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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 10th of January 0069 | EVENT | Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor. |
| 10th of January 0236 | EVENT | Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome. |
| 10th of January 1072 | EVENT | Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo. |
| 10th of January 1475 | EVENT | Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui. |
| 10th of January 1645 | EVENT | Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London. |
| 10th of January 1776 | EVENT | Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense. |
| 10th of January 1806 | EVENT | Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British. |
| 10th of January 1810 | EVENT | Napoleon divorces his first wife Josephine. |
| 10th of January 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union. |
| 10th of January 1863 | EVENT | The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station. |
| 10th of January 1870 | EVENT | John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. |
| 10th of January 1901 | EVENT | The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. |
| 10th of January 1916 | EVENT | Erzerum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire. |
| 10th of January 1920 | EVENT | The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. |
| 10th of January 1922 | EVENT | Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State. |
| 10th of January 1923 | EVENT | Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel. |
| 10th of January 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. |
| 10th of January 1946 | EVENT | The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented. |
| 10th of January 1946 | EVENT | The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals. |
| 10th of January 1962 | EVENT | Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo moon mission. |
| 10th of January 1972 | EVENT | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. |
| 10th of January 1981 | EVENT | Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazan and Chalatenango departments |
| 10th of January 1984 | EVENT | The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years. |
| 10th of January 1990 | EVENT | Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. |
| 10th of January 1999 | EVENT | Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system. |
| 10th of January 2003 | EVENT | Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal. |
| 10th of January 2005 | EVENT | A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days. |
| 10th of January 1480 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530) |
| 10th of January 1538 | BIRTHDAY | Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574) |
| 10th of January 1573 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624) |
| 10th of January 1607 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Jogues, French missionary (d. 1646) |
| 10th of January 1628 | BIRTHDAY | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687) |
| 10th of January 1644 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Francois, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711) |
| 10th of January 1654 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712) |
| 10th of January 1702 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762) |
| 10th of January 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775) |
| 10th of January 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740) |
| 10th of January 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799) |
| 10th of January 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Ethan Allen, American military leader (d. 1789) |
| 10th of January 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Titsingh, Dutch diplomat (d. 1812) |
| 10th of January 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823) |
| 10th of January 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815) |
| 10th of January 1776 | BIRTHDAY | George Birkbeck, British academic (d. 1841) |
| 10th of January 1780 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Lichtenstein, German physician (d. 1857) |
| 10th of January 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, German writer (d. 1848) |
| 10th of January 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Eugenio Kincaid, American missionary (d. 1883) |
| 10th of January 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer (d. 1892) |
| 10th of January 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist & statesman; 24th United States Attorney General; and 23rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1883) |
| 10th of January 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881) |
| 10th of January 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892) |
| 10th of January 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Acton, British historian (d. 1902) |
| 10th of January 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902) |
| 10th of January 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Nazaire Begin, Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925) |
| 10th of January 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer (d. 1925) |
| 10th of January 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915) |
| 10th of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhold Sadler, 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906) |
| 10th of January 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Crosbie, Canadian theosophist (d. 1919) |
| 10th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891) |
| 10th of January 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Jessie Bond, English singer and actress (d. 1942) |
| 10th of January 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929) |
| 10th of January 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Francesc Ferrer i Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909) |
| 10th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931) |
| 10th of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928) |
| 10th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958) |
| 10th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935) |
| 10th of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Issai Schur, German mathematician (d. 1941) |
| 10th of January 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Azana y Diaz, Spanish republican President (d. 1940) |
| 10th of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Rainey, Australian sportsman (d. 1962) |
| 10th of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966) |
| 10th of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Saalwachter, German U-boat commander (d. 1945) |
| 10th of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1945) |
| 10th of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962) |
| 10th of January 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Collis, Irish writer (d. 1973) |
| 10th of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957) |
| 10th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician (d. 1970) |
| 10th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Melchior Wankowicz, Polish writer (d. 1974) |
| 10th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932) |
| 10th of January 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet (d. 1972) |
| 10th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine Blodgett, American scientist and inventor (d. 1979) |
| 10th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975) |
| 10th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Voldemar Vali, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997) |
| 10th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976) |
| 10th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987) |
| 10th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (d. 1993) |
| 10th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1992) |
| 10th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981) |
| 10th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976) |
| 10th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Heatley, English biologist (d. 2004) |
| 10th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Mandel, Austrian Auschwitz prison guard (d. 1948) |
| 10th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981) |
| 10th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Husak, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991) |
| 10th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Kuo-hwa, Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000) |
| 10th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Dixon, American conductor (d. 1976) |
| 10th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Sune Bergstrom, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004) |
| 10th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) |
| 10th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Eldzier Cortor, American painter |
| 10th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Hilde Krahl, Austrian actress (d. 1999) |
| 10th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d. 2008) |
| 10th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Les Bennett, English footballer (d. 1999) |
| 10th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008) |
| 10th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Parker, American businessman (d. 2009) |
| 10th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Terukuni Manzo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (d. 1977) |
| 10th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999) |
| 10th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997) |
| 10th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Rodger Ward, American racing driver (d. 2004) |
| 10th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Tasso Kavadia, Greek actress (d. 2010) |
| 10th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Liddell, Scottish Footballer (d. 2001) |
| 10th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1996) |
| 10th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Max Roach, American musician and composer (d. 2007) |
| 10th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gunther Knodler, German fencer |
| 10th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician |
| 10th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003) |
| 10th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Philips, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 10th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Stich, Swiss politician |
| 10th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990) |
| 10th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Levine, American poet |
| 10th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone |
| 10th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Devry, American actress |
| 10th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Edward Disney, American film executive (d. 2009) |
| 10th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004) |
| 10th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Rodgers, English actor (d. 2007) |
| 10th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician |
| 10th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Hawkins, American musician |
| 10th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Katzer, German composer |
| 10th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sherrill Milnes, American baritone |
| 10th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Burnum Burnum, Australian activist, actor and author (d. 1997) |
| 10th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002) |
| 10th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer |
| 10th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, Nobel laureate |
| 10th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Penfield Jackson, American jurist |
| 10th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist |
| 10th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician |
| 10th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Willie McCovey, American baseball player |
| 10th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Carter, American poet |
| 10th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | William Levy, Dutch writer |
| 10th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | David Horowitz, American author and political commentator |
| 10th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sonosuke Fujimaki, Japanese fencer |
| 10th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Scott McKenzie, American singer |
| 10th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Toomey, American athlete |
| 10th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976) |
| 10th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Gant, American racing driver |
| 10th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician |
| 10th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Hill, American film director |
| 10th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole |
| 10th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Yesudas, Indian playback singer and classical musician |
| 10th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Gahan, Australian rules footballer |
| 10th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Hill, American film director |
| 10th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973) |
| 10th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jantzen Derrick, English footballer |
| 10th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Kristiina Elstela, Finnish actress |
| 10th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Derome, Canadian news presenter |
| 10th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer |
| 10th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | William Sanderson, American actor |
| 10th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer |
| 10th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist |
| 10th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Fahey, Australian politician |
| 10th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Moss, English Actress (d. 2006) |
| 10th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Stewart, Scottish singer |
| 10th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Wiskoski, American wrestler |
| 10th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Aynsley Dunbar, English musician |
| 10th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Peer Steinbruck, German politician |
| 10th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002) |
| 10th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Fagen, American musician (Steely Dan) |
| 10th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Thevenet, French cyclist |
| 10th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist |
| 10th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Allu Aravind, Indian film producer |
| 10th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | George Foreman, American boxer |
| 10th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (d. 2002) |
| 10th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | James Lapine, American stage director |
| 10th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Blunt, American politician |
| 10th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Wasson, American gardener and writer |
| 10th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Paul DiMaggio, American educator |
| 10th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Philibert, French film director |
| 10th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Pez Whatley, American wrestler (d. 2005) |
| 10th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Thurston, American musician |
| 10th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Benatar, American singer |
| 10th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Rahal, American racing driver and team owner |
| 10th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Cooper, American author |
| 10th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Gidman, English footballer |
| 10th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Towns, Australian rules footballer |
| 10th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO) |
| 10th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Tancredi, Italian footballer |
| 10th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Colvin, American singer |
| 10th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Munoz Molina, Spanish writer |
| 10th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Smith, American tennis player |
| 10th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Walden, American politician |
| 10th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Cheever, American racing car driver |
| 10th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Langrishe, English actress |
| 10th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter |
| 10th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Van Hollen, American congressman |
| 10th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Bernhard Hoff, East German athlete |
| 10th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter |
| 10th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Gurinder Chadha, British film director |
| 10th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Samira Said, Moroccan singer |
| 10th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Benoit Pelletier, Canadian politician |
| 10th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Cowen, Taoiseach of Ireland |
| 10th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Handler, American actor |
| 10th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian violinist |
| 10th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Jones, American actress |
| 10th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Fortier, Canadian politician |
| 10th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Dunford, New Zealand footballer |
| 10th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kira Ivanova, Soviet figure skater (d. 2001) |
| 10th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | David Dewayne Johnson, American convicted murderer (d. 2000) |
| 10th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Pryor, American politician |
| 10th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Gardner, English actor |
| 10th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies) |
| 10th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Butch Hartman, American animator |
| 10th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Kramer, American politician |
| 10th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Sims, Australian actor |
| 10th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Murali Nair, Indian film director |
| 10th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Cumpston, Australian actor |
| 10th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Maciej Sliwowski, Polish footballer |
| 10th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Laats, Belgian judoka |
| 10th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Janko Kastelic, Canadian conductor |
| 10th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Reinke, German footballer |
| 10th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Buff Bagwell, American wrestler |
| 10th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Ludlam, Australian politician |
| 10th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Alisa Maric, Serbian chess grandmaster |
| 10th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Benzakour, Dutch writer |
| 10th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier |
| 10th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Lawler, American wrestler |
| 10th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jakob Cedergren, Danish actor |
| 10th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Drummond, American voice actor |
| 10th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Robinson, American basketball player |
| 10th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer |
| 10th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor |
| 10th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer |
| 10th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Akari Kaida, Japanese composer |
| 10th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Andrey Korneyev, Russian swimmer |
| 10th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Marlet, French footballer |
| 10th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Clinton O'Brien, Australian rugby league player |
| 10th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor |
| 10th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Peeters, Belgian footballer |
| 10th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Delhomme, American football player |
| 10th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Kennedy, American baseball player |
| 10th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Poulter, English golfer |
| 10th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown) |
| 10th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer |
| 10th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bodo Sieber, German rugby player |
| 10th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan footballer |
| 10th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Shahi, American actress and model |
| 10th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Petri Lindroos, Finnish musician (Ensiferum) |
| 10th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | James Coppinger, English footballer |
| 10th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Inga Jankauskaite, Lithuanian actress and singer |
| 10th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Joo, American-born Korean singer |
| 10th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Julien Brellier, French footballer |
| 10th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002) |
| 10th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Li Nina, Chinese aerial skier |
| 10th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver |
| 10th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league player |
| 10th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nando Rafael, Angolan-German footballer |
| 10th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Abdulkader Dakka, Syrian footballer |
| 10th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jaroslav Kolbas, Slovak footballer |
| 10th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Lewis, American cyclist |
| 10th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Meraz, American actor |
| 10th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Chen Jin, Chinese badminton player |
| 10th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Abigail Clancy, English model |
| 10th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Saleisha Stowers, American model |
| 10th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Hideaki Ikematsu, Japanese footballer |
| 10th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Vermeer, Dutch footballer |
| 10th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Cielo, Brazilian swimmer |
| 10th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Reimers, Australian rules footballer |
| 10th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Mirko Bortolotti, Italian racing car driver |
| 10th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Ingves, Finnish footballer |
| 10th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Ruiz, Peruvian footballer |
| 10th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Tao Li, Singaporean swimmer |
| 10th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Romain Wattel, French golf player |
| 10th of January 0681 | DEATH | Pope Agatho |
| 10th of January 0976 | DEATH | John I Tzimiskes, Greek Byzantine Emperor (Born 925) |
| 10th of January 1094 | DEATH | Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (Born 1029) |
| 10th of January 1276 | DEATH | Pope Gregory X (Born c. 1210) |
| 10th of January 1645 | DEATH | William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1573) |
| 10th of January 1654 | DEATH | Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (Born 1616) |
| 10th of January 1662 | DEATH | Prince Honore II of Monaco (Born 1597) |
| 10th of January 1698 | DEATH | Louis-Sebastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (Born 1637) |
| 10th of January 1707 | DEATH | Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (Born 1621) |
| 10th of January 1754 | DEATH | Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (Born 1691) |
| 10th of January 1761 | DEATH | Edward Boscawen, British admiral (Born 1711) |
| 10th of January 1777 | DEATH | Spranger Barry, Irish actor (Born 1719) |
| 10th of January 1778 | DEATH | Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (Born 1707) |
| 10th of January 1794 | DEATH | Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754) |
| 10th of January 1811 | DEATH | Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (Born 1764) |
| 10th of January 1824 | DEATH | King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (Born 1759) |
| 10th of January 1825 | DEATH | Ioannis Varvakis, Greek national hero and benefactor (Born 1745) |
| 10th of January 1828 | DEATH | Francois de Neufchateau, French statesman and intellectual figure (Born 1750) |
| 10th of January 1829 | DEATH | Gregorio Funes, Argentine Dean and politician, member of the Junta Grande |
| 10th of January 1833 | DEATH | Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (Born 1752) |
| 10th of January 1851 | DEATH | Karl Freiherr von Muffling, Prussian field marshal (Born 1775) |
| 10th of January 1855 | DEATH | Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (Born 1787) |
| 10th of January 1862 | DEATH | Samuel Colt, American inventor (Born 1814) |
| 10th of January 1863 | DEATH | Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (Born 1775) |
| 10th of January 1866 | DEATH | Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (Born 1792) |
| 10th of January 1883 | DEATH | Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (Born 1833) |
| 10th of January 1895 | DEATH | Benjamin Godard, French composer (Born 1849) |
| 10th of January 1901 | DEATH | Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (Born 1832) |
| 10th of January 1904 | DEATH | Jean-Leon Gerome, French painter and sculptor (Born 1824) |
| 10th of January 1905 | DEATH | Karlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (Born 1835) |
| 10th of January 1917 | DEATH | Feliks Leparsky, Russian fencer (Born 1875) |
| 10th of January 1917 | DEATH | William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (Born 1846) |
| 10th of January 1922 | DEATH | Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (Born 1866) |
| 10th of January 1934 | DEATH | Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (Born 1909) |
| 10th of January 1935 | DEATH | Edwin Flack, Australian athlete, first Olympic champion (Born 1873) |
| 10th of January 1941 | DEATH | Frank Bridge, English composer (Born 1879) |
| 10th of January 1941 | DEATH | Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (Born 1856) |
| 10th of January 1941 | DEATH | Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (Born 1904) |
| 10th of January 1941 | DEATH | Issai Schur, German mathematician (Born 1875) |
| 10th of January 1949 | DEATH | Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (Born 1865) |
| 10th of January 1951 | DEATH | Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (Born 1890) |
| 10th of January 1951 | DEATH | Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1885) |
| 10th of January 1957 | DEATH | Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1889) |
| 10th of January 1960 | DEATH | Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1879) |
| 10th of January 1961 | DEATH | Dashiell Hammett, American writer (Born 1894) |
| 10th of January 1968 | DEATH | Basil Sydney, English actor (Born 1894) |
| 10th of January 1969 | DEATH | John Brownlee, Australian tenor (Born 1900) |
| 10th of January 1970 | DEATH | Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1925) |
| 10th of January 1971 | DEATH | Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Born 1883) |
| 10th of January 1972 | DEATH | Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (Born 1897) |
| 10th of January 1976 | DEATH | Howlin' Wolf, American musician (Born 1910) |
| 10th of January 1978 | DEATH | Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (Born 1924) |
| 10th of January 1978 | DEATH | Don Gillis, American composer (Born 1912) |
| 10th of January 1980 | DEATH | Hughie Critz, American baseball player (Born 1900) |
| 10th of January 1980 | DEATH | Bo Rein, American college football coach (Born 1945) |
| 10th of January 1980 | DEATH | George Meany, American labor leader (Born 1894) |
| 10th of January 1981 | DEATH | Katherine Alexander, American actress (Born 1898) |
| 10th of January 1981 | DEATH | Richard Boone, American actor (Born 1917) |
| 10th of January 1981 | DEATH | Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (Born 1915) |
| 10th of January 1982 | DEATH | Paul Lynde, American comedian (Born 1926) |
| 10th of January 1984 | DEATH | Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (Born 1901) |
| 10th of January 1985 | DEATH | Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (Born 1906) |
| 10th of January 1986 | DEATH | Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1901) |
| 10th of January 1987 | DEATH | Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (Born 1904) |
| 10th of January 1987 | DEATH | Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (Born 1919) |
| 10th of January 1989 | DEATH | Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (Born 1933) |
| 10th of January 1989 | DEATH | Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (Born 1905) |
| 10th of January 1990 | DEATH | Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (Born 1925) |
| 10th of January 1992 | DEATH | Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (Born 1919) |
| 10th of January 1995 | DEATH | Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter (Born 1937) |
| 10th of January 1997 | DEATH | Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (Born 1907) |
| 10th of January 1997 | DEATH | Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1907) |
| 10th of January 1997 | DEATH | Sheldon Leonard, American film producer, actor, and director (Born 1907) |
| 10th of January 1999 | DEATH | Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (Born 1921) |
| 10th of January 2000 | DEATH | Sam Jaffe, American producer (Born 1901) |
| 10th of January 2002 | DEATH | W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (Born 1909) |
| 10th of January 2004 | DEATH | Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (Born 1941) |
| 10th of January 2004 | DEATH | Alexandra Ripley, American author (Born 1934) |
| 10th of January 2005 | DEATH | Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (Born 1908) |
| 10th of January 2005 | DEATH | Gene Baylos, American comedian (Born 1906) |
| 10th of January 2005 | DEATH | Kalevi Hamalainen, Finnish cross country skier (Born 1932) |
| 10th of January 2005 | DEATH | James Forman, American civil rights leader (Born 1928) |
| 10th of January 2005 | DEATH | Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (Born 1911) |
| 10th of January 2005 | DEATH | Jack Horner, American sports journalist (Born 1912) |
| 10th of January 2005 | DEATH | Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (Born 1909) |
| 10th of January 2005 | DEATH | Josephine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (Born 1927) |
| 10th of January 2007 | DEATH | Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (Born 1912) |
| 10th of January 2007 | DEATH | Bradford Washburn, American explorer (Born 1910) |
| 10th of January 2008 | DEATH | Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (Born 1967) |
| 10th of January 2008 | DEATH | Mikhail Minin, Soviet soldier (Born 1922) |
| 10th of January 2008 | DEATH | Maila Nurmi, Finnish-born American actress (Born 1921) |
| 10th of January 2009 | DEATH | William Frederick "Bill" Stone, British World War I veteran (Born 1900) |
| 10th of January 2011 | DEATH | Margaret Whiting, American singer (Born 1924) |