April 10

Events

428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.

837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).

879 – Louis III and Carloman II become Kings of the Western Franks.

1407 – Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama visits the Ming dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".

1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.

1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.

1741 – War of the Austrian Succession (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843): defeat for Austria at Mollwitz on this date.

1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.

1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.

1816 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.

1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.

1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.

1856 – The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University in Vermont.

1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.

1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.

1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.

1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.

1872 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.

1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.

1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law.

1912 – RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.

1916 – The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.

1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.

1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.

1941 – World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power. The Ustaše will kill more than 300,000 Serbs, Jews, Roma, and dissidents between 1941-45.

1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.

1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 45 is adopted.

1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.

1963 – One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.

1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.

1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.

1972 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.

1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.

1972 – 74 nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.

1973 – Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland killing 108 people.

1979 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.

1988 – The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast.

1991 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.

1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.

1998 – Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).

2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.

2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.

2016 – Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, killed more than hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.

2016 – 2016 Afghanistan earthquake, of 6.6 magnitude, 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, shakes up India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.

Births

401 – Theodosius II, Roman emperor (d. 450)

1018 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and vizier (d. 1092)

1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)

1472 – Margaret of York, English princess (d. 1472)

1480 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1504)

1487 – William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (d. 1559)

1512 – James V of Scotland (d. 1542)

1583 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and jurist (d. 1645)

1651 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1708)

1656 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian settler, founded Rimouski (d. 1718)

1704 – Benjamin Heath, English scholar and author (d. 1766)

1707 – Michel Corrette, French organist, composer, and author (d. 1795)

1713 – John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (d. 1788)

1755 – Samuel Hahnemann, German-French physician and academic (d. 1843)

1762 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1834)

1769 – Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809)

1778 – William Hazlitt, English painter and critic (d. 1830)

1794 – Matthew C. Perry, American commander (d. 1858)

1806 – Juliette Drouet, French actress (d. 1883)

1806 – Leonidas Polk, American general and bishop (d. 1884)

1827 – Lew Wallace, American general, lawyer, and politician, 11th Governor of New Mexico Territory (d. 1905)

1829 – William Booth, English minister, founded The Salvation Army (d. 1912)

1847 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American journalist, publisher, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (d. 1911)

1864 – Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (d. 1932)

1865 – Jack Miner, American-Canadian farmer, hunter, and environmentalist (d. 1944)

1867 – George William Russell, Irish author, poet, and painter (d. 1935)

1868 – George Arliss, English actor and playwright (d. 1946)

1873 – Kyösti Kallio, Finnish farmer, banker, and politician, 4th President of Finland (d. 1940)

1877 – Alfred Kubin, Austrian author and illustrator (d. 1959)

1879 – Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1939)

1879 – Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (d. 1921)

1880 – Frances Perkins, American sociologist, academic, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1965)

1880 – Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (d. 1948)

1886 – Johnny Hayes, American runner and trainer (d. 1965)

1887 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1889 – Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1982)

1891 – Frank Barson, English footballer and coach (d. 1968)

1893 – Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (d. 1969)

1894 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman (d. 1983)

1894 – Ben Nicholson, British painter (d. 1982)

1897 – Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1990)

1897 – Ross Youngs, American baseball player (d. 1927)

1900 – Arnold Orville Beckman, American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist (d. 2004)

1903 – Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (d. 1970)

1906 – Steve Anderson, American hurdler (d. 1988)

1910 – Margaret Clapp, American scholar and academic (d. 1974)

1910 – Helenio Herrera, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1997)

1910 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and publisher, founded the Monthly Review (d. 2004)

1911 – Martin Denny, American pianist and composer (d. 2005)

1911 – Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs for France (d. 1998)

1912 – Boris Kidrič, Austrian-Slovenian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (d. 1953)

1913 – Stefan Heym, German-American soldier and author (d. 2001)

1914 – Jack Badcock, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)

1915 – Harry Morgan, American actor and director (d. 2011)

1915 – Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (d. 2014)

1916 – Lee Jung-seob, Korean painter (d. 1956)

1917 – Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (d. 2013)

1917 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

1919 – John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (d. 2014)

1921 – Chuck Connors, American baseball player and actor (d. 1992)

1921 – Jake Warren, Canadian soldier and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (d. 2008)

1921 – Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)

1922 – Vesna Parun, Croatian poet (d. 2010)

