Date
February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 324 days remain until the end of the year (325 in leap years ).
Events Pre-1600 1258 – Mongol invasions : Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.[1] 1306 – 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 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford , England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.[2] 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon , Portugal, on his second voyage to India.[3] 1567 – 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.1601–1900 1901–present 1906 – HMS Dreadnought , the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships , is christened.[5] 1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea , celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.1920 – About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites .1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas .1930 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam .1933 – 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 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War : Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.1939 – Spanish Civil War : The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.1943 – 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 – The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II .1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam .1962 – Cold War : Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel .1964 – 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 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.1972 – Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates , now making up seven emirates.1984 – Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre .1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee , becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party .1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.2003 – 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 .2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit , destroying both.2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad , India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.2016 – 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 – Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns .2021 – The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic .[6] Births Pre-1600 1601–1900 1606 – Christine of France , Duchess of Savoy (d. 1663)1609 – John Suckling , English poet and playwright (d. 1642)1627 – Cornelis de Bie , Flemish poet and jurist (d. 1715)1685 – Aaron Hill , English poet and playwright (d. 1750)1696 – Johann Melchior Molter , German violinist and composer (d. 1765)1744 – William Cornwallis , English admiral and politician (d. 1819)1766 – Benjamin Smith Barton , American botanist and physician (d. 1815)1775 – Charles Lamb , English poet and essayist (d. 1834)1785 – Claude-Louis Navier , French physicist and engineer (d. 1836)1795 – Ary Scheffer , Dutch-French painter and academic (d. 1858)1797 – George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (d. 1883)1821 – Roberto Bompiani , Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1908)1824 – Samuel Plimsoll , English merchant and politician (d. 1898)1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke , Irish astronomer and author (d. 1907)[7] 1843 – Adelina Patti , Italian-French opera singer (d. 1919)1846 – Lord Charles Beresford , Irish admiral and politician (d. 1919)1846 – Ira Remsen , American chemist and academic (d. 1927)[8]
1847 – Nabinchandra Sen , Bangladeshi poet and author (d. 1909)1859 – Alexandre Millerand , French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (d. 1943)1867 – Robert Garran , Australian lawyer and public servant (d. 1957)1868 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (d. 1879)1868 – William Allen White , American journalist and author (d. 1944)
1869 – Royal Cortissoz , American art critic (d. 1948)1879 – Ernst Põdder , Estonian general (d. 1932)1881 – Pauline Brunius , Swedish actress and director (d. 1954)1883 – Edith Clarke , American electrical engineer (d. 1959)1883 – H.V. Hordern , Australian cricketer (d. 1938)
1889 – Cevdet Sunay , Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982)1890 – Fanny Kaplan , Ukrainian-Russian activist (d. 1918)1890 – Boris Pasternak , Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
1892 – Alan Hale Sr. , American actor and director (d. 1950)1893 – Jimmy Durante , American actor, singer, and pianist (d. 1980)1893 – Bill Tilden , American tennis player and coach (d. 1953)
1894 – Harold Macmillan , English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)1897 – Judith Anderson , Australian actress (d. 1992)1897 – John Franklin Enders , American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)[9]
1898 – Bertolt Brecht , German director, playwright, and poet (d. 1956)1898 – Joseph Kessel , French journalist and author (d. 1979) 1901–present 1901 – Stella Adler , American actress and educator (d. 1992)1902 – Walter Houser Brattain , Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)1903 – Waldemar Hoven , German physician (d. 1948)1903 – Matthias Sindelar , Austrian footballer and manager (d. 1939)
1904 – John Farrow , Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1963)1905 – Walter A. Brown , American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (d. 1964)1905 – Chick Webb , American drummer and bandleader (d. 1939)
1906 – Lon Chaney Jr. , American actor (d. 1973)1907 – Anthony Cottrell , New Zealand rugby player (d. 1988)1908 – Jean Coulthard , Canadian composer and educator (d. 2000)[10] 1909 – Min Thu Wun , Burmese poet, scholar, and politician (d. 2004)1910 – Dominique Pire , Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)1914 – Larry Adler , American harmonica player, composer, and actor (d. 2001)1915 – Vladimir Zeldin , Russian actor (d. 2016)1919 – Ioannis Charalambopoulos , Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2014)1920 – Alex Comfort , English physician and author (d. 2000)1920 – Neva Patterson , American actress (d. 2010)
1920 – José Manuel Castañón , Spanish lawyer and author (d. 2001)
