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October 10, 1930

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Notable Births

Eugenio Castellotti

1930Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (died 1957)[†]

Eugenio Castellotti was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 14 Grands Prix from 1955 to 1957. Nicknamed "il Bello", Castellotti won the Mille Miglia and 12 Hours of Sebring, both in 1956 with Ferrari.

Yves Chauvin

1930Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)[†]

Yves Chauvin was a French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was honorary research director at the Institut français du pétrole and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was known for his work for deciphering the process of olefin metathesis for which he was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock.

Harold Pinter

1930Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)[†]

Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works.

Adlai Stevenson III

1930Adlai Stevenson III, American lawyer and politician (died 2021)[†]

Adlai Ewing Stevenson III was an American attorney and politician from Illinois. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the United States Senate from 1970 to 1981. A member of the prominent Stevenson family, he also served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Treasurer. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of Illinois in 1982 and 1986. He had been awarded Japan’s Order of the Sacred Treasure with gold and silver stars and was an honorary Professor of Renmin University of China.

Notable Deaths

Adolf Engler

1930Adolf Engler, German botanist and academic (born 1844)[†]

Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as Die natĂŒrlichen Pflanzenfamilien, edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl.