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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, May 10


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Births

* 1965 Linda Evangelista Canadian supermodel.
* 1960 Bono Irish musician and social activist, who after being nicknamed Bono Vox, became famous as the lead singer of the Irish rock band, U2 using the stage name Bono.
* 1958 Rick Santorum American politician.
* 1957 Sid Vicious Born John Simon Ritchie-Beverly, was an English punk-rock musician who was bass player for the Sex Pistols.
* 1955 Mark David Chapman American man who notoriously shot and killed musician John Lennon on December 8, 1980.
* 1955 Chris Berman Sportscaster who anchors SportsCenter, Monday Night Countdown, Sunday NFL Countdown, Baseball Tonight and other programming on ESPN.
* 1946 Donovan Most commonly referred to simply as Donovan, is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
* 1946 Maureen Lipman English film, theatre and television actress, columnist and comedienne.
* 1943 Judith Jamison American dancer and choreographer, best known as the artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
* 1923 Heydar Aliyev Also spelled as Heidar Aliev, Geidar Aliev, Haydar Aliyev, Geydar Aliyev, was the president of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from June 1993 to October 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him.
* 1923 Nicolaus Sombart German historian and cultural sociologist.
* 1920 Jeff Cooper American shooting enthusiast and author.
* 1916 Milton Babbitt American composer.
* 1911 Bel Kaufman American novelist and teacher.
* 1910 Taubie Kushlick South African actress and producer.
* 1910 Eric Berne American psychiatrist and writer, best known as the creator of Transactional analysis, and as the author of Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relations (1964).
* 1901 John Desmond Bernal Irish-born scientist known for pioneering X-ray crystallography in molecular biology, and considered one of the United Kingdom's most well-known and controversial scientists.
* 1890 Alfred Jodl German military commander, attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command during World War II, acting as deputy to Wilhelm Keitel.
* 1886 Karl Barth Swiss Reformed pastor, and one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the 20th century, a leader of what became known as the neo-orthodox movement.
* 1886 Olaf Stapledon British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction.
* 1855 Sri Yukteswar Giri Monastic name of Priyanath Karar, the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda.
* 1788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel French physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics.
* 1760 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle French composer who in 1792 wrote La Marseillaise, the French national anthem.
* 1727 Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Usually referred to as simply "Turgot", was a French economist and statesman.

Deaths

† 2006 Aleksandr Zinovyev Famous Russian philosopher, sociologist and writer.
† 2002 David Riesman Sociologist, attorney, and educator.
† 1994 John Wayne Gacy American serial killer.
† 1990 Walker Percy American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics.
† 1982 Peter Weiss German-born Swedish writer, painter and filmmaker.
† 1976 Elias Aslaksen Leader of the religious group "Smith's Friends".
† 1970 Walter Reuther American labor leader and president of the United Auto Workers.
† 1962 Shunroku Hata Field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II He was appointed as commanding general of the Central China Expeditionary Army in February 1938, to replace General Matsui Iwane.
† 1955 Tommy Burns Born Noah Brusso, was a Canadian world heavyweight champion boxer.
† 1954 George Hirst Professional cricketer for Yorkshire and England.
† 1911 La Fayette Grover Democratic politician and lawyer from the U S state of Oregon.
† 1904 Henry Morton Stanley Welsh-born reporter for the New York Herald, went to Africa in search of missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
† 1863 Thomas Stonewall Jackson American teacher and soldier.
† 1860 Theodore Parker Reforming American minister of the Unitarian church, an abolitionist, and a Transcendentalist.
† 1833 Francois Andrieux French man of letters and playwright.
† 1829 Thomas (scientist) Young English genius and polymath, admired by, among others, William Herschel and Albert Einstein.
† 1733 Barton Booth One of the most famous dramatic actors of the first part of the 18th century.
† 1696 Jean de La Bruyere French essayist and moralist.
† 1692 George Etherege English dramatist who helped to create the genre of Restoration comedy.
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