March 10

2024 Calendar

March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

483 - Pope Simplicius
1291 - Arghun, Persian ruler
1315 - Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic and saint (b. 1244)
1391 - Tvrtko I, King of Bosnia (b. 1338)
1588 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
1607 - Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1590)
1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
1826 – King John VI of Portugal (b. 1767)
1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
1861 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
1864 – Maximilian II of Bavaria (b. 1811)
1864 – Jack Slade, American frontier figure (b. 1831)
1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)
1889 - Yohannes IV, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1831)
1889 - Antonio de Trueba, Spanish writer (b. 1819)
1895 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-French fashion designer (b. 1826)
1897 - Savitribai Phule, Indian poet and activist (b. 1831)
1898 - Marie-Eugenie de Jesus, French Catholic nun (b. 1817)

1901 – 2000

1910 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1824)
1910 – Karl Lueger, Mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)
1913 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
1924 - Chester Hardy Aldrich, American politician, 17th Governor of Nebraska (b. 1862)
1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist (b. 1862)
1948 – Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1886)
1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1900)
1950 - Marguerite Da La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
1951 – Kijuro Shidehara, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
1966 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist (b. 1888)
1982 - Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (b. 1899)
1984 - June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
1985 – Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
1985 – C. B. van Niel, Dutch microbiologist (b. 1897)
1986 - Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor (b. 1907)
1988 – Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
1992 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
1997 - LaVern Baker, American actor (b. 1913)
1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)

From 2001

2001 – Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and activist (b. 1958)
2006 – John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915)
2007 - Richard Jeni, American actor (b. 1957)
2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
2010 – Dorothy Janis, American actress (b. 1910)
2010 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928)
2012 – Jean Giraud, French comic book artist (b. 1938)
2012 – Nick Zoricic, Canadian skier (b. 1983)
2012 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and physicist (b. 1927)
2013 - Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British-born Swedish royal (b. 1915)
2014 - Cynthia Lynn, Latvian-American actress (b. 1937)
2014 - Joe McGinniss, American journalist and writer (b. 1942)
2015 - Stuart Wagstaff, British-Australian entertainer (b. 1925)
2015 - Claude Sitton, American newspaper reporter (b. 1925)
2016 - Ken Adam, German-English production designer (b. 1921)
2016 - Ernestine Anderson, American jazz and blues singer (b. 1928)
2016 - Anita Brookner, English writer (b. 1928)
2016 - Keith Emerson, English keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1944)
2016 - Claude Estier, French politician (b. 1925)
2016 - Bill Gadsby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2016 - Gogi Grant, American singer (b. 1924)
2016 - Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
2016 - Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
2017 - Gido Kokars, Latvian choir conductor (b. 1921)
2017 - Bill Leak, Australian cartoonist (b. 1956)
2017 - John Surtees, English racing driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1934)
2017 - John Forgeham, English actor (b. 1941)
2017 - Tony Haygarth, English actor (b. 1945)
2017 - Joni Sledge, American singer and songwriter (b. 1956)
2017 - Anna Tramontano, Italian biologist (b. 1957)
2017 - Richard Wagamese, Canadian writer and journalist (b. 1955)
2017 - Robert James Waller, American writer (b. 1939)
2018 - Garech Browne, Irish arts patron (b. 1939)
2018 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (b. 1927)
2018 - Wally Gould, English footballer (b. 1938)
2018 - Ralf Waldmann, German motorcycle racer (b. 1966)
2018 - Michel Raynaud, French mathematician (b. 1938)
2019 - William Powers Jr., American educator (b. 1946)

