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October 10
is the 283rd day of the year (284th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 82 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 19
- Roman general
Germanicus
dies under mysterious circumstances in
Antioch
in present-day
Turkey
. It is believed that he was
poisoned
on the orders of Emperor
Tiberius
.
- 680
?
Battle of Karbala
:
Shia Imam
Husayn bin Ali
, the grandson of the Prophet
Muhammad
, was
decapitated
by forces under
Caliph
Yazid I
. This is commemorated by
Shi'a
Muslims
as
Aashurah
.
- 732
?
Battle of Tours
: Near
Poitiers
,
France
, leader of the
Franks
Charles Martel
and his men, defeat a large army of
Moors
, stopping the
Muslims
from spreading into
Western Europe
. The governor of
Cordoba
,
Abd-ar-Rahman
, is killed during the battle.
- 1471
?
Battle of Brunkeberg
in
Stockholm
:
Sten Sture the Elder
, the
Regent
of
Sweden
, with help of
farmers
and
miners
, repels an attack by
Christian I
,
King of Denmark
.
- 1575
?
Battle of Dormans
:
Catholic
forces under Duke
Henry of Guise
defeated the
Protestants
, capturing
Philippe de Mornay
among others.
- 1582
? Due to the implementation of the
Gregorian calendar
this day does not exist in this year in
Italy
,
Poland
,
Portugal
and
Spain
.
- 1631
?
Thirty Years' War
: A
Saxon
army takes over
Prague
.
- 1760
- In a
treaty
with the
Dutch
colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of
Suriname
, descended from escaped
slaves
, gain extra freedom.
- 1780
? The
Great Hurricane of 1780
kills 20,000-30,000 in the
Caribbean
.
- 1798
- British troops occupy
Menorca
.
- 1845
? In
Annapolis, Maryland
, the Naval School (later renamed the
United States Naval Academy
) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
- 1846
-
Neptune
's
moon
Triton
is discovered by British
astronomer
William Lassell
.
- 1868
?
Carlos Cespedes
issued the
Grito de Yara
from his
plantation
, La Demajagua, proclaiming
Cuba
's independence.
- 1871
-
Chicago
burns after an
accident
.
- 1877
? Lieutenant-Colonel
George Armstrong Custer
is given a funeral with full military honors.
- 1882
- The
Bank of Japan
is founded.
- 1892
- British passenger
ship
Bokhara
sinks in a
Typhoon
off the west of
Taiwan
, killing 125 people.
- 1897
- German chemist
Felix Hoffmann
discovers an improved way of synthesizing
acetylsalicylic acid
(
aspirin
).
- 1957
- The Windscale
fire
occurs in
Cumbria
,
England
, in the world's first nuclear accident.
- 1957
? U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
apologizes to the
finance minister
of
Ghana
,
Komla Agbeli Gbdemah
, after he was refused service in a
Dover, Delaware
restaurant
.
- 1963
-
France
cedes control of Bizerte naval base to
Tunisia
.
- 1964
? The
1964 Summer Olympics
open in
Tokyo
,
Japan
- 1966
?
Simon and Garfunkel
release the album
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
.
- 1967
- The
Outer Space Treaty
comes into force, having been signed on
January 27
.
- 1970
?
Fiji
becomes independent.
- 1970
? In
Montreal, Quebec
, a national crisis hits
Canada
when
Quebec
Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour
Pierre Laporte
becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the
FLQ
terrorist group.
- 1971
? Sold, dismantled and moved to the
United States
, the
London Bridge
reopens in
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
.
- 1973
?
Vice President of the United States
Spiro Agnew
resigns after being charged with federal
income tax
evasion.
- 1975
-
Papua New Guinea
joins the
UN
.
- 1978
? US President
Jimmy Carter
signs a bill into law that authorizes the minting of the
Susan B. Anthony dollar
.
- 1979
? The
Pac-Man
arcade game
is released to the
Japanese
market by
Namco
.
- 1980
- A magnitude 7.3
earthquake
hits the town of El Asnam,
Algeria
, killing 3,500 people.
- 1985
?
United States Navy
F-14 fighter jets intercept an
Egyptian
plane carrying the
Achille Lauro
cruise ship
hijackers
and force it to land at a
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
(NATO) base in
Sigonella
,
Sicily
where they are arrested.
- 1986
? An
earthquake
measuring 7.5 on the
Richter scale
strikes
San Salvador
,
El Salvador
, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
- 1987
?
