What happened on March 10 ?

1291 - Arghun, Persian ruler

1510 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)

1513 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)

1549 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat

1584 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)

1585 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)

1588 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)

1669 - John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)

1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)

1776 - ÿlie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)

1776 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)

1792 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1713)

1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)

1861 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)

1872 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)

1895 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)

1913 - Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)

1937 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)

1940 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)

1942 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)

1948 - Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)

1950 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)

1951 - Kijuro Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)

1966 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)

1984 - June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)

1985 - Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)

1986 - Ray Milland, British actor (b. 1907)

1988 - Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)

1994 - Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (assassinated) (b. 1929)

1997 - La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)

1998 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)

2001 - Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and far right activist (b. 1958)

2003 - Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (b. 1950)

2004 - Dave Blood, American musician

2005 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)

2005 - Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)

2006 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)