Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 10

Births

• 1483 - Martin Luther, German protestant reformer (d. 1546) (pictured)
• 1728 - Oliver Goldsmith, English playwright (d. 1774)
• 1889 - Claude Rains, English actor (d. 1967)
• 1918 - Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• 1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
• 1944 - Sir Tim Rice, English lyricist
• 1960 - Neil Gaiman, English writer

Deaths

• 1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424)
• 1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
• 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
• 1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
• 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Founder of Republic of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)