April 10 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on April 10

Born	Writer	Known as
1997	Claire Wineland	American activist and author (1997–2018)
1973	Guillaume Canet	French actor, film director and screenwriter (born 1973)
1965	Anna-Leena Härkönen	Finnish writer and actress (born 1965)
1957	John M. Ford	American writer, game designer, and poet
1957	Rosemary Hill	English writer and historian
1954	Anne Lamott	American novelist and nonfiction writer (born 1954)
1947	David A. Adler	American writer (born 1947)
1946	David Angell	American screenwriter and television producer (1946–2001)
1946	Adolf Winkelmann (film director)	German film director, producer and screenwriter
1943	Margaret Pemberton	British novelist (born 1943)
1942	Stuart Dybek	American writer (born 1942)
1941	Paul Theroux	American travel writer and novelist (born 1941)
1939	Claudio Magris	Italian scholar, translator and writer (born 1939)
1937	Bella Akhmadulina	Soviet-Russian poet, short story writer, and translator (1937-2010)
1935	Patrick Garland	British director, writer, and actor (1935–2013)
1935	Christos Yannaras	Greek philosopher, theologian and author (1935–2024)
1934	David Halberstam	American writer, journalist and historian (1934–2007)
1933	Rokusuke Ei	Japanese lyricist, composer, author and essayist (1933–2016)
1923	Roger Gaillard	Haitian historian and novelist
1915	Leo Vroman	Dutch poet
1913	Stefan Heym	German writer (1913–2001)
1903	Clare Turlay Newberry	American writer
1880	Montague Summers	English writer (1880–1948)
1877	Alfred Kubin	Austrian illustrator and writer (1877–1959)
1868	George Arliss	English actor, author and playwright (1868–1946)
1868	Asriel Günzig	Rabbi, scholar, bookseller, editor and writer
1847	Joseph Pulitzer	Hungarian-American newspaper publisher (1847–1911)
1827	Lew Wallace	American general, politician, and author (1827–1905)
1778	William Hazlitt	19th-century English essayist and critic (1778-1830)
1707	Michel Corrette	French composer, organist and author of musical method books (1707-1795)

Writers who died on April 10

Died	Writer	Known as
2025	Peter Lovesey	British writer (1936–2025)
2023	Al Jaffee	American cartoonist (1921–2023)
2016	Howard Marks	Welsh author and drug smuggler (1945–2016)
2009	Deborah Digges	American poet
2006	Kleitos Kyrou	Greek poet and Translator
2004	Jacek Kaczmarski	Polish singer, songwriter, poet and author
1997	Michael Dorris	American writer (1945–1997)
1966	Evelyn Waugh	British writer and journalist (1903–1966)
1960	André Berthomieu	French screenwriter and film director
1947	Charles Nordhoff	American novelist (1887–1947)
1935	Rosa Campbell Praed	Australian author (1851–1935)
1931	Kahlil Gibran	Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer (1883–1931)
1909	Algernon Charles Swinburne	English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)
1601	Mark Alexander Boyd	Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (1562–1601)
1500	Michael Tarchaniota Marullus	Greek Renaissance scholar, Neo-Latin poet, humanist and soldier (c. 1458 – 1500)

Year	Event
1925	The Great Gatsby (cover pictured), a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by Scribner's.
1710	The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.

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Event

1925

The Great Gatsby (cover pictured), a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by Scribner's.

1710

The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.

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Claire Wineland (1997) — Claire Lucia Wineland was an American activist, author, speaker and social media personality. Through her non-profit organization, Claire's Place Foundation, she provided support to children and families affected by cystic fibrosis (CF).

Guillaume Canet (1973) — Guillaume Arthur Jean-Louis Canet is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and show jumper.

Anna-Leena Härkönen (1965) — Anna-Leena Mirjami Härkönen is a Finnish writer and actress.

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