Deaths in History on February 10

Temür Khan (1265-1307)

Second Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (1294-1307), grandson and successor to Kublai Khan, dies at 41

1482 Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81
1495 William Stanley, Engl lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy
1543 Johann Eck, German Scholastic theologian and early counter-reformer against Lutheran challenges, dies a 56
1567 Lord Darnley Stuart, husband of English queen Mary, murdered
1576 Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1588 Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at about 82
1598 Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies
1657 Sebastian Stosskopf, Elizabethan painter, dies at 59
1678 Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
1686 William Dugdale, English antiquarian and Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies at 80
1711 Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante), dies at 22
1722 Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (raided ships off the Americas and West Africa between 1719-1722), dies at 39
1755 Montesquieu, French philosopher and writer (Letters Persanes), dies at 66
1758 Thomas Ripley, English architect
1772 Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein and general, dies at 75
1782 Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German Lutheran theologian, dies at 79
1822 Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 83
1825 Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist and philosopher (Kant), dies at 68
1829 Leo XII [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
1836 Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, French chemist (worked with husband Antoine Lavoisier), dies at 78
1837 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and writer (Eugene Onegin), killed in a duel at 37
1852 Samuel Prout, British water color painter, dies at 68
1857 David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (Columbia River), dies at 86
1861 Francis Danby, Irish painter, dies at 67
1865 Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1868 David Brewster, Scottish physicist and inventor (kaleidoscope), dies at 86
1876 Reverdy Johnson, American politician and jurist (Dred Scott v. Sandford), dies at 79
1878 Claude Bernard, French physiologist involved in the founding of modern physiology (blind experiments), dies at 64
1887 Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73
1887 Pieter Jan Baptist Carel Robidé van der Aa, Dutch Indologist and geographer, dies at 54
1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1902 J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
1904 John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
1906 Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician, dies at 78
1907 William Howard Russell, Irish war pioneering correspondent, dies at 87
1908 Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Egyptian lawyer, journalist, Nationalist and a founder of Egyptian National Party, dies at 33
1912 Joseph Lister, British surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic surgery), dies at 84
1915 Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
1917 John William Waterhouse, British painter, dies of cancer at 67
1918 Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909), dies at 75

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833-1918)

Italian journalist, soldier and pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), dies at 84

Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923)

German physicist who discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901), dies of cancer at 77

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)

English novelist, playwright and journalist (The Terror, The Four Just Men) who created King Kong, dies of diabetes at 76

Pius XI (1857-1939)

Italian 259th Pope (1922-39), dies at 81

1943 Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance
1944 Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
1945 Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
1950 Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
1952 Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)

American author (Little House on the Prairie), dies at 90

1960 Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1962 Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter and graphic artist, dies at 83
1964 Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 Billy Rose [William Samuel Rosenberg], American theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
1968 Pitirim Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist (Social mobility), dies at 79
1975 Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1983 Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria), dies at 69
1987 Sadequain, Pakistani artist, painter, calligrapher and artist, dies at 56

Alex Haley (1921-1992)

American writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70

1992 Florence Tarlow, dies of cancer at 70
1992 Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
1992 Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr Faustus), dies
1993 Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1993 John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
1993 Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France (1957), dies
1995 Kenton Kilmer, American writer, dies of cancer at 85
1995 Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75
1995 Paul Monette, American writer, dies of AIDS at 49
1995 S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
1996 Hugh Francis Lamprey, British ecologist, dies at 67
1997 Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
1997 Milton Cato, 1st Prime Minister of San Vincent and the Grenadines (1979-84), dies at 82
1998 Buddy the Wonder Dog, dog (Air Bud), dies of cancer at 9
1998 Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (1969-73), dies at 86
2001 Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2002 Traudl Junge, German secretary to Adolf Hitler, dies at 81
2003 Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
2003 Bengt Edlén, Swedish Astrophysicist who specialized in spectroscopy and discovered the source of unidentified emission lines in solar spectrum, dies at 86
2003 Clark MacGregor, American Republican politician (involved in Watergate), dies at 80
2003 Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer, dies at 92
2003 Ron Ziegler, American White House press secretary to Richard Nixon, dies at 63
2004 Margaret Stacey, English sociologist who helped shape the distinctively British genre of empirical sociology, dies at 81

Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

American playwright (Death of a Salesman; The Crucible), dies of heart failure while battling bladder cancer at 89

2007 Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., American businessman (President of Walgreens), dies at 100
2008 Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
2010 Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
2012 Jeffrey Zaslow, American author and columnist, dies in a car accident at 53
2013 Eugenio Trías Sagnier, Spanish philosopher, dies at 70