Natural disasters in 1979

• Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado

People who died on February 10 (various years)

• 2007 – Ned Austin, American character actor
• 2007 – Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress
• 2006 – Dick Harmon, American golf instructor
• 2006 – J Dilla, American rapper/producer
• 2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright
• 2004 – Guy Provost, Quebec actor
• 2003 – Ron Ziegler, press secretary to Richard Nixon
• 2003 – Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California
• 2003 – Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota
• 2003 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler
• 2003 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer
• 2002 – Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s secretary
• 2001 – George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
• 2001 – Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City
• 2000 – Jim Varney, American actor
• 1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist
• 1992 – Alex Haley, American author
• 1987 – Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist
• 1985 – Johnny Mokan, baseball player
• 1984 – David Von Erich, professional wrestler
• 1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer
• 1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and band leader
• 1964 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer
• 1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal
• 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author
• 1952 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction
• 1950 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist
• 1944 – Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor
• 1939 – Pope Pius XI
• 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter
• 1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan
• 1917 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist
• 1912 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon
• 1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician
• 1904 – John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago
• 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
• 1865 – Heinrich Lenz, German physicist
• 1857 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer
• 1837 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist
• 1829 – Pope Leo XII
• 1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian
• 1758 – Thomas Ripley, English architect
• 1755 – Montesquieu, French writer
• 1722 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate
• 1686 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian
• 1576 – Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar
• 1278 – Margaret II of Flanders
• 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan
• 1162 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem
• 1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet