Anniversaries 10 February
Birth
![Epicurus photo]()
ancient Greek philosopher
-341–-269 BC
![Charles Lamb photo]()
English essayist
1775–1834
![Ioannis Kapodistrias photo]()
Greek politician and diplomat, first Governor of the modern…
1776–1831
![Henry Hart Milman photo]()
English historian and churchman
1791–1868
![Agnes Mary Clerke photo]()
British astronomer
1842–1907
![Alexander Herrmann photo]()
French magician
1844–1896
![Ira Remsen photo]()
American chemist
1846–1927
![Lord Charles Beresford photo]()
Royal Navy admiral
1846–1919
![Ingram Crockett photo]()
American writer
1856–1936
![William Allen White photo]()
American newspaper editor and politician
1868–1944
![Jimmy Durante photo]()
American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor
1893–1980
![Harold Macmillan photo]()
British politician
1894–1986
![Bertolt Brecht photo]()
German poet, playwright, theatre director
1898–1956
![Stella Adler photo]()
American actress and teaching coach
1901–1992
![Joyce Grenfell photo]()
British comedian, singer, actress
1910–1979
![E. L. Konigsburg photo]()
American writer and illustrator
1930–2013
![Jay Conrad Levinson photo]()
American business writer
1933–2013
![Judith Rich Harris photo]()
psychology researcher
1938–2018
![Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh photo]()
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
1943
![Frances Moore Lappé photo]()
activist against world hunger
1944
![Lee Hsien Loong photo]()
Prime Minister of Singapore
1952
![James Cramer photo]()
stockbroker, television personality, author
1955
![George Stephanopoulos photo]()
government official, journalist, writer
1961
![Cliff Burton photo]()
American musician, member of Metallica
1962–1986
![Glenn Beck photo]()
U.S. talk radio and television host
1964
![Laura Dern photo]()
American actress, director, producer
1967
![Núria Añó photo]()
Catalan writer novelist
1973
![Hamis Kiggundu photo]()
Ugandan business magnate, Internet entrepreneur, philanthro…
1984
![Anastasia Ashley photo]()
American surfer and model
1987
![Mia Khalifa photo]()
American social media personality and former porn actress
1993
Death
![Montesquieu photo]()
French social commentator and political thinker
1689–1755
![David Brewster photo]()
British astronomer and mathematician
1781–1868
![William Henry Sleeman photo]()
British colonial administrator
1788–1856
![Honoré Daumier photo]()
French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor
1808–1879
![Claude Bernard photo]()
French physiologist
1813–1878
![Wilhelm Röntgen photo]()
German physicist
1845–1923
![Walter Raymond Spalding photo]()
American music pedagogue and author
1865–1962
![Laura Ingalls Wilder photo]()
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
1867–1957
![Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard photo]()
Royal Flying Corps commander and first Royal Air Force Chie…
1873–1956
![Edgar Wallace photo]()
British crime writer, journalist and playwright
1875–1932
![J. F. C. Fuller photo]()
British Army general
1878–1966
![Pitirim Sorokin photo]()
American sociologist
1889–1968
![Arthur Miller photo]()
playwright from the United States
1915–2005
![Traudl Junge photo]()
secretary to Adolf Hitler
1920–2002
![Alex Haley photo]()
African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
1921–1992
![Trevor Bailey photo]()
England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster
1923–2011
![Shirley Temple photo]()
American actress and diplomat
1928–2014
![Fred Hollows photo]()
New Zealand–Australian ophthalmologist
1929–1993
![Stuart Hall photo]()
sociologist and cultural theorist
1929–2014
![Jack Abbott photo]()
Author, criminal
1944–2002
![Paul Monette photo]()
American writer
1945–1995
