| 15961 | February 10 | Event | 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law. |
| 15962 | February 10 | Event | 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq. |
| 15963 | February 10 | Event | 2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. |
| 15964 | February 10 | Event | 2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. |
| 15965 | February 10 | Birth | 1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (d. 1582) |
| 15966 | February 10 | Birth | 1524 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician (d. 1580) |
| 15967 | February 10 | Birth | 1606 – Christine Marie of France (d. 1663) |
| 15968 | February 10 | Birth | 1609 – John Suckling, English poet and playwright (d. 1642) |
| 15969 | February 10 | Birth | 1685 – Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (d. 1750) |
| 15970 | February 10 | Birth | 1696 – Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (d. 1765) |
| 15971 | February 10 | Birth | 1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (d. 1819) |
| 15972 | February 10 | Birth | 1775 – Charles Lamb, English author (d. 1834) |
| 15973 | February 10 | Birth | 1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836) |
| 15974 | February 10 | Birth | 1795 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (d. 1858) |
| 15975 | February 10 | Birth | 1808 – Honoré Daumier, French illustrator and painter (d. 1879) |
| 15976 | February 10 | Birth | 1821 – Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter (d. 1908) |
| 15977 | February 10 | Birth | 1824 – Samuel Plimsoll, English merchant and politician (d. 1898) |
| 15978 | February 10 | Birth | 1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer (d. 1907) |
| 15979 | February 10 | Birth | 1846 – Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician (d. 1919) |
| 15980 | February 10 | Birth | 1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (d. 1927) |
| 15981 | February 10 | Birth | 1847 – Nabinchandra Sen, Bangladeshi poet and author (d. 1909) |
| 15982 | February 10 | Birth | 1859 – Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (d. 1943) |
| 15983 | February 10 | Birth | 1867 – Robert Garran, Australian public servant (d. 1957) |
| 15984 | February 10 | Birth | 1868 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (d. 1879) |
| 15985 | February 10 | Birth | 1868 – William Allen White, American journalist and author (d. 1944) |
| 15986 | February 10 | Birth | 1879 – Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (d. 1932) |
| 15987 | February 10 | Birth | 1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (d. 1954) |
| 15988 | February 10 | Birth | 1884 – Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (d. 1976) |
| 15989 | February 10 | Birth | 1888 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet (d. 1970) |
| 15990 | February 10 | Birth | 1890 – Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist and rebel (d. 1918) |