January 10
January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 355 days remaining (356 in leap years).
Events
Births
- 1480 - Princess Margaret of Austria (d. 1530)
- 1769 - Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
- 1797 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
- 1828 - Herman Koeckemann, ss.cc., Roman Catholic prelate
- 1843 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
- 1849 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
- 1858 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
- 1873 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
- 1883 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, writer (d. 1945)
- 1887 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
- 1899 - Axel Eggelbrecht, journalist (d. 1991)
- 1904 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, dancer (d. 1987)
- 1908 - Bernard Lee, British actor (d. 1981)
- 1908 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
- 1913 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
- 1913 - Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
- 1917 - Jerry Wexler, American record producer
- 1917 - Hilde Krahl, actress (d. 1999)
- 1920 - Max Patkin, baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1921 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
- 1923 - Benson Skoff, clergyman
- 1923 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986)
- 1925 - Max Roach, drummer, composer
- 1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
- 1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
- 1931 - Viktor Liebermann, violinist (d. 1999)
- 1934 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
- 1935 - Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
- 1935 - Eddy Clearwater, blues musician
- 1936 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
- 1936 - Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer
- 1937 - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
- 1938 - Donald Knuth, American mathematician, computer scientist
- 1938 - Willie McCovey, American Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1939 - Bill Toomey, American athlete
- 1939 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1939 - William Levy, writer
- 1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
- 1945 - Rod Stewart, English singer
- 1945 - Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1975)
- 1948 - Donald Fagen, American keyboardist
- 1948 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002)
- 1948 - William Sanderson, American actor
- 1949 - George Foreman, American boxer
- 1949 - James Lapine, American stage director
- 1949 - Linda Lovelace, film actress (d. 2002)
- 1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer
- 1953 - Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
- 1955 - Michael Schenker, German guitar player (UFO) and solo career
- 1956 - Shawn Colvin, singer
- 1961 - Evan Handler, American actor
- 1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer
- 1973 - Ryan Drummond, voice actor and comedian
- 1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football player
- 1982 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2004)
Deaths
- 681 - Pope Agatho
- 1276 - Pope Gregory X
- 1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
- 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
- 1811 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
- 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
- 1895 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
- 1917 - William F. Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
- 1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, accused of Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
- 1941 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
- 1941 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
- 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer (b. 1885)
- 1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (b. 1889)
- 1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
- 1970 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b. 1925)
- 1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
- 1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
- 1978 - Pedro Chamorro, Nicaraguan journalist
- 1980 - George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
- 1981 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
- 1981 - Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1981 - Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)
- 1982 - Paul Lynde, comedian
- 1987 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
- 1997 - Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, director
- 1997 - Elspeth Huxley, journalist, writer
- 2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
- 2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (b. 1941)
- 2004 - Alexandra Ripley, author
- 2005 - Gene Baylos, comedian
- 2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
- 2005 - James Forman, American Civil Rights leader (b. 1928)
- 2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
- 2005 - Gordon John "Jack" Horner, sports journalist
- 2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
Holidays and observances
External links
January 9 - January 11 - December 10 - February 10 -- listing of all days
See also: January 10, 1072, 1276, 1480, 1530
