10 July: today's birthdays

• Paul Andreu - French architect and engineer 
• Aphra Behn - English novelist and playwright. She wrote Oroonoko
• Giorgio de Chirico - Italian painter, born Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico. He founded the art movement Metaphysical art
• Ronnie James Dio - Stage name of Ronald James Padovan (or Paduan), American heavy metal singer of Italian descent
• Chiwetel Ejiofor - English actor. He starred in 12 Years a Slave (Oscar Prize for Best Picture in 2014)
• ​Ellen Kuras -  American cinematographer and film director
• Jake La Motta - American boxer of Italian descent
• Sue Lyon - American actress, born Suellyn Lyon. She is best known for her role in the 1962 film Lolita, based on the novel written by Vladimir Nabokov, directed by Stanley Kubrick 
• Alice Munro - Canadian writer, considered the "master of the contemporary short story", Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013
• Camille Pissarro - French painter born in the Danish West Indies, now Virgin Islands (US)
• Marcel Proust - French novelist and essayist. He wrote À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
• Jessica Simpson - American singer, born Jessica Ann Simpson. She is the eldest sister of singer and actress Ashlee Simpson
• ​Nikola Tesla - Croatian-American inventor and engineer
• Sofía Vergara - Colombian actress and model
  
• Yang Chuan-kwang - Chinese athlete