What happened on January 10? There are more than 366 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

Interesting Facts & Myths About January 10

January 10 In HistoryJanuary 10 is the 10th day of the year 2024. There are 356 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 2nd week of the year 2024.

On this day in Riley, Indiana 47871 sunrise occured at 08:07 AM and sunset occured at 05:45 PM (local time).

The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Capricorn. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.

According to the Chinese calendar, there are 31 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).

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Historical Events For January 10

  • 49 BC
    Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
  • 69
    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
  • 236
    Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
  • 1072
    Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
  • 1475
    Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
  • 1645
    Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
  • 1776
    Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
  • 1806
    Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
  • 1810
    Napoleon divorces his first wife Joséphine.
  • 1861
    American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
  • 1863
    The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
  • 1870
    John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
  • 1901
    The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
  • 1916
    Erzerum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.
  • 1920
    The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
  • 1922
    Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
  • 1923
    Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
  • 1941
    World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
  • 1946
    The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
  • 1946
    The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
  • 1954
    BOAC Flight 781 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 explodes into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
  • 1962
    Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
  • 1972
    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
  • 1981
    Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
  • 1984
    The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
  • 1985
    Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
  • 1990
    Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
  • 1999
    Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
  • 2003
    Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois’ death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
  • 2005
    A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
  • 2011
    2010–2011 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.

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Who Were Born On January 10?

  • 1480
    Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
  • 1538
    Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)
  • 1573
    Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
  • 1607
    Isaac Jogues, French missionary (d. 1646)
  • 1628
    George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
  • 1644
    Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
  • 1654
    Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
  • 1702
    Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762)
  • 1715
    Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
  • 1721
    Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
  • 1729
    Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
  • 1738
    Ethan Allen, American military leader (d. 1789)
  • 1745
    Isaac Titsingh, Dutch diplomat (d. 1812)
  • 1750
    Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)
  • 1769
    Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
  • 1776
    George Birkbeck, British academic (d. 1841)
  • 1780
    Martin Lichtenstein, German physician (d. 1857)
  • 1797
    Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
  • 1797
    Eugenio Kincaid, American missionary (d. 1883)
  • 1810
    Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer (d. 1892)
  • 1810
    Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist & statesman; 24th United States Attorney General; and 23rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1883)
  • 1812
    Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
  • 1828
    Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
  • 1834
    Lord Acton, British historian (d. 1902)
  • 1836
    Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
  • 1840
    Louis Nazaire Bégin, Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
  • 1842
    Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer (d. 1925)
  • 1843
    Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
  • 1848
    Reinhold Sadler, 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906)
  • 1849
    Robert Crosbie, Canadian theosophist (d. 1919)
  • 1850
    John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
  • 1853
    Jessie Bond, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
  • 1858
    Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
  • 1859
    Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
  • 1864
    Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
  • 1865
    Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
  • 1873
    George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
  • 1873
    Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
  • 1875
    Issai Schur, German mathematician (d. 1941)
  • 1880
    Manuel Azaña y Diaz, Spanish republican President (d. 1940)
  • 1881
    Leslie Rainey, Australian sportsman (d. 1962)
  • 1883
    Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1945)
  • 1883
    Alfred Saalwächter, German U-boat commander (d. 1945)
  • 1883
    Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)
  • 1887
    Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
  • 1889
    Maurice Collis, Irish writer (d. 1973)
  • 1890
    Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
  • 1891
    Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician (d. 1970)
  • 1892
    Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish writer (d. 1974)
  • 1893
    Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
  • 1894
    Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet (d. 1972)
  • 1898
    Katharine Blodgett, American scientist and inventor (d. 1979)
  • 1903
    Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
  • 1903
    Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
  • 1903
    Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
  • 1904
    Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)
  • 1905
    Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (d. 1993)
  • 1908
    Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981)
  • 1908
    Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1992)
  • 1910
    Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976)
  • 1911
    Norman Heatley, English biologist (d. 2004)
  • 1912
    Maria Mandel, Austrian Auschwitz prison guard (d. 1948)
  • 1913
    Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
  • 1913
    Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
  • 1914
    Yu Kuo-hwa, Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
  • 1915
    Dean Dixon, American conductor (d. 1976)
  • 1916
    Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
  • 1916
    Eldzier Cortor, American painter
  • 1916
    Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
  • 1917
    Hilde Krahl, Austrian actress (d. 1999)
  • 1917
    Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d. 2008)
  • 1918
    Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
  • 1918
    Les Bennett, English footballer (d. 1999)
  • 1919
    Milton Parker, American businessman (d. 2009)
  • 1919
    Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (d. 1977)
  • 1920
    Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)
  • 1920
    Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
  • 1921
    Rodger Ward, American racing driver (d. 2004)
  • 1921
    Tasso Kavadia, Greek actress (d. 2010)
  • 1922
    Billy Liddell, Scottish Footballer (d. 2001)
  • 1922
    Hannelore Schroth, German actress (d. 1987)
  • 1924
    Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1996)
  • 1924
    Max Roach, American musician and composer (d. 2007)
  • 1925
    Günther Knödler, German fencer
  • 1926
    Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician
  • 1927
    Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003)
  • 1927
    Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
  • 1927
    Lee Philips, American actor (d. 1999)
  • 1927
    Otto Stich, Swiss politician
  • 1928
    Philip Levine, American poet
  • 1929
    Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
  • 1930
    Elaine Devry, American actress
  • 1930
    Roy Edward Disney, American film executive (d. 2009)
  • 1931
    Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
  • 1933
    Anton Rodgers, English actor (d. 2007)
  • 1934
    Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
  • 1935
    Georg Katzer, German composer
  • 1935
    Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
  • 1935
    Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
  • 1936
    Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer
  • 1936
    Burnum Burnum, Australian activist, actor and author (d. 1997)
  • 1936
    Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
  • 1936
    Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
  • 1937
    Thomas Penfield Jackson, American jurist
  • 1938
    Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
  • 1938
    Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
  • 1938
    Willie McCovey, American baseball player
  • 1939
    Bill Toomey, American athlete
  • 1939
    David Horowitz, American author and political commentator
