February 10
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Births
- 1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
- 1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
- 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
- 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
- 1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
- 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
Deaths
- 1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
- 1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
- 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
- 1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- 1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
- 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
notes
- 1686 - Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879), was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, sculptor, and one of the most gifted and prolific draftsmen of his time.
- 1686 - Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973) was an American character actor, well-known mainly for his roles in monster movies and as the son of silent film actor Lon Chaney.
- 1686 - Charles Henri Ford (February 10, 1913 - September 27, 2002) was a novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist best known for his brilliant editorship of the avant-garde magazine, View, in New York in the 1940s, the co-author of The Young and Evil and as the partner of the artist Pavel Tchelitchew.
- 1686 - King Kong
- 1686 - Thomas Ruff
- 1686 - Atsuko Tanaka (artist)
- 1686 - Jørgen Nash
- 1686 - Francesco Hayez
- 1686 - Max Pécas
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