April 10

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 428 &ndash; Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 &ndash; Closest approach between Halley's Comet and Earth.
* 879 &ndash; Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the West Franks.
* 1500 &ndash; Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara.
* 1606 &ndash; The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
* 1710 &ndash; The Statute of Anne, the first law against copyright, enters  into force in Great Britain.
* 1741 &ndash; Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
* 1809 &ndash; Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition starts, when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
* 1815 &ndash; Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia.
* 1816 &ndash; The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States.
* 1821 &ndash; Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman Empire.
* 1849 &ndash; Walter Hunt receives a patent for the safety pin.
* 1864 &ndash; Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, during the French intervention in Mexico.
* 1865 &ndash; American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
* 1874 &ndash; The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
* 1887 &ndash; Pope Leo XIII, on Easter Sunday, authorizes the creation of The Catholic University of America.
* 1896 &ndash; Spyridon Louis wins the first marathon of the modern Olympic Games.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1906 &ndash; The Four Million, O. Henry's second short story collection, is published.
* 1912 &ndash; The RMS *Titanic* leaves port in Southampton, England.
* 1916 &ndash; The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City by 82 charter members.
* 1919 &ndash; Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
* 1933 &ndash; New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.
* 1938 &ndash; Édouard Daladier becomes Prime Minister of France
* 1939 &ndash; *Dr. I.Q., the Mental Banker* debuts.
* 1940 &ndash; Katyn massacre: Mass execution of 40,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia is approved and signed by Joseph Stalin.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.
* 1944 &ndash; Henry Ford II is named executive vice president of Ford Motor Company.
* 1953 &ndash; The House of Wax opens at New York City's Paramount Theater (it was the first color feature in 3–D).
* 1957 &ndash; The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
* 1959 &ndash; Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko (née Michiko Shoda), a commoner.
* 1963 &ndash; The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians)
* 1968 &ndash; Shipwreck of the Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
* 1970 &ndash; Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.
* 1970 &ndash; Vietnam War: 48 percent of the Americans polled in a Gallup Poll approve of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's Vietnam policy, while 41 percent disapprove.
* 1971 &ndash; Cold War: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China host the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
* 1972 &ndash; 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
* 1972 &ndash; Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967 American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
* 1973 &ndash; A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
* 1979 &ndash; On the day known to meteorologists as "terrible Tuesday", a tornado hits in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. (see Wichita Falls, Texas Tornado).
* 1988 &ndash; The comic strip *FoxTrot* débuts.
* 1991 &ndash; Italian ferry *Moby Prince* collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Tuscany, killing 140 people.
* 1991 &ndash; A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola.
* 1992 &ndash; The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
* 1998 &ndash; The Belfast Agreement is signed.

