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Today's Anniversary – Friday, April 10


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Births

* 1975 Chris Carrabba American musician and the lead singer and guitarist of the acoustic-alternative band Dashboard Confessional.
* 1972 Ed Byrne Irish stand up comedian.
* 1957 Kevin W. Pearson Current member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
* 1955 Thomas Rau Swiss Physician and Chief Medical Director of a Swiss Clinic.
* 1955 Thomas Rau Swiss Physician and Chief Medical Director of a Swiss Clinic.
* 1954 Anne Lamott American author.
* 1951 David Helvarg American journalist and environmental activist.
* 1941 Paul Theroux American travel writer and novelist.
* 1935 Nicola Cabibbo Italian physicist, best known for work on the weak nuclear interaction.
* 1932 Adrian Henri English poet and painter from Liverpool, best known as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound.
* 1903 Clare Boothe Luce American playwright, journalist, editor, ambassador and political figure.
* 1894 Ben Nicholson English abstract painter.
* 1882 Frances Perkins U S Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945.
* 1867 George William Russell Irish nationalist, critic, poet, and painter who often wrote under the pseudonym ?.
* 1857 Lucien Levy-Bruhl French philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist.
* 1847 Joseph Pulitzer Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and for originating yellow journalism.
* 1829 William Booth British theologian and the founder of The Salvation Army.
* 1778 William Hazlitt English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism.
* 1583 Hugo Grotius Worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law.

Deaths

† 2010 Lech Kaczynski Polish politician; a leader of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość party, and the President of Poland from 2005 to 2010.
† 1999 Brownie Mary Popularly known as Brownie Mary, was an American medical cannabis activist.
† 1981 Howard Thurman Influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader.
† 1975 Walker Evans American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression.
† 1966 Evelyn Waugh English satirical novelist.
† 1966 Heinz Barwich German nuclear physicist who worked on the Soviet atomic bomb with V S Emel'ianov.
† 1955 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin French Jesuit priest trained as a paleontologist and a philosopher, and was present at the discovery of Peking Man.
† 1945 Carl Becker American historian of early American intellectual history and on the Enlightenment.
† 1940 Beatrice Stella Campbell British actress, the first actress to play "Eliza Doolittle", in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
† 1931 Khalil Gibran Born Gibran Khalil Gibran, and also known as Kahlil Gibran, was an artist, poet and writer.
† 1919 Emiliano Zapata Leading figure in the Mexican Revolution against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz that broke out in 1910.
† 1909 Algernon Charles Swinburne English poet.
† 1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti English poet, painter and translator.
† 1852 John Howard Payne American actor, playwright, author and statesman.
† 1813 Joseph Louis Lagrange Italian-French mathematician and astronomer who made important contributions to all fields of analysis and number theory and to classical and celestial mechanics.
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