Events

Pre-1600

• 1258 The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.

• 1306 In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.

• 1355 The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

• 1392 Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.

• 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

• 1567 Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.

1601–1900

• 1712 Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.

• 1763 French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

• 1814 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.

• 1840 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

• 1846 First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.

• 1861 Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

• 1862 American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.

1901–present

• 1906 , the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.

• 1920 Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

• 1920 About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.

• 1923 Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.

• 1930 The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.

• 1933 In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.

• 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.

• 1939 Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.

• 1940 The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.

• 1943 World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

• 1947 The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.

• 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

• 1962 Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

• 1964 Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier collides with and sinks the destroyer off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.

• 1967 The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.

• 1972 Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.

• 1984 Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.

• 1989 Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

• 1996 IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.

• 2003 France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

• 2004 Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport.

• 2009 The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

• 2013 Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

• 2016 South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.

• 2018 Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.

• 2021 The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• 2021 Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts.

• 2026 Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead and 27 injured.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1486 George of the Palatinate, German bishop (died 1529)

• 1499 Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (died 1582)

• 1514 Domenico Bollani, Bishop of Brescia (died 1579)

1601–1900

• 1606 Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (died 1663)

• 1609 John Suckling, English poet and playwright (died 1642)

• 1627 Cornelis de Bie, Flemish poet and jurist (died 1715)

• 1685 Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (died 1750)

• 1696 Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (died 1765)

• 1766 Benjamin Smith Barton, American botanist and physician (died 1815)

• 1775 Charles Lamb, English poet and essayist (died 1834)

• 1785 Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (died 1836)

• 1795 Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (died 1858)

• 1797 George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (died 1883)

• 1821 Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1908)

• 1824 Samuel Plimsoll, English merchant and politician (died 1898)

• 1829 Julius von Szymanowski, Russian surgeon of Polish-German origin (died 1868)

• 1842 Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (died 1907)

• 1843 Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (died 1919)

• 1846 Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician (died 1919)

• 1846 Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (died 1927)

• 1847 Nabinchandra Sen, Bangladeshi poet and author (died 1909)

• 1856 Fredericus van Rossum du Chattel, Dutch painter (died 1917)

• 1859 Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (died 1943)

• 1867 Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and public servant (died 1957)

• 1868 Prince Waldemar of Prussia (died 1879)

• 1868 William Allen White, American journalist and author (died 1944)

• 1869 Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)

• 1879 Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (died 1932)

• 1881 Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (died 1954)

• 1883 Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (died 1959)

• 1883 H. V. Hordern, Australian cricketer (died 1938)

• 1888 Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet (died 1970)

• 1890 Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist (died 1918)

• 1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)

• 1892 Alan Hale Sr., American actor and director (died 1950)

• 1893 Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and pianist (died 1980)

• 1893 Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach (died 1953)

• 1894 Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)

• 1897 Judith Anderson, Australian actress (died 1992)

• 1897 John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)

• 1898 Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (died 1956)

• 1898 Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (died 1979)

• 1899 Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (died 1982)

1901–present

• 1901 Stella Adler, American actress and educator (died 1992)

• 1902 Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)

• 1903 Waldemar Hoven, German physician (died 1948)

• 1903 Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (died 1939)

• 1904 John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1963)

• 1905 Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (died 1964)

• 1905 Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (died 1939)

• 1906 Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (died 1973)

• 1907 Anthony Cottrell, New Zealand rugby player (died 1988)

• 1908 Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (died 2000)

• 1909 Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, scholar, and politician (died 2004)

• 1910 Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1969)

• 1914 Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (died 2001)

• 1915 Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (died 2016)

• 1919 Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (died 2014)

• 1920 José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (died 2001)

• 1920 Alex Comfort, English physician and author (died 2000)

• 1920 Neva Patterson, American actress (died 2010)

• 1922 Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (died 2015)

• 1922 José Gabriel da Costa, Brazilian spiritual leader, founder of the União do Vegetal (died 1971)

• 1923 Allie Sherman, American football player and coach (died 2015)

• 1924 Max Ferguson, Canadian radio host and actor (died 2013)

• 1924 Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2005)

• 1925 Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (died 2012)

• 1926 Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (died 2013)

• 1926 Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish soldier, footballer and manager (died 1993)

• 1927 Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano

• 1929 Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (died 2004)

• 1929 Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer

• 1929 Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer (died 2024)

• 1930 E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (died 2013)

• 1930 Robert Wagner, American actor and producer

• 1931 James West, American inventor and acoustician

• 1932 Barrie Ingham, English-American actor (died 2015)

• 1933 Faramarz Payvar, Iranian musician and composer (died 2009)

• 1933 Richard Schickel, American journalist, author, and critic (died 2017)

• 1934 Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet (died 2024)

• 1935 Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor (died 2018)

• 1935 Barbara Maier Gustern, American vocal coach and singer (died 2022)

• 1937 Anne Anderson, Scottish physiologist and academic (died 1983)

• 1937 Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2025)

• 1939 Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor General of Canada

• 1939 Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida, Angolan nationalist (died 1967)

• 1940 Mary Rand, English sprinter and long jumper (died 2026)

• 1940 Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (died 2009)

• 1941 Michael Apted, English director and producer (died 2021)

• 1941 Dick Carlson, American journalist and diplomat (died 2025)

• 1944 Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 1992)

• 1944 Frank Keating, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma

• 1944 Frances Moore Lappé, American author and activist

• 1944 Rufus Reid, American bassist and composer

• 1945 Delma S. Arrigoitia, Puerto Rican historian, author, educator and lawyer (died 2023)

• 1945 Glynn Saulters, American basketball player

• 1946 Dick Anderson, American football player

• 1947 Louise Arbour, Canadian lawyer and jurist

• 1947 Butch Morris, American cornet player, composer, and conductor (died 2013)

• 1947 Nicholas Owen, English journalist

• 1949 Nigel Olsson, English rock drummer and singer-songwriter

• 1950 Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, Mexican economist and politician (died 1994)

• 1950 Mark Spitz, American swimmer

• 1951 Bob Iger, American media executive

• 1952 Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore

• 1955 Jim Cramer, American television personality, pundit, and author

• 1955 Tom LaGarde, American basketball player

• 1955 Greg Norman, Australian golfer and sportscaster

• 1956 Kathleen Beller, American actress

• 1956 James Martin Graham, American Roman Catholic priest (died 1997)

• 1956 Enele Sopoaga, Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu

• 1957 Katherine Freese, American astrophysicist and academic

• 1958 Ricardo Gareca, Argentine footballer and manager

• 1959 John Calipari, American basketball player and coach

• 1960 Jim Kent, American biologist, computer programmer, academic

• 1961 Alexander Payne, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1961 George Stephanopoulos, American television journalist

• 1962 Cliff Burton, American musician and songwriter (died 1986)

• 1962 Bobby Czyz, American boxer and commentator

• 1962 Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1963 Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player

• 1964 Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author

• 1966 Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician

• 1966 Daryl Johnston, American football player and sportscaster

• 1966 David Cordani, American businessman

• 1967 Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer

• 1967 Jacky Durand, French cyclist and sportscaster

• 1967 Vince Gilligan, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1968 Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

• 1968 Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut

• 1969 Joe Mangrum, American painter and sculptor

• 1969 James Small, South African rugby player (died 2019)

• 1970 Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist and author

• 1970 Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer and manager

• 1970 Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist and author

• 1971 Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (died 2015)

• 1972 Michael Kasprowicz, Australian cricketer

• 1973 Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and politician

• 1974 Elizabeth Banks, American actress

• 1974 Ty Law, American football player

• 1974 Ivri Lider, Israeli singer

• 1974 Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player and coach

• 1975 Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player

• 1975 Tina Thompson, American basketball player and coach

• 1976 Lance Berkman, American baseball player and coach

• 1976 Keeley Hawes, English actress

• 1977 Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer

• 1978 Don Omar, Puerto Rican rapper, singer, producer, and actor

• 1979 Joey Hand, American race car driver

• 1980 César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1980 Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer and manager

