10 December
December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining in the year.
Events
Births
- 1787 - Thomas Gallaudet, educator (d. 1851)
- 1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist (d. 1879)
- 1815 - Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer (d. 1852)
- 1822 - César Franck, composer and organist (d. 1890)
- 1830 - Emily Dickinson, poet (d. 1886)
- 1845 - Wilhelm von Bode, art historian (d. 1929)
- 1851 - Melvil Dewey, librarian, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (d. 1931)
- 1870 - Adolf Loos, architect (d. 1933)
- 1882 - Otto Neurath, philosopher (d. 1945)
- 1891 - Nelly Sachs, writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1966 (d. 1970)
- 1903 - Una Merkel, actress (d. 1986)
- 1907 - Rumer Godden, writer (d. 1998)
- 1908 - Olivier Messiaen, composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Hermes Pan, choreographer, dancer (d. 1990)
- 1910 - John Hammond, music producer (d. 1987)
- 1911 - Chet Huntley, journalist (d. 1974)
- 1912 - Philip A. Hart, US senator (d. 1976)
- 1914 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (d. 1996)
- 1921 - Christine Brückner, author (d. 1996)
- 1928 - Dan Blocker, actor (d. 1972)
- 1948 - Jessica Cleaves, musician (P Funk)
- 1952 - Susan Dey, actress
- 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, actor, film director
- 1978 - Susan Finlayson, historian, botanist
- 1984 - Andrés Ispani, actor
- 1985 - Raven-Symone, actress
- 2003 - Rebeca Martinez, first person to be born with two heads (d. 2004)
Deaths
- 1865 - King Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
- 1896 - Alfred Nobel, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
- 1911 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (b. 1817)
- 1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
- 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and illustrator (b. 1868)
- 1946 - Damon Runyon, writer (b. 1884)
- 1951 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (b. 1869)
- 1967 - Otis Redding, singer (b. 1941)
- 1982 - Freeman F. Gosden, actor (b. 1899)
- 1996 - Faron Young, country music singer
- 1999 - Franjo Tudjman, president of Croatia (b. 1922)
- 2000 - Marie Windsor, actress
- 2001 - Ashok Kumar, actor, India
Holidays and Observances
See also:
December 9 - December 11 - November 10 - January 10 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
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