Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 10

Births

 * 1637 - Jacques Marquette, (pictured) French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
 * 1895 - Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
 * 1915 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
 * 1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
 * 1922 - Judy Garland, American actress, singer, and poet (d. 1969)
 * 1923 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born newspaperman (d. 1991)
 * 1953 - John Edwards, Former U.S. Senator, and 2004 Vice Presidential candidate

Deaths

 * 323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC)
 * 1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
 * 1926 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
 * 1940 - Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887)
 * 1946 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
 * 1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
 * 2004 - Ray Charles, American singer and musician (b. 1930)

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