February 10

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 1258 &ndash; Baghdad falls to the Mongols.
* 1306 &ndash; In Dumfries, Robert the Bruce kills John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch.
* 1355 &ndash; St. Scholastica's Day riot: Two days of rioting in Oxford leaves 63 scholars and probably 30 locals dead.
* 1567 &ndash; An Explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field building in Edinburgh and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley is found dead, most probably in an assassination.
* 1763 &ndash; In the Treaty of Paris, France has to give Quebec to Great Britain.
* 1814 &ndash; Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and Prussians.
* 1840 &ndash; Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort, marry.
* 1861 &ndash; Jefferson Davis is informed by telegraph of his election as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
* 1863 &ndash; The fire extinguisher is patented.
* 1870 &ndash; The YWCA (Young Woman's Christian Association) is founded in New York City.
* 1881 &ndash; French opera ''Les contes d'Hoffmann* is first performed in Paris.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1904 &ndash; Russo-Japanese War: Japan declares war on Russia.
* 1906 &ndash; The battleship HMS *Dreadnought* is launched in Portsmouth.
* 1910 &ndash; 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 &ndash; North Schleswig votes to become part of Denmark.
* 1933 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Spanish Civil War: Nationalists finish their conquest of Catalonia and seal Spain's border with France.
* 1940 &ndash; The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied Eastern Poland to Siberia.
* 1942 &ndash; A Japanese submarine bombs Midway Atoll.
* 1945 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Italy cedes most of Venezia-Giulia to Yugoslavia.
* 1949 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Jawaharlal Nehru wins India's first election.
* 1954 &ndash; Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against intervention in Vietnam.
* 1957 &ndash; In Sudan, football's Africa Cup of Nations is held for the first time.
* 1962 &ndash; Captured American pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
* 1964 &ndash; Aircraft carrier *HMAS Melbourne* collides with destroyer *HMAS Voyager* off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.
* 1967 &ndash; The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
* 1972 &ndash; The remote North Atlantic rock of Rockall is fully integrated as part of Scotland.
* 1981 &ndash; A fire at the Las Vegas hotel–casino kills 8 people.
* 1990 &ndash; Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl meet for talks.
* 1996 &ndash; The computer Deep Blue first defeats Garry Kasparov in a game of chess.
* 1998 &ndash; Voters in Maine repeal a Gay rights law.

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval, concerning protective measures for Turkey in the event of a war in Iraq.
* 2005 &ndash; North Korea announces that it is developing nuclear weapons.
* 2005 &ndash; A dam break in Shadi Kor, Pakistan, kills between 140 and 500 people.
* 2005 &ndash; It is announced that Charles, Prince of Wales will marry Camilla Parker-Bowles.
* 2006 &ndash; XX Olympic Winter Games opened in Turin, Italy.
* 2007 &ndash; Barack Obama announces his intention to run for President of the United States.
* 2009 &ndash; Communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit.
* 2013 &ndash; The Nigeria national football team wins the Africa Cup of Nations, defeating the Burkina Faso national football team 1–0 in the final.
* 2013 &ndash; A stampede at the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India, kills 36 people.
* 2015 &ndash; It is announced that Australia will make a one-off appearance at the 60th Eurovision Song Contest. They are later invited to take part in 2016, 2017 and 2018 as well.

