Tuesday, 10th March 2026

10th March in the Stars – Star Sign Pisces

Today, the zodiac sign Pisces celebrates its birthday.

Personality Profile

Personality Those born on March 10th are sensitive and empathetic souls with boundless imagination. They perceive the world through deep emotional currents and possess natural spiritual intuition. Their dreamy nature endows them with artistic depth and an otherworldly presence.

Strengths & Weaknesses March 10th natives display exceptional intuition and creative brilliance. However, they risk losing themselves in illusions or emotional overwhelm. Their vulnerability requires conscious grounding practices and healthy emotional boundaries in daily life.

Love These individuals bring romantic devotion and emotional authenticity to relationships. They seek soul-level connections and intuitively understand their partners. A stable, grounded partner helps balance their sensitive emotional fluctuations.

Caree & Finance Creative fields like art, music, psychology, and healing work suit them naturally. Practical financial matters challenge them; they benefit from structured guidance. Their idealistic values flourish in meaningful work rather than purely profit-driven environments.

Health Mental and emotional wellness requires conscious attention for these sensitive types. Meditation, creative expression, and consistent movement support their wellbeing. They're prone to stress and need adequate solitude for genuine restoration.

That night, the moon was in its waxing crescent phase.

Chinese year of the Horse (Fire).

Fun Facts About 10th March

Name Days in Your Language: Les, Lesley, Leslie, Lesly, Lester

Someone born on this day would be just 88 days old today — roughly 2,120 hours, 127,246 minutes, or 7,634,809 seconds spent on Earth so far.

It's the 69. day of the year. In 2026, 10th March falls on a Tuesday.

There are 296 days still to come.

We’re currently in Week 11 — the year marches on.

Famous Birthdays on 10th March

On this day, 168 notable people were born on 10th March — spanning from 1452 to 2004. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

10/03/2004

Matt Poitras, Canadian ice hockey player

Matthew Poitras is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Providence Bruins in the American Hockey League (AHL) as a prospect to the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL).

10/03/2002

Keon Johnson, American basketball player

Christopher Keon Johnson is an American professional basketball player for the Maine Celtics of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers. Johnson was selected in the 2021 NBA draft with the 21st overall pick by the New York Knicks, but was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers on draft night. During his rookie season, the Clippers traded him to the Portland Trail Blazers with whom he played for until the end of the 2022-23 season. After getting traded to and waived by the Phoenix Suns during the 2023 offseason, Johnson signed with the Brooklyn Nets with whom he had a breakout year during the 2024-25 season.

10/03/2000

Nick Bolton, American football player

Nicholas Bolton is an American professional football linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Missouri Tigers, and was selected by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft. Bolton has won two Super Bowl titles, LVII and LVIII, having been a starter in the 2022 and 2023 Chiefs teams. He also scored a defensive touchdown from a fumble recovery in the first win.

10/03/1999

Cole Kmet, American football player

Cole Kmet is an American professional football tight end for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and was selected by the Bears in the second round of the 2020 NFL draft.

10/03/1998

Justin Herbert, American football player

Justin Patrick Herbert is an American professional football quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, where he won the 2019 Pac-12 Championship, and was selected by the Chargers as the sixth overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft.

10/03/1997

Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player

Belinda Bencic is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as high as world No. 4 in singles, which she achieved on 17 February 2020, and No. 59 in doubles, attained on 1 February 2016. She is the current No. 1 Swiss in women's singles.

10/03/1995

Zach LaVine, American basketball player

Zachary Thomas LaVine is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected in the first round of the 2014 NBA draft with the 13th overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves. A two-time Slam Dunk Contest champion, he was named an NBA All-Star with the Chicago Bulls in 2021 and 2022. He also won a gold medal on the 2020 U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo.

Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer

Sergey Alexandrovich Mozgov is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer. With former partner Betina Popova, he is the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup champion. With former partner Anna Yanovskaya, he was the 2015 World Junior champion, two-time JGP Final champion, the 2012 Youth Olympics champion, the 2014 World Junior silver medalist, and the 2015 Russian junior national champion.

10/03/1994

Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and wrestler

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican rapper, actor, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap", he is widely credited with helping Spanish-language rap reach mainstream global popularity and is considered one of the greatest Latino rappers of all time.

Nikita Parris, English footballer

Nikita Josephine Parris is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club London City Lionesses and the England national team. She previously played for Division 1 club Olympique Lyonnais, Manchester City, Everton, Arsenal, Manchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion.

10/03/1993

Jack Butland, English footballer

Jack Butland is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish Premiership club Rangers.

Aminata Namasia, Congolese politician

Aminata Namasia Bazego is a politician and member of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Parliament, appointed Deputy Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education since April 2021.

10/03/1992

Neeskens Kebano, French-Congolese footballer

Neeskens Kebano is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for Al-Qadsia. Born in France, he represented the DR Congo national team.

10/03/1991

Kenshi Yonezu, Japanese singer-songwriter and illustrator

Kenshi Yonezu is a Japanese singer and songwriter. He started releasing Vocaloid music under the stage name Hachi (ハチ) in 2009. In 2012, he debuted under his real name, releasing music with his own voice. He has sold at least 4.2 million physical copies and over 7 million digital copies in Japan.

10/03/1990

Stefanie Vögele, Swiss tennis player

Stefanie Vögele is a Swiss professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 11 November 2013. Her highest WTA ranking in doubles is 100, which she reached on 5 January 2015. Over her career, she has defeated top ten players Sloane Stephens and Caroline Wozniacki.

10/03/1989

Simon Moser, Swiss ice hockey player

Simon Moser is a Swiss professional ice hockey player who currently serves as captain of SC Bern of the National League (NL). He has formerly played in the National Hockey League with the Nashville Predators.

Dayán Viciedo, Cuban baseball player

Dayán Viciedo Pérez is a Cuban professional baseball infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, and in NPB for the Chunichi Dragons.

10/03/1988

Clarissa dos Santos, Brazilian basketball player

Clarissa Cristina dos Santos is a Brazilian professional basketball player who previously played for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Most recently she has played for Basket Landes in the Euroleague Women.

Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player

Josh Hoffman is a New Zealand international rugby league footballer who plays as fullback, winger and centre, five-eighth for the Wests Panthers in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership.

Ego Nwodim, American actress

Egobunma Kelechi Nwodim is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2018, beginning with the show's 44th season, to 2025, ending with the show's 50th season.

Quincy Pondexter, American basketball player and coach

Quincy Coe Pondexter is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Washington Huskies men’s basketball team. He played high school basketball in Fresno, California, at San Joaquin Memorial High School. Pondexter played four years of college basketball for the Washington Huskies. At the end of his senior season, he earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors and an All-American honorable mention by the Associated Press.

Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player

Ivan Rakitić is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the technical director of Hajduk Split, the club with whom he ended his playing career.

10/03/1987

Martellus Bennett, American football player

Martellus Demond Bennett is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round of the 2008 NFL draft. Bennett was a member of five teams during his career, most notably the Chicago Bears, with whom he earned Pro Bowl honors, and the New England Patriots, with whom he won Super Bowl LI. After retiring, Bennett became a children's author and published books under his publication company The Imagination Agency. He is the younger brother of former defensive end Michael Bennett.

Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league player

Greg Eastwood is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer. A New Zealand international forward, he played in the NRL for the Brisbane Broncos and Canterbury Bulldogs, and in the Super League for the Leeds Rhinos.

Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player

Tuukka Mikael Rask is a Finnish professional ice hockey analyst and former goaltender. Rask was drafted 21st overall in the 2005 NHL entry draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs before being traded to the Boston Bruins in 2006, where he played his entire 15 season National Hockey League career, from 2007 to 2022. Rask was consistently successful during his tenure with the Bruins. After winning the Stanley Cup as the backup with the Bruins in 2011, he led the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Final on two occasions in 2013 and 2019. He also won the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender during the 2013–14 season, and was a finalist for the 2019–20 award. He also won the William M. Jennings Trophy along with goaltender Jaroslav Halák in the 2019–20 season. Rask is also a two-time NHL All-Star team member. Internationally, he led team Finland to a bronze medal over team USA at the 2006 World Juniors, where he was also awarded the honor of Best Goaltender. He led them to another bronze medal against the United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Tuukka is the older brother of Joonas Rask, who plays professionally as a forward with Luleå HF in the SHL.

Māris Štrombergs, Latvian BMX racer

Māris Štrombergs is a Latvian former professional BMX racer. In the 2008 Summer Olympics he became the first Olympic champion in BMX cycling. Earlier that year he won the 2008 UCI BMX World Championships. In 2012 he added to his Olympic title by winning the gold medal in the London Olympics.

10/03/1986

Sergei Shirokov, Russian ice hockey player

Sergei Sergeyevich Shirokov is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently with Sibir Novosibirsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). A winger, before signing with Vancouver in 2009 Shirokov played with CSKA Moscow for four seasons in the Russian Superleague and Kontinental Hockey League. He returned to CSKA Moscow in 2011 after two years with the Vancouver Canucks and Manitoba Moose.

10/03/1984

Tim Brent, Canadian ice hockey player

Tim Brent is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played over 200 games in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes.

Ben May, English footballer

Ben Steven May is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Olivia Wilde, American actress and director

Olivia Jane Cockburn, known professionally as Olivia Wilde is an American actress and filmmaker. She played Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the medical-drama television series House (2007–2012), and appeared in the action films Tron: Legacy (2010) and Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the romantic drama film Her (2013), the comedy film The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), and the horror film The Lazarus Effect (2015). She made her Broadway debut playing Julia in 1984 (2017).

10/03/1983

Étienne Boulay, Canadian football player

Étienne Boulay is a Canadian former professional football safety. He most recently played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, with whom he won the 100th Grey Cup championship. He previously played for the Montreal Alouettes from 2006 to 2011 where he won two more Grey Cup championships. He was drafted 16th overall by the Alouettes in the 2006 CFL draft. He played college football for the New Hampshire Wildcats.

Janet Mock, American journalist, author, and activist

Janet Mock is an American writer, television producer, and transgender rights activist. Her debut book, the memoir Redefining Realness, became a New York Times bestseller. She is a contributing editor for Marie Claire and a former staff editor of People magazine's website.

Rafe Spall, English actor

Rafe Joseph Spall is an English actor.

Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter

Carrie Marie Underwood is an American singer and songwriter. Known for her vocal range and dynamic stage presence, Underwood is recognized as a pivotal figure in 21st century country music. She has revitalized and sustained the presence of female country artists in popular culture since winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005.

10/03/1982

Kwame Brown, American basketball player

Kwame Hasani Brown is an American former professional basketball player who spent 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Selected first overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2001 NBA draft, Brown was the first player to be drafted number one overall straight out of high school. He later played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Bobcats, Golden State Warriors, and Philadelphia 76ers.

Dr Disrespect, American live streamer

Herschel "Guy" Beahm IV, better known as Dr Disrespect or The Doc or DDR, is an American live streamer. He became known for playing battle royale games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, H1Z1, and PUBG: Battlegrounds on Twitch and YouTube. While streaming, he takes on a bombastic persona. He has invested in game studios, including founding the Midnight Society.

Logan Mankins, American football player

Logan Lee Mankins is an American former professional football player who was a guard for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the New England Patriots. After playing college football for the Fresno State Bulldogs, he was selected by the Patriots in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft. He spent his final two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Selected to seven Pro Bowls and named a first-team All-Pro twice, Mankins was considered a premier guard in his 11 seasons in NFL, and was also named to the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team.

10/03/1981

Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer

Samuel Eto'o Fils is a Cameroonian football administrator and former player who is the current president of the Cameroonian Football Federation. He is often regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and one of the greatest African players of all time.

Steven Reid, English-Irish footballer

Steven John Reid is a former professional footballer who played as a right back, having previously played most of his career in midfield.

10/03/1978

Benjamin Burnley, American musician

Benjamin Jackson Burnley IV is an American musician and the founder and frontman of the rock band Breaking Benjamin. As the sole constant and namesake of the group, Burnley has served as its principal songwriter, lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist since its inception in 1999.

Camille, French singer-songwriter and actress

Camille Dalmais, better known by her mononym Camille, is a French singer-songwriter.

10/03/1977

Robin Thicke, American singer, songwriter, and record producer

Robin Alan Thicke is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his 2013 single "Blurred Lines", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, received diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and remains one of the best-selling singles of all time. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, it received nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

10/03/1976

Barbara Schett, Austrian tennis player

Barbara Schett Eagle is an Austrian former professional tennis player, who reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 7 in September 1999. Between 1993 and 2004 she played in 48 matches for the Austria Fed Cup team, winning 30. She also represented Austria at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in singles and doubles, reaching the quarterfinals of the singles event. She retired after the 2005 Australian Open and now works for Eurosport as a commentator and presenter.

10/03/1973

Jason Croker, Australian rugby league player

Jason Croker is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative utility player, he previously played club football in the NRL for the Canberra Raiders, with whom he won the 1994 Winfield Cup and set club records for both highest total games and tries. Croker saw out his career with French Super League club Catalans Dragons.

Liu Qiangdong, Chinese entrepreneur, billionaire, founder of JD.com

Liu Qiangdong (Richard) (Chinese: 刘强东; born March 10, 1973) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. Liu founded JD Multimedia as a business-to-consumer single retail store for magneto-optical products in June 1998 and later moved the company into an e-commerce website known as JD.com (also known as Jingdong) in 2013.

Chris Sutton, English footballer

Christopher Roy Sutton is an English former professional football player and manager. He later became a pundit, commentator and presenter of football coverage on television and radio.

Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer and manager

Mauricio Ricardo Taricco is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who is the current assistant coach of Saudi Pro League club Al-Khaleej.

10/03/1972

Beth Buchanan, Australian actress

Beth Christine Buchanan is an Australian actress and social worker. She is best known for the television roles as Gemma Ramsay in Neighbours, and Susan Croydon in Blue Heelers. She was also a long-standing member of the Ranters Theatre Company.

Matt Kenseth, American NASCAR driver

Matthew Roy Kenseth is an American former professional stock car racing driver and the current competition advisor for Legacy Motor Club in the NASCAR Cup Series. Most recently, he raced part-time in the Superstar Racing Experience (SRX), driving the No. 8 car. Kenseth is also an active competitor at Slinger Speedway, where he holds the record for the most Slinger Nationals victories.

Timbaland, American rapper and producer

Timothy Zachery Mosley, known professionally as Timbaland, is an American record producer, songwriter, rapper and singer. Born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, he is widely acclaimed for his distinctive production work and "stuttering" rhythmic style. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly stated that "just about every current pop trend can be traced back to him—from sultry, urban-edged R&B songstresses [...] to the art of incorporating avant-garde sounds into No. 1 hits." He has won four Grammy Awards from 22 nominations.

10/03/1971

Jon Hamm, American actor and director

Jonathan Daniel Hamm is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Don Draper in the period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), for which he won numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

10/03/1968

Alma Čardžić, Bosnian singer

Alma Čardžić is a Bosnian singer. She's best known internationally for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests in 1994 and 1997.

Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer and coach (died 2015)

Pavel Srníček was a Czech football coach and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper.

10/03/1966

Mike Timlin, American baseball player

Michael August Timlin is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. Timlin played on four World Series championship teams in an 18-year career; the 1992 Toronto Blue Jays, 1993 Toronto Blue Jays, 2004 Boston Red Sox, and 2007 Boston Red Sox.

10/03/1965

Jillian Richardson, Canadian sprinter

Jillian Cheryl Richardson-Briscoe is a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She is a three-time Olympian. In 1988, she equalled Marita Payne's Canadian 400 metres record of 49.91 secs. The record still stands. She was inducted into the Athletics Canada Hall of Fame in 2017.

Rod Woodson, American football player, coach, and sportscaster

Roderick Kevin Woodson is an American former professional football player for 17 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Widely considered one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time, Woodson holds the NFL record for fumble recoveries (32) by a defensive player, and interceptions returned for a touchdown (12). He was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1993.

10/03/1964

Greg Campbell, Australian cricketer

Gregory Dale Campbell is a former Australian cricketer who played in four Test matches and 12 One Day Internationals in 1989 and 1990. Campbell was a right arm fast bowler, and batted as a right-handed tail ender. He is the uncle of former Australian captain Ricky Ponting. Campbell's sister, Lorraine, is married to Graeme Ponting, and Ricky Ponting is their first child.

Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter

Neneh Mariann Karlsson, better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer. Her musical career started in the early 1980s, in London, England, where she performed in a number of punk and post-punk bands in her youth, including the Slits and Rip Rig + Panic.

Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, is a member of the British royal family. He is the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the youngest sibling of King Charles III. Edward was born third in the line of succession to the British throne and is 15th as of 2026.

10/03/1963

Jeff Ament, American bass player and songwriter

Jeffrey Allen Ament is an American musician best known as the bassist of rock band Pearl Jam, which he co-founded alongside Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder. Ament wrote or co-wrote many of Pearl Jam's hits, including "Jeremy", "Oceans", "Dissident", "Nothingman" and "Nothing as It Seems".

Rick Rubin, American record producer

Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin is an American record producer. He is a co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records.

10/03/1962

Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, and director

Jasmine Chanel Guy is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She portrayed Dina in the 1988 film School Daze and Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World, which originally ran from 1987 to 1993. Guy won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards from 1990 through 1993 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the show. She played Roxy Harvey on Dead Like Me and as Sheila "Grams" Bennett on The Vampire Diaries. She also played the role of Gemma on Grey's Anatomy.

Seiko Matsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter

Noriko Kamachi , known professionally as Seiko Matsuda , is a Japanese singer-songwriter, known for being one of the most popular Japanese idols of the 1980s. Since then, she has continued to release new singles and albums, put on annual summer concert tours, and perform in winter dinner shows. She makes frequent appearances in high-profile TV commercials and movies, and on radio. Her alma mater is Chuo University.

10/03/1961

Laurel Clark, American captain, physician, and astronaut (died 2003)

Laurel Blair Clark was an American NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist. She died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Clark was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

10/03/1958

Garth Crooks, English footballer and sportscaster

Garth Anthony Crooks, is an English football pundit and former professional player. He played from 1976 to 1990, for Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, West Bromwich Albion and Charlton Athletic.

Steve Howe, American baseball player (died 2006)

Steven Roy Howe was an American professional baseball relief pitcher. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers and New York Yankees, spanning 1980 to 1996. His baseball career ended in 1997 after a stint with the Sioux Falls Canaries of the independent Northern League.

Sheikh Mohammad Illias, Bengali politician

Sheikh Mohammad Illias is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India. He was the MLA of Nandigram Assembly constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Sharon Stone, American actress and producer

Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress. Known for primarily playing femmes fatales and women of mystery on film and television, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1990s. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award. She was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2005.

10/03/1957

Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda (died 2011)

Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked to establish a pan-Islamist caliphate by using al-Qaeda to organize and fund jihadist militants and terrorists worldwide. Al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 directly killed 2,977 victims, and caused the global war on terror.

10/03/1956

Robert Llewellyn, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the sci-fi television sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He has also founded and hosts a YouTube series, Everything Electric, which has grown into a company that puts on EV and "Everything Electric" conventions in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe.

Larry Myricks, American long jumper and sprinter

Larry Myricks is an American former track and field athlete, who mainly competed in the long jump event. He is a two-time winner of the World Indoor Championships and a two-time winner of the World Cup. He also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and bronze medals at the World Championships in 1987 and 1991.

Odile Buisson, French gynecologist, advocate for women's right to pleasure

Odile Buisson born Odile Poullaouec is a French gynaecologist and writer. She was a co-researcher of sonography that revealed the internal structure of the clitoris.

10/03/1955

Toshio Suzuki, Japanese race car driver

Toshio Suzuki is a former racing driver from Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

10/03/1953

Paul Haggis, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter

Paul Edward Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Crash (2005), the latter of which he also directed. Haggis also co-wrote the war film Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). He is the creator of the television series Due South (1994–1999) and co-creator of Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–2001), among others. Haggis is a two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and seven-time Gemini Award winner. He also assisted in the making of "We Are the World 25 for Haiti".

Ronnie Earl, American blues guitarist

Ronnie Earl is an American blues guitarist and music instructor.

10/03/1952

Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (died 2018)

Morgan Richard Tsvangirai was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He was president of the Movement for Democratic Change, and later the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T), and a key figure in the opposition to then-president Robert Mugabe.

10/03/1951

Gloria Diaz, Filipino actress and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1969

Gloria Maria Aspillera Diaz is a Filipino actress, model, socialite, and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1969, making history as the first Filipino Miss Universe.

10/03/1948

Austin Carr, American basketball player

Austin George Carr is an American former professional basketball player and commentator who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, and Washington Bullets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In college, he won several national awards while playing for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. He is known by Cleveland basketball fans as "Mr. Cavalier".

10/03/1947

Kim Campbell, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Canada

Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell is a Canadian politician who was the 19th prime minister of Canada from June to November 1993. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the first woman to become minister of defence in a NATO member state.

Tom Scholz, American musician and songwriter

Donald Thomas Scholz is an American musician. He is the founder, main songwriter, primary guitarist, keyboardist and only constant original member of the rock band Boston. A multi-instrumentalist, Scholz plays guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums and has also performed backing vocals live.

10/03/1946

Curley Culp, American football player (died 2021)

Curley Culp was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arizona State University, where he was also an NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion. He played football in the AFL for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1968 and 1969, and in the NFL for the Chiefs, Houston Oilers, and Detroit Lions. He was an AFL All-Star in 1969 and a six-time Pro Bowler.

Gérard Garouste, French contemporary artist

Gérard Garouste is a French artist having the primary field of work as visual and performative domain.

Jim Valvano, American basketball player and coach (died 1993)

James Thomas Anthony Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. Valvano had a successful coaching career with multiple schools, culminating at NC State. While the head coach at NC State, his team won the 1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball title against improbable odds. Valvano is remembered for his ecstatic celebration after winning the national championship game against the heavily favored Houston Cougars.

10/03/1945

Katharine Houghton, American actress and playwright

Katharine Houghton is an American actress and playwright. She portrayed Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a white woman who brings home her black fiancé to meet her parents, in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Katharine Hepburn, who played the mother of Houghton's character in the film, was Houghton's aunt. Houghton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance. She is also known for her role as Kanna, the grandmother of Katara and Sokka in the film The Last Airbender (2010).

Madhavrao Scindia, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Railways (died 2001)

Madhavrao Jiwajirao Scindia or Madhavrao II was an Indian politician and minister in the Government of India. He was a member of the Indian National Congress. He was viewed as a potential future prime ministerial candidate before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections in the aftermath of the controversy over Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin.

10/03/1943

Peter Berresford Ellis, English historian and author

Peter Berresford Ellis is a British historian, literary biographer, and novelist who has published over 98 books to date either under his own name or his pseudonyms Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan. He has also published 100 short stories. Under Peter Tremayne, he is the author of the international bestselling Sister Fidelma historical mystery series. His work has appeared in 25 languages.

10/03/1941

George P. Smith, American biologist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry

George Pearson Smith is an American biologist and Nobel laureate. He is a Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, US.

10/03/1940

LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (died 2012)

LeRoy Ellis was an American basketball player.

Chuck Norris, American actor, producer, and martial artist (died 2026)

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris was an American martial artist, actor, screenwriter, and author. He held black belts in karate, taekwondo, Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and judo. After serving in the United States Air Force, he won numerous martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do. Norris began working in the American film industry as a martial arts instructor for celebrities before making his screen debut with a minor role in The Wrecking Crew (1968). Friend and fellow martial artist Bruce Lee invited him to play one of the main villains in The Way of the Dragon (1972). While Norris continued acting, friend and student Steve McQueen suggested he take it seriously. Norris took the starring role in the action film Breaker! Breaker! (1977), which turned a profit. His second lead, Good Guys Wear Black (1978), became a hit, and he soon became a popular action film star.

David Rabe, American playwright and screenwriter

David William Rabe is an American playwright and screenwriter. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 and also received Tony Award nominations for Best Play in 1974, 1977 (Streamers) and 1985 (Hurlyburly).

10/03/1939

Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian activist and author (died 2013)

Asghar Ali Engineer was an academic, Indian reformist writer and social activist. Internationally known for his work on liberation theology in Islam, he led the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement. The focus of his work was on communalism and communal and ethnic violence in India and South Asia. He was a votary of peace and non-violence and lectured all over world on communal harmony.

Irina Press, Ukrainian-Russian hurdler and pentathlete (died 2004)

Irina Natanovna Press was a Soviet athlete who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. In 1960, she won a gold medal in the 80 m hurdles and finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m relay. In 1964, she finished fourth in the hurdles and sixth in the shot put, but won gold in the newly introduced pentathlon event.

10/03/1938

Norman Blake, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Norman L. Blake is a traditional American stringed instrument artist and songwriter. He is half of the eponymous Norman & Nancy Blake band with his wife, Nancy Blake.

Ron Mix, American football player

Ronald Jack Mix is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He is a member of the AFL All-Time Team, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979. Mix played college football for the USC Trojans, where he was named to the All American team. He played at right tackle and guard for the Los Angeles / San Diego Chargers of the AFL and also played for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL. While playing in Oakland for the Raiders he was a part of the only offensive line in NFL history to be composed entirely all Hall of Famers. Art Shell, Gene Upshaw, Jim Otto, Ron Mix, and Bob Brown from left to right. An eight-time AFL All-Star (1961–1968) and a nine-time All-AFL (1960–1968) selection, he is also a member of the Los Angeles Chargers Hall of Fame.

10/03/1937

María Kodama, Argentine writer and translator (died 2023)

María Kodama Schweizer was an Argentine writer and translator. The widow of author Jorge Luis Borges, she was the sole owner of his estate after his death in 1986. Borges had bequeathed to Kodama his rights as author in a will written in 1979, when she was his literary secretary, and bequeathed to her his whole estate in 1985. They were married in 1986, shortly before Borges' death.

Sam Hall, American diver, legislator, and mercenary (died 2014)

Samuel "Sam" Wesley Hall was an American Olympic silver medalist diver and politician who served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.

10/03/1936

Sepp Blatter, Swiss businessman and eighth president of FIFA

Joseph Sepp Blatter is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth president of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been suspended from participating in FIFA activities since 2015 as a result of the FIFA corruption case made public that year, which remains in place until 2027.

10/03/1935

Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (died 2019)

Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the East Perth Football Club and West Perth Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL).

10/03/1934

Gergely Kulcsár, Hungarian javelin thrower (died 2020)

Gergely Kulcsár was a Hungarian javelin thrower. He competed at the 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won two bronze medals, in 1960 and 1968, and a silver medal in 1964. He was the Olympic flag bearer for Hungary in 1964, 1968, and 1972.

10/03/1933

Ralph Emery, American country music disc jockey, radio and television host (died 2022)

Walter Ralph Emery was an American country music disc jockey, radio and television host from McEwen, Tennessee.

10/03/1932

Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender, English politician (died 2019)

Marcia Matilda Williams, Baroness Falkender, CBE, also known as Marcia Falkender, was the private secretary for, and then the political secretary and head of political office to, UK Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

10/03/1931

Georges Dor, Canadian author, playwright, and composer (died 2001)

Georges Dor was a Canadian author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator, and theatrical producer and director.

10/03/1930

Sándor Iharos, Hungarian runner (died 1996)

Sándor Iharos was a Hungarian long-distance runner. Though unsuccessful in major competitions, Iharos ran world records over multiple distances and is one of only two athletes to have held outdoor world records over 1500 metres, 5000 metres and 10,000 metres. Iharos was one of the star pupils of the famous coach Mihály Iglói.

10/03/1929

Sam Steiger, American journalist and politician (died 2012)

Samuel Steiger was an American politician, journalist, political pundit. He served five terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, two terms in the Arizona State Senate, and one term as mayor of Prescott, Arizona. Steiger also made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate, served as a special assistant to Arizona Governor Evan Mecham, and hosted political talk shows on both radio and television. Despite these accomplishments, Steiger is best known for two incidents: one, while he was a sitting congressman, was the 1975 killing of two burros; the second was painting a crosswalk between Prescott's courthouse and nearby Whiskey Row.

10/03/1928

Sara Montiel, Spanish actress (died 2013)

María Antonia Abad Fernández, known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish actress and singer. She began her career in the 1940s and became the most internationally popular and highest paid star of Spanish cinema in the 1960s. She appeared in nearly fifty films and recorded around 500 songs in five different languages.

James Earl Ray, American criminal; assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (died 1998)

James Earl Ray was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the assassination, Ray, who had planned on living in exile in Rhodesia, fled to London and was captured there. Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a guilty plea—thus forgoing a jury trial and the possibility of a death sentence—and was sentenced to 99 years of imprisonment. He later made many attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and to be tried by a jury, but was unsuccessful.

10/03/1927

Claude Laydu, Belgian-French actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011)

Claude Laydu was a Belgian-born Swiss actor on stage and in films. He was renowned for his performance in his film debut in the role of the young priest in Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest (1951), which has been described as one of the greatest in the history of film.

10/03/1926

Marques Haynes, American basketball player (died 2015)

Marques Haynes was an American professional basketball player and member of the Harlem Globetrotters, notable for his ability to dribble the ball and keep it away from defenders. According to the 1988 film Harlem Globetrotters: Six Decades of Magic, Haynes could dribble the ball as many as 348 times a minute.

10/03/1925

Bob Lanier, American lawyer, banker, and politician, Mayor of Houston (died 2014)

Robert Clayton Lanier was an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Houston, Texas, from 1992 to 1998. Before becoming mayor, Lanier had a notable career as a lawyer, banker, and real estate developer. He also held significant public service positions, including chairman of the Texas Highway Commission and chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO). As mayor, he focused on improving infrastructure, public safety, and the city’s diversity. Lanier was re-elected in 1993 and 1995, and after leaving office, remained active in real estate and public policy. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former mayor of Houston.

