Anniversaries 10 November
Birth
![Martin Luther photo]()
seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
1483–1546
![Paracelsus photo]()
Swiss physician and alchemist
1493–1541
![Ninon de L'Enclos photo]()
French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the ar…
1620–1705
![William Hogarth photo]()
English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social cri…
1697–1764
![Oliver Goldsmith photo]()
Irish physician and writer
1728–1774
![Granville Sharp photo]()
English campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade
1735–1813
![Friedrich Schiller photo]()
German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
1759–1805
![Robert Hayne photo]()
American politician
1791–1839
![Zuo Zongtang photo]()
Qing dynasty general
1812–1885
![Joseph Arch photo]()
British politician
1826–1919
![Francis Maitland Balfour photo]()
British biologist
1851–1882
![Henry Van Dyke photo]()
American diplomat
1852–1933
![Patrick Pearse photo]()
Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916
1879–1916
![Martin H. Fischer photo]()
American university teacher (1879-1962)
1879–1962
![Jacob Epstein photo]()
American-born British sculptor
1880–1959
![Claude Rains photo]()
English-born actor
1889–1967
![El Lissitsky photo]()
Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer…
1890–1941
![Lazar Kaganovich photo]()
Soviet politician
1893–1991
![Rodion Malinovsky photo]()
Soviet military commander and politician
1898–1967
![Saul Gorn photo]()
computer scientist
1912–1992
![Mikhail Kalashnikov photo]()
Soviet and Russian small arms designer
1919–2013
![Dattopant Thengadi photo]()
Indian politician
1920–2004
![Peter Franken photo]()
American physicist
1928–1999
![Ennio Morricone photo]()
Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor
1928–2020
![Lilly Pulitzer photo]()
American fashion designer
1931–2013
![J. California Cooper photo]()
American playwright, novelist. short story writer
1931–2014
![Russell Means photo]()
Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American pe…
1939–2012
![Jack Ketchum photo]()
American horror writer
1946–2018
![Bachir Gemayel photo]()
Lebanese politician and militia commander
1947–1982
![Malik Peiris photo]()
Sri Lankan scientist
1949
![Dean Wesley Smith photo]()
science fiction author
1950
![Danilo Medina photo]()
President of the Dominican Republic
1951
![Martin Kmetec photo]()
Slovenian Catholic archbishop
1956
![Neil Gaiman photo]()
English fantasy writer
1960
![Mario Abdo Benítez photo]()
51.° President of Paraguay
1971
![Jose Peralta photo]()
American politician
1971–2018
![Holly Black photo]()
American children's fiction writer
1971
![Solomon B Taiwo photo]()
English actor and author
1990
Death
![Cornstalk photo]()
Native American in the American Revolution
1720–1777
![St. George Tucker photo]()
Bermudan lawyer and judge
1752–1827
![Gideon Mantell photo]()
British scientist and obstetrician
1790–1852
![Arthur Rimbaud photo]()
French Decadent and Symbolist poet
1854–1891
![Edward Jenks photo]()
British legal scholar
1861–1939
![Mustafa Kemal Atatürk photo]()
Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first Presiden…
1881–1938
![Louis Nizer photo]()
American lawyer
1902–1994
![John Summerson photo]()
British architectural historian
1904–1992
![Leonid Brezhnev photo]()
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1906–1982
![Jack Williamson photo]()
American science fiction writer
1908–2006
![Helmut Schmidt photo]()
Chancellor of West Germany 1974-1982
1918–2015
![Laraine Day photo]()
American actress
1920–2007
![Gene Amdahl photo]()
American physicist
1922–2015
![Norman Mailer photo]()
American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m…
1923–2007
![Robert Craft photo]()
American conductor and writer
1923–2015