• 1980 Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1980 Bruno Šundov, Croatian basketball player

• 1981 Uzo Aduba, American actress

• 1981 Stephanie Beatriz, American actress

• 1981 Max Brown, English actor

• 1981 Andrew Johnson, English footballer

• 1981 Barry Sloane, English actor

• 1981 Holly Willoughby, English model and television host

• 1982 Hamad Al-Tayyar, Kuwaiti footballer

• 1982 Justin Gatlin, American sprinter

• 1982 Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer

• 1982 Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1983 Vic Fuentes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1984 Greg Bird, Australian rugby league player

• 1984 Alex Gordon, American baseball player

• 1984 Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress

• 1984 Zaza Pachulia, Georgian basketball player

• 1985 Selçuk İnan, Turkish footballer

• 1985 Paul Millsap, American basketball player

• 1986 Jeff Adrien, American basketball player

• 1986 Josh Akognon, American basketball player

• 1986 Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer

• 1986 Nahuel Guzmán, Argentine footballer

• 1986 Roberto Jiménez, Spanish footballer

• 1986 Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player

• 1987 Justin Braun, American ice hockey player

• 1987 Jakub Kindl, Czech ice hockey player

• 1987 Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine footballer

• 1988 Francesco Acerbi, Italian footballer

• 1989 Travis d'Arnaud, American baseball player

• 1989 Liam Hendriks, Australian baseball player

• 1989 Birgit Skarstein, Norwegian Paralympic athlete and social entrepreneur

• 1990 Yuri Berchiche, Spanish footballer

• 1990 Trevante Rhodes, American actor

• 1990 Choi Soo-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer

• 1991 C. J. Anderson, American football player

• 1991 Rebecca Dempster, Scottish footballer

• 1991 Emma Roberts, American actress

• 1992 Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer and actress

• 1992 Reinhold Yabo, German footballer

• 1993 Yasser Ibrahim, Egyptian footballer

• 1993 Max Kepler, German-American baseball player

• 1993 Luis Madrigal, Mexican footballer

• 1993 Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer

• 1994 Son Na-eun, South Korean singer and actress

• 1994 Kang Seul-gi, South Korean singer

• 1994 Makenzie Vega, American actress

• 1994 Miguel Almirón, Paraguayan footballer

• 1995 Sterling Brown, American basketball player

• 1995 Bobby Portis, American basketball player

• 1995 Carolane Soucisse, Canadian ice dancer

• 1995 Lexi Thompson, American golfer

• 1995 Naby Keïta, Guinean footballer

• 1996 Alexandar Georgiev, Bulgarian-Russian ice hockey player

• 1996 Emanuel Mammana, Argentine footballer

• 1997 Josh Jackson, American basketball player

• 1997 Lilly King, American swimmer

• 1997 Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress

• 1997 Nadia Podoroska, Argentine tennis player

• 1997 Josh Rosen, American football player

• 1997 Adam Armstrong, English footballer

• 1999 Tiffany Espensen, American actress

• 2000 María Carlé, Argentine tennis player

• 2000 Yara Shahidi, American actress and model

• 2001 Sergio Camello, Spanish footballer

• 2006 Megan Skiendiel, American singer, dancer and actress

• 2009 Antonio Arena, Italian footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 547 Scholastica, Christian nun

• 1127 William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (born 1071)

• 1163 Baldwin III of Jerusalem (born 1130)

• 1242 Emperor Shijō of Japan (born 1231)

• 1280 Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (born 1202)

• 1306 John "the Red" Comyn, Scottish nobleman

• 1307 Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (born 1265)

• 1346 Blessed Clare of Rimini (born 1282)

• 1471 Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg (born 1413)

• 1524 Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (born 1468)

• 1526 John V, Count of Oldenburg, German noble (born 1460)

