On this day in history

February 10

30 births · 22 deaths · 5 events

Prev Aquarius Next

Anniversary highlights

Event anniversary

2006 Winter Olympics

20 years ago

Born this day

1898

Bertolt Brecht

Would be 128

Photo (modified): Kolbe, Jörg · CC BY-SA 3.0 de

Oldest record

298th

Peter III of Russia

birth anniversary

View profile

Famous births30

1728 · 298 yrs

Peter III of Russia

Peter III Fyodorovich (Russian: Пётр III Фёдорович, romanized: Pyotr III Fyodorovich, born Charles Peter Ulrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp; 21 February 1728 – 17 July 1762) was Emperor of Russia from 5 January 1762 until 9 July of the same year, when his wife, Catherine II, overthrew him in a palace coup d'état.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

RoyaltyDied aged 34

View profile Photo (modified): Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt · Public domain

1775 · 251 yrs

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureDied aged 59

View profile Photo (modified): After Henry Hoppner Meyer · Public domain

1776 · 250 yrs

Ioannis Kapodistrias

Count Ioannis Antoniou Kapodistrias (Greek: Κόμης Ιωάννης Αντωνίου Καποδίστριας; c. 10 February 1776 –27 September 1831), sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias, was a Greek statesman who was one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of 19th-century Europe.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PoliticsDied aged 55

View profile Photo (modified): Dionysios Tsokos · Public domain

1791 · 235 yrs

Francesco Hayez

Francesco Hayez (Italian:; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is known for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits, in an Italian version of 19th-century Academic style.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ArtDied aged 90

View profile Photo (modified): Francesco Hayez · Public domain

1859 · 167 yrs

Alexandre Millerand

Alexandre Millerand (French:; (1859-02-10)10 February 1859 – (1943-04-06)6 April 1943) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1920 to 1924, having previously served as Prime Minister of France earlier in 1920.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LawDied aged 84

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

1890 · 136 yrs

Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureWould be 136

View profile Photo (modified): Владимир Савостьянов / ТАСС · Public domain

1894 · 132 yrs

Harold Macmillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit, and unflappability.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PoliticsWould be 132

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

1897 · 129 yrs

John Franklin Enders

John Franklin Enders (February 10, 1897 – September 8, 1985) was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceWould be 129

View profile Photo (modified): Henry Lytton Cobbold · Public domain

1898 · 128 yrs

Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureWould be 128

View profile Photo (modified): Kolbe, Jörg · CC BY-SA 3.0 de

1899 · 127 yrs

Cevdet Sunay

Ahmet Cevdet Sunay (10 February 1899 – 22 May 1982) was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the president of Turkey from 1966 to 1973.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PoliticsWould be 127

View profile Photo (modified): F.N. Broers / Anefo · CC0

1902 · 124 yrs

Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain ( BRAT-n; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceWould be 124

View profile Photo (modified): Nobel foundation · Public domain

1910 · 116 yrs

Dominique Pire

Dominique Pire, O.P. (born Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire; 10 February 1910 – 30 January 1969) was a Belgian Dominican friar whose work helping refugees in post-World War II Europe saw him receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ReligionWould be 116

View profile Photo (modified): Not known. Photo is held by the Dominican order in Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.5

Showing 12 of 30

Famous deaths22

1755 · 271 yrs

Montesquieu

Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French jurist, historian, and political philosopher.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PhilosophyDied aged 66

View profile Photo (modified): After Jacques-Antoine Dassier · Public domain

1829 · 197 yrs

Leo XII

Pope Leo XII (Italian: Leone XII; born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiorre Girolamo Nicola della Genga; 2 August 1760 – 10 February 1829) was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 28 September 1823 to his death in February 1829.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ReligionDied aged 68

View profile Photo (modified): Charles Picqué · Public domain

1837 · 189 yrs

Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureDied aged 37

View profile Photo (modified): Orest Kiprensky · Public domain

1868 · 158 yrs

David Brewster

Sir David Brewster (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceDied aged 86

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

1878 · 148 yrs

Claude Bernard

Claude Bernard (French:; 12 July 1813 – 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist. I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science".

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceDied aged 64

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

1879 · 147 yrs

Honoré Daumier

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (French:; 26 February 1808 – 10 or 11 February 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ArtDied aged 70

View profile Photo (modified): Nadar · Public domain

1881 · 145 yrs

Francesco Hayez

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ArtDied aged 90

View profile Photo (modified): Francesco Hayez · Public domain

1891 · 135 yrs

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Софья Васильевна Ковалевская; born Korvin-Krukovskaya; 15 January 1850 – 10 February 1891) was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer of equality for women in mathematics.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceDied aged 41

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

1912 · 114 yrs

Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PoliticsDied aged 84

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

1917 · 109 yrs

John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse (baptised 6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ArtDied aged 67

View profile Photo (modified): Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn · Public domain

1918 · 108 yrs

Abdul Hamid II

Abdülhamid II or Abdul Hamid II (Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد ثانی, romanized: Abd ul-Hamid-i s̱ānī; Turkish: II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 – 10 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Notable PeopleDied aged 75

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

1923 · 103 yrs

Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German experimental physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays (known as Röntgen rays in many languages).

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceDied aged 77

View profile Photo (modified): Erwin Hanfstaengl · Public domain

Showing 12 of 22

Events5

1763 · 263 yrs

Treaty of Paris (1763)

The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Politics

1828 · 198 yrs

Treaty of Turkmenchay

The Treaty of Turkmenchay was an agreement between Qajar Iran and the Russian Empire, which concluded the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828).

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Politics

1947 · 79 yrs

Paris Peace Treaties

The Paris Peace Treaties (French: Traités de Paris) were signed on 10 February 1947 following the end of World War II in 1945. The Paris Peace Conference lasted from 29 July until 15 October 1946.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Politics

2006 · 20 yrs

2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Winter Olympics (Italian: 2006 Olimpiadi invernali), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games (Italian: XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February in Turin, Italy. Turin was selected as the host city for the 2006 Games in June 1999.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sports

2009 · 17 yrs

2009 satellite collision

On February 10, 2009, two communications satellites—the active commercial Iridium 33 and the derelict Russian military Kosmos 2251—accidentally collided at a speed of 11.7 km/s (26,000 mph) and an altitude of 789 kilometres (490 mi) above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Space

Nearby dates

Born on February 10? Find your birthday matches →

Share February 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 February 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.