On this day
10
July

Marcel Proust, Hadrian

Born: Marcel Proust (1871)
Died: Hadrian (138)

Born on this day

10JulBorn 1871155th birthday

Marcel Proust

The author of “In Search of Lost Time” loved men all his life – and wrote one of literature’s great studies of homosexuality.

Died on this day

10JulDied 1381888th anniversary of death

Hadrian

A Roman emperor whose public commemoration of Antinous gave a private loss an extraordinary afterlife.