October 10

October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 82 days remaining until the end of the year.

[edit] Events

• 19 AD – Roman general Germanicus suddenly dies in Antioch under mysterious circumstances. Roman historian Tactius records that Germanicus was poisoned by Syrian Governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Roman Emperor Tiberius.
• 680 – 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.
• 732 – 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.
• 1471 – 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.
• 1575 – Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
• 1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dϊn an Σir, Ireland.
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1631 – A Saxon army takes over Prague.
• 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
• 1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
• 1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
• 1868 – Carlos Cιspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence
• 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire Chicago burns in flames after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10.
• 1911 – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
• 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
• 1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
• 1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
• 1933 – United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
• 1935 – A coup d'ιtat 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.
• 1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
• 1943 – Double Tenth Incident in Japanese controlled Singapore
• 1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1945 – 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.
• 1957 – 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.
• 1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
• 1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
• 1964 – The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
• 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
• 1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
• 1970 – 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.
• 1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
• 1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
• 1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
• 1980 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. 3.500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
• 1985 – 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.
• 1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
• 1997 – An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
• 1998 – A Lignes Aιriennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
• 2006 – The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture's worst recorded floods.
• 2008 – The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
• 2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
• 2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

[edit] Births

• 1344 – Mary Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1362)
• 1567 – Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
• 1599 – Ιtienne Mouliniι, French Baroque composer (d. 1676)
• 1669 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, German composer (d. 1753)
• 1678 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
• 1684 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
• 1700 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
• 1731 – Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)
• 1780 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
• 1794 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
• 1813 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
• 1819 – Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
• 1825 – Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)
• 1828 – Samuel J. Randall, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
• 1830 – Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
• 1834 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)
• 1837 – Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)
• 1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
• 1863 – Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
• 1863 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
• 1864 – T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
• 1870 – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)
• 1870 – Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
• 1884 – Ida Wόst, German actress (d. 1958)
• 1885 – Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
• 1889 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger (d. 1947)
• 1895 – Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
• 1895 – Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1898 – Lilly Dachι, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
• 1900 – Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1901 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
• 1903 – Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and educator (d. 2009)
• 1906 – Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)
• 1906 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• 1908 – Johnny Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Mercθ Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
• 1909 – Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director (d. 2010)
• 1910 – Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer (d. 2009)
• 1911 – Clare Hollingworth, British journalist
• 1913 – Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)
• 1915 – Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
• 1917 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
• 1919 – Willard Estey, Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Nicholas Parsons, English actor
• 1923 – Murray Walker, British motorsport commentator
• 1923 – Louis Gottlieb, bassist and lofty comic spokesman for The Limeliters (d. 1996)
• 1924 – James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Ludmilla Tchιrina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (d. 1978)
• 1925 – The Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1926 – Oscar Brown Jr, American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Thomas Wilson (composer), Scottish composer of classical music (d. 2001)
• 1928 – Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Herb Levinson, American actor
• 1930 – Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957)
• 1930 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1930 – Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Al Ulbrickson, American rower (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
• 1932 – Harry Smith, English footballer
• 1933 – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
• 1935 – Andrι Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
• 1935 – Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
• 1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
• 1938 – Gloria Coates, American composer
• 1938 – Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
• 1939 – Joseph Pitts, American politician
• 1939 – Goli Taraqqi, Iranian author
• 1940 – Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (d. 2010)
• 1940 – Pouri Banai, Iranian actress
• 1941 – Peter Coyote, American actor
• 1942 – Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister
• 1943 – Frederick Barthelme, American author
• 1946 – Charles Dance, English actor
• 1946 – Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
• 1946 – Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
• 1946 – Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1946 – John Prine, American singer
• 1946 – Martin Ruane, English wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1946 – Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter
• 1946 – Ben Vereen, American actor
• 1947 – Gary Beach, American actor
• 1948 – Sιverine, French singer
• 1948 – Ed Volker, American musician
• 1949 – Ioannis Glavakis, Greek politician
• 1949 – Wang Wanxing, Chinese dissident
• 1950 – Nora Roberts, American novelist
• 1951 – Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
• 1953 – Midge Ure, Scottish musician
• 1953 – Gus Williams, American basketball player
• 1954 – Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian musician
• 1954 – Rekha, Indian actress
• 1954 – David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
• 1954 – Patric Zimmerman, American voice actor
• 1956 – Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress
• 1956 – Mark Gordon, American film producer
• 1957 – Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
• 1958 – J. Eddie Peck, American actor
• 1958 – Tanya Tucker, American singer
• 1959 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
• 1959 – Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian, and author
• 1959 – Bradley Whitford, American actor
• 1960 – Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)
• 1960 – Simon Townshend, British rock guitarist
• 1961 – Jodi Benson, American voice actress
• 1961 – Henrik Jψrgensen, Danish marathon runner
• 1961 – Martin Kemp, British musician (Spandau Ballet) and actor
• 1963 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
• 1963 – Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
• 1963 – Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier.
• 1964 – Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
• 1964 – Sarah Lancashire, English actress
• 1964 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
• 1964 – Crystal Waters, U.S. singer
• 1965 – Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1965 – Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
• 1965 – Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
• 1966 – Tony Adams, English footballer
• 1966 – Mohamed Elmoutaoikil, Sahrawi human rights activist
• 1966 – Bai Ling, Chinese American actress
• 1966 – Derrick McKey, American basketball player
• 1967 – Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
• 1967 – Mike Malinin, American drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
• 1967 – Gavin Newsom, American politician
• 1968 – Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
• 1968 – Marinos Ouzounidis, Greek footballer and football manager
• 1968 – DJ Skribble, American DJ, producer, remixer, radio personality and actor
• 1969 – Francis Escudero, Filipino senator
• 1969 – Brett Favre, American football player
• 1969 – Shawn "Thunderbird" Jamison, American basketball coach and former Harlem Globetrotter
• 1969 – Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
• 1969 – Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish author and journalist
• 1970 – Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
• 1970 – Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
• 1970 – Corinna May, German singer
• 1970 – Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete
• 1970 – Matthew Pinsent, English rower
• 1971 – Ian Bennett, English footballer
• 1971 – Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
• 1972 – Russell Hantz, American Survivor Contestant
• 1972 – Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter
• 1972 – Dean Roland, American guitarist (Collective Soul)
• 1972 – Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Mario Lσpez, American actor
• 1973 – Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer
• 1973 – Zach Thornton, American soccer player
• 1974 – Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor
• 1974 – Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
• 1974 – Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American racecar driver
• 1974 – Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Azlan McLennan, Australian artist
• 1975 – Ramσn Morales, Mexican footballer
• 1975 – Plαcido Polanco, Dominican baseball player
• 1975 – Ihsahn, Norwegian Musician (Emperor band)
• 1976 – Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
• 1976 – Pat Burrell, American baseball player
• 1976 – Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Scott Dobie, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress
• 1979 – Mύa Harrison, American singer
• 1979 – Nicolαs Massϊ, Chilean tennis player
• 1979 – Joel Przybilla, American basketball player
• 1979 – Wu Chun, Taiwanese actor and singer
• 1979 – Ahn Chil-Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
• 1980 – Blaž Emeršič, Slovenian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Casey FitzSimmons, American football player
• 1980 – Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980 – Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
• 1980 – Sherine, Egyptian singer
• 1981 – Una Healy, Irish singer (The Saturdays)
• 1981 – Michael Oliver, American actor
• 1981 – Francisco Javier Rodrνguez, Mexican footballer
• 1982 – Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
• 1982 – Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
• 1982 – Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver
• 1983 – Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1983 – Nikos Spyropoulos, Greek footballer
• 1983 – Sherab Zam, Bhutanese archer
• 1983 – Tolga Zengin, Turkish football player
• 1984 – Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
• 1984 – Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
• 1984 – Paul Posluszny, American football player
• 1984 – Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player
• 1985 – Yoenis Cιspedes, Cuban baseball player
• 1985 – Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
• 1985 – Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Ezequiel Garay, Argentine footballer
• 1986 – Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
• 1987 – Ryan Mathews, American football player
• 1987 – Colin Slade, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1988 – Ideye Aide Brown, Nigerian footballer
• 1989 – Aimee Teegarden, American actress
• 1991 – Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
• 1991 – Mariana Espσsito, Argentine actress, singer and model
• 1991 – Manuel Giandonato, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss footballer
• 1993 – Jayden Stockley, English footballer
• 1994 – Bae Suzy, South Korean idol singer, actress, model and MC

