Calendar Date January 10th:
January 10 - Deaths:
681 – Pope Agatho
976 – John I Tzimiskes - Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 925)
1094 – Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)
1276 – Pope Gregory X (b. c.1210)
1645 – William Laud - Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
1654 – Nicholas Culpeper - English botanist, herbalist, physician, & astrologer (b. 1616)
1662 – Prince Honoré II of Monaco (b. 1597)
1698 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont - French historian (b. 1637)
1707 – Philibert - comte de Gramont - French writer (b. 1621)
1754 – Edward Cave - English editor & publisher (b. 1691)
1761 – Edward Boscawen - British admiral (b. 1711)
1777 – Spranger Barry - Irish actor (b. 1719)
1778 – Carolus Linnaeus - Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
1794 – Georg Forster - German scientist & revolutionary (d. 1754)
1811 – Marie-Joseph Chénier - French poet (b. 1764)
1824 – King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b. 1759)
1828 – François de Neufchâteau - French statesman & intellectual figure (b. 1750)
1833 – Adrien-Marie Legendre - French mathematician (b. 1752)
1851 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling - Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
1855 – Mary Russell Mitford - English novelist & dramatist (b. 1787)
1862 – Samuel Colt - American inventor (b. 1814)
1863 – Lyman Beecher - US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
1866 – Pyotr Pletnyov - Russian poet (b. 1792)
1883 – Dr Samuel A. Mudd - American medical doctor (b. 1833)
1895 – Benjamin Godard - French composer (b. 1849)
1901 – Sir James Dickson - Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
1904 – Jean-Léon Gérôme - French painter & sculptor (b. 1824)
1905 – Kārlis Baumanis - Latvian composer (b. 1835)
1917 – William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody - American frontiersman (b. 1846)
1922 – Frank Tudor - Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
1934 – Marinus van der Lubbe - Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
1935 – Edwin Flack - Australian athlete, first Olympic champion (b. 1873)
1941 – Frank Bridge - English composer (b. 1879)
1941 – Sir John Lavery - Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
1941 – Joe Penner - Hungarian-born comedian & actor (b. 1904)
1949 – Erich von Drygalski - German geographer, geophysicist, & polar scientist (b. 1865)
1951 – Sinclair Lewis - American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1951 – Yoshio Nishina - Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
1957 – Gabriela Mistral - Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
1960 – Jack Laviolette - Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)
1961 – Dashiell Hammett - American writer (b. 1894)
1968 – Basil Sydney - English actor (b. 1894)
1969 – John Brownlee - Australian tenor (b. 1900)
1970 – Pavel Belyayev - Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
1971 – Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel - French fashion designer (b. 1883)
1972 – Aksel Larsen - Danish politician (b. 1897)
1976 – Howlin' Wolf - American musician (b. 1910)
1978 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal - Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)
1978 – Don Gillis - American composer (b. 1912)
1980 – Hughie Critz - American baseball player (b. 1900)
1980 – George Meany - American labor leader (b. 1894)
1980 – Bo Rein - American college football coach (b. 1945)
1981 – Katherine Alexander - American actress (b. 1898)
1981 – Richard Boone - American actor (b. 1917)
1981 – Fawn M. Brodie - American historian (b. 1915)
1982 – Paul Lynde - American comedian (b. 1926)
1984 – Souvanna Phouma - Prince & Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
1985 – Anton Karas - Austrian zither player & composer (b. 1906)
1986 – Jaroslav Seifert - Czech writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1987 – Marion Hutton - American singer & actress (b. 1919)
1987 – Sir David Robinson - English philanthropist & entrepreneur (b. 1904)
1989 – Herbert Morrison - American radio reporter (b. 1905)
1989 – Colin Winchester - Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
1992 – Roberto Bonomi - Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
1995 – Kathleen Tynan - Canadian-British journalist, author & screenwriter (b. 1937)
1997 – Elspeth Huxley - British journalist & writer (b. 1907)