  • 1939
    Jared Carter, American poet
  • 1939
    Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
  • 1939
    Scott McKenzie, American singer
  • 1939
    Sonosuke Fujimaki, Japanese fencer
  • 1939
    William Levy, Dutch writer
  • 1940
    Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician
  • 1940
    Harry Gant, American racing driver
  • 1940
    Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
  • 1940
    Walter Hill, American film director
  • 1940
    Yesudas, Indian playback singer and classical musician
  • 1942
    Graeme Gahan, Australian rules footballer
  • 1943
    Jantzen Derrick, English footballer
  • 1943
    Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
  • 1943
    Kristiina Elstelä, Finnish actress
  • 1944
    Bernard Derome, Canadian news presenter
  • 1944
    Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
  • 1944
    Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer
  • 1944
    William Sanderson, American actor
  • 1945
    Edward Wiskoski, American wrestler
  • 1945
    Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist
  • 1945
    Jennifer Moss, English Actress (d. 2006)
  • 1945
    John Fahey, Australian politician
  • 1945
    Rod Stewart, Scottish singer
  • 1946
    Aynsley Dunbar, English musician
  • 1947
    Peer Steinbrück, German politician
  • 1948
    Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist
  • 1948
    Donald Fagen, American musician (Steely Dan)
  • 1948
    Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
  • 1948
    Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002)
  • 1949
    Allu Aravind, Indian film producer
  • 1949
    George Foreman, American boxer
  • 1949
    James Lapine, American stage director
  • 1949
    Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (d. 2002)
  • 1950
    Ernie Wasson, American gardener and writer
  • 1950
    Roy Blunt, American politician
  • 1951
    Nicolas Philibert, French film director
  • 1951
    Paul DiMaggio, American educator
  • 1951
    Pez Whatley, American wrestler (d. 2005)
  • 1952
    Scott Thurston, American musician
  • 1953
    Bobby Rahal, American racing driver and team owner
  • 1953
    Dennis Cooper, American author
  • 1953
    Pat Benatar, American singer
  • 1954
    Greg Towns, Australian rules footballer
  • 1954
    John Gidman, English footballer
  • 1955
    Franco Tancredi, Italian footballer
  • 1955
    Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO)
  • 1956
    Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
  • 1956
    Shawn Colvin, American singer
  • 1957
    Greg Walden, American politician
  • 1957
    Paula Smith, American tennis player
  • 1958
    Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter
  • 1958
    Caroline Langrishe, English actress
  • 1958
    Eddie Cheever, American racing car driver
  • 1959
    Bernhard Hoff, East German athlete
  • 1959
    Chris Van Hollen, American congressman
  • 1959
    Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter
  • 1960
    Benoît Pelletier, Canadian politician
  • 1960
    Brian Cowen, Taoiseach of Ireland
  • 1960
    Gurinder Chadha, British film director
  • 1960
    Samira Said, Moroccan singer
  • 1961
    Evan Handler, American actor
  • 1961
    Janet Jones, American actress
  • 1961
    Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian violinist
  • 1962
    Michael Fortier, Canadian politician
  • 1963
    David Dewayne Johnson, American convicted murderer (d. 2000)
  • 1963
    Kira Ivanova, Soviet figure skater (d. 2001)
  • 1963
    Malcolm Dunford, New Zealand footballer
  • 1963
    Mark Pryor, American politician
  • 1964
    Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
  • 1964
    Tony Gardner, English actor
  • 1965
    Butch Hartman, American animator
  • 1966
    Jeremy Sims, Australian actor
  • 1966
    Murali Nair, Indian film director
  • 1966
    Steve Kramer, American politician
  • 1967
    Jeremy Cumpston, Australian actor
  • 1967
    Johan Laats, Belgian judoka
  • 1967
    Maciej Śliwowski, Polish footballer
  • 1969
    Andreas Reinke, German footballer
  • 1969
    Janko Kastelic, Canadian conductor
  • 1970
    Alisa Marić, Serbian chess grandmaster
  • 1970
    Buff Bagwell, American wrestler
  • 1970
    Scott Ludlam, Australian politician
  • 1972
    Brian Lawler, American wrestler
  • 1972
    Mohammed Benzakour, Dutch writer
  • 1972
    Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier
  • 1973
    Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer
  • 1973
    Glenn Robinson, American basketball player
  • 1973
    Jakob Cedergren, Danish actor
  • 1973
    Ryan Drummond, American voice actor
  • 1974
    Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
  • 1974
    Andrey Korneyev, Russian swimmer
  • 1974
    Bob Peeters, Belgian footballer
  • 1974
    Clinton O'Brien, Australian rugby league player
  • 1974
    Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer
  • 1974
    Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
  • 1974
    Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor
  • 1974
    Steve Marlet, French footballer
  • 1975
    Jake Delhomme, American football player
  • 1976
    Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
  • 1976
    Ian Poulter, English golfer
  • 1978
    Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
  • 1979
    Bodo Sieber, German rugby player
  • 1979
    Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer
  • 1980
    Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan footballer
  • 1980
    Petri Lindroos, Finnish musician (Ensiferum)
  • 1980
    Sarah Shahi, American actress and model
  • 1981
    Brian Joo, American-born Korean singer
  • 1981
    Inga Jankauskaitė, Lithuanian actress and singer
  • 1981
    James Coppinger, English footballer
  • 1982
    Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
  • 1982
    Julien Brellier, French footballer
  • 1983
    Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver
  • 1983
    Li Nina, Chinese aerial skier
  • 1984
    Nando Rafael, Angolan-German footballer
  • 1984
    Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league player
  • 1985
    Abdulkader Dakka, Syrian footballer
  • 1985
    Alex Meraz, American actor
  • 1985
    Craig Lewis, American cyclist
  • 1985
    Jaroslav Kolbas, Slovak footballer
  • 1986
    Abigail Clancy, English model
  • 1986
    Chen Jin, Chinese badminton player
  • 1986
    Hideaki Ikematsu, Japanese footballer
  • 1986
    Kenneth Vermeer, Dutch footballer
  • 1986
    Saleisha Stowers, American model
  • 1987
    César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
  • 1988
    Vladimir Zharkov, Russian ice hockey player
  • 1989
    Kyle Reimers, Australian rules footballer
  • 1990
    César Ruiz, Peruvian footballer
  • 1990
    Mirko Bortolotti, Italian racing car driver
  • 1990
    Stefano Lilipaly, Dutch-born Indonesian footballer
  • 1990
    Tao Li, Singaporean swimmer
  • 1990
    Wilhelm Ingves, Finnish footballer
  • 1991
    Romain Wattel, French golf player
  • 1992
    Emmanuel Frimpong, Ghanaian footballer