• 1567 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1545)

• 1576 Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar, translator, and academic (born 1532)

1601–1900

• 1660 Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (born 1609)

• 1686 William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (born 1605)

• 1752 Henriette of France, French Princess (born1727)

• 1755 Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (born 1689)

• 1782 Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and author (born 1702)

• 1829 Pope Leo XII (born 1760)

• 1831 Peter Heywood, British naval officer (born 1772)

• 1837 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (born 1799)

• 1846 Maria Aletta Hulshoff, Dutch feminist and pamphleteer (born 1781)

• 1854 José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general (born 1792)

• 1857 David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (born 1770)

• 1865 Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (born 1804)

• 1879 Honoré Daumier, French illustrator and painter (born 1808)

• 1887 Ellen Wood, English author (born 1814)

• 1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (born 1850)

1901–present

• 1904 John A. Roche, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (born 1844)

• 1906 Ezra Butler Eddy, American-Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)

• 1912 Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (born 1827)

• 1913 Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (born 1888)

• 1917 John William Waterhouse, English painter (born 1849)

• 1918 Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1842)

• 1918 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1833)

• 1920 Henry Strangways, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of South Australia (born 1832)

• 1923 Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)

• 1928 José Sánchez del Río, Mexican martyr and saint (born 1913)

• 1932 Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (born 1875)

• 1939 Pope Pius XI (born 1857)

• 1944 E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (born 1870)

• 1945 Anacleto Díaz, Filipino lawyer and jurist (born 1878)

• 1950 Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (born 1872)

• 1956 Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (born 1872)

• 1956 Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1882)

• 1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (born 1867)

• 1960 Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (born 1898)

• 1966 Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (born 1899)

• 1967 Dionysios Kokkinos, Greek historian and author (born 1884)

• 1975 Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (born 1910)

• 1979 Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1910)

• 1992 Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (born 1921)

• 1993 Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (born 1929)

• 1995 Paul Monette, American author, poet, and activist (born 1945)

• 1997 Brian Connolly, Scottish musician (born 1945)

• 2000 Jim Varney, American actor, comedian and writer (born 1949)

• 2001 Abraham Beame, American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (born 1906)

• 2001 Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1913)

• 2002 Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)

• 2003 Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (born 1910)

• 2003 Albert J. Ruffo, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (born 1908)

• 2003 Ron Ziegler, American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (born 1939)

• 2005 Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (born 1915)

• 2006 James Yancey, American record producer and rapper (born 1974)

• 2008 Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (born 1932)

• 2010 Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (born 1925)

• 2010 Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (born 1933)

• 2011 Trevor Bailey, English cricketer and journalist (born 1923)

• 2012 Lloyd Morrison, New Zealand banker and businessman, founded H. R. L. Morrison & Co (born 1957)

• 2012 Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (born 1958)

• 2013 W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (born 1927)

• 2013 David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (born 1931)

• 2014 Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (born 1932)

• 2014 Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (born 1928)

• 2015 Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (born 1934)

• 2015 Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (born 1928)

• 2015 Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (born 1915)

• 2016 Fatima Surayya Bajia, Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (born 1930)

• 2017 Mike Ilitch, American businessman (born 1929)

• 2019 Carmen Argenziano, American actor (born 1943)

• 2019 Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (born 1944)

• 2021 Larry Flynt, American publisher (born 1942)

• 2022 Olsen Filipaina, New Zealand rugby league player (born 1957)

• 2023 AKA, South African rapper (born 1988)

• 2025 Peter Tuiasosopo, American football player and actor (born 1963)

• 2026 Jose de Venecia Jr., Filipino politician and journalist, 17th and 21st Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives (born 1936)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Austrebertha

• Charalambos

• Blessed Eusebia Palomino Yenes

• José Sánchez del Río

• Scholastica

• February 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)

• Fenkil Day(commemoration of the Second Battle of Massawa) (Eritrea)

• Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

• National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)

• Arabian Leopard Day

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on February 10