December 10th, 1944

Born on December 10th, 1944

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What happened on December 10th?

December 10th, 1901

On the fifth anniversary of the death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm.

December 10th, 1898

The Spanish–American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, with Spain recognizing the independence of Cuba and ceding Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the United States.

December 10th, 1884

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada, two months earlier than in the US.

December 10th, 1861

Militia forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial leader in southern Vietnam, sank the French lorcha L'Esperance.

December 10th, 1847

"Il Canto degli Italiani", the Italian national anthem since 1946, made its public debut in Genoa.

December 10th, 1768

The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh.

December 10th, 1684

Edmond Halley presented the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society.

December 10th, 1508

The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice.

December 10th, 1993

The video game Doom, later considered the "father" of the first-person shooter genre, is released.

December 10th, 1989

At the first open pro-democracy demonstration in Mongolia, journalist Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the formation of the Mongolian Democratic Union, which would be instrumental in ending communist rule four months later.

December 10th, 1983

Raúl Alfonsín (pictured) became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship.

December 10th, 1970

Around the northern Thai village of Mae Salong, remnants of Chinese anti-communist forces now fighting on behalf of the Thai government launched a five-year campaign against local communist insurgents.

December 10th, 1942

Edward Raczyński of the Polish government-in-exile issued a note that was the first official report on the Holocaust.

December 10th, 1941

Second World War: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers east of Malaya.

December 10th, 1936

Edward VIII, desiring to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson against widespread British opposition, signed the instrument of abdication to renounce the throne in favour of his brother George VI.

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

Born on December 10th, 1944

79

Andris Bērziņš

Eighth president of Latvia

*December 10th, 1944, Nītaure

79

Steve Renko

American baseball player

*December 10th, 1944, Kansas City

79

Simon Durivage

Canadian journalist

*December 10th, 1944, Farnham

79

Tisha Sterling

American actress

*December 10th, 1944, Los Angeles

79

John Birt, Baron Birt

Former Director-General of the BBC (born 1944)

*December 10th, 1944, Liverpool

70

Agustin Mantilla

Peruvian politician (1944–2015)

*December 10th, 1944, Lima †November 20th, 2015, Lima

79

Roger De Courcey

British ventriloquist

*December 10th, 1944, London

79

Alexander Berzin

American scholar of Tibetan Buddhism (born 1944)

*December 10th, 1944, Paterson

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Who's birthday is on December 10th?

37

Natti Natasha

Dominican singer

*December 10th, 1986, Santiago de los Caballeros

60

Marek Grechuta

Polish singer and composer (1945-2006)

*December 10th, 1945, Zamość †October 9th, 2006, Kraków

82

Fionnula Flanagan

Irish actress

*December 10th, 1941, Dublin

77

Eberhard Aurich

German politician

*December 10th, 1946, Chemnitz

66

Ken Campbell

British actor, director and writer (1941-2008)

*December 10th, 1941, Ilford †August 31st, 2008, Loughton

63

Kenneth Branagh

British actor and filmmaker

*December 10th, 1960, Belfast

69

Florentin Smarandache

American mathematician

*December 10th, 1954, Romania

80

Jean Byron

American actress

*December 10th, 1925, Paducah †February 3rd, 2006, Mobile

83

Olivier Messiaen

French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)

*December 10th, 1908, Avignon †April 27th, 1992, Clichy

78

Mukhtar Altynbayev

Kazakhstani military officer; former Minister of Defense and General of the Army of Kazakhstan

*December 10th, 1945, Karaganda

70

Brian Gill

New Zealand zoologist, museum curator and editor

*December 10th, 1953, London

36

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician (1815–1852)

*December 10th, 1815, London †November 27th, 1852, Marylebone

27

Jonas Vingegaard

Danish cyclist (born 1996)

*December 10th, 1996, Hillerslev

72

Mako

Japanese-American actor (1933-2006)

*December 10th, 1933, Kobe †July 21st, 2006, Somis

86

Clayton Keith Yeutter

American politician

*December 10th, 1930, Eustis †March 4th, 2017, Potomac

34

Marion Maréchal

French politician

*December 10th, 1989, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

55

Emily Dickinson

American poet (1830-1886)

*December 10th, 1830, Amherst †May 15th, 1886, Amherst

80

Giampaolo Tronchin

Italian rower

*December 10th, 1940, Preganziol †November 27th, 2021, Latina

77

Catherine Hiegel

French actress

*December 10th, 1946, Montreuil

46

Thomas Klitgaard

Danish handball player

*December 10th, 1977, Aalborg

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79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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