10/03/1924

Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (died 2017)

Judith Jones was an American writer and editor, initially known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile. Jones is also known as the editor who championed Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle and Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She retired as senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf in 2011 and fully retired in 2013 after more than 60 years at the company.

10/03/1923

Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

Val Logsdon Fitch was an American nuclear physicist who, with co-researcher James Cronin, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of K-mesons, that a reaction run in reverse does not retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered. This demolished the faith that physicists had that natural laws were governed by symmetry.

10/03/1920

Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (died 2007)

Alfred H. Peet was a Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley, California, in 1966. Peet is widely credited with starting the specialty coffee revolution in the US. Among coffee historians, Peet has been called "the Dutchman who taught America how to drink coffee." Peet taught his style of roasting beans to Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, who, with his blessing, took the technique to Seattle and founded Starbucks in 1971. Peet later distanced himself, however, from the Starbucks trio as they experimented with ultra-dark roasts. "Baldwin never learned anything from me," Peet was later quoted as saying.

Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, American mandolinist and comic singer (died 1989)

Kenneth Charles "Jethro" Burns was an American mandolinist and one-half of the comedy duo Homer and Jethro with Henry D. "Homer" Haynes.

10/03/1919

Leonor Oyarzún, Chilean socialite, First Lady of Chile from 1990 to 1994 (died 2022)

Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic was a Chilean family therapist and member of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC). She served as the First Lady of Chile from 1990 until 1994 as the wife of President Patricio Aylwin.

10/03/1918

Günther Rall, German general and pilot (died 2009)

Günther Rall was a highly decorated German military aviator, officer and General, whose military career spanned nearly forty years. Rall was the third most successful fighter pilot in aviation history, behind Gerhard Barkhorn, who is second, and Erich Hartmann, who is first.

10/03/1917

David Hare, American Surrealist artist, sculptor, photographer and painter (died 1992)

David Hare was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography and painting. The VVV Surrealism Magazine was first published and edited by Hare in 1942.

10/03/1915

Harry Bertoia, Italian-American sculptor and furniture designer (died 1978)

Harry Bertoia, son of Giuseppe Antonio Bertoia and Maria Secunda Mussio, was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer.

Joža Horvat, Croatian writer (died 2012)

Josip "Joža" Horvat was a Croatian writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, dramas, screenplays, essays and radio dramas, translated into at least nine languages, including Russian, Chinese and Esperanto.

10/03/1903

Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (died 1989)

Edward Bawden, was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had been a student, worked as a commercial artist and served as a war artist in World War II. He was a fine watercolour painter but worked in many different media. He illustrated several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and other graphic artists, and his work and career is often associated with that of his contemporary Eric Ravilious.

Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (died 1931)

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described it like "shooting bullets at a bell”.

Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright, journalist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (died 1987)

Clare Boothe Luce was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and conservative public intellectual. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and screen scenarios to fiction, journalism, and war reportage. She served as a U.S. representative from Connecticut's 4th congressional district from 1943 to 1947, and as U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1953 to 1956. She was married to Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated.

10/03/1901

Michel Seuphor, Belgian painter (died 1999)

Fernand Berckelaers, pseudonym Michel Seuphor, was a Belgian painter.

10/03/1900

Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (died 2017)

Violet Brown was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017. She was, along with Japanese woman Nabi Tajima, one of the last two living people known to have been born in the 19th century. She is the oldest verified Jamaican person in history.

Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (died 1943)

Pandelis Pouliopoulos was a Greek communist, anti-fascist, and one-time general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). He stood for the internationalist and revolutionary character of the communist movement. He is among the founders of the Trotskyist movement in Greece.

10/03/1896

Frederick Coulton Waugh, British cartoonist, painter, teacher and author (died 1973)

Frederick Coulton Waugh was a cartoonist, painter, teacher and author, best known for his illustration work on the comic strip Dickie Dare and his book The Comics (1947), the first major study of the field.

10/03/1892

Arthur Honegger, French composer and educator (died 1955)

Oscar-Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher is "more even than Le Roi David or Pacific 231, his most universally popular work".

Gregory La Cava, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1952)

Gregory La Cava was an American film director of Italian descent best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door, which earned him nominations for Academy Award for Best Director.

10/03/1891

Sam Jaffe, American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (died 1984)

Shalom "Sam" Jaffe was an American actor, teacher, musician, and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950). He also appeared in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Ben-Hur (1959), and is additionally known for his roles as the titular character in Gunga Din (1939) and as the "High Lama" in Lost Horizon (1937).

10/03/1890

Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania (died 1939)

Albert George Ogilvie was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 22 June 1934 until his death on 10 June 1939.

10/03/1888

Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (died 1961)

William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944), and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. In 2020, he was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

10/03/1881

Jessie Boswell, English painter (died 1956)

Jessie Boswell was an English painter, active mainly in her adoptive Piedmont, known as being one of the painters of the Gruppo dei Sei Pittori (1929–1931) in that city.

10/03/1877

Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican diplomat and president (1930–1932) (died 1963)

Pascual Ortiz Rubio was a Mexican military officer, topographical engineer, diplomat and politician who served as the 49th President of Mexico from 1930 to 1932. He was one of three presidents to serve out the six-year term (1928–1934) of assassinated president-elect Álvaro Obregón, while former president Plutarco Elías Calles retained power in a period known as the Maximato. Calles was so blatantly in control of the government that after an attempt on his life and pressures, Ortiz Rubio resigned the presidency in protest in September 1932, being the last Mexican president to date that has resigned.

10/03/1876

Anna Hyatt Huntington, American sculptor (died 1973)

Anna Vaughn Huntington was an American sculptor who was among New York City's most prominent sculptors in the early 20th century. At a time when very few women were successful artists, she had a thriving career. Hyatt Huntington exhibited often, traveled widely, received critical acclaim at home and abroad, and won multiple awards and commissions.

10/03/1873

Jakob Wassermann, German-Austrian soldier and author (died 1934)

Jakob Wassermann was a German writer and novelist.

10/03/1870

David Riazanov, Russian theorist and politician (died 1938)

David Riazanov or Ryazanov, born David Borisovich Goldendakh, was a Russian revolutionary, historian, bibliographer, Marxologist and archivist. He had been an old associate of Leon Trotsky. Riazanov founded the Marx–Engels Institute and edited the first large-scale effort to publish the collected works of these two founders of the modern socialist movement. Riazanov was a prominent victim of the Great Terror of the late 1930s.

10/03/1867

Hector Guimard, French-American architect (died 1942)

Hector Guimard was a French architect and designer prominent for his Art Nouveau style designs including Paris Métro entrances. He achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Béranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building in Paris, which was selected in an 1899 competition as one of the best new building facades in the city. He is best known for the glass and iron edicules or canopies, with ornamental Art Nouveau curves, which he designed to cover the entrances of the first stations of the Paris Métro.

Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian, and author, founded the Henry Street Settlement (died 1940)

Lillian D. Wald was an American nurse, humanitarian, human rights activist and author. An early advocate for nurses in public schools, she started American community nursing and founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.

10/03/1861

E. Pauline Johnson, Canadian First Nations poet and performer (died 1913)

Emily Pauline Johnson, also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her father was a hereditary Mohawk chief, and her mother was an English immigrant.

10/03/1853

Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish-New Zealand cartographer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930)

Sir Thomas Mackenzie was a New Zealand politician and explorer who briefly served as the 18th prime minister of New Zealand in 1912, and later served as New Zealand High Commissioner in London.

10/03/1850

Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (died 1906)

Spencer William Gore was an English tennis player who won the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877 and a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (1874–1875).

10/03/1846

Edward Baker Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (died 1850)

Edward Baker Lincoln was the second son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. He was named after Lincoln's close friend, Edward Dickinson Baker. Both Abraham and Mary spelled his name "Eddy"; however, the National Park Service uses "Eddie" as a nickname and the nickname also appears spelled this way on his crypt at the Lincoln tomb.

10/03/1845

Alexander III of Russia (died 1894)

Alexander III was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly reactionary in domestic affairs and reversed some of the liberal reforms of his father, Alexander II, a policy of "counter-reforms".

10/03/1844

Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (died 1908)

Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués, commonly known as Pablo de Sarasate, was a Spanish virtuoso violinist, composer and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include Zigeunerweisen, the Spanish Dances, and the Carmen Fantasy.

Marie Euphrosyne Spartali, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1927)

Marie Stillman was a British painter. A member of the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she is regarded as the greatest female artist of that movement.

10/03/1843

Evelyn Abbott, English classical scholar (died 1901)

Evelyn Abbott was an English writer and classical scholar. He is best known for his book History of Greece, which includes a sceptical viewpoint of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. He is also very well known as being the editor-in-chief of Heroes of the Nations book series, which were widely popular in England.

10/03/1841

Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California, writer, and librarian (died 1928)

Ina Donna Coolbrith was an American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Called the "Sweet Singer of California", she was the first California Poet Laureate and the first poet laureate of any American state.

10/03/1810

Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet and lawyer (died 1886)

Sir Samuel Ferguson was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. He was an acclaimed 19th-century Irish poet, and his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history can be seen as a forerunner of William Butler Yeats and the other poets of the Irish Literary Revival.

10/03/1795

Joseph Légaré, Canadian painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure (died 1855)

Joseph Légaré was a painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He was an important figure in Quebec City during the early nineteenth century, painting nearly 200 works with subject matter ranging from Quebec's landscapes and important figures to current events and history paintings.

10/03/1789

Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (died 1850)

José Manuel de la Peña y Peña was a Mexican lawyer and judge who served two non-consecutive, but closely following, terms as the president of Mexico during the Mexican American War. In contrast to many other nineteenth-century Mexican presidents, he never served in the military, instead coming from a distinguished legal background.

10/03/1788

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1857)

Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in German-speaking Europe.

Edward Hodges Baily, English sculptor (died 1867)

Edward Hodges Baily was a prolific British sculptor responsible for numerous public monuments, portrait busts, statues and exhibition pieces as well as works in silver. He carved friezes for both the Marble Arch and Buckingham Palace in London. His numerous statues of public figures include that of Horatio Nelson on top of Nelson's Column and Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey on Grey's Monument in Newcastle upon Tyne. Throughout his career Baily was responsible for creating a number of monuments and memorials for British churches and cathedrals, including several in St Paul's Cathedral.