### From 2001 
* 2006 &ndash; In a close election, Romano Prodi is elected Prime Minister of Italy, succeeding Silvio Berlusconi, who later regains this position, in 2008.
* 2009 &ndash; President of Fiji Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all of the governance of the country.
* 2010 &ndash; A plane crash in Smolensk, western Russia, kills 96 people. Many of them were very important in Poland, including President Lech Kaczynski. They were on their way to a memorial service to commemorate 70 years since the Katyn massacre.
* 2015 &ndash; A bus and truck collide in southern Morocco, killing 33 people, including schoolchildren.
* 2016 &ndash; The Kollam temple fire in Kerala, Southern India, kills over 100 people.
* 2019 &ndash; Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Project announce the first–ever image of a black hole, at the centre of the M87 Galaxy.
* 2019 &ndash; Fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave on the Philippines' island of Luzon reveal the existence of the Homo luzonensis species of human.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 401 &ndash; Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (d. 450)
* 1389 &ndash; Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
* 1512 &ndash; James V of Scotland (exact date uncertain) (d. 1542)
* 1583 &ndash; Hugo Grotius, jurist (d. 1645)
* 1651 &ndash; Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist and historian (d. 1708)
* 1707 &ndash; Michel Corrette, French organist, composer, writer (d. 1795)
* 1713 &ndash; John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)
* 1735 &ndash; Button Gwinnett, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1777)
* 1755 &ndash; Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, originator of homeopathy (d. 1843)
* 1762 &ndash; Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
* 1766 &ndash; John Leslie, Scottish physicist (d. 1832)
* 1778 &ndash; William Hazlitt, English writer (d. 1830)
* 1783 &ndash; Hortense de Beauharnais, queen of Holland as wife of Louis Bonaparte (d. 1837)
* 1794 &ndash; Matthew Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
* 1796 &ndash; James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836)
* 1801 &ndash; Paul Devaux, Belgian politician (d. 1880)
* 1817 &ndash; Konstantin Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1860)
* 1827 &ndash; Lew Wallace, American lawyer, general and politician (d. 1905)
* 1829 &ndash; William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (d. 1912)
* 1847 &ndash; Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian–American journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
* 1864 &ndash; Eugen d'Albert, Scottish–born German composer (d. 1932)
* 1865 &ndash; Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
* 1867 &ndash; George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935)
* 1868 &ndash; George Arliss, British actor (d. 1946)
* 1870 (O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924)
* 1873 &ndash; Kyösti Kallio, President of Finland (d. 1940)
* 1877 &ndash; Alfred Kubin, American expressionist illustrator and writer (d. 1959)
* 1877 &ndash; Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 1947)
* 1879 &ndash; Bernhard Gregory, Baltic German chess player (d. 1939)
* 1880 &ndash; Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 1933)
* 1880 &ndash; Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)
* 1882 &ndash; Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965)
* 1887 &ndash; Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1971)
* 1892 &ndash; Victor de Sabata, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1967)
* 1894 &ndash; Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educator (d. 1983)
* 1897 &ndash; Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1990)
* 1899 &ndash; Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1901 &ndash; Alexander Ireland, Scottish boxer (d. 1966)
* 1903 &ndash; Clare Turlay Newberry, American illustrator and author (d. 1970)
* 1906 &ndash; Steve Anderson, American hurdler (d. 1988)
* 1910 &ndash; Eddy Duchin, musician (d. 1951)
* 1911 &ndash; Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician (d. 1998)
* 1912 &ndash; Boris Kidric, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (d. 1953)
* 1913 &ndash; Stefan Heym, German writer (d. 2001)
* 1915 &ndash; Harry Morgan, American actor (d. 2011)
* 1915 &ndash; Leo Vroman, Dutch–American hematologist, poet and illustrator (d. 2014)
* 1917 &ndash; Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist (d. 1979)
* 1919 &ndash; John Houbolt, American aerospace engineer (d. 2014)
* 1921 &ndash; Chuck Connors, American actor and baseball player (d. 1992)
* 1921 &ndash; Jake Warren, Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 2008)
* 1921 &ndash; Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
* 1924 &ndash; Kenneth Noland, American painter (d. 2010)
* 1926 &ndash; Junior Samples, American country musician (d. 1983)
* 1926 &ndash; Jacques Castérède, French composer and pianist (d. 2014)
* 1927 &ndash; Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2010)
* 1929 &ndash; Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
* 1930 &ndash; Claude Bolling, French jazz composer and pianist
* 1930 &ndash; Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian (d. 2001)
* 1930 &ndash; Ray Blanton, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1996)
* 1931 &ndash; Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
* 1931 &ndash; René Follet, Belgian comic artist
* 1932 &ndash; Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (d. 2015)
* 1932 &ndash; Mae Faggs, American athlete (d. 2000)
* 1934 &ndash; David Halberstam, American writer (d. 2007)
* 1934 &ndash; Vladimir Posner, Soviet journalist
* 1935 &ndash; Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (d. 2010)
* 1936 &ndash; John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster
* 1937 &ndash; Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010)
* 1938 &ndash; Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster (d. 2010)
* 1938 &ndash; Frans van der Lugt, Dutch priest (d. 2014)
* 1939 &ndash; Penny Vincenzi, English writer (d. 2018)
* 1939 &ndash; Rocky Valance, Welsh singer
* 1940 &ndash; Gloria Hunniford, Northern Irish television and radio presenter
* 1941 &ndash; Paul Theroux, American writer
* 1943 &ndash; Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete
* 1946 &ndash; David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001)
* 1946 &ndash; Bob Watson, American baseball player and executive
* 1947 &ndash; Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
* 1950 &ndash; Ken Griffey, Sr., American Major League Baseball player
* 1950 &ndash; Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations) (d. 1992)

