Anniversaries 10 January
Birth
![Al-Farabi photo]()
Philosopher in 10th century Central Asia
872–951
![Hiram Price photo]()
American politician
1814–1901
![Aubrey Thomas de Vere photo]()
Irish poet and critic
1814–1902
![Theodore L. Cuyler photo]()
American minister
1822–1909
![John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton photo]()
British politician and historian
1834–1902
![Fukuzawa Yukichi photo]()
Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur …
1835–1901
![Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia photo]()
Spanish anarchist
1859–1909
![Dumas Malone photo]()
American historian and writer
1892–1986
![Percy Cerutty photo]()
Australian athletics coach
1895–1975
![Sergei Eisenstein photo]()
Soviet filmmaker
1898–1948
![Barbara Hepworth photo]()
English sculptor
1903–1975
![Juan Antonio Villacañas photo]()
Spanish poet, essayist and critic
1922–2001
![Johnnie Ray photo]()
American singer, actor, songwriter and composer
1927–1990
![Roy E. Disney photo]()
longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company
1930–2009
![Massimo Vignelli photo]()
Italian designer
1931–2014
![Stephen E. Ambrose photo]()
American historian
1936–2002
![Donald Ervin Knuth photo]()
American computer scientist
1938
![David Horowitz photo]()
Neoconservative activist, writer
1939
![George Alec Effinger photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1947–2002
![George Foreman photo]()
a retired American professional boxer, ordained Baptist min…
1949
![Paul DiMaggio photo]()
American sociologist
1951
![Koushun Takami photo]()
Japanese author and journalist
1969
![Drashti Dhami photo]()
Indian television actress and model
1985
Death
![Lu Jiuyuan photo]()
Chinese scholar
1139–1193
![William Laud photo]()
Archbishop of Canterbury
1573–1645
![Carl Linnaeus photo]()
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist
1707–1778
![Georg Forster photo]()
German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, …
1754–1794
![Francesco Dall'Ongaro photo]()
Italian poet, playwright and librettist
1808–1873
![Jaroslav Kvapil photo]()
Czech politician, poet, theatre director, playwright, libre…
1868–1950
![Eino Leino photo]()
Finnish poet and journalist
1878–1926
![Coco Chanel photo]()
French fashion designer
1883–1971
![Sinclair Lewis photo]()
American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
1885–1951
![Isabel Paterson photo]()
author and editor
1886–1961
![Gabriela Mistral photo]()
Chilean poet-diplomat, writer, educator and feminist.
1889–1957
![Luther H. Gulick photo]()
American academic
1892–1993
![Dashiell Hammett photo]()
American writer
1894–1961
![Jaroslav Seifert photo]()
Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate
1901–1986
![Charles Olson photo]()
American writer
1910–1970
![Fawn M. Brodie photo]()
American historian and biographer
1915–1981
![Harry V. Jaffa photo]()
American historian and collegiate professor
1918–2015
![Maila Nurmi photo]()
Finnish-American actress
1922–2008
![James Forman photo]()
American civil rights leader
1928–2005
![John G. Schmitz photo]()
American politician
1930–2001
![Joe Gores photo]()
American writer
1931–2011
![Alexandra Ripley photo]()
American writer
1934–2004
![Constantine II of Greece photo]()
former King of Greece
1940–2023
![George Pell photo]()
Australian Catholic cardinal and convicted sex offender
1941–2023
![David Bowie photo]()
British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
1947–2016
