January 10th, 1850

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Born on January 10th, 1850 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on January 10th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on January 10th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (January 1850)

Born on January 10th, 1850

Weekday

Thursday

January 10th, 1850 was a Thursday.

Age

174

People born on January 10th, 1850 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 174 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

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Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)

December 22nd, 1849 - January 20th, 1850

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 63,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 348 days, exactly on April 2nd, 2025, people who were born on January 10th, 1850 will be 64,000 days old!

63,652 Days

9,093 Weeks

2,091 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on January 10th?

January 10th, 2007

A general strike began in Guinea as an attempt to force President Lansana Conté to resign, eventually resulting in the appointment of two new prime ministers.

January 10th, 1993

The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached peak intensity.

January 10th, 1985

Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry", which later became a cult collectable despite its commercial failure.

January 10th, 1966

India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Declaration to end the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.

January 10th, 1946

The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Methodist Central Hall in London with representatives from 51 member states.

January 10th, 1941

Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.

January 10th, 1929

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, began serialisation.

January 10th, 1927

The science fiction film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, was released in Germany.

January 10th, 1923

Lithuanian residents of the Klaipėda Region began a revolt, ahead of a League of Nations decision on their future which they expected to be against their interest.

January 10th, 1917

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months.

January 10th, 1901

The first great gusher of the Texas oil boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont.

January 10th, 1863

Service began on the Metropolitan Railway (construction depicted) between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.

January 10th, 1812

New Orleans (pictured), the first steamship on the Mississippi River, arrived at New Orleans to complete its maiden voyage.

January 10th, 1776

Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.

January 10th, 1475

Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Stephen the Great led Moldavian forces to defeat an Ottoman attack under Hadım Suleiman Pasha near Vaslui in present-day Romania.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 10th

Born on January 10th, 1850

John Wellborn Root

American architect

*January 10th, 1850, Georgia †January 15th, 1891, Chicago

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 10th?

Angelina Jordan

Norwegian singer

*January 10th, 2006, Oslo

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

German composer and writer

*January 10th, 1797, Burg Hülshoff †May 24th, 1848, Meersburg Castle

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

Fritz Schachermeyr

Austrian classical scholar and archaeologist

*January 10th, 1895, Urfahr †December 26th, 1987, Eisenstadt

Sergei Eisenstein

Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)

*January 10th, 1898, Riga †February 11th, 1948, Moscow

Rauw Alejandro

Puerto Rican singer and songwriter

*January 10th, 1993, San Juan

Reid Carolin

American film producer, director and screenwriter

*January 10th, 1982, Lake Forest

Tim Ricke

German actor

*January 10th, 1977, Duisburg

Marthe Hanau

French fraudster

*January 10th, 1886, Paris †July 14th, 1935, Fresnes

Fran Walsh

New Zealand screenwriter and producer

*January 10th, 1959, Wellington

Andreas Reinke

German association football player and manager (born 1969)

*January 10th, 1969, Krakow am See

Robert Wilson

American astronomer

*January 10th, 1936, Houston

Marvin Martin

French association football player

*January 10th, 1988, Paris

Eugen Kutschera

Czech composer and conductor (1852-1918)

*January 10th, 1852, Brno †February 9th, 1918, Aarau

Andreas von der Meden

German actor and voice actor

*January 10th, 1943, Hamburg †April 26th, 2017, Hamburg

Robert Crosbie

Canadian Theosophist leader

*January 10th, 1849, Montreal †June 25th, 1919, Monterey

Ronnie Hawkins

American musician

*January 10th, 1935, Huntsville †May 29th, 2022, Peterborough

Rod Stewart

English singer and songwriter (born 1945)

*January 10th, 1945, London

James Lapine

American stage director and librettist.

*January 10th, 1949, Mansfield

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Modern Enlightenment thinker, educator, philosopher, scholar, author, writer, journalist, translator, entrepreneur, and founder of Keio University in Japan's Meiji era (1835-1901)

*January 10th, 1835, Dōjima †February 3rd, 1901, Shiba-ku