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August 10

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Treaty of Sèvres

106 years ago

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1874

Herbert Hoover

Died aged 90

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1768th

Lawrence of Rome

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Famous births26

1296 · 730 yrs

John of Bohemia

John of Bohemia, also called the Blind or of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Jang de Blannen; German: Johann der Blinde; Czech: Jan Lucemburský; 10 August 1296 – 26 August 1346), was the King of Bohemia and titular King of Poland from 1310, and Count of Luxembourg from 1313.

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RoyaltyDied aged 50

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1810 · 216 yrs

Camillo Benso di Cavour

Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, Isolabella and Leri (Italian:; 10 August 1810 – 6 June 1861), generally known as the Count of Cavour ( kə-VOOR; Italian: Conte di Cavour) or simply Cavour, was an Italian politician, statesman, businessman, economist, and noble, and a leading figure in the movement…

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RoyaltyDied aged 50

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1874 · 152 yrs

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. Hoover's term as president was dominated by the Great Depression.

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PoliticsDied aged 90

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1874 · 152 yrs

Antanas Smetona

Antanas Smetona (Lithuanian:; 10 August 1874 – 9 January 1944) was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist, and politician. He served as the first president of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and later as the authoritarian head of state from 1926 until the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940.

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PoliticsDied aged 69

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1878 · 148 yrs

Alfred Döblin

Bruno Alfred Döblin (German:; 10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

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1894 · 132 yrs

V. V. Giri

Varahagiri Venkata Giri (10 August 1894 – 24 June 1980), better known as V. V. Giri was an Indian statesman, activist, and diplomat who served as the president of India from 1969 to 1974. He previously served as the vice president of India from 1967 to 1969 and the minister of labour from 1952 to 1954.

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1900 · 126 yrs

Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women.

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1902 · 124 yrs

Arne Tiselius

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (10 August 1902 – 29 October 1971) was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins."

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1909 · 117 yrs

Mohammed V of Morocco

Muhammad V (Muhammad al-Khamis bin Yusef bin Hassan al-Alawi; 10 August 1909 – 26 February 1961) was the ruler of Morocco from 1927 to 1961, except for a two-year period in exile during the 1950s. He reigned as sultan until 1957, and afterwards as the first king of Morocco.

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RoyaltyWould be 117

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1912 · 114 yrs

Jorge Amado

Jorge Leal Amado de Faria ( ZHOR-zhee; Brazilian Portuguese:; 10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001), known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school.

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1913 · 113 yrs

Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul (German pronunciation:; 10 August 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap.

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1924 · 102 yrs

Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard (French:; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist.

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Famous deaths9

AD 258 · 1768 yrs

Lawrence of Rome

Saint Lawrence or Laurence (Latin: Laurentius, lit. 'laurelled'; 31 December 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians ordered by the Roman emperor Valerian in 258.

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ReligionDied aged 32

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1759 · 267 yrs

Ferdinand VI of Spain

Ferdinand VI (Spanish: Fernando; 23 September 1713 – 10 August 1759), called the Learned (el Prudente) and the Just (el Justo), was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death in 1759. He was the third ruler of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty.

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RoyaltyDied aged 45

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1896 · 130 yrs

Otto Lilienthal

Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (German pronunciation:; 23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, therefore making the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality.

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TechnologyDied aged 48

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1945 · 81 yrs

Robert H. Goddard

Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

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1960 · 66 yrs

Frank Lloyd

Frank William George Lloyd (2 February 1886 – 10 August 1960) was a Scottish-American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was its president from 1934 to 1935.

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1980 · 46 yrs

Yahya Khan

Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980) was a Pakistani four-star rank general who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, under martial law. His presidency oversaw a civil war in East Pakistan, resulting in Bangladesh's secession.

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PoliticsWould be 109

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2008 · 18 yrs

Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor.

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2019 · 7 yrs

Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School in New York City, before entering the banking and finance sector.

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2025 · 1 yrs

Kunishige Kamamoto

Kunishige Kamamoto (釜本邦茂, Kamamoto Kunishige; 15 April 1944 – 10 August 2025) was a Japanese football player, manager, and politician.

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Events5

AD 955 · 1071 yrs

Battle of Lechfeld

The Battle of Lechfeld, also known as the Second Battle of Lechfeld, was a series of military engagements over the course of three days from 10 to 12 August 955 in which the Kingdom of Germany, led by King Otto I the Great, defeated the Hungarian army led by Harka Bulcsú and the chieftains Lél and Súr.

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War

1792 · 234 yrs

10 August insurrection

The insurrection of 10 August 1792, also known as the Storming of the Tuileries, was a defining event of the French Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the French monarchy, stormed the Tuileries Palace. The conflict led France to abolish the monarchy and establish a republic.

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Tragedy

1913 · 113 yrs

Treaty of Bucharest

The Treaty of Bucharest (Romanian: Tratatul de la București; Serbian: Букурештански мир; Bulgarian: Букурещки договор; Greek: Συνθήκη του Βουκουρεστίου) was concluded on 10 August 1913, by the delegates of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece.

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Politics

1920 · 106 yrs

Treaty of Sèvres

The Treaty of Sèvres (French: Traité de Sèvres) was a 1920 treaty signed between some of the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman Empire, but not ratified.

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Politics

2026 · 0 yrs

2026 Colombia earthquake

On 10 August 2026, a Mw 7.4–7.5 earthquake struck the department of Chocó in Colombia, killing at least 335 people, injuring more than 4,600 others, leaving 111 confirmed missing and causing extensive damage across the country.

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