The 130th day of the year, the 131st in a leap year
Born on 10 May
Every 10 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 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 May in any year.
Which weekday 10 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 10 May falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 10 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,827 babies were born on 10 May in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 140th 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Fred Astaire | 1899–1987 | American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer |
| Heydar Aliyev | 1923–2003 | President of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003 |
| Bono | 1960– | Irish singer |
| Gustav Stresemann | 1878–1929 | German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
| Mary II | 1662–1695 | Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694; born 10 May in the Gregorian calendar, 30 April in the Julian |
| Dennis Bergkamp | 1969– | Dutch association football player |
| Karl Barth | 1886–1968 | Swiss Protestant theologian |
| Sid Vicious | 1957–1979 | English bassist |
| Augustin-Jean Fresnel | 1788–1827 | French engineer and physicist |
| Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle | 1760–1836 | French army officer |
| Benito Pérez Galdós | 1843–1920 | Spanish realist novelist |
| Alfred Jodl | 1890–1946 | German general and convicted war criminal |
| George E. Smith | 1930–2025 | Nobel prize winning American physicist |
| Symon Petliura | 1879–1926 | Ukrainian military leader; born 10 May in the Julian calendar then used in the Russian Empire, which is 22 May in the Gregorian |
| John Wilkes Booth | 1838–1865 | American stage actor and assassin |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | 1900–1979 | British-born American astronomer |
| Arnold Rüütel | 1928–2024 | President of Estonia from 2001 to 2006 |
| Richarlison | 1997– | Brazilian association football player |
Died on 10 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Hokusai | 1760–1849 | Japanese artist |
| Louis XV | 1710–1774 | King of France from 1715 to 1774 |
| Joan Crawford | 1905–1977 | American actress |
| Thomas Young | 1773–1829 | English polymath |
| Leonid Kravchuk | 1934–2022 | Ukrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine |
| Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin | 1826–1889 | Russian writer, journalist, playwright and satirist |
| Stonewall Jackson | 1824–1863 | general of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War |
| George Vancouver | 1757–1798 | English naval explorer |
| Peter Weiss | 1916–1982 | Swedish-German playwright and author |
| Sebastian Brant | 1458–1521 | German humanist and satirist |
| John Wayne Gacy | 1942–1994 | American serial killer |
| Stanislao Cannizzaro | 1826–1910 | Italian chemist |
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