July 10

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Events

138 – Emperor Hadrian dies of heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife Vibia Sabina.
645 – Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
988 – The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill High King of Ireland and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1460 – Richard Neville 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
1512 – The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1832 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1 300-strong Peruvian force many of them armed with spears.
1883 – War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco hastening the end of the war.
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1920 – Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast Northern Ireland.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton Tennessee the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1927 – Kevin O'Higgins TD Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
1938 – Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
1940 – World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
1940 – World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
1941 – Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
1943 – World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1962 – Telstar the world's first communications satellite is launched into orbit.
1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr. holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60 000 people attend.
1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1976 – Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1978 – ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents killing Fernando Pereira.
1985 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union) killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
1992 – In Miami former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100 000 to 200 000 years ago.
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco a member of Partido Popular (Spain) is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members sparking widespread protests.
1998 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos a former priest.
1999 – In women's association football the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90 185 spectators which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
2000 – EADS the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra DASA and CASA.
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
2007 – Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo Tatarstan causing 122 deaths.
2017 – Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
2019 – The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla Mexico. The last of 5 961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.

Births

1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1451 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1501 – Cho Shik Korean poet and scholar (d. 1572)
1509 – John Calvin French pastor and theologian (d. 1564)
1515 – Francisco de Toledo Viceroy of Peru (d. 1582)
1517 – Odet de Coligny French cardinal (d. 1571)
1533 – Antonio Possevino Italian diplomat (d. 1611)
1592 – Pierre d'Hozier French genealogist and historian (d. 1660)
1614 – Arthur Annesley 1st Earl of Anglesey Irish-English politician (d. 1686)
1625 – Jean Herauld Gourville French adventurer (d. 1703)
1638 – David Teniers III Flemish painter (d. 1685)
1666 – John Ernest Grabe German theologian and academic (d. 1711)
1682 – Roger Cotes English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1716)
1723 – William Blackstone English lawyer judge and politician (d. 1780)
1724 – Eva Ekeblad Swedish noble and agronomist (d. 1786)
1752 – St. George Tucker United States federal judge (d. 1827)
1792 – George M. Dallas American lawyer and politician 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
1802 – Robert Chambers Scottish geologist and publisher co-founded Chambers Harrap (d. 1871)
1804 – Emma Smith American religious leader (d. 1879)
1809 – Friedrich August von Quenstedt German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)
1823 – Louis-Napoléon Casault Canadian lawyer judge and politician (d. 1908)
1830 – Camille Pissarro Danish-French painter (d. 1903)
1832 – Alvan Graham Clark American astronomer (d. 1897)
1835 – Henryk Wieniawski Polish violinist and composer (d. 1880)
1839 – Adolphus Busch German brewer co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
1856 – Nikola Tesla Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
1864 – Austin Chapman Australian businessman and politician 4th Australian Minister for Defence (d. 1926)
1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden (d. 1929)
1871 – Marcel Proust French novelist critic and essayist (d. 1922)
1874 – Sergey Konenkov Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune American educator and activist (d. 1955)
1875 – Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám Hungarian politician (d. 1973)
1877 – Ernst Bresslau German zoologist (d. 1935)
1878 – Otto Freundlich German painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
1882 – Ima Hogg American society leader philanthropist patron and collector of the arts (d. 1975)
1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz German general (d. 1948)
1883 – Hugo Raudsepp Estonian playwright and politician (d. 1952)
1888 – Giorgio de Chirico Greek-Italian painter and set designer (d. 1978)
1888 – Toyohiko Kagawa Japanese evangelist author and activist (d. 1960)
1891 – Edith Quimby American medical researcher and physicist (d. 1982)
1894 – Jimmy McHugh American composer (d. 1969)
1895 – Carl Orff German composer and educator (d. 1982)
1896 – Thérèse Casgrain Canadian politician (d. 1981)
1897 – Legs Diamond American gangster (d. 1931)
1897 – Karl Plagge German general and engineer (d. 1957)
1898 – Renée Björling Swedish actress (d. 1975)
1899 – John Gilbert American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1936)
1899 – Heiri Suter Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1900 – Mitchell Parish Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993)
1900 – Sampson Sievers Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979)
1902 – Kurt Alder German chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 – Nicolás Guillén Cuban poet journalist and activist (d. 1989)
1903 – Werner Best German SS officer and jurist (d. 1989)
1903 – John Wyndham English soldier and author (d. 1969)
1904 – Lili Damita French-American actress (d. 1994)
1905 – Mildred Benson American journalist and author (d. 2002)
1905 – Thomas Gomez American actor (d. 1971)
1905 – Wolfram Sievers German physician (d. 1948)
1907 – Blind Boy Fuller American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
1909 – Donald Sinclair English lieutenant and businessman (d. 1981)
1911 – Terry-Thomas English comedian and character actor (d. 1990)
1911 – Cootie Williams American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1913 – Salvador Espriu Spanish author poet and playwright (d. 1985)
1914 – Joe Shuster Canadian-American illustrator co-created Superman (d. 1992)
1914 – Rempo Urip Indonesian film director
1916 – Judith Jasmin Canadian journalist (d. 1972)
1917 – Hugh Alexander American baseball player and scout (d. 2000)
1917 – Reg Smythe English cartoonist (d. 1998)
1918 – James Aldridge Australian-English journalist and author (d. 2015)
1918 – Chuck Stevens American baseball player (d. 2018)
1918 – Frank L. Lambert Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College (d. 2018)
1918 – Fred Wacker American race driver and engineer (d. 1998)
1919 – Pierre Gamarra French author poet and critic (d. 2009)
1919 – Ian Wallace English actor and singer (d. 2009)
1920 – David Brinkley American journalist (d. 2003)
1920 – Owen Chamberlain American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1920 – Cyril Grant English footballer (d. 2002)
1921 – Harvey Ball American illustrator created the Smiley (d. 2001)
1921 – Jeff Donnell American actress (d. 1988)
1921 – John K. Singlaub U.S Army Major General
1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver American activist co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
1922 – Jean Kerr American author and playwright (d. 2003)
1922 – Herb McKenley Jamaican sprinter (d. 2007)
1922 – Jake LaMotta American boxer and actor (d. 2017)
1923 – Amalia Mendoza Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)
1923 – John Bradley American soldier (d. 1994)
1923 – Suzanne Cloutier Canadian actress and producer (d. 2003)
1923 – G. A. Kulkarni Indian author and academic (d. 1987)
1924 – Johnny Bach American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1924 – Bobo Brazil American wrestler (d. 1998)
1925 – Mahathir Mohamad Malaysian physician and politician 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia
1925 – Ernest Bertrand Boland American Roman Catholic bishop
1926 – Carleton Carpenter American actor magician songwriter and novelist
1926 – Fred Gwynne American actor (d. 1993)
1927 – Grigory Barenblatt Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2018)
1927 – David Dinkins American soldier and politician 106th Mayor of New York City
1927 – William Smithers American actor
1928 – Don Bolles American investigative reporter (d. 1976)
1928 – Bernard Buffet French painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
1928 – Alejandro de Tomaso Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman founded De Tomaso (d. 2003)
1928 – Moshe Greenberg American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 2010)
1928 – John Glenn American baseball player
1929 – Winnie Ewing Scottish lawyer and politician
1929 – George Clayton Johnson American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1929 – Moe Norman Canadian golfer (d. 2004)
1929 – José Vicente Rangel Venezuelan politician; 21st Vice President of Venezuela
1930 – Bruce Boa Canadian actor (d. 2004)
1930 – Janette Sherman American physician author and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (d. 2019)
1930 – Josephine Veasey English soprano and actress
