Famous Birthdays on December 10

December 10 has 214 recorded notable births across history, from 553 to 2005. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.

Michael Clarke Duncan

1957 — Michael Clarke Duncan

American actor (died 2012)

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Famous Birthdays 214 source records 553 – 2005 Sagittarius

Major events on December 10

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field. Source
  2. 1989 Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union. Source

Did you know about Michael Clarke Duncan

Michael Clarke Duncan was an American actor best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile (1999), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and other honors.

Did you know about C. Rajagopalachari

C. Rajagopalachari was the only Indian-born Governor-General or Viceroy of India; all previous holders of these posts had been British nationals.

Did you know about Tommy Rettig

Tommy Rettig portrayed Jeff Miller in the first three seasons of CBS's Lassie television series, from 1954 to 1957, later seen in syndicated re-runs with the title Jeff's Collie.

Did you know about Ray Collins

With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama.

Did you know about Clive Anderson

Clive Anderson then became host of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, initially a radio show on BBC Radio 4 in 1988, before moving to television on Channel 4 from 1988 to 1999.

More major people born on December 10

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1878 C. Rajagopalachari

C. Rajagopalachari

Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India (died 1972)
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji, was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and Indian independence activist. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, serving until the abolition of that office upon India becoming a republic in 1950. He was the only Indian-born Governor-General or Viceroy of India; all previous holders of these posts had been British nationals. He was an accomplished writer and one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. He was close to both Gandhi and Nehru. He vehemently opposed the use of nuclear weapons, and was a proponent of world peace and disarmament, until his death at the age of 94 in 1972.
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1941 Tommy Rettig

Tommy Rettig

American child actor (died 1996)
Thomas Noel Rettig was an American child actor, computer software engineer, and author. He portrayed Jeff Miller in the first three seasons of CBS's Lassie television series, from 1954 to 1957, later seen in syndicated re-runs with the title Jeff's Collie. He also played the young orphan adopted by British star David Niven in an episode of the TV anthology series Four Star Playhouse entitled "No Identity." He then co-starred with another former child actor, Tony Dow, in the mid-1960s television teen soap opera Never Too Young and recorded the song by that title with singing group The TR-4.
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1889 Ray Collins

Ray Collins

American actor (died 1965)
Ray Bidwell Collins was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television. With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Collins went to Hollywood with the Mercury Theatre company and made his feature-film debut in Citizen Kane (1941), as Kane's political rival. Collins appeared in more than 75 films and had one of his best-remembered roles on television, as Los Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Arthur Tragg in the CBS-TV series Perry Mason.
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1952 Clive Anderson

Clive Anderson

English lawyer and television host
Clive Stuart Anderson is an English comedian, presenter, writer and former barrister. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began experimenting with comedy and writing comedic scripts during his 15-year legal career. He then became host of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, initially a radio show on BBC Radio 4 in 1988, before moving to television on Channel 4 from 1988 to 1999. He was also host of his own chat show Clive Anderson Talks Back, which changed its name to Clive Anderson All Talk in 1996, from 1989 to 1999. He has also hosted many radio programmes and made guest appearances on Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and QI.
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1985 Matt Forte

Matt Forte

American football player
Matthew Garrett Forte is an American former professional football player who was a running back for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tulane Green Wave and was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the second round of the 2008 NFL draft. Forte established himself as a dual-threat running back capable of earning yards as a rusher and receiver. He is one of only three players to record at least 1,000 rushing yards and 100 receptions in a single season. Forte spent eight seasons with the Bears before playing for the New York Jets for two seasons.
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1472 Anne de Mowbray

Anne de Mowbray

8th Countess of Norfolk (died 1481)
Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, later also Duchess of York and Duchess of Norfolk was an English noblewoman and the sole heiress of the Mowbray family. She became the child bride of Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower, in January 1478 when she was five years old. Through this marriage, her vast inheritance—including extensive lands and titles—was tied to the royal family by an act of Parliament of 1483, ensuring her estates remained under King Edward IV's control through Richard. Anne died at the age of eight in Greenwich, London. Her early death meant her titles and estates were absorbed into the crown and redistributed under subsequent acts of Parliament, impacting the later dynastic settlement of her inheritance.
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1969 Rob Blake

Rob Blake

Canadian ice hockey player and executive
Robert Bowlby Blake is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and currently the executive vice president of hockey operations for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was originally drafted by the Kings in 1988, appearing in the 1993 Stanley Cup Final, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy and serving as team captain for five seasons in his initial 11-season stint with the club. In 2001, Blake was traded to the Colorado Avalanche and was a member of their 2001 Stanley Cup championship team. After a two-season return to Los Angeles, Blake signed with the San Jose Sharks in 2008, retiring as its captain after the 2009–10 season. Four years later, in 2014, Blake was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He won a second Stanley Cup as the assistant general manager of the Kings' front office in 2014.
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1891 Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs

German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Nelly Sachs was a German–Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. Her best-known play is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (1950) ; other works include the poems "Zeichen im Sand" (1962), "Verzauberung" (1970), and the collections of poetry In den Wohnungen des Todes (1947), Flucht und Verwandlung (1959), Fahrt ins Staublose (1961), and Suche nach Lebenden (1971). In 1966, she shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with the novelist, poet, and short-story writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon.
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1965 Stephanie Morgenstern

Stephanie Morgenstern

Swiss-Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter
Stephanie Morgenstern is a Canadian actress, filmmaker, and screenwriter for television and film. She has worked extensively on stage, film, and television in both English and French. Her most widely seen feature film credits have been The Sweet Hereafter, Maelström, Julie and Me and Forbidden Love. Morgenstern is also widely recognized by anime fans as the voice of Sailor Venus in the DIC Entertainment English dub of Sailor Moon in the first few seasons as well as the movies. Additionally, she provided the voice of Regina in the Dino Crisis series, and Yin in Yin Yang Yo!.
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1489 Gaston of Foix

Gaston of Foix

Duke of Nemours (died 1512)
Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours, nicknamed The Thunderbolt of Italy, was a famed French military commander of the Renaissance. Nephew of King Louis XII of France and general of his armies in Italy from 1511 to 1512, he is noted for his military feats in a career which lasted no longer than a few months. The young general is regarded as a stellar commander well ahead of his time. An adept of lightning fast forced marches as well as sudden and bold offensives that destabilized contemporary armies and commanders, De Foix is mostly remembered for his six-month campaign against the Holy League in the War of the League of Cambrai. He met his end in said conflict, at the age of 22, during the Battle of Ravenna (1512), the last of his triumphs.
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1985 Roman Červenka

Roman Červenka

Czech ice hockey player
Roman Červenka is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a centre for HC Dynamo Pardubice of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He formerly played for Piráti Chomutov and Slavia Praha of the Czech Extraliga, Avangard Omsk, Lev Praha and SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was the leading goal scorer in the KHL in 2010–11 and was named to the All-Star team in 2011–12 before moving to North America after signing a contract with the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Calgary Flames. He played 39 games in the NHL during the 2012–13 season before returning to Europe.
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1811 Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer

Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer

American poet, biographer, and editor (died 1894)
Caroline M. Sawyer was a 19th-century American poet, writer, and editor. Her writings ranged through a wide variety of themes. Born in 1812, in Massachusetts, she began composing verse at an early age, but published little till after her marriage. Thereafter, she wrote much for various reviews and other miscellanies, besides several volumes of tales, sketches, and essays. She also made numerous translations from German literature, in prose and verse, in which she evinced an appreciation of the original. Sawyer's poems were numerous, sufficient for several volumes, though they were not published as a collection.
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1941 Fionnula Flanagan

Fionnula Flanagan

Irish actress and producer
Fionnghuala Manon "Fionnula" Flanagan is an Irish actress. Flanagan is best known for her roles in the films James Joyce's Women (1985), Some Mother's Son (1996), Waking Ned (1998), The Others (2001), Four Brothers (2005), Yes Man (2008), The Guard (2011) and Song of the Sea (2014). She is also known for her recurring role as Eloise Hawking in the series Lost (2007–2010). Notable stage productions she has performed in include Ulysses in Nighttown and The Ferryman, both of which earned her Tony Award nominations for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
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1960 Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

British actor director, producer, and screenwriter
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Branagh trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024. His accolades include an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award. He was knighted in 2012, and was given Freedom of the City in his native Belfast in 2018. In 2020, he was ranked in 20th place on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
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1981 Rene Bourque

Rene Bourque

Canadian ice hockey player
Rene Gary Wayne Bourque is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was a right winger in the National Hockey League (NHL). An undrafted player, Bourque was signed by the Chicago Blackhawks as a free agent in 2004 and made his NHL debut in 2005–06. He spent three years in Chicago before a 2008 trade sent him to the Calgary Flames where he established himself as a key offensive player. He was traded to the Montreal Canadiens before stints with the Anaheim Ducks, Columbus Blue Jackets and Colorado Avalanche.
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1998 Lucia Bronzetti

Lucia Bronzetti

Italian tennis player
Lucia Bronzetti is an Italian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 46 in singles, achieved on 8 April 2024, and No. 170 in doubles. She has played three finals and won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2023 Morocco Open, and has also reached nine singles finals on the ITF Women's Circuit, of which she won five. Bronzetti was a member of the Italian squad which reaching three finals in a row and won the 2024 and the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup.
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1923 Harold Gould

Harold Gould

American actor (died 2010)
Harold Vernon Goldstein, better known as Harold Gould, was an American character actor. He appeared as Martin Morgenstern on the sitcom Rhoda (1974–78) and Miles Webber on the sitcom The Golden Girls (1985–92). A five-time Emmy Award nominee, Gould acted in television, film, and theatre for more than 50 years, appearing in more than 300 television shows, 20 major motion pictures, and over 100 stage plays. He was known for playing elegant, well-dressed men, and he regularly played Jewish characters and grandfather-type figures on television and in film.
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1959 Mark Aguirre

Mark Aguirre

American basketball player and coach
Mark Anthony Aguirre is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Aguirre was chosen as the first overall pick of the 1981 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks after playing three years at DePaul University. Aguirre played in the NBA from 1981 until 1994 and won two championships with the Detroit Pistons after being traded to Detroit from Dallas in exchange for Adrian Dantley. Aguirre was a three-time All-Star for Dallas. Aguirre was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.
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1995 Tacko Fall

Tacko Fall

Senegalese basketball player
El Hadji Tacko Sereigne Diop Fall is a Senegalese professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCF Knights. Fall played his first two NBA seasons on a two-way contract with the Boston Celtics splitting time with their NBA G League affiliate, the Maine Red Claws before joining the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2021. Fall has made the NBA G League All-Defensive Team in 2020 and 2022, leading the G League in blocks in the latter year.
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