General Events and Observations of July 10

138: Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
649: Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599)
1099: El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103: King Eric I of Denmark
1290: King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460: Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1480: King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
1559: King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1584: William I of Orange (b. 1533)
1590: Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594: Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
1621: Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1653: Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1680: Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1683: François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1686: John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1776: Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1806: George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1851: Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
1881: Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
1884: Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
1908: Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1920: Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1941: Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
1954: Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
1956: Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1963: Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1970: Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
1972: Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1978: Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1978: John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
1979: Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
1981: Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
1987: John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
1989: Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
2000: Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
2000: Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
2002: Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2003: Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
2003: Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2003: Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2005: A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
2005: Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005: Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
2005: Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2006: Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
2007: Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
2007: Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)

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