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1952 &ndash; Narayan Rane, Indian politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra 
* 1952 &ndash; Steven Seagal, American actor
* 1954 &ndash; Peter MacNicol, American actor
* 1954 &ndash; Paul Bearer, American professional wrestler and manager (d. 2013)
* 1955 &ndash; Lesley Garrett, British soprano
* 1957 &ndash; James D. Hudnall, American comic book writer (d. 2019)
* 1958 &ndash; Yefim Bronfman, Russian pianist
* 1958 &ndash; Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, music producer, musician, and movie producer
* 1959 &ndash; Stanislaw Tillich, German politician, former Prime Minister of Saxony
* 1960 &ndash; Brian Setzer, musician
* 1960 &ndash; Katrina Leskanich, American singer (Katrina and the Waves)
* 1960 &ndash; Afrika Bambaataa, American musician and activist
* 1961 &ndash; Nicky Campbell, Scottish television and radio presenter
* 1962 &ndash; Steve Tasker, American football player
* 1963 &ndash; Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician
* 1963 &ndash; Mark Oliver Everett, American musician
* 1965 &ndash; Tim Alexander, American musician
* 1966 &ndash; Steve Claridge, English footballer, manager and sportscaster
* 1968 &ndash; Orlando Jones, American actor, comedian
* 1970 &ndash; Kenny Lattimore, American singer
* 1970 &ndash; Q-Tip, American rapper and producer
* 1972 &ndash; Ed Byrne, Irish comedian
* 1973 &ndash; Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Aidan Moffat, British musician
* 1974 &ndash; Eric Greitens, American politician, 56th Governor of Missouri

### From 1976 
* 1979 &ndash; Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of the International Solidarity Movement (d. 2003)
* 1979 &ndash; Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese artist
* 1979 &ndash; Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer
* 1979 &ndash; Shemekia Copeland, American singer
* 1980 &ndash; Charlie Hunnam, actor
* 1981 &ndash; Liz McClarnon, English singer (Atomic Kitten)
* 1981 &ndash; Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder
* 1981 &ndash; Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player
* 1982 &ndash; Chyler Leigh, American actress, singer and model
* 1983 &ndash; Ryan Merriman, American actor
* 1983 &ndash; Hannes Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Gonzalo Javier Rodriguez, Argentine footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
* 1985 &ndash; Willo Flood, Irish footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Tore Reginiussen, Norwegian footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Hayley Westenra, New Zealand singer
* 1987 &ndash; Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress
* 1988 &ndash; Haley Joel Osment, American actor
* 1989 &ndash; Jenny Alm, Swedish handball player
* 1989 &ndash; Thomas Heurtel, French basketball player
* 1990 &ndash; Alex Pettyfer, English actor
* 1991 &ndash; Amanda Michalka, American actress and singer
* 1991 &ndash; Royce White, American basketball player
* 1992 &ndash; Sadio Mané, Senegalese footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Daisy Ridley, English actress
* 1994 &ndash; Nerlens Noel, American basketball player
* 1996 &ndash; Emily Rose Everhard, American actress
* 1996 &ndash; Loïc Nottet, Belgian singer
* 2001 &ndash; Angelina Mango, Italian singer–songwriter
* 2007 &ndash; Princess Ariane of the Netherlands

## Deaths 
### Up to 1950 
* 879 &ndash; Louis the Stammerer, king of the West Franks (b. 846)
* 948 &ndash; Hugh of Italy
* 1216 &ndash; Eric X of Sweden (b. 1180)
* 1533 &ndash; Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
* 1585 &ndash; Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
* 1599 &ndash; Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
* 1646 &ndash; Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
* 1756 &ndash; Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b. 1661)
* 1786 &ndash; John Byron, English admiral and politician (b. 1723)
* 1813 &ndash; Joseph-Louis Lagrange, mathematician (b. 1736)
* 1821 &ndash; Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople (b. 1746)
* 1823 &ndash; Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)
* 1862 &ndash; W.H.L. Wallace, Union brigadier general (b. 1821)
* 1871 &ndash; Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentine general and politician (b. 1789)
* 1882 &ndash; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British poet, painter (b. 1828)
* 1904 &ndash; Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
* 1909 &ndash; Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1909)
* 1919 &ndash; Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)
* 1920 &ndash; Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1829)
* 1931 &ndash; Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
* 1938 &ndash; Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz cornet player and bandleader (b. 1885)
* 1939 &ndash; Alfredo Panzini, Italian writer (b. 1863)
* 1945 &ndash; Charles Nordhoff, writer (b. 1887)

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1954 &ndash; Auguste Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1862)
* 1955 &ndash; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest and philosopher (b. 1881)
* 1958 &ndash; Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
* 1960 &ndash; André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (b. 1903) 
* 1962 &ndash; Michael Curtiz, director (b. 1886)
* 1962 &ndash; Stuart Sutcliffe, British musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
* 1965 &ndash; Linda Darnell, actress (b. 1923)
* 1966 &ndash; Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
* 1968 &ndash; Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
* 1969 &ndash; Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer
* 1975 &ndash; Josephine Baker, American dancer (b. 1906)
* 1975 &ndash; Marjorie Main, actress (b. 1890)
* 1979 &ndash; Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
* 1980 &ndash; Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
* 1986 &ndash; Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1948)
* 1991 &ndash; Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
* 1991 &ndash; Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
* 1992 &ndash; Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
* 1992 &ndash; Peter D. Mitchell, British biochemist (b. 1920)
* 1993 &ndash; Chris Hani, South African activist (b. 1942)
* 1994 &ndash; Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
* 1995 &ndash; Morarji Desai, Indian activist and politician, Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
* 1995 &ndash; Guenther Guillaume, German spy (b. 1927)
* 1997 &ndash; Michael Dorris, American writer (b. 1945)
* 1998 &ndash; Archbishop Seraphim of Athens (b. 1913)
* 1999 &ndash; Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist (b. 1910)
* 2000 &ndash; Peter Jones, comedian and scriptwriter (b. 1920)
* 2000 &ndash; Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)

### 2001 &ndash; 2010 
* 2001 &ndash; Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
* 2002 &ndash; Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese astronomer (b. 1950)
* 2003 &ndash; Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
* 2007 &ndash; Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
* 2010 &ndash; Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
* 2010 &ndash; Deaths in the 2010 Polish Tu–154 plane crash:
**Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish politician (b. 1919)
**Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (b. 1949)
**Maria Kaczynska, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)
**Anna Walentynowicz, Polish activist (b. 1929)
**Janusz Zakrzenski, Polish actor (b. 1936)
**Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Polish politician (b. 1952)

### From 2011 
* 2012 &ndash; Raymond Aubrac, French resistance activist (b. 1914)
* 2013 &ndash; Robert Edwards, British Nobel Prize–winning physiologist and IVF pioneer (b. 1925)
* 2014 &ndash; Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (b. 1947)
* 2014 &ndash; Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician (b. 1949)
* 2014 &ndash; Sue Townsend, English writer (b. 1946)
* 2014 &ndash; Joe Dini, American politician (b. 1929)
* 2014 &ndash; Justin Marie Bomboko, Congolese politician (b. 1928)
* 2014 &ndash; Anatoly Sukhorukov, Russian physicist (b. 1935)
* 2015 &ndash; Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and commentator (b. 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Peter Walsh, Australian politician (b. 1935)
* 2015 &ndash; Ray Graves, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
* 2015 &ndash; Jin Youzhi, Chinese royal (b. 1918)
* 2015 &ndash; Judith Malina, German–American actress (b. 1926)
* 2015 &ndash; Jim Mutscheller, American football player (b. 1930)
* 2016 &ndash; Howard Marks, British drug smuggler and author (b. 1945)
* 2016 &ndash; Louis Gladstone, American politician (b. 1927)
* 2017 &ndash; Arnold Clark, Scottish businessman (b. 1927)
* 2017 &ndash; J. Geils, American guitarist (b. 1946)
* 2017 &ndash; Linda Hopkins, American actress and singer (b. 1924)
* 2017 &ndash; Larry Sharpe, American professional wrestler (b. 1951)
* 2017 &ndash; Bab Christensen, Norwegian actress (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Dennis F. Kinlaw, American academic (b. 1922)
* 2017 &ndash; Kirill Kovaldzhi, Russian author, poet and critic (b. 1929)
* 2018 &ndash; F'Murr, French comic artist (b. 1946)
* 2018 &ndash; John Lambie, Scottish footballer (b. 1941)
* 2018 &ndash; Li Yaowen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1918) 
* 2019 &ndash; Werner Bardenhewer, German priest and humanitarian (b. 1929)
* 2019 &ndash; Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer–songwriter (b. 1941)
* 2019 &ndash; Irwin L. Jacobs, American investor and businessman (b. 1941)
* 2019 &ndash; Estrella Zeledón Lizano, First Lady of Costa Rica (b. 1929)