July 10: Today's Notable Birthdays

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July 10th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

July 10th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Giorgio De Chirico, Greek Metaphysical painter (The Disquieting Muses, The Double Dream of Spring, Enigma of the Hour, Love Song, The Melancholy of Departure and The Red Tower), was born on July 10, 1888.

Camille Pissaro, French Impressionist painter (Apple-Picking, Harvest at Montfoucault, Hoarfrost, La Foret, L'Hermitage a Pontoise, Spring in Louveciennes, The Shepherdess, The Washerwoman, The Wheelbarrow, The Woodcutter and Young Peasant Girl Wearing a Hat), was born on July 10, 1830.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American painter (The Artist's Studio, At the Piano, The Coast of Brittany, Head of a Man Smoking, Head of a Peasant Woman, The Last of Old Westminster, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Sea and Rain and The Thames on Ice), was born on July 10, 1834.

July 10th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Arthur Ashe, American tennis star, was born on July 10, 1943.

Giacobbe (Jake) LaMotta, American middleweight boxing champion, was born on July 10, 1921.

Herb McKenley, Jamaican relay runner and Olympic gold medalist (1952), was born on July 10, 1922.

Sarah Virginia Wade, British tennis champion, was born on July 10, 1945.

July 10th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

British Restoration author and playwright Aphra Behn (Abdelazer, The Amorous Prince, The City Heiress, The Dutch Lover, The Emperor of the Moon, The False County, The Feigned Courtesans, The Forced Marriage, Like Father Like Son, The Lucky Chance, The Roundheads, The Rover, Sir Patient Fancy and The Town Fop) was born on July 10, 1604.

Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist (The Actual, The Adventures of Augie March, The Bellarosa Connection, Dangling Man, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, Humboldt's Gift, The Last Analysis, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Ravelstein, Seize the Day, Something to Remember Me By, The Victim and The Wreckers) and Nobel Prize winner (1976), was born on July 10, 1915.

British novelist and humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (Biography for Beginners, Trent Intervenes, Trent's Own Case and Trent's Last Case) was born on July 10, 1875.

British jurist and author Sir William Blackstone (Commentaries on the Laws of England) was born on July 10, 1723.

David Brinkley, American journalist and television anchor (The Huntley-Brinkley Report and This Week with David Brinkley), was born on July 10, 1920.

French Protestant theologian (Calvinism), clergyman, reformer and author (Institutes of the Christian Religion) John Calvin was born on July 10, 1509.

Robert Chambers, Scottish publisher and author (Ancient Sea Margins, Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, The Book of Days, Edinburgh Papers, History of Scotland, History of the English Language and Literature, Jacobite Memoirs of the Rebellion, Life and Works of Robert Burns, Life of Sir Walter Scott, Popular Rhymes of Scotland, Reekiana or Minor Antiquities of Edinburgh, Scottish Ballads, Scottish Jests and Anecdotes, Scottish Songs, The Threiplands of Fingask, Traditions of Edinburgh, Twelve Romantic Scottish Ballads, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Walks in Edinburgh), was born on July 10, 1802.

Jorge Icaza Coronel, Ecuadorean playwright (Cuál Es, El Dictador, El Intruso, Flagelo, La Comedia sin Nombre and Sin Sentido) and author (Atrapados, Cholos, El Chulla Romero y Flores, En las Calles, Huayrapamushcas, Huasipungo, Media Vida Deslumbrados, Seis Relatos and Sierra), was born on July 10, 1906.

American humorist and author Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley in Peace and War) was born on July 10, 1867.

Bridget Jean Collins Kerr, American playwright (Goldilocks, King of Hearts, Mary Mary and Please Don't Eat the Daisies), was born on July 10, 1923.

Alice Ann Munro, Canadian fiction writer (Dance of the Happy Shades, Friend of My Youth, The Love of a Good Woman, The Moons of Jupiter, Open Secrets, The Progress of Love, Runaway, The View from Castle Rock and Who Do You Think You Are), was born on July 10, 1931.

Mary O'Hara, American sreenwriter (Braveheart, Framed, The Last Card and The Prisoner of Zenda) and novelist (Green Grass of Wyoming, My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead and Wyoming Summer), was born on July 10, 1885.

Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust, French essayist and novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), was born on July 10, 1871.

Reginald (Reg) Smyth, British cartoonist (Andy Capp), was born on July 10, 1917.

July 10th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Colonel Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer (Busch Beer), was born on July 10, 1839.

Ima Hogg, American philanthropist, art patron and founder of the Houston Symphony, was born on July 10, 1882.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American philanthropist and founder of the Special Olympics, was born on July 10, 1921.

July 10th Birthdays: Famous Performers

June Allyson, American actress (Battle Circus, Best Foot Forward, Blackout, Executive Suite, Girl Crazy, The Glenn Miller Story, Her Highness and the Bellboy, Little Women, The Reformer and the Redhead, The Secret Heart, The Three Musketeers, Thousands Cheer, Till the Clouds Roll By and You Can't Run Away from It), was born on July 10, 1917.

American jazz and blues singer Ivie Marie Anderson (Duke Ellington Band) was born on July 10, 1905.

Ron Glass, American actor (All Grown Up, Barney Miller, Firefly, Sanford and Son, Serenity and Teen Angel), was born on July 10, 1945.

American actor Sabino Tomas (Thomas) Gomez (The Conqueror, Force of Evil, Key Largo, Ride the Pink Horse, Robert Montgomery Presents, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror and Who Done It) was born on July 10, 1905.

Adrian Grenier, American actor (AI: Artificial Intelligence, Celebrity, The Devil Wears Prada, Drive Me Crazy, Entourage and Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding), was born on July 10, 1976.

Arlo Guthrie, American folk singer and songwriter ("Alice's Restaurant" and "City of New Orleans"), was born on July 10, 1947.

Fred Gwynne, American actor (Car 54: Where Are You and The Munsters), was born on July 10, 1926.

American actress Sue Lyon (Evel Knievel, The Flim-Flam Man, Lolita, The Night of the Iguana, Seven Women and Tony Rome) was born on July 10, 1946.

Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor (American Pie, A Kid in King Arthur's Court, Radio Flyer, Rookie of the Year and Stealing Sinatra) and singer (Without Warning), was born on July 10, 1980.

American silent film star John Gilbert Pringle (Anna Karenina, The Big Parade, Flesh and the Devil, Heart o' the Hills, He Who gets Slapped, His Hour, La Boheme, The Merry Widow and a Woman of Affairs) was born on July 10, 1897.

Fiona Shaw, Irish actress (Anna Karenina, The Avengers, The Black Dahlia, Catch and Release, Harry Potter, Jane Eyre, My Left Foot, Super Mario Brothers, Three Men and a Little Lady and Undercover Blues), was born on July 10, 1958.

Mark Shera, American actor (Barnaby Jones and S.W.A.T.), was born on July 10, 1949.

Jessica Simpson, American singer ("I Wanna Love You Forever," "Take My Breath Away," "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and "With You") and actress (Blonde Ambition, The Dukes of Hazzard and Employee of the Month), was born on July 10, 1980.

George Joseph "Slim" Summerville, American actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Keystone Cops and Jesse James) was born on July 10, 1892.

Swedish actor Max Carl Adolf Von Sydow (A Kiss Before Dying, A Soldier's Tale, Awakenings, Christopher Columbus, Conan the Barbarian, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dune, The Exorcist, Flash Gordon, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hawaii< Heidi, Judge Dress, Minority Report, Needful Things, Never Say Never Again, Nuremburg, Pelle The Conqueror, the princess and the Pauper, Quo Vadis, Samson and Delilah, The Seventh Seal, Snow Falling on Cedars, Solomon, Three Days of the Condor and What Dreams May Come) was born on July 10, 1929.

July 10th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Kurt Alder, German organic chemist and Nobel Prize winner (1950), was born on July 10, 1902.

Owen Chamberlain, American atomic physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1959) was born on July 10, 1920.

Happy Birthday, July 10th.

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