On this day in history

April 10

30 births · 14 deaths · 5 events

Prev Aries Next

Anniversary highlights

Event anniversary

Smolensk air disaster

16 years ago

Born this day

1813

Giuseppe Verdi

Died aged 87

Photo (modified): Ferdinand Mulnier · Public domain

Oldest record

1625th

Theodosius II

birth anniversary

View profile

Famous births30

AD 401 · 1625 yrs

Theodosius II

Theodosius II (Latin: Theodosius, Ancient Greek: Θεοδόσιος Theodosios; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450), called "the Calligrapher", was Roman emperor from 402 to 450. He was proclaimed Augustus as an infant and ruled as the Eastern Empire's sole emperor after the death of his father Arcadius in 408.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

RoyaltyDied aged 49

View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

1397 · 629 yrs

Sejong the Great

Sejong (Korean: 세종; Hanja: 世宗; May 15, 1397 – April 8, 1450), commonly known as Sejong the Great (세종대왕; 世宗大王), was the fourth monarch of the Koreanic state Joseon. He ruled from 1418 to his death in 1450.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

RoyaltyDied aged 52

View profile

1512 · 514 yrs

James V of Scotland

James V (10 April 1512 – 14 December 1542) was King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death in 1542. He was crowned on 21 September 1513 at the age of seventeen months.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

RoyaltyDied aged 30

View profile Photo (modified): Corneille de Lyon · Public domain

1583 · 443 yrs

Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius ( GROH-shee-əss; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Hugo de Groot (Dutch:) or Huig de Groot (Dutch:), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft and studied at Leiden University.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureDied aged 62

View profile Photo (modified): Workshop of Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt · Public domain

1755 · 271 yrs

Samuel Hahnemann

Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann ( HAH-nə-mən, German:; 10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843) was a German medical doctor, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceDied aged 88

View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Public domain

1813 · 213 yrs

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ( VAIR-dee; Italian:; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

MusicDied aged 87

View profile Photo (modified): Ferdinand Mulnier · Public domain

1847 · 179 yrs

Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer ( PULL-it-sər; born Pulitzer József, Hungarian:; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PoliticsDied aged 64

View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Public domain

1887 · 139 yrs

Bernardo Houssay

Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971) was an Argentinian physiologist.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceWould be 139

View profile Photo (modified): unknow (uploader Claudio Elias) · Public domain

1899 · 127 yrs

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков; 22 April 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureWould be 127

View profile Photo (modified): Walter Mori (Mondadori Publishers) · Public domain

1917 · 109 yrs

Robert Burns Woodward

Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist, who is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceWould be 109

View profile Photo (modified): Robert_Burns_Woodward_in_1965.jpg : The original uploader was Peter Geymayer at German Wikipedia . ( Original text: Dr. · Public domain

1927 · 99 yrs

Marshall Warren Nirenberg

Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceWould be 99

View profile Photo (modified): Hecht, Gerald V. (National Institutes of Health). · Public domain

1929 · 97 yrs

Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow (Swedish pronunciation:; born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish and French actor. He had a 70-year career in European and American cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several television series in multiple languages.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

FilmWould be 97

View profile Photo (modified): Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0

Showing 12 of 30

Famous deaths14

AD 879 · 1147 yrs

Louis the Stammerer

Louis II the Stammerer (French: Louis le Bègue; 1 November 846 – 10 April 879) was the king of Aquitaine and later the king of West Francia. He was the eldest son of Emperor Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

RoyaltyDied aged 32

View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Public domain

1585 · 441 yrs

Gregory XIII

Pope Gregory XIII (Latin: Gregorius XIII, Italian: Gregorio XIII, born Ugo Boncompagni; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in April 1585.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ReligionDied aged 83

View profile Photo (modified): Lavinia Fontana · Public domain

1813 · 213 yrs

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier; 25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813), also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia, was an Italian and naturalized French mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceDied aged 77

View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Public domain

1909 · 117 yrs

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He was a major contributor to the Pre-Raphaelite movement in poetry, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureDied aged 72

View profile Photo (modified): Elliott & Fry · Public domain

1919 · 107 yrs

Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata Salazar (Latin American Spanish:; 8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ActivismWould be 147

View profile Photo (modified): Agustín Casasola · Public domain

1931 · 95 yrs

Kahlil Gibran

Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān (Arabic: جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureWould be 143

View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Public domain

1955 · 71 yrs

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. (French:; 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic and teacher.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ReligionWould be 145

View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

1962 · 64 yrs

Stuart Sutcliffe

Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a British painter and musician, best known as the original bass guitarist of the Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter, having previously attended Liverpool College of Art.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

MusicWould be 86

View profile Photo (modified): Peter Blake / Parlophone, Capitol Records · Public domain

1966 · 60 yrs

Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureWould be 122

View profile Photo (modified): Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) · Public domain

1979 · 47 yrs

Nino Rota

Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi (Italian:; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

MusicWould be 114

View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0

2010 · 16 yrs

Lech Kaczyński

Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the 4th president of Poland from 2005 to 2010, when he died in the Smolensk air disaster. Earlier, he served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 to 2005.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PoliticsWould be 77

View profile Photo (modified): Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland · GFDL 1.2

2010 · 16 yrs

Dixie Carter

Dixie Virginia Carter (May 25, 1939 – April 10, 2010) was an American actress. She starred as Julia Sugarbaker on the sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993) and as Randi King on the drama series Family Law (1999–2002).

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

FilmWould be 87

View profile Photo (modified): CBS Television · Public domain

Showing 12 of 14

Events5

1809 · 217 yrs

War of the Fifth Coalition

The War of the Fifth Coalition was a European conflict in 1809 that was part of the Napoleonic Wars and the Coalition Wars. The main conflict took place in Central Europe between the Austrian Empire of Francis I and Napoleon's French Empire.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

War

1967 · 59 yrs

39th Academy Awards

The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1966, were held on April 10, 1967, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. The Academy Awards broadcast faced the threat of cancellation due to a strike involving the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Culture

1972 · 54 yrs

44th Academy Awards

The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jack Lemmon.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Culture

1998 · 28 yrs

Good Friday Agreement

The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement (Irish: Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste; Ulster Scots: Guid Friday Greeance or Bilfawst Greeance) is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April (Good Friday) 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethnic and national conflict in…

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Politics

2010 · 16 yrs

Smolensk air disaster

On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating as Polish Air Force Flight PLF 101, crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Disaster

Nearby dates

Born on April 10? Find your birthday matches →

Share April 10

Living room with framed Who Shares My Birthday poster

Close-up

FrameShown to scale · framed 34 × 46 cmThis is the frame we'll deliver, with a white mount

Printable keepsake

Your birthday matches poster

A personalised A3 framed print of everyone famous born on April 10, what happened on your birthday in history and your zodiac sign. We print and frame it for you and deliver it to your door (UK only).

Name on poster

Your photo

Kept private and only used to make your poster.