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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 10th of April 0428 | EVENT | Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople. |
| 10th of April 0837 | EVENT | Halley's Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles). |
| 10th of April 0879 | EVENT | Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. |
| 10th of April 1407 | EVENT | the lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma. |
| 10th of April 1500 | EVENT | Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French. |
| 10th of April 1606 | EVENT | The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. |
| 10th of April 1710 | EVENT | The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain. |
| 10th of April 1741 | EVENT | War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz. |
| 10th of April 1815 | EVENT | The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years. |
| 10th of April 1816 | EVENT | The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. |
| 10th of April 1821 | EVENT | Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus. |
| 10th of April 1826 | EVENT | The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive. |
| 10th of April 1856 | EVENT | The Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University. |
| 10th of April 1858 | EVENT | The original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster is cast in Stockton-on-Tees by Warner's of Cripplegate. This however cracked during testing and is recast into the 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry and is still in use to date. |
| 10th of April 1864 | EVENT | Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is elected emperor of Mexico. |
| 10th of April 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time. |
| 10th of April 1866 | EVENT | The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh. |
| 10th of April 1868 | EVENT | At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/Indian troops. |
| 10th of April 1874 | EVENT | The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska. |
| 10th of April 1887 | EVENT | On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America. |
| 10th of April 1904 | EVENT | British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law. |
| 10th of April 1912 | EVENT | The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage. |
| 10th of April 1916 | EVENT | The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City. |
| 10th of April 1919 | EVENT | Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. |
| 10th of April 1925 | EVENT | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. |
| 10th of April 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelic's Ustase fascist insurgents in power. |
| 10th of April 1944 | EVENT | Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp. |
| 10th of April 1953 | EVENT | Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. |
| 10th of April 1957 | EVENT | The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months. |
| 10th of April 1959 | EVENT | Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko. |
| 10th of April 1963 | EVENT | 129 people die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea. |
| 10th of April 1968 | EVENT | Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour. |
| 10th of April 1971 | EVENT | Ping Pong Diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit. |
| 10th of April 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam. |
| 10th of April 1972 | EVENT | 20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas. |
| 10th of April 1972 | EVENT | Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons. |
| 10th of April 1973 | EVENT | A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104. |
| 10th of April 1979 | EVENT | Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. |
| 10th of April 1991 | EVENT | Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. |
| 10th of April 1991 | EVENT | A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. |
| 10th of April 1992 | EVENT | The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. |
| 10th of April 2009 | EVENT | President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis. |
| 10th of April 2010 | EVENT | Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczynski. |
| 10th of April 1512 | BIRTHDAY | James V of Scotland, Scottish king (d. 1542) |
| 10th of April 1583 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (d. 1645) |
| 10th of April 1651 | BIRTHDAY | Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708) |
| 10th of April 1656 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718) |
| 10th of April 1704 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766) |
| 10th of April 1713 | BIRTHDAY | John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788) |
| 10th of April 1735 | BIRTHDAY | Button Gwinnett, Signer of the US Declaration of Independence (d. 1777) |
| 10th of April 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (d. 1843) |
| 10th of April 1756 | BIRTHDAY | William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1831) |
| 10th of April 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834) |
| 10th of April 1778 | BIRTHDAY | William Hazlitt, English writer (d. 1830) |
| 10th of April 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew C. Perry, American commodore (d. 1858) |
| 10th of April 1796 | BIRTHDAY | James "Jim" Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836) |
| 10th of April 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Lew Wallace, American Civil War figure and novelist (d. 1905) |
| 10th of April 1829 | BIRTHDAY | William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (d. 1912) |
| 10th of April 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867) |
| 10th of April 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher (d. 1911) |
| 10th of April 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Eugen d'Albert, German composer (d. 1932) |
| 10th of April 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944) |
| 10th of April 1867 | BIRTHDAY | George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935) |
| 10th of April 1868 | BIRTHDAY | George Arliss, English actor (d. 1946) |
| 10th of April 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Kyosti Kallio, Finnish president (d. 1940) |
| 10th of April 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948) |
| 10th of April 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965) |
| 10th of April 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Nadir Shah, Afghan king (d. 1933) |
| 10th of April 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971) |
| 10th of April 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Barson, English footballer (d. 1968) |
| 10th of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist (d. 1983) |
| 10th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Youngs, American baseball player (d. 1927) |
| 10th of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Boothe Luce, American activist, (d. 1987) |
| 10th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d. 2004) |
| 10th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Denny, American musician (d. 2005) |
| 10th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Kidric, Slovenian politician (d. 1953) |
| 10th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Heym, German author (d. 2001) |
| 10th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Morgan, American actor |
| 10th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979) |
| 10th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 10th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Connors, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 10th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003) |
| 10th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Gaillard, Haitian historian and novelist (d. 2000) |
| 10th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Noland, American painter (d. 2010) |
| 10th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Goodman, American astrologer (d. 1995) |
| 10th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Junior Samples, American southern comedian (d. 1983) |
| 10th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010) |
| 10th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (d. 1959) |
| 10th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Max von Sydow, Swedish actor |
| 10th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Bolling, French jazz composer and pianist |
| 10th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actor and comedian (d. 2006) |
| 10th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Dolores Huerta, American labor activist |
| 10th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian (d. 2001) |
| 10th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor |
| 10th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author |
| 10th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | David Halberstam, American journalist and author (d. 2007) |
| 10th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (d. 1961) |
| 10th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster |
| 10th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010) |
| 10th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster (d. 2010) |
| 10th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Magris, Italian author |
| 10th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Hunniford, Northern Irish TV and radio presenter |
| 10th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Theroux, American author |
| 10th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Callaghan, English footballer |
| 10th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1998) |
| 10th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Andrzej Badenski, Polish athlete |
| 10th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001) |
| 10th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician |
| 10th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Mangeas, French sports commentator |
| 10th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations) (d. 1992) |
| 10th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player |
| 10th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Akiko Wada, Japanese singer and television performer |
| 10th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | David Helvarg, American journalist and environmental activist |
| 10th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Narayan Rane, Indian politician |
| 10th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Seagal, American actor |
| 10th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Peter MacNicol, American actor |
| 10th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Lesley Garrett, British soprano |
| 10th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Gustafson, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) |
| 10th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | John M. Ford, American science fiction author and poet (d. 2006) |
| 10th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Edmonds, American music producer |
| 10th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Bell, British engineer |
| 10th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Yefim Bronfman, Russian-born pianist |
| 10th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Yvan Loubier, Canadian politician |
| 10th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Davy Carton, Irish musician (Saw Doctors) |
| 10th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Setzer, American musician (Stray Cats) |
| 10th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Bisciotti, American pro football team owner |
| 10th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Teagle, American basketball player |
| 10th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Katrina Leskanich, American musician |
| 10th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Cole, American roadie (d. 1991) |
| 10th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Campbell, Scottish TV & radio presenter |
| 10th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Tasker, American football player |
| 10th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Warren DeMartini, American musician |
| 10th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Gray, American baseball player |
| 10th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician |
| 10th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Alexander, American musician |
| 10th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | David Rovics, American folksinger |
| 10th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Dufresne, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Jones, American actor and comedian |
| 10th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Jayne, American actor |
| 10th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter |
| 10th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Mushok, American musician |
| 10th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Lattimore, American singer |
| 10th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico Ciccone, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Dorin, Canadian boxer |
| 10th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Q-Tip, American musician |
| 10th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brad William Henke, American actor |
| 10th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Al Reyes, Dominican baseball player |
| 10th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Byrne, Irish stand up comedian and actor |
| 10th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer |
| 10th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Canet, French actor and film director |
| 10th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Aidan Moffat, Scottish musician |
| 10th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Simmons, American designer |
| 10th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Greitens, American former military officer |
| 10th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Petros Passalis, Greek footballer |
| 10th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Carrabba, American singer |
| 10th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Phillips, New Zealand-born Italian rugby player |
| 10th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Renner, Canadian cross country skier |
| 10th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Christus, Finnish guitarist |
| 10th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kenyon Coleman, American football player |
| 10th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Shemekia Copeland, American singer |
| 10th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese artist |
| 10th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003) |
| 10th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer |
| 10th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer |
| 10th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kasey Kahne, American race-car driver |
| 10th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Hunnam, British actor |
| 10th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bryce Soderberg, American musician |
| 10th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Bell Bundy, American actor |
| 10th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Liz McClarnon, British singer (Atomic Kitten) |
| 10th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder |
| 10th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 10th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Pitt, American actor |
| 10th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Ethier, American baseball player |
| 10th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Damian Lanza, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 10th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chyler Leigh, American actress |
| 10th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Merriman, American actor |
| 10th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Chung, American actress |
| 10th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mandy Moore, American singer/actor |
| 10th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Cara DeLizia, American actress |
| 10th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Barrett (figure skater), American figure skater |
| 10th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Borlee, Belgian athlete |
| 10th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer |
| 10th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Cesaro, Italian footballer |
| 10th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer |
| 10th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ayesha Takia, Indian actress |
| 10th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano |
| 10th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Shay Mitchell, Canadian Actress |
| 10th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Haley Joel Osment, American actor |
| 10th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Amos, English footballer |
| 10th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Economides, Greek-Cypriot footballer |
| 10th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lulinha, Brazilian footballer |
| 10th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Pettyfer, English actor |
| 10th of April 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Michalka, American actress and singer |
| 10th of April 2007 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Ariane of the Netherlands |
| 10th of April 0879 | DEATH | King Louis the Stammerer of the West Franks (Born 846) |
| 10th of April 0948 | DEATH | King Hugh of Italy |
| 10th of April 1533 | DEATH | King Frederick I of Denmark (Born 1471) |
| 10th of April 1545 | DEATH | Costanzo Festa, Italian composer |
| 10th of April 1585 | DEATH | Pope Gregory XIII (Born 1502) |
| 10th of April 1599 | DEATH | Gabrielle d'Estree, mistress of Henry IV of France (Born 1571) |
| 10th of April 1601 | DEATH | Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (Born 1562) |
| 10th of April 1619 | DEATH | Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin (Born c. 1550) |
| 10th of April 1640 | DEATH | Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (Born 1578) |
| 10th of April 1646 | DEATH | Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (Born 1576) |
| 10th of April 1667 | DEATH | Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian doctor and scientist (Born 1595) |
| 10th of April 1704 | DEATH | William Egon of Furstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (Born 1629) |
| 10th of April 1706 | DEATH | Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (Born 1666) |
| 10th of April 1756 | DEATH | Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1661) |
| 10th of April 1760 | DEATH | Jean Lebeuf, French historian (Born 1687) |
| 10th of April 1786 | DEATH | John Byron, British naval officer (Born 1723) |
| 10th of April 1806 | DEATH | Horatio Gates, American Revolutionary War figure (Born 1727) |
| 10th of April 1813 | DEATH | Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (Born 1736) |
| 10th of April 1823 | DEATH | Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (Born 1757) |
| 10th of April 1882 | DEATH | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (Born 1828) |
| 10th of April 1904 | DEATH | Queen Isabella II of Spain (Born 1830) |
| 10th of April 1909 | DEATH | Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet and critic (Born 1837) |
| 10th of April 1910 | DEATH | Jean Moreas, Greek poet (Born 1856) |
| 10th of April 1919 | DEATH | Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary figure (Born 1879) |
| 10th of April 1920 | DEATH | Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (Born 1829) |
| 10th of April 1931 | DEATH | Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (Born 1883) |
| 10th of April 1938 | DEATH | Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (Born 1885) |
| 10th of April 1945 | DEATH | H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (Born 1882) |
| 10th of April 1945 | DEATH | Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (Born 1887) |
| 10th of April 1954 | DEATH | Auguste Lumiere, French film executive (Born 1862) |
| 10th of April 1954 | DEATH | Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (Born 1888) |
| 10th of April 1955 | DEATH | Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (Born 1881) |
| 10th of April 1958 | DEATH | Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (Born 1928) |
| 10th of April 1962 | DEATH | Stuart Sutcliffe, English musician (The Beatles) (Born 1940) |
| 10th of April 1962 | DEATH | Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born American director (Born 1886) |
| 10th of April 1965 | DEATH | Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (Born 1928) |
| 10th of April 1965 | DEATH | Linda Darnell, American actress (Born 1923) |
| 10th of April 1966 | DEATH | Evelyn Waugh, English writer (Born 1903) |
| 10th of April 1968 | DEATH | Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (Born 1899) |
| 10th of April 1969 | DEATH | Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (Born 1893) |
| 10th of April 1975 | DEATH | Marjorie Main, American actress (Born 1890) |
| 10th of April 1979 | DEATH | Nino Rota, Italian composer (Born 1911) |
| 10th of April 1980 | DEATH | Kay Medford, American actress (Born 1914) |
| 10th of April 1983 | DEATH | Issam Sartawi, Palestine Liberation Organization figure (Born 1935) |
| 10th of April 1986 | DEATH | Linda Creed, American songwriter (Born 1948) |
| 10th of April 1991 | DEATH | Natalie Schafer, American actress (Born 1900) |
| 10th of April 1991 | DEATH | Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (Born 1955) |
| 10th of April 1992 | DEATH | Sam Kinison, American comedian (Born 1953) |
| 10th of April 1993 | DEATH | Chris Hani, South African activist (Born 1942) |
| 10th of April 1994 | DEATH | Sam B. Hall, American politician (Born 1924) |
| 10th of April 1995 | DEATH | Morarji Desai, Indian statesman (Born 1896) |
| 10th of April 1997 | DEATH | Michael Dorris, American author (Born 1945) |
| 10th of April 1998 | DEATH | Seraphim, Archbishop of Athens (Born 1913) |
| 10th of April 1998 | DEATH | Jack Clemmons, American law enforcement officer (Born 1924) |
| 10th of April 1999 | DEATH | Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist (Born 1910) |
| 10th of April 1999 | DEATH | Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (Born 1919) |
| 10th of April 2000 | DEATH | Peter Jones, English actor (Born 1920) |
| 10th of April 2000 | DEATH | Larry Linville, American actor (Born 1939) |
| 10th of April 2000 | DEATH | Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (Born 1928) |
| 10th of April 2003 | DEATH | Little Eva, American singer (Born 1943) |
| 10th of April 2005 | DEATH | Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (Born 1923) |
| 10th of April 2005 | DEATH | Iakovos, Archbishop of America (Born 1911) |
| 10th of April 2005 | DEATH | Scott Gottlieb, American drummer (Bleed the Dream) (Born 1970) |
| 10th of April 2005 | DEATH | Al Lucas, American football player (Born 1978) |
| 10th of April 2007 | DEATH | Dakota Staton, American singer (Born 1930) |
| 10th of April 2009 | DEATH | Deborah Digges, American poet (Born 1950) |
| 10th of April 2010 | DEATH | Passengers in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, including: Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (Born 1919) Maria Kaczynska, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942) Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (b. 1949) Janusz Zakrzenski, Polish actor (b. 1936) Anna Walentynowicz, Polish free trade activist (b. 1929) |
| 10th of April 2010 | DEATH | Arthur Mercante, Sr., American boxing referee (Born 1920) |
| 10th of April 2010 | DEATH | Dixie Carter, American actress (Born 1939) |
| 10th of April 2011 | DEATH | Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (Born 1964) |
| 10th of April 2011 | DEATH | Homer Smith, American football coach (Born 1931) |