On this day: 10 December
Events, births and deaths on 10 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Sophie Kinsella
- Deaths · Jeff Garcia
10 years ago2016
- Events · December 2016 Istanbul bombings
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Nikola Pašić
- Births · Guitar Slim
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1081 · Deaths · Nikephoros III Botaneiates
- 1041 · Deaths · Michael IV the Paphlagonian
- 949 · Deaths · Herman I, Duke of Swabia
Events · 17
- 1652Battle of Dungeness — 1652 first Anglo-Dutch War naval battle
- 1710Battle of Villaviciosa — 1710 battle
- 1817Mississippi — state of the United States of America
- 18481848 French presidential election — presidential election in the French second republic
- 1867Ōmiya incident — assassination of Sakamoto Ryōma in 1867
- 1898Treaty of Paris (1898) — December 1898 peace treaty of the Spanish-American War
- 1941Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse — naval engagement in World War II, part of the war in the Pacific
- 1948Universal Declaration of Human Rights — declaration adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly
- 1968300 million yen robbery — 1968 bank robbery in Japan
- 1979Kaohsiung Incident — 1979 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Taiwan
- 1984Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment — international human rights instruments
- 1991Nagorno-Karabakh independence referendum — Referendum in the former Soviet Union
- 1993
- 2005Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 — 2005 aviation accident
- 2016December 2016 Istanbul bombings — Suicide bombing
- 2019Ostrava hospital attack — mass shooting in the Czech Republic
- 20212021 Western Kentucky tornado — 2021 tornado in Kentucky, United States
Births · 60
- 1610Adriaen van Ostade — Dutch painter (1610–1685)
- 1751George Shaw — English botanist and zoologist (1751–1813)
- 1804Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi — German mathematician (1804–1851)
- 1805William Lloyd Garrison — American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879)
- 1815Ada Lovelace — English mathematician (1815–1852)
- 1822César Franck — Belgian-French composer and organist (1822–1890)
- 1824George MacDonald — Scottish writer and Christian minister (1824–1905)
- 1830Emily Dickinson — American poet (1830-1886)
- 1851Melvil Dewey — American librarian (1851–1931)
- 1870Adolf Loos — Austrian and Czech architect and art collector (1870-1933)
- 1870Pierre Louÿs — French writer and poet (1870–1925)
- 1878C. Rajagopalachari — Indian politician and activist (1878–1972)
- 1882Otto Neurath — Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist (1882–1945)
- 1883Giovanni Messe — Italian general (1883-1968)
- 1886Victor McLaglen — British-American actor (1886–1959)
- 1890László Bárdossy — Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary from April 1941 to March 1942
- 1891Nelly Sachs — Jewish German poet and playwright (1891-1970)
- 1891Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis — British military commander and field marshal; Governor General of Canada (1891-1969)
- 1904Antonín Novotný — Czech politician (1904-1975)
- 1907Lucien Laurent — French footballer (1907-2005)
- 1908Olivier Messiaen — French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)
- 1914Dorothy Lamour — American actress and singer (1914-1996)
- 1920Clarice Lispector — Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist (1920–1977)
- 1924Michael Manley — 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (1924–1997)
- 1933Mako — Japanese-American actor (1933-2006)
Deaths · 60
- 1041(Julian date)Michael IV the Paphlagonian — Byzantine emperor
- 1081(Julian date)Nikephoros III Botaneiates — Byzantine emperor
- 1475(Julian date)Paolo Uccello — Italian painter (1397-1475)
- 1508(Julian date)René II of Lorraine — Duke of Lorraine (1451-1508)
- 1561(Julian date)Caspar Schwenckfeld — German theologian
- 1618Giulio Caccini — Italian composer
- 1626Edmund Gunter — British mathematician
- 1718Stede Bonnet — early 18th-century Barbadian pirate
- 1736António Manoel de Vilhena — 66th Grand Master of the Order of Saint John
- 1791Jacob Frank — Polish-Jewish religious leader
- 1831Thomas Johann Seebeck — Baltic German physicist (1770-1831)
- 1850Józef Bem — Polish general (1794–1850)
- 1858Joseph Paul Gaimard — French naval surgeon and naturalist (1793-1858)
- 1865Leopold I of Belgium — German prince who became the first King of the Belgians (1790–1865)
- 1867Sakamoto Ryōma — Japanese samurai and politician (1836–1867)
- 1896Alfred Nobel — Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
- 1906Béhanzin — last king of Dahomey (1845–1906)
- 1909Red Cloud — chief of Oglala Lakota
- 1911Joseph Dalton Hooker — British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)
- 1916Ōyama Iwao — Japanese general (1842-1916)
- 1917Mackenzie Bowell — 5th Prime Minister of Canada (1823-1917)
- 1926Nikola Pašić — Serbian politician (1845-1926)
- 1928Charles Rennie Mackintosh — Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist (1868-1928)
- 1936Luigi Pirandello — Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and poet (1867-1936)
- 1946Damon Runyon — American writer (1880–1946)
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