The 41st day of the year
Born on 10 February
Every 10 February birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- AmethystThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Violet, PrimroseUsually taken today to mean faithfulness and young love.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Two Snakes and a Dragon
The most recent new year on 10 February was in 2024, when the Wood Dragon began; it also fell here in 1929, the Earth Snake, 1948, the Earth Rat, 1994, the Wood Dog, and 2013, the Water Snake. That is five times in 107 years, as often as any date in the window but one.
The two Snakes on this date, 1929 and 2013, are 84 years apart, seven turns of the animal cycle. The elements change every two years, so by the time the Snake came back to 10 February the Earth had given way to Water. A birth on 9 February 2013, the day before, belongs to the Water Dragon of 2012.
From 1920 to 2026 a 10 February birthday fell before the new year in 33 years and on or after it in 74, and it was Aquarius in all of them, wherever the birth. The engine next puts the new year on this date in 2043.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 10 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 10 February in 33 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 74 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1929, 1948, 1994, 2013 and 2024.
Shaded: 10 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 10 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 10 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 10 February falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Friday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Wednesday 15, Monday 15.
Showing 10 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 10 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,793 babies were born on 10 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 229th 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 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898–1956 | German poet, playwright, and theatre director |
| Boris Pasternak | 1890–1960 | Russian writer |
| Harold Macmillan | 1894–1986 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963 |
| Walter Brattain | 1902–1987 | American physicist |
| Lee Hsien Loong | 1952– | 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore from 2004 to 2024 |
| Emma Roberts | 1991– | American actress, singer, model and producer |
| Laura Dern | 1967– | American actress and producer |
| Chloë Grace Moretz | 1997– | American actress |
| Elizabeth Banks | 1974– | American actress and director |
| Mark Spitz | 1950– | American Olympic swimmer |
| Radamel Falcao | 1986– | Colombian association football player |
| Alexandre Millerand | 1859–1943 | French lawyer and statesman |
| Cevdet Sunay | 1899–1982 | 5th President of the Republic of Turkey |
| Seulgi | 1994– | South Korean singer |
| John Franklin Enders | 1897–1985 | American medical researcher |
| Jerry Goldsmith | 1929–2004 | American film composer |
| Cliff Burton | 1962–1986 | American bassist |
| Charles Lamb | 1775–1834 | British essayist, poet, antiquarian |
Died on 10 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Pushkin | 1799–1837 | Russian poet, playwright, and novelist |
| Montesquieu | 1689–1755 | French philosopher |
| Wilhelm Röntgen | 1845–1923 | German physicist |
| Pope Pius XI | 1857–1939 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939 |
| Arthur Miller | 1915–2005 | American playwright and essayist |
| Abdul Hamid II | 1842–1918 | 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876–1909) |
| Shirley Temple | 1928–2014 | American actress and diplomat |
| Pope Leo XII | 1760–1829 | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1823 to 1829 |
| Sofya Kovalevskaya | 1850–1891 | 19th-century Russian mathematician |
| Joseph Lister | 1827–1912 | British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer |
| Jim Varney | 1949–2000 | American actor and comedian |
| Honoré Daumier | 1808–1879 | French artist |
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