10 October

Notable Births

Josh Giddey

b. 2002

Australian basketball player (born 2002)

Sami Niku

b. 1996

Finnish ice hockey player (born 1996)

Courtland Sutton

b. 1995

American football player (born 1995)

Bae Suzy

b. 1994

South Korean singer and actress (born 1994)

Mike Tobey

b. 1994

American-Slovenian professional basketball player (born 1994)

Marquez Valdes-Scantling

b. 1994

American football player (born 1994)

Lourdes Gurriel Jr.

b. 1993

Cuban-American baseball player (born 1993)

Jayden Stockley

b. 1993

English footballer (born 1993)

Anthony Brown (basketball)

b. 1992

American basketball player (born 1992)

Michael Carter-Williams

b. 1991

American basketball player (born 1991)

Gabriella Cilmi

b. 1991

Australian pop singer and songwriter (born 1991)

Lali Espósito

b. 1991

Argentine actress and singer (born 1991)

Mariana Pajón

b. 1991

Colombian cyclist (born 1991)

Xherdan Shaqiri

b. 1991

Swiss footballer (born 1991)

Shelby Miller

b. 1990

American baseball player (born 1990)

Geno Smith

b. 1990

American football player (born 1990)

Kolten Wong

b. 1990

American baseball player (born 1990)

Jeurys Familia

b. 1989

Dominican baseball player (born 1989)

Shaun Fensom

b. 1988

Australian rugby league footballer

John Prine

b. 1946

American singer-songwriter (1946–2020)

Notable Deaths

John Lodge (musician)

d. 2025

British rock musician (1943–2025)

Ethel Kennedy

d. 2024

American human rights advocate (1928–2024)

Mulayam Singh Yadav

d. 2022

Indian politician (1939–2022)

Abdul Qadeer Khan

d. 2021

Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936–2021)

Donn Fendler

d. 2016

American lost child (1926–2016)

Diepreye Alamieyeseigha

d. 2015

Nigerian politician (1952–2015)

Hilla Becher

d. 2015

German conceptual photographer

Manorama (Tamil actress)

d. 2015

Indian actress

Steve Mackay

d. 2015

Musical artist

Sybil Stockdale

d. 2015

American activist

Olav Dale

d. 2014

Norwegian composer, orchestra leader and saxophonist

Pavel Landovský

d. 2014

Czech actor, playwright, and director (1936–2014)

Scott Carpenter

d. 2013

American astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)

Jay Conrad Levinson

d. 2013

American business writer (1933–2013)

Sohei Miyashita

d. 2013

Japanese politician (1927–2013)

Cal Smith

d. 2013

American country music singer (1932–2013)

Sam Gibbons

d. 2012

American politician

Alex Karras

d. 2012

American football player, sportscaster and actor (1935–2012)

Piotr Lenartowicz

d. 2012

Polish philosopher (1934–2012)

Orson Welles

d. 1985

American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)

On This Day in History

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2022

Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Ben Bernanke

2018

Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

Hurricane Michael

2018

The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.

National Fire and Rescue Administration