On this day: 10 August
Events, births and deaths on 10 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Kunishige Kamamoto
- Deaths · Anas Al Sharif
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Marie-Claire Alain
- Births · Carol Karp
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 955 · Events · Battle of Lechfeld
- 955 · Deaths · Conrad, Duke of Lorraine
- 991 · Events · Battle of Maldon
Events · 34
- 955Battle of Lechfeld — German war victory over Hungary in August, 955
- 991(Julian date)Battle of Maldon — 991 CE battle near Maldon, United Kingdom
- 1316(Julian date)Second Battle of Athenry — 1316 battle of the Bruce Campaign in Ireland
- 1512(Julian date)Battle of Saint-Mathieu — 1512 battle
- 1557(Julian date)Battle of St. Quentin — 1557 battle of the Italian wars
- 1585Treaty of Nonsuch — 1585 treaty between England and the Dutch rebels
- 1641Treaty of London — 1641 agreement ending the Bishops' Wars between England and Scotland
- 1664Peace of Vasvár — 1664 peace treaty ending the Austro-Turkish War
- 1680Pueblo Revolt — 1680 Indigenous Pueblo uprising against Spanish colonizers
- 1741Battle of Colachel — 1741 battle of the Travancore–Dutch War
- 179210 August insurrection — insurrection and its outcome in French Revolution
- 1793Louvre Museum — art and archeology museum in Paris, France
- 1808Battle of Kauhajoki — 1808 battle of the Finnish War
- 1809Ecuador — sovereign state in South America
- 1821Missouri — state of the United States of America
- 1861Battle of Wilson's Creek — 1861 battle of the American Civil War
- 1864Uruguayan War — 1864–1865 war between Brazil and Uruguay
- 1904Battle of the Yellow Sea — 1904 major naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War
- 1913Treaty of Bucharest — 1913 peace treaty in the Second Balkan War
- 1920Treaty of Sèvres — peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied Powers at the end of World War I
- 1944Battle of Guam — 1944 World War II battle
- 1949United States Department of Defense — executive department of the United States federal government
- 1988Civil Liberties Act of 1988 — US federal law establishing reparations for WWII-era Japanese American detainees
- 1997Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 — 1997 aviation accident in Taiwan
- 1999Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting — 1999 anti-Semitic attack in Los Angeles, United States
- 20012001 Angola train attack — 2001 incident during the Angolan Civil War
- 2003Okinawa Urban Monorail Line — monorail service in Okinawa, Japan
- 2012Marikana miners' strike — 2012 killing of striking miners by police in Wonderkop, North West, South Africa
- 2014Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 — aviation incident on 10 August 2014
- 20182018 Horizon Air Q400 incident — aircraft crash in United States, August 2018
- 2019death of Jeffrey Epstein — high-profile death in custody, officially declared a suicide
- 2019Bærum mosque shooting — terrorist attack against Al-Noor Islamic Center in Bærum, Norway, August 10, 2019
- 2020August 2020 Midwest derecho — 2020 wind storm affecting the Midwestern United States
- 2024Al-Tabaeen school attack — IDF missile strike on 10 August 2024
Births · 60
- 1267(Julian date)James II of Aragon — King of Aragon and Valencia, Count of Barcelona and King of Sicily (1267-1327)
- 1296(Julian date)John of Bohemia — king of Bohemia
- 1520(Julian date)Madeleine of Valois — Scottish royal consort
- 1729William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe — British General in the American War of Independence (1729-1814)
- 1782Vicente Guerrero — leading revolutionary generals of the War of Independence and President of Mexico (1782-1831)
- 1810Camillo Benso di Cavour — first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861
- 1814Henri Nestlé — businessman (1814-2019)
- 1845Abay Kunanbaiuly — Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer (1845-1904)
- 1874Herbert Hoover — president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
- 1874Antanas Smetona — first President of Lithuania from 4 April 1919 until 19 June 1920 (1874-1944)
- 1877Frank Marshall — American chess player
- 1878Alfred Döblin — German expressionist novelist (1878–1957)
- 1884Panait Istrati — Romanian writer (1884–1935)
- 1894V. V. Giri — Indian politician and 4th president of India (1894-1980)
- 1902Norma Shearer — Canadian-American actress (1902-1983)
- 1902Arne Tiselius — Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
- 1909Leo Fender — American inventor and founder of the Fender company (1909–1991)
- 1912Jorge Amado — Brazilian writer (1912-2001)
- 1913Wolfgang Paul — German physicist (1913–1993)
- 1923Rhonda Fleming — American actress (1923–2020)
- 1924Jean-François Lyotard — French philosopher (1924–1998)
- 1924Martha Hyer — American actress (1924–2014)
- 1928Eddie Fisher — American singer and actor (1928–2010)
- 1937Anatoly Sobchak — Russian politician (1937–2000)
- 1943Ronnie Spector — American singer (1943–2022)
Deaths · 60
- 258(Julian date)Lawrence of Rome — Christian saint, martyr and a deacon of Rome (225-258)
- 794(Julian date)Fastrada — wife of Charlemagne
- 847(Julian date)Al-Wathiq — 9th Abbasid Caliph (r. 812–847)
- 955Conrad, Duke of Lorraine — 910-955 Duke of Lorraine from the Salian dynasty
- 1241Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany — 5th Countess of Richmond, heiress to England and Brittany de jure
- 1250(Julian date)Eric IV of Denmark — King of Denmark (1216-1250)
- 1284(Julian date)Tekuder — the third Ilkhan of Mongol Ilkhanate (1282–1284)
- 1535(Julian date)Ippolito de' Medici — Catholic cardinal
- 1536(Julian date)Francis III — Duke of Brittany
- 1590Hōjō Ujimasa — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
- 1653Maarten Tromp — Dutch admiral (1598-1653)
- 1655Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar — Catholic cardinal
- 1723Guillaume Dubois — French cardinal and politician (1656-1723)
- 1759Ferdinand VI of Spain — king of Spain, lived (1713-1759)
- 1784Allan Ramsay — Scottish portrait painter (1713-1784)
- 1802Franz Aepinus — German-Russian mathematician (1724-1802)
- 1806Michael Haydn — Austrian composer, brother of Joseph Haydn, (1737-1806)
- 1862Honinbo Shusaku — Japanese professional Go player from the 19th century
- 1870Pierre Rambur — French physician and entomologist (1801-1870)
- 1875Karl Andree — German geographer, journalist (1808–1875)
- 1885James W. Marshall — American cabinetmaker,doctor of the California Gold Rush (1810-1885)
- 1896Otto Lilienthal — German aviation pioneer (1848-1896)
- 1904Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau — Prime Minister of France (1846-1904)
- 1913Johannes Linnankoski — Finnish writer (1869-1913)
- 1915Henry Moseley — English physicist
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