Anniversaries 10 January

Birth

Al-Farabi2

Philosopher in 10th century Central Asia 872–951

Hiram Price1

American politician 1814–1901

Aubrey Thomas de Vere4

Irish poet and critic 1814–1902

Theodore L. Cuyler41

American minister 1822–1909

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton112

British politician and historian 1834–1902

Джон Эмерих Эдвард Дальберг-Актон1

1834–1902

Fukuzawa Yukichi12

Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur … 1835–1901

Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia5

Spanish anarchist 1859–1909

Robinson Jeffers59

American poet 1887–1962

Dumas Malone1

American historian and writer 1892–1986

Percy Cerutty1

Australian athletics coach 1895–1975

Sergei Eisenstein1

Soviet filmmaker 1898–1948

Henning von Tresckow11

German general 1901–1944

Barbara Hepworth40

English sculptor 1903–1975

Michel Henry45

French writer 1922–2002

Juan Antonio Villacañas7

Spanish poet, essayist and critic 1922–2001

Johnnie Ray5

American singer, actor, songwriter and composer 1927–1990

Philip Levine4

Poet 1928–2015

Fali Sam Nariman24

Indian politician 1929

Roy E. Disney3

longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company 1930–2009

Peter Barnes2

British writer 1931–2004

Massimo Vignelli3

Italian designer 1931–2014

Ronnie Hawkins2

American musician 1935

Stephen E. Ambrose3

American historian 1936–2002

Robert Woodrow Wilson1

American astronomer 1936

Donald Ervin Knuth32

American computer scientist 1938

David Horowitz17

Neoconservative activist, writer 1939

George Alec Effinger59

Novelist, short story writer 1947–2002

George Foreman4

a retired American professional boxer, ordained Baptist min… 1949

Roy Blunt2

American politician 1950

Paul DiMaggio12

American sociologist 1951

Dorianne Laux5

American poet 1952

James Alan Gardner1

Canadian writer 1955

Yasmina Khadra7

Algerian writer 1955

Greg Walden3

American politician 1957

Brian Cowen12

Irish politician 1960

Richard Bartle3

British writer 1960

Mark Pryor1

American politician 1963

Samuel Sejjaaka1

Ugandan businessman 1964

Koushun Takami11

Japanese author and journalist 1969

Kalki Koechlin4

Indian actress 1984

Drashti Dhami11

Indian television actress and model 1985

Death

Lu Jiuyuan1

Chinese scholar 1139–1193

William Laud11

Archbishop of Canterbury 1573–1645

Carl Linnaeus23

Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist 1707–1778

Georg Forster6

German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, … 1754–1794

Francesco Dall'Ongaro6

Italian poet, playwright and librettist 1808–1873

Joseph McCabe9

British writer 1867–1955

Jaroslav Kvapil2

Czech politician, poet, theatre director, playwright, libre… 1868–1950

Eino Leino7

Finnish poet and journalist 1878–1926

Coco Chanel22

French fashion designer 1883–1971

Sinclair Lewis136

American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885–1951

Isabel Paterson17

author and editor 1886–1961

Gabriela Mistral2

Chilean poet-diplomat, writer, educator and feminist. 1889–1957

Luther H. Gulick13

American academic 1892–1993

Dashiell Hammett39

American writer 1894–1961

Jaroslav Seifert1

Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate 1901–1986

Elspeth Huxley1

Kenyan writer 1907–1997

Charles Olson9

American writer 1910–1970

Fawn M. Brodie5

American historian and biographer 1915–1981

Harry V. Jaffa171

American historian and collegiate professor 1918–2015

Maila Nurmi2

Finnish-American actress 1922–2008

James Forman7

American civil rights leader 1928–2005

John G. Schmitz3

American politician 1930–2001

Joe Gores1

American writer 1931–2011

Alexandra Ripley1

American writer 1934–2004

Constantine II of Greece3

former King of Greece 1940–2023

George Pell1

Australian Catholic cardinal and convicted sex offender 1941–2023

David Bowie105

British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947–2016