1923 – Roger Gaillard, Haitian historian and author (d. 2000)

1923 – Jane Kean, American actress and singer (d. 2013)

1923 – Floyd Simmons, American decathlete and actor (d. 2008)

1924 – Kenneth Noland, American soldier and painter (d. 2010)

1925 – Linda Goodman, American astrologer and author (d. 1995)

1925 – Angelo Poffo, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2010)

1926 – Jacques Castérède, French pianist and composer (d. 2014)

1927 – Norma Candal, Puerto Rican-American actress (d. 2006)

1927 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)

1929 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (d. 1959)

1929 – Liz Sheridan, American actress

1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor

1930 – Claude Bolling, French pianist, composer, and actor

1930 – Dolores Huerta, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers

1932 – Delphine Seyrig, French actress (d. 1990)

1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)

1933 – Rokusuke Ei, Japanese composer and author (d. 2016)

1933 – Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (d. 2013)

1934 – David Halberstam, American journalist and author (d. 2007)

1934 – Richard Peck, American author and academic

1935 – John A. Bennett, American soldier (d. 1961)

1935 – Patrick Garland, English actor and director (d. 2013)

1936 – John Howell, English long jumper

1936 – John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster

1936 – Bobbie Smith, American singer (d. 2013)

1937 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet and author (d. 2010)

1938 – Don Meredith, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2010)

1939 – Claudio Magris, Italian scholar, author, and translator

1940 – Gloria Hunniford, British radio and television host

1941 – Harold Long, Canadian politician (d. 2013)

1941 – Paul Theroux, American novelist, short story writer, and travel writer

1942 – Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1998)

1942 – Ian Callaghan, English footballer

1942 – Stuart Dybek, American novelist, short story writer, and poet

1943 – Andrzej Badeński, Polish-German sprinter (d. 2008)

1943 – Margaret Pemberton, English author

1945 – Kevin Berry, Australian swimmer (d. 2006)

1946 – David Angell, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2001)

1946 – Bob Watson, American baseball player and manager

1946 – Adolf Winkelmann, German director, producer, and screenwriter

1947 – David A. Adler. American author and educator

1947 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican singer-songwriter and drummer

1948 – Mel Blount, American football player

1949 – Daniel Mangeas, French banker and sportscaster

1950 – Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player and manager

1950 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (d. 1992)

1951 – David Helvarg, American journalist and activist

1952 – Narayan Rane, Indian politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra

1952 – Masashi Sada, Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, novelist, actor, and producer

1952 – Steven Seagal, American actor, producer, and martial artist

1953 – David Moorcroft, English runner and businessman

1953 – Pamela Wallin, Canadian journalist, academic, and politician

1954 – Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (d. 2013)

1954 – Anne Lamott, American author and educator

1954 – Peter MacNicol, American actor

1954 – Juan Williams, Panamanian-American journalist and author

1955 – Lesley Garrett, English soprano and actress

1956 – Carol V. Robinson, English chemist and academic

1957 – Aliko Dangote, Nigerian businessman, founded Dangote Group

1957 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (d. 2006)

1957 – Steve Gustafson, Spanish-American bass player

1957 – Rosemary Hill, English historian and author

1958 – Bob Bell, Northern Irish engineer

1958 – Yefim Bronfman, Uzbek-American pianist

1958 – Brigitte Holzapfel, German high jumper

1959 – Babyface, American singer-songwriter and producer

1959 – Yvan Loubier, Canadian economist and politician

1959 – Brian Setzer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1960 – Steve Bisciotti, American businessman, co-founded Allegis Group

1960 – Katrina Leskanich, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1960 – Terry Teagle, American basketball player

1961 – Joe Cole, American roadie and author (d. 1991)

1961 – Carole Goble, English computer scientist and academic

1961 – Mark Jones, American basketball player

1962 – Steve Tasker, American football player and sportscaster

1963 – Warren DeMartini, American guitarist and songwriter

1963 – Jeff Gray, American baseball player and coach

1963 – Doris Leuthard, Swiss lawyer and politician, 162nd President of the Swiss Confederation

1965 – Tim Alexander, American drummer and songwriter

1966 – Steve Claridge, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster

1967 – Donald Dufresne, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1967 – David Rovics, American singer-songwriter

1968 – Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (d. 1996)

1968 – Orlando Jones, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1969 – Billy Jayne, American actor and musician

1969 – Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter

1970 – Q-Tip, American rapper, producer, and actor

1970 – Enrico Ciccone, Canadian ice hockey player

1970 – Leonard Doroftei, Romanian-Canadian boxer

1970 – Kenny Lattimore, American singer-songwriter

1971 – Brad William Henke, American football player and actor

1971 – Indro Olumets, Estonian footballer and coach

1971 – Al Reyes, Dominican-American baseball player

1971 – Nana Smith, American-Japanese tennis player

1972 – Ed Byrne, Irish actor

1972 – Ian Harvey, Australian cricketer

1972 – Priit Kasesalu, Estonian computer programmer, co-created Skype

1973 – Guillaume Canet, French actor and director

1973 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer and manager

1973 – Aidan Moffat, Scottish singer-songwriter

1973 – Christopher Simmons, Canadian-American graphic designer, author, and academic

1974 – Eric Greitens, American lieutenant

1974 – Petros Passalis, Greek footballer

1975 – Chris Carrabba, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1975 – Terrence Lewis, Indian dancer and choreographer

1975 – Matthew Phillips, New Zealand-Italian rugby player

1976 – Clare Buckfield, English actress

1976 – Yoshino Kimura, Japanese actress and singer

1976 – Sara Renner, Canadian skier

1977 – Stephanie Sheh, American voice actress, director, and producer

1978 – Sir Christus, Finnish guitarist

1979 – Iván Alonso, Uruguayan footballer

1979 – Kenyon Coleman, American football player

1979 – Rachel Corrie, American author and activist (d. 2003)

1979 – Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor

1979 – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer-songwriter

1979 – Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer

1980 – Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player and model

1980 – Charlie Hunnam, English actor

1980 – Shao Jiayi, Chinese footballer

1980 – Kasey Kahne, American race car driver

1980 – Bryce Soderberg, American singer-songwriter and bass player

1981 – Laura Bell Bundy, American actress and singer

1981 – Liz McClarnon, English singer and dancer

1981 – Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player

1982 – Andre Ethier, American baseball player

1982 – Damián Lanza, Ecuadorian footballer

1983 – Jamie Chung, American actress

1983 – Andrew Dost, American guitarist and songwriter

1983 – Ryan Merriman, American actor

1983 – Hannes Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer

1984 – Faustina Agolley, English-Australian television host and producer

1984 – Jeremy Barrett, American figure skater

1984 – Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress

1984 – David Obua, Ugandan footballer

1984 – Damien Perquis, French-Polish footballer

1984 – Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer

1985 – Barkhad Abdi, Somali-American actor and director

1985 – Willo Flood, Irish footballer

1985 – Jesús Gámez, Spanish footballer

1985 – Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player

1986 – Olivia Borlée, Belgian sprinter

1986 – Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer

1986 – Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer

1986 – Tore Reginiussen, Norwegian footballer

1986 – Andrei Strelnikov, Russian footballer

1987 – Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano

1988 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor

1990 – Ben Amos, English footballer

1990 – Andile Jali, South African footballer

1990 – Alex Pettyfer, English actor

1992 – Jack Buchanan, Australian rugby league player

1992 – Daisy Ridley, English actress

1994 – Nerlens Noel, American basketball player

1996 – Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australian tennis player

Deaths

879 – Louis the Stammerer, French son of Ermentrude of Orléans (b. 846)

948 – Hugh of Italy (b. 885)

1216 – Eric X of Sweden (b. 1180)

1282 – Ahmad Fanakati, Mongol finance official

1309 – Elisabeth von Rapperswil, Swiss sovereign countess of Rapperswil (b. 1261)

1362 – Maud, Countess of Leicester (b. 1339)

1533 – Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)

1545 – Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (b. 1485)

1585 – Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)

1599 – Gabrielle d'Estrées, French mistress of Henry IV of France (b. 1571)

1601 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish soldier and poet (b. 1562)

1619 – Thomas Jones, English-Irish archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1550)

1640 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1578)

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

1667 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician and author (b. 1595)

1704 – William Egon of Fürstenberg, German cardinal (b. 1629)

1706 – Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish general and politician (b. 1666)

1756 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b. 1661)

1760 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian and author (b. 1687)

1786 – John Byron, English admiral and politician, 24th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1723)

1806 – Horatio Gates, English-American general (b. 1727)

1813 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)

1823 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher and academic (b. 1757)

1871 – Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1789)

1904 – Isabel II of Spain (b. 1830)

1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (b. 1837)

1919 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general (b. 1879)

1920 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (b. 1829)

1931 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher (b. 1883)

1935 – Rosa Campbell Praed, Australian novelist (b. 1851)

1938 – King Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (b. 1885)

1942 – Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor and director (b. 1881)

1943 – Andreas Faehlmann, Estonian-German sailor and engineer (b. 1898)

1945 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer and typographer (b. 1882)

1947 – Charles Nordhoff, English-American lieutenant and author (b. 1887)

1950 – Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish field marshal and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1876)

1954 – Auguste Lumière, French director and producer (b. 1862)

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

1955 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1881)

1958 – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)

1960 – André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (b. 1903)

1962 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1886)

1962 – Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish bass player (b. 1940)

1965 – Lloyd Casner, American race car driver, founded Casner Motor Racing Division (b. 1928)

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

1966 – Evelyn Waugh, English soldier, novelist, journalist and critic (b. 1903)

1968 – Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian lieutenant and politician (b. 1899)

1969 – Harley Earl, American businessman (b. 1893)

1975 – Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)

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

1978 – Hjalmar Mäe, Estonian politician (b. 1901)

1979 – Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)

1980 – Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919)

1983 – Issam Sartawi, Palestinian activist (b. 1935)

1986 – Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)

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

1991 – Martin Hannett, English guitarist and producer (b. 1948)

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

1992 – Sam Kinison, American comedian and actor (b. 1953)

1993 – Chris Hani, South African activist and politician (b. 1942)

1994 – Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1924)

1995 – Morarji Desai, Indian politician, 4th Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)

1997 – Michael Dorris, American author and academic (b. 1945)

1998 – Seraphim of Athens, Greek archbishop (b. 1913)

1999 – Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-American biochemist and physician (b. 1910)

1999 – Jean Vander Pyl, American actress and voice artist (b. 1919)

2000 – Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)

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

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

2004 – Jacek Kaczmarski, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet (b. 1957)

2004 – Sakıp Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, founded Sabancı Holding (b. 1933)

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

2005 – Scott Gottlieb, American drummer (b. 1970)

2005 – Archbishop Iakovos of America (b. 1911)

2005 – Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)

2005 – Wally Tax, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1948)

2007 – Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic (b. 1910)

2007 – Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)

2009 – Deborah Digges, American poet and educator (b. 1950)

2010 – Casualties in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash included:

Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish soldier and politician, 6th President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1919)

Maria Kaczyńska, Polish economist, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)

Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (b. 1949)

Anna Walentynowicz, Ukrainian-Polish journalist and activist (b. 1929)

2010 – Dixie Carter, American actress and singer (b. 1939)

2012 – Raymond Aubrac, French engineer and activist (b. 1914)

2012 – Barbara Buchholz, German theremin player and composer (b. 1959)

2012 – Lili Chookasian, Armenian-American operatic singer (b. 1921)

2012 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (b. 1922)

2012 – Akin Omoboriowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)

2013 – Lorenzo Antonetti, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)

2013 – Raymond Boudon, French sociologist and academic (b. 1934)

2013 – Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (b. 1911)

2013 – Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)

2013 – Olive Lewin, Jamaican anthropologist, musicologist, and author (b. 1927)

2013 – Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (b. 1921)

2013 – Angela Voigt, German long jumper (b. 1951)

2014 – Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (b. 1947)

2014 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1949)

2014 – Richard Hoggart, English author and academic (b. 1918)

2014 – Sue Townsend, English author and playwright (b. 1946)

2015 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1930)

2015 – Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (b. 1916)

2015 – Judith Malina, German-American actress and director, co-founded The Living Theatre (b. 1926)

2015 – Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, President of Gabon (b. 1942)

2015 – Peter Walsh, Australian farmer and politician, 6th Australian Minister for Finance (b. 1935)

2016 – Howard Marks, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer, and legalisation campaigner (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Fulbert of Chartres

James, Azadanus and Abdicius

Mikael Agricola (Lutheran)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Episcopal Church)

William of Ockham (Anglicanism)

William Law (Anglicanism)

April 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of the Builder (Azerbaijan)

Feast of the Third Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)

Siblings Day (International observance)