Famous people born on 10 July

20 of the people we track were born on 10 July, best known first, with each one’s age at death, or today. Dates from Wikidata, linked from each person’s page.

1. Nikola Tesla 1856Serbian engineer and inventordied aged 86
2. Marcel Proust 1871French novelist and criticdied aged 51
3. Mahathir Mohamad 1925Politician who served as Prime Minister of Malaysialiving, 101
4. John Calvin 1509French Protestant reformerdied aged 54
5. Alice Munro 1931Canadian writerdied aged 92
6. Camille Pissarro 1830Danish painterdied aged 73
7. Rajnath Singh 1951Indian politicianliving, 75
8. Jessica Simpson 1980American singer and actorliving, 46
9. Sofía Vergara 1972Colombian actor and modelliving, 54
10. SKStefán Karl Stefánsson 1975Actordied aged 43
11. Aphra Behn 1640English playwright and poetdied aged 48
12. Kurt Alder 1902German chemistdied aged 55
13. Ronnie James Dio 1942American heavy metal singerdied aged 67
14. Mario Gómez 1985German footballerliving, 41
15. Owen Chamberlain 1920American physicistdied aged 85
16. Giorgio de Chirico 1888Italian painterdied aged 90
17. Prokopis Pavlopoulos 1950Greek politician who served as President of Greeceliving, 76
18. Arthur Ashe 1943American tennis playerdied aged 49
19. Carl Orff 1895German composerdied aged 86
20. Chiwetel Ejiofor 1977British actorliving, 49