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Who Died On January 10?

  • 681
    Pope Agatho
  • 976
    John I Tzimiskes, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 925)
  • 1094
    Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)
  • 1276
    Pope Gregory X (b. c. 1210)
  • 1645
    William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
  • 1654
    Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
  • 1662
    Prince Honoré II of Monaco (b. 1597)
  • 1698
    Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
  • 1707
    Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
  • 1754
    Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)
  • 1761
    Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
  • 1777
    Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
  • 1778
    Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
  • 1794
    Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
  • 1811
    Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
  • 1824
    King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b. 1759)
  • 1825
    Ioannis Varvakis, Greek national hero and benefactor (b. 1745)
  • 1828
    François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
  • 1829
    Gregorio Funes, Argentine Dean and politician, member of the Junta Grande
  • 1833
    Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
  • 1851
    Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
  • 1855
    Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (b. 1787)
  • 1862
    Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
  • 1863
    Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
  • 1866
    Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)
  • 1883
    Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
  • 1895
    Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
  • 1901
    Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
  • 1904
    Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
  • 1905
    Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
  • 1917
    Feliks Leparsky, Russian fencer (b. 1875)
  • 1917
    William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
  • 1922
    Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
  • 1934
    Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
  • 1935
    Edwin Flack, Australian athlete, first Olympic champion (b. 1873)
  • 1941
    Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
  • 1941
    Issai Schur, German mathematician (b. 1875)
  • 1941
    Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
  • 1941
    Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
  • 1949
    Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)
  • 1951
    Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
  • 1951
    Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
  • 1957
    Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
  • 1960
    Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)
  • 1961
    Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
  • 1968
    Basil Sydney, English actor (b. 1894)
  • 1969
    John Brownlee, Australian tenor (b. 1900)
  • 1970
    Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
  • 1971
    Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
  • 1972
    Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
  • 1976
    Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
  • 1978
    Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
  • 1978
    Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)
  • 1980
    Bo Rein, American college football coach (b. 1945)
  • 1980
    George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
  • 1980
    Hughie Critz, American baseball player (b. 1900)
  • 1981
    Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)
  • 1981
    Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
  • 1981
    Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
  • 1982
    Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
  • 1984
    Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
  • 1985
    Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
  • 1986
    Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
  • 1987
    Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
  • 1987
    Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
  • 1989
    Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
  • 1989
    Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
  • 1990
    Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (b. 1925)
  • 1992
    Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
  • 1995
    Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
  • 1997
    Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
  • 1997
    Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907)
  • 1997
    Sheldon Leonard, American film producer, actor, and director (b. 1907)
  • 1999
    Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)
  • 2000
    Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
  • 2002
    W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
  • 2004
    Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
  • 2004
    Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
  • 2005
    Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
  • 2005
    Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
  • 2005
    Jack Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)
  • 2005
    James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
  • 2005
    Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
  • 2005
    Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
  • 2005
    Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
  • 2005
    Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
  • 2007
    Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)
  • 2007
    Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
  • 2008
    Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
  • 2008
    Maila Nurmi, Finnish-born American actress (b. 1921)
  • 2008
    Mikhail Minin, Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
  • 2009
    William Frederick “Bill” Stone, British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
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