September 10 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 10, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#5 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 10 birthdays
Charles Sanders Peirce · American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist1839
H.D. · American Imagist poet1886
Arthur Compton · American physicist1892
Georges Bataille · French intellectual and literary figure1897
Robert Wise · American film director, film producer and film editor1914
Edmond O'Brien · American actor1915
Arnold Palmer · American golfer1929
Karl Lagerfeld · German fashion designer1933
Mary Oliver · American poet1935
Jared Diamond · American scientist, historian, and author1937
Stephen Jay Gould · American biologist and historian of science1941
Charles Simonyi · Hungarian-American computer software executive1948
Joe Perry · American musician1950
Amy Irving · American actress1953
Chris Columbus · American filmmaker1958
Jim Meskimen · American actor1959
Colin Firth · English actor and producer1960
Jack Ma · Chinese businessman1964
Guy Ritchie · English filmmaker1968
Ryan Phillippe · American actor1974
On this day in history
1779American Revolutionary War: Captain William Pickles of the Continental Navy boarded and captured the British sloop HMS West Florida at the Battle of Lake Pontchartrain.
1858George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora from the Dudley Observatory near Albany, New York; it was his only asteroid discovery.
2000British forces freed soldiers and civilians who had been held captive by the militant group the West Side Boys, contributing to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2017Hurricane Irma made landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida, as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean.
1960Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila became the first athlete from sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal.
1974After centuries of Portuguese rule, the country of Guinea-Bissau was formally recognized as independent.
1983Typhoon Ellen dissipated after destroying hundreds of homes across Hong Kong and the Philippines.
1990Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, one of the largest churches in the world, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.
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