1997 – Sheldon Leonard - American film producer, actor, & director (b. 1907)
1997 – Alexander R. Todd - Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
1999 – Sir Edward Williams - Australian judge (b. 1921)
2000 – Sam Jaffe - American producer (b. 1901)
2002 – W.A. Criswell - American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
2004 – Spalding Gray - American actor & screenwriter (b. 1941)
2004 – Alexandra Ripley - American author (b. 1934)
2005 – Gene Baylos - American comedian (b. 1906)
2005 – Margherita Carosio - Italian soprano (b. 1908)
2005 – James Forman - American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
2005 – Kalevi Hämäläinen - Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
2005 – Erwin Hillier - British cinematographer (b. 1911)
2005 – Jack Horner - American sports journalist (b. 1912)
2005 – Joséphine-Charlotte - Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
2005 – Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak - primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
2007 – Carlo Ponti - Italian film producer (b. 1912)
2007 – Bradford Washburn - American explorer (b. 1910)
2008 – Christopher Bowman - American figure skater (b. 1967)
2008 – Maila Nurmi - aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (b. 1921)
2008 – Mikhail Minin - Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
2009 – William Frederick "Bill" Stone - British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
2010 – Tony Halme - Finnish boxer & politician (b. 1963)
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January 10 - Births
Calendar Date January 10th:
January 10th - Births:
1480 – Margaret of Austria - Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
1538 – Louis of Nassau - Dutch general (d. 1574)
1573 – Simon Marius - German astronomer (d. 1624)
1607 – Isaac Jogues - French missionary (d. 1646)
1628 – George Villiers - 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
1638 – Nicolas Steno - Danish geologist (d. 1686)
1644 – Louis François - duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
1654 – Joshua Barnes - English scholar (d. 1712)
1702 – Johannes Zick - German painter (d. 1762)
1715 – Christian August Crusius - German philosopher & theologian (d. 1775)
1721 – Johann Philipp Baratier - German scholar (d. 1740)
1729 – Lazzaro Spallanzani - Italian biologist (d. 1799)
1738 – Ethan Allen - American military leader (d. 1789)
1750 – Thomas Erskine - 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)
1769 – Michel Ney - French marshal (d. 1815)
1797 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff - German writer (d. 1848)
1810 – Jeremiah S. Black - American statesman (d. 1883)
1812 – Georg Hermann Nicolai - German architect (d. 1881)
1815 – Sir John Alexander Macdonald - first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
1828 – Herman Koeckemann - German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
1834 – Lord Acton - British historian (d. 1902)
1836 – Charles Ingalls - father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1840 – Louis Nazaire Bégin - Canadian archbishop & cardinal (d. 1925)
1843 – Frank James - American outlaw (d. 1915)
1849 – Francisco Ferrer Guardia - Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
1850 – John Wellborn Root - American architect (d. 1891)
1858 – Heinrich Zille - German illustrator & photographer (d. 1929)
1864 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
1865 – Mary Ingalls - sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1873 – Jack O'Neill - Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
1873 – George Orton - Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
1880 – Manuel Azaña y Diaz - Spanish republican President (d. 1940)
1883 – Francis X. Bushman - American actor (d. 1966)
1883 – Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi - Russian writer (d. 1945)
1887 – Robinson Jeffers - American poet (d. 1962)
1890 – Grigory Landsberg - Russian physicist (d. 1957)
1893 – Albert Jacka - Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
1898 – Katharine Blodgett - American scientist & inventor (d. 1979)
1903 – Barbara Hepworth - English sculptor (d. 1975)
1903 – Voldemar Väli - Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
1903 – Violet Wilkey - American actress (d. 1976)
1904 – Ray Bolger - American actor & dancer (d. 1987)
1905 – Albert Arlen - Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (d. 1993)
1908 – Paul Henreid - Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1908 – Bernard Lee - English actor (d. 1981)
