April 10

This article is about the day of the year. For the song by Garbage, see April Tenth.

April 10 is the 100th day of the year (101st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 428 – Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 837 – Halley's Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles).
• 879 – Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the Western Franks.
• 1407 – The lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".
• 1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
• 1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
• 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
• 1741 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
• 1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
• 1816 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
• 1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
• 1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
• 1856 – The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University in Vermont.
• 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
• 1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
• 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
• 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
• 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.
• 1874 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
• 1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
• 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law.
• 1912 – The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
• 1916 – The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
• 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
• 1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
• 1941 – World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.
• 1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
• 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
• 1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
• 1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko.
• 1963 – 129 American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
• 1968 – Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
• 1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
• 1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
• 1972 – 20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
• 1972 – Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
• 1973 – A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashed in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people.
• 1979 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
• 1988 – The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast.
• 1991 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
• 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
• 1998 – Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).
• 2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
• 2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people.

Births

• 401 – Theodosius II, Roman emperor (d. 450)
• 1512 – James V of Scotland (d. 1542)
• 1583 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist and philosopher (d. 1645)
• 1651 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1708)
• 1656 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian founder of Rimouski (d. 1718)
• 1704 – Benjamin Heath, English scholar and author (d. 1766)
• 1707 – Michel Corrette, French organist, composer, and author (d. 1795)
• 1713 – John Whitehurst, English scientist and clockmaker (d. 1788)
• 1755 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (d. 1843)
• 1762 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
• 1778 – William Hazlitt, English critic and painter (d. 1830)
• 1783 – Hortense de Beauharnais, French-Dutch wife of Louis Bonaparte (d. 1837)
• 1794 – Matthew C. Perry, American navy officer (d. 1858)
• 1806 – Juliette Drouet, French actress (d. 1883)
• 1827 – Lew Wallace, American general, lawyer, and politician, 11th Governor of New Mexico Territory (d. 1905)
• 1829 – William Booth, English minister, founded The Salvation Army (d. 1912)
• 1837 – Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)
• 1847 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American politician, journalist, and publisher, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (d. 1911)
• 1864 – Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (d. 1932)
• 1865 – Jack Miner, American-Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
• 1867 – George William Russell, Irish author, poet, and painter (d. 1935)
• 1868 – George Arliss, English actor and playwright (d. 1946)
• 1873 – Kyösti Kallio, Finnish politician, 4th President of Finland (d. 1940)
• 1877 – Alfred Kubin, Austrian illustrator and author (d. 1959)
• 1879 – Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1939)
• 1879 – Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower (d. 1921)
• 1880 – Frances Perkins, American politician, 4th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1965)
• 1880 – Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (d. 1948)
• 1887 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• 1891 – Frank Barson, English footballer and coach (d. 1968)
• 1894 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman (d. 1983)
• 1897 – Ross Youngs, American baseball player (d. 1927)
• 1903 – Clare Boothe Luce, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and publisher, founded the Monthly Review (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Martin Denny, American pianist and composer (d. 2005)
• 1911 – Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign for France (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Boris Kidrič, Austrian-Slovenian politician (d. 1953)
• 1913 – Stefan Heym, German-American author (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Harry Morgan, American actor and director (d. 2011)
• 1916 – Lee Jung Seob, Korean painter (d. 1956)
• 1917 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1918 – Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Chuck Connors, American baseball player and actor (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Roger Gaillard, Haitian historian and author (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Kenneth Noland, American painter (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Linda Goodman, American astrologer and author (d. 1995)
• 1925 – Angelo Poffo, American wrestler (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Junior Samples, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1927 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor
• 1930 – Claude Bolling, French pianist, composer, and actor
• 1930 – Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Dolores Huerta, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers
• 1930 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish actor, director, and producer (d. 2001)
• 1932 – Delphine Seyrig, Lebanese-American actress and director (d. 1990)
• 1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
• 1933 – Rokusuke Ei, Japanese composer and author
• 1934 – David Halberstam, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1935 – John A. Bennett, American soldier (d. 1961)
• 1935 – Patrick Garland, English actor and director (d. 2013)
• 1936 – John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1936 – Bobbie Smith, American singer (The Spinners) (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet and author (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Don Meredith, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Claudio Magris, Italian author
• 1940 – Gloria Hunniford, Irish television and radio host
