Anniversaries 10 July
Birth
![John Calvin photo]()
French Protestant reformer
1509–1564
![Aphra Behn photo]()
British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
1640–1689
![William Blackstone photo]()
English jurist, judge and Tory politician
1723–1780
![St. George Tucker photo]()
Bermudan lawyer and judge
1752–1827
![Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) photo]()
Scottish publisher and writer
1802–1871
![Nikola Tesla photo]()
Serbian American inventor
1856–1943
![Marcel Proust photo]()
French novelist, critic, and essayist
1871–1922
![Edmund Dene Morel photo]()
British politician (1873-1924)
1873–1924
![Carl Orff photo]()
German composer
1895–1982
![Rudolf Mildner photo]()
Chief of the Gestapo at Katowice
1902
![David Brinkley photo]()
American journalist
1920–2003
![Eunice Kennedy Shriver photo]()
sister of John F. Kennedy and founder of Camp Shriver
1921–2009
![Jean Kerr photo]()
Irish-American author and playwright
1922–2003
![Mahathir bin Mohamad photo]()
Prime Minister of Malaysia
1925
![David Dinkins photo]()
former mayor of New York City
1927
![Julian May photo]()
American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and chil…
1931–2017
![Jerry Herman photo]()
American composer and lyricist
1931–2019
![Al Hurricane photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1936–2017
![Mirjana Markovic photo]()
Serbian politician
1942–2019
![Ronnie James Dio photo]()
American singer
1942–2010
![Arthur Ashe photo]()
American tennis player
1943–1993
![Arlo Guthrie photo]()
American folk singer
1947
![Sunil Gavaskar photo]()
Indian cricket player.
1949
![Neal D. Barnard photo]()
American physician, author, and clinical researcher
1953
![Robert P. George photo]()
American legal scholar
1955
![Cindy Sheehan photo]()
American antiwar activist
1957
![Seth Godin photo]()
American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
1960
![Ashin Wirathu photo]()
Burmese Buddhist monk
1968
![Erika Jayne photo]()
American singer, actress and television personality
1969
![Stefán Karl Stefánsson photo]()
Icelandic actor
1975–2018
![Jessica Simpson photo]()
American singer-songwriter and actress
1980
![Juno Dawson photo]()
British youth fiction author
1981
![Boniface Mwangi photo]()
Kenyan photojournalist
1983
Death
![Emperor Taizong of Tang photo]()
emperor of the Tang Dynasty
598–649
![William the Silent photo]()
stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the …
1533–1584
![Clement Clarke Moore photo]()
American biblical scholar
1779–1863
![Martin Harris photo]()
Book of Mormon witness
1783–1875
![William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley photo]()
Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1801–1881
![Henry L. Benning photo]()
Confederate Army general
1814–1875
![Hendrik Willem Mesdag photo]()
painter from the Northern Netherlands
1831–1915
![Paul Morphy photo]()
American chess player
1837–1884
![Henry Nettleship photo]()
British schoolteacher
1839–1893
![John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher photo]()
Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
1841–1920
![Albert Chevalier photo]()
English music hall comedian and singer
1861–1923
![Donald Tovey photo]()
British composer
1875–1940
![Sholem Asch photo]()
Polish-American novelist, dramatist, essayist
1880–1957
![Sidney Hillman photo]()
American labor leader
1887–1946
![Masuji Ibuse photo]()
Japanese writer
1898–1993
![Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross photo]()
British politician
1902–2003
![Albert Pierrepoint photo]()
English executioner
1905–1992
![Lê Duẩn photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
1907–1986
![Franz Bardon photo]()
Czech hermeticist, illusionist, occultist and writer
1909–1958
![Jim Bouton photo]()
American baseball player, writer
1939–2019
![Ilan Halevi photo]()
Jewish Palestinian journalist, politician
1943–2013
![Abdul Rashid Ghazi photo]()
Pakistani fundamentalist
1964–2007
