October 10
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Art and culture
Births
- 1684 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
- 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
- 1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
- 1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright
Deaths
- 19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
- 680 - Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a imam, Mahomet's grandson (b. 626)
- 732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
- 833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
- 1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
- 1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
- 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (killed in battle) (b. 1484)
- 1659 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
- 1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet
- 1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
- 1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
- 1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
- 1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
- 1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
- 1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
- 1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
- 1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
- 1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
- 1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
- 1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
- 1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
- 1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
- 1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
- 1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
- 1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- 1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
- 1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
- 1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
- 1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
- 1914 - King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
- 1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
- 1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
- 1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
- 1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
- 1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
- 1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
- 1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
- 1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
- 1970 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
- 1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
- 1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
- 1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
- 1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
- 1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
- 1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 1979 - Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
- 1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
- 1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
- 1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
- 1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
- 1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
- 1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
- 2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
- 2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
- 2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
- 2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
- 2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
- 2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
- 2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
- 2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
- 2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
- 2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
Notes
- Antonio Sant'Elia
- Orson Welles
- Ed Wood, Jr.
- Charles Fourier
- David Gascoyne
- Alberto Giacometti
- Urania (magazine)
- Peter Bradshaw
- George Barbier
- Antoine Watteau
- Wayne C. Booth
- Nora Roberts
- Carrie Bradshaw
- Ludwig von Mises
- Jeanette Dimech
- Harold Pinter
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