The Birthday Gazette

Born on May 10

May 10 birthdays & history

If you were born on May 10, you share a birthday with Fred Astaire, Heydar Aliyev and Bono. May 10 babies are Taurus, with emerald as their birthstone and the lily of the valley as their birth flower. May 10 is the 131st day of the year in leap years (130th in other years).

Famous people born on May 10

  • 1899Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer
  • 1923Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijan general and politician, President of Azerbaijan
  • 1960Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and activist
  • 1969Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer and manager
  • 1886Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author
  • 1957Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player
  • 1788Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer
  • 1843Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright
  • 1760Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French captain, engineer, and composer
  • 1930George E. Smith, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on May 10

  • 28 BCChinese astronomers during the Han dynasty made the first precisely dated observation of a sunspot.
  • 1627Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts was appointed governor of Formosa (modern-day Taiwan) by the Dutch East India Company.
  • 1824The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
  • 1869The First transcontinental railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory with the golden spike.
  • 1872Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
  • 1876The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
  • 1881Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
  • 1904The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
  • 1908Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
  • 1916Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
  • 1962Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
  • 2013One World Trade Center in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a height of 1,776 feet (541 m).

Also observed on May 10

  • Children's Day (Maldives)
  • Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)
  • Constitution Day (Micronesia)
  • Golden Spike Day (Promontory, Utah)
  • Mother's Day (Guatemala, and Mexico)

Questions, answered

What star sign is May 10?

People born on May 10 are Taurus. Their birthstone is emerald and their birth flower is the lily of the valley.

Which famous people were born on May 10?

Fred Astaire (1899), Heydar Aliyev (1923), Bono (1960), Dennis Bergkamp (1969), Karl Barth (1886), Sid Vicious (1957) were all born on May 10.

What happened on May 10 in history?

Among other things: in 1916, Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island; in 1962, Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk; in 2013, One World Trade Center in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a height of 1,776 feet (541 m).

Can I get a newspaper front page from May 10?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any May 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, “May 10”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.