February 10th
175 Notable deaths
Ellen Gates Starr
American social activist.
Born March 19th, 1859 in Laona Township.
Died February 10th, 1940 at 80 years old in Suffern (heart failure).
Eugen Sänger
Austrian aerospace engineer (1905-1964).
Born September 22nd, 1905 in Přísečnice.
Died February 10th, 1964 at 58 years old in Berlin.
Günter Brus
Austrian artist (1938–2024).
Born September 27th, 1938 in Ardning.
Died February 10th, 2024 at 85 years old in Graz. [ref]
Els Borst
Dutch politician (1932-2014).
Born March 22nd, 1932 in Amsterdam.
Died February 10th, 2014 at 81 years old in Bilthoven (stabbing). [ref]
Manuel Esquivel
Belizean politician.
Born May 2nd, 1940 in Belize City.
Died February 10th, 2022 at 81 years old [ref]
Feliks Koneczny
Polish historian and philosopher (1862–1949).
Born November 1st, 1862 in Kraków.
Died February 10th, 1949 at 86 years old in Kraków.
Zhuang Zedong
Chinese table tennis player (1940-2013).
Born August 7th, 1940 in Yangzhou.
Died February 10th, 2013 at 72 years old in Beijing (liver cancer).
Wilhelm Schmidt
German anthropologist, linguist and historian of religion.
Born February 16th, 1868 in Hörde. [ref]
Died February 10th, 1954 at 85 years old in Freiburg im Breisgau, Fribourg. [ref]
Israel Joshua Singer
Polish american yiddish novelist and translator (1893-1944).
Born November 30th, 1893 in Biłgoraj.
Died February 10th, 1944 at 50 years old in New York City (myocardial infarction).
Nikos Kavvadias
Greek poet (1910-1975).
Born January 11th, 1910 in Ussuriysk.
Died February 10th, 1975 at 65 years old in Athens (stroke).
Deaths 61 to 70 of 175
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. Dag Hammarskjold