On This Day — October 10
4819 noted people were born and 2058 died on October 10 in our archive, including C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Fridtjof Nansen and Nicholas Parsons.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 10
C. H. D. Buys Ballot
1817 – 1890
Fridtjof Nansen
1861 – 1930
Nicholas Parsons
1923 – 2020
Abike Dabiri
b. 1962
Adolfo García-Sastre
b. 1964
Aleksandar Stipčević
1930 – 2015
Alvin Luedecke
1910 – 1998
Amanda Nguyen
b. 1991
Bei Shizhang
1903 – 2009
Carolyn Bertozzi
b. 1966
Cathy Foley
b. 1957
Edmund Aloysius Walsh
1885 – 1956
Edward Malet
1837 – 1908
Frances Fox Piven
b. 1932
Francisco Sagasti
b. 1944
Franciscus Verellen
b. 1952
Gerhard Ertl
b. 1936
Henry Cavendish
1731 – 1810
Ilya Frank
1908 – 1990
J. J. Stevenson
1841 – 1924
Janet McLean
b. 1963
Jonathan M. Dorfan
b. 1947
Juliane Koepcke
b. 1954
Khadija Arib
b. 1960
Kiichi Aichi
1907 – 1973
Lassina Zerbo
b. 1963
Lee Soon-jae
1935 – 2025
Leonid Tyagachev
b. 1946
Leroy Hood
b. 1938
Ludmilla Jordanova
b. 1949
Marcel Poete
1866 – 1950
Marcelo Ebrard
b. 1959
Matthias Mann
b. 1959
Melvyn Nathanson
b. 1944
Neil Sloane
b. 1939
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
1584 – 1650
Radu Vasile
1942 – 2013
René Cagnat
1852 – 1937
Reteos Berberian
1848 – 1907
Richard Dalton
b. 1948
Robert D. Richtmyer
1910 – 2003
Susan Ryan
1942 – 2020
Thomas Plumer
1753 – 1824
Tomasz Nałęcz
b. 1949
Władysław Abraham
1860 – 1941
Yves Chauvin
1930 – 2015
Zhiming Liu
b. 1961
Abdulrahman al-Ansary
1935 – 2023
Adolf Martin Pleischl
1787 – 1867
Alastair Hanton
1926 – 2021
Albion Rajkumar Banerjee
1871 – 1950
Alek Skarlatos
b. 1992
Ali Treki
1937 – 2015
Amparo Alonso Betanzos
b. 1961
Anders Fjelstad
1879 – 1955
André Lanata
b. 1961
Angus Macintyre
b. 1941
Anton Kisse
b. 1958
Antonio Gotto
b. 1935
Ants Järvesaar
b. 1948
Arnold Resnicoff
b. 1946
Arthur Lapworth
1872 – 1941
Ashoke Kumar Sen
1913 – 1996
Bedri Pejani
1885 – 1946
Benjamin West
1738 – 1820
Bernhard Duhm
1847 – 1928
Björn Wahlroos
b. 1952
Boris Pastukhov
1933 – 2021
Brian Smith
1933 – 2023
Caroline Hewins
1846 – 1926
Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
1819 – 1894
Charles Sutherland
1831 – 1895
Charles de Champs
1873 – 1959
Christopher Hill
b. 1945
Claudio Williman
1861 – 1934
Daidō Moriyama
b. 1938
Daniel Pearl
1963 – 2002
David Hempleman-Adams
b. 1956
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford
1871 – 1940
Edward Gnehm
b. 1944
Else Zeuthen
1897 – 1975
Erich Harnack
1852 – 1915
Erik Acharius
1757 – 1819
Erik W. Tawaststjerna
1916 – 1993
Esko-Juhani Tennilä
1947 – 2024
Ewald Frie
b. 1962
France Ellegaard
1913 – 1999
Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas
1903 – 1991
Francis Escudero
b. 1969
Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick
1719 – 1773
Francisco Antonio Rísquez
1856 – 1941
Francisco Giner de los Ríos
1839 – 1915
Franz Walter Stahlecker
1900 – 1942
Frederick D. Patterson
1901 – 1988
Frederik Liebmann
1813 – 1856
Geneviève Fioraso
b. 1954
Gregory C. Beroza
b. 1959
Heinrich Burkhardt
1861 – 1914
Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol
1870 – 1960
Hong Chaosheng
1920 – 2018
Ivan Ivanovich Tvorozhnikov
1848 – 1919
Izzat Klychev
1923 – 2006
Jacobus Arminius
1560 – 1609
Jadwiga Dziubińska
1874 – 1937
Jean Touzet du Vigier
1888 – 1980
Jeffrey Harrison
b. 1957
Johann Jakob Nöggerath
1788 – 1877
John Abercrombie
1780 – 1844
John M. Grunsfeld
b. 1958
John Makinson
b. 1954
John P. Smol
b. 1955
John Price Durbin
1800 – 1876
John Simon
1816 – 1904
John Tillotson
1630 – 1694
Joseph Jukes
1811 – 1869
Joseph Kudler
1786 – 1853
Joseph R. Pitts
b. 1939
Kaori Takagi
b. 1972
Ken Saro-Wiwa
1941 – 1995
Klaus Mehnert
1906 – 1984
Larry Augustin
b. 1962
Lars Rebien Sørensen
b. 1954
Laurence Tribe
b. 1941
Lawren P. Harris
1910 – 1994
Lert Shinawatra
1919 – 1997
Lester Germer
1896 – 1971
Li Boguang
1968 – 2018
Lin Chu-yin
b. 1972
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
1807 – 1864
Lucian Scherman
1864 – 1946
Mark Warby
b. 1958
Martine Rothblatt
b. 1954
Masato Kitera
b. 1952
Matthew Pinsent
b. 1970
Mayuko Toyota
b. 1974
Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece
b. 1953
Mercè Rodoreda
1908 – 1983
Michael M. Gilday
b. 1962
Mihai Gavrilă
b. 1929
Mikhail Lukin
b. 1971
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
b. 1955
Murray Walker
1923 – 2021
Naomi Schor
1943 – 2001
Naoto Kan
b. 1946
Necdet Özel
b. 1950
Nicolai Reshetikhin
b. 1958
Nina Matviienko
1947 – 2023
Ottokár Prohászka
1858 – 1927
Paul Weiss
b. 1959
Pavel Durov
b. 1984
Peter Anyang' Nyong'o
b. 1943
Peter Underwood
1937 – 2014
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders
1903 – 1983
Pyotr Lyashchenko
1876 – 1955
R. K. Narayan
1906 – 2001
Rafael Merry del Val
1865 – 1930
Raul Régis de Oliveira
1874 – 1942
Reinhard Zimmermann
b. 1952
Richard Tötterman
1926 – 2020
Robert Auty
1914 – 1978
Robert Griess
b. 1945
Roberto Gil Zuarth
b. 1977
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
1860 – 1935
Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley
1744 – 1824
Senshū Suetaka
1875 – 1941
Shenton Thomas
1879 – 1962
Sir William Burrell, 2nd Baronet
1732 – 1796
Suranga Nanayakkara
b. 1981
T. Gwynn Jones
1871 – 1949
Takuji Hayata
b. 1940
Tanaka Chikao
1905 – 1995
Thomas Kanza
1933 – 2004
Tom Høyem
b. 1941
Tony Gonzales
b. 1980
Valery Fadeyev
b. 1960
Vasily Tarasyuk
1948 – 2017
Viktor Muzhenko
b. 1961
Viktor Petrov
1894 – 1969
Vinkentij Makušev
1837 – 1883
Vittorio Lingiardi
b. 1960
Vladimir Sudets
1904 – 1981
W. Jason Morgan
1935 – 2023
Walter Anderson
1885 – 1962
Werner Dollinger
1918 – 2008
Wickham Steed
1871 – 1956
Wilhelm Röpke
1899 – 1966
William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire
1617 – 1684
William Everett
1839 – 1910
William McIntosh
1838 – 1931
William Watson-Armstrong, 2nd Baron Armstrong
1892 – 1972
Yeh Jiunn-rong
b. 1958
Zinaida Ershova
1903 – 1995
A. Donald McEachin
1961 – 2022
Abdel Tawab Jusef
1928 – 2015
Adam Lonitzer
1528 – 1586
Addison S. McClure
1839 – 1903
Adlai Stevenson III
1930 – 2021
Akram Khan
b. 1970
Alanson Bigelow Houghton
1863 – 1941
Alberto Giacometti
1901 – 1966
… and 4,619 more
Died on October 10
Heinrich Behnke
1898 – 1979
Abdul Qadeer Khan
1936 – 2021
Adam Strzembosz
1930 – 2025
Adolf Engler
1844 – 1930
Alfred Mézières
1826 – 1915
Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville
1814 – 1876
David Gregory
1659 – 1708
Dolores Cooper Shockley
1930 – 2020
Finn Lied
1916 – 2014
Fändäs Safiullin
1936 – 2021
Gijsbert van Tienhoven
1841 – 1914
Itaya Hazan
1872 – 1963
Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven
1903 – 1993
Kurt Blome
1894 – 1969
Lea Grundig
1906 – 1977
Mikhail Menzbier
1855 – 1935
Paul Vaillant-Couturier
1892 – 1937
Richard F. Heck
1931 – 2015
Yvan Blot
1948 – 2018
Adam Rapacki
1909 – 1970
Adolf Furtwängler
1853 – 1907
Aleksander Orlov
1873 – 1948
Alexander Bradshaw
1944 – 2024
Alexander Veselovsky
1838 – 1906
Alfred Morel-Fatio
1850 – 1924
Andrew Gray
1847 – 1925
Arnošt Muka
1854 – 1932
Arthur H. Robinson
1915 – 2004
Basil Weedon
1923 – 2003
Bruce Palmer Jr.
