Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 10

Births

 * 1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)
 * 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901) (pictured)
 * 1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
 * 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
 * 1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
 * 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player
 * 1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
 * 1970 - Glenn Foley NFL quarterback

Deaths

 * 19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
 * 1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England
 * 1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
 * 1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
 * 1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
 * 2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)