1910 – Jean Martinon - French conductor & composer (d. 1976)
1912 – Maria Mandel - Austrian Auschwitz prison guard (d. 1948)
1913 – Gustáv Husák - President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
1913 – Mehmet Shehu - Albanian politician (d. 1981)
1914 – Yu Kuo-hwa - Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
1915 – Dean Dixon - American conductor (d. 1976)
1916 – Sune Bergström - Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1916 – Don Metz - Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1916 – Eldzier Cortor - American painter
1917 – Jerry Wexler - American record producer (d. 2008)
1918 – Arthur Chung - President of Guyana (d. 2008)
1920 – Georges Marchal - French actor (d. 1997)
1920 – Max Patkin - American baseball player (d. 1999)
1921 – Rodger Ward - American racing driver (d. 2004)
1924 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff - Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer & director (d. 1996)
1924 – Max Roach - American musician & composer (d. 2007)
1926 – Musallam Bseiso - Palestinian journalist & politician
1927 – Gisele MacKenzie - Canadian singer (d. 2003)
1927 – Lee Philips - American actor (d. 1999)
1927 – Johnnie Ray - American singer (d. 1990)
1927 – Otto Stich - Swiss politician
1928 – Philip Levine - American poet
1929 – Derek Hammond-Stroud - English operatic baritone
1930 – Roy Edward Disney - American film executive (d. 2009)
1931 – Peter Barnes - English writer (d. 2004)
1932 – Elaine Devry - American actress
1933 – Anton Rodgers - English actor (d. 2007)
1934 – Leonid Kravchuk - Ukrainian politician
1935 – Ronnie Hawkins - American musician
1935 – Sherrill Milnes - American baritone
1936 – Stephen Ambrose - American historian (d. 2002)
1936 – Burnum Burnum - Australian activist, actor & author (d. 1997)
1936 – Al Goldstein - American publisher & pornographer
1936 – Robert Woodrow Wilson - American physicist, radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
1937 – Thomas Penfield Jackson - American judge
1938 – Donald Knuth - American mathematician & computer scientist
1938 – Frank Mahovlich - Canadian ice hockey player & Canadian Senator
1938 – Willie McCovey - American baseball player
1939 – Jared Carter - American poet
1939 – David Horowitz - American author & political commentator
1939 – William Levy - Dutch writer
1939 – Scott McKenzie - American singer
1939 – Sal Mineo - American actor (d. 1976)
1939 – Bill Toomey - American athlete
1940 – Guy Chevrette - Quebec politician
1940 – Harry Gant - American racing driver
1940 – Ntare VI of Ankole - Omugabe of Nkole
1940 – Yesudas - Indian playback singer & classical musician
1942 – Walter Hill - American film director
1943 – Jim Croce - American singer (d. 1973)
1944 – Rory Byrne - South African racing car designer
1944 – Bernard Derome - Canadian news presenter
1944 – William Sanderson - American actor
1944 – Frank Sinatra - Jr., American singer
1945 – John Fahey - Australian politician
1945 – Jennifer Moss - English Actress (d. 2006)
1945 – Rod Stewart - Scottish singer
1945 – Edward Wiskoski - American wrestler
1946 – Aynsley Dunbar - English musician
1947 – Afeni Shakur - mother of Tupac Shakur
1947 – Peer Steinbrueck - German politician
1948 – Donald Fagen - American musician (Steely Dan)
1948 – Teresa Graves - American actress & singer (d. 2002)
1948 – Mischa Maisky - Latvian cellist
1948 – Bernard Thévenet - French cyclist
1949 – George Foreman - American boxer
1949 – James Lapine - American stage director
1949 – Linda Lovelace - American pornographic actress (d. 2002)
1950 – Roy Blunt - American politician, House minority whip
1950 – Ernie Wasson - American gardener & writer
1951 – Paul DiMaggio - American educator
1952 – Scott Thurston - American musician
1953 – Pat Benatar - American singer
1953 – Dennis Cooper - American author
1953 – Bobby Rahal - American racing driver & team owner
1955 – Michael Schenker - German guitarist (UFO)
1956 – Shawn Colvin - American singer
1956 – Antonio Muñoz Molina - Spanish writer
1957 – Greg Walden - American politician
1958 – Anatoly Pisarenko - Soviet weightlifter
1959 – Fran Walsh - New Zealand screenwriter
1960 – Gurinder Chadha - British film director
1960 – Brian Cowen - Taoiseach of Ireland
1960 – Benoît Pelletier - Canadian politician
1960 – Samira Said - Moroccan singer
1961 – Evan Handler - American actor
1961 – Janet Jones - American actress
1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - Italian violinist
