February 10 February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 324 days remaining until the end of the year (325 in leap years ).
Events
– 20001904 – Russo-Japanese War : Japan declares war on Russia .1906 – The battleship HMS Dreadnought is launched in Portsmouth .1910 – Off Minorca , French passenger ship General Chanzy is tossed against a reef in a storm , causing it to sink. Only 1 of the 156 people on board survives.1920 – North Schleswig votes to become part of Denmark .1933 – Round 13 of Boxing Match in New York City 's Madison Square Garden : Primo Carnera knocks down Ernie Schaaf , who dies four days later as a result of his injuries.1939 – Spanish Civil War : Nationalists finish their conquest of Catalonia and seal Spain 's border with France .1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied Eastern Poland to Siberia .1942 – A Japanese submarine bombs Midway Atoll .1945 – German passenger ship Steuben with 4,000 refugees on board off the Pomeranian Baltic Sea coast, is torpedoed by a Soviet U-boat and sinks, killing 3,500.1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia-Giulia to Yugoslavia .1949 – The play Death of a Salesman is performed for the first time in Broadway . Its writer, Arthur Miller , dies on the same date 56 years later.1952 – Jawaharlal Nehru wins India 's first election.1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against intervention in Vietnam .1957 – In Sudan , football 's Africa Cup of Nations is held for the first time.1962 – Captured American pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel .1964 – Aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with destroyer HMAS Voyager off the coast of New South Wales , Australia .1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.1972 – The remote North Atlantic rock of Rockall is fully integrated as part of Scotland .1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas hotel –casino kills 8 people.1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl meet for talks.1996 – The computer Deep Blue first defeats Garry Kasparov in a game of chess .1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a Gay rights law.Births
Up to 1900
1499 – Thomas Platter , Swiss humanist (d. 1582 )1524 – Albrecht Giese , German politician and diplomat (d. 1580 )1606 – Christine Marie of France , regent of Savoy (d. 1663 )1609 – John Suckling , English poet (d. 1642 )1685 – Aaron Hill , English writer (d. 1750 )1686 – Hans Egede , Norwegian pastor and missionary in Greenland (d. 1758 )1720 – Charles De Geer , Swedish industrialist and scientist (d. 1778 )1744 – William Cornwallis , English Royal Navy admiral (d. 1819 )1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy , Russian painter (d. 1873 )1785 – Claude-Louis Navier , French physicist (d. 1836 )1788 – Robert P. Letcher , American politician , 15th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1861 )1795 – Ary Scheffer , French painter (d. 1858 )1806 – Orville Hickman Browning , 9th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1881 )1815 – Constantin Bosianu , Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1882 )1818 – Isham G. Harris , American politician , 18th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1897 )1824 – Samuel Plimsoll , British politician and social reformer (d. 1898 )1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke , Irish astronomer (d. 1907 )1846 – Ira Remsen , American chemist (d. 1927 )1847 – Nabinchandra Sen , Bengali poet (d. 1909 )1859 – Alexandre Millerand , President of France (d. 1943 )1878 – Zdenek Nejedly , Czech intellectual and politician (d. 1962 )1881 – Pauline Brunius , Swedish stage and movie actress , and director (d. 1954 )1881 – Ken McArthur , South African marathon runner (d. 1960 )1884 – Frederick Hawksworth , English engineer (d. 1976 )1888 – Harry Beaumont , American movie director (d. 1966 )1888 – Alexander Cudmore , American soccer player (d. 1944 )1888 – Alfredo Pacini , Italian cardinal (d. 1967 )1888 – Giuseppe Ungaretti , Egyptian-Italian soldier , journalist and writer (d. 1970 )1890 – Fanny Kaplan , Russian revolutionary, believed to be the attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1918 )1890 – Boris Pasternak , Russian writer (d. 1960 )1892 – Alan Hale Sr. , American actor (d. 1950 )1893 – Bill Tilden , American tennis player (d. 1953 )1893 – Jimmy Durante , American actor and comedian (d. 1980 )1894 – Harold Macmillan , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986 )1897 – Judith Anderson , Australian actress (d. 1992 )1897 – John Franklin Enders , American scientist (d. 1985 )1898 – Bertolt Brecht , German writer and playwright (d. 1956 )1898 – Joseph Kessel , French journalist and novelist (d. 1979 )1899 – Cevdet Sunay , 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982 )– 19501901 – Stella Adler , American actress (d. 1992 )1902 – Walter Houser Brattain , American physicist (d. 1987 )1903 – Matthias Sindelar , Austrian footballer (d. 1939 )1903 – Waldemar Hoven , German Nazi physician (d. 1948 )1904 – John Farrow , Australian-American director , father of Mia Farrow (d. 1963 )1905 – Walter A. Brown , American businessman (d. 1964 )1906 – Lon Chaney, Jr. , American actor (d. 1973 )1910 – Dominique Pire , Belgian friar (d. 1969 )1910 – Sofia Vembo , Greek singer and actress (d. 1978 )1913 – Douglas Slocombe , English cinematographer (d. 2016 )1914 – Larry Adler , American musician (d. 2001 )1915 – Vladimir Zeldin , Russian actor (d. 2016 )1922 – Arpad Goncz , former President of Hungary (d. 2015 )1922 – Harold Hughes , American politician , Governor of Iowa (d. 1996 )1923 – Ahti Karjalainen , Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1990 )1923 – Cesare Siepi , Italian operatic tenor (d. 2010 )1925 – Pierre Mondy , French actor and director (d. 2012 )1926 – Danny Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993 )1927 – Alma Adamkiene , former First Lady of Lithuania 1927 – Leontyne Price , American singer1927 – Brian Priestman , British conductor (d. 2014 )1929 – Hallgeir Brenden , Norwegian skier (d. 2007 )1929 – Jerry Goldsmith , American composer and conductor (d. 2004 )1929 – Jim Whittaker , American mountaineer 1929 – Lou Whittaker , American mountaineer 1930 – Robert Wagner , American actor1931 – Doug Young , American voice actor 1932 – Barrie Ingham , English actor (d. 2015 )1934 – Kirk Fordice , American politician , Governor of Mississippi (d. 2004 )1937 – Yuriy Poyarkov , Ukrainian volleyball player (d. 2017 )1939 – Roberta Flack , American singer1939 – Adrienne Clarkson , former Governor General of Canada 1939 – Peter Purves , British actor and television presenter1940 – Mary Rand , British sprinter and long jumper1940 – Kathryn Mullen, American puppeteer, actress and voice actress1941 – Michael Apted , British movie director1942 – Lawrence Weiner , American conceptual artist 1944 – Frank Keating , 25th Governor of Oklahoma 1944 – Peter Allen , American singer and actor 1946 – Muntaka Connmassie , Nigerian jurist (d. 2017 )1947 – Louise Arbour , Canadian diplomat , former United Nations Commissioner for Human rights 1947 – Nicholas Owen , English journalist 1948 – Luis Donaldo Colosio , Mexican politician (d. 1994 )1949 – Harold Sylvester , American actor , director , producer and screenwriter 1950 – Mark Spitz , American swimmer – 19751951 – Robert Iger , American entertainment executive 1952 – Lee Hsien Loong , Prime Minister of Singapore 1953 – John Shirley , American science fiction author1954 – Peter Ramsauer , German politician1955 – Greg Norman , Australian golfer 1955 – Jim Cramer , American television personality1956 – Enele Sopoaga , 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu 1959 – John Calipari , American basketball player1961 – Alexander Payne , American movie director 1961 – George Stephanopoulos , American television journalist1962 – Cliff Burton , American musician (Metallica ) (d. 1986 )1963 – Philip Glenister , English actor1964 – Glenn Beck , American broadcaster1964 – Arthur Lenk , Israeli diplomat 1964 – Francesca Neri , Italian actress1964 – Sam Graddy , American athlete1964 – Victor Davis , Canadian swimmer (d. 1989 )1966 – Ji Suk-jin , South Korean comedian , actor and singer 1966 – Natalie Bennett , Australian-English journalist and politician , former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales 1967 – Laura Dern , American actress1967 – Vince Gilligan , American writer and executive producer 1968 – Matthias Hamann , German footballer 1968 – Peter Popovic , Swedish ice hockey player1968 – Garrett Reisman , American engineer and astronaut 1970 – Asne Seierstad , Norwegian writer and journalist1970 – Noureddine Naybet , Moroccan footballer and manager1973 – Ajdar , Turkish singer-songwriter and engineer 1973 – Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho , English businesswoman and philanthropist1974 – Elizabeth Banks , American actress1975 – Kool Savas , German rapper1975 – Hiroki Kuroda , Japanese baseball playerFrom 1976
1976 – Keeley Hawes , English actress1976 – Carlos Jimenez Sanchez , Spanish basketball player1980 – Riki Flutey , New Zealand-born English rugby player1980 – Enzo Maresca , Italian footballer 1980 – Mike Ribeiro , Canadian ice hockey player1980 – Bruno Sundov , Croatian basketball player1981 – Andrew Johnson , English footballer1981 – Holly Willoughby , English television presenter1981 – Ozo Aduba , American actress and singer1982 – Justin Gatlin , American athlete 1983 – Ricardo Clark , American soccer player1984 – Jemma Simpson , British athlete1985 – Anette Sagen , Norwegian skier 1986 – Radamel Falcao , Colombian footballer1986 – Viktor Troicki , Serbian tennis player1986 – Josh Akognon , Nigerian-American basketball player1986 – Yui Ichikawa , Japanese actress and model 1987 – Choi Siwon , South Korean singer1987 – Facundo Roncaglia , Argentine footballer 1988 – Jade Ramsey , English actress1989 – Neelofa , Malaysian actress , television host and model 1990 – Sooyoung , South Korean singer (Girls' Generation )1991 – Emma Roberts , American actress1992 – Misha B , American rapper and singer 1992 – Haruka Nakagawa , Japanese singer1992 – Reinhold Yabo , German footballer 1993 – Max Kepler , German baseball player1994 – Son Na-eun , South Korean singer and actress 1994 – Kang Seul-gi , South Korean singer 1994 – Mackenzie Vega , American actress 1995 – Haruna Kawaguchi , Japanese model and actress 1996 – Christina Parie , Australian singer-songwriter 1997 – Chloe Moretz , American actress1998 – Candy Hsu , Taiwanese singer-songwriter , actress and record producer2000 – Yara Shahidi , Iranian-American actressDeaths
Up to 1900
547 – Scholastica , Christian nun1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071 )1162 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130 )1242 – Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231 )1278 – Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202 )1306 – John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch , Scottish nobleman 1307 – Temur Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan , Emperor of China (b. 1265 )1543 – Johannes Eck , German theologian (b. 1486 )1567 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (b. 1546 )1755 – Montesquieu , French writer (b. 1689 )1758 – Thomas Ripley , English architect (b. 1682 )1782 – Christian Christoph Oetinger , German theologian (b. 1702 )1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760 )1837 – Alexander Pushkin , Russian writer (b. 1799 )1854 – Jose Joaquin de Herrera , President of Mexico (b. 1792 )1857 – David Thompson , Canadian explorer (b. 1770 )1865 – Heinrich Lenz , German physicist (b. 1804 )1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya , Russian mathematician (b. 1850 )– 20001904 – John A. Roche , American politician (b. 1844 )1912 – Joseph Lister , British surgeon (b. 1827 )1913 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras , Greek athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1888 )1917 – John William Waterhouse , Italian-born artist (b. 1849 )1918 – Abdul Hamid II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1842 )1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Italian pacifist (b. 1833 )1923 – Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen , German scientist (b. 1845 )1932 – Edgar Wallace , English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875 )1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857 )1944 – E. M. Antoniadi , Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870 )1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos , 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1882 )1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder , American writer (b. 1867 )1958 – Aleksander Klumberg , Estonian athlete (b. 1899 )1960 – Aloysius Stepinac , Croatian cardinal (b. 1898 )1964 – Eugen Saenger , Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905 )1966 – Billy Rose , American composer (b. 1898 )1975 – Nikos Kavvadias , Greek poet and writer (b. 1910 )1979 – Edvard Kardelj , Yugoslav Communist leader (b. 1910 )1985 – Johnny Mokan , American baseball player (b. 1895 )1990 – Bill Sherwood , American producer and composer (b. 1952 )1992 – Alex Haley , American writer (b. 1921 )2000 – Jim Varney , American actor (b. 1949 )From 2001
2001 – Abraham D. Beame , American politician and Mayor of New York City (b. 1906 )2002 – Dave Van Ronk , American musician (b. 1936 )2002 – Traudl Junge , Adolf Hitler 's press secretary (b. 1920 )2005 – Arthur Miller , American playwright (b. 1915 )2008 – Roy Scheider , American actor (b. 1932 )2009 – Jeremy Lusk , American motocross racer (b. 1984 )2010 – Charles Wilson , American politician (b. 1933 )2014 – Stuart Hall , Jamaican-British sociologist and cultural theorist (b. 1932 )2014 – Doug Jarrett , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944 )2014 – Ronnie Masterson , Irish actress (b. 1926 )2014 – Shirley Temple , American actress and diplomat (b. 1928 )2015 – Deng Liqun , Chinese politician (b. 1915 )2015 – Naseer Aruri , Palestinian scholar and activist (b. 1934 )2015 – Karl Josef Becker , German theologian and cardinal (b. 1928 )2016 – Phil Gartside , English businessman (b. 1952 )2016 – Leo Ehlen , Dutch footballer (b. 1953 )2016 – Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. , American business executive and politician (b. 1931 )2016 – Eliseo Prado , Argentine footballer (b. 1929 )2016 – Günter Schröter , German footballer (b. 1927 )2016 – Claude Jeancolas , French writer , artist and journalist (b. 1949 )2017 – Edward Bryant , American writer (b. 1945 )2017 – Mike Ilitch , American businessman and sports owner (b. 1929 )2017 – Piet Keizer , Dutch footballer (b. 1943 )2017 – Yuriy Poyarkov , Ukrainian volleyball player (b. 1937 )2017 – Hal Moore , American general and author (b. 1922 )2017 – Tsuyoshi Yamanaka , Japanese swimmer (b. 1939 )2018 – Jeff Bell , American politician (b. 1943 )2018 – Bevan Congdon , New Zealand cricketer (b. 1938 )Observances
Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck (Malta )
Fenkil Day (Eritrea )