Deaths in History on March 10

Tiberius (42 BC - 37 AD)

Roman emperor (14 AD-37 AD), dies at 78

483 Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies
1291 Arghun, 4th Mongul ruler of Ilkhanate dynasty
1391 Tvrtko I first king of Bosnia (b. 1338)
1510 Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
1513 John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)
1546 Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46
1584 Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
1585 Rembert Dodoens [Rembert Van Joenckema], Flemish physician and botanist, dies at 67
1588 Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar, dies at 54
1592 Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court) painter and carpet designer, dies
1597 Petrus Forestus, Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies
1669 John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
1670 Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
1682 Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 53
1735 Dirk T. van Cloon, Dutch lawyer and governor-general of East Indies, dies at about 46
1776 Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
1776 Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)
1792 John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1760-63), dies at 78
1819 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher and writer, dies at 76
1821 Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, second daughter of Duke and Duchess of Clarence, later King William IV and Queen Adelaide, dies at less than 3 months old
1826 John VI "the Clement", King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56
1861 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet and painter, dies at 47
1864 Maximilian II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria (1848-64), dies at 52
1865 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, American Confederate Major General, dies in a prison camp at 48
1872 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
1889 Yohannes IV [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
1892 Otto von Rees, Dutch Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1884-88), dies at 69
1895 Charles Frederick Worth, British fashion designer (House of Worth - Paris), dies of pneumonia at 69
1898 George Müller, Prussian Christian evangelist and orphanage builder, dies at 92
1906 Eugen Richter, German politician (Liberal), dies at 67
1907 Victoria Earle Matthews, American author and activist, dies at 45
1910 Karl Lueger, Austrian politician, cofounder and leader of the Austrian Christian Social Party, dies at 65

Harriet Tubman (1820/1822-1913)

American abolitionist, former slave and humanitarian (Underground Railroad), dies at about 91 {birth date uncertain]

1919 Amelia E. Barr, British-born American writer (Remember the Alamo), dies at 87
1925 John Fillmore Hayford, American Geodesist who established the theory of isostasy and founded the modern science of geodesy (precise measurements of the shape of the earth), dies at 56
1937 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer and Soviet dissident (We), dies at 53
1940 Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1942 William Henry Bragg, English physicist (Nobel 1915-analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays), dies at 79
1944 David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52
1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech statesman and Minister to London (1918-35), commits suicide or is murdered at 61
1948 Zelda Fitzgerald [née Sayre], American writer (This Side of Paradise) and wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, dies at 47
1951 Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician and diplomat, Prime minister of Japan (1945-46), dies at 78
1953 Charles Gordon Curtis, American inventor (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92
1966 Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953), dies at 77
1966 Mari Sandoz, American author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64
1973 Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated
1977 Pieter Jan Bouman, Dutch sociologist and historian, dies at 74
1977 Willem Schermerhorn, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1945-46), dies at 82
1980 Herman Tarnower, American doctor (Scarsdale Diet), shot and killed by girlfriend Jean Harris at 69
1980 Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet (Making a Poem), dies at 100
1982 Minoru Shirota, Japanese microbiologist and founder of the Yakult Honsha beverage company, dies at 82

Konstantin Chernenko (1911-1985)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1984-85), dies of Emphysema at 73

1990 Michael Stewart, British politician (Foreign Secretary 1965-66, 68-70), dies at 83
1993 C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (Pursuit of Progress) and author (Parkinson's Law), dies at 83
1993 David Gunn, American physician, killed by anti-abortionist Michael Griffin at 47
1994 Cecil Rolph Hewitt, English journalist and policeman, dies at 92
1994 Robert Shea, American author (Illuminatus!), dies of cancer at 61
1995 Carel Birnie, Dutch ballet producer, dies at 69
1995 Richard Baerlein, British racing writer, dies at 84
1996 Lucius E. Burch Jr, US civil rights leader, dies at 84
1999 Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor, dies at 79
2000 John Sladek, American sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs), dies at 62
2001 Michael Woodruff, English surgeon and scientist (organ transplantation), dies at 89
2008 Richard Fran Biegenwald, American serial killer (b. 1940)
2011 Howard A. Roberts, American choral director (Leslie Uggams Show), dies at 86
2012 F. Sherwood Rowland, American Nobel laureate in chemistry 1995, dies from Parkinson's disease at 84
2012 Jean Giraud, French comic artist (Alien, Tron), dies at 73
2012 Mykola Plaviuk, Ukrainian president (1978-81), dies at 86
2014 Joe McGinniss, American author (The Selling of the President 1968), dies at 71
2016 Anita Brookner, English novelist (Hotel du Lac) and art historian, dies at 87
2017 Robert James Waller, American author (Bridges of Madison County), dies at 77