Anniversaries 10 August
Birth
![John of Bohemia photo]()
Czech king and warrior
1296–1346
![Vicente Guerrero photo]()
leading revolutionary generals of the Mexican War of Indepe…
1782–1831
![Charles James Napier photo]()
Commander-in-Chief in British India
1782–1853
![Leopold Zunz photo]()
German Reform Rabbi
1794–1886
![John Conington photo]()
British classical scholar
1825–1869
![Anna J. Cooper photo]()
African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar
1858–1964
![Laurence Binyon photo]()
English poet, dramatist, and art scholar
1869–1943
![Alexander Bogdanov photo]()
Physician, philosopher, writer
1873–1928
![William Ernest Hocking photo]()
American philosopher
1873–1966
![Herbert Hoover photo]()
31st President of the United States of America
1874–1964
![Alfred Döblin photo]()
German expressionist novelist
1878–1957
![Witter Bynner photo]()
American author
1881–1968
![V. V. Giri photo]()
Indian politician and 4th president of India
1894–1980
![Ward Moore photo]()
American writer
1903–1978
![Dorothy B. Hughes photo]()
American writer
1904–1993
![Jorge Amado photo]()
Brazilian writer
1912–2001
![Jean-François Lyotard photo]()
French philosopher
1924–1998
![Jimmy Dean photo]()
American singer
1928–2010
![George Goodman photo]()
American author and economics commentator
1930–2014
![Doyle Brunson photo]()
American poker player
1933–2023
![Anwar Ibrahim photo]()
Malaysian politician
1947
![Ian Anderson photo]()
Scottish musician, leader of Jethro Tull
1947
![Suzanne Collins photo]()
American television writer and novelist
1962
![Andrew Sullivan photo]()
Journalist, writer, blogger
1963
![Haifaa al-Mansour photo]()
Saudi Arabian film director
1974
![Kristiana Rae Colón photo]()
American poet and playwright
1986
Death
![Anthony Munday photo]()
English playwright and miscellaneous writer
1560–1633
![George Long photo]()
English classical scholar
1800–1879
![Charles Buxton photo]()
English brewer, philanthropist, writer and politician
1823–1871
![Adah Isaacs Menken photo]()
American actress, dancer, painter and poet
1835–1868
![Louise Chandler Moulton photo]()
American poet, story-writer and critic
1835–1908
![John Boyle O'Reilly photo]()
Irish-born poet and novelist
1844–1890
![Otto Lilienthal photo]()
German aviation pioneer
1848–1896
![Oswald Veblen photo]()
American mathematician
1880–1960
![Estes Kefauver photo]()
American politician
1903–1963
![Robert L. May photo]()
American writer
1905–1976
![Eugene P. Odum photo]()
mathematician, ecologist, natural philosopher, and systems …
1913–2002
![Kristen Nygaard photo]()
Computer scientist, Mathematician
1926–2002
![Eduardo Martínez Somalo photo]()
cardinal of the Catholic Church
1927–2021
![John Rohr photo]()
American political scientist
1934–2011
![Jeffrey Epstein photo]()
American financier, science and education philanthropist an…
1953–2019
![Carmen Hermosillo photo]()
Community manager, essayist, poet, research analyst
