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Victoria Rowell began her career as a ballet dancer and model in 1979 before making her acting debut in the 1987 comedy film Leonard Part 6.
Famous Birthdays on May 10
1959 — Victoria Rowell
American actress
May 10 has 122 recorded notable births across history, from 874 to 2000. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on May 10
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- 1994 Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. Source
- 1962 Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk. Source
- 1946 First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground. Source
- 1941 World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. Source
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John Scalzi won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he has also used for several charity drives.
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Nowak served as naval flight officer and flight test engineer in the Navy, and was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics.
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Barbara Taylor Bradford's debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
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Chris Berman has been an anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN for decades starting a month after its initial launch in 1979 and joined ABC in 2020.
More major people born on May 10
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1969
John Scalzi
American author and blogger
John Michael Scalzi II is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
1963
Lisa Nowak
American commander and astronaut
Lisa Marie Nowak is an American aeronautical engineer, former NASA astronaut, and retired United States Navy officer.
1933
Barbara Taylor Bradford
British novelist (died 2024)
Barbara Taylor Bradford was a British-American best-selling novelist. Her debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
1955
Chris Berman
American sportscaster
Christopher James Berman, nicknamed "Boomer", is an American sportscaster. He has been an anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN for decades starting a month after its initial launch in 1979 and joined ABC in 2020.
1788
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist and engineer (died 1827)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late…
1855
Yukteswar Giri
Indian guru and educator (died 1936)
Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri is the monastic name of Priya Nath Karar, an Indian monk and yogi, and the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda and Swami Satyananda Giri.
1960
Merlene Ottey
Jamaican-Slovenian runner
Merlene Joyce Ottey is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in 1978 and continued to do so for 24 years before representing Slovenia from 2002 to 2012.
1942
Jim Calhoun
American basketball player and coach
James A. Calhoun is an American former college basketball coach. He is best known for his tenure as head coach of the University of Connecticut (UConn) men's basketball team.
1960
Dean Heller
American lawyer and politician, United States Senator from Nevada
Dean Arthur Heller is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator representing Nevada from 2011 to 2019.
1985
Ryan Getzlaf
Canadian ice hockey player
Ryan Getzlaf is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Getzlaf played his entire NHL career with the Anaheim Ducks and is the franchise's all-time leading scorer.
1841
James Gordon Bennett Jr.
American publisher and broadcaster (died 1918)
James Gordon Bennett Jr. was an American publisher. He was the publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), who emigrated from Scotland.
1955
Mark David Chapman
American murderer
Mark David Chapman is an American man who murdered musician John Lennon in New York City on December 8, 1980.
1919
Ella T. Grasso
Governor of Connecticut (died 1981)
Ella Rosa Giovianna Oliva Grasso was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 83rd governor of Connecticut from January 8, 1975, to December 31, 1980, after rejecting past offers of…
955
Al-Aziz Billah
Fatimid caliph (died 996)
Abu Mansur Nizar, known by his regnal name as al-Aziz Billah, was the fifth caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, from 975 to his death in 996.
1872
Marcel Mauss
French sociologist and anthropologist (died 1950)
Marcel Israël Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology".
1755
Robert Gray
American captain and explorer (died 1806)
Robert Gray was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1787 and 1793, which pioneered the…
1990
Salvador Pérez
Venezuelan baseball player
Salvador Johan Perez Diaz, nicknamed "El Niño" and "Salvy", is a Venezuelan-American professional baseball catcher, designated hitter, and first baseman for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB).
1878
Gustav Stresemann
German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1929)
Gustav Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman during the Weimar Republic who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929.
1894
Dimitri Tiomkin
Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (died 1979)
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor.