Anniversaries 10 April

Birth

Hugo Grotius4

philosopher 1583–1645

Samuel Hahnemann2

German physician best known for creating a system of altern… 1755–1843

William Hazlitt186

English writer 1778–1830

George Lippard5

Novelist, journalist 1822–1854

Robert Barnabas Brough1

English writer of poetry, novels, plays and journalism 1828–1860

William Booth10

British Methodist preacher 1829–1912

Louise Chandler Moulton3

American poet, story-writer and critic 1835–1908

Joseph Pulitzer2

Hungarian-American newspaper publisher 1847–1911

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl1

French philosopher 1857–1939

Henry Dudeney1

Puzzlist, Mathematical games designer 1857–1930

Jules Payot4

French educationist 1859–1940

George William Russell134

Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867–1935

Vladimir Lenin336

Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

Robert Hunter (author)98

American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874–1942

Frances Perkins3

American politician 1882–1965

Ben Nicholson1

British painter 1894–1982

Vladimir Nabokov193

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee4

Indian educator, jurist, author, diplomat, and Islamic scho… 1899–1981

Anna Kavan2

British artist 1901–1968

Paul Sweezy2

American economist 1910–2004

Robert Burns Woodward1

American chemist 1917–1979

Kenneth Noland28

American artist 1924–2010

Gustav Metzger6

Artist and political activist 1926–2017

Dolores Huerta13

American labor leader 1930

Adrian Henri9

British poet 1932–2000

David Halberstam1

American writer, journalist, historian 1934–2007

Richard H. Schwartz1

American mathematician and writer 1934

Zeev Sternhell12

Israeli historian 1935

Nicola Cabibbo2

Italian physicist 1935–2010

Claudio Magris1

Italian scholar, translator and writer 1939

Joseph Theodorus Suwatan2

Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop 1940

Paul Theroux32

American travel writer and novelist 1941

Mani Shankar Aiyar1

Indian politician 1941

David Helvarg4

American journalist 1951

Anne Lamott146

Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

John M. Ford1

American author 1957–2006

Aliko Dangote3

Nigerian billionaire entrepreneur 1957

Christopher Glancy1

Second bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Samoa-Pago P… 1960

Dani Shapiro1

Author 1962

Selahattin Demirtaş6

Turkish Kurdish politician 1973

Eric Greitens2

American politician, author, and former Navy SEAL 1974

Chris Carrabba9

American musician 1975

Rachel Corrie1

American anti-war and human rights activist 1979–2003

Jamie Chung8

American actress 1983

Williemgc2

Dominican singer-songwriter, record producer and actor 1994

Death

Joseph Louis Lagrange6

Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist 1736–1813

John Howard Payne2

American actor and writer 1791–1852

Charles Bowen20

English judge 1835–1894

Algernon Charles Swinburne87

English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic 1837–1909

Henry Van Dyke63

American diplomat 1852–1933

Генри Ван-Дайк2

1852–1933

Ernest Flagg65

American architect 1857–1947

Carl L. Becker25

American historian 1873–1945

Emiliano Zapata5

Mexican Revolutionary 1879–1919

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin64

French philosopher and Jesuit priest 1881–1955

Hendrik Werkman17

Dutch artist 1882–1945

Khalil Gibran111

Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883–1931

Fern Hobbs1

American lawyer 1883–1964

Cora Coralina1

Brazilian writer and poet. 1889–1985

Martti Siirala2

Finnish philosopher 1889–1948

Morarji Desai50

Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former pr… 1896–1995

Howard Thurman20

American writer 1899–1981

Walker Evans2

American photographer 1903–1975

Evelyn Waugh123

British writer 1903–1966

Nino Rota2

Italian composer 1911–1979

Heinz Barwich1

German physicist 1911–1966

Brownie Mary5

American medical cannabis activist 1922–1999

Fred Emery15

Australian psychologist 1925–1997

Sue Townsend3

English writer and humorist 1946–2014

Lech Kaczyński14

Polish politician, president of Poland 1949–2010

Sam Kinison9

American comedian 1953–1992