[edit] Deaths

• 19 – Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
• 680 – Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)
• 732 – Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
• 1359 – King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
• 1459 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
• 1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
• 1674 – Thomas Traherne, English poet
• 1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
• 1708 – David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (b. 1659)
• 1714 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
• 1720 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
• 1723 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
• 1725 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
• 1747 – John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
• 1759 – Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
• 1765 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
• 1795 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
• 1806 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
• 1827 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
• 1837 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
• 1857 – George Washington Parke Custis, American orator and playwright (b. 1781)
• 1872 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
• 1875 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
• 1876 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
• 1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
• 1901 – Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
• 1911 – Jack Daniel, American Distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery (b. 1846 or 1850)
• 1913 – Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
• 1913 – Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
• 1914 – King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
• 1922 – Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer (b. 1866)
• 1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
• 1930 – Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
• 1940 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
• 1948 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
• 1953 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand judge (b. 1884)
• 1957 – Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and lecturer (b. 1891)
• 1963 – Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
• 1964 – Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
• 1966 – Charlotte Cooper, English tennis player (b. 1870)
• 1970 – Ιdouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
• 1971 – John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b.1881)
• 1976 – Silvana Armenulic, Bosnian folk singer (b. 1939)
• 1976 – Mirsada Bajraktarević, Bosnian folk singer (b. 1951)
• 1977 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
• 1978 – Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
• 1978 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
• 1982 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1983 – Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
• 1990 – Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
• 1990 – Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and writer (b. 1909)
• 1991 – Mickey Hirschl, Austrian wrestler (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
• 2000 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2004 – Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Mehmed Uzun, contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
• 2010 – Solomon Burke, American singer (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Jagjit Singh, Indian musician (b. 1941)

[edit] Holidays and observances

• Arbor Day (Poland)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Cerbonius
  • Paulinus of York (in England)
  • Viktor of Xanten
  • October 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Columbus Day (USA)
• Double Ten Day (also National Day), celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that led to founding of the Republic of China in 1912
• Fiji Day, celebrates the independence of Fiji from United Kingdom in 1970
• Finnish Literature Day (Finland)
• Independence Day, commemorates the proclamation of Cuba' independence from Spain and the beginning of the Ten Years' War in 1868.
• Moi Day (Kenya)
• Party Foundation Day (North Korea)
• World Day Against Death Penalty (International)
• World Mental Health Day (International)