On this day: 10 November
Events, births and deaths on 10 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1919 · Births · Mikhail Kalashnikov
- 1928 · Births · Ennio Morricone
- 1925 · Births · Richard Burton
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 24
- 1202(Julian date)Siege of Zara — 1202 first major action of the Fourth Crusade
- 1444Battle of Varna — 1444 battle
- 1599(Julian date)Åbo Bloodbath — 1599 public execution in Turku (Åbo), Finland
- 1659Battle of Pratapgarh — 1659 battle in India
- 1702Siege of St. Augustine — 1702 siege in North America
- 1766Rutgers University — multi-campus public research university in New Jersey, United States
- 1775United States Marine Corps — maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces
- 1898Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 — 1898 white supremacist insurrection and coup d'état in North Carolina, United States
- 19371937 Brazilian coup d'état — coup in Brazil
- 19401940 Vrancea earthquake — November 1940 earthquake in Romania
- 1942Case Anton — 1942 militaryoccupation of Vichy France during the Second World War
- 1954Marine Corps War Memorial — monument consisting of a large sculptural group on a circular base in Arlington, Virginia, United States
- 1969Sesame Street — American children's television program
- 19711971 Indian Ocean Vickers Viscount crash — aviation accident
- 1972Southern Airways Flight 49 — aircraft hijacking
- 1975Treaty of Osimo — 1975 treaty regarding Italian-Yugoslavian border
- 1975Battle of Quifangondo — 1975 battle of the Angolan civil war
- 19791979 Mississauga train derailment — train wreck
- 1999World Anti-Doping Agency — foundation created through a collective initiative led by the International Olympic Committee
- 2006National Museum of the Marine Corps — official museum of the United States Marine Corps, in Triangle, Virginia
- 2007¿Por qué no te callas? — rebuke by Juan Carlos I to Hugo Chavez
- 2009Battle of Daecheong — skirmish between the South Korean and North Korean navies
- 20192019 Bolivian political crisis — series of resignations by Bolivia's highest political leaders following disputed election results
- 20202020−2021 Armenian protests — protest in Armenia following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement
Births · 60
- 1433(Julian date)Charles the Bold — last Valois Duke of Burgundy (1433-1477)
- 1483(Julian date)Martin Luther — German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
- 1620Ninon de Lenclos — French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts (1620-1705)
- 1668François Couperin — French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist (1668–1733)
- 1697William Hogarth — English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)
- 1728Oliver Goldsmith — Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774)
- 1759Friedrich Schiller — German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
- 1801(Julian date)Vladimir Dal — Russian lexicographer (1801-1872)
- 1834José Hernández — Argentine writer (1834-1886)
- 1845John Sparrow David Thompson — Prime Minister of Canada from 1892 to 1894
- 1868Gichin Funakoshi — Japanese karateka (1868–1957)
- 1879Patrick Pearse — Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916
- 1884Zofia Nałkowska — Polish prose writer, journalist & dramatist (1884-1954)
- 1887Arnold Zweig — German writer (1887-1968)
- 1888Andrei Tupolev — Russian and Soviet aerospace engineer (1888-1972)
- 1889Claude Rains — British actor (1889–1967)
- 1918Ernst Otto Fischer — German chemist (1918–2007)
- 1919Mikhail Kalashnikov — Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
- 1919Tshombé Moïse — Congolese politician and secessionist leader (1919–1969)
- 1925Richard Burton — Welsh actor (1925–1984)
- 1928Ennio Morricone — Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (1928–2020)
- 1932Roy Scheider — American actor (1932–2008)
- 1933Ronald Evans — NASA astronaut (1933-1990)
- 1942Robert F. Engle — American economist and Nobel laureate (born 1942)
- 1942Hans-Rudolf Merz — member of the Swiss Federal Council
Deaths · 60
- 461(Julian date)Leo I — Pope from 440 to 461 (390–461)
- 627(Julian date)Justus — 7th-century missionary, Archbishop of Canterbury, and saint
- 765(Julian date)Junnin — Emperor of Japan
- 901(Julian date)Adelaide of Paris — Queen of the West Franks from 877 to 879
- 1290(Julian date)Qalawun — Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1279–1290)
- 1299(Julian date)John I, Count of Holland — Count of Holland from 1296 to 1299
- 1444Władysław III of Poland — king of Poland and Hungary
- 1549(Julian date)Paul III — pope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549 (1468–1549)
- 1556(Julian date)Richard Chancellor — English explorer and navigator
- 1624Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton — son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary Browne, daughter of Anthony Browne (1573-1624)
- 1644Luis Vélez de Guevara — Spanish writer (1579–1644)
- 1673Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1669-1673)
- 1777Cornstalk — Native American in the American Revolution
- 1806Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel — Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- 1808Guy Carleton — Governor of the Province of Quebec (1724-1808)
- 1852Gideon Mantell — British scientist and obstetrician (1790–1852)
- 1865Henry Wirz — Swiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil War
- 1887Louis Lingg — American anarchist and trade union activist (1864–1887)
- 1891Arthur Rimbaud — French poet (1854-1891)
- 1900Armand David — French Catholic priest, zoologist, and botanist (1826–1900)
- 1928Anita Berber — German actress, dancer and writer (1899–1928)
- 1936Louis Gustave Binger — French explorer (1856-1936)
- 1938Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
- 1941Carrie Matilda Derick — Canadian botanist and geneticist (1862-1941)
- 1944Wang Jingwei — Chinese politician, leader of Wang Jingwei regime (1883-1944)
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