Anniversaries 10 February

Birth

Epicurus30

ancient Greek philosopher -341–-269 BC

John Suckling7

English poet 1609–1642

Aaron Hill (writer)11

British writer 1685–1750

James Smith3

English writer 1775–1839

Charles Lamb85

English essayist 1775–1834

Ioannis Kapodistrias1

Greek politician and diplomat, first Governor of the modern… 1776–1831

Henry Hart Milman5

English historian and churchman 1791–1868

Albert Gorton Greene2

American judge 1802–1868

Agnes Mary Clerke4

British astronomer 1842–1907

Alexander Herrmann9

French magician 1844–1896

Ira Remsen1

American chemist 1846–1927

Lord Charles Beresford1

Royal Navy admiral 1846–1919

Ingram Crockett2

American writer 1856–1936

William Allen White1

American newspaper editor and politician 1868–1944

Borís Pasternak40

Russian writer 1890–1960

Jimmy Durante11

American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor 1893–1980

Harold Macmillan26

British politician 1894–1986

Bertolt Brecht102

German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898–1956

Stella Adler15

American actress and teaching coach 1901–1992

Joyce Grenfell8

British comedian, singer, actress 1910–1979

Дуг Ларсон1

1926

Leontyne Price2

American soprano 1927

Jerry Goldsmith7

film composer 1929–2004

E. L. Konigsburg1

American writer and illustrator 1930–2013

Jay Conrad Levinson1

American business writer 1933–2013

Roberta Flack4

American singer 1937

Judith Rich Harris4

psychology researcher 1938–2018

Marc Norman2

Screenwriter 1941

Lawrence Weiner6

American artist 1942

Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh2

Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1943

Frances Moore Lappé7

activist against world hunger 1944

Mikael Harutyunyan8

Armenian general 1946

Bikram Choudhury1

Indian yogi 1946

Lee Hsien Loong8

Prime Minister of Singapore 1952

James Cramer2

stockbroker, television personality, author 1955

Jorge Eduardo Lozano1

Catholic archbishop 1955

Hsu Tzong-li1

1956

George Stephanopoulos1

government official, journalist, writer 1961

Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais4

Imam in Mecca 1962

Cliff Burton2

American musician, member of Metallica 1962–1986

Glenn Beck137

U.S. talk radio and television host 1964

Laura Dern9

American actress, director, producer 1967

Garrett Reisman1

American astronaut 1968

Núria Añó6

Catalan writer novelist 1973

Daryl Palumbo4

Vocalist musician 1979

Hamis Kiggundu16

Ugandan business magnate, Internet entrepreneur, philanthro… 1984

Anastasia Ashley1

American surfer and model 1987

Emma Roberts4

American actress 1991

Mia Khalifa1

American social media personality and former porn actress 1993

Death

Montesquieu34

French social commentator and political thinker 1689–1755

David Brewster22

British astronomer and mathematician 1781–1868

William Henry Sleeman1

British colonial administrator 1788–1856

Honoré Daumier6

French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor 1808–1879

Claude Bernard21

French physiologist 1813–1878

Wilhelm Röntgen6

German physicist 1845–1923

Archibald Lampman1

Canadian poet 1861–1899

Абрахам Миллер1

1863–1951

Walter Raymond Spalding10

American music pedagogue and author 1865–1962

Laura Ingalls Wilder29

American children's writer, diarist, and journalist 1867–1957

Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard2

Royal Flying Corps commander and first Royal Air Force Chie… 1873–1956

Edgar Wallace5

British crime writer, journalist and playwright 1875–1932

J. F. C. Fuller4

British Army general 1878–1966

William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett1

British judge 1883–1962

Pitirim Sorokin10

American sociologist 1889–1968

Arthur Miller147

playwright from the United States 1915–2005

Traudl Junge7

secretary to Adolf Hitler 1920–2002

Alex Haley22

African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist 1921–1992

Trevor Bailey2

England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster 1923–2011

Shirley Temple2

American actress and diplomat 1928–2014

Fred Hollows2

New Zealand–Australian ophthalmologist 1929–1993

Stuart Hall11

sociologist and cultural theorist 1929–2014

Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)1

1932–2014

Jack Abbott7

Author, criminal 1944–2002

Paul Monette2

American writer 1945–1995

Steve Gerber1

Comic writer 1947–2008