Birthdays in History on January 10

Ethan Allen

1738 Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary War patriot (lead the Green Mountain Boys), born in Litchfield, Connecticut (d. 1789)

1747 Abraham Louis-Breguet, French clock maker, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (d. 1823)
1750 Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor, born in Edinburgh, United Kingdom (d. 1823)
1768 James Varicick, founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1827)
1769 Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), born in Saarlouis, Germany (d. 1815)

1780 Heinrich Lichtenstein, German physician & explorer, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1857)
1800 Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish botanist & founder of Laestadianism, born in Jäckvik, Arjeplog, Sweden (d. 1861)
1810 Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman & lawyer, born in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania (d. 1883)
1812 Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect & educator, born in Torgau, Germany (d. 1881)
1814 Aubrey de Vere, Irish poet & critic (Victorian Observer), born in Toreen, Republic of Ireland (d. 1902)
1815 Alexander Brydie Dyer, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1874)
1815 Thomas Williams, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Albany, New York (d. 1862)
1825 Alexander Travis Hawthorn, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Conecuh County, Alabama (d. 1899)
1828 Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate, born in Ostbevern, Germany (d. 1892)
1834 John Dalberg, Baron Acton, English historian & historian (“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"), born in Naples, Italy (d. 1902)
1836 Charles Ingalls, father of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, born in Cuba, New York (d. 1902)
1840 Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal, born in Lévis, Canada (d. 1925)
1841 George Melville, American polar explorer & naval engineer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1912)

Frank James

1843 Frank James, American outlaw (member of the James-Younger gang), born in Clay County, Missouri (d. 1915)

1850 John Wellborn Root, American architect, born in Lumpkin, Georgia (d. 1891)
1855 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)
1858 Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer, born in Radeburg, Germany (d. 1929)
1864 George Washington Carver, African-American agricultural scientist (studied the peanut), born in Diamond Grove, Missouri [or Jul 12] (d. 1943)
1864 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1931)
1865 Mary Ingalls, sister of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, born in Pepin County, Wisconsin (d. 1928)
1871 Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian poet & writer (Jesse & Maria), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1955)
1876 Jan Eisenloeffel, Dutch goldsmith, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1957)
1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American inventor (electrostatic precipitator), born in Oakland, California (d. 1948)
1880 Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Short Cause)
1880 Frans van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister & mayor of Antwerp, born in Roosdaal, Belgium (d. 1961)

1880 Grock [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown and circus director, born in Loveresse, Canton of Bern (d. 1959)

Manuel Azaña

1880 Manuel Azaña, Prime Minister of Spain (1931-33) and 2nd President of the Spanish Republic (1936-39), born in Alcalá de Henares, Spain (d. 1940)

1883 Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), born in Pugachyov, Russia (d. 1945)
1887 Robinson Jeffers, American poet & playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea), born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (d. 1962)
1890 Grigory Landsberg, Soviet physicist, born in Vologda, Russia (d. 1957)
1891 Jos Speybrouck, Belgian drawer, born in Kortrijk, Belgium (d. 1956)
1892 Dumas Malone, American historian (Jefferson & His Time), born in Coldwater, Mississippi (d. 1986)
1893 Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
1894 Reginald Denham, English writer & director (Obsession, The Bad Seed), born in London, England (d. 1983)
1911 Tjalie Robinson [Jan Boon], Dutch East Indies writer and journalist (Tong Tong), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1974)
1912 Maria Mandel, Camp leader at Auschwitz, born in Münzkirchen, Austria (d. 1948)
1913 Gustav Husak, Slovak politician & president of Czechoslavakia (1975-89), born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 1991)
1913 Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician, born in Çorrush, Albania (d. 1981)
1914 Claude Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1991)
1914 Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan, born in Fenghua District, China (d. 2000)
1916 Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist & Nobel laureate, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2004)
1918 Arthur Chung, President of Guyana, born in Windsor Great Park, United Kingdom (d. 2008)
1923 Ingeborg Drewitz, German writer & academic, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1986)
1926 Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist, thinker, and politician, born in Beit She'an, Israel (d. 2017)
1927 Otto Stich, Swiss politician, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 2012)
1928 Donald Brooks, American fashion designer (Emmy 1983), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2005)
1928 Philip Levine, American poet, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2015)
1931 Alex Boraine, South Africa politician, born in Cape Town, South Africa
1931 Ron Galella, American celebrity photographer (sued by Jackie O), born in NYC, New York
1931 Peter Barnes, English writer, born in Manchester, United Kingdom (d. 2004)
1934 Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, born in Wołyń Voivodeship, Poland

Stephen E. Ambrose

1936 Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian (Band of Brothers), born in Lovington, Illinois (d. 2002)

1936 Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist & radio astronomer (1978 Nobel laureate), born in Houston, Texas
1936 Al Goldstein, American publisher & pornographer, born in Williamsburg, New York (d. 2013)
1937 Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge, born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2013)

1938 Ivan Twigden, English contractor/multi-millionaire (Twigden PLC)
1938 Donald Knuth, American mathematician & computer scientist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1939 Jared Carter, American poet, born in Elwood, Indiana
1939 David Horowitz, American author & political commentator, born in NYC, New York
1939 William Levy, American writer
1940 Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
1940 Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician, born in Québec, Canada
1942 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, Russian cosmonaut
1944 Rory Byrne, South African engineer & car designer, born in Pretoria, South Africa
1945 Gunther von Hagens [Gunther Gerhard Liebchen], German anatomist who invented the plastination technique for preserving tissue specimens, born in Alt-Skalden, Nazi Germany
1947 George Alec Effinger, American sci-fi author (Nick of Time), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2002)
1947 Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur, Black Panther Party member, born in Lumberton, North Carolina (d. 2016)
1949 James Lapine, American stage director, born in Mansfield, Ohio
1956 Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer (Royal Spanish Academy), born in Úbeda, Jaén, Spain
1957 Greg Walden, U.S. Congressman from Oregon, born in The Dalles, Oregon
1960 Benoît Pelletier, Canadian politician, born in Quebec City, Canada
1962 Michael Fortier, Canadian politician
1963 Mark Pryor, American politician, born in Fayetteville, Arkansas
1966 Steve Kramer, American politician, born in Baltimore, Maryland
1967 Johan Laats, Belgian judoka, born in Antwerp, Belgium
1968 Lyle Menendez, American author accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers), born in NYC, New York