On this day: 10 February
Events, births and deaths on 10 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Peter "Navy" Tuiasosopo
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Fatima Surayya Bajia
100 years ago1926
- Births · Danny Blanchflower
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1126 · Deaths · Guillaume IX
- 1118 · Births · Taira no Kiyomori
Events · 21
- 1355(Julian date)St Scholastica Day riot — 1355 riot in England
- 17121712 Huilliche rebellion — indigenous uprising in South America
- 1763Treaty of Paris (1763) — treaty ending the Seven Years' War
- 1814Battle of Champaubert — 1814 battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition
- 1846Battle of Sobraon — 1846 battle
- 1862Battle of Elizabeth City — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1919Inter-Allied Women's Conference — 1919 conference convened to introduce women's issues to the peace process at the end of the First World War
- 1920Schleswig plebiscite — 1920 plebiscite used to determine the border between Denmark and Germany due to Treaty of Versailles.
- 1930Yên Bái Mutiny — failed 1930 uprising in colonial Vietnam against French regime
- 1936Battle of Amba Aradam — 1936 battle of Second Italo-Abyssinian War
- 1940Tom and Jerry — animated film series
- 1941Operation Colossus — WW2 British military airborne operation
- 1943Battle of Krasny Bor — battle for Krasny Bor, Leningrad Oblast, during Operation Polar Star in February 1943
- 1947Paris Peace Treaties — treaties signed in Paris on 10 February 1947
- 1984Wagalla massacre — 1984 massacre
- 19961996 Pat Sin Leng wildfire — Hong Kong fire in 1996
- 2004Kish Air Flight 7170 — 2004 aviation accident
- 20082008 Namdaemun fire — arson attack in Seoul, South Korea
- 20092009 satellite collision — 2009 collision between the Iridium 33 and Cosmos-2251 satellites
- 20182018 Hong Kong bus accident — deadly double-decker bus crash
- 20262026 Tumbler Ridge shootings — shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC, Canada
Births · 60
- 1118(Julian date)Taira no Kiyomori — Japanese samurai (1118–1181)
- 1606Christine of France — Duchess of Savoy (1606-1663)
- 1775Charles Lamb — British essayist, poet, antiquarian (1775–1834)
- 1785Claude-Louis Navier — French engineer and physicist (1785–1836)
- 1859Alexandre Millerand — French lawyer and statesman (1859–1943)
- 1888Giuseppe Ungaretti — Italian poet, writer and university teacher
- 1890Boris Pasternak — Russian writer (1890–1960)
- 1890Fanny Kaplan — Russian assassin (1890-1918)
- 1893Bill Tilden — American tennis player (1893–1953)
- 1893Jimmy Durante — American actor, comedian and singer (1893–1980)
- 1894Harold Macmillan — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963
- 1897John Franklin Enders — American medical researcher (1897-1985)
- 1897Judith Anderson — Australian stage and screen actress (1897–1992)
- 1898Bertolt Brecht — German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
- 1899Cevdet Sunay — 5th President of the Republic of Turkey (1899–1982)
- 1902Walter Houser Brattain — American physicist (1902–1987)
- 1903Matthias Sindelar — Austrian association football player (1903-1939)
- 1904John Farrow — Film director, screenwriter and producer (1904–1963)
- 1906Lon Chaney Jr. — American actor (1906–1974)
- 1910Dominique Pire — Belgian Dominican friar (1910–1969)
- 1922Árpád Göncz — Hungarian politician, writer, translator, President of Hungary (1922-2015)
- 1926Danny Blanchflower — Northern Irish footballer (1926-1993)
- 1927Leontyne Price — African-American soprano
- 1929Jerry Goldsmith — American film composer (1929–2004)
- 1930Robert Wagner — American actor (born 1930)
Deaths · 60
- 547(Julian date)Scholastica — Italian saint
- 1126(Julian date)Guillaume IX — Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou
- 1163(Julian date)Baldwin III of Jerusalem — King of Jerusalem (1130-1163) (r. 1143-1163)
- 1242(Julian date)Emperor Shijō — Emperor of Japan
- 1280(Julian date)Margaret II, Countess of Flanders — Countess of Flanders (1202–1280)
- 1307(Julian date)Temür Khan — 2nd emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
- 1471(Julian date)Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg — Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1440
- 1524Duchess Katharina, Duchess Consort of Brunswick-Lüneburg — Archduchess Consort of Austria (1484 - 1494) and Duchess Consort of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497)
- 1567Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley — Duke of Albany and King consort of Scotland (1545-1567)
- 1576(Julian date)Wilhelm Xylander — German humanist and classical scholar (1532–1576)
- 1660Judith Leyster — Dutch Golden Age painter (1609-1660)
- 1722Bartholomew Roberts — Welsh pirate (1682-1722)
- 1752Henriette of France — French princess (1727-1752)
- 1755
- 1829Leo XII — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1823 to 1829
- 1837Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
- 1854José Joaquín de Herrera — President of Mexico (1792-1854)
- 1857David Thompson — British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker (1770-1857)
- 1865Emil Lenz — Baltic German physicist (1804-1865)
- 1879Honoré Daumier — French artist (1808–1879)
- 1887Ellen Wood — English writer, editor (1814-1887)
- 1891Sofia Kovalevskaya — 19th-century Russian mathematician
- 1912Joseph Lister — British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912)
- 1913Konstantinos Tsiklitiras — athletics competitor (1888-1913)
- 1918Abdul Hamid II — 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876–1909)
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