1922 – Árpád Göncz , Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (d. 2015)1922 – José Gabriel da Costa later known as Mestre Gabriel, Brazilian spiritual leader, founder of the União do Vegetal (d. 1971)
1923 – Allie Sherman , American football player and coach (d. 2015)1924 – Max Ferguson , Canadian radio host and actor (d. 2013)1924 – Bud Poile , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)
1925 – Pierre Mondy , French actor and director (d. 2012)1926 – Sidney Bryan Berry , American general (d. 2013)1926 – Danny Blanchflower , Northern Irish soldier, footballer and manager (d. 1993)
1927 – Leontyne Price , American operatic soprano1929 – Jerry Goldsmith , American composer and conductor (d. 2004)1929 – Jim Whittaker , American mountaineer
1929 – Lou Whittaker , American mountaineer
1930 – E. L. Konigsburg , American author and illustrator (d. 2013)1930 – Robert Wagner , American actor and producer
1931 – James Edward Maceo West , American inventor and acoustician1932 – Barrie Ingham , English-American actor (d. 2015)1933 – Richard Schickel , American journalist, author, and critic (d. 2017)1933 – Faramarz Payvar , Iranian santur player and composer (d. 2009)
1935 – Theodore Antoniou , Greek composer and conductor (d. 2018)1937 – Anne Anderson , Scottish physiologist and academic (d. 1983)1937 – Roberta Flack , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1939 – Adrienne Clarkson , Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor General of Canada 1939 – Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida , Angolan nationalist (d. 1967)
1940 – Mary Rand , English sprinter and long jumper1940 – Kenny Rankin , American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
1941 – Michael Apted , English director and producer (d. 2021)1944 – Peter Allen , Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1992)1944 – Frank Keating , American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
1944 – Frances Moore Lappé , American author and activist
1944 – Rufus Reid , American bassist and composer
1945 – Delma S. Arrigoitia , Puerto Rican historian, author, educator and lawyer1947 – Louise Arbour , Canadian lawyer and jurist1947 – Butch Morris , American cornet player, composer, and conductor (d. 2013)
1947 – Nicholas Owen , English journalist
1949 – Nigel Olsson , English rock drummer and singer-songwriter1950 – Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta , Mexican economist and politician (d. 1994)1950 – Mark Spitz , American swimmer
1951 – Bob Iger , American media executive1952 – Lee Hsien Loong , Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore 1955 – Jim Cramer , American television personality, pundit, and author1955 – Greg Norman , Australian golfer and sportscaster
1956 – James Martin Graham , American Roman Catholic priest (d. 1997)1956 – Enele Sopoaga , Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu 1957 – Katherine Freese , American astrophysicist and academic1959 – John Calipari , American basketball player and coach1960 – Jim Kent , American biologist, computer programmer, academic1961 – Alexander Payne , American director, producer, and screenwriter1961 – George Stephanopoulos , American television journalist
1962 – Randy Velischek , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1962 – Cliff Burton , American heavy metal bassist (d. 1986)
1963 – Lenny Dykstra , American baseball player1964 – Glenn Beck , American journalist, producer, and author1966 – Natalie Bennett , Australian-English journalist and politician1966 – Daryl Johnston , American football player and sportscaster
1967 – Laura Dern , American actress, director, and producer1967 – Jacky Durand , French cyclist and sportscaster
1967 – Vince Gilligan , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Peter Popovic , Swedish ice hockey player and coach1968 – Garrett Reisman , American engineer and astronaut
1969 – Joe Mangrum , American painter and sculptor1969 – James Small , South African rugby player (d. 2019)
1970 – Melissa Doyle , Australian journalist and author1970 – Noureddine Naybet , Moroccan international footballer and manager[11]
1970 – Åsne Seierstad , Norwegian journalist and author
1971 – Lorena Rojas , Mexican actress and singer (d. 2015)1972 – Michael Kasprowicz , Australian cricketer1973 – Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho , English businesswoman and politician1974 – Elizabeth Banks , American actress1974 – Ty Law , American football player
1974 – Ivri Lider , Israeli singer
1974 – Henry Paul , New Zealand rugby player and coach
1976 – Lance Berkman , American baseball player and coach1976 – Keeley Hawes , English actress
1977 – Salif Diao , Senegalese footballer1979 – Joey Hand , American race car driver1980 – César Izturis , Venezuelan baseball player1980 – Enzo Maresca , Italian footballer
1980 – Mike Ribeiro , Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Uzo Aduba , American actress1981 – Stephanie Beatriz , American actress
1981 – Andrew Johnson , English international footballer and club ambassador[12]
1981 – Holly Willoughby , English model and television host
1982 – Justin Gatlin , American sprinter1982 – Tarmo Neemelo , Estonian footballer
1982 – Hamad Al-Tayyar , Kuwaiti footballer
1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina , New Zealand rugby league player
1983 – Vic Fuentes , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1984 – Greg Bird , Australian rugby league player1984 – Alex Gordon , American baseball player
1984 – Kim Hyo-jin , South Korean actress
1985 – Selçuk İnan , Turkish footballer1985 – Paul Millsap , American basketball player[13]
1986 – Jeff Adrien , American basketball player1986 – Josh Akognon , American basketball player
1986 – Radamel Falcao , Colombian footballer
1986 – Roberto Jiménez Gago , Spanish footballer
1986 – Viktor Troicki , Serbian tennis player
1987 – Jakub Kindl , Czech ice hockey player1987 – Justin Braun , American ice hockey player[14]
1987 – Facundo Roncaglia , Argentinian footballer
1988 – Francesco Acerbi , Italian footballer1989 – Liam Hendriks , Australian baseball player1990 – Choi Soo-young , South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
1991 – Rebecca Dempster , Scottish footballer[15] 1991 – Emma Roberts , American actress
1992 – Haruka Nakagawa , Japanese singer and actress1992 – Reinhold Yabo , German footballer
