Anniversaries 10 December
Birth
![Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi photo]()
German mathematician
1804–1851
![William Lloyd Garrison photo]()
American journalist
1805–1879
![Ada Lovelace photo]()
English mathematician, considered the first computer progra…
1815–1852
![César Franck photo]()
Belgian-French composer, organist and music teacher
1822–1890
![George MacDonald photo]()
Scottish journalist, novelist
1824–1905
![Isabella Fyvie Mayo photo]()
Scottish poet, novelist, reformer
1843–1914
![Melvil Dewey photo]()
American librarian and educator
1851–1931
![Jadunath Sarkar photo]()
Indian historian
1870–1958
![Adolf Loos photo]()
Austrian/Czech architect
1870–1933
![Ludwig Klages photo]()
German psychologist and philosopher
1872–1956
![C. Rajagopalachari photo]()
Political leader
1878–1972
![Mohammad Ali Jauhar photo]()
Indian Muslim leader, activist, scholar, journalist and poet
1878–1931
![Otto Neurath photo]()
austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist
1882–1945
![Harold Alexander photo]()
British military commander and field marshal; Governor Gene…
1891–1969
![William Plomer photo]()
South African-British writer
1903–1973
![Mary Norton photo]()
English children's writer
1903–1992
![Dorothy Lamour photo]()
American actress and singer
1914–1996
![Clarice Lispector photo]()
Brazilian writer
1920–1977
![Reginald Rose photo]()
American screenwriter
1920–2002
![Luiz Fernando Lisboa photo]()
21st-century Brazilian Catholic bishop
1955
![Rod Blagojevich photo]()
Former Governor of Illinois
1956
![Prem Rawat photo]()
controversial spiritual leader
1957
![Bobby Flay photo]()
American celebrity chef, restaurateur and reality televisio…
1964
![Greg Giraldo photo]()
American comedian
1965–2010
![Evelyn Lozada photo]()
American reality show participant, model, spokesmodel.
1975
![Ari Ne'eman photo]()
American autism rights advocate
1987
![David Carter photo]()
Player of American Football
1987
Death
![Averroes photo]()
Medieval Arab scholar and philosopher
1126–1198
![Ahmad Sirhindi photo]()
Indian philosopher
1564–1624
![Leopold I of Belgium photo]()
German prince who became the first King of the Belgians
1790–1865
![Alfred Nobel photo]()
Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer
1833–1896
![Ulrich Wilcken photo]()
German historian
1862–1944
![Luigi Pirandello photo]()
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, …
1867–1936
![Charles Rennie Mackintosh photo]()
Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist
1868–1928
![Algernon Blackwood photo]()
English short story writer and novelist
1869–1951
![Franz Rosenzweig photo]()
Jewish theologian and philosopher
1886–1929
![Karl Barth photo]()
Swiss Protestant theologian
1886–1968
![K. M. Panikkar photo]()
Indian diplomat, academic and historian
1895–1963
![Jascha Heifetz photo]()
Lithuanian violinist
1901–1987
![Ralph Bunche photo]()
American diplomat
1904–1971
![Albert O. Hirschman photo]()
German-American economist; member of the French Resistance
1915–2012
![Vernon Richards photo]()
British activist
1915–2001
![Augusto Pinochet photo]()
Former dictator of the republic of Chile
1915–2006
![Thomas Merton photo]()
Priest and author
1915–1968
![Eugene McCarthy photo]()
American politician
1916–2005
![Keith Joseph photo]()
British barrister and politician
1918–1994
![Marie Windsor photo]()
American actress
1919–2000
![Franjo Tuđman photo]()
Croatian politician, soldier and president
1922–1999
![Chiang Pin-kung photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1932–2018
![Richard Pryor photo]()
American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, a…
1940–2005
![Otis Redding photo]()
American singer, songwriter and record producer
1941–1967
![Gary Webb photo]()
American investigative journalist
1955–2004
