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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 10th of October 0680 | EVENT | Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah. |
| 10th of October 0732 | EVENT | Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle. |
| 10th of October 1471 | EVENT | Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark. |
| 10th of October 1575 | EVENT | Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others. |
| 10th of October 1580 | EVENT | After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dun an Oir, Ireland. |
| 10th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 10th of October 1631 | EVENT | A Saxon army takes over Prague. |
| 10th of October 1780 | EVENT | The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean. |
| 10th of October 1845 | EVENT | In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors. |
| 10th of October 1860 | EVENT | The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee. |
| 10th of October 1868 | EVENT | Carlos Cespedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence |
| 10th of October 1911 | EVENT | The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China. |
| 10th of October 1911 | EVENT | The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton. |
| 10th of October 1913 | EVENT | President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal. |
| 10th of October 1920 | EVENT | The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria. |
| 10th of October 1933 | EVENT | United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation. |
| 10th of October 1935 | EVENT | A coup d'etat by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic. |
| 10th of October 1938 | EVENT | The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. |
| 10th of October 1942 | EVENT | The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia. |
| 10th of October 1943 | EVENT | Double Tenth Incident in Japanese controlled Singapore |
| 10th of October 1944 | EVENT | Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. |
| 10th of October 1945 | EVENT | The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement. |
| 10th of October 1957 | EVENT | The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident. |
| 10th of October 1957 | EVENT | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant. |
| 10th of October 1963 | EVENT | France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia. |
| 10th of October 1964 | EVENT | The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite. |
| 10th of October 1967 | EVENT | The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force. |
| 10th of October 1970 | EVENT | Fiji becomes independent. |
| 10th of October 1970 | EVENT | In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. |
| 10th of October 1971 | EVENT | Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. |
| 10th of October 1972 | EVENT | The 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash, killing 48, occurs due to foggy conditions, the accident push for changes in Chicago commuter rail, such as brightly colored ends on the cars. |
| 10th of October 1973 | EVENT | Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion. |
| 10th of October 1975 | EVENT | Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations. |
| 10th of October 1985 | EVENT | United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested. |
| 10th of October 1986 | EVENT | An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people. |
| 10th of October 1997 | EVENT | An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74. |
| 10th of October 1998 | EVENT | A Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people. |
| 10th of October 2006 | EVENT | The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture's worst recorded floods. |
| 10th of October 2008 | EVENT | The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more. |
| 10th of October 2009 | EVENT | After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders. |
| 10th of October 2010 | EVENT | The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved. |
| 10th of October 1344 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1362) |
| 10th of October 1567 | BIRTHDAY | Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597) |
| 10th of October 1678 | BIRTHDAY | John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743) |
| 10th of October 1684 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721) |
| 10th of October 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759) |
| 10th of October 1731 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810) |
| 10th of October 1780 | BIRTHDAY | John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844) |
| 10th of October 1794 | BIRTHDAY | William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871) |
| 10th of October 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901) |
| 10th of October 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883) |
| 10th of October 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904) |
| 10th of October 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel J. Randall, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890) |
| 10th of October 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904) |
| 10th of October 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872) |
| 10th of October 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863) |
| 10th of October 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930) |
| 10th of October 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933) |
| 10th of October 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912) |
| 10th of October 1864 | BIRTHDAY | T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924) |
| 10th of October 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953) |
| 10th of October 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935) |
| 10th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Ida Wust, German actress (d. 1958) |
| 10th of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962) |
| 10th of October 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forgers (d. 1947) |
| 10th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
| 10th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935) |
| 10th of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Lilly Dache, French-born milliner (d. 1989) |
| 10th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993) |
| 10th of October 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966) |
| 10th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969) |
| 10th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983) |
| 10th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and educator (d. 2009) |
| 10th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985) |
| 10th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001) |
| 10th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Merce Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983) |
| 10th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (d. 1989) |
| 10th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director (d. 2010) |
| 10th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer (d. 2009) |
| 10th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Clare Hollingworth, British journalist |
| 10th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005) |
| 10th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 10th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974) |
| 10th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999) |
| 10th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982) |
| 10th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Willard Estey, Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2002) |
| 10th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Parsons, English actor |
| 10th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Walker, British motorsport commentator |
| 10th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ludmilla Tcherina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004) |
| 10th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994) |
| 10th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978) |
| 10th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001) |
| 10th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 10th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 10th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist (d. 2009) |
