Deaths on 10 February
2000s
Jose de Venecia Jr.
2026
Filipino politician (1936–2026)
Peter Tuiasosopo
2025
American football player and actor (1963–2025)
AKA (rapper)
2023
South African rapper (1988–2023)
Olsen Filipaina
2022
NZ international rugby league footballer (1957–2022)
Larry Flynt
2021
American publisher (1942–2021)
Carmen Argenziano
2019
American actor (1943–2019)
Jan-Michael Vincent
2019
American actor (1944–2019)
Mike Ilitch
2017
American businessman (1929–2017)
Fatima Surayya Bajia
2016
Pakistani writer
Naseer Aruri
2015
American professor and author (1934–2015)
Karl Josef Becker
2015
German Catholic theologian (1928-2015)
Deng Liqun
2015
Chinese politician (1915–2015)
Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)
2014
Jamaican-British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and activist (1932–2014)
Shirley Temple
2014
American actress and diplomat (1928–2014)
W. Watts Biggers
2013
American novelist
David Hartman (rabbi)
2013
American-Israeli philosopher (1931–2013)
Lloyd Morrison
2012
New Zealand investment banker (1957–2012)
Jeffrey Zaslow
2012
American author, and newspaper columnist (1958–2012)
Trevor Bailey
2011
England cricketer, sportswriter and broadcaster
Fred Schaus
2010
American basketball player and coach, college athletics administrator (1925–2010)
Charlie Wilson (Texas politician)
2010
American politician (1933–2010)
Roy Scheider
2008
American actor (1932–2008)
J Dilla
2006
American rapper and producer (1974–2006)
Arthur Miller
2005
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
Edgar de Evia
2003
Mexican-born American photographer (1910–2003)
Albert J. Ruffo
2003
American politician
Ron Ziegler
2003
13th White House Press Secretary (1939–2003)
Dave Van Ronk
2002
American folk musician (1936–2002)
Abraham Beame
2001
Mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977
Buddy Tate
2001
American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (1913–2001)
Jim Varney
2000
American actor and comedian (1949–2000)
1900s
Brian Connolly
1997
Scottish singer-songwriter (1945–1997)
Paul Monette
1995
American author, poet, and activist (1945 – 1995)
Fred Hollows
1993
New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (1929–1993)
Alex Haley
1992
American writer (1921–1992)
Edvard Kardelj
1979
Yugoslav politician and economist
Nikos Kavvadias
1975
Greek poet (1910–1975)
Dionysios Kokkinos
1967
Greek historian and writer
Billy Rose
1966
American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist (1899–1966)
Aloysius Stepinac
1960
Croatian Latin Catholic cardinal (1898–1960)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
1957
American teacher and writer (1867–1957)
Leonora Speyer
1956
American violinist and poet (1872–1956)
Emmanouil Tsouderos
1956
Greek politician
Marcel Mauss
1950
French sociologist and anthropologist (1872–1950)
Anacleto Díaz
1945
Filipino judge
E. M. Antoniadi
1944
Greek-French astronomer
Pope Pius XI
1939
Head of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939
Edgar Wallace
1932
British writer (1875–1932)
José Sánchez del Río
1928
Mexican Cristero and Saint (1913–1928)
Wilhelm Röntgen
1923
German experimental physicist (1845–1923)
Henry Strangways
1920
Australian politician (1832–1920)
Abdul Hamid II
1918
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1909
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
1918
Italian journalist, nationalist, pacifist
John William Waterhouse
1917
English painter (1849–1917)
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras
1913
Greek athlete (1888–1913)
Joseph Lister
1912
English scientist, surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912)
Ezra Butler Eddy
1906
Canadian politician
John A. Roche
1904
American politician
1800s
Sofya Kovalevskaya
1891
Russian mathematician (1850–1891)
Ellen Wood (author)
1887
English novelist (1814–1887)
Honoré Daumier
1879
French artist (1808–1879)
Emil Lenz
1865
Russian physicist (1804–1865)
David Thompson (explorer)
1857
Canadian fur trader and surveyor (1770–1857)
José Joaquín de Herrera
1854
President of Mexico in 1844, from 1844 to 1845, from 1848 to 1851
Maria Aletta Hulshoff
1846
Dutch Patriot, feminist, and pamphleteer
Alexander Pushkin
1837
Russian poet and playwright (1799–1837)
Peter Heywood
1831
Royal Navy officer
Pope Leo XII
1829
Head of the Catholic Church from 1823 to 1829
Before 1800
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger
1782
German Lutheran theologian and theosopher (1702-1782)
Montesquieu
1755
French judge, historian, and political philosopher (1689–1755)
Henriette of France
1752
French princess (1727–1752)
William Dugdale
1686
English antiquary and herald (1605–1686)
Judith Leyster
1660
Dutch painter (1609–1660)
Wilhelm Xylander
1576
German humanist and classical scholar (1532–1576)
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1567
King consort of Scotland from 1565 to 1567
John V, Count of Oldenburg
1526
Count of Oldenburg (1500-1526)
Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria
1524
Archduchess of Austria
Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg
1471
Elector of Brandenburg from 1440 to 1470
Clare of Rimini
1346
Italian holy woman who was beatified
Temür Khan
1307
Emperor of Yuan Dynasty from 1294 to 1307
John Comyn III of Badenoch
1306
Scottish noble (c. 1274–1306)
Margaret II, Countess of Flanders
1280
Countess of Flanders from 1244 to 1278
Emperor Shijō
1242
Emperor of Japan from 1232 to 1242
Baldwin III of Jerusalem
1163
King of Jerusalem from 1143 to 1163
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine
1127
Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou
Scholastica
547
Italian virgin and saint (c. 480 – 543)