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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 10th of July 0138 | EVENT | Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae, he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina. |
| 10th of July 0988 | EVENT | The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey. |
| 10th of July 1212 | EVENT | The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. |
| 10th of July 1460 | EVENT | Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton. |
| 10th of July 1499 | EVENT | Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama. |
| 10th of July 1553 | EVENT | Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England. |
| 10th of July 1584 | EVENT | William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gerard. |
| 10th of July 1645 | EVENT | English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place. |
| 10th of July 1778 | EVENT | American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
| 10th of July 1789 | EVENT | Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta. |
| 10th of July 1806 | EVENT | The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. |
| 10th of July 1821 | EVENT | The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain. |
| 10th of July 1832 | EVENT | U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States. |
| 10th of July 1850 | EVENT | Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term. |
| 10th of July 1877 | EVENT | The then-villa of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. |
| 10th of July 1890 | EVENT | Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. |
| 10th of July 1913 | EVENT | Death Valley, California hits 134 ?F (~56.7 ?C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States. |
| 10th of July 1921 | EVENT | Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
| 10th of July 1925 | EVENT | Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration. |
| 10th of July 1925 | EVENT | Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. |
| 10th of July 1938 | EVENT | Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world. |
| 10th of July 1940 | EVENT | World War II: the Vichy government is established in France. |
| 10th of July 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Britain : The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though). |
| 10th of July 1941 | EVENT | Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. |
| 10th of July 1942 | EVENT | Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established. |
| 10th of July 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign. |
| 10th of July 1946 | EVENT | Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours. |
| 10th of July 1947 | EVENT | Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. |
| 10th of July 1951 | EVENT | Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong. |
| 10th of July 1962 | EVENT | Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. |
| 10th of July 1966 | EVENT | The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary. |
| 10th of July 1967 | EVENT | Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
| 10th of July 1968 | EVENT | Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France. |
| 10th of July 1971 | EVENT | Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'etat, which lasts until June 11. |
| 10th of July 1973 | EVENT | The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 10th of July 1973 | EVENT | National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh. |
| 10th of July 1976 | EVENT | The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy. |
| 10th of July 1976 | EVENT | One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. |
| 10th of July 1978 | EVENT | World News Tonight premieres on ABC. |
| 10th of July 1978 | EVENT | President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'etat. |
| 10th of July 1980 | EVENT | Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time. |
| 10th of July 1985 | EVENT | Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira. |
| 10th of July 1991 | EVENT | The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid. |
| 10th of July 1992 | EVENT | In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. |
| 10th of July 1997 | EVENT | In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which support the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. |
| 10th of July 1997 | EVENT | Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Angel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests. |
| 10th of July 1998 | EVENT | Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos. |
| 10th of July 2000 | EVENT | EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aerospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. |
| 10th of July 2000 | EVENT | A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline. |
| 10th of July 2002 | EVENT | At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for ?49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson. |
| 10th of July 2003 | EVENT | A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong. |
| 10th of July 2005 | EVENT | Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage. |
| 10th of July 2006 | EVENT | Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board. |
| 10th of July 2008 | EVENT | Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes. |
| 10th of July 1419 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471) |
| 10th of July 1452 | BIRTHDAY | King James III of Scotland (d. 1488) |
| 10th of July 1509 | BIRTHDAY | John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564) |
| 10th of July 1517 | BIRTHDAY | Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571) |
| 10th of July 1592 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660) |
| 10th of July 1614 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686) |
| 10th of July 1625 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703) |
| 10th of July 1638 | BIRTHDAY | David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685) |
| 10th of July 1666 | BIRTHDAY | John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711) |
| 10th of July 1682 | BIRTHDAY | Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719) |
| 10th of July 1682 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716) |
| 10th of July 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Amelia of Great Britain (d. 1783) |
| 10th of July 1723 | BIRTHDAY | William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780) |
| 10th of July 1736 | BIRTHDAY | Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807) |
| 10th of July 1792 | BIRTHDAY | George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (d. 1864) |
| 10th of July 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Chambers, Scottish author and naturalist (d. 1871) |
| 10th of July 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Smith, American religious figure (d. 1879) |
| 10th of July 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889) |
| 10th of July 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903) |
| 10th of July 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897) |
| 10th of July 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880) |
| 10th of July 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913) |
| 10th of July 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Nikola Tesla, Serb-American inventor (d. 1943) |
| 10th of July 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Austin Chapman, Australian policitian (d. 1926) |
| 10th of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929) |
| 10th of July 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922) |
| 10th of July 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971) |
| 10th of July 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955) |
| 10th of July 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948) |
| 10th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978) |
| 10th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982) |
| 10th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Therese Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981) |
| 10th of July 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957) |
| 10th of July 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931) |
| 10th of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936) |
| 10th of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978) |
| 10th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993) |
| 10th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox priest (d. 1979) |
| 10th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 10th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969) |
| 10th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989) |
| 10th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948) |
| 10th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971) |
| 10th of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Sinclair, British hotel manager (d. 1981) |
| 10th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985) |
| 10th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992) |
| 10th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000) |
| 10th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Don Herbert, American television host (d. 2007) |
| 10th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) |
| 10th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003) |
| 10th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001) |
| 10th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jake LaMotta, American boxer |
| 10th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist (d. 2009) |
| 10th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer |
| 10th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987) |
| 10th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003) |
| 10th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | John Bradley, American Navy corpsman (d. 1994) |
| 10th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (d. 1998) |
| 10th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Bach, American basketball coach |
| 10th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 10th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician |
| 10th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | David Norman Dinkins, New York City Mayor, 1990-1993 |
| 10th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003) |
| 10th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar |
| 10th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999) |
| 10th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003) |
| 10th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician |
| 10th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (d. 2004) |
| 10th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Munro, Canadian writer |
| 10th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968) |
| 10th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Herman, American composer and lyricist |
| 10th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver |
| 10th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer |
| 10th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Tura Satana, American actress |
| 10th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter (d. 1972) |
| 10th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Andreu, French architect |
| 10th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmet Taner K?slal?, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999) |
| 10th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British economist |
| 10th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Donath, American soprano |
| 10th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur |
| 10th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist |
| 10th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Whitcomb, English songwriter, entertainer and producer |
| 10th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie James Dio, American musician (d. 2010) |
| 10th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut |
| 10th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993) |
| 10th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Motson, British sports (football) commentator |
| 10th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marie Poire, French film director |
| 10th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Glass, American actor |
| 10th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Wade, British tennis player |
| 10th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist |
| 10th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sue Lyon, American actress |
| 10th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Arlo Guthrie, American musician |
| 10th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Czerwinska, Polish mountaineer |
| 10th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Kihn, American pop musician & radio personality |
| 10th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer |
| 10th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Whitehead, American singer and record producer |
| 10th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician |
| 10th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Smith, American actress |
| 10th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter |
| 10th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer |
| 10th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast |
| 10th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician |
| 10th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rik Emmett, Canadian musician (Triumph) |
| 10th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Zoogz Rift, singer/songwriter and wrestling booker |
| 10th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys) |
| 10th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Dawson, American baseball player |
| 10th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Tom McClintock, American politician |
| 10th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist |
| 10th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bela Fleck, American musician |
| 10th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Fiona Shaw, Irish actress |
| 10th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Kuras, American cinematographer |
| 10th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor |
| 10th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Waites, British actor |
| 10th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Urban Meyer, American football coach |
| 10th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist |
| 10th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Mellons, American singer |
| 10th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian |
| 10th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark |
| 10th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Scott McCarron, American professional golfer |
| 10th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Bellman, British actress |
| 10th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (d. 2006) |
| 10th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Stangl, Austrian mountaineer |
| 10th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Meents, American monster truck driver |
| 10th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Silvetty Montilla, Brazilian drag queen |
| 10th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rebekah Del Rio, Latin American singer/songwriter |
| 10th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete |
| 10th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Gilbert, American actor |
| 10th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Glover, British actor |
| 10th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Gale Harold, American actor |
| 10th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Hedison, American actress |
| 10th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Vicky Morales, FIlipina broadcast journalist |
| 10th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Hills, Australian comedian |
| 10th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Sjoholm, Swedish singer and actress |
| 10th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts) |
| 10th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer (Take That) |
| 10th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John Simm, British actor |
| 10th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer |
| 10th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Jordan, American wrestler |
| 10th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress |
| 10th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa) |
| 10th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian and actor |
| 10th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Mumolo, American actress |
| 10th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor |
| 10th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Firestone, American TV reality show personality |
| 10th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Karl Stefansson, Icelandic actor |
| 10th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Grenier, American actor |
| 10th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy) |
| 10th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Ricken, German footballer |
| 10th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ludovic Giuly, French footballer |
| 10th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Edmilson Gomes, Brazilian footballer |
| 10th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer |
| 10th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler |
| 10th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Gwendoline Yeo, American actress |
| 10th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New) |
| 10th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer |
| 10th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000) |
| 10th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Simpson, American singer |
| 10th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor |
| 10th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandro Millan, Mexican singer and songwriter |
| 10th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Han Eun-jeong, South Korean actress |
| 10th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | James D. Rolfe, video game reviewer better known as the Angry Video Game Nerd |
| 10th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer |
| 10th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Arrowsmith, American musician |
| 10th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer |
| 10th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer |
| 10th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Egan, Australian rules footballer |
| 10th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Heechul, Korean singer |
| 10th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004 |
| 10th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | B.J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player |
| 10th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Gomez, German-Spanish footballer |
| 10th of July 0138 | DEATH | Hadrian, Roman Emperor (Born 76) |
| 10th of July 0649 | DEATH | Li Shimin, Emperor of China (Born 599) |
| 10th of July 1099 | DEATH | El Cid, of Castile (Born 1044) |
| 10th of July 1103 | DEATH | King Eric I of Denmark |
| 10th of July 1290 | DEATH | King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (Born 1262) |
| 10th of July 1460 | DEATH | Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (Born 1402) |
| 10th of July 1480 | DEATH | King Rene I of Naples (Born 1410) |
| 10th of July 1559 | DEATH | King Henry II of France (Born 1519) |
| 10th of July 1584 | DEATH | William I of Orange (Born 1533) |
| 10th of July 1590 | DEATH | Archduke Charles II of Austria (Born 1540) |
| 10th of July 1594 | DEATH | Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (Born 1554) |
| 10th of July 1621 | DEATH | Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (Born 1571) |
| 10th of July 1653 | DEATH | Gabriel Naude, French librarian and scholar (Born 1600) |
| 10th of July 1680 | DEATH | Louis Moreri, French encyclopedist (Born 1643) |
| 10th of July 1683 | DEATH | Francois-Eudes de Mezeray, French historian (Born 1610) |
| 10th of July 1686 | DEATH | John Fell, English churchman (Born 1625) |
| 10th of July 1776 | DEATH | Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (Born 1704) |
| 10th of July 1794 | DEATH | Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1754) |
| 10th of July 1806 | DEATH | George Stubbs, British painter (Born 1724) |
| 10th of July 1848 | DEATH | Karoline Jagemann, German actor (Born 1777) |
| 10th of July 1851 | DEATH | Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (Born 1787) |
| 10th of July 1881 | DEATH | Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (Born 1812) |
| 10th of July 1884 | DEATH | Paul Morphy, American chess player (Born 1837) |
| 10th of July 1908 | DEATH | Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (Born 1839) |
| 10th of July 1920 | DEATH | Jackie Fisher, British admiral (Born 1841) |
| 10th of July 1941 | DEATH | Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (Born 1890) |
| 10th of July 1954 | DEATH | Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (Born 1877) |
| 10th of July 1956 | DEATH | Joe Giard, American baseball player (Born 1898) |
| 10th of July 1962 | DEATH | Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and government minister (Born 1875) |
| 10th of July 1963 | DEATH | Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (Born 1893) |
| 10th of July 1970 | DEATH | Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (Born 1908) |
| 10th of July 1971 | DEATH | Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (Born 1924) |
| 10th of July 1972 | DEATH | Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (Born 1887) |
| 10th of July 1978 | DEATH | John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (Born 1906) |
| 10th of July 1978 | DEATH | Joe Davis, English snooker player (Born 1901) |
| 10th of July 1979 | DEATH | Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (Born 1894) |
| 10th of July 1980 | DEATH | Joseph Krumgold, American writer (Born 1908) |
| 10th of July 1981 | DEATH | Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (Born 1936) |
| 10th of July 1985 | DEATH | Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer and victim of the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (Born 1950) |
| 10th of July 1986 | DEATH | Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer (Born 1940) |
| 10th of July 1987 | DEATH | John H. Hammond, American record producer (Born 1910) |
| 10th of July 1989 | DEATH | Mel Blanc, American voice actor (Born 1908) |
| 10th of July 1993 | DEATH | Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (Born 1924) |
| 10th of July 2000 | DEATH | Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (Born 1975) |
| 10th of July 2000 | DEATH | Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (Born 1909) |
| 10th of July 2002 | DEATH | Jean-Pierre Cote, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (Born 1926) |
| 10th of July 2003 | DEATH | Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (Born 1902) |
| 10th of July 2003 | DEATH | Winston Graham, English writer (Born 1908) |
| 10th of July 2003 | DEATH | Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician |
| 10th of July 2004 | DEATH | Pati Behrs, Russian-born American actress, grandniece of Leo Tolstoy and first wife of American actor John Derek (Born 1922) |
| 10th of July 2005 | DEATH | A.J. Quinnell, English writer (Born 1940) |
| 10th of July 2005 | DEATH | Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (Born 1955) |
| 10th of July 2005 | DEATH | Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (Born 1970) |
| 10th of July 2006 | DEATH | Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (Born 1965) |
| 10th of July 2007 | DEATH | Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (Born 1951) |
| 10th of July 2007 | DEATH | Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (Born 1949) |
| 10th of July 2007 | DEATH | Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China (Born 1944) |
| 10th of July 2008 | DEATH | Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (Born 1938) |
| 10th of July 2008 | DEATH | Mike Souchak, American golfer (Born 1927) |