10/03/1787

Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1862)

Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Cornejo was a Spanish statesman and dramatist and the first prime minister of Spain to receive the title of President of the Council of Ministers.

William Etty, English painter and academic (died 1849)

William Etty was an English artist best known for his historical paintings containing nude figures. He was the first significant British painter of nudes and still lifes. Born in York, he left school at the age of 12 to become an apprentice printer in Hull. He completed his apprenticeship seven years later and moved to London, where in 1807 he joined the Royal Academy Schools. There he studied under Thomas Lawrence and trained by copying works by other artists. Etty earned respect at the Royal Academy of Arts for his ability to paint realistic flesh tones, but had little commercial or critical success in his first few years in London.

10/03/1777

Louis Hersent, French painter (died 1860)

Louis Hersent was a French painter.

10/03/1772

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet and critic (died 1829)

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was a German literary critic, philosopher, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.

10/03/1769

Joseph Williamson, English businessman and philanthropist (died 1840)

Joseph Williamson was an eccentric English businessman, philanthropist and property owner who is best known for the Williamson Tunnels, which were constructed under his direction in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool, England. His philanthropy earned him the nickname the King of Edge Hill, whilst his tunnel-building activity earned him posthumous nicknames, including the Mole of Edge Hill and the Mad Mole.

10/03/1749

Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian-American priest and poet (died 1838)

Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Italian, later American librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas: The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790).

10/03/1748

John Playfair, Scottish minister and scientist (died 1819)

John Playfair FRSE, FRS was a Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), which summarised the work of James Hutton. It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charles Lyell, first reached a wide audience. Playfair's textbook Elements of Geometry made a brief expression of Euclid's parallel postulate known now as Playfair's axiom.

10/03/1709

Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer (died 1746)

Georg Wilhelm Steller was a German-born naturalist and explorer who contributed to the fields of biology, zoology, and ethnography. He participated in the Great Northern Expedition (1733–1743) and his observations of the natural world helped the exploration and documentation of the flora and fauna of the North Pacific region.

10/03/1656

Giacomo Serpotta, Italian Rococo sculptor (died 1732)

Giacomo Serpotta was an Italian sculptor, active in a Rococo style and mainly working in stucco.

10/03/1653

John Benbow, Royal Navy admiral (died 1702)

Vice-Admiral of the White John Benbow was a Royal Navy officer. He joined the Navy in 1678, seeing action against Barbary pirates before leaving to join the Merchant Navy in which Benbow served until the 1688 Glorious Revolution, whereupon he returned to the Royal Navy and was commissioned.

10/03/1628

François Girardon, French sculptor (died 1715)

François Girardon was a French sculptor of the Louis XIV style or French Baroque, best known for his statues and busts of Louis XIV and for his statuary in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.

Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (died 1694)

Marcello Malpighi was an Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "founder of microscopical anatomy, histology and father of physiology and embryology". Malpighi's name is borne by several physiological features related to the biological excretory system, such as the Malpighian corpuscles and Malpighian pyramids of the kidneys and the Malpighian tubule system of insects. The splenic lymphoid nodules are often called the "Malpighian bodies of the spleen" or Malpighian corpuscles. The botanical family Malpighiaceae is also named after him. He was the first person to see capillaries in animals, and he discovered the link between arteries and veins that had eluded William Harvey. Malpighi was one of the earliest people to observe red blood cells under a microscope, after Jan Swammerdam. His treatise De polypo cordis (1666) was important for understanding blood composition, as well as how blood clots. In it, Malpighi described how the form of a blood clot differed in the right against the left sides of the heart.

10/03/1604

Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (died 1670)

Johann Rudolf Glauber was a German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Some historians of science have described him as one of the first chemical engineers. His discovery of sodium sulfate in 1625 led to the compound being named after him: "Glauber's salt".

10/03/1596

Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, daughter of King Charles IX of Sweden (died 1618)

Maria Elizabeth Vasa was a Swedish princess, daughter of King Charles IX of Sweden and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, and by marriage Duchess of Östergötland.

10/03/1536

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (died 1572)

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk,, was an English Roman Catholic nobleman and politician. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and held many high offices during the earlier part of her reign.

10/03/1503

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1564)

Ferdinand I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother, Emperor Charles V, and often served as Charles' representative in developing encouraging relationships with German princes. In addition, Ferdinand also developed valuable relationships with the German banking house of Jakob Fugger and the Catalan bank, Banca Palenzuela Levi Kahana.

10/03/1452

Ferdinand II, King of Castile and León (died 1516)

Ferdinand II was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516. As the husband and co-ruler of Queen Isabella I of Castile, he was also King of Castile from 1475 to 1504. He reigned jointly with Isabella over a dynastically unified Spain; together, they are known as the Catholic Monarchs. Ferdinand is considered the de facto first king of Spain, and was described as such during his reign, even though, legally, Castile and Aragon remained two separate kingdoms until they were formally united by the Nueva Planta decrees issued between 1707 and 1716.

Lives Remembered on 10th March

On 10th March, 63 remarkable people passed away — from 483 to 2025. Remember the lives and legacies of those we lost on this day.

10/03/2025

Stanley R. Jaffe, American film producer and director (born 1940)

Stanley Richard Jaffe was an American film producer. His producing credits included Fatal Attraction, The Accused and Kramer vs. Kramer, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Carl Lundström, Swedish businessman and activist (born 1960)

Carl Ulf Sture Lundström was a Swedish businessman and political activist. He founded Rix Telecom, which provided services and equipment to torrent tracker The Pirate Bay from 2003 to 2005. Lundström was one of the defendants in The Pirate Bay trial and was charged with "accessory to breaching copyright law". He was found guilty and ultimately sentenced to four months in prison. He and his co-defendants were jointly fined 46 million Swedish krona.

10/03/2022

John Elliott, English historian and academic (born 1930)

Sir John Huxtable Elliott was a British historian and Hispanist who was Regius Professor at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He published under the name J. H. Elliott.

10/03/2016

Ken Adam, German-English production designer and art director (born 1921)

Sir Kenneth Adam was a German-British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for Dr. Strangelove and Salon Kitty.

Roberto Perfumo, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster (born 1942)

Roberto Alfredo Perfumo was an Argentine footballer and sports commentator. Nicknamed El Mariscal, Perfumo is considered one of the best Argentine defenders ever. At club level, Perfumo played for Racing, River Plate and Brazilian team Cruzeiro. With the national team, he played the 1966 and 1974 World Cups.

Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1920)

Jovito Reyes Salonga, KGCR also called "Ka Jovy," was a Filipino lawyer and politician, as well as a leading opposition leader during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the declaration of martial law in 1972 until the People Power Revolution in 1986, which removed Marcos from power. Salonga was then elected as the 14th president of the Senate of the Philippines and the first one after the new Constitution was just ratified, serving from 1987 up to his retirement from politics in 1992.

Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (born 1928)

Anita Brookner was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.

10/03/2015

Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1952)

Richard Glatzer was an American writer and director.

10/03/2013

Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British born Swedish Princess (born 1915)

Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, was a British socialite who became a princess of Sweden through her 1976 marriage to Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland (1912–1997). As such, she was an aunt of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

10/03/2012

Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (born 1938)

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius for his fantasy/science-fiction work, and to a slightly lesser extent as Gir, which he used for his Western-themed work. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others, he has been described as the most influential bande dessinée artist after Hergé.

Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.

10/03/2011

Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (born 1926)

William Elsworth Blackbeard, better known as Bill Blackbeard, was a writer-editor and the founder-director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, a comprehensive collection of comic strips and cartoon art from American newspapers. This major collection, consisting of 2.5 million clippings, tearsheets and comic sections, spanning the years 1894 to 1996, has provided source material for numerous books and articles by Blackbeard and other researchers.

10/03/2010

Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (born 1928)

Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi was an Egyptian Islamic scholar who served as the grand mufti of Egypt from 1986 to 1996 and then as grand imam of al-Azhar from 1996 until his death in 2010.

Corey Haim, Canadian actor (born 1971)

Corey Ian Haim was a Canadian actor who rose to fame in the 1980s as a teen heartthrob. He starred in Silver Bullet (1985), Murphy's Romance (1985), Lucas (1986), License to Drive (1988) and Dream a Little Dream (1989). His role in The Lost Boys (1987) made him a household name.

10/03/2007

Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (born 1938)

Ernest L. Ladd, nicknamed "the Big Cat", was an American professional football defensive tackle and professional wrestler. A standout athlete in high school, Ladd attended Grambling State University on a basketball scholarship before being drafted in 1961 by the San Diego Chargers of the American Football League (AFL). Ladd found success in the AFL as one of the largest players in professional football history at 6′9″ and 290 pounds. He helped the Chargers to four AFL championship games in five years, winning the championship with the team in 1963. He also had stints with the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Oilers. Ladd took up professional wrestling during the AFL offseason, and after a knee injury ended his football career turned to it full-time in 1969.

10/03/2005

Dave Allen, Irish-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1936)

David Tynan O'Mahony, known professionally as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian, satirist, and actor. He was best known for his observational comedy. Allen regularly provoked indignation by highlighting political hypocrisy and showing disdain for religious authority. His technique and style have influenced young British comedians.

10/03/1999

Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (born 1919)

Oswaldo Guayasamín Calero was an Ecuadorian painter and sculptor of Kichwa and Mestizo heritage.

10/03/1998

Lloyd Bridges, American actor and director (born 1913)

Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of four children, including the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges. He started his career as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in films such as Sahara (1943), A Walk in the Sun (1945), Little Big Horn (1951) and High Noon (1952). On television, he starred in Sea Hunt (1958–1961). By the end of his career, he had re-invented himself and demonstrated a comedic talent in such parody films as Airplane! (1980), Hot Shots! (1991), and Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998). Among other honors, Bridges was a two-time Emmy Award nominee. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 1994.

10/03/1997

LaVern Baker, American singer and actress (born 1929)

Delores LaVern Baker was an American rhythm and blues singer who had several hit records on the pop charts in the 1950s and early 1960s. Her most successful records were "Tweedle Dee" (1955), "Jim Dandy" (1956), and "I Cried a Tear" (1958).

10/03/1996

Ross Hunter, American film producer (born 1926)

Ross Hunter was an American film and television producer and actor. He is best known for producing light comedies such as Pillow Talk (1959), and the glamorous melodramas Magnificent Obsession (1954), Imitation of Life (1959), and Back Street (1961).

10/03/1992

Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and composer (born 1925)

Giorgos Zampetas was a Greek bouzouki musician. He was born in Athens, where he also died, but his origins were from the island of Kythnos.

10/03/1988

Andy Gibb, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1958)

Andrew Roy Gibb was a British-born singer and musician. He rose to international fame in the late 1970s as a teen idol and pop star. The younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, Gibb achieved major success in close collaboration with his brothers. He was the first solo artist to have his first three singles reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.

10/03/1986

Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (born 1907)

Ray Milland was a Welsh and American actor and film director. Initially known as a star of light comedies, he achieved a dramatic breakthrough with his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945). His performance earned him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and ultimately an Academy Award—the first such accolades for any Welsh-born actor.

10/03/1985

Konstantin Chernenko, Russian soldier and politician, Head of State of The Soviet Union (born 1911)

Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician who served as the de jure leader of the Soviet Union from February 1984 until his death in March 1985.

Bob Nieman, American baseball player (born 1927)

Robert Charles Nieman was an American professional baseball player and scout. An outfielder, he spent all or parts of a dozen Major League Baseball seasons with the St. Louis Browns (1951–52), Detroit Tigers (1953–54), Chicago White Sox (1955–56), Baltimore Orioles (1956–59), St. Louis Cardinals (1960–61), Cleveland Indians (1961–62) and San Francisco Giants (1962). He also played one season in Japan for the Chunichi Dragons (1963). He threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg).

10/03/1977

E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (born 1906)

Edward George Power Biggs was a British-born American concert organist and recording artist.

10/03/1973

Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (1960 – 1973), Governor of Kenya (1952 – 1959), High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1944 – 1951), Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1942 – 1944) (born 1903)

Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944, High Commissioner for Southern Africa from 1944 to 1951, and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959. Baring played an integral role in the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion. Together with Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, Baring played a significant role in the government's efforts to deal with the rebellion, and see Kenya through to independence. He was appointed as Baron Howick of Glendale in 1960 by Queen Elizabeth II.

Li Mi, Chinese lieutenant general and anti-communist, Taiwanese nationalist (born 1902)

Li Mi was a high-ranking Nationalist general who participated in the anti-Communist Encirclement Campaigns, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. He was one of the few Kuomintang commanders to achieve notable victories against both Chinese Communist forces and the Imperial Japanese Army. Following the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he withdrew his forces to Burma and Thailand, where he continued to carry out guerrilla raids into Communist-held territory.

Richard Sharples, British politician, assassinated Governor of Bermuda (born 1916)

Sir Richard Christopher Sharples, was a British politician. He served as a Governor of Bermuda in 1972 until his assassination in 1973 by assailants who were linked to a small militant Bermudian Black Power group called the Black Beret Cadre. The former army major, who had been a junior minister, resigned his seat to take up the position of Governor of Bermuda in late 1972. His murder resulted in the last executions conducted under British rule, in 1977.

10/03/1969

Muriel Hannah, American artist active in Alaska.

Muriel Hannah was an American artist. Born in England, she spent much of her life in Alaska. She was known for her portraits of Native Alaskans and an illustrated map of Alaska that she painted while in the employ of Northern Consolidated Airlines.

10/03/1966

Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)

Frederik "Frits" Zernike was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.

Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (born 1903)

Frank O'Connor was an Irish author and translator. He wrote poetry, dramatic works, memoirs, journalistic columns and features on aspects of Irish culture and history, criticism, long and short fiction, biography, and travel books. He is most widely known for his more than 150 short stories and for his memoirs. The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was named in his honour, as is the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship.

10/03/1951

Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1872)

Baron Kijūrō Shidehara , was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1945 to 1946. He was a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II.

10/03/1948

Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, visual artist, and ballet dancer (born 1900)

Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920, she married writer F. Scott Fitzgerald after the popular success of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise. The novel catapulted the young couple into the public eye, and she became known in the national press as the first American flapper. Because of their wild antics and incessant partying, she and her husband became regarded in the newspapers as the enfants terribles of the Jazz Age. Alleged infidelity and bitter recriminations soon undermined their marriage. After Zelda traveled abroad to Europe, her mental health deteriorated, and she had suicidal and homicidal tendencies, which required psychiatric care. Her doctors diagnosed her with schizophrenia, although later posthumous diagnoses posit bipolar disorder.

Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (born 1886)

Jan Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. American journalist John Gunther described Masaryk as "a brave, honest, turbulent, and impulsive man".

10/03/1942

Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (born 1865)

Wilbur Lincoln Scoville was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure pungency, "spiciness" or "capsaicin concentration" of various chili peppers.

10/03/1940

Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (born 1891)

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight, and The Days of the Turbins.

10/03/1937

Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and author (born 1884)

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamiatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.

10/03/1925

Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper (born 1878)

Myer Prinstein was a Poland-born American track and field athlete who held the world record for the long jump in 1900 and won four gold medals in three Olympic Games for the long jump and triple jump. He was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club in Queens, New York. A 1902 law graduate and track team captain for Syracuse University, after college he became a New York real estate lawyer and businessman while living in Jamaica Plains, Queens. To date, he is the only Olympic track athlete to win both the triple and long jump in the same Olympics, earning the distinction in St. Louis in 1904.

10/03/1923

Salvador Seguí, Catalan anarcho-syndicalist leader (born 1887)

Salvador Seguí i Rubinat, known as El noi del sucre for his habit of eating the sugar cubes served him with his coffee, was a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions.

10/03/1913

Harriet Tubman, American nurse and activist (born c. 1820)

Harriet "Moses" Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage.

10/03/1910

Karl Lueger, Austrian lawyer and politician Mayor of Vienna (born 1844)

Karl Lueger was an Austrian lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Vienna from 1897 until his death in 1910. He is credited with the transformation of Vienna into a modern city at the turn of the 20th century, although the populist and antisemitic politics of the Austrian Christian Social Party (CS), which he founded and led until his death, remain controversial, as they are sometimes viewed as a model for Adolf Hitler's Nazism.

Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1824)

Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid-Romantic era.

10/03/1898

Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (born 1817)

Marie-Eugénie de Jésus was a French Catholic nun who founded the Religious of the Assumption and is a Catholic saint.

10/03/1897

Savitribai Phule, Indian poet and activist (born 1831)

Savitribai Phule was an Indian educator, social reformer, and poet, widely regarded as the first Indian female teacher. Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, she took a pivotal role in advancing women's rights and education in Maharashtra, leaving a legacy that continues to influence social reform movements across India. She is also considered a front runner of India's feminist movement. She worked to abolish discrimination and the unfair treatment of people based on caste and gender. Savitribai Phule and her husband were trailblazers in women's education in India. In 1848, they established their first school for girls at the residence of Tatyasaheb Bhide, known as Bhide Wada in Pune. Later, she co-founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873 and led its women's wing.

10/03/1895

Charles Frederick Worth, English-French fashion designer (born 1825)

Charles Frederick Worth was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is considered by many fashion historians to be the father of haute couture. Worth is also credited with revolutionising the business of fashion.

10/03/1894

Jacob Mahler, German-French saddler and anarchist (born 1832)

Jacob Mahler was a German-French saddler and anarchist.

10/03/1872

Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (born 1805)

Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, lawyer, journalist, philosopher, and political activist who worked for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and was a major leader of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. An Italian nationalist in the historical radical tradition and a proponent of a republicanism of social-democratic inspiration, Mazzini "helped define the European movement for popular democracy in a republican state." He is widely known as the “Prophet of Italian Nationalism”.

10/03/1861

Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet, playwright, and ethnographer (born 1814)

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer. His literary heritage, in particular the poetry collection Kobzar, is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and to some degree also of the modern Ukrainian language. The significance of Shevchenko's creative genius for the Ukrainian and wider Slavic culture has led some to compare his figure to that of Robert Burns.

10/03/1832

Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1752)

Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi was an Italian composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer who was mostly active in England.

10/03/1826

John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian (born 1758)

John Pinkerton was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory.

10/03/1792

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1713)

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British Tory statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III. He became the first Tory to hold the position and was arguably the last important royal favourite in British politics. He was the first prime minister from Scotland following the Acts of Union in 1707. He was also elected as the first president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland when it was founded in 1780.

10/03/1776

Élie Catherine Fréron, French author and critic (born 1718)

Élie Catherine Fréron was a French literary critic and controversialist whose career focused on countering the influence of the philosophes of the French Enlightenment, partly through his vehicle, the Année littéraire. Thus Fréron, in recruiting young writers to counter the literary establishment became central to the movement now called the Counter-Enlightenment.

10/03/1724

Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (born 1641)

Urban Hjärne was a Swedish chemist, geologist, physician and writer.

10/03/1682

Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1628)

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular.

10/03/1585

Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (born 1517)

Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father of botany. The standard author abbreviation Dodoens is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

10/03/1572

William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester

William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, styled Lord St John between 1539 and 1550 and Earl of Wiltshire between 1550 and 1551, was an English Lord High Treasurer, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and statesman.

10/03/1528

Balthasar Hübmaier, German/Moravian Anabaptist leader

Balthasar Hubmaier was an influential German Anabaptist leader. He was one of the most well-known and respected Anabaptist theologians of the Reformation.

10/03/1513

John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1442)

John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford,, the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Howard, a first cousin of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was one of the principal Lancastrian commanders during the English Wars of the Roses.

