Anniversaries 10 July

Birth

Usama ibn Munqidh1

poet 1095–1188

John Calvin161

French Protestant reformer 1509–1564

Aphra Behn15

British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer 1640–1689

William Blackstone15

English jurist, judge and Tory politician 1723–1780

St. George Tucker4

Bermudan lawyer and judge 1752–1827

Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)100

Scottish publisher and writer 1802–1871

Arthur Helps17

British writer 1813–1875

Camille Pissarro51

French painter 1830–1903

Nikola Tesla125

Serbian American inventor 1856–1943

Finley Peter Dunne7

author 1867–1936

Marcel Proust41

French novelist, critic, and essayist 1871–1922

Edmund Dene Morel1

British politician (1873-1924) 1873–1924

Edmund Clerihew Bentley27

British writer 1875–1956

Giorgio de Chirico23

Italian artist 1888–1978

Carl Orff4

German composer 1895–1982

Rudolf Mildner5

Chief of the Gestapo at Katowice 1902

John Wyndham21

British author 1903–1969

David Brinkley4

American journalist 1920–2003

Eunice Kennedy Shriver2

sister of John F. Kennedy and founder of Camp Shriver 1921–2009

Jean Kerr14

Irish-American author and playwright 1922–2003

Jake LaMotta3

American boxer 1922–2017

Mahathir bin Mohamad18

Prime Minister of Malaysia 1925

David Dinkins6

former mayor of New York City 1927

Julian May3

American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and chil… 1931–2017

Jerry Herman1

American composer and lyricist 1931–2019

Alice Munro38

Canadian novelist 1931

Al Hurricane8

American singer-songwriter 1936–2017

Mirjana Markovic1

Serbian politician 1942–2019

Ronnie James Dio15

American singer 1942–2010

Arthur Ashe9

American tennis player 1943–1993

Arlo Guthrie22

American folk singer 1947

Sunil Gavaskar5

Indian cricket player. 1949

Rajnath Singh10

Indian politician 1951

Neal D. Barnard6

American physician, author, and clinical researcher 1953

Robert P. George45

American legal scholar 1955

Cindy Sheehan18

American antiwar activist 1957

Seth Godin37

American entrepreneur, author and public speaker 1960

Ashin Wirathu1

Burmese Buddhist monk 1968

Erika Jayne59

American singer, actress and television personality 1969

Dj Parisa2

Youtuber & DJ 1972

Stefán Karl Stefánsson3

Icelandic actor 1975–2018

Gong Yoo12

South Korean actor 1979

Jessica Simpson5

American singer-songwriter and actress 1980

Juno Dawson4

British youth fiction author 1981

Boniface Mwangi7

Kenyan photojournalist 1983

Death

Emperor Taizong of Tang1

emperor of the Tang Dynasty 598–649

William the Silent33

stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the … 1533–1584

Clement Clarke Moore3

American biblical scholar 1779–1863

Martin Harris2

Book of Mormon witness 1783–1875

William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley5

Lord Chancellor of Great Britain 1801–1881

Henry Giles15

Irish minister 1809–1882

Henry L. Benning12

Confederate Army general 1814–1875

Hendrik Willem Mesdag10

painter from the Northern Netherlands 1831–1915

Paul Morphy16

American chess player 1837–1884

Henry Nettleship1

British schoolteacher 1839–1893

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher30

Royal Navy admiral of the fleet 1841–1920

Albert Chevalier4

English music hall comedian and singer 1861–1923

Donald Tovey1

British composer 1875–1940

Sholem Asch2

Polish-American novelist, dramatist, essayist 1880–1957

Sidney Hillman1

American labor leader 1887–1946

Masuji Ibuse1

Japanese writer 1898–1993

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross7

British politician 1902–2003

Albert Pierrepoint3

English executioner 1905–1992

Lê Duẩn1

former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam 1907–1986

Winston Graham4

British writer 1908–2003

Franz Bardon17

Czech hermeticist, illusionist, occultist and writer 1909–1958

On Kawara1

artist 1933–2014

Jim Bouton2

American baseball player, writer 1939–2019

Ilan Halevi2

Jewish Palestinian journalist, politician 1943–2013

Abdul Rashid Ghazi9

Pakistani fundamentalist 1964–2007