Anniversaries 10 September

Birth

Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac2

French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the mo… 1755–1841

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa7

Irish Republican Brotherhood member 1831–1915

John Robert Seeley7

British historian 1834–1895

William Torrey Harris2

American philosopher 1835–1909

Charles Sanders Peirce121

American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist 1839–1914

Benjamin Fish Austin24

Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spi… 1850–1933

K. S. Ranjitsinhji3

Indian cricket player. 1872–1933

Carl Van Doren14

American biographer 1885–1950

H.D.4

American Imagist poet 1886–1961

Jerome Frank9

American jurist 1889–1957

Franz Werfel6

Austrian-Bohemian author 1890–1945

Ordway Tead10

American academic 1891–1973

Arthur Compton2

American physicist 1892–1962

Georges Bataille68

French intellectual and literary figure 1897–1962

Bessie Love3

American actress (1898–1986) 1898–1986

Cyril Connolly49

British author 1903–1974

Max Shachtman4

American Marxist theorist 1904–1972

Basappa Danappa Jatti14

Indian politician 1912–2002

Robert B. Leighton1

American astronomer 1919–1997

Uri Avnery9

Israeli writer 1923–2018

Boyd K. Packer14

American Mormon leader 1924–2015

Jean Vanier36

Canadian humanitarian 1928–2019

Peter Chung Hoan Ting1

Malaysian catholic priest 1928

Liliana Segre1

Italian Holocaust survivor and senator for life 1930

Karl Lagerfeld57

German fashion designer 1933–2019

Mary Oliver98

American writer 1935–2019

Jared Diamond33

American scientist and author 1937

Stephen Jay Gould274

American evolutionary biologist 1941–2002

Neale Donald Walsch71

American writer 1943

Margaret Trudeau2

ex-wife of the late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau 1948

Bill O'Reilly54

American political commentator, television host and writer 1949

Medea Benjamin2

American political activist and author 1952

Pat Cadigan18

science fiction author 1953

Andrei Makine1

French writer 1957

Siobhan Fahey9

singer and songwriter in Banarama and Shakespears Sister 1958

Nancy A. Collins1

writer 1959

Alison Bechdel58

American cartoonist, author 1960

Colin Firth2

English actor 1960

Marian Keyes19

Irish writer 1963

Jack Ma9

Chinese businessman 1964

John E. Sununu5

American politician 1964

Big Daddy Kane3

American musician 1968

Jorge Majfud21

Uruguayan-American writer 1969

Erwan Le Corre15

1971

Benson Taylor2

composer and music producer from the United Kingdom 1983

Jared Lee Loughner9

Charged with 2011 Tucson shooting 1988

Sanjaya Malakar15

American reality television personality 1989

Death

Qin Shi Huang2

founding emperor of the Qin Dynasty -258–-210 BC

Titian20

Italian painter 1488–1576

Gerrard Winstanley9

English Protestant religious reformer, political philosophe… 1609–1676

Mary Wollstonecraft44

British writer and philosopher 1759–1797

Joseph Story10

US Supreme Court justice 1779–1845

Sophie Swetchine4

Russian salon-holder 1782–1857

George Linley3

British writer 1798–1865

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt4

English poet and writer 1840–1922

Aubrey Faulkner1

South African cricketer 1881–1930

Huey Long20

American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United Stat… 1893–1935

Norah Lofts2

British writer 1904–1983

Dalton Trumbo18

American screenwriter and novelist 1905–1976

John Vorster2

politician from South Africa and seventh Prime Minister of … 1915–1983

Virginia Satir7

American psychologist 1916–1988

Sam Hinton4

folk singer, artist, marine biologist 1917–2009

Hermann Bondi5

British mathematician and cosmologist 1919–2005

Frank Honywill George9

British psychologist 1921–1997

Jock Stein4

Scottish footballer and manager 1922–1985

Edward Nelson2

American mathematical physicist and logician 1932–2014

Paul Virilio7

French philosopher 1932–2018

Len Wein2

American comic book writer and editor 1948–2017