Fiji
becomes a
republic
.
- 1997
? An Austral Airlines
DC-9
-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin,
Uruguay
, killing 74.
- 1998
- A Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises
Boeing 727
airplane
is shot down by rebels over Kindu,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
, killing 41 people.
- 1999
- In
London
, the
London Eye
is raised.
- 1201
-
Richard de Fournival
, French
philosopher
(d.
1260
)
- 1344
-
Mary Plantagenet
, English princess (d.
1362
)
- 1470
-
Selim I
,
Ottoman
Sultan
(d.
1520
)
- 1486
-
Charles III of Savoy
(d.
1553
)
- 1567
-
Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain
(d.
1597
)
- 1669
-
Johann Nicolaus Bach
, German composer (d.
1753
)
- 1678
-
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
, Scottish
soldier
(d.
1743
)
- 1684
?
Antoine Watteau
, French painter (d.
1721
)
- 1700
-
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
, French
sculptor
(d.
1759
)
- 1731
?
Henry Cavendish
, English
scientist
(d.
1810
)
- 1738
-
Benjamin West
, American painter (d.
1820
)
- 1780
?
John Abercrombie
, Scottish
physician
(d.
1844
)
- 1794
-
William Whiting Boardman
, American politician (d.
1871
)
- 1813
?
Giuseppe Verdi
, Italian composer (d.
1901
)
- 1819
-
Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger
, German
theologian
(d.
1883
)
- 1825
?
Paul Kruger
, South African
Boer
politician (d.
1904
)
- 1828
-
Samuel J. Randall
, American politician (d.
1890
)
- 1830
?
Isabella II of Spain
(d.
1904
)
- 1834
?
Aleksis Kivi
, Finnish writer (d.
1872
)
- 1837
-
Robert Gould Shaw
, American
army
officer (d.
1863
)
- 1858
-
Maurice Prendergast
, American painter (d.
1924
)
- 1860
-
Joan Maragall
,
Catalan
poet
(d.
1911
)
- 1861
?
Fridtjof Nansen
, Norwegian polar
explorer
,
scientist
and
diplomat
(d.
1930
)
- 1861
-
Edouard Dujardin
, French writer (d.
1949
)
- 1861
-
Claudio Williman
,
President
of
Uruguay
(d.
1934
)
- 1863
-
Helen Dunbar
, American actress (d.
1933
)
- 1863
-
Vladimir Obruchev
, Russian
geographer
,
geologist
and
writer
(d.
1956
)
- 1870
-
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
, Russian writer (d.
1953
)
- 1870
-
Louise Mack
, Australian writer (d.
1935
)
- 1878
-
Blanche Lazzell
, American painter, printmaker and designer (d.
1956
)
- 1885
-
Walter Anderson
, German folklorist (d.
1962
)
- 1885
-
Jose Alvalade
, Portuguese
football
team founder (d.
1918
)
- 1888
-
Pietro Lana
, Italian
footballer
(d.
1950
)
- 1889
-
Kermit Roosevelt
, American writer, businessman and military officer (d.
1943
)
- 1890
-
Morley Griswold
,
Governor
of
Nevada
(d.
1951
)
- 1895
-
Wolfram von Richthofen
, German field marshal (d.
1945
)
- 1899
?
Wilhelm Ropke
, German
economist
(d.
1966
)
- 1900
-
Helen Hayes
, American
actress
and
singer
(d.
1993
)
- 1901
?
Alberto Giacometti
, Swiss sculptor (d.
1966
)
- 1903
?
Charles, Prince Regent
of
Belgium
(d.
1983
)
- 1910
-
Price Daniel
,
Governor
of
Texas
(d.
1988
)
- 1910
-
Harold LeVander
,
Governor
of
Minnesota
(d.
1992
)
- 1911
-
Clare Hollingworth
, English
journalist
and
author
(d.
2017
)
- 1913
?
Claude Simon
, French writer (d.
2005
)
- 1917
-
Thelonious Monk
, American
jazz
musician
(d.
1962
)
- 1918
-
John W. King
,
Governor
of
New Hampshire
(d.
1996
)
- 1918
-
Yigal Allon
, Israeli politician (d.
1980
)
- 1919
-
Edgar Laprade
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (d.
2014
)
- 1920
-
Gail Halvorsen
, American
pilot
, took part in the Berlin Airlift
- 1923
-
Nicholas Parsons
, British actor and presenter (d.
2020
)
- 1923
?