1913 – 2000
Carol I of Romania
1839 – 1914
Charles Silver
1868 – 1949
Charles Sutherland
1831 – 1895
Charles Thorp
1783 – 1862
Clara H. Hasse
1880 – 1926
Clark Clifford
1906 – 1998
Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave
1744 – 1792
Cyril Burt
1883 – 1971
Edward H. Brooks
1893 – 1978
Elijah McCoy
1844 – 1929
Erling Gjone
1898 – 1990
Eva Kollisch
1925 – 2023
Farhan Shubeilat
1910 – 1979
Ferenc Farkas
1905 – 2000
Francis Ernest Lloyd
1868 – 1947
George Frederick Dick
1881 – 1967
George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale
1787 – 1876
Germain Muller
1923 – 1994
Giovanni Cassandro
1913 – 1989
Gleb Skorokhodov
1930 – 2012
Gleb Wataghin
1899 – 1986
Guido Fanconi
1892 – 1979
Gustav Lindau
1866 – 1923
Hajime Nakamura
1912 – 1999
Henry Alan Currie
1868 – 1942
Henry du Moulin de Labarthète
1900 – 1948
Hermann Reinecke
1888 – 1973
Hermes Lima
1902 – 1978
Hwang Jang-yop
1923 – 2010
Ian Scott
1934 – 2006
Ichirō Satake
1927 – 2014
Joan Pujol García
1914 – 1988
Johann Heinrich Schulze
1687 – 1744
John Beaglehole
1901 – 1971
John McCloskey
1810 – 1885
John Nicholas Brown II
1900 – 1979
John Ohleyer Moseley
1893 – 1955
John Potter
1674 – 1747
Jonas Castrén
1850 – 1922
Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
1943 – 2014
Joseph E. Greene
1944 – 2022
Jules Garcin
1830 – 1896
Karl Gruenberg
1928 – 2007
Karl Lous
1847 – 1928
Katsuo Okazaki
1897 – 1965
Katsura Tarō
1848 – 1913
Ken Fry
1920 – 2007
Klaus Winter
1936 – 2000
Konstantinos Smolenskis
1843 – 1915
Kurt H. Debus
1908 – 1983
Leo Arons
1860 – 1919
Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
1688 – 1765
Ludwig von Mises
1881 – 1973
Luis de Pablo
1930 – 2021
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
1916 – 1974
Marianne Elisabeth Lloyd-Dolbey
1919 – 1994
Mary Midgley
1919 – 2018
Max Rayne
1918 – 2003
Michel Diefenbacher
1947 – 2017
Michele Pellegrino
1903 – 1986
Mulayam Singh Yadav
1939 – 2022
Nikolai Lyashchenko
1910 – 2000
Otto von Gierke
1841 – 1921
Pavel Landovský
1936 – 2014
Pierre Decourcelle
1856 – 1926
Pío Cabanillas Gallas
1923 – 1991
Ralph Metcalfe
1910 – 1978
Raymond Lévy
1927 – 2018
Roberto de Oliveira Campos
1917 – 2001
Robinson Ellis
1834 – 1913
Roger Sherman Hoar
1887 – 1963
Sadie Gray Mays
1900 – 1969
Sam Gibbons
1920 – 2012
Scott Carpenter
1925 – 2013
Siegmund von Hausegger
1872 – 1948
Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl Mount Cashell
1792 – 1883
Syed Manzoorul Islam
1951 – 2025
Tadija Sondermajer
1892 – 1967
Tasos Kourakis
1948 – 2021
Tex Winter
1922 – 2018
Tsumaki Yorinaka
1859 – 1916
Vladimir Stasov
1824 – 1906
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
1665 – 1723
Wollert Keilhau
1894 – 1958
