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Art and culture

• 1906 - The Four Million, O. Henry's second short story collection, is published.
• 1925 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York, New York by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Births

• 1880 - Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)
• 1911 - Martin Denny, American musician (d. 2005)
• 1929 - Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
• 1932 - Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
• 1947 - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
• 1950 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations) (d. 1992)

Deaths

• 1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
• 1909 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet and critic (b. 1837)
• 1966 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
• 1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)

Notes

• 1877 - Alfred Kubin (April 10, 1877 – August 20, 1959) was an Austrian visual artist of macabre and fantastic art, as well as an occasional and often dystopian writer.
• 1994 - John O'Brien (May 21, 1960 – April 10, 1994) was an American author. His first novel Leaving Las Vegas was published in
• 1932 - Delphine Seyrig (April 10, 1932 - October 15, 1990) was a stage and film actress and a film director. Born Delphine Claire Belriane Seyrig in Beirut, Lebanon on April 10, 1932, she was the daughter of an archeologist and the sister of the French composer Francis Seyrig. As a young lady, she studied acting at the Comédie de Saint-Étienne, training under Jean Dasté, and at the Centre Dramatique de l'Est. She appeared briefly in small roles in the French-filmed Sherlock Holmes She also studied at the Actors Studio in New York City where, in 1958, she appeared in her first film, Pull My Daisy. She returned to France in 1960 and was hired by director Alain Resnais to star in his film, L'Année dernière à Marienbad.
• 1710 - Statute of Anne April 10, 1710. It is generally considered to be the first fully-fledged copyright law. It is named for Queen Anne, during whose reign it was enacted.
• 1970 - Christophe Honoré (born in Bretagne, France on April 10, 1970) is a French writer and film director. He wrote in "Les Cahiers du cinéma" before becoming a director. He has been the screenwriter for some of Gaël Morel's films. He has directed Romain Duris in two different films. His book Tout contre Léo is famous in France as it talks very cleverly about HIV to children. He is considered an "auteur" in French cinema and his film Ma mère
• 1956 - Jacques de Loustal born April 10 1956 in Neuilly-Sur-Seine) is a French comics artist who uses a painterly style reminiscent of David Hockney.
• 1910 - Gillo Dorfles Dorfles (Trieste, April 10 1910) is an Italian art critic and philosopher best known for his 1968 book on kitsch, Il Kitsch: antologia del cattivo gusto.
• 1575 - Anna Bijns The first writer who used the Dutch tongue with grace and precision of style was a woman and a professed opponent of Lutheranism and reformed thought. Modern Dutch literature practically begins with Anna Bijns (c. 1494–1575). Bijns, who is believed to have been born at Antwerp in 1494, was a schoolmistress at that city in her middle life, and in old age she still instructed youth in the Catholic religion. She died on April 10, 1575.
• 1975 - Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression.