February 10 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 10, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#281 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 10 birthdays
Bill Tilden · American tennis player1893
Harold Macmillan · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 19631894
John Franklin Enders · American medical researcher1897
Bertolt Brecht · German poet, playwright, and theatre director1898
Walter Brattain · American physicist1902
Leontyne Price · African-American soprano1927
Jerry Goldsmith · American film composer1929
Robert Wagner · American actor1930
Roberta Flack · American singer1937
Mark Spitz · American Olympic swimmer1950
Lee Hsien Loong · 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore from 2004 to 20241952
Alexander Payne · American film director, producer and screenwriter1961
Cliff Burton · American bassist1962
Laura Dern · American actress and producer1967
Vince Gilligan · American writer, producer, and director1967
Elizabeth Banks · American actress and director1974
Justin Gatlin · American sprinter1982
Emma Roberts · American actress, singer, model and producer1991
Mia Khalifa · Lebanese-American former pornographic film actress1993
Chloë Grace Moretz · American actress1997
On this day in history
1862American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroyed the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1996Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first ever game won by a chess-playing computer against a World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions.
2008The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson (damage pictured).
2009The satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 destroyed each other in the first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit.
1954U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962The first solo exhibition by Roy Lichtenstein opened, including the painting Look Mickey, which featured his first use of Ben Day dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.
1967The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1989Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
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