Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 10

Births

• 1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
• 1775 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
• 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960) (pictured)
• 1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980)
• 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
• 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)

Deaths

• 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
• 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
• 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
• 1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
• 2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)