Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 10
Births
[edit]- 1637 - Jacques Marquette, (pictured) French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
- 1895 - Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
- 1915 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- 1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- 1922 - Judy Garland, American actress, singer, and poet (d. 1969)
- 1923 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born newspaperman (d. 1991)
- 1953 - John Edwards, Former U.S. Senator, and 2004 Vice Presidential candidate
Deaths
[edit]- 323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC)
- 1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
- 1926 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
- 1940 - Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887)
- 1946 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
- 1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- 2004 - Ray Charles, American singer and musician (b. 1930)