1962 – Michael Fortier - Canadian politician
1963 – Mark Pryor - American politician
1963 – David Dewayne Johnson - American convicted murderer (d. 2000)
1964 – Brad Roberts - Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
1965 – Butch Hartman - American animator
1966 – Steve Kramer - American politician
1967 – Johan Laats - Belgian judoka
1970 – Buff Bagwell - American wrestler
1970 – Alisa Maric - Serbian-born chess grandmaster
1972 – Thomas Alsgaard - Norwegian cross-country skier
1972 – Brian Lawler - Abdelrahman Abdelhamid
1973 – Ryan Drummond - American voice actor
1973 – Glenn Robinson - American basketball player
1973 – Félix Trinidad - Puerto Rican boxer
1974 – Jemaine Clement - New Zealand actor
1974 – Davide Dionigi - Italian footballer
1974 – Akari Kaida - Japanese composer
1974 – Steve Marlet - French footballer
1974 – Hrithik Roshan - Indian actor
1975 – Jake Delhomme - American football player
1976 – Adam Kennedy - American baseball player
1978 – Brent Smith - American singer (Shinedown)
1980 – Nelson Cuevas - Paraguayan footballer
1980 – Petri Lindroos - Finnish musician (Ensiferum)
1980 – Sarah Shahi - American actress & model
1981 – Brian Joo - Korean-born singer
1982 – Josh Ryan Evans - American actor (d. 2002)
1983 – Danilo Dirani - Brazilian racing driver
1983 – Li Nina - Chinese aerial skier
1985 – Alex Meraz - American actor
1986 – Abigail Clancy - English model
1986 – Saleisha Stowers - American model
1989 – Kyle Reimers - Australian rules footballer
1990 – Tao Li - Singaporean swimmer
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January 10th - Births:
1480 – Margaret of Austria - Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
1538 – Louis of Nassau - Dutch general (d. 1574)
1573 – Simon Marius - German astronomer (d. 1624)
1607 – Isaac Jogues - French missionary (d. 1646)
1628 – George Villiers - 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
1638 – Nicolas Steno - Danish geologist (d. 1686)
1644 – Louis François - duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
1654 – Joshua Barnes - English scholar (d. 1712)
1702 – Johannes Zick - German painter (d. 1762)
1715 – Christian August Crusius - German philosopher & theologian (d. 1775)
1721 – Johann Philipp Baratier - German scholar (d. 1740)
1729 – Lazzaro Spallanzani - Italian biologist (d. 1799)
1738 – Ethan Allen - American military leader (d. 1789)
1750 – Thomas Erskine - 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)
1769 – Michel Ney - French marshal (d. 1815)
1797 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff - German writer (d. 1848)
1810 – Jeremiah S. Black - American statesman (d. 1883)
1812 – Georg Hermann Nicolai - German architect (d. 1881)
1815 – Sir John Alexander Macdonald - first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
1828 – Herman Koeckemann - German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
1834 – Lord Acton - British historian (d. 1902)
1836 – Charles Ingalls - father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1840 – Louis Nazaire Bégin - Canadian archbishop & cardinal (d. 1925)
1843 – Frank James - American outlaw (d. 1915)
1849 – Francisco Ferrer Guardia - Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
1850 – John Wellborn Root - American architect (d. 1891)
1858 – Heinrich Zille - German illustrator & photographer (d. 1929)
1864 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
1865 – Mary Ingalls - sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1873 – Jack O'Neill - Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
1873 – George Orton - Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
1880 – Manuel Azaña y Diaz - Spanish republican President (d. 1940)
1883 – Francis X. Bushman - American actor (d. 1966)
1883 – Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi - Russian writer (d. 1945)
1887 – Robinson Jeffers - American poet (d. 1962)
1890 – Grigory Landsberg - Russian physicist (d. 1957)
1893 – Albert Jacka - Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
1898 – Katharine Blodgett - American scientist & inventor (d. 1979)
1903 – Barbara Hepworth - English sculptor (d. 1975)
1903 – Voldemar Väli - Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
1903 – Violet Wilkey - American actress (d. 1976)
1904 – Ray Bolger - American actor & dancer (d. 1987)
1905 – Albert Arlen - Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (d. 1993)
1908 – Paul Henreid - Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1908 – Bernard Lee - English actor (d. 1981)
1910 – Jean Martinon - French conductor & composer (d. 1976)
1912 – Maria Mandel - Austrian Auschwitz prison guard (d. 1948)
1913 – Gustáv Husák - President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
1913 – Mehmet Shehu - Albanian politician (d. 1981)
1914 – Yu Kuo-hwa - Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
1915 – Dean Dixon - American conductor (d. 1976)
1916 – Sune Bergström - Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1916 – Don Metz - Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1916 – Eldzier Cortor - American painter
1917 – Jerry Wexler - American record producer (d. 2008)
1918 – Arthur Chung - President of Guyana (d. 2008)
1920 – Georges Marchal - French actor (d. 1997)
1920 – Max Patkin - American baseball player (d. 1999)
1921 – Rodger Ward - American racing driver (d. 2004)
1924 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff - Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer & director (d. 1996)
1924 – Max Roach - American musician & composer (d. 2007)
1926 – Musallam Bseiso - Palestinian journalist & politician
1927 – Gisele MacKenzie - Canadian singer (d. 2003)
1927 – Lee Philips - American actor (d. 1999)
1927 – Johnnie Ray - American singer (d. 1990)
1927 – Otto Stich - Swiss politician
1928 – Philip Levine - American poet
1929 – Derek Hammond-Stroud - English operatic baritone
1930 – Roy Edward Disney - American film executive (d. 2009)
1931 – Peter Barnes - English writer (d. 2004)
1932 – Elaine Devry - American actress
1933 – Anton Rodgers - English actor (d. 2007)
1934 – Leonid Kravchuk - Ukrainian politician
1935 – Ronnie Hawkins - American musician
1935 – Sherrill Milnes - American baritone
1936 – Stephen Ambrose - American historian (d. 2002)
1936 – Burnum Burnum - Australian activist, actor & author (d. 1997)
1936 – Al Goldstein - American publisher & pornographer
1936 – Robert Woodrow Wilson - American physicist, radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
1937 – Thomas Penfield Jackson - American judge
1938 – Donald Knuth - American mathematician & computer scientist
1938 – Frank Mahovlich - Canadian ice hockey player & Canadian Senator
1938 – Willie McCovey - American baseball player
1939 – Jared Carter - American poet
1939 – David Horowitz - American author & political commentator
1939 – William Levy - Dutch writer
1939 – Scott McKenzie - American singer
1939 – Sal Mineo - American actor (d. 1976)
1939 – Bill Toomey - American athlete
1940 – Guy Chevrette - Quebec politician
1940 – Harry Gant - American racing driver
1940 – Ntare VI of Ankole - Omugabe of Nkole
1940 – Yesudas - Indian playback singer & classical musician
1942 – Walter Hill - American film director
1943 – Jim Croce - American singer (d. 1973)
1944 – Rory Byrne - South African racing car designer
1944 – Bernard Derome - Canadian news presenter
1944 – William Sanderson - American actor
1944 – Frank Sinatra - Jr., American singer
1945 – John Fahey - Australian politician
1945 – Jennifer Moss - English Actress (d. 2006)
1945 – Rod Stewart - Scottish singer
1945 – Edward Wiskoski - American wrestler
1946 – Aynsley Dunbar - English musician
1947 – Afeni Shakur - mother of Tupac Shakur
1947 – Peer Steinbrueck - German politician
1948 – Donald Fagen - American musician (Steely Dan)
1948 – Teresa Graves - American actress & singer (d. 2002)
1948 – Mischa Maisky - Latvian cellist
1948 – Bernard Thévenet - French cyclist
1949 – George Foreman - American boxer
1949 – James Lapine - American stage director
1949 – Linda Lovelace - American pornographic actress (d. 2002)
1950 – Roy Blunt - American politician, House minority whip
1950 – Ernie Wasson - American gardener & writer
1951 – Paul DiMaggio - American educator
1952 – Scott Thurston - American musician
1953 – Pat Benatar - American singer
1953 – Dennis Cooper - American author
1953 – Bobby Rahal - American racing driver & team owner
1955 – Michael Schenker - German guitarist (UFO)
1956 – Shawn Colvin - American singer
1956 – Antonio Muñoz Molina - Spanish writer
1957 – Greg Walden - American politician
1958 – Anatoly Pisarenko - Soviet weightlifter
1959 – Fran Walsh - New Zealand screenwriter
1960 – Gurinder Chadha - British film director
1960 – Brian Cowen - Taoiseach of Ireland
1960 – Benoît Pelletier - Canadian politician
1960 – Samira Said - Moroccan singer
1961 – Evan Handler - American actor
1961 – Janet Jones - American actress
