Anniversaries 10 December

Birth

Giovanni Battista Guarini2

Italian poet 1538–1612

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi4

German mathematician 1804–1851

William Lloyd Garrison33

American journalist 1805–1879

Ada Lovelace8

English mathematician, considered the first computer progra… 1815–1852

César Franck1

Belgian-French composer, organist and music teacher 1822–1890

George MacDonald127

Scottish journalist, novelist 1824–1905

Emily Dickinson187

American poet 1830–1886

Isabella Fyvie Mayo2

Scottish poet, novelist, reformer 1843–1914

Melvil Dewey3

American librarian and educator 1851–1931

Gertrude Breslau Hunt6

1869–1952

Jadunath Sarkar11

Indian historian 1870–1958

Adolf Loos1

Austrian/Czech architect 1870–1933

Ludwig Klages8

German psychologist and philosopher 1872–1956

C. Rajagopalachari11

Political leader 1878–1972

Mohammad Ali Jauhar3

Indian Muslim leader, activist, scholar, journalist and poet 1878–1931

Otto Neurath23

austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist 1882–1945

Harold Alexander1

British military commander and field marshal; Governor Gene… 1891–1969

William Plomer7

South African-British writer 1903–1973

Mary Norton2

English children's writer 1903–1992

Rumer Godden3

English writer 1907–1998

Dorothy Lamour1

American actress and singer 1914–1996

Clarice Lispector34

Brazilian writer 1920–1977

Reginald Rose3

American screenwriter 1920–2002

Jorge Semprún1

Spanish writer 1923–2011

Carolyn Kizer3

American poet 1925–2014

Michael Jopling1

British politician 1930

Thomas Lux1

American poet 1946–2017

Raymond Geuss38

British philosopher 1946

Luiz Fernando Lisboa1

21st-century Brazilian Catholic bishop 1955

Rod Blagojevich5

Former Governor of Illinois 1956

Jacquelyn Mitchard1

American journalist 1956

Michael Clarke Duncan1

American actor 1957–2012

Prem Rawat112

controversial spiritual leader 1957

Cornelia Funke83

author 1958

Nikki Sixx22

American musician 1958

Miho Mosulishvili6

Georgian writer 1962

Andreas Heldal-Lund1

Norwegian activist 1964

Bobby Flay1

American celebrity chef, restaurateur and reality televisio… 1964

Greg Giraldo12

American comedian 1965–2010

Tara Subkoff2

American actress 1972

Brian Molko2

musician 1972

Meg White8

American musician 1974

Evelyn Lozada1

American reality show participant, model, spokesmodel. 1975

Sarah Chang14

violinist 1980

D. S. Bradford5

musician 1982

Helen Oyeyemi12

British author 1984

Ari Ne'eman3

American autism rights advocate 1987

David Carter3

Player of American Football 1987

Rachel Trachtenburg24

American musician 1993

Death

Averroes18

Medieval Arab scholar and philosopher 1126–1198

Ahmad Sirhindi12

Indian philosopher 1564–1624

Leopold I of Belgium7

German prince who became the first King of the Belgians 1790–1865

Alfred Nobel16

Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer 1833–1896

Ulrich Wilcken1

German historian 1862–1944

Luigi Pirandello7

Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, … 1867–1936

Charles Rennie Mackintosh1

Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist 1868–1928

Algernon Blackwood2

English short story writer and novelist 1869–1951

Damon Runyon5

writer 1880–1946

Franz Rosenzweig3

Jewish theologian and philosopher 1886–1929

Karl Barth73

Swiss Protestant theologian 1886–1968

K. M. Panikkar30

Indian diplomat, academic and historian 1895–1963

Jascha Heifetz11

Lithuanian violinist 1901–1987

Ralph Bunche19

American diplomat 1904–1971

Albert O. Hirschman6

German-American economist; member of the French Resistance 1915–2012

Vernon Richards1

British activist 1915–2001

Augusto Pinochet28

Former dictator of the republic of Chile 1915–2006

Thomas Merton92

Priest and author 1915–1968

Eugene McCarthy16

American politician 1916–2005

Keith Joseph16

British barrister and politician 1918–1994

Marie Windsor4

American actress 1919–2000

Franjo Tuđman2

Croatian politician, soldier and president 1922–1999

Chiang Pin-kung1

Taiwanese politician 1932–2018

Richard Pryor12

American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, a… 1940–2005

Otis Redding9

American singer, songwriter and record producer 1941–1967

Gary Webb3

American investigative journalist 1955–2004