1931 – Nick Adams American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1931 – Jerry Herman American composer and songwriter (d. 2019)
1931 – Julian May American author (d. 2017)
1931 – Alice Munro Canadian short story writer Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Carlo Maria Abate Italian race car driver (d. 2019)
1932 – Neile Adams Filipino-American actress singer and dancer
1932 – Manfred Preußger German athlete
1933 – Jumpin' Gene Simmons American rockabilly singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1933 – C.K. Yang Taiwanese decathlete and pole vaulter (d. 2007)
1934 – Marshall Brodien American actor (d. 2019)
1934 – Jerry Nelson American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012)
1935 – Tura Satana American actress and dancer (d. 2011)
1935 – Wilson Tuckey Australian politician
1935 – Margaret McEntee American Catholic religious sister and educator
1935 – Wilson Whineray New Zealand rugby player and businessman (d. 2012)
1936 – Herbert Boyer American businessman co-founded Genentech
1936 – Tunne Kelam Estonian journalist and politician
1937 – Edwards Barham American farmer and politician (d. 2014)
1937 – Gun Svensson Swedish politician
1938 – Paul Andreu French architect (d. 2018)
1938 – Lee Morgan American trumpet player and composer (d. 1972)
1939 – Phil Kelly Irish-English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı Turkish political scientist journalist and educator (d. 1999)
1939 – Mavis Staples American singer
1940 – Meghnad Desai Baron Desai Indian-English economist and politician
1940 – Helen Donath American soprano and actress
1940 – Brian Priestley English pianist and composer
1940 – Keith Stackpole Australian cricketer
1941 – Jake Eberts Canadian film producer (d. 2012)
1941 – David G. Hartwell American anthologist author and critic (d. 2016)
1941 – Robert Pine American actor and director
1941 – Ian Whitcomb English singer-songwriter producer and actor
1942 – Ronnie James Dio American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
1942 – Pyotr Klimuk Belarusian general pilot and astronaut
1942 – Sixto Rodriguez American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Lopo do Nascimento Angolan politician; 1st Prime Minister of Angola
1943 – Arthur Ashe American tennis player and journalist (d. 1993)
1943 – Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika Zambian politician
1943 – Jerry Miller American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – Mick Grant English motorcycle racer
1944 – Norman Hammond English archaeologist and academic
1945 – Ron Glass American actor (d. 2016)
1945 – Hal McRae American baseball player and manager
1945 – John Motson English sportscaster
1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré French director producer and screenwriter
1945 – Virginia Wade English tennis player and sportscaster
1946 – Jean-Pierre Jarier French racing driver
1946 – Chin Han Taiwanese actor
1947 – Arlo Guthrie American singer-songwriter producer and actor
1948 – Ronnie Cutrone American painter (d. 2013)
1948 – Chico Resch Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1948 – Natalya Sedykh Russian figure skater ballet dancer actor
1948 – John Whitehead American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2004)
1949 – Anna Czerwińska Polish mountaineer and author
1949 – Sunil Gavaskar Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1949 – Greg Kihn American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Tony Baldry English colonel lawyer and politician British Minister of State for Agriculture
1950 – Prokopis Pavlopoulos President of Greece Greek lawyer and politician Greek Minister for the Interior
1951 – Cheryl Wheeler American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Rajnath Singh Indian Politician and Union Home Minister of India
1952 – Kim Mitchell Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Peter van Heemst Dutch politician
1953 – Rik Emmett Canadian singer-songwriter guitarist and producer
1953 – Zoogz Rift American musician and wrestler (d. 2011)
1954 – Tommy Bowden American football player and coach
1954 – Andre Dawson American baseball player
1954 – Neil Tennant English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1955 – Nic Dakin English educator and politician
1955 – Geoff Gerard Australian rugby league player
1956 – Tom McClintock American lawyer and politician
1956 – K. Rajagopal Malaysian football manager
1957 – Derry Grehan Canadian rock guitarist and songwriter
1958 – Béla Fleck American banjo player and songwriter
1958 – Fiona Shaw Irish actress and director
1959 – Ellen Kuras American director and cinematographer
1960 – Ariel Castro Puerto Rican-American convicted kidnapper and rapist
1959 – Sandy West American singer-songwriter and drummer (d. 2006)
1961 – Jacky Cheung Hong Kong singer and film actor
1961 – Marc Riley English guitarist (The Fall) radio DJ
1963 – Ian Lougher Welsh motorcycle racer
1964 – Martin Laurendeau Canadian tennis player and coach
1964 – Urban Meyer American football player and coach
1964 – Wilfried Peeters Belgian cyclist
