Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 10

Births

• 1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
• 1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555) (pictured)
• 1550 - Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615)
• 1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
• 1786 - William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
• 1852 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
• 1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976).
• 1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat (d. 2009)
• 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
• 1960 - Colin Firth, English actor

Deaths

• 1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
• 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
• 1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
• 1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
• 2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)