What happened on January 10 ?

681 - Pope Agatho

1094 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)

1276 - Pope Gregory X

1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)

1698 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)

1707 - Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)

1754 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)

1761 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)

1775 - Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel

1777 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)

1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)

1811 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)

1828 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)

1833 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)

1851 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)

1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)

1866 - Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)

1895 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)

1904 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)

1917 - William F. Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)

1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)

1941 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)

1941 - Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)

1941 - Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)

1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)

1951 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)

1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)

1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)

1970 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b. 1925)

1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)

1972 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)

1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)

1978 - Pedro Chamorro, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)

1980 - George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)

1980 - Bo Rein, former college football coach at North Carolina State and LSU (b. 1945)

1981 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)

1981 - Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)

1981 - Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)

1982 - Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)

1986 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

1987 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)

1997 - Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907)

1997 - Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, and director (b. 1907)

1997 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)

2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)

2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)

2004 - Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)

2005 - Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)

2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)

2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)

2005 - James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)

2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)

2005 - Gordon John "Jack" Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)

2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)