On this day: 10 June
Events, births and deaths on 10 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Suchinda Kraprayoon
- Events · 2025 Graz school shooting
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Christina Grimmie
- Deaths · Gordie Howe
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Antoni Gaudí
- Births · Lionel Jeffries
- Births · Bruno Bartoletti
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 940 · Births · Abu al-Wafa Buzjani
- 1075 · Deaths · Ernest, Margrave of Austria
Events · 25
- 1329(Julian date)Battle of Pelekanon — 1329 battle
- 1619Battle of Sablat — battle of the war of thirty years, 1619
- 1624Treaty of Compiègne — peace treaty between France and the Low Counries, 1624
- 1719Battle of Glen Shiel — battle in Highland, Scotland, UK
- 1838Myall Creek massacre — massacre in Australia
- 1861Battle of Big Bethel — 1861 early battle of the American Civil War
- 1864Battle of Brice's Cross Roads — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 18861886 eruption of Mount Tarawera — 1886 volcanic eruption in New Zealand
- 1900Eight-Nation Alliance — multinational military coalition that invaded northern China
- 1940Italian invasion of France — 1940 first major Italian engagement of World War II
- 1942Lidice massacre — complete destruction of village and massacre of its population as a Nazi reprisal
- 1944massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane — 642 French civilians massacred by a German Waffen-SS company in 1944
- 1944Distomo massacre — 1944 Nazi war crime perpetrated by members of the Waffen-SS in the village of Distomo, Greece during the German occupation
- 19571957 Canadian federal election — election for the House of Commons of Canada
- 1960Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 — 1960 aviation accident
- 1982Battle of Sultan Yacoub — 1982 battle
- 1987June Struggle — nationwide democracy movement in South Korea that generated mass protests from June 10 to June 29, 1987
- 1990British Airways Flight 5390 — 1990 aircraft incident
- 1991kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard — American kidnap victim
- 2008Sudan Airways Flight 109 — 2008 aviation accident
- 2009United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting — American murderer
- 2021solar eclipse of June 10, 2021 — solar eclipse
- 20222022 Tangshan restaurant attack — 2022 Violent assault in BBQ restaurant in Tangshan, China
- 20242024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash — aircraft crash in Malawi
- 20252025 Graz school shooting — 2025 mass shooting in Graz, Austria
Births · 60
- 867(Julian date)Uda — Japanese emperor
- 940(Julian date)Abu al-Wafa Buzjani — Persian mathematician and astronomer (940–998)
- 1688James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales — pretender to the English, Scottish and Irish throne (1688-1766)
- 1713Princess Caroline of Great Britain — fourth child and third daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach
- 1803Henry Darcy — French engineer (1803–1858)
- 1804Hermann Schlegel — German ornithologist and herpetologist (1804-1884)
- 1819Gustave Courbet — French painter (1819–1877)
- 1832Nicolaus Otto — German inventor (1832–1891)
- 1832Edwin Arnold — English poet and journalist (1832–1904)
- 1835Rebecca Latimer Felton — American politician (1835-1930)
- 1863Louis Couperus — Dutch novelist and poet (1863–1923)
- 1865Frederick Cook — American explorer (1865-1940)
- 1880André Derain — French painter and engraver (1880–1954)
- 1893Hattie McDaniel — American actress (1893-1952)
- 1897Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia — Grand Duchess of Russia (1897–1918); second daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- 1904Lin Huiyin — Chinese architect and writer (1904-1955)
- 1910Howlin' Wolf — American blues musician (1910–1976)
- 1915Saul Bellow — Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)
- 1921Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh — consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021 (1921-2021)
- 1922Judy Garland — American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian (1922–1969)
- 1923Robert Maxwell — Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (1923-1991)
- 1927László Kubala — Hungarian footballer (1927–2002)
- 1927Eugene Parker — American astronomer (1927–2022)
- 1928Maurice Sendak — American illustrator and writer of children's books (1928-2012)
- 1929Edward O. Wilson — American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021)
Deaths · 60
- 323 BCE(Julian date)Alexander the Great — king of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC)
- 38Julia Drusilla — sister of Emperor Caligula
- 223(Julian date)Liu Bei — Chinese warlord and founding Emperor of Shu Han (161–223)
- 1075(Julian date)Ernest, Margrave of Austria — Margrave of Austria from 1055 to 1075
- 1141Richenza of Northeim — Holy Roman Emperess
- 1190(Julian date)Frederick Barbarossa — Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190
- 1364Agnes of Austria — Queen of Hungary; House of Habsburg member
- 1424(Julian date)Ernest, Duke of Austria — Duke of Austria (1377-1424)
- 1556(Julian date)Martin Agricola — German composer and music theorist
- 1580(Julian date)
- 1654Alessandro Algardi — Italian sculptor (1598–1654)
- 1811Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden — German noble (1728-1811)
- 1831Hans Karl von Diebitsch — Russian general (1785-1831)
- 1836André-Marie Ampère — French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
- 1849Thomas Robert Bugeaud — Marshal of France (1784-1849)
- 1858Robert Brown — British botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion (1773–1858)
- 1899Ernest Chausson — French composer (1855–1899)
- 1902Jacint Verdaguer — Catalan writer and poet (1845-1902)
- 1906Richard Seddon — New Zealand politician and Prime Minister (1845–1906)
- 1909Edward Everett Hale — American author, historian and Unitarian minister (1822-1909)
- 1914Ödön Lechner — Hungarian architect (1845–1914)
- 1918Arrigo Boito — Italian poet and opera composer and librettist of Verdi's opera ''Otello'' (1842-1918)
- 1923Pierre Loti — French writer (1850-1923)
- 1924Giacomo Matteotti — Italian politician (1885-1924)
- 1926Antoni Gaudí — Catalan architect (1852–1926)
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