Anniversaries 10 November

Birth

Martin Luther214

seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546

Paracelsus24

Swiss physician and alchemist 1493–1541

Ninon de L'Enclos2

French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the ar… 1620–1705

William Hogarth4

English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social cri… 1697–1764

Oliver Goldsmith134

Irish physician and writer 1728–1774

Granville Sharp2

English campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade 1735–1813

Friedrich Schiller111

German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759–1805

Robert Hayne4

American politician 1791–1839

Zuo Zongtang1

Qing dynasty general 1812–1885

Joseph Arch12

British politician 1826–1919

Francis Maitland Balfour1

British biologist 1851–1882

Henry Van Dyke63

American diplomat 1852–1933

Генри Ван-Дайк2

1852–1933

Gichin Funakoshi1

Martial artist 1868–1957

Patrick Pearse14

Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916 1879–1916

Martin H. Fischer18

American university teacher (1879-1962) 1879–1962

Vachel Lindsay15

American poet 1879–1931

Jacob Epstein2

American-born British sculptor 1880–1959

Claude Rains1

English-born actor 1889–1967

El Lissitsky43

Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer… 1890–1941

Lazar Kaganovich2

Soviet politician 1893–1991

Rodion Malinovsky5

Soviet military commander and politician 1898–1967

Saul Gorn10

computer scientist 1912–1992

Karl Shapiro15

Poet, essayist 1913–2000

Mikhail Kalashnikov9

Soviet and Russian small arms designer 1919–2013

Dattopant Thengadi3

Indian politician 1920–2004

Richard Burton28

Welsh actor 1925–1984

Peter Franken2

American physicist 1928–1999

Ennio Morricone14

Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor 1928–2020

Lilly Pulitzer1

American fashion designer 1931–2013

J. California Cooper1

American playwright, novelist. short story writer 1931–2014

Russell Means2

Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American pe… 1939–2012

Richard Rumelt25

American economist 1942

Saxby Chambliss1

American politician 1943

Jack Ketchum2

American horror writer 1946–2018

Bachir Gemayel1

Lebanese politician and militia commander 1947–1982

Malik Peiris1

Sri Lankan scientist 1949

Dean Wesley Smith1

science fiction author 1950

Danilo Medina1

President of the Dominican Republic 1951

Martin Kmetec1

Slovenian Catholic archbishop 1956

Marcelo Tas3

Brazilian actor 1959

Neil Gaiman108

English fantasy writer 1960

Mark T. Vande Hei1

American astronaut 1966

Mario Abdo Benítez1

51.° President of Paraguay 1971

Jose Peralta11

American politician 1971–2018

Holly Black160

American children's fiction writer 1971

Solomon B Taiwo3

English actor and author 1990

Zoey Deutch5

American actress 1994

Death

Cornstalk11

Native American in the American Revolution 1720–1777

St. George Tucker4

Bermudan lawyer and judge 1752–1827

Gideon Mantell19

British scientist and obstetrician 1790–1852

Arthur Rimbaud66

French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854–1891

Edward Jenks35

British legal scholar 1861–1939

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk38

Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first Presiden… 1881–1938

Louis Nizer5

American lawyer 1902–1994

John Summerson5

British architectural historian 1904–1992

Leonid Brezhnev32

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1906–1982

Jack Williamson5

American science fiction writer 1908–2006

John Pudney1

British writer 1909–1977

Helmut Schmidt22

Chancellor of West Germany 1974-1982 1918–2015

Laraine Day11

American actress 1920–2007

Gene Amdahl5

American physicist 1922–2015

Norman Mailer165

American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m… 1923–2007

Robert Craft1

American conductor and writer 1923–2015

Ken Kesey103

novelist 1935–2001