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (born 1770)
1865 (161 years ago) Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (born 1804)
1879 (147 years ago) Honoré Daumier, French illustrator and painter (born 1808)
1887 (139 years ago) Ellen Wood, English author (born 1814)
1891 (135 years ago) Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (born 1850)
1904 (122 years ago) John A. Roche, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (born 1844)
1906 (120 years ago) Ezra Butler Eddy, American-Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)
1912 (114 years ago) Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (born 1827)
1913 (113 years ago) Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (born 1888)
1917 (109 years ago) John William Waterhouse, English painter (born 1849)
1918 (108 years ago) Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1842)
1918 (108 years ago) Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1833)
1920 (106 years ago) Henry Strangways, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of South Australia (born 1832)
1923 (103 years ago) Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
1928 (98 years ago) José Sánchez del Río, Mexican martyr and saint (born 1913)
1932 (94 years ago) Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (born 1875)
1939 (87 years ago) Pope Pius XI,
1944 (82 years ago) E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (born 1870)
1945 (81 years ago) Anacleto Díaz, Filipino lawyer and jurist (born 1878)
1950 (76 years ago) Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (born 1872)
1956 (70 years ago) Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (born 1872)
1956 (70 years ago) Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1882)
1957 (69 years ago) Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (born 1867)
1960 (66 years ago) Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (born 1898)
1966 (60 years ago) Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (born 1899)
1967 (59 years ago) Dionysios Kokkinos, Greek historian and author (born 1884)
1975 (51 years ago) Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (born 1910)
1979 (47 years ago) Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1910)
1992 (34 years ago) Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (born 1921)
1993 (33 years ago) Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (born 1929)
1995 (31 years ago) Paul Monette, American author, poet, and activist (born 1945)
1997 (29 years ago) Brian Connolly, Scottish musician (born 1945)
2000 (26 years ago) Jim Varney, American actor, comedian and writer (born 1949)
2001 (25 years ago) Abraham Beame, American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (born 1906)
2001 (25 years ago) Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1913)
2002 (24 years ago) Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
2003 (23 years ago) Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (born 1910)
2003 (23 years ago) Albert J. Ruffo, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (born 1908)
2003 (23 years ago) Ron Ziegler, American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (born 1939)
2005 (21 years ago) Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (born 1915)
2006 (20 years ago) James Yancey, American record producer and rapper (born 1974)
2008 (18 years ago) Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (born 1932)
2010 (16 years ago) Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (born 1925)
2010 (16 years ago) Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (born 1933)
2011 (15 years ago) Trevor Bailey, English cricketer and journalist (born 1923)
2012 (14 years ago) Lloyd Morrison, New Zealand banker and businessman, founded H. R. L. Morrison & Co (born 1957)
2012 (14 years ago) Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (born 1958)
2013 (13 years ago) W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (born 1927)
2013 (13 years ago) David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (born 1931)
2014 (12 years ago) Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (born 1932)
2014 (12 years ago) Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (born 1928)
2015 (11 years ago) Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (born 1934)
2015 (11 years ago) Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (born 1928)
2015 (11 years ago) Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (born 1915)
2016 (10 years ago) Fatima Surayya Bajia, Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (born 1930)
2017 (9 years ago) Mike Ilitch, American businessman (born 1929)
2019 (7 years ago) Carmen Argenziano, American actor (born 1943)
2019 (7 years ago) Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (born 1944)
2021 (5 years ago) Larry Flynt, American publisher (born 1942)
2022 (4 years ago) Olsen Filipaina, New Zealand rugby league player (born 1957)
2023 (3 years ago) AKA, South African rapper (born 1988)
2025 (a year ago) Peter Tuiasosopo, American football player and actor (born 1963)
2026 Jose de Venecia Jr., Filipino politician and journalist, 17th and 21st Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives (born 1936)