On this day: 10 October
Events, births and deaths on 10 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · John Lodge
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Kazunari Tanaka
100 years ago1926
- Births · Richard Jaeckel
- Births · Oscar Brown, Jr.
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 29
- 680Battle of Karbala — battle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali
- 732(Julian date)Battle of Tours — battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
- 1471Battle of Brunkeberg — 1471 battle
- 1575Battle of Dormans — 1575 battle in the 5th War of Religion
- 1845United States Naval Academy — U.S. Navy federal service academy in the Annapolis, Maryland area
- 1868Ten Years' War — armed conflict in Cuba between 1868 and 1878
- 1903Women's Social and Political Union — British women's organization for suffragism
- 1911Xinhai Revolution — revolution in China that overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China
- 1911Wuchang Uprising — armed rebellion in 10 October 1911 against the Qing dynasty that marked the start of the Xinhai Revolution
- 1919Kuomintang — Republic of China political party
- 1920Carinthian Plebiscite — 1920 plebiscite in the southern portion of Carinthia
- 19331933 United Airlines Boeing 247 mid-air explosion — air disaster
- 1935
- 1943Double Tenth Incident — WWII massacre committed by Japanese in Singapore
- 1945
- 1956Hong Kong 1956 riots — political riots
- 1957Windscale fire — major nuclear accident in the UK
- 19641964 Summer Olympics — Games of the XVIII Olympiad, in Tokyo, Japan
- 1971Aeroflot Flight 773 — airliner bombing
- 1980Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Salvadoran political party and former guerilla organization
- 19801980 El Asnam earthquake — October 1980 earthquake in Algeria
- 19861986 San Salvador earthquake — Major Earthquake of El Salvador
- 1992Vidyasagar Setu — toll bridge in West Bengal, India
- 1997Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 — Fatal aviation incident in 1997
- 19981998 Lignes Aériennes Congolaises crash — aircraft shot down by rebel forces at Kindu Airport
- 2004murder of Huang Na — Major crime in Singapore
- 2009Zurich Protocols — 2009 failed attempt to normalize relations between Armenia and Turkey
- 2010dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles — overview about the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
- 20152015 Ankara bombings — bombing of Ankara Central railway station on October 10 2015
Births · 60
- 1332Charles II of Navarre — King of Navarre 1349–1387 and Count of Évreux 1343–1387
- 1470(Julian date)Selim I — 9th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520
- 1560(Julian date)Jacobus Arminius — Dutch theologian, inspirator of Arminianism, champion of tolerance (1560-1609)
- 1684Jean-Antoine Watteau — French painter (1684-1721)
- 1731Henry Cavendish — English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
- 1738Benjamin West — 18th- and 19th-century English painter (1738–1820)
- 1813Giuseppe Verdi — Italian opera composer (1813–1901)
- 1825Paul Kruger — South African politician and President of the South African Republic (1825–1904)
- 1830Isabella II of Spain — Queen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
- 1834Aleksis Kivi — national author of Finland (1834-1872)
- 1861Fridtjof Nansen — Norwegian polar explorer (1861–1930)
- 1889Han van Meegeren — Dutch painter and art forger (1889-1947)
- 1892Ivo Andrić — Yugoslav novelist (1892–1975)
- 1895Lin Yutang — Chinese inventor, novelist and philosopher (1895–1976)
- 1895Wolfram von Richthofen — German military officer and aviator (1895–1945)
- 1900Helen Hayes — American actress (1900–1993)
- 1901Alberto Giacometti — Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)
- 1906R. K. Narayan — Indian English-language writer (1906–2001)
- 1908Mercè Rodoreda — Spanish writer (1908-1983)
- 1913Claude Simon — French writer (1913–2005)
- 1917Thelonious Monk — American jazz pianist and composer (1917–1982)
- 1924Ed Wood — American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and film editor
- 1930Harold Pinter — British playwright (1930–2008)
- 1930Yves Chauvin — French chemist (1930–2015)
- 1936Gerhard Ertl — German physicist
Deaths · 60
- 19(Julian date)Germanicus — nephew and adopted son of emperor Tiberius, heir apparent of the Roman Empire, and father of emperor Caligula
- 644(Julian date)Paulinus of York — Bishop of Rochester; Archbishop of York; Saint
- 680(Julian date)Husayn ibn Ali — grandson of Muhammad and the 3rd Shia Imam (626–680)
- 680(Julian date)Abbas ibn Ali — Son of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (645-680)
- 827(Julian date)Valentine — pope
- 1149(Julian date)Al-Hafiz — Fatimid Dynasty caliph from 1132 to 1149
- 1359(Julian date)Hugh IV of Cyprus — King of Cyprus
- 1503(Julian date)Peter II, Duke of Bourbon — (1438-1503)
- 1659Abel Tasman — Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant (1603–1659)
- 1691Isaac de Benserade — French writer (1613–1691)
- 1708David Gregory — Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1659-1708)
- 1714Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert — French law-maker and a Jansenist
- 1720Antoine Coysevox — sculptor from France (1640–1720)
- 1806Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia — prince of Prussia and composer
- 1837Charles Fourier — French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)
- 1872William H. Seward — American lawyer and politician (1801-1872)
- 1901Lorenzo Snow — President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1814-1901)
- 1913Katsura Tarō — Japanese general and politician (1848–1913)
- 1914Carol I of Romania — king of Romania from 1881 to 1914
- 1923Andrés Avelino Cáceres — Peruvian politician, military (1836-1923)
- 1927Gustave Whitehead — possible first powered manned flight (1874–1927)
- 1930Adolf Engler — German botanist (1844–1930)
- 1957Karl Genzken — German physician and SS general, Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS, and convicted war criminal 81885-1957)
- 1963Édith Piaf — French singer (1915–1963)
- 1964Eddie Cantor — American comedian and actor (1892–1964)
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