Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 10
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[edit] Births
- 1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
- 1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555) (pictured)
- 1550 - Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615)
- 1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
- 1786 - William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
- 1852 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
- 1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976).
- 1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat
- 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
- 1960 - Colin Firth, English actor
[edit] Deaths