10/03/1315

Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic

Agnes Blannbekin was an Austrian Beguine and Christian mystic. She was also referred to as Saint Agnes Blannbekin or the Venerable Agnes Blannbekin, though never beatified or canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Her revelations were compiled by an anonymous confessor before being transcribed by the monk Ermenrich and later published in 1731 as Venerabilis Agnetis Blannbekin. The copies were confiscated by the Society of Jesus, and only two manuscripts survived. One was destroyed in a fire at the Strasbourg library in 1870. The surviving manuscript, currently owned by a Cistercian convent in Zwettl, Austria, was not released until the 20th century. Although Blannbekin is best remembered today for her visions, during her life she was known for her ministry to the urban population and her strange and provocative expressions of faith.

10/03/1291

Arghun, Mongol ruler in Persia (born c. 1258)

Arghun Khan was the fourth ruler of the Mongol empire's Ilkhanate division, from 1284 to 1291. He was the son of Abaqa Khan, and like his father, was a devout Buddhist. He was known for sending several emissaries to Europe in an unsuccessful attempt to form a Franco-Mongol alliance against the Muslim Mamluks in the Holy Land. It was also Arghun who requested a new bride from his great-uncle Kublai Khan. The mission to escort the young Kököchin to Arghun reportedly went with Marco Polo. Arghun died before Kököchin arrived, so Arghun's son Ghazan married her instead.

10/03/0948

Liu Zhiyuan, Shatuo founder of the Later Han dynasty (born 895)

Liu Zhiyuan, later changed to Liu Gao (劉暠), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Later Han (後漢高祖), was the founding emperor of the Shatuo-led Chinese Later Han dynasty, the fourth of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He was the older brother of the Northern Han founder Liu Min.

10/03/0483

Pope Simplicius

Pope Simplicius was the bishop of Rome from 468 to his death on 10 March 483. He combated the Eutychian heresy, ended the practice of consecrating bishops only in December, and sought to offset the effects of Germanic invasions. His pontificate coincided with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, when Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, though it had little impact on the Church's administration of Rome.

Celebrations & Special Days Worldwide on 10th March

Christian feast day Attala

Attala or Atala was a disciple of Columbanus and his successor as abbot of Bobbio from 615.

Christian feast day Harriet Tubman (Lutheran)

Harriet "Moses" Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage.

Christian feast day John Ogilvie

John Ogilvie, SJ was a Scottish Jesuit priest. For his service to persecuted Catholics in 17th-century Scotland and his murder due to his faith, he was canonized in 1976. As of 2026, he is the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.

Christian feast day Macarius of Jerusalem

Macarius I was Bishop of Jerusalem from 312 to shortly before 335, according to Sozomen. He is venerated as a saint within the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Church.

Christian feast day Marie-Eugénie de Jésus

Marie-Eugénie de Jésus was a French Catholic nun who founded the Religious of the Assumption and is a Catholic saint.

Christian feast day Pope Simplicius

Pope Simplicius was the bishop of Rome from 468 to his death on 10 March 483. He combated the Eutychian heresy, ended the practice of consecrating bishops only in December, and sought to offset the effects of Germanic invasions. His pontificate coincided with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, when Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, though it had little impact on the Church's administration of Rome.

Christian feast day Sojourner Truth (Lutheran)

Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.

Christian feast day March 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 9 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 11

Harriet Tubman Day (United States of America)

Harriet Tubman Day is an American holiday in honor of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, observed on March 10, and in the U.S. state of New York. Observances also occur locally around the U.S. state of Maryland.

Mario Day (International)

Mario is a character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the star of the Mario franchise, a recurring character in the Donkey Kong franchise, and the mascot of their owner, the Japanese company Nintendo. Mario is an Italian plumber who lives in the Mushroom Kingdom with his younger twin brother, Luigi. Their adventures generally involve rescuing Princess Peach from the villain Bowser while using power-ups that give them different abilities. Mario is distinguished by his large nose and mustache, overalls, red cap, and high-pitched, exaggerated Italian accent. Prior to being named Mario, the character was referred to as Ossan, Mr. Video, and Jumpman.

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Bulgaria)

A Holocaust memorial day or Holocaust remembrance day is an annual observance to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and of millions of other Holocaust victims by Nazi Germany and its allies. Many countries, primarily in Europe, have designated national dates of commemoration.

National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)

HIV.gov, formerly known as AIDS.gov, is an internet portal for all United States federal domestic HIV and AIDS resources and information. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched AIDS.gov. The site contains content and links that guide users to their desired information.

Székely Freedom Day (Romania)

The Székely Freedom Day is a day celebrated by the Székely Hungarian minority of Romania. It is celebrated every 10 March in Târgu Mureș, but also in other parts of Székely Land and internationally. The holiday was created according to a decision of the Szekler National Council on 6 January 2012.

Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibetan independence movement)

Tibetan Uprising Day, observed on March 10, commemorates the 1959 Tibetan uprising which began on March 10, 1959, and the Women's Uprising Day of March 12, 1959, involving thousands of women, against the presence of the People's Republic of China in Tibet.

What Happened on 10th March?

47 significant events took place on Friday, 10th March — stretching from -241 to 2026. Explore the moments that shaped history on this day.

10/03/2026

Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat recorded the second-highest scoring game in NBA history with 83 Points.

Edrice Femi "Bam" Adebayo is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats before being selected by the Heat with the 14th overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. He is a three-time NBA All-Star, a six-time NBA All-Defensive Team honoree, and he helped the Heat reach the NBA Finals in 2020 and 2023. He also won a gold medal with the 2020 and 2024 U.S. Olympic teams. He holds the record for the second-highest scoring game by a player in NBA history with 83 points, achieved in a 150–129 win on March 10, 2026, against the Washington Wizards.

10/03/2024

2024 Portuguese legislative election: Elections are held in Portugal for all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. The Partido Socialista loses its absolute majority to the Partido Social Democrata, winning 77 and 79 seats respectively.

Snap legislative elections were held on 10 March 2024 to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic to the 16th Legislature of Portugal. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election. The elections were called in November 2023 after Prime Minister António Costa's resignation following an investigation around alleged corruption involving the award of contracts for lithium and hydrogen businesses.

10/03/2023

Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to a run on its deposits, in the second largest bank failure in US history. Its operations are taken over by the FDIC.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a commercial bank division of First Citizens BancShares. The bank was previously the primary subsidiary of SVB Financial Group, a publicly traded bank holding company that had offices in 15 U.S. states and over a dozen international jurisdictions.

10/03/2022

2022 Hungarian presidential election: The National Assembly of Hungary elects former minister for Family Affairs, Katalin Novák, as president of Hungary in a 137–51 vote, becoming the first female president in the country's history.

An indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 10 March 2022. Incumbent President János Áder was ineligible for a third term due to constitutional limits. Former Minister for Family Affairs Katalin Novák became the first female president of Hungary after winning two-third majority.

10/03/2019

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers and crew. This and the prior Lion Air Flight 610 led to all 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. On 10 March 2019, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft which operated the flight crashed near the town of Bishoftu six minutes after takeoff. All 149 passengers and 8 crew members on board died.

10/03/2017

The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.

On 9 December 2016, Park Geun Hye, the president of South Korea, was impeached as the culmination of a political scandal involving interventions to the presidency from her aide, Choi Soon-sil. 234 members of the 300-member National Assembly voted to impeach and temporarily suspend Park's presidential powers and duties. This exceeded the required two-thirds threshold in the National Assembly and, although the vote was by secret ballot, the results indicated that more than half of the 128 lawmakers in Park's party Saenuri had supported her impeachment. Thus, Hwang Kyo-ahn, then Prime Minister of South Korea, became acting president while the Constitutional Court of Korea was due to determine whether to accept the impeachment. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision on 10 March 2017, removing Park from office. The regularly scheduled presidential election was advanced to 9 May 2017, and Moon Jae-in, former leader of the Democratic Party, who Park had narrowly defeated in the 2012 presidential election, was elected as Park's permanent successor.

10/03/2006

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on August 12, 2005, at 11:43 UTC and reached Mars on March 10, 2006, at 21:24 UTC. In November 2006, after six months of aerobraking, it entered its final science orbit and began its primary science phase.

10/03/2000

The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.

The dot-com bubble was a stock market bubble that developed during the late 1990s and peaked on March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web and the Internet, resulting in a dispensation of available venture capital and the rapid growth of valuations in new dot-com startups. Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, investments in the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose by 600%, only to fall 78% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble. It is also known retrospectively as the tech–media–telecom (TMT) bubble, since it boosted established companies in those sectors as well as Internet startups.

10/03/1991

1991 Salvadoran legislative election: The Nationalist Republican Alliance wins 39 of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.

Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 10 March 1991. The result was a victory for the Nationalist Republican Alliance, which won 39 of the 84 seats. Voter turnout was 44.7%.

10/03/1990

In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted eighteen months after seizing power in a coup d'état in September 1988.

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola in both Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western side of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and with an estimated population of 11.4 million, it is the most populous Caribbean country. The capital and largest city is Port-au-Prince.

10/03/1989

Air Ontario Flight 1363, a Fokker F-28 Fellowship, crashes at Dryden Regional Airport in Dryden, Ontario, Canada, killing 24.

Air Ontario Flight 1363 was a scheduled Air Ontario passenger flight which crashed near Dryden, Ontario, Canada, on 10 March 1989 shortly after takeoff from Dryden Regional Airport. The aircraft was a Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship twin jet. It crashed after only 49 seconds because it was not able to attain sufficient altitude to clear the trees beyond the end of the runway, due to a buildup of ice and snow on the wings.

10/03/1982

Syzygy: All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun.

In astronomy, a syzygy is a roughly straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system.

10/03/1979

1979 International Women's Day protests in Tehran: Protestor involvement peaks with 15,000 Iranian women and girls performing a three‐hour-long sit‐in at the Courthouse of Tehran.

On International Women's Day on March 8, 1979, a women's march took place in Tehran in Iran. The march was originally intended to celebrate the International Women's Day, but transformed into massive protests against the changes taking place in women's rights during the Iranian revolution, specifically the introduction of mandatory hijab (veiling), which had been announced the day before. The protests lasted for six days, from 8 March to 14 March 1979, with thousands of women participating. The protests were met with violence and intimidation by pro-Khomeini Islamist forces.

10/03/1977

Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.

