Anniversaries 10 October
Birth
![John Tillotson photo]()
Archbishop of Canterbury
1630–1694
![Henry Cavendish photo]()
British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important ex…
1731–1810
![Magnus Björnstjerna photo]()
Swedish count and general (1779-1847)
1779–1847
![George Pope Morris photo]()
American publisher
1802–1864
![Giuseppe Verdi photo]()
Italian composer
1813–1901
![Mark Pattison photo]()
English author and Church of England priest
1813–1884
![Paul Kruger photo]()
President of the South African Republic
1825–1904
![Fridtjof Nansen photo]()
Norwegian polar explorer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1861–1930
![Alberto Giacometti photo]()
Swiss sculptor and painter (1901-1966)
1901–1966
![R. K. Narayan photo]()
writer of Indian English literature
1906–2001
![Michael Lydon photo]()
Irish politician
1907–1977
![Kwame Nkrumah photo]()
Pan Africanist and First Prime Minister and President of Gh…
1909–1972
![Thelonious Monk photo]()
American jazz pianist and composer
1917–1982
![James Clavell photo]()
American novelist
1921–1994
![Murray Walker photo]()
Motorsport commentator and journalist
1923
![Colin Winter photo]()
Bishop of Damaraland noted for opposing apartheid; exiled B…
1928–1981
![Harold Pinter photo]()
playwright from England
1930–2008
![Laurence Tribe photo]()
American lawyer and law school professor
1941
![Robert D. San Souci photo]()
Children's writer
1946–2014
![John Prine photo]()
American country singer/songwriter
1946–2020
![Deng Feng-Zhou photo]()
Chinese poet, Local history writer, Taoist Neidan academics…
1949
![Nora Roberts photo]()
American romance writer
1950
![David Lee Roth photo]()
Rock vocalist; lead singer with Van Halen
1954
![Yeh Jiunn-rong photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1958
![Jodi Benson photo]()
American voice actress, actress and singer
1961
![Тони Адамс photo]()
English footballer and manager
1966
![Brett Favre photo]()
former American football quarterback
1969
![Evgeny Kissin photo]()
Russian classical pianist
1971
![S. S. Rajamouli photo]()
Indian film director
1973
![Wu Chun photo]()
Bruneian actor and singer
1979
![Chiaki Kuriyama photo]()
Japanese actress and singer
1984
![Pavel Durov photo]()
Russian entrepreneur
1984
![Arthur Horeanu photo]()
Romanian singer-songwriter
2004
Death
![Husayn ibn Ali photo]()
The grandson of Muhammad and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib
626–680
![Qasim ibn Hasan photo]()
Early Muslim martyr
667–680
![William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper photo]()
English politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Brita…
1665–1723
![Charles Fourier photo]()
French utopian socialist and philosopher
1772–1837
![William H. Seward photo]()
American lawyer and politician
1801–1872
![Fanny Fern photo]()
American writer
1811–1872
![Lorenzo Snow photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1814–1901
![Willem Maris photo]()
Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School (1844-1910)
1844–1910
![F. Matthias Alexander photo]()
Australian actor
1869–1955
![Ludwig von Mises photo]()
austrian economist
1881–1973
![Sheldon Warren Cheney photo]()
American writer and art critic
1886–1980
![Heinrich Neuhaus photo]()
Soviet musician
1888–1964
![Eddie Cantor photo]()
American actor, singer, dancer and comedian
1892–1964
![August Dvorak photo]()
American scientist
1894–1975
![Bruce Palmer Jr. photo]()
United States Army Chief of Staff
1913–2000
![Arthur H. Robinson photo]()
American geographer
1915–2004
![Orson Welles photo]()
American actor, director, writer and producer
1915–1985
![Mary Midgley photo]()
British philosopher and ethicist
1919–2018
![Scott Carpenter photo]()
American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut
1925–2013
![Myles Rudge photo]()
English songwriter and scriptwriter
1926–2007
![Jay Conrad Levinson photo]()
American business writer
1933–2013
![Mulayam Singh Yadav photo]()
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times
1939–2022
![Christopher Reeve photo]()
actor, director, producer, screenwriter
1952–2004