1965 – Scott McCarron American golfer
1965 – Ken Mellons American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – Clive Efford English politician
1966 – Johnny Grunge American wrestler (d. 2006)
1966 – Christian Stangl Austrian skier and mountaineer
1966 – Anna Bråkenhielm Swedish business executive
1967 – Tom Meents American professional monster truck driver
1967 – Rebekah Del Rio American singer-songwriter
1967 – Gillian Tett English journalist and author
1967 – Ikki Sawamura Japanese model actor and television presenter
1967 – John Yoo South Korean-American lawyer author and educator
1969 – Marty Cordova American baseball player
1969 – Gale Harold American actor
1970 – Gary LeVox American singer-songwriter
1970 – Jason Orange English singer-songwriter and dancer
1970 – John Simm English actor
1971 – Adam Foote Canadian ice hockey player
1971 – Gregory Goodridge Barbadian footballer and coach
1972 – Peter Serafinowicz English actor
1972 – Sofía Vergara Colombian-American actress and producer
1972 – Tilo Wolff German-Swiss singer-songwriter pianist and producer
1974 – Imelda May Irish singer-songwriter musician and producer
1975 – Andrew Firestone American businessman
1975 – Brendan Gaughan American race car driver
1975 – Alain Nasreddine Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1975 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson Icelandic actor (d. 2018)
1975 – Richard Westbrook English race car driver
1976 – Edmílson Brazilian footballer
1976 – Elijah Blue Allman American singer and guitarist
1976 – Ludovic Giuly French footballer
1976 – Adrian Grenier American actor producer and screenwriter
1976 – Brendon Lade Australian footballer and coach
1976 – Lars Ricken German footballer
1977 – Chiwetel Ejiofor English actor
1979 – Mvondo Atangana Cameroon footballer
1979 – Gong Yoo Korean actor
1980 – Alejandro Millán Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1980 – Adam Petty American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980 – Claudia Leitte Brazilian singer-songwriter
1980 – James Rolfe American actor director and producer
1980 – Jessica Simpson American singer-songwriter actress and fashion designer
1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev Bulgarian footballer
1982 – Alex Arrowsmith American guitarist and producer
1982 – Juliya Chernetsky Ukrainian-American television host
1982 – Sebastian Mila Polish footballer
1982 – Jeffrey Walker Australian actor and director
1983 – Giuseppe De Feudis Italian footballer
1983 – Matthew Egan Australian footballer
1983 – Gabi Spanish footballer
1983 – Kim Hee-chul Korean entertainer
1983 – Joelson José Inácio Brazilian footballer
1983 – Doug Kramer Filipino basketball player
1983 – Anthony Watmough Australian rugby league player
1984 – Nikolaos Mitrou Greek footballer
1985 – Park Chu-young South Korean footballer
1985 – B. J. Crombeen American ice hockey player
1985 – Mario Gómez German footballer
1988 – Antonio Brown American football player
1988 – Heather Hemmens American actress director and producer
1988 – Sarah Walker New Zealand BMX rider
1990 – Adam Reynolds Australian rugby league player
1990 – Trent Richardson American footballer
1990 – Chiyonokuni Toshiki Japanese sumo wrestler
1991 – Daishōmaru Shōgo Japanese sumo wrestler
1999 – April Ivy Portuguese composer and singer
2001 – Isabela Moner American actress

Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day (Mauritania)
Christian feast day:
Amalberga of Maubeuge
Canute IV of Denmark
Rufina and Secunda
Seven Brothers
Victoria Anatolia and Audax
July 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day (Bahamas) celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973.
Nikola Tesla Day
Statehood Day (Wyoming)

Deaths

138 – Hadrian Roman emperor (b. 76)
645 – Soga no Iruka Japanese politician
649 – Tai Zong Chinese emperor (b. 598)
772 – Amalberga of Temse Frankish noblewoman
831 – Zubaidah bint Ja`far Abbasid Princess
983 – Benedict VII pope of the Catholic Church
994 – Leopold I margrave of Austria
1086 – Canute IV king of Denmark (b. 1043)
1103 – Eric I king of Denmark (b. 1060)
1290 – Ladislaus IV king of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 – Humphrey Stafford 1st Duke of Buckingham English commander and politician Lord High Constable of England (b. 1402)
1460 – John Talbot 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury English nobleman (b. c. 1413)
1461 – Thomas king of Bosnia (b. 1411)
1473 – James II king of Cyprus
1480 – René of Anjou French nobleman (b. 1400)
1510 – Catherine Cornaro queen of Cyprus (b. 1454)
1576 – Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo Italian noble (b. 1553)
1559 – Henry II king of France (b. 1519)
1584 – William I Dutch nobleman (b. 1533)
1590 – Charles II archduke of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 – Paolo Bellasio Italian organist and composer (b. 1554)
1603 – Joan Terès i Borrull Spanish archbishop and academic (b. 1538)
1621 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval French commander (b. 1571)
1653 – Gabriel Naudé French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1680 – Louis Moréri French priest and scholar (b. 1643)
