Anniversaries 10 August

Birth

John of Bohemia1

Czech king and warrior 1296–1346

John Edwin1

English actor 1749–1790

Vicente Guerrero1

leading revolutionary generals of the Mexican War of Indepe… 1782–1831

Charles James Napier7

Commander-in-Chief in British India 1782–1853

Leopold Zunz1

German Reform Rabbi 1794–1886

John Conington85

British classical scholar 1825–1869

Anna J. Cooper8

African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar 1858–1964

Laurence Binyon2

English poet, dramatist, and art scholar 1869–1943

Alexander Bogdanov12

Physician, philosopher, writer 1873–1928

William Ernest Hocking31

American philosopher 1873–1966

Herbert Hoover64

31st President of the United States of America 1874–1964

Alfred Döblin1

German expressionist novelist 1878–1957

Witter Bynner3

American author 1881–1968

V. V. Giri21

Indian politician and 4th president of India 1894–1980

Ward Moore1

American writer 1903–1978

Dorothy B. Hughes1

American writer 1904–1993

Jorge Amado4

Brazilian writer 1912–2001

Jean-François Lyotard26

French philosopher 1924–1998

Jimmy Dean1

American singer 1928–2010

George Goodman24

American author and economics commentator 1930–2014

R. Nagaswamy2

Indian academic 1930

Doyle Brunson2

American poker player 1933–2023

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss1

English judge 1933

Peter Atkins6

British chemist 1940

Anwar Ibrahim5

Malaysian politician 1947

Ian Anderson4

Scottish musician, leader of Jethro Tull 1947

V.S. Ramachandran6

Neuroscientist 1951

Mark Doty2

Novelist, memoirist 1953

Suzanne Collins554

American television writer and novelist 1962

Andrew Sullivan44

Journalist, writer, blogger 1963

Chip Pickering1

American politician 1963

Rachel Simmons2

American writer 1974

Haifaa al-Mansour2

Saudi Arabian film director 1974

Kristiana Rae Colón1

American poet and playwright 1986

Death

Anthony Munday2

English playwright and miscellaneous writer 1560–1633

Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp1

Dutch admiral 1598–1653

George Long66

English classical scholar 1800–1879

Charles Buxton11

English brewer, philanthropist, writer and politician 1823–1871

Adah Isaacs Menken2

American actress, dancer, painter and poet 1835–1868

Louise Chandler Moulton3

American poet, story-writer and critic 1835–1908

John Boyle O'Reilly12

Irish-born poet and novelist 1844–1890

Otto Lilienthal16

German aviation pioneer 1848–1896

Oswald Veblen1

American mathematician 1880–1960

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff6

German artist 1884–1976

Estes Kefauver2

American politician 1903–1963

Robert L. May1

American writer 1905–1976

Eugene P. Odum3

mathematician, ecologist, natural philosopher, and systems … 1913–2002

Kristen Nygaard2

Computer scientist, Mathematician 1926–2002

Eduardo Martínez Somalo1

cardinal of the Catholic Church 1927–2021

John Rohr20

American political scientist 1934–2011

Jeffrey Epstein6

American financier, science and education philanthropist an… 1953–2019

Carmen Hermosillo2

Community manager, essayist, poet, research analyst