Murray Walker
, British sports commentator
- 1923
?
James Jabara
, American air force pilot (d.
1966
)
- 1924
?
James Clavell
, Australian writer (d.
1994
)
- 1924
-
Ludmilla Tcherina
, French ballerina, sculptor, actress, painter, choreographer and author (d.
2004
)
- 1924
-
Ed Wood
, American
director
,
producer
,
actor
and
screenwriter
(d.
1978
)
- 1926
?
Richard Jaeckel
, American actor (d.
2007
)
- 1926
-
Oscar Brown, Jr.
, American singer, poet and activist (d.
2005
)
- 1927
-
Nedunuri Krishnamurthy
, Indian singer (d.
2014
)
- 1929
-
Bernard Mayes
, British broadcaster (d.
2014
)
- 1930
?
Yves Chauvin
, French
chemist
(d.
2015
)
- 1930
?
Harold Pinter
, British
playwright
(d.
2008
)
- 1933
-
Daniel Massey
, British actor (d.
1998
)
- 1933
?
Jay Sebring
, American hairstylist and murder victim (d.
1969
)
- 1935
-
Abu Jihad
,
Palestinian
founder of
Fatah
(d.
1988
)
- 1935
?
Hermann Nuber
, German
footballer
- 1936
?
Gerhard Ertl
, German chemist
- 1936
-
Judith Chalmers
, English
television
host
- 1937
-
Peter Underwood
, 27th
Governor
of
Tasmania
(d.
2014
)
- 1940
-
Nol Heijerman
, Dutch
footballer
(d.
2015
)
- 1940
?
Winston Spencer-Churchill
, British politician, grandson of
Winston Churchill
(d.
2010
)
- 1941
?
Ken Saro-Wiwa
, Nigerian writer and activist (d.
1995
)
- 1941
-
Peter Coyote
, American actor
- 1942
?
Radu Vasile
, former
Prime Minister of Romania
(d.
2013
)
- 1943
?
Reinhard Libuda
, German footballer (d.
1996
)
- 1945
-
Edoardo Reja
, Italian
footballer
and coach
- 1946
?
Charles Dance
, English actor
- 1946
?
Naoto Kan
, former
Prime Minister of Japan
- 1946
-
John Prine
, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (d.
2020
)
- 1946
?
Chris Tarrant
, English television presenter
- 1946
-
Ann Mather
, English author
- 1948
-
Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough
, English academic and businesswoman
- 1948
-
Roger B. Wilson
, former
Governor
of
Missouri
- 1949
-
Lance Cairns
, New Zealand cricketer
- 1949
-
Wang Wanxing
, Chinese activist
- 1950
?
Nora Roberts
, American novelist
- 1951
-
Epeli Ganilau
,
Fijian
statesman
- 1953
?
Midge Ure
, Scottish musician
- 1954
-
David Lee Roth
, American singer (
Van Halen
)
- 1954
?
Rekha
, Indian actress
- 1954
-
Fernando Santos
, Portuguese
footballer
and manager
- 1956
-
Taur Matan Ruak
,
Prime minister
and former
President
of
East Timor
- 1956
-
Amanda Burton
, British actress
- 1956
-
Fiona Fullerton
, British actress
- 1956
-
David Hempleman-Adams
, English businessman and adventurer
- 1956
-
Paul Sturrock
, Scottish
footballer
and manager
- 1957
?
Rumiko Takahashi
, Japanese
mangaka
- 1958
-
Tanya Tucker
, American
country music
singer and
musician
- 1959
?
Kirsty MacColl
, English singer (d.
2000
)
- 1959
-
Julia Sweeney
, American actress
- 1959
-
Bradley Whitford
, American actor
- 1960
-
Simon Townshend
, English
guitarist
,
singer
and
songwriter
- 1961
-
Martin Kemp
, English singer and actor (
Spandau Ballet
)
- 1964
-
Sarah Lancashire
, English actress
- 1964
-
Daniel Pearl
, American
journalist
(d.
2002
)
- 1965
-
Toshi
, Japanese
singer-songwriter
and
producer
- 1965
-
Chris Penn
, American actor (d.
2006
)
- 1965
-
Rebecca Pidgeon
, American-English
actress
and
singer-songwriter
- 1966
?
Tony Adams
, English footballer
- 1967
-
Jonathan Littell
, American-French writer
- 1967
-
Mike Malinin
, American
drummer
(
Goo Goo Dolls
)
- 1967
-
Gavin Newsom
, American politician, current
Governor of California
and former
Mayor
of
San Francisco
- 1969
?
