Must . . . Obey . . . Birthday . . . Meme

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three deaths, two to three births, and three neat facts in your journal, including the year.

January 10

Deaths:
1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)

Births:
1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)
1738 - Ethan Allen, American Revolution military leader (d. 1789)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)

Events:
49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
1929 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut.