Famous birthdays, deaths and events of February 10
Birthdays 1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582) 1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642) 1685 - Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750) 1775 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834) 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960) 1890 - Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin. (d. 1918) 1892 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950) 1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980) 1893 - Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953) 1897 - Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992) 1897 - John Franklin Enders, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985) 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956) 1901 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992) 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987) 1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939) 1904 - John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963) 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973) 1906 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990) 1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969) 1914 - Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001) 1926 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993) 1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano 1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004) 1930 - Robert Wagner , American actor 1930 - E.L. Konigsburg, American author 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989) 1931 - Doug Young, American voice actor 1933 - Richard Schickel, American film critic 1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet 1937 - Roberta Flack , American singer 1940 - Mary Rand, British athlete 1941 - Michael Apted , British director 1943 - Bill Laskey, American football player 1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992) 1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician 1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist 1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer 1947 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader 1949 - Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter 1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer 1949 - Nigel Olsson, British musician 1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor 1950 - Mark Spitz , American swimmer 1954 - Larry McWilliams, baseball player 1955 - Chris Adams, British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001) 1955 - Jim Cramer, American television personality 1955 - Greg Norman , Australian golfer 1958 - Michael Weiss, American musician 1959 - Dennis Gentry, American football player 1959 - Lisa McPherson, Former Scientologist (d. 1995) 1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003) 1961 - Alexander Payne , American film director 1962 - Cliff Burton , American musician (d. 1986) 1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer 1962 - Piero Pelù, Italian singer and song-writer (Litfiba) 1963 - Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player 1964 - Glenn Beck, American radio and television host 1964 - Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989) 1964 - Francesca Neri , Italian actress 1965 - Mario Jean, Quebec comedian and television actor 1966 - Daryl Johnston, American football player 1967 - Laura Dern , American actress 1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist 1967 - Armand Serrano, Filipino animator 1968 - Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player 1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster 1969 - Laurie Dhue, American television personality 1970 - Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player 1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver 1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer 1970 - Myrea Pettit, British illustrator 1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998) 1971 - Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler 1974 - Elizabeth Banks , American actress 1974 - Ivri Lider, Israeli singer 1974 - Ty Law, American football player 1974 - Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer 1975 - Amber Frey, American witness in the Scott Peterson case 1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper 1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player 1976 - Lance Berkman, American baseball player 1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper/producer 1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer 1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer 1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician 1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder 1980 - César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player 1980 - Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player 1980 - Steve Tully, English footballer 1981 - Natasha St-Pier , Canadian singer 1981 - Andrew Johnson, English footballer 1981 - Holly Willoughby , British TV presenter 1981 - Tholomew Plague, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold) 1982 - Keith Dunne, Irish footballer 1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player 1984 - Alex Gordon, American baseball player 1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress 1985 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper 1986 - Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player 1986 - Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model 1987 - Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior) 1991 - Emma Roberts , American actress 1994 - Makenzie Vega , American actress 1997 - Chloe Grace Moretz, American actress
Deaths 1278 - Margaret II of Flanders, (b. 1202) 1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605) 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682) 1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689) 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799) 1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827) 1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan, (b. 1842) 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist 1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875) 1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872) 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867) 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898) 1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910) 1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958) 1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895) 1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921) 1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929) 1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts, (b. 1996) 2000 - Jim Varney , American actor (b. 1949) 2002 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936) 2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959) 2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922) 2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925) 2005 - Arthur Miller , American playwright (b. 1915) 2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974) 2006 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947) 2007 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980) 2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925) 2008 - Roy Scheider , American Actor (b. 1932) 2008 - Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947) 2009 - Berting Labra, 75, Filipino character actor, emphysema. 2009 - Leila Hadley, 83, American travel writer.
Events 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. 1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery). 1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination. 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. 1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner. 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon 1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City. 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City). 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War over Korea and Manchuria begins after the Battle of Port Arthur. 1906 - HMS Dreadnought (1906) is launched 1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. 1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu. 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India. 1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram. 1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him. 1933 - Adolf Hitler takes a speech in Sportpalast, Berlin 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. 1962 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. 1964 - Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified. 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198. 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time. 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon that law. 2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq. 2008 - The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea. 2009 - A Russian and an American satellite collide over Siberia, creating a large amount of space debris.
