Holiday Calendar – Who is celebrating April 10 today? Athens Voice reminds you of them – Don’t forget to give them your best wishes
Day calendar, so you know who celebrate and whom to wish. Today, April 10 many are celebrating. If you have a friend or relative with an ancient Greek name, chances are they are celebrating. Specifically, today we honor: Maximus, Maximus, Anaximenes, Demosthenes, Dionysius, Eteocles, Zeno, Heracles, Heracleia, Hephaistion, Themistocles, Epaminondas, Theophrastus, Theseus, Isocrates, Miltiades, Xenophon, Xenophontia, Homer, Parmenion, Pelopidas, Pericles, Pindar , Polybius, Prometheus, Sophocles, Socrates, Socrates, Timotheus, Timothy, Philopoimen, Phokion. Happy Birthday and well!
Orthodox Synaxarist: 5th Sunday of Lent – Saint Mary of Egypt, Saint Savvas the Younger of Kalymnos, Saint Gregory V Patriarch of Constantinople, Saints Africanus, Theodore, Maximus, Pompey, Terentius and other forty Martyrs, Prophetess Olda, Saints James the Elder and Azas the Deacon, Saint Dimos (or Demetrius) the fisherman, Saint Chrysanthos the Xenophontine the New Martyr, Saint Miltiades the Pope of Rome, Osia Anastasia the Abbess of Uglich, Holy Martyrs who testified in Camptakouia, Georgia
April 10th birthdays
401 – Theodosius II, Byzantine emperor
1018 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and vizier
1267 – James II, king of Aragon
1270 – Haakon V, King of Norway
1480 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy
1512 – James V, King of Scotland
1583 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer
1755 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
1769 – Jean Lahn, French field marshal
1827 – Lew Wallace, American soldier and politician
1829 – William Booth, English priest, founder of the Salvation Army
1847 – Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher
1868 – George Arliss, English actor
1887 – Bernardo Usau, Argentine physiologist
1903 – Patroklos Karatinos, Greek architect
1917 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist
1928 – Aristides Kalantzakos, Greek politician
1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
1935 – Christos Giannaras, Greek writer
1941 – Pasquale Mokumbi, Prime Minister of Mozambique
1941 – Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II
1943 – Maria Ioannidou, Greek actress
1953 – Heiner Lauterbach, German actor
1963 – Doris Leuthart, Swiss politician
1963 – Dimitris Starovas, Greek musician and actor
1973 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian soccer player
1974 – Petros Passalis, Greek football player
1979 – Rachel Corey, American activist
1979 – Pavlos Fyssas, Greek rapper
1981 – Anis Bousaidi, Tunisian football player
1982 – Nadiezda Granovskaya, Ukrainian singer
1987 – Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress
1992 – Daisy Ridley, English actress
1996 – Thanasis Kokkinakis, Australian batsman
2004 – Giorgos Lazos, also known as (g,sozal)
2007 – Ariadne, Princess of the Netherlands