On this day: 10 April
Events, births and deaths on 10 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Leo Beenhakker
- Deaths · Ted Kotcheff
- Deaths · Peter Lovesey
10 years ago2016
- Events · Kollam temple fire
- Deaths · Howard Marks
- Events · 2016 Afghanistan earthquake
100 years ago1926
- Births · Jacques Castérède
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1018 · Births · Nizam al-Mulk
- 947 · Deaths · Hugh of Italy
- 1008 · Deaths · Notker of Liège
Events · 18
- 1606London Company — division of the Virginia Company
- 1741Battle of Mollwitz — 1741 battle
- 1796Battle of Voltri — 1796 battle of the War of the First Coalition
- 1809War of the Fifth Coalition — 1809 conflict during the Napoléonic Wars
- 1814Battle of Toulouse — 1814 battle during the Peninsular War
- 1858Big Ben — tower of the Palace of Westminster, London containing the bell Big Ben
- 1866American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — American nonprofit organization
- 1941Independent State of Croatia — World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (April 1941-May 1945)
- 19461946 Japanese general election — general election in Japan held in 1946
- 1972Biological Weapons Convention — treaty banning production of bioweapons
- 1973Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 — 1973 plane crash in Switzerland
- 1992Maraghar massacre — 1992 mass murder of ethnic Armenian civilians
- 1998Good Friday Agreement — 1998 peace pacts between the British, Irish, and Northern Irish governments to end the Troubles
- 2010Smolensk air disaster — 2010 air crash near the city of Smolensk, Russia
- 2016Kollam temple fire — explosion and fire after firework celebrations
- 20162016 Afghanistan earthquake — 2016 severe earthquake centered near Ashkasham, Afghanistan
- 20232023 Louisville shooting — shooting
- 2024Second Ma–Xi meeting — meeting between China leader Xi Jinping and Taiwan former leader Ma Ying-jeou in 2024
Births · 60
- 401(Julian date)Theodosius II — Byzantine Emperor (401–450)
- 1018(Julian date)Nizam al-Mulk — Persian Seljuk scholar, politician, vizier and court official (1018–1092)
- 1512(Julian date)James V of Scotland — King of Scotland from 1513 to 1542
- 1583Hugo Grotius — Dutch jurist and scholar (1583-1645)
- 1651Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus — German mathematician and philosopher (*1651 – †1708)
- 1755Samuel Hahnemann — German physician known for creating homeopathy
- 1769Jean Lannes — Marshal of France (1769-1809)
- 1778William Hazlitt — English essayist and writer (1778–1830)
- 1794Matthew C. Perry — American naval officer (1794–1858)
- 1827Lew Wallace — American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur' (1827-1905)
- 1829William Booth — British Methodist preacher (1829-1912)
- 1847Joseph Pulitzer — Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician (1847-1911)
- 1864Eugen d'Albert — Scottish-born German pianist and composer (1864-1932)
- 1868George Arliss — English actor, author, playwright and filmmaker (1868–1946)
- 1873Kyösti Kallio — Finnish politician and 4th President of Finland (1873–1940)
- 1877
- 1880Frances Perkins — Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
- 1887Bernardo Houssay — Argentine physician (1887–1971)
- 1894Ben Nicholson — British painter (1894-1982)
- 1910Helenio Herrera — Argentine-French football player and manager (1910-1997)
- 1913Stefan Heym — German writer (1913-2001)
- 1917Robert Burns Woodward — American chemist
- 1927Marshall Warren Nirenberg — American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)
- 1929Max von Sydow — Swedish-French actor (1929–2020)
- 1929Mike Hawthorn — British racing driver (1929–1959)
Deaths · 60
- 258(Julian date)Zhuge Dan — Cao Wei general and politician (died 258)
- 879(Julian date)Louis the Stammerer — King of West Francia from 877 to 879
- 947(Julian date)Hugh of Italy — King of Italy from 926 to 947
- 1216Eric X of Sweden — King of Sweden (1180-1216)
- 1533(Julian date)Frederick I of Denmark — King of Denmark and Norway
- 1585Gregory XIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1572 to 1585 (1502–1585)
- 1599Gabrielle d'Estrées — French noble and mistress to Henry IV of France (1573-1599)
- 1756Giacomo Antonio Perti — Italian composer (1661-1756)
- 1786John Byron — British Royal Navy officer and politician; (1723-1786)
- 1806Horatio Gates — American general in the American Revolutionary War (1727–1806)
- 1813Joseph-Louis Lagrange — Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
- 1821(Julian date)Patriarch Grigorios V of Constantinople — Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1823Karl Leonhard Reinhold — Austrian philosopher
- 1909Algernon Charles Swinburne — English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)
- 1911Sam Loyd — American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician (1841–1911)
- 1919Emiliano Zapata — Mexican revolutionary (1879–1919)
- 1920Moritz Cantor — German historian of mathematics (1829-1920)
- 1922Luisa Capeta — Puerto Rican labor organizer (1879–1922)
- 1931Kahlil Gibran — Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter (1883–1931)
- 1938King Oliver — American jazz cornet player and bandleader
- 1950Fevzi Çakmak — Turkish military officer and statesperson (1876–1950)
- 1955Pierre Teilhard de Chardin — French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
- 1960André Berthomieu — French screenwriter and film director (1903–1960)
- 1962Stuart Sutcliffe — Scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band the Beatles (1940–1962)
- 1962Michael Curtiz — Hungarian-American director (1886–1962)
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