1993 – Max Kepler , German baseball player1993 – Filip Twardzik , Czech footballer
1993 – Luis Madrigal , Mexican footballer
1994 – Kang Seul-gi , South Korean singer1995 – Carolane Soucisse , Canadian ice dancer [16] 1995 – Lexi Thompson , American professional golfer
1996 – Emanuel Mammana , Argentinian footballer1997 – Lilly King , American swimmer1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz , American actress
1997 – Nadia Podoroska , Argentinian tennis player
2000 – Yara Shahidi , American actress and modelDeaths Pre-1600 0 547 – Scholastica , Christian nun 1127 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)[17] 1163 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)1242 – Saint Verdiana , Italian recluse (b. 1182)
1280 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202)1306 – John "the Red" Comyn , Scottish nobleman1307 – Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (b. 1265)1346 – Blessed Clare of Rimini (b. 1282)[18] 1471 – Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1413)1524 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1468)1526 – John V, Count of Oldenburg , German noble (b. 1460)1567 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1545)1576 – Wilhelm Xylander , German scholar, translator, and academic (b. 1532)1601–1900 1660 – Judith Leyster , Dutch painter (b. 1609)[19] 1686 – William Dugdale , English genealogist and historian (b. 1605)1755 – Montesquieu , French lawyer and philosopher (b. 1689)1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German theologian and author (b. 1702)1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)1837 – Alexander Pushkin , Russian poet and author (b. 1799)1846 – Maria Aletta Hulshoff , Dutch feminist and pamphleteer (b. 1781)[20] 1854 – José Joaquín de Herrera , Mexican politician and general (b. 1792)[21] 1857 – David Thompson , English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (b. 1770)1865 – Heinrich Lenz , Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1804)1879 – Honoré Daumier , French illustrator and painter (b. 1808)1887 – Ellen Wood , English author (b. 1814)1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya , Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850)1901–present 1904 – John A. Roche , American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy , American-Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)1912 – Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister , English surgeon and academic (b. 1827)1913 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras , Greek long jumper (b. 1888)1917 – John William Waterhouse , English soldier and painter (b. 1849)1918 – Abdul Hamid II , Ottoman sultan (b. 1842)1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
1920 – Henry Strangways , English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of South Australia (b. 1832)1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)1928 – José Sánchez del Río , Mexican martyr and saint (b. 1913)1932 – Edgar Wallace , English author and screenwriter (b. 1875)1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)1944 – E. M. Antoniadi , Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870)1945 – Anacleto Díaz , Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1878)1950 – Marcel Mauss , French sociologist and anthropologist (b. 1872)1956 – Leonora Speyer , American poet and violinist (b. 1872)1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos , Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1882)
1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder , American author (b. 1867)1960 – Aloysius Stepinac , Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)1966 – Billy Rose , American composer and songwriter (b. 1899)1967 – Dionysios Kokkinos , Greek historian and author (b. 1884)1975 – Nikos Kavvadias , Greek sailor and poet (b. 1910)1979 – Edvard Kardelj , Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1910)1992 – Alex Haley , American soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1921)1993 – Fred Hollows , New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1929)1995 – Paul Monette , American author, poet, and activist (b. 1945)1997 – Brian Connolly , Scottish musician (b. 1945)[22] 2000 – Jim Varney , American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1949)2001 – Abraham Beame , American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)2001 – Buddy Tate , American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1913)
2002 – Dave Van Ronk , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)2003 – Edgar de Evia , Mexican-American photographer (b. 1910)2003 – Albert J. Ruffo , American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (b. 1908)
2003 – Ron Ziegler , American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)
2005 – Arthur Miller , American actor, playwright, and author (b. 1915)2006 – James Yancey , American record producer and rapper (b. 1974)2008 – Roy Scheider , American actor and boxer (b. 1932)2010 – Fred Schaus , American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)2010 – Charles Wilson , American lieutenant and politician (b. 1933)
2011 – Trevor Bailey , English cricketer and journalist (b. 1923)2012 – Lloyd Morrison , New Zealand banker and businessman, founded H. R. L. Morrison & Co (b. 1957)2012 – Jeffrey Zaslow , American journalist and author (b. 1958)
2013 – W. Watts Biggers , American author, screenwriter, and animator (b. 1927)2013 – David Hartman , American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (b. 1931)
2014 – Stuart Hall , Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (b. 1932)2014 – Shirley Temple , American actress and diplomat (b. 1928)
2015 – Naseer Aruri , Palestinian scholar and activist (b. 1934)2015 – Karl Josef Becker , German cardinal and theologian (b. 1928)
2015 – Deng Liqun , Chinese theorist and politician (b. 1915)
2016 – Fatima Surayya Bajia , Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (b. 1930)2017 – Mike Ilitch , American businessman (b. 1929)2019 – Carmen Argenziano , American actor (b. 1943)[23] 2019 – Jan-Michael Vincent , American actor (b. 1944)[24]
2021 – Larry Flynt , American publisher (b. 1942)[25] Holidays and observances References
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