1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - Italian violinist
1962 – Michael Fortier - Canadian politician
1963 – Mark Pryor - American politician
1963 – David Dewayne Johnson - American convicted murderer (d. 2000)
1964 – Brad Roberts - Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
1965 – Butch Hartman - American animator
1966 – Steve Kramer - American politician
1967 – Johan Laats - Belgian judoka
1970 – Buff Bagwell - American wrestler
1970 – Alisa Maric - Serbian-born chess grandmaster
1972 – Thomas Alsgaard - Norwegian cross-country skier
1972 – Brian Lawler - Abdelrahman Abdelhamid
1973 – Ryan Drummond - American voice actor
1973 – Glenn Robinson - American basketball player
1973 – Félix Trinidad - Puerto Rican boxer
1974 – Jemaine Clement - New Zealand actor
1974 – Davide Dionigi - Italian footballer
1974 – Akari Kaida - Japanese composer
1974 – Steve Marlet - French footballer
1974 – Hrithik Roshan - Indian actor
1975 – Jake Delhomme - American football player
1976 – Adam Kennedy - American baseball player
1978 – Brent Smith - American singer (Shinedown)
1980 – Nelson Cuevas - Paraguayan footballer
1980 – Petri Lindroos - Finnish musician (Ensiferum)
1980 – Sarah Shahi - American actress & model
1981 – Brian Joo - Korean-born singer
1982 – Josh Ryan Evans - American actor (d. 2002)
1983 – Danilo Dirani - Brazilian racing driver
1983 – Li Nina - Chinese aerial skier
1985 – Alex Meraz - American actor
1986 – Abigail Clancy - English model
1986 – Saleisha Stowers - American model
1989 – Kyle Reimers - Australian rules footballer
1990 – Tao Li - Singaporean swimmer
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January 10 - General (Calendar Date)

January 10th - Basic Facts:
- January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
- There are 355 days remaining until the end of the year (356 in leap years).
- The preceding day is January 9.
- Next day is January 11.
January 10th Deaths (Here)
January 10th Events:
49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire (Battle of Vaslui).
1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
1806 – Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1810 – The marriage Between Napoleon & Josephine is annulled.
1861 – Florida secedes from the Union (American Civil War).
1863 – The London Underground opens between London Paddington station & Farringdon station.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1920 – The League of Nations holds its first meeting, & ratifies the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I.
1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
1923 – Lithuania seizes & annexes Memel.
1941 – Lend-Lease is introduced in the U.S. Congress.
1941 – The Greek army captures Kleisoura (World War II).
1946 – First General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London (51 nations represented).
1962 – NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster (Apollo Project).
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns as president to the newly independent Bangladesh.
1984 – The United States & the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations (after 117 years).
1990 – Time Warner is formed from merger of Time Inc. & Warner Communications Inc.
2001 – Large section of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
2005 – A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people.
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CURB-65 (Clinical Prediction Rule)

CURB-65 Basic Facts:
- CURB-65 (CURB criteria) is a clinical prediction rule.
- It is an acronym for 5 risk factors (each scoring one point) giving a maximum score of 5.
- Validated for predicting mortality in community-acquired pneumonia (Lim et al 2003). [1]
- More recently the CURB-65 has been validated for mortality prediction for infections at any site (Howell et al 2007). [2]
- C - Confusion (defined as an AMT(*) of 8 or less).
- U - Urea greater than 7 mmol/l (Blood Urea Nitrogen > 19).
- R - Respiratory rate of 30 breaths per minute or more.
- B - Blood pressure (BP) less than 90 mmHg systolic or diastolic BP 60 mmHg or less.
- 65 - Age 65 or older.
- 0 = 0.7%
- 1 = 3.2%
- 2 = 13.0%
- 3 = 17.0%
- 4 = 41.5%
- 5 = 57.0%
- 0 to 1 = < 5% mortality.
- 2 to 3 = < 10% mortality.
- 4 to 5 = 15-30% mortality.
References:
[1] - Lim WS, van der Eerden MM, Laing R, et al. (2003). "Defining community acquired pneumonia severity on presentation to hospital: an international derivation and validation study". Thorax 58 (5): 377–82.
