July 10 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 10, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#37 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 10 birthdays
Camille Pissarro · Danish-French painter1830
Nikola Tesla · Serbian-American engineer and inventor1856
Marcel Proust · French novelist, critic and essayist1871
Giorgio de Chirico · Italian artist1888
Carl Orff · German composer1895
Kurt Alder · German chemist1902
Owen Chamberlain · American physicist1920
Alice Munro · Canadian writer1931
Ronnie James Dio · American heavy metal singer1942
Arthur Ashe · American tennis player1943
Sue Lyon · American actress1946
Prokopis Pavlopoulos · Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic1950
Rajnath Singh · Indian politician1951
Jeff Bergman · American voice actor1960
Sofía Vergara · Colombian-American actress and model1972
Stefán Karl Stefánsson · Icelandic actor1975
Jessica Simpson · American singer and actress1980
Golshifteh Farahani · Iranian actress and musician1983
Mario Gómez · German-Spanish association football player1985
Isabela Merced · American actress and singer2001
On this day in history
1913The air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), recognized by the World Meteorological Organization as the highest recorded on Earth.
1966Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil-rights campaigns in the northern United States.
1999The United States defeated China in the final match of the third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports.
2018The last members of a junior association football team and their coach were rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
1978Moktar Ould Daddah, the first president of Mauritania, was ousted in a coup d'état led by Mustafa Ould Salek.
1991Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
2000Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
2006Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall in South Korea, causing damages across the country amounting to 2.06 trillion won (US$1.4 billion).
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