What happened on April 10 ?

879 - Louis the Stammerer, King of the West Franks (b. 846)

1533 - King Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)

1545 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer

1585 - Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)

1599 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)

1601 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (b. 1562)

1640 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)

1646 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)

1704 - William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)

1706 - Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)

1756 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1661)

1760 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)

1786 - John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)

1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (b. 1736)

1823 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)

1862 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (b. 1821)

1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)

1904 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)

1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)

1931 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)

1945 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (b. 1887)

1945 - H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (executed) (b. 1882)

1954 - Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1862)

1954 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1888)

1955 - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)

1962 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (b. 1886)

1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, English musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)

1965 - Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)

1966 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)

1968 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)

1969 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (b. 1893)

1975 - Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)

1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)

1986 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1949)

1991 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)

1991 - Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)

1992 - Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)

1993 - Chris Hani, South African activist (b. 1942)

1994 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)

1995 - Morarji Desai, Indian activist (b. 1896)

1997 - Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945)

1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist (b. 1910)

2000 - Peter Jones, English comedian and scriptwriter (b. 1920)

2000 - Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)

2002 - Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese astronomer (b. 1950)

2003 - Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)

2005 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (b. 1923)

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