Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 10
Births[edit]
- 1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
- 1775 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
- 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960) (pictured)
- 1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980)
- 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
- 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
Deaths[edit]
- 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
- 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
- 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
- 1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
- 2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)