December 10 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 10, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#222 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 10 birthdays
Ada Lovelace · English mathematician1815
César Franck · Belgian-French composer and organist1822
George MacDonald · Scottish writer and Christian minister1824
Emily Dickinson · American poet1830
Melvil Dewey · American librarian1851
Kanō Jigorō · Japanese educator and judoka1860
Adolf Loos · Austrian and Czech architect and art collector1870
Nelly Sachs · Jewish German poet and playwright1891
Olivier Messiaen · French composer, organist and ornithologist1908
Dorothy Lamour · American actress and singer1914
Clarice Lispector · Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist1920
Howard Martin Temin · American geneticist1934
Aritatsu Ogi · Japanese association football player1942
Andris Bērziņš · Eighth president of Latvia1944
Marek Grechuta · Polish singer and composer1945
Michael Clarke Duncan · American actor1957
Kenneth Branagh · British actor and filmmaker1960
Brian Molko · Belgium-born British-American musician1972
Gonzalo Higuaín · Argentine association football player1987
Teyana Taylor · American singer-songwriter and actress1990
On this day in history
1884Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Finn depicted) by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada, two months earlier than in the US.
1890The New York World Building, the then-tallest building in the United States at a height of 110 meters, was completed in New York City.
1911Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States.
1993The video game Doom, later considered the "father" of the first-person shooter genre, is released.
1978Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1983Raúl Alfonsín became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship.
1991Nursultan Nazarbayev is sworn in as the 1st President of Kazakhstan.
1992Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan establishes the Marriage Fund in the United Arab Emirates in response to rising wedding prices.
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