What happened on February 10 ?

1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)

1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)

1242 - Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231)

1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)

1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)

1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)

1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, English pirate

1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)

1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect

1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)

1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)

1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)

1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)

1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)

1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)

1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)

1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)

1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)

1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)

1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)

1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)

1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)

1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)

1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)

1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)

1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)

1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)

1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)

1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)

1993 - Fred Hollows, Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929)

2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)

2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)

2002 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)

2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)

2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)

2003 - Clark MacGregor, U.S. Congressman (b. 1922)

2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)

2003 - Ron Ziegler, American press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)

2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)

2006 - J Dilla, Rapper/Producer, former member of Slum Village (b. 1974)