Anniversarial — 2010
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The Copyright Act comes into effect in Britain on 10 April. The "Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned" was the first copyright act in Europe.
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2010:
1710
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2010:
Births
- Argoty, Jacques Fabien Gautier d’ (born 1710–died 1781), French — engraver
- Arnay, Jean Rodolphe d’ (born 1710–died 1765), Swiss — university teacher, author
- Bernoulli, Johann, II (born 1710–died 1790), Swiss — mathematician
- Berthoud, Jean Henri (born 1710–died 1790), Swiss — clockmaker, judge, tradesman
- Bland, Richard (born 1710–died 1776), American — planter, politician, army officer, civil servant, plantation owner
- Boswell, John (born 1710–died 1780), Scottish — physician, sectarian, Sandemanian/Glassite
- Bourgeois, Nicolas Louis (born 1710–died 1776), French — author, poet, historian, academy member
- Boyle, Margaret, countess of Cork and Orrery [née Hamilton] (born 1710–died 1758), Irish — aristocrat
- Brancas, Louis Bufile de, 3rd marquis de Céreste [dit: comte de Forcalquier] (born 1710–died 1753), French — aristocrat, army officer, courtier, playwright
- Bunbury, Sir William, 5th baronet (born c. 1710–died 1764), English — churchman
- Calas, Anne Rose [née Cabibel] (born 1710–died 1792), French — legal victim
- Carter, Landon (born 1710–died 1778), American — landowner, pamphleteer, civil servant
- Clerc, David François (born 1710–died 1777), Swiss — civil servant
- Cullen, William (born 1710–died 1790), Scottish — physician, medical scientist, university teacher
- Erskine, Sir Harry, 5th Baronet Erskine of Alva and Cambuskenneth (born 1710–died 1765), Scottish — army officer, politician
- Favart, Charles Simon (born 1710–died 1792), French — author, playwright, theatre director
- Fielding, Sarah [née Fielding] (born 1710–died 1768), English — author, novelist
- Fiquet Du Boccage, Anne Marie [née Le Page] (born 1710–died 1802), French — author, academy member
- Grumet, Baptiste Philippe Aimé, abbé Grumet (born 1710–died 1795), French — churchman, Catholic
- Hallows, Mary [née Hallows] (born 1710–died 1790), English — housekeeper, servant
- Hamilton, James (born 1710–died 1783), American — lawyer, politician, civil servant
- Haren, Willem van (born 1710–died 1768), Dutch — author, poet, politician
- Herbigny, Henri Lambert d’, marquis de Thibouville (born 1710–died 1784), French — army officer, author
- Joly de Fleury, Guillaume François Louis (born 1710–died 1787), French — magistrate
- Kincaid, Alexander (born 1710–died 1777), Scottish — bookseller, printer
- La Broue, Frédéric Guillaume de (born c. 1710–died 1782), Dutch — churchman, Protestant
- Laget, Guillaume (born 1710–died 1770), Swiss — churchman, Protestant
- Le Fèvre, Marie François de Paule, marquis d’Ormesson (born 1710–died 1775), French — aristocrat, politician, civil servant
- Lorraine, Élisabeth Sophie de, duchesse de Richelieu (born 1710–died 1740), French — aristocrat
- Louis XV, king of France (born 1710–died 1774), French — monarch
- Lowth, Reverend Robert, bishop of London (born 1710–died 1787), English — churchman, scholar, academy member, academic
- Macon de Chapelle, Antoine Joseph Marie, comte de Jumilhac (born 1710–died c. 1789), French — army officer
- Mailly-Nesle, Louise Julie de, comtesse de Mailly (born 1710–died 1751), French — aristocrat, mistress
- May, Margaritha von [née Fischer] (born 1710–died 1791), Swiss — home-maker
- Meiningen, Louisa Dorothea von, duchess of Saxe-Gotha (born 1710–died 1767), German — monarch
