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Daisy Ridley rose to prominence for her role as Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy from 2015 until 2019.
Famous Birthdays on April 10
1992 — Daisy Ridley
English actress
April 10 has 235 recorded notable births across history, from 401 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis. Source
- 1972 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong. Source
- 1941 World War II: The Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia. Source
- 1821 Greek War of Independence: the island of Psara joins the Greek struggle for independence. Source
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Beginning his career as a child actor, Osment's role in the comedy-drama film Forrest Gump (1994) won him a Young Artist Award.
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During his childhood, Scotland was governed by regents, firstly by his mother until she remarried, and then by his first cousin once removed, John Stewart, Duke of Albany.
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Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American rapper and record producer.
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After recognizing her singing ability, her mother took her to New York City, where she found success as a child actress and model, signing with Ford Modeling Agency in 1986.
More major people born on April 10
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1988
Haley Joel Osment
American actor
Haley Joel Osment is an American actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Osment's role in the comedy-drama film Forrest Gump (1994) won him a Young Artist Award.
1512
James V
king of Scotland (died 1542)
James V was King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death in 1542. He was crowned on 21 September 1513 at the age of seventeen months.
1970
Q-Tip
American rapper, producer, and actor
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American rapper and record producer. Nicknamed the Abstract, he is often considered one of the most acclaimed figures in hip hop.
1981
Laura Bell Bundy
American actress and singer
Laura Ashley Bell Bundy-Hinkle is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career started as a child, when her mother entered her in beauty pageants, where she would sing as a talent.
1921
Sheb Wooley
American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2003)
Shelby Fredrick Wooley was an American singer, songwriter, and actor.
1938
Don Meredith
American football player and sportscaster (died 2010)
Joseph Donald Meredith, nicknamed "Dandy Don", was an American football player, sports commentator, and actor. He was a quarterback for nine seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL).
1977
Stephanie Sheh
Taiwanese-American voice actress, director, and producer
Stephanie Ru-Phan Sheh is an American voice actress, ADR director, writer, and producer who has worked for several major companies.
1806
Leonidas Polk
Scottish-American general and bishop (died 1884)
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general, a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, which separated from the Episcopal Church of…
1965
Tim Alexander
American drummer and songwriter
Timothy Wayne "Herb" Alexander is an American retired musician, best known as the former drummer for the rock band Primus. Prior to Primus, Alexander was the drummer for Arizona's Major Lingo from 1985-1990.
1900
Arnold Orville Beckman
American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist (died 2004)
Arnold Orville Beckman was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist.
1930
Spede Pasanen
Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor (died 2001)
Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor, who has been called an "all-around entertainer".
1913
Stefan Heym
German-American soldier and author (died 2001)
Helmut Flieg was a German writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States and trained at Camp Ritchie in 1943, making him one of the Ritchie Boys of World War II.
1901
Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil
Indian economist (died 1971)
Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, also known as D. R. Gadgil, was an Indian economist, institution builder and the vice-chairman of the Planning Commission of India.
1018
Nizam al-Mulk
Persian scholar and vizier (died 1092)
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī Ṭūsī, better known by his honorific title of Niẓām al-Mulk, was a Persian Sunni scholar, jurist, and vizier of the Seljuk Empire.
1919
John Houbolt
American engineer and academic (died 2014)
John Cornelius Houbolt was an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land humans on the Moon and return them to…
1955
Marit Breivik
Norwegian handball player and coach
Marit Breivik is a Norwegian former handball player and coach.
1924
Kenneth Noland
American soldier and painter (died 2010)
Kenneth Noland was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s as a minimalist painter.
1930
Dolores Huerta
American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers
Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and feminist activist.
1984
Mandy Moore
American singer-songwriter and actress
Amanda Leigh Moore is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She rose to fame with her 1999 debut single "Candy", which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100.