Brett Favre
, American football player
- 1970
?
Silke Kraushaar-Pielach
, German luger
- 1970
?
Matthew Pinsent
, British rower
- 1970
-
Dean Kiely
, Irish
footballer
- 1970
-
Bai Ling
, Chinese actress
- 1971
-
Graham Alexander
, British
footballer
and manager
- 1971
-
Markus Heitz
, German author
- 1972
-
Alexei Zhitnik
, Russian
ice hockey
player
- 1972
-
Nicky Morgan
, English politician
- 1974
?
Julio Ricardo Cruz
, Argentine footballer
- 1974
-
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
, American racing driver
- 1975
-
Ihsahn
, Norwegian
singer-songwriter
,
musician
and
producer
- 1975
-
Jacqueline Pirie
, Scottish
actress
- 1976
?
Shane Doan
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1979
?
Nicolas Massu
,
Chilean
tennis
player
- 1979
-
Mya
, American
singer-songwriter
,
producer
,
dancer
and
actress
- 1979
-
Kangta
, South Korean
singer-songwriter
,
producer
and
actress
- 1980
-
Sherine
,
Egyptian
singer and actress
- 1980
-
Tim Maurer
, American
singer-songwriter
(
Suburban Legends
)
- 1981
-
Una Healy
, Irish singer (
The Saturdays
)
- 1982
-
Logi Geirsson
, Icelandic
handball
player
- 1982
-
Yasser Al-Qahtani
,
Saudi Arabian
footballer
- 1983
?
Nikos Spiropoulos
, Greek footballer
- 1984
-
Chiaki Kuriyama
, Japanese actress
- 1985
?
Marina Diamandis
, Welsh singer-songwriter (
Marina and the Diamonds
)
- 1987
-
Colin Slade
, New Zealand
rugby
player
- 1988
-
Luis Cardozo
,
Paraguayan
footballer
- 1989
-
Aimee Teegarden
, American actress
- 1991
?
Gabriella Cilmi
, Australian singer
- 1991
-
Xherdan Shaqiri
, Swiss
footballer
- 1991
-
Michael Carter-Williams
, American
basketball
player
- 1992
-
Jano Ananidze
,
Georgian
footballer
- 1992
-
Gabrielle Aplin
, English
singer-songwriter
- 1994
-
Bae Suzy
, South Korean
singer
,
dancer
and
actress
- 19
?
Germanicus
, father of
Caligula
and brother of
Claudius
(b.
15 BC
)
- 680
?
Husayn bin Ali
, grandson of
Muhammad
(b.
626
)
- 1359
-
Hugh IV of Cyprus
(b.
1295
)
- 1459
?
Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini
,
Italian
humanist, classicist (b.
1380
)
- 1531
?
Huldrych Zwingli
, leader of Swiss Reformation (b.
1484
)
- 1659
?
Abel Tasman
, Dutch explorer (b.
1603
)
- 1708
-
David Gregory
, Scottish
mathematician
(b.
1659
)
- 1723
-
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
, English politician (b.
1665
)
- 1725
-
Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
, French politician (b.
1643
)
- 1747
?
John Potter
, Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1674
)
- 1795
-
Francesco Antonio Zaccaria
, Italian
theologian
and
historian
(b.
1714
)
- 1806
-
Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
, German prince (b.
1772
)
- 1825
-
Dmitry Bortniansky
, Russian and Ukrainian composer (b.
1751
)
- 1827
?
Ugo Foscolo
,
Italian
writer (b.
1778
)
- 1837
-
Charles Fourier
, French
philosopher
(b.
1772
)
- 1872
?
William H. Seward
,
Secretary of State
(b.
1801
)
- 1875
?
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b.
1817
)
- 1893
?
Lip Pike
, American
baseball
player (b.
1845
)
- 1901
?
Lorenzo Snow
, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(b.
1814
)
- 1911
-
Jack Daniel
, American
businessman
(b.
1849
)
- 1913
?
Katsura Taro
,
Prime Minister of Japan
(b.
1848
)
- 1913
-
Adolphus Busch
, German-American brewer and businessman (b.
1839
)
- 1914
?
Charles I of Romania
(b.
1839
)
- 1927
?
Gustave Whitehead
, German-born inventor (b.
1874
)
- 1940
?
Berton Churchill
, American pioneer Hollywood actor (b.
