Anniversaries 10 June

Birth

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi18

Persian philosopher 1213–1289

Gustave Courbet30

French painter 1819–1877

Edwin Arnold6

British poet and journalist 1832–1904

Rebecca Latimer Felton8

American politician 1835–1930

André Derain7

French painter and engraver 1880–1954

Lin Huiyin1

Chinese architect and writer 1904–1955

Carolyn Keene10

house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate 1905–2002

Larry LeSueur8

American journalist 1909–2003

Terence Rattigan5

playwright, screenwriter 1911–1977

Saul Bellow103

Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

Ruth Bell Graham2

Congressional Gold Medal recipient 1920–2007

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh50

member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizab… 1921

Judy Garland13

actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States 1922–1969

Friedrich Bauer2

German computer scientist 1924–2015

J. S. Holliday14

American historian 1924–2006

James Salter17

American novelist and short-story writer 1925–2015

Nat Hentoff2

American music critic 1925–2017

Lionel Jeffries1

English actor, screenwriter and film director 1926–2010

Maurice Sendak53

American illustrator and writer of children's books 1928–2012

Yevgeniy Chazov15

Russian physician 1929

Edward O. Wilson83

American biologist 1929

Hedley Bull1

Australian academic 1932–1985

Robert Heller21

British magician 1932–2012

F. Lee Bailey5

American lawyer 1933

Elio Fiorucci1

Italian designer and businessperson 1935–2015

Preston Manning18

Canadian politician 1942

Linda Lael Miller2

American writer 1949

Lailee Bakhtiar1

American writer 1951

Isaac Amani Massawe1

Tanzanian Roman Catholic archbishop 1951

Kage Baker79

American writer 1952–2010

John Edwards3

American politician 1953

T. Harv Eker11

American writer 1954

Kevin W. Pearson1

General authority of LDS Church 1957

Eliot Spitzer2

54th Governor of New York 1959

Scott McCloud1

American cartoonist 1960

Wong Ka Kui3

Hong Kong singer-songwriter 1962–1993

Tzi Ma2

Hong Kong American actor 1962

Adam Steltzner3

American aerospace engineer 1963

Tony Martin (comedian)4

New Zealand comedian and writer 1964

Bill Burr5

American actor, comedian and a celebrity podcaster 1968

Bobby Jindal7

American politician; two-term Governor of Louisiana 1971

Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland8

Swedish princess 1982

Andrew Lokenauth3

Personal finance expert, writer and public speaker 1987

Kate Upton3

American model and actress 1992

Death

Alexander the Great22

King of Macedon -356–-323 BC

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor1

Holy Roman Emperor (1122-1190) 1122–1190

Luís de Camões69

Portuguese poet 1524–1580

André-Marie Ampère3

French physicist and mathematician 1775–1836

Lydia Sigourney4

American poet 1791–1865

Friedrich Tholuck3

German theologian 1799–1877

J.C. Ryle62

Anglican bishop 1816–1900

Edward Everett Hale19

American author and Unitarian clergyman 1822–1909

Theodore Winthrop1

Union Army officer 1828–1861

Robert Williams Buchanan18

Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist 1841–1901

Pierre Loti1

French writer 1850–1923

Antoni Gaudí2

Catalan architect 1852–1926

Jack Johnson (boxer)2

American boxer 1878–1946

Sigrid Undset5

Norwegian writer 1882–1949

Marcus Garvey18

Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, or… 1887–1940

Erich von Manstein8

German general 1887–1973

Spencer Tracy1

American actor 1900–1967

Timothy Quill8

Early Dáil member, cooperative organiser, agriculturalist 1901–1960

Morris Kline42

American mathematician 1908–1992

Louis L'Amour65

Novelist, short story writer 1908–1988

John McKay5

American football player and coach 1923–2001

Bernard Williams9

English moral philosopher 1929–2003

Ray Charles24

American musician 1930–2004

Hafez al-Assad4

former president of Syria 1930–2000

Getatchew Haile1

Ethiopian-American philologist; scholar of the Ge'ez langua… 1931–2021

John A. Eddy12

American astronomer 1931–2009

Girish Raghunath Karnad8

Indian playwright 1938–2019

Frederick Pei Li2

American physician 1940–2015

John Gotti3

American crime boss 1940–2002

Rainer Werner Fassbinder1

German film director, screenwriter, and actor 1945–1982

George Saitoti1

Kenyan politician 1945–2012