## Births
### Up to 1900 
* 1499 &ndash; Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
* 1524 &ndash; Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
* 1606 &ndash; Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
* 1609 &ndash; John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
* 1685 &ndash; Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
* 1686 &ndash; Hans Egede, Norwegian pastor and missionary in Greenland (d. 1758)
* 1720 &ndash; Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and scientist (d. 1778)
* 1744 &ndash; William Cornwallis, English Royal Navy admiral (d. 1819)
* 1783 &ndash; Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
* 1785 &ndash; Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
* 1788 &ndash; Robert P. Letcher, American politician, 15th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1861)
* 1795 &ndash; Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
* 1806 &ndash; Orville Hickman Browning, 9th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1881)
* 1815 &ndash; Constantin Bosianu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1882)
* 1818 &ndash; Isham G. Harris, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1897) 
* 1824 &ndash; Samuel Plimsoll, British politician and social reformer (d. 1898)
* 1842 &ndash; Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer (d. 1907)
* 1846 &ndash; Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
* 1847 &ndash; Nabinchandra Sen, Bengali poet (d. 1909)
* 1859 &ndash; Alexandre Millerand, President of France (d. 1943)
* 1878 &ndash; Zdenek Nejedly, Czech intellectual and politician (d. 1962)
* 1881 &ndash; Pauline Brunius, Swedish stage and movie actress, and director (d. 1954)
* 1881 &ndash; Ken McArthur, South African marathon runner (d. 1960)
* 1884 &ndash; Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (d. 1976)
* 1888 &ndash; Harry Beaumont, American movie director (d. 1966)
* 1888 &ndash; Alexander Cudmore, American soccer player (d. 1944)
* 1888 &ndash; Alfredo Pacini, Italian cardinal (d. 1967)
* 1888 &ndash; Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist and writer (d. 1970)
* 1890 &ndash; Fanny Kaplan, Russian revolutionary, believed to be the attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1918)
* 1890 &ndash; Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (d. 1960)
* 1892 &ndash; Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
* 1893 &ndash; Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
* 1893 &ndash; Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (d. 1980)
* 1894 &ndash; Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
* 1897 &ndash; Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
* 1897 &ndash; John Franklin Enders, American scientist (d. 1985)
* 1898 &ndash; Bertolt Brecht, German writer and playwright (d. 1956)
* 1898 &ndash; Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
* 1899 &ndash; Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
* 1902 &ndash; Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (d. 1987)
* 1903 &ndash; Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
* 1903 &ndash; Waldemar Hoven, German Nazi physician (d. 1948)
* 1904 &ndash; John Farrow, Australian-American director, father of Mia Farrow (d. 1963)
* 1905 &ndash; Walter A. Brown, American businessman (d. 1964)
* 1906 &ndash; Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
* 1910 &ndash; Dominique Pire, Belgian friar (d. 1969)
* 1910 &ndash; Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (d. 1978)
* 1913 &ndash; Douglas Slocombe, English cinematographer (d. 2016)
* 1914 &ndash; Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
* 1915 &ndash; Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (d. 2016)
* 1922 &ndash; Arpad Goncz, former President of Hungary (d. 2015)
* 1922 &ndash; Harold Hughes, American politician, Governor of Iowa (d. 1996)
* 1923 &ndash; Ahti Karjalainen, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1990)
* 1923 &ndash; Cesare Siepi, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2010)
* 1925 &ndash; Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (d. 2012)
* 1926 &ndash; Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
* 1927 &ndash; Alma Adamkiene, former First Lady of Lithuania
* 1927 &ndash; Leontyne Price, American singer
* 1927 &ndash; Brian Priestman, British conductor (d. 2014)
* 1929 &ndash; Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian skier (d. 2007)
* 1929 &ndash; Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
* 1929 &ndash; Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
* 1929 &ndash; Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
* 1930 &ndash; Robert Wagner, American actor
* 1931 &ndash; Doug Young, American voice actor
* 1932 &ndash; Barrie Ingham, English actor (d. 2015)
* 1934 &ndash; Kirk Fordice, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (d. 2004)
* 1937 &ndash; Yuriy Poyarkov, Ukrainian volleyball player (d. 2017)
* 1939 &ndash; Roberta Flack, American singer
* 1939 &ndash; Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General of Canada
* 1939 &ndash; Peter Purves, British actor and television presenter
* 1940 &ndash; Mary Rand, British sprinter and long jumper
* 1940 &ndash; Kathryn Mullen, American puppeteer, actress and voice actress
* 1941 &ndash; Michael Apted, British movie director
* 1942 &ndash; Lawrence Weiner, American conceptual artist
* 1944 &ndash; Frank Keating, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
* 1944 &ndash; Peter Allen, American singer and actor
* 1946 &ndash; Muntaka Connmassie, Nigerian jurist (d. 2017)
* 1947 &ndash; Louise Arbour, Canadian diplomat, former United Nations Commissioner for Human rights
* 1947 &ndash; Nicholas Owen, English journalist
* 1948 &ndash; Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
* 1949 &ndash; Harold Sylvester, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
* 1950 &ndash; Mark Spitz, American swimmer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
* 1952 &ndash; Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
* 1953 &ndash; John Shirley, American science fiction author
* 1954 &ndash; Peter Ramsauer, German politician
* 1955 &ndash; Greg Norman, Australian golfer
* 1955 &ndash; Jim Cramer, American television personality
* 1956 &ndash; Enele Sopoaga, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
* 1959 &ndash; John Calipari, American basketball player
* 1961 &ndash; Alexander Payne, American movie director
* 1961 &ndash; George Stephanopoulos, American television journalist
* 1962 &ndash; Cliff Burton, American musician (Metallica) (d. 1986)
* 1963 &ndash; Philip Glenister, English actor
* 1964 &ndash; Glenn Beck, American broadcaster
* 1964 &ndash; Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
* 1964 &ndash; Francesca Neri, Italian actress
* 1964 &ndash; Sam Graddy, American athlete
* 1964 &ndash; Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
* 1966 &ndash; Ji Suk-jin, South Korean comedian, actor and singer
* 1966 &ndash; Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
* 1967 &ndash; Laura Dern, American actress
* 1967 &ndash; Vince Gilligan, American writer and executive producer
* 1968 &ndash; Matthias Hamann, German footballer
* 1968 &ndash; Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1968 &ndash; Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
* 1970 &ndash; Asne Seierstad, Norwegian writer and journalist
* 1970 &ndash; Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer and manager
* 1973 &ndash; Ajdar, Turkish singer-songwriter and engineer
* 1973 &ndash; Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and philanthropist
* 1974 &ndash; Elizabeth Banks, American actress
* 1975 &ndash; Kool Savas, German rapper
* 1975 &ndash; Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Keeley Hawes, English actress
* 1976 &ndash; Carlos Jimenez Sanchez, Spanish basketball player
* 1980 &ndash; Riki Flutey, New Zealand-born English rugby player
* 1980 &ndash; Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1980 &ndash; Bruno Sundov, Croatian basketball player
* 1981 &ndash; Andrew Johnson, English footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Holly Willoughby, English television presenter
* 1981 &ndash; Ozo Aduba, American actress and singer
* 1982 &ndash; Justin Gatlin, American athlete
* 1983 &ndash; Ricardo Clark, American soccer player
* 1984 &ndash; Jemma Simpson, British athlete
* 1985 &ndash; Anette Sagen, Norwegian skier
* 1986 &ndash; Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
* 1986 &ndash; Josh Akognon, Nigerian-American basketball player
* 1986 &ndash; Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
* 1987 &ndash; Choi Siwon, South Korean singer
* 1987 &ndash; Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Jade Ramsey, English actress
* 1989 &ndash; Neelofa, Malaysian actress, television host and model
* 1990 &ndash; Sooyoung, South Korean singer (Girls' Generation)
* 1991 &ndash; Emma Roberts, American actress
* 1992 &ndash; Misha B, American rapper and singer
* 1992 &ndash; Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer
* 1992 &ndash; Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
* 1993 &ndash; Max Kepler, German baseball player
* 1994 &ndash; Son Na-eun, South Korean singer and actress
* 1994 &ndash; Kang Seul-gi, South Korean singer
* 1994 &ndash; Mackenzie Vega, American actress
* 1995 &ndash; Haruna Kawaguchi, Japanese model and actress
* 1996 &ndash; Christina Parie, Australian singer-songwriter
* 1997 &ndash; Chloe Moretz, American actress
* 1998 &ndash; Candy Hsu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actress and record producer
* 2000 &ndash; Yara Shahidi, Iranian-American actress

## Deaths
### Up to 1900 
* 547 &ndash; Scholastica, Christian nun
* 1126 &ndash; William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
* 1162 &ndash; King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
* 1242 &ndash; Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231)
* 1278 &ndash; Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
* 1306 &ndash; John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, Scottish nobleman
* 1307 &ndash; Temur Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, Emperor of China (b. 1265)
* 1543 &ndash; Johannes Eck, German theologian (b. 1486)
* 1567 &ndash; Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (b. 1546)
* 1755 &ndash; Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
* 1758 &ndash; Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
* 1782 &ndash; Christian Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
* 1829 &ndash; Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
* 1837 &ndash; Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (b. 1799)
* 1854 &ndash; Jose Joaquin de Herrera, President of Mexico (b. 1792)
* 1857 &ndash; David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
* 1865 &ndash; Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
* 1891 &ndash; Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1904 &ndash; John A. Roche, American politician (b. 1844)
* 1912 &ndash; Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
* 1913 &ndash; Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1888)
* 1917 &ndash; John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
* 1918 &ndash; Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1842)
* 1918 &ndash; Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist (b. 1833)
* 1923 &ndash; Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German scientist (b. 1845)
* 1932 &ndash; Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
* 1939 &ndash; Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
* 1944 &ndash; E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870)
* 1956 &ndash; Emmanouil Tsouderos, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1882)
* 1957 &ndash; Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer (b. 1867)
* 1958 &ndash; Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian athlete (b. 1899)
* 1960 &ndash; Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
* 1964 &ndash; Eugen Saenger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
* 1966 &ndash; Billy Rose, American composer (b. 1898)
* 1975 &ndash; Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
* 1979 &ndash; Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav Communist leader (b. 1910)
* 1985 &ndash; Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (b. 1895)
* 1990 &ndash; Bill Sherwood, American producer and composer (b. 1952)
* 1992 &ndash; Alex Haley, American writer (b. 1921)
* 2000 &ndash; Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Abraham D. Beame, American politician and Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
* 2002 &ndash; Dave Van Ronk, American musician (b. 1936)
* 2002 &ndash; Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's press secretary (b. 1920)
* 2005 &ndash; Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
* 2008 &ndash; Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
* 2009 &ndash; Jeremy Lusk, American motocross racer (b. 1984)
* 2010 &ndash; Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
* 2014 &ndash; Stuart Hall, Jamaican-British sociologist and cultural theorist (b. 1932)
* 2014 &ndash; Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
* 2014 &ndash; Ronnie Masterson, Irish actress (b. 1926)
* 2014 &ndash; Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (b. 1928)
* 2015 &ndash; Deng Liqun, Chinese politician (b. 1915)
* 2015 &ndash; Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (b. 1934)
* 2015 &ndash; Karl Josef Becker, German theologian and cardinal (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Phil Gartside, English businessman (b. 1952)
* 2016 &ndash; Leo Ehlen, Dutch footballer (b. 1953)
* 2016 &ndash; Andrew L. Lewis, Jr., American business executive and politician (b. 1931)
* 2016 &ndash; Eliseo Prado, Argentine footballer (b. 1929)
* 2016 &ndash; Günter Schröter, German footballer (b. 1927)
* 2016 &ndash; Claude Jeancolas, French writer, artist and journalist (b. 1949)
* 2017 &ndash; Edward Bryant, American writer (b. 1945)
* 2017 &ndash; Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports owner (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Yuriy Poyarkov, Ukrainian volleyball player (b. 1937)
* 2017 &ndash; Hal Moore, American general and author (b. 1922)
* 2017 &ndash; Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese swimmer (b. 1939)
* 2018 &ndash; Jeff Bell, American politician (b. 1943)
* 2018 &ndash; Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1938)

## Observances 
* Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)
* Fenkil Day (Eritrea)