Births

1901 – 1950

1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (d. 1931)
1905 - Richard Haydn, British actor (d. 1985)
1907 - Christopher Del Sesto, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1973)
1909 - LeRoy Collins, Governor of Florida (d. 1991)
1915 - Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992)
1915 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978)
1918 – Günther Rall, German fighter pilot (d. 2009)
1923 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist (d. 2015)
1923 - Hans Riegel, German entrepreneur (Haribo) (d. 2013)
1925 - Bob Lanier, American politician, 58th Mayor of Houston, Texas (d. 2014)
1926 - Marques Haynes, American basketball player (d. 2015)
1926 - Oscar Quitak, British actor
1927 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and manager (d. 2007)
1928 - Sara Montiel, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2013)
1928 – James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1998)
1929 - Arthur Barnard, American hurdler
1930 - Jimmie Macgregor, Scottish folk music singer and broadcaster
1932 - Marcia Falkender, English politician
1933 - Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet and translator (d. 2004)
1933 - Ralph Emery, American television host
1936 - Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan singer, poet and composer (d. 1989)
1936 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss President of FIFA
1938 – Ieronymus II, Archbishop of Athens
1938 - Norman Blake, American musician
1939 - Ashgar Ali Engineer, Indian writer and activist (d. 2013)
1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
1946 - Peter Temple, Australian writer (d. 2018)
1947 – Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
1947 - Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy Corbyn
1947 – Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist
1948 - Austin Carr, American basketball player
1948 - Pat Gallagher, Irish politician
1949 - Bill Buxton, Canadian computer scientist and designer
1950 – Colin McGinn, British philosopher

1951 – 1975

1951 - Brad Fiedel, American movie score composer
1951 - Gloria Diaz, Filipino model and actress
1952 - Mike O'Donnell, English musician and composer
1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (d. 2018)
1953 – Paul Haggis, Canadian screenwriter, producer and movie director
1954 - Luc Dardenne, Belgian movie director, producer and screenwriter
1955 - Yousra, Egyptian actress and singer
1956 - Robert Llewellyn, British writer, actor and presenter
1956 - Henry Smith, Scottish footballer
1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist (al-Qaeda) (d. 2011)
1957 - Hilary Devey, English businesswoman
1957 – Hans-Peter Friedrich, German politician
1957 - Terry Holmes, Welsh rugby player
1957 – Shannon Tweed, Canadian actress and model
1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress
1958 - Garth Crooks, English footballer and pundit
1958 - Frankie Ruiz, American singer (d. 1998)
1960 - Antonio Corgos, Spanish long jumper
1961 – Laurel Clark, American physician and astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 - Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast, actor and stuntman
1962 - Jasmine Guy, American actress
1962 - Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
1963 – Jeff Ament, American musician
1964 - Dave Bowman, Scottish footballer
1964 – Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
1964 – Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer
1966 - Edie Brickell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 - Pavel Srnicek, Czech footballer (d. 2015)
1969 - Paget Brewster, American actress
1971 – Jon Hamm, American actor
1971 - Steve Arnold, British racing driver
1972 - Timbaland, American rapper
1973 – Eva Herzigova, Czech model
1973 – Chris Sutton, English footballer
1973 - Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer
1974 – Keren Ann, Israeli-Dutch singer
1974 - Biz Stone, American businessman, co-founder of Twitter
1975 - Jerry Horton, American guitarist

From 1976

1976 – Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese singer
1976 - Kisaki, Japanese bass player, singer and songwriter
1976 - Ane Brune, Norwegian singer
1977 – Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
1977 - Shannon Miller, American gymnast
1977 – Colin Murray, Northern Irish radio and television presenter
1977 - Robin Thicke, American singer (Blurred Lines)
1977 - Bree Turner, American actress
1978 – Neil Alexander, Scottish footballer
1978 - Benjamin Burnley, American musician
1978 - Camille, French singer
1979 - Danny Pudi, American actor and comedian
1981 – Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
1981 – Kokkai Futoshi, Georgian-Japanese sumo wrestler
1981 - Steven Reid, Irish footballer
1982 – Kwame Brown, American basketball player
1983 - Rafe Spall, English actor
1983 - Janet Mock, American writer, television host and activist
1983 – Carrie Underwood, American singer
1984 - Carol Castro, Brazilian actress
1984 – Olivia Wilde, American actress
1985 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
1985 - Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan racing driver
1987 - Emeli Sandé, Scottish singer
1987 - Ebba Jungmark, Swedish athlete
1987 - Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player
1987 - Liu Shishi, Chinese actress and ballerina
1988 – Ivan Rakitic, Croatian footballer
1990 - Inna Deriglazova, Russian foil fencer
1991 - Kadeena Cox, English Paralympic athlete
1992 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer
1993 - Jack Butland, English footballer
1993 - Nooa Takooa, Kiribati athlete
1994 - JoJo Offerman, American wrestler and singer
1995 - Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
1997 - Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player

Deaths

Observances

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