- Melmoth, William [the younger] (born c. 1710–died 1799), English — author, translator
- Mill, John (born 1710–died 1771), Scottish — merchant
- Monteil de Brunier, Antoine Honneste de, marquis d’Adhémar (born 1710–died 1785), French — courtier, army officer
- North, Reverend George (born 1710–died 1772), English — churchman
- O'Conor, Charles (born 1710–died 1791), Irish — author, historian, activist
- Oconostota, Chief [Great Warrior] (born c. 1710–died 1783), Native American (Cherokee) — tribal leader, warrior
- Paciaudi, Paolo Maria (born 1710–died 1785), Italian — churchman, monk, Theatine, scholar, librarian, academic, archivist
- Phelps, Richard (born 1710–died 1785), English — painter
- Pictet, Gabriel (born 1710–died 1783), Swiss — soldier, army officer
- Prunay, Nicolas François de, chevalier de Lemps (born 1710–died after 1777), French — army officer
- Querini, Andrea (born 1710–died 1795), Italian — senator, poet, patron
- Reid, Thomas (born 1710–died 1796), Scottish — scientist, philosopher, academy member
- Saussure, Judith de [née de Saussure] (born 1710–died 1802), Swiss — home-maker
- Schudt, Bernhard Jacob (born 1710–died 1785), German — lawyer, politician
- Soret, Jean (born 1710), French — lawyer, newspaper editor
- Talbot, Richard, 1st earl of Tyrconnell (born 1710–died 1752), Scottish — army officer, Jacobite
- Taylor, Robert (born 1710–died 1762), English — physician, academy member
- Terrick, Reverend Doctor Richard, bishop of London (born 1710–died 1777), English — churchman
- Trembley, Abraham (born 1710–died 1784), Swiss — scientist, biologist, diplomat, educationalist, tutor
- Tronchin, Jean Robert (born 1710–died 1793), Swiss — lawyer
- Trumbull, Jonathan [senior] (born 1710–died 1785), American — merchant, state governor, politician
- Vicaire, Antoine (born 1710–died 1795), French — university teacher, author
- Walther, Georg Conrad (born 1710–died 1778), German — printer, bookseller
- Ward, Caesar (born 1710–died 1759), English — printer
- Wyndham, Charles, 2nd earl of Egremont (born 1710–died 1763), English — unknown occupation
- Yart, Antoine (born 1710–died 1791), French — author, poet, translator
Deaths
- Addison, Lancelot (born 1680–died 1710), English — scholar, classicist
- Addison, Mary [formerly Brookes; née Jolley] (died 1710), English — home-maker
- Berkeley, Charles, 2nd earl of Berkeley (born c. 1649–died 1710), English — aristocrat, academy member, envoy, East India Company official, politician, member of Parliament, diplomat
- Beughem, Cornelius à (born c. 1637–died c. 1710), Dutch — bookseller, bibliographer, scholar, bibliophile, collector
- Broughton, Sir Thomas, baronet (born c. 1648–died c. 1710), English — gentleman
- Clarke, Edward (born 1650–died 1710), English — politician, member of Parliament
- Codrington, Christopher (born 1668–died 1710), English — colonial governor, benefactor
- Fotherby, Thomas (died 1710), English — diplomat, civil servant
- Norman, Captain Robert (died 1710), Irish — unknown occupation
- Proast, Reverend Jonas (born c. 1640–died 1710), English — churchman, religious controversialist
- Rømer, Olaus (born 1644–died 1710), Danish — astronomer
- Smith, Reverend Thomas (born 1638–died 1710), English — Orientalist, school teacher, antiquarian, schoolteacher
- Spanheim, Ezechiel von (born 1629–died 1710), Swiss — diplomat, scholar, classicist, numismatist
- Swift, Abigail [née Erick (or Herrick)] (born 1640–died 1710), Irish — home-maker
- Thompson, John, 1st Baron Haversham (born 1648–died 1710), English — East India Company official, politician, member of Parliament