• 1941 – Paul Theroux, American scholar and author
• 1942 – Ian Callaghan, English footballer
• 1942 – Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1998)
• 1943 – Andrzej Badeński, Polish sprinter (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Margaret Pemberton, English author
• 1945 – Mordechai Mishani, Israeli politician (d. 2013)
• 1946 – David Angell, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2001)
• 1946 – Bob Watson, American baseball player and manager
• 1946 – Adolf Winkelmann, German director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1947 – David A. Adler. American author
• 1947 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican singer-songwriter and drummer (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
• 1949 – Daniel Mangeas, French sportscaster
• 1950 – Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player and manager
• 1950 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Parliament-Funkadelic, and The Parliaments) (d. 1992)
• 1950 – Akiko Wada, Japanese singer and actress
• 1951 – David Helvarg, American journalist and activist
• 1952 – Narayan Rane, Indian politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• 1952 – Steven Seagal, American actor, producer, and martial artist
• 1953 – Pamela Wallin, Canadian journalist and politician
• 1954 – Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Anne Lamott, American author
• 1954 – Peter MacNicol, American actor
• 1954 – Juan Williams, Panamanian-American journalist
• 1955 – Lesley Garrett, English soprano
• 1957 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (d. 2006)
• 1957 – Steve Gustafson, Spanish-American bass player (10,000 Maniacs)
• 1958 – Babyface, American singer-songwriter and producer (After 7, The Deele, and Manchild)
• 1958 – Bob Bell, Irish engineer
• 1958 – Yefim Bronfman, Uzbek-American pianist
• 1959 – Uwe Behrens, German footballer and manager
• 1959 – Davy Carton, English-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Saw Doctors and Blaze X)
• 1959 – Yvan Loubier, Canadian economist and politician
• 1959 – Brian Setzer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Stray Cats, The Tomcats, and The Brian Setzer Orchestra)
• 1960 – Steve Bisciotti, American businessman, co-founded Allegis Group
• 1960 – Katrina Leskanich, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Katrina and the Waves)
• 1960 – Terry Teagle, American basketball player
• 1961 – Nicky Campbell, Scottish journalist and game show host
• 1961 – Joe Cole, American roadie (d. 1991)
• 1962 – Steve Tasker, American football player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Warren DeMartini, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt)
• 1963 – Jeff Gray, American baseball player and coach
• 1963 – Doris Leuthard, Swiss lawyer and politician
• 1964 – Manon Bollegraf, Dutch tennis player
• 1964 – Felicia Collins, American guitarist (CBS Orchestra)
• 1964 – Gopinath Muthukad, Indian magician
• 1965 – Tim Alexander, American drummer (Primus and Major Lingo)
• 1967 – Donald Dufresne, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 – David Rovics, American singer-songwriter
• 1968 – Orlando Jones, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
• 1969 – Billy Jayne, American actor
• 1969 – Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter
• 1970 – Q-Tip, American rapper, producer, and actor (A Tribe Called Quest)
• 1970 – Enrico Ciccone, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Leonard Doroftei, Romanian-Canadian boxer
• 1970 – Kenny Lattimore, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Brad William Henke, American actor
• 1971 – Al Reyes, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1972 – Ed Byrne, Irish comedian and actor
• 1973 – Guillaume Canet, French actor and director
• 1973 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1973 – Aidan Moffat, Scottish singer-songwriter (Arab Strap)
• 1973 – Christopher Simmons, Canadian-American graphic designer, author, and educator
• 1974 – Eric Greitens, American lieutenant and author
• 1974 – Petros Passalis, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Henning Wehn, German-English comedian
• 1975 – Chris Carrabba, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dashboard Confessional and Further Seems Forever)
• 1975 – Terrence Lewis, Indian dancer and choreographer
• 1975 – Matthew Phillips, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
• 1976 – Sara Renner, Canadian skier
• 1978 – Sir Christus, Finnish guitarist (Negative)
• 1979 – Iván Alonso, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 – Kenyon Coleman, American football player
• 1979 – Shemekia Copeland, American singer
• 1979 – Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)
• 1979 – Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (KinKi Kids, J-Friends, and Toraji Haiji)
• 1979 – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer-songwriter (Theaudience)
• 1979 – Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer
• 1980 – Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Charlie Hunnam, English actor and screenwriter
• 1980 – Shao Jiayi, Chinese footballer
• 1980 – Kasey Kahne, American race car driver
• 1980 – Bryce Soderberg, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Lifehouse)
• 1981 – Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder
• 1981 – Anis Boussaïdi, Tunisian footballer
• 1981 – Laura Bell Bundy, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1981 – Liz McClarnon, English singer and dancer (Atomic Kitten)
• 1981 – Michael Pitt, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Pagoda)
• 1981 – Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Andre Ethier, American baseball player
• 1982 – Damián Lanza, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1982 – Chyler Leigh, American actress
• 1983 – Jamie Chung, American actress
• 1983 – Andrew Dost, American guitarist and songwriter (Fun and Anathallo)
• 1983 – Ryan Merriman, American actor
• 1983 – Hannes Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1983 – Haig Sutherland, Canadian actor
• 1984 – Faustina Agolley, English-Australian television host and producer
• 1984 – Jeremy Barrett, American figure skater
• 1984 – Cara DeLizia, American actress
• 1984 – Billy Kay, American actor
• 1984 – Natasha Melnick, American actress
• 1984 – Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1984 – David Obua, Ugandan footballer
• 1984 – Damien Perquis, French-Polish footballer
• 1984 – Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Jesús Gámez, Spanish footballer
• 1985 – Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Paula Reca, Argentinian actress
• 1986 – Olivia Borlée, Belgian sprinter
• 1986 – Fernando Gago, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 – Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Tore Reginiussen, Norwegian footballer
• 1986 – Ayesha Takia, Indian actress
• 1986 – Ben Torgersen, American actor
• 1987 – Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress
• 1987 – Jamie Renée Smith, American actress
• 1987 – Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano (Celtic Woman)
• 1988 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
• 1990 – Ben Amos, English footballer
• 1990 – Lulinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1990 – Andile Jali, South African footballer
• 1990 – Alex Pettyfer, English actor
• 1991 – Amanda Michalka, American singer-songwriter and actress (78violet)
• 1991 – Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
• 2005 – Big Brown, American race horse
• 2007 – Princess Ariane of the Netherlands

Deaths

• 879 – Louis the Stammerer, French son of Ermentrude of Orléans (b. 846)
• 948 – Hugh of Italy (b. 885)
• 1533 – Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
• 1545 – Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (b. 1485)
• 1585 – Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
• 1599 – Gabrielle d'Estrées, French mistress of Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
• 1601 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (b. 1562)
• 1619 – Thomas Jones, English-Irish archbishop (b. 1550)
• 1640 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)
• 1646 – Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
• 1667 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech doctor and scientist (b. 1595)
• 1704 – William Egon of Fürstenberg, German bishop (b. 1629)
• 1706 – Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)
• 1756 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1661)
• 1760 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
• 1786 – John Byron, English admiral (b. 1723)
• 1806 – Horatio Gates, English-American general (b. 1727)
• 1813 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
• 1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople (b. 1746)
• 1823 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)
• 1871 – Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1789)
• 1882 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
• 1904 – Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
• 1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English author, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1837)
• 1919 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general (b. 1879)
• 1920 – Moritz Cantor, German historian (b. 1829)
• 1931 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet and painter (b. 1883)
• 1938 – Joe "King" Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (b. 1885)
• 1942 – Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer (b. 1882)
• 1947 – Charles Nordhoff, English-American author(b. 1887)
• 1954 – Auguste Lumière, French director and producer (b. 1862)
• 1954 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1888)
• 1955 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest and philosopher (b. 1881)
• 1958 – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
• 1960 – André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
• 1962 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1886)
• 1962 – Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish bass player (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
• 1965 – Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1965 – Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1966 – Evelyn Waugh, English author (b. 1903)
• 1968 – Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
• 1969 – Harley Earl, American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1975 – Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1979 – Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
• 1983 – Issam Sartawi, Palestinian activist (b. 1935)
• 1986 – Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
• 1991 – Martin Hannett, English guitarist and producer (The Invisible Girls) (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1992 – Sam Kinison, American comedian and actor (b. 1953)
• 1993 – Chris Hani, South African politician and activist (b. 1942)
• 1994 – Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and judge (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Morarji Desai, Indian politician, 4th Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
• 1997 – Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945)
• 1998 – Jack Clemmons, American police officer (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Archbishop Seraphim of Athens (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German biochemist (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2000 – Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (Amadeus Quartet) (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Scott Gottlieb, American drummer (Bleed the Dream) (b. 1970)
• 2005 – Archbishop Iakovos of America (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
• 2007 – Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist (b. 1910)
• 2007 – Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Deborah Digges, American poet (b. 1950)
• 2010 – Passengers in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash:
  • Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish politician, 6th President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1919)
  • Maria Kaczyńska, Polish economist, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)
  • Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (b. 1949)
  • Anna Walentynowicz, Polish activist (b. 1929)
  • Janusz Zakrzeński, Polish actor (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Arthur Mercante, Sr., American referee (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
• 2011 – Homer Smith, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Lorenzo Antonetti, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Raymond Boudon, French academic (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (b. 1911)
• 2013 – Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Robert Edwards, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Alexandru Fronea, Romanian footballer (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Dick Hart, American golfer (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Aleksandar Kozlina, Croatian footballer (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Olive Lewin, Jamaican anthropologist and author (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr., American judge (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Enrique Ros, Cuban-American businessman, author, and activist (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Fulbert of Chartres
  • James, Azadanus and Abdicius
  • William of Ockham (Church of England)
  • William Law (Church of England)
  • April 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Siblings Day (United States)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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