Zhao Zongyu
1904 – 1989
Édouard Daladier
1884 – 1970
İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı
1888 – 1977
A. Daniel O'Neal
1936 – 2017
Achille Cutrera
1929 – 2018
Ahmet Refik Altınay
1881 – 1937
Albert Burger
1925 – 1981
Albert Cushing Read
1887 – 1967
Albert Rosellini
1910 – 2011
Alphonse Gasnier-Duparc
1879 – 1945
Amnon Freidberg
1945 – 2020
Anatole Mallet
1837 – 1919
Antoine Lefebvre de Vatimesnil
1789 – 1860
Anton Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
1656 – 1716
Antonio Sant'Elia
1888 – 1916
Baron Heinrich Karl von Haymerle
1828 – 1881
Bela S. Huntington
1858 – 1934
Benjamin Rabier
1864 – 1939
Brendan Malone
1942 – 2023
Bruce N. Whitman
1933 – 2018
Bruce Vento
1940 – 2000
Bunny Hearn
1891 – 1959
Carter Braxton
1736 – 1797
Cemil Sait Barlas
1905 – 1964
Chi Che Wang
1894 – 1979
Christopher Reeve
1952 – 2004
Clément Lippacher
1850 – 1934
Constantin Frosin
1952 – 2020
Coya Knutson
1912 – 1996
Daniel Bek-Pirumyan
1861 – 1922
David H. McNerney
1931 – 2010
David Levy Yulee
1810 – 1886
David Penry-Davey
1942 – 2015
Derek Pattinson
1930 – 2006
Dmytro Bortnianskyi
1751 – 1825
Don Schlundt
1933 – 1985
Eddie Cantor
1892 – 1964
Eduardo Charme
1854 – 1920
Edvard Liljedahl
1845 – 1924
Edward J. Coughlin
1885 – 1945
Edward Wilmot Blyden III
1918 – 2010
Eleni Vakalo
1921 – 2001
Elie Radu
1853 – 1931
Elliott Buckmaster
1889 – 1976
Emily Daymond
1866 – 1949
Erika Wedekind
1868 – 1944
Erima Northcroft
1884 – 1953
Ethel Kennedy
1928 – 2024
Eugene Istomin
1925 – 2003
Evgeni Kharadze
1907 – 2001
Fanny Brownbill
1890 – 1948
Ferdinand von Mueller
1825 – 1896
Ferdinando Facchiano
1927 – 2022
Fernando Alcón Sáez
1932 – 2016
Filemon Sotto
1875 – 1966
Frank F. Everest
1904 – 1983
Frank Hopps
1894 – 1976
François Barois
1656 – 1726
Gavin Long
1901 – 1968
George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley
1628 – 1698
George Robinson
1730 – 1815
George Watson Cole
1850 – 1939
George Yuri Rainich
1886 – 1968
Georges Ferdinand Bigot
1860 – 1927
Georgii Yurii Vasilovich Pfeiffer
1872 – 1946
Gerardo Espinoza Carrillo
1926 – 2001
Germanicus
15 BC – AD 19
Gertrude Rachel Levy
1883 – 1966
Giampietro Campana
1808 – 1880
Giulio Cesare Tassoni
1859 – 1942
Gordon Drummond
1772 – 1854
Gordon Stewart
1919 – 2016
Goswin de Stassart
1780 – 1854
Grigory Yashkin
1922 – 2003
Hans Heyerdahl
1857 – 1913
Harold Hume
1875 – 1965
Harry Norton Schofield
1865 – 1931
Heinrich Karl Ernst Martin Meyer
1904 – 1977
Henri Bouchot
1849 – 1906
Henri Guinier
1867 – 1927
Hernán Brücher Encina
1919 – 2006
Hilla Becher
1934 – 2015
Hugo Tschirky
1938 – 2020
Ion Păscăluță
1890 – 1988
Isaac de Benserade
1613 – 1691
Isabelo de los Reyes
1864 – 1938
… and 1,858 more