April 10
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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,Austrian visual artist (d. 1959)
- 1994 - John O'Brien, American author (Leaving Las Vegas) (b. 1960)
- 1932 - Delphine Seyrig, French film actress (L'Année dernière à Marienbad) (d. 1990)
- 1710 - Statute of Anne, first fully-fledged copyright law.
- 1970 - Christophe Honoré, French writer and film director (Ma mère)
- 1956 - Jacques de Loustal, French graphic novel maker
- 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.
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