Born on December 10
December 10 birthdays & history
If you were born on December 10, you share a birthday with Emily Dickinson, Ada Lovelace and Nelly Sachs. December 10 babies are Sagittarius, with turquoise as their birthstone and the narcissus as their birth flower. December 10 is the 345th day of the year in leap years (344th in other years).
Famous people born on December 10
- 1830Emily Dickinson, American poet
- 1815Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist
- 1891Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1957Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
- 1821Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic
- 1987Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian footballer
- 1804Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic
- 1960Kenneth Branagh, British actor director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1908Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist
- 1920Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and author
What happened on December 10
- 1508The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice.
- 1684Edmond Halley presented the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society.
- 1768The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh.
- 1817Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
- 1848Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte won France's first presidential election, and was elected as the first and only president of the French Second Republic.
- 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.
- 1902The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
- 1909Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1911Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States.
- 1932Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1992Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan establishes the Marriage Fund in the United Arab Emirates in response to rising wedding prices.
Also observed on December 10
- Alfred Nobel Day or Nobeldagen (Sweden)
- Constitution Day (Thailand)
- Human Rights Day (International)
Questions, answered
What star sign is December 10?
People born on December 10 are Sagittarius. Their birthstone is turquoise and their birth flower is the narcissus.
Which famous people were born on December 10?
Emily Dickinson (1830), Ada Lovelace (1815), Nelly Sachs (1891), Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Gonzalo Higuaín (1987) were all born on December 10.
What happened on December 10 in history?
Among other things: in 1911, Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States; in 1932, Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy; in 1992, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan establishes the Marriage Fund in the United Arab Emirates in response to rising wedding prices.
Can I get a newspaper front page from December 10?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any December 10 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “December 10”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.