Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 10

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[edit] Births

• 1738 - Ethan Allen, American Revolution military leader (d. 1789)
• 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916) (pictured)
• 1939 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
• 1945 - Rod Stewart, English singer

[edit] Deaths

• 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
• 1794 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
• 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
• 1917 - William F. Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
• 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)