The rings of Uranus consist of 13 planetary rings. They are intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune. The rings of Uranus were discovered on March 10, 1977, by James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Jessica Mink. William Herschel had also reported observing rings in 1789; modern astronomers are divided on whether he could have seen them, as they are very dark and faint.

10/03/1975

Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.

The 1975 spring offensive, officially known as the general offensive and uprising of spring 1975, was the final North Vietnamese campaign of the Vietnam War that led to the capitulation of South Vietnam. In December 1974, People's Army of Vietnam's (PAVN) forces crossed from their bases in Cambodia and captured Phước Long Province by January 1975. After this success, the North Vietnamese leadership increased the scope of the PAVN offensive and attacked the Central Highlands from Cambodia in March, capturing the city of Buôn Ma Thuột on 18 March. These operations were intended to be preparatory to launching a general offensive in 1976.

10/03/1974

1974 Belgian general election: Elections are held in Belgium for all 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, the Belgian Socialist Party taking the majority with 59.

General elections were held in Belgium on 10 March 1974. The Belgian Socialist Party emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Representatives with 59 of the 212 seats. Voter turnout was 90.3%. Elections were also held for the nine provincial councils, as well as for the Council of the German Cultural Community for the first time.

10/03/1971

John Gorton resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia after a secret ballot vote of confidence, being replaced in both positions by William McMahon.

Sir John Grey Gorton was an Australian politician, farmer and airman who served as the 19th prime minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as a senator for Victoria. He was the first and only member of the upper house of the Parliament to assume the office of prime minister.

10/03/1970

Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.

The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until US forces were withdrawn in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.

10/03/1969

In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.

Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Tennessee, the fifth-most populous in the Southeast, and the 28th-most populous in the US. Memphis is the largest city proper on the Mississippi River and anchors the Memphis area that includes parts of Arkansas and Mississippi, the 45th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. with 1.34 million residents.

10/03/1966

Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacks rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon. Since 1950, it was a member of the Western Bloc during the Cold War. Following the 1954 partition of Vietnam, it became known as South Vietnam and was established as a republic in 1955. Its sovereignty was recognized by the United States and 87 other nations, though it failed to gain admission into the United Nations as a result of a Soviet veto in 1957. It was succeeded by the communist-controlled Republic of South Vietnam in 1975. In 1976, the Republic of South Vietnam and North Vietnam merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

10/03/1959

Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.

The 1959 Tibetan uprising or Lhasa uprising began on 10 March 1959 as a series of protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, fueled by fears that the government of the People's Republic of China planned to arrest the Dalai Lama. Over the next ten days, the demonstrations evolved from expressions of support for the 14th Dalai Lama to demands for independence and the reversal of the 1951 Chinese annexation of Tibet. After protesters acquired weapons, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) shelled protesters in the Dalai Lama's summer palace and deployed tanks to suppress the demonstrations. Bloody fighting continued for the next three days while the Dalai Lama escaped to India. Thousands of Tibetans were killed during the 1959 uprising, but the exact number is disputed.

10/03/1952

Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer, political leader, and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his 1959 resignation.

10/03/1949

Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.

Mildred Elizabeth Gillars was an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate Axis propaganda during World War II. Following her capture in post-war Berlin, Gillars became the first woman to be convicted of treason against the United States. In March 1949, she was sentenced to ten to thirty years' imprisonment. Gillars was paroled in 1961. Along with Rita Zucca she was nicknamed "Axis Sally".

10/03/1945

World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, the latter enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the only nuclear weapons used in war. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.

10/03/1944

Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.

The Greek Civil War took place from 1946 to 1949. The conflict, which erupted shortly after the end of World War II, consisted of a Communist-led uprising against the established government of the Kingdom of Greece. The rebels declared a people's republic, the Provisional Democratic Government of Greece, which was governed by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its military branch, the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE). The rebels were supported by Albania and Yugoslavia. With the support of the United Kingdom and the United States, the Greek royal government forces ultimately prevailed.

10/03/1933

The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area, leaving around 108 people dead.

The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach, California, on the Newport–Inglewood Fault. The earthquake had a magnitude estimated at 6.4 Mw, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Damage to buildings was widespread throughout Southern California. It resulted in 115 to 120 fatalities and an estimated $40 million worth of property damage, equivalent to $995 million in 2025. The majority of the fatalities resulted from people running out of buildings, exposing themselves to the falling debris.

10/03/1922

Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

10/03/1909

By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.

The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, also known as the Bangkok Treaty of 1909, was an agreement between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Siam. It was signed on 10 March 1909 in Bangkok, with ratifications exchanged in London on 9 July 1909. The treaty established the modern border between Malaysia and Thailand. Areas around modern Pattani, Narathiwat, southern Songkhla, Satun and Yala remained under Thai control, later becoming the site of the South Thailand insurgency.

10/03/1906

The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.

The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, caused the death of 1,099 miners in Northern France on 10 March 1906. This disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on 26 April 1942, which killed 1,549 miners. A coal-dust explosion, the cause of which is not known with certainty, devastated a coal mine operated by the Compagnie des mines de houille de Courrières. Victims lived nearby in the villages of Méricourt, Sallaumines, Billy-Montigny, and Noyelles-sous-Lens. The mine was 2 km (1 mi) to the east of Lens, in the Pas-de-Calais département.

10/03/1891

Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

Almon Brown Strowger was an American inventor for whom the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology, is named.

10/03/1876

The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.

The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by many different people, and led to an array of lawsuits relating to the conflicting patent claims made by several individuals and numerous companies. Notable people included in this process were Antonio Meucci, Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell.

10/03/1873

The first Azerbaijani play, The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran, prepared by Akhundov, is performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.

Mirza Fatali Akhundov, also known as Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, or Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh, was a celebrated Iranian Azerbaijani author, playwright, atheist, philosopher, and literary critic who lived most of his life in the Russian Empire. He became famous mainly for his European-inspired plays written in Azerbaijani.

10/03/1861

El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.

Hadji Oumarûl Foutiyou Tall, born in Futa Tooro, present-day Senegal, was a Senegalese Tijani sufi Toucouleur Islamic scholar and military commander who founded the short-lived Tukulor Empire, which encompassed much of what is now Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea and Mali.

10/03/1848

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). It was signed on the 2nd of February 1848 in the town of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

10/03/1831

The French Foreign Legion is created by Louis Philippe, the King of France, from the foreign regiments of the Kingdom of France.

The French Foreign Legion is a corps of the French Army created to allow foreign nationals into French service. The Legion was founded in 1831 and today consists of several specialities, namely infantry, cavalry, engineers, and airborne troops. It formed part of the Armée d'Afrique, French Army units associated with France's colonial project in North Africa, until the end of the Algerian War in 1962.

10/03/1830

The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.

The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army was the military force maintained by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in its colony of the Dutch East Indies, in areas that are now part of Indonesia. The KNIL's air arm was the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force. Elements of the Royal Netherlands Navy and Government Navy were also stationed in the Netherlands East Indies.

10/03/1814

Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.

Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hundred Days in 1815. He rose to prominence as a general during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe and the Middle East during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. As a statesman, he implemented numerous legal and administrative reforms in France and Europe.

10/03/1762

French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

The Huguenots are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Besançon Hugues, was in common use by around 1550. Huguenot was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. By contrast, the Protestant populations of eastern France, in Alsace, Moselle, and Montbéliard, were mainly Lutherans.

10/03/1735

An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.

Nader Shah Afshar was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as the emperor of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747, when he was assassinated during a rebellion. He fought numerous campaigns throughout the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and South Asia, emerging victorious from the battles of Herat, Mihmandust, Murche-Khort, Kirkuk, Yeghevārd, Khyber Pass, Karnal, and Kars. Nader belonged to the Turkoman Afshars, one of the seven Qizilbash tribes that helped the Safavid dynasty establish their power in Iran.

10/03/1661

French "Sun King" Louis XIV begins his personal rule of France after the death of his premier, the Cardinal Mazarin.

Louis XIV was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. He is a symbol of the Age of Absolutism in Europe for styling himself as "The Sun King", which portrayed him as supreme leader. He presided over a great expansion of the French colonial empire and a patronage of arts in his court at the Palace of Versailles that defined the Baroque style of French architecture. His reign of 72 years and 110 days remains the longest of any sovereign monarch in history.

10/03/1629

Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.

Charles I was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

10/03/1607

Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.

Susenyos I, also known as Susenyos the Catholic, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1607 to 1632, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne names were Seltan Sagad and Malak Sagad III.

10/03/1535

Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, discovers the Galápagos Islands by chance on his way to Peru.

Fray Tomás de Berlanga, O.P., was the fourth Bishop of Panamá.

10/03/1496

After establishing the city of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus departs for Spain, leaving his brother in command.

Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. As of 2022, the city center had a population of 1,029,110 while its metropolitan area, Greater Santo Domingo, had a population of 4,274,651. The city is coterminous with the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional (D.N.), itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province.

10/03/0947

The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares himself emperor.

Han, known as the Later Han in historiography, was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China that existed from 947 to 951. It was the fourth of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history, and the third consecutive Shatuo-led Chinese dynasty, although other sources indicate that the Later Han emperors claimed patrilineal Han ancestry. It was among the shortest-lived of all Chinese regimes, lasting for slightly under four years before it was overthrown by a rebellion that resulted in the founding of the Later Zhou dynasty. Remnants of the Later Han then founded the Northern Han dynasty.

10/03/0298

Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.

Maximian, nicknamed Herculius, was Roman emperor from 286 to 305. He was Caesar from 285 to 286, then Augustus from 286 to 305. He shared the latter title with his co-emperor and superior, Diocletian, whose political brain complemented Maximian's military brawn. Maximian established his residence at Trier but spent most of his time on campaign. In late 285, he suppressed rebels in Gaul known as the Bagaudae. From 285 to 288, he fought against Germanic tribes along the Rhine frontier. Together with Diocletian, he launched a scorched earth campaign deep into Alamannic territory in 288, refortifying the frontier.

01/01/1970

First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.

The First Punic War was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and greatest naval war of antiquity, the two powers struggled for supremacy. The war was fought primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters, and also in North Africa. After immense losses on both sides, the Carthaginians were defeated and Rome gained territory from Carthage.

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