June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining.

Events

1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher
1632 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
1637 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
1657 - James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721) (baptism: date of birth not recorded)
1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart (d. 1766)
1706 - John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
1710 - James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
1803 - Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
1804 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1825 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1819 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
1835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator (d. 1930)
1839 - Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
1861 - Pierre Duhem, French physicist (d. 1916)
1862 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
1863 - Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist (d. 1923)
1880 - André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
1889 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)
1895 - Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
1897 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)
1901 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (d. 1988)
1907 - Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
1908 - Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)
1910 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (d. 1976)
1910 - Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1910 - Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
1911 - Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
1912 - Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1913 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer
1915 - Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1918 - Barry Morse, British-born Canadian actor
1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
1921 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1922 - Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
1923 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born newspaperman (d. 1991)
1926 - Lionel Jeffries, British actor
1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
1927 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
1928 - Maurice Sendak, American writer
1929 - Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1929 - Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician
1929 - E. O. Wilson, American biologist
1931 - João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
1932 - Branko Lustig, film producer
1933 - Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian Prime Minister
1933 - F. Lee Bailey, American attorney
1935 - Vic Elford, British racing driver
1940 - Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (d. 2007)
1940 - John Stevens, British drummer (d. 1994)
1941 - Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
1941 - Mickey Jones, American musician and actor
1941 - Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
1941 - David Walker, Australian racing driver
1942 - Preston Manning, Canadian politician
1947 - Ken Singleton, American baseball player
1949 - John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
1950 - Elias Sosa, Major League Baseball pitcher
1951 - Dan Fouts, American football player
1953 - John Edwards, American politician
1957 - Lindsay Hoyle, British politician
1957 - Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
1959 - Eliot Spitzer, American politician
1959 - Carlo Ancelotti, A.C. Milan coach
1960 - Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor, Son of actor and politician N. T. Rama Rao
1961 - Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)
1961 - Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)
1962 - Gina Gershon, American actress
1962 - Koma Wong Ka-Kui, Hong Kong musician (Beyond) (d. 1993)
1962 - Vincent Perez, Swiss actor
1962 - Akie Abe, current First Lady of Japan
1963 - Brad Henry, American politician (current Oklahoma governor)
1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1964 - Ben Daniels, British actor
1965 - Elizabeth Hurley, British actress
1966 - David Platt, English footballer
1967 - Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing (band))
1968 - Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
1968 - The D.O.C., American rapper
1969 - Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
1970 - Mike Doughty, American singer
1971 - Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Congressman
1971 - Joel Hailey, American singer
1971 - Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
1971 - Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host and TV personality
1972 - Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician
1973 - Faith Evans, American singer
1973 - Pokey Reese, American baseball player
1975 - Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
1976 - Freddy García, American baseball player
1976 - Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
1976 - Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer
1977 - Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
1978 - Shane West, American actor
1979 - Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek footballer
1979 - Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-Greek basketball player
1980 - Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Jessica Di Cicco, American actress
1981 - Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer
1981 - Hoku, American singer and actress
1981 - Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1982 - Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
1983 - Leelee Sobieski, American actress
1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1985 - Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
1987 - Amobi Okoye, Nigeria-born American football player Births

323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC)
1075 - Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 - Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (drowned) (b. 1122)
1424 - Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
1552 - Alexander Barclay, English poet
1556 - Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
1580 - Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet
1607 - John Popham, English politician
1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1735 - Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
1776 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
1896 - Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1909 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1912 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
1918 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
1923 - Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)
1930 - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
1937 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1940 - Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887)
1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1946 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
1947 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
1949 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
1971 - Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
1973 - William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1974 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
1976 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born producer (b. 1873)
1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German author (b. 1945)
1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1940)
1986 - Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
1987 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
1988 - Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
1991 - Vercors, French writer (b. 1902)
1993 - Ayoola Adedeji Nigerian youth (b. 1993)
1996 - George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
1996 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
1998 - Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
1998 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2000 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
2000 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2001 - Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
2001 - Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
2002 - John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
2003 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
2003 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
2003 - Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
2004 - Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930)
2005 - Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
2007 - Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940)