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Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

107 years ago

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1964

Jack Ma

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Famous births27

1487 · 539 yrs

Julius III

Pope Julius III (Latin: Iulius PP. III; Italian: Giulio III; 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 February 1550 to his death, in March 1555.

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ReligionDied aged 67

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1638 · 388 yrs

Maria Theresa of Spain

Maria Theresa of Spain (Spanish: María Teresa de España; French: Marie-Thérèse d'Espagne; 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683) was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV.

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RoyaltyDied aged 44

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1659 · 367 yrs

Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (rare:; c. 10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era.

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MusicDied aged 36

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1839 · 187 yrs

Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSE; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".

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ScienceDied aged 74

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1875 · 151 yrs

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Polish: Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis; 22 September 1875 – 10 April 1911) was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and Art Nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch.

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ArtDied aged 35

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1887 · 139 yrs

Giovanni Gronchi

Giovanni Gronchi (Italian:; 10 September 1887 – 17 October 1978) was an Italian politician from Christian Democracy who served as the president of Italy from 1955 to 1962 and was marked by a controversial and failed attempt to bring about an "opening to the left" in Italian politics.

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1890 · 136 yrs

Franz Werfel

Franz Viktor Werfel (German:; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr.

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1892 · 134 yrs

Arthur Holly Compton

Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

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1897 · 129 yrs

Georges Bataille

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (French:; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art.

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1906 · 120 yrs

Sayyid Qutb

Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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1914 · 112 yrs

Robert Wise

Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).

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1933 · 93 yrs

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Otto Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019) was a German fashion designer, photographer, and creative director. Lagerfeld began his career in fashion in the 1950s, working for several top fashion houses including Balmain, Patou, and Chloé before joining Chanel in 1983.

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Famous deaths19

AD 954 · 1072 yrs

Louis IV of France

Louis IV (920/921 – 10 September 954), called d'Outremer or Transmarinus ("From overseas"), reigned as King of West Francia from 936 to 954. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, he was the only son of king Charles the Simple and his second wife Eadgifu of Wessex, daughter of King Edward the Elder of Wessex.

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RoyaltyDied aged 33

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1167 · 859 yrs

Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud or Athelicia, was Holy Roman Empress as the consort of Emperor Henry V from 1110 until 1125, and was subsequently a claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy (1138–1153).

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Notable PeopleDied aged 65

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1382 · 644 yrs

Louis I of Hungary

Louis I of Hungary, also known as Louis the Great (Hungarian: Nagy Lajos; Croatian: Ludovik Veliki; Slovak: Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian (Polish: Ludwik Węgierski, Italian: Luigi l'ungherese; 5 March 1326 – 10 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 until his…

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RoyaltyDied aged 56

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1669 · 357 yrs

Henrietta Maria of France

Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. She was the mother of Charles II and James II and VII.

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RoyaltyDied aged 59

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1749 · 277 yrs

Émilie du Châtelet

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (French:; 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French mathematician and physicist. Her most recognized achievement is her philosophical magnum opus, Institutions de Physique (Paris, 1740, first edition; Foundations of Physics).

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ScienceDied aged 42

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1797 · 229 yrs

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (also UK:; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights.

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LiteratureDied aged 38

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1827 · 199 yrs

Ugo Foscolo

Ugo Foscolo (Italian:; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.

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LiteratureDied aged 50

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1898 · 128 yrs

Empress Elisabeth of Austria

Elisabeth (Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie; German:; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.

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RoyaltyDied aged 60

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1948 · 78 yrs

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria; 26 February 1861 – 10 September 1948) was the monarch of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, reigning as Prince of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1908 and Tsar of Bulgaria from 1908 until his abdication in 1918.

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MilitaryDied aged 87

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1975 · 51 yrs

George Paget Thomson

Sir George Paget Thomson (3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." His father, J. J.

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1979 · 47 yrs

Agostinho Neto

António Agostinho Neto Kilamba (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan communist revolutionary, politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, after leading the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the war for independence.

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1983 · 43 yrs

Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch (23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith." He was the first Stanford…

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Events5

1919 · 107 yrs

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (French: Traité de Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on one side and by the Republic of German-Austria on the other.

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Politics

1995 · 31 yrs

1995 Italian Grand Prix

The 1995 Italian Grand Prix (formally the Pioneer 66º Gran Premio d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on 10 September 1995 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy. It was the twelfth race of the 1995 Formula One World Championship.

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Sports

1996 · 30 yrs

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty to ban nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments.

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Politics

2022 · 4 yrs

2022 Asian Games

The 2022 Asian Games (2022年亚洲运动会; 2022 nián yàzhōu yùndònghuì), officially the XIX Asian Games (第十九届亚洲运动会; Dì shíjiǔ jiè yàzhōu yùndònghuì) and also known as Hangzhou 2022 (杭州2022), were a continental multi-sport event which was held from 23 September to 8 October 2023 in Hangzhou, China.

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Disaster

2025 · 1 yrs

Assassination of Charlie Kirk

On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing political activist, was assassinated at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, while speaking at an outdoor campus debate planned by Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization he co-founded and led.

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