January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 355 days remaining (356 in leap years).
- 1843 - Frank James, outlaw (+ 1915)
- 1858 - Heinrich Zille[?], illustrator and photographer (+ 1929)
- 1883 - Francis X. Bushman[?], actor (+ 1966)
- 1883 - Aleksei Tolstoy[?], writer (+ 1945)
- 1899 - Axel Eggelbrecht[?], journalist (+ 1991)
- 1904 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (+ 1987)
- 1917 - Hilde Krahl[?], actress (+ 1999)
- 1917 - Jerry Wexler[?], record producer
- 1923 - Ingeborg Drewitz[?], writer (+ 1986)
- 1925 - Max Roach, drummer, composer
- 1927 - Gisele MacKenzie[?], singer
- 1927 - Johnnie Ray[?], singer (+ 1990)
- 1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
- 1930 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
- 1931 - Viktor Liebermann[?], violinist (+ 1999)
- 1936 - Stephen Ambrose, historian (+ 2002)
- 1936 - Robert Wilson[?], physicist, radio astronomer
- 1938 - Donald Knuth, mathematician, computer scientist
- 1938 - Willie McCovey[?], Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1939 - Bill Toomey[?], track and field athlete
- 1939 - Sal Mineo, actor (+ 1976)
- 1943 - Jim Croce, singer (+ 1973)
- 1945 - Rod Stewart, singer
- 1948 - Donald Fagen[?], keyboardist
- 1949 - George Foreman, boxer
- 1949 - James Lapine[?], stage director
- 1949 - Linda Lovelace, pornographic film actress (+ 2002)
- 1953 - Pat Benatar[?], singer
- 1953 - Bobby Rahal[?], automobile racer
- 1955 - Michael Schenker, guitar player of UFO and solo career
- 1956 - Shawn Colvin[?], singer
- 1976 - Emma Bunton, singer
- 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, botanist
- 1862 - Samuel Colt, inventor
- 1917 - William F. Cody, frontiersman
- 1941 - Joe Penner[?], comedian, actor
- 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, writer
- 1961 - Dashiell Hammett, writer
- 1970 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut
- 1971 - Coco Chanel, fashion designer
- 1971 - Gabrielle Chanel, perfumer
- 1976 - Howlin' Wolf[?], musician
- 1980 - George Meany[?], labor leader
- 1981 - Richard Boone[?], actor
- 1997 - Sheldon Leonard[?], producer, actor, director
- 2000 - Sam Jaffe[?], actor
See Also: January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
January 9 - January 11 - December 10 - February 10 - Historical anniversaries