The 222nd day of the year, the 223rd in a leap year
Born on 10 August
Every 10 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 10 August in any year.
Which weekday 10 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 10 August falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 10 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,838 babies were born on 10 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 102nd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 10 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Herbert Hoover | 1874–1964 | president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 |
| Juan Manuel Santos | 1951– | president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018 |
| Antonio Banderas | 1960– | Spanish actor |
| Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour | 1810–1861 | first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861 |
| Jorge Amado | 1912–2001 | Brazilian writer |
| Kylie Jenner | 1997– | American media personality |
| Javier Zanetti | 1973– | Argentine association football player |
| Wolfgang Paul | 1913–1993 | German physicist |
| Anwar Ibrahim | 1947– | Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2022 |
| Suzanne Collins | 1962– | American television writer and novelist |
| Norma Shearer | 1902–1983 | Canadian-American actress |
| Abai Qunanbaiuly | 1845–1904 | Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer |
| Arne Tiselius | 1902–1971 | Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry |
| V. V. Giri | 1894–1980 | Indian politician and 4th president of India |
| Jean-François Lyotard | 1924–1998 | French philosopher |
| Roy Keane | 1971– | Irish football manager |
| Bernardo Silva | 1994– | Portuguese association football player |
| Rosanna Arquette | 1959– | American actress |
Died on 10 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey Epstein | 1953–2019 | American sex offender and financier |
| Robert H. Goddard | 1882–1945 | American physicist |
| Saint Lawrence | 225–258 | Christian saint, martyr and a deacon of Rome |
| William Penn | 1644–1718 | English writer, religious thinker and Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania; died 10 August in the Gregorian calendar, 30 July in the Julian |
| Otto Lilienthal | 1848–1896 | German aviation pioneer |
| Ferdinand VI | 1713–1759 | king of Spain from 1746 to 1759 |
| Yahya Khan | 1917–1980 | President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971 |
| Isaac Hayes | 1942–2008 | American musician and actor |
| Henry Moseley | 1887–1915 | English physicist |
| al-Wathiq | 812–847 | 9th Abbasid Caliph |
| Michael Haydn | 1737–1806 | Austrian composer, brother of Joseph Haydn |
| Aletta Jacobs | 1854–1929 | Dutch physician and feminist, editor |
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