| 10th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957) |
| 10th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970) |
| 10th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 10th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate (d. 2008) |
| 10th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Smith, English footballer |
| 10th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969) |
| 10th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Bureau, French Canadian communications executive |
| 10th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988) |
| 10th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007. |
| 10th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer |
| 10th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Pitts, American politician |
| 10th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (d. 2010) |
| 10th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Coyote, American actor |
| 10th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister |
| 10th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Barthelme, American author |
| 10th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Dance, English actor |
| 10th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer |
| 10th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Naoto Kan, Japanese politician |
| 10th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Vereen, American actor |
| 10th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Prine, American singer |
| 10th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter |
| 10th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998) |
| 10th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Volker, American musician |
| 10th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Severine, French singer |
| 10th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ioannis Glavakis, Greek politician |
| 10th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Nora Roberts, American novelist |
| 10th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman |
| 10th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Midge Ure, Scottish musician |
| 10th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gus Williams, American basketball player |
| 10th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Patric Zimmerman, American voice actor |
| 10th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Rekha, Bollywood actress |
| 10th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian musician |
| 10th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen) |
| 10th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress |
| 10th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Gordon, American film producer |
| 10th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist |
| 10th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tanya Tucker, American singer |
| 10th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian, and author |
| 10th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000) |
| 10th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Bradley Whitford, American actor |
| 10th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big) |
| 10th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Townshend, British rock guitarist |
| 10th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik J?rgensen, Danish marathon runner |
| 10th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jodi Benson, American voice actress |
| 10th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Kemp, British musician (Spandau Ballet) and actor |
| 10th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer |
| 10th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier. |
| 10th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003) |
| 10th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002) |
| 10th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Lancashire, English actress |
| 10th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Quinton Flynn, American voice actor |
| 10th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 10th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress |
| 10th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan) |
| 10th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Adams, English footballer |
| 10th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Bai Ling, Chinese American actress |
| 10th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick McKey, American basketball player |
| 10th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Littell, French-American writer |
| 10th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco |
| 10th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Malinin, American drummer (Goo Goo Dolls) |
| 10th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker |
| 10th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Skribble, American DJ, producer, remixer, radio personality and actor |
| 10th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn "Thunderbird" Jamison, American basketball coach and ex Harlem Globetrotter |
| 10th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress |
| 10th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish author and journalist |
| 10th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Escudero, Filipino senator |
| 10th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Favre, American football player |
| 10th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger |
| 10th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Kiely, Irish footballer |
| 10th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete |
| 10th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Corinna May, German singer |
| 10th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower |
| 10th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Bennett, English footballer |
| 10th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist |
| 10th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Hantz, American Survivor Contestant |
| 10th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter |
| 10th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player |
| 10th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Roland, American guitarist (Collective Soul) |
| 10th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Lopez, American actor |
| 10th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer |
| 10th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Thornton, American soccer player |
| 10th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor |
| 10th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer |
| 10th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver |
| 10th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Morales, Mexican footballer |
| 10th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ihsahn, Norwegian Musician (Emperor band) |
| 10th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Placido Polanco, Dominican baseball player |
| 10th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder |
| 10th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Burrell, American baseball player |
| 10th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress |
| 10th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Dobie, English born Scotland International footballer |
| 10th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mya Harrison, American singer |
| 10th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Massu, Chilean tennis player |
| 10th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Wu Chun, Brunei born Taiwanese actor (Fahrenheit/Fei Lun Hai) |
| 10th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T. |
| 10th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Przybilla, American basketball player |
| 10th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer |
| 10th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Blaz Emersic, Slovenian ice hockey player |
| 10th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends) |
| 10th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Casey FitzSimmons, American football player |
| 10th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sherine, Egyptian singer |
| 10th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Oliver, American actor |
| 10th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Una Healy, Irish singer (The Saturdays) |
| 10th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer |
| 10th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver |
| 10th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Spiropoulos, Greek footballer |
| 10th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 10th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tolga Zengin, Turkish football player |
| 10th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer |
| 10th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress |
| 10th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Scott, American actress |
| 10th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Posluszny, American football player |
| 10th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player |
| 10th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer/songwriter |
| 10th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist |
| 10th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player |
| 10th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Mathews, American football player |
| 10th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Slade, New Zealand rugby player |
| 10th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Aimee Teegarden, American actress |
| 10th of October 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer |
| 10th of October 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Mariana Esposito, Argentine actress, singer and model |
| 10th of October 0019 | DEATH | Germanicus, Roman general (Born 15 BC) |
| 10th of October 0680 | DEATH | Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (Born 626) |
| 10th of October 0732 | DEATH | Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia |
| 10th of October 0833 | DEATH | al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (Born 786) |
| 10th of October 1359 | DEATH | King Hugh IV of Cyprus (Born 1295) |
| 10th of October 1459 | DEATH | Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (Born 1380) |
| 10th of October 1659 | DEATH | Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (Born 1603) |
| 10th of October 1674 | DEATH | Thomas Traherne, English poet |
| 10th of October 1691 | DEATH | Isaac de Benserade, French poet (Born 1613) |
| 10th of October 1708 | DEATH | David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (Born 1659) |
| 10th of October 1714 | DEATH | Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (Born 1646) |
| 10th of October 1720 | DEATH | Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (Born 1640) |
| 10th of October 1723 | DEATH | William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (Born 1665) |
| 10th of October 1725 | DEATH | Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (Born 1643) |
| 10th of October 1747 | DEATH | John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1674) |
| 10th of October 1759 | DEATH | Granville Elliott, British military officer (Born 1713) |
| 10th of October 1765 | DEATH | Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Born 1688) |
| 10th of October 1795 | DEATH | Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (Born 1714) |
| 10th of October 1806 | DEATH | Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (Born 1772) |
| 10th of October 1827 | DEATH | Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (Born 1778) |
| 10th of October 1837 | DEATH | Charles Fourier, French philosopher (Born 1772) |
| 10th of October 1872 | DEATH | William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (Born 1801) |
| 10th of October 1875 | DEATH | Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (Born 1817) |
| 10th of October 1876 | DEATH | Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (Born 1814) |
| 10th of October 1893 | DEATH | Lip Pike, American baseball player (Born 1845) |
| 10th of October 1901 | DEATH | Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1814) |
| 10th of October 1911 | DEATH | Jack Daniel, American Distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery (Born 1846 or 1850) |
| 10th of October 1913 | DEATH | Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (Born 1848) |
| 10th of October 1913 | DEATH | Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (Born 1839) |
| 10th of October 1914 | DEATH | King Carol I of Romania (Born 1839) |
| 10th of October 1922 | DEATH | Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer (Born 1866) |
| 10th of October 1927 | DEATH | Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (Born 1874) |
| 10th of October 1930 | DEATH | Adolf Engler, German botanist (Born 1844) |
| 10th of October 1940 | DEATH | Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (Born 1876) |
| 10th of October 1948 | DEATH | Ted Horn, American race car driver (Born 1910) |
| 10th of October 1953 | DEATH | Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand judge (Born 1884) |
| 10th of October 1957 | DEATH | Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (Born 1885) |
| 10th of October 1963 | DEATH | Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (Born 1893) |
| 10th of October 1964 | DEATH | Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (Born 1892) |
| 10th of October 1964 | DEATH | Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (Born 1888) |
| 10th of October 1970 | DEATH | Edouard Daladier, French politician (Born 1884) |
| 10th of October 1971 | DEATH | John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (Born 1901) |
| 10th of October 1976 | DEATH | Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (Born 1939) |
| 10th of October 1977 | DEATH | Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (Born 1930) |
| 10th of October 1978 | DEATH | Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (Born 1910) |
| 10th of October 1978 | DEATH | Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (Born 1914) |
| 10th of October 1979 | DEATH | Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (Born 1931) |
| 10th of October 1979 | DEATH | Paul Paray, French conductor (Born 1886) |
| 10th of October 1982 | DEATH | Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (Born 1908) |
| 10th of October 1983 | DEATH | Ralph Richardson, English actor (Born 1902) |
| 10th of October 1985 | DEATH | Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (Born 1920) |
| 10th of October 1985 | DEATH | Orson Welles, American director and actor (Born 1915) |
| 10th of October 1986 | DEATH | Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (Born 1899) |
| 10th of October 1990 | DEATH | Tom Murton, American penologist (Born 1928) |
| 10th of October 1990 | DEATH | Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and writer (Born 1909) |
| 10th of October 1998 | DEATH | Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (Born 1906) |
| 10th of October 1998 | DEATH | Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (Born 1957) |
| 10th of October 2000 | DEATH | Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (Born 1916) |
| 10th of October 2001 | DEATH | Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (Born 1911) |
| 10th of October 2001 | DEATH | Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (Born 1917) |
| 10th of October 2002 | DEATH | Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (Born 1948) |
| 10th of October 2003 | DEATH | Eugene Istomin, American pianist (Born 1925) |
| 10th of October 2004 | DEATH | Christopher Reeve, American actor (Born 1952) |
| 10th of October 2004 | DEATH | Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (Born 1963) |
| 10th of October 2004 | DEATH | Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (Born 1932) |
| 10th of October 2004 | DEATH | Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (Born 1915) |
| 10th of October 2005 | DEATH | Milton Obote, President of Uganda (Born 1925) |
| 10th of October 2005 | DEATH | Wayne Booth, American literary critic (Born 1921) |
| 10th of October 2006 | DEATH | Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (Born 1932) |
| 10th of October 2006 | DEATH | Ian Scott, Canadian politician (Born 1934) |
| 10th of October 2007 | DEATH | Mehmed Uzun, contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist (Born 1953) |
| 10th of October 2008 | DEATH | Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (Born 1947) |
| 10th of October 2009 | DEATH | Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (Born 1976) |
| 10th of October 2010 | DEATH | Solomon Burke, American singer (Born 1940) |
| 10th of October 2010 | DEATH | Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (Born 1926) |