Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 10

Births

• 1815 – Ada Lovelace, considered the world's first computer programmer (d. 1852)
• 1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
• 1851 – Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal System (d. 1931)
• 1886 – Harold Alexander, 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969)
• 1917 – Yahya Petra of Kelantan, 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 1979)
• 1924 – Michael Manley, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)

Deaths

• 1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
• 1198 – Averroes, Spanish philosopher and polymath (b. 1126)
• 1896 – Alfred Nobel, inventor of Dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1911 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
• 1978 – Ed Wood, American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Augusto Pinochet, 30th President of Chile (b. 1915)