[2] - Howell MD, Donnino MW, Talmor D, Clardy P, Ngo L, Shapiro NI (2007). "Performance of severity of illness scoring systems in emergency department patients with infection". Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 14 (8): 709–14.
Image - Lobar Pneumonia Pathology by Pulmonary Pathology (cc)
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Greater London, City of London and the 32 London Boroughs

London Boroughs Basic Facts:
- Greater London contains 32 London boroughs plus the City of London.
- Inner London comprises 12 boroughs plus the City of London.
- Outer London comprises the remaining 20 boroughs.
- The London boroughs are administered by London Borough Councils (elected every 4 years).
- The present London boroughs were created by the London Government Act 1963.
- City of London (not a borough)
- City of Westminster
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Wandsworth
- Lambeth
- Southwark
- Tower Hamlets
- Hackney
- Islington
- Camden
- Brent
- Ealing
- Hounslow
- Richmond
- Kingston
- Merton
- Sutton
- Croydon
- Bromley
- Lewisham
- Greenwich
- Bexley
- Havering
- Barking and Dagenham
- Redbridge
- Newham
- Waltham Forest
- Haringey
- Enfield
- Barnet
- Harrow
- Hillingdon
Image - London Boroughs by Notscott (Wikipedia) (cc)
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Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica) Marine Isopod

Sea Slater Biology Facts:
- Scientific name - Ligia oceanica (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Common names - Sea slater, common sea slater, sea roach.
- Marine crustacean.
- Largest oniscid isopod.
- Resembles a large woodlouse & is relative of woodlice.
- Has long antennae & 7 pairs of walking legs.
- Also has 2 uropod projections at end of abdomen.
- Grows to a maximum of 2.5 - 3 cm in length.
- Kingdom: - Animalia
- Phylum: - Arthropoda
- Subphylum: - Crustacea
- Class: - Malacostraca
- Order: - Isopoda
- Family: - Ligiidae
- Genus: - Ligia
- Species: - L. oceanica
- Lives particularly in rocky littoral zones.
- Can be found above highwater mark on rocks & harbour walls.
- Limited to damp environments because it has gills (but does not live in water).
- Feeds on plant & animal debris (omnivore) during the night.
- Active at night to reduce predation by seabirds.
- Lives for around 2½ to 3 years.
- Sea slaters usually breed only once in their lifetime (in 3rd year).
- Breeding takes place in spring & summer.
- In Europe it is found from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia.
Image - Sea Slater by me'nthedogs (cc)
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Codicology (Study of Books)

Codicology Facts:
- Codicology is the study of books as physical objects.
- Particularly refers to manuscipts written on parchment (paper) in codex (modern book) form.
- Has been described as 'the archeology of the book'.
- Included in the discipline is the examination of materials & techniques used in making books.
- Relates also to the study of manuscripts, as artifacts, in their cultural context.
- Some definitions include paleography (study of handwriting) within the field of codicology.
- Codicology - from Latin cōdex & Greek -λογία, -logia.
- The term codicology is of recent origin.
- There is some argument as to whether the inventor was the classical philologist Alphonse Dain or the historian Charles Samaran.
- Likely that Charles Samaran invented codicography, based on the term paleography, with Alphonse Dain then deriving codicology from this.
Image - Istanbul Book Illustration by docman (cc)
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Most Common British Place Names (Ordnance Survey)
Commonest British place names based on Ordnance Survey:
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- Newton
- Blackhill / Black Hill
- Castlehill / Castle Hill
- Mountpleasant / Mount Pleasant
- Woodside / Wood Side
- Newtown / New Town
- Burnside
- Greenhill / Green Hill
- Woodend / Wood End
- Beacon Hill
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Scalp Layers (Anatomy Mnemonic)

The following mnemonic is a useful reminder of the anatomical layers in the scalp.
S - Skin
C - Close connective tissue & cutaneous vessels & nerves.
A - Aponeurosis (epicranial aponeurosis)
L - Loose connective tissue (scalping layer, "Danger Zone")
P - Pericranium (periosteum of skull bones)
Image - Gray's Anatomy Scalp Diagram (Public Domain)
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