The 344th day of the year, the 345th in a leap year
Born on 10 December
Every 10 December birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Sagittarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- SagittariusFire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- Turquoise, Zircon, TanzaniteThe 1912 list gave Turquoise and Lapis lazuli.
- Birth flower
- Narcissus, HollyUsually taken today to mean good wishes and defence.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 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 December in any year.
Which weekday 10 December falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 10 December falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 10 December is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,787 babies were born on 10 December in each year of the twenty, making it the 249th 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 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Dickinson | 1830–1886 | American poet |
| Ada Lovelace | 1815–1852 | English mathematician |
| Nelly Sachs | 1891–1970 | Jewish German poet and playwright |
| Michael Clarke Duncan | 1957–2012 | American actor |
| Nikolay Nekrasov | 1821–1878 | Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher |
| Gonzalo Higuaín | 1987– | Argentine association football player |
| Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi | 1804–1851 | German mathematician |
| Kenneth Branagh | 1960– | British actor and filmmaker |
| Olivier Messiaen | 1908–1992 | French composer, organist and ornithologist |
| Clarice Lispector | 1920–1977 | Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist |
| Adolf Loos | 1870–1933 | Austrian and Czech architect and art collector |
| César Franck | 1822–1890 | Belgian-French composer and organist |
| Kanō Jigorō | 1860–1938 | Japanese educator and judoka; 10 December is his birthday in the Gregorian calendar, the 28th day of the 10th month in the Japanese lunar calendar then in use |
| George MacDonald | 1824–1905 | Scottish writer and Christian minister |
| Howard Martin Temin | 1934–1994 | American geneticist |
| Andris Bērziņš | 1944– | President of Latvia from 2011 to 2015 |
| Sultan Kösen | 1982– | tallest living human |
| Wilfried Bony | 1988– | Ivorian association football player |
Died on 10 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Alfred Nobel | 1833–1896 | Swedish chemist and inventor |
| Luigi Pirandello | 1867–1936 | Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and poet |
| Augusto Pinochet | 1915–2006 | Chilean military officer and politician |
| Leopold I of Belgium | 1790–1865 | King of the Belgians from 1831 to 1865 |
| Franjo Tuđman | 1922–1999 | Croatian politician, soldier, president and historian |
| Karl Barth | 1886–1968 | Swiss Protestant theologian |
| John B. Fenn | 1917–2010 | American analytical chemist |
| Tommy Lister Jr. | 1958–2020 | American actor and wrestler |
| Paolo Uccello | 1397–1475 | Italian painter |
| Otis Redding | 1941–1967 | American singer and songwriter |
| Richard Pryor | 1940–2005 | American comedian and actor |
| Charles Rennie Mackintosh | 1868–1928 | Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist |
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