Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 10
Births edit
- 1738 - Ethan Allen, American Revolution military leader (d. 1789)
- 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916) (pictured)
- 1939 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1945 - Rod Stewart, English singer
Deaths edit
- 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
- 1794 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
- 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
- 1917 - William F. Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
- 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
- 1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
- 2016 - David Bowie, English singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1947)