1683 – François Eudes de Mézeray French historian and author (b. 1610)
1686 – John Fell English bishop and academic (b. 1625)
1776 – Richard Peters English lawyer and minister (b. 1704)
1794 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny French general (b. 1754)
1806 – George Stubbs English painter and academic (b. 1724)
1851 – Louis Daguerre French photographer and physicist invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
1863 – Clement Clarke Moore American author and educator (b. 1779)
1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai German architect and academic (b. 1812)
1884 – Paul Morphy American chess player (b. 1837)
1908 – Phoebe Knapp American organist and composer (b. 1839)
1915 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag Dutch painter (b. 1831)
1920 – John Fisher 1st Baron Fisher British admiral (b. 1841)
1929 – Ève Lavallière French actress (b. 1866)
1941 – Jelly Roll Morton American pianist composer and bandleader (b. 1890)
1941 – Huntley Wright English actor (b. 1868)
1950 – Richard Maury American-Argentinian engineer (b. 1882)
1952 – Rued Langgaard Danish organist and composer (b. 1893)
1954 – Calogero Vizzini Italian mob boss (b. 1877)
1956 – Joe Giard American baseball player (b. 1898)
1960 – Sæbjørn Buttedahl Norwegian actor and sculptor (b. 1876)
1962 – Yehuda Leib Maimon Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
1963 – Teddy Wakelam English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson Icelandic academic and politician 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
1971 – Laurent Dauthuille French boxer (b. 1924)
1972 – Lovie Austin American pianist composer and bandleader (b. 1887)
1978 – John D. Rockefeller III American businessman and philanthropist founded the Asia Society (b. 1906)
1979 – Arthur Fiedler American conductor (b. 1894)
1980 – Joseph Krumgold American author and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1985 – Fernando Pereira Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
1986 – Tadeusz Piotrowski Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1940)
1987 – John Hammond American record producer critic and activist (b. 1910)
1989 – Mel Blanc American voice actor (b. 1908)
1993 – Ruth Krauss American author and poet (b. 1901)
1993 – Sam Rolfe American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1995 – Mehmet Ali Aybar Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1908)
1996 – Eno Raud Estonian author (b. 1928)
2000 – Vakkom Majeed Indian journalist and politician (b. 1909)
2002 – Jean-Pierre Côté Canadian politician 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2002 – Evangelos Florakis Greek general (b. 1943)
2002 – Laurence Janifer American author (b. 1933)
2003 – Winston Graham English author (b. 1908)
2003 – Hartley Shawcross Baron Shawcross German-English lawyer and politician Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1902)
2004 – Pati Behrs Russian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1922)
2005 – A. J. Quinnell English author (b. 1940)
2006 – Shamil Basayev Chechen terrorist rebel leader (b. 1965)
2007 – Doug Marlette American cartoonist and author (b. 1949)
2008 – Hiroaki Aoki Japanese-American wrestler and businessman founded Benihana (b. 1938)
2008 – Mike Souchak American golfer (b. 1927)
2011 – Pierrette Alarie Canadian soprano and educator (b. 1921)
2011 – Roland Petit French dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
2012 – Dolphy Filipino actor singer and producer (b. 1928)
2012 – Peter Kyros American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2012 – Berthe Meijer German-Dutch journalist and author (b. 1938)
2012 – Fritz Langanke German lieutenant (b. 1919)
2012 – Viktor Suslin Russian-German composer (b. 1942)
2013 – Philip Caldwell American businessman (b. 1920)
2013 – Józef Gara Polish poet and linguist (b. 1929)
2013 – Concha García Campoy Spanish journalist (b. 1958)
2013 – Caroline Duby Glassman American lawyer and jurist (b. 1922)
2013 – Ku Ok-hee South Korean golfer (b. 1956)
2013 – Gokulananda Mahapatra Indian author and academic (b. 1922)
2014 – Robert C. Broomfield American lawyer and judge (b. 1933)
2014 – Juozas Kazickas Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1918)
2014 – Paul G. Risser American ecologist and academic (b. 1939)
2014 – Zohra Sehgal Indian actress dancer and choreographer (b. 1912)
2014 – Gloria Schweigerdt American baseball player (b. 1934)
2015 – Roger Rees Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1944)
2015 – Omar Sharif Egyptian actor (b. 1932)
2015 – Jon Vickers Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2016 – Katharina Focke German politician (b. 1922)
2018 – Henry Morgenthau III American author and television producer (b. 1917)
2020 – Lara van Ruijven Dutch short track speed skater (b. 1992)
2020 – Jack Charlton English footballer and manager (b. 1935)

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July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 174 days remain until the end of the year.