1876
)
- 1962
?
Trygve Gulbranssen
, Norwegian writer (b.
1894
)
- 1964
?
Eddie Cantor
, American singer,
vaudeville
performer (b.
1892
)
- 1964
-
Guru Dutt
, Indian
actor
,
producer
and
director
(b.
1925
)
- 1966
-
Charlotte Cooper
, English
tennis
player (b.
1870
)
- 1970
-
Edouard Daladier
, French politician (b.
1884
)
- 1971
?
John Cawte Beaglehole
,
New Zealand
historian
(b.
1901
)
- 1973
-
Ludwig von Mises
, Austrian
economist
(b.
1881
)
- 1978
?
Ralph Metcalfe
,
track and field
athlete (b.
1910
)
- 1979
?
Christopher Evans
,
British
psychologist and computer scientist (b.
1931
)
- 1983
?
Ralph Richardson
, actor (b.
1902
)
- 1985
?
Yul Brynner
, Russian-born actor (b.
1920
)
- 1985
?
Orson Welles
,
American
director, actor (b.
1915
)
- 1998
-
Marvin Gay, Sr.
, father and killer of
Marvin Gaye
(b.
1914
)
- 1998
?
Clark Clifford
,
United States Secretary of Defense
(b.
1906
)
- 2000
?
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
, Sri Lankan Prime Minister (b.
1916
)
- 2003
?
Eugene Istomin
, American pianist (b.
1925
)
- 2004
?
Arthur H. Robinson
,
cartographer
(b.
1915
)
- 2004
?
Maurice Shadbolt
,
New Zealand
writer (b.
1932
)
- 2004
?
Christopher Reeve
, American actor (b.
1952
)
- 2004
?
Ken Caminiti
, American
baseball
player (b.
1963
)
- 2005
?
Milton Obote
,
President
of
Uganda
(b.
1924
)
- 2008
-
Kazuyoshi Miura
, Japanese businessman (b.
1947
)
- 2009
?
Stephen Gately
, Irish singer (
Boyzone
) (b.
1976
)
- 2010
?
Solomon Burke
, American soul singer and songwriter (b.
1940
)
- 2010
?
Hwang Jang-yop
, North Korean politician and defector (b.
1923
)
- 2010
?
Joan Sutherland
, Australian operatic soprano (b.
1926
)
- 2011
?
Albert Rosellini
, American politician (b.
1910
)
- 2011
-
Jagjit Singh
, Indian musician (b.
1941
)
- 2012
-
Kevin Curran
, Zimbabwean cricketer (b.
1959
)
- 2012
-
Alex Karras
,
American football
player and actor (b.
1935
)
- 2012
-
Amanda Todd
, American student, victim of
cyberbullying
(b.
1996
)
- 2013
-
Scott Carpenter
, American test
pilot
,
astronaut
and
aquanaut
(b.
1925
)
- 2014
-
Valeri Karpov
, Russian
ice hockey
player (b.
1971
)
- 2014
-
Ed Nimmervoll
,
Austrian
-
Australian
music
journalist
and
author
(b.
1947
)
- 2014
-
Finn Lied
, Norwegian military researcher and politician (b.
1916
)
- 2015
-
Richard F. Heck
, American
chemist
(b.
1931
)
- 2017
-
Cho Jin-ho
, South Korean
footballer
(b.
1973
)
- 2017
-
Don Pedro Colley
, American actor (b.
1938
)
- 2017
-
Pentti Holappa
, Finnish
poet
,
writer
and
politician
(b.
1927
)
- 2017
-
Bob Schiller
, American television writer (b.
1918
)
- 2018
-
Mary Midgley
, English
philosopher
(b.
1919
)
- 2018
-
Raye Montague
, American
naval
engineer (b.
1935
)
- 2018
-
Tex Winter
, American
basketball
coach (b.
1922
)
- 2019
-
Ugo Colombo
, Italian cyclist (b.
1940
)
- 2019
-
Richard Jeranian
, Armenian-French painter and draftsman (b.
1921
)
- 2019
-
Tarek Kamel
, Egyptian politician and computer engineer (b.
1962
)
- 2019
-
Juliette Kaplan
, British actress (b.
1939
)
- 2019
-
Enrique Moreno
, Mexican-American lawyer (b.
1955
)
- 2019
-
Marie-Jose Nat
, French actress (b.
1940
)
- 2020
-
Vasili Kulkov
, Russian
footballer
and manager (b.
1966
)