Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 10

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[edit] Births

• 1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
• 1856 - William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. 1915)
• 1869 - Laurence Binyon, British poet (d. 1943)
• 1872 - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
• 1874 - Herbert Hoover, (pictured) President of the United States (d. 1964)
• 1947 - Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
• 1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
• 1963 - Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist
• 1965 - Claudia Christian, American actress
• 1971 - Roy Keane, Irish footballer
• 1971 - Sal Fasano, American baseball player

[edit] Deaths

• 1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
• 1910 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
• 1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)