December 10: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is December 10th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on December 10th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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December 10th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

December 10th Birthdays: Famous Artists

American lyricist Harold Adamson ("An Affair to Remember," "Around the World," "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer," "Daybreak," "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night," "It's a Wonderful World," "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening," "Manhattan Serenade," "My Resistance Is Low," "Time on My Hands" and "We're Having a Baby - My Baby and Me") was born on December 10, 1906.

Cesar Franck, Belgian-French Romantic composer (Panis Angelicus), was born on December 10, 1822.

Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (Vienna's Looshaus), was born on December 10, 1870.

Anton Mauve, Dutch painter (Milking Time, Morning Ride on the Beach, Riders in the Snow of the Woods at The Hague, Snow Storm and Watering Horses), was born on December 10, 1898.

Dutch painter Cornelis Pronk (A View of the Flower Parterre) was born on December 10, 1691.

Morton Gould, American composer ("Billion Dollar Baby," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Fall River Legend" and "Stringmusic") and Pulitzer Prize winner (1995), was born on December 10, 1913.

Dutch Baroque painter Adriaen von Ostade (Bleeding the Pig, Fiddler at the Door of a House, Peasant Festival on a Town Street and Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage) was born on December 10, 1610. Adriaen von Ostade was brother to painter Isaack van Ostade.

December 10th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Sinaida Woronin, Russian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist (1968), was born on December 10, 1947.

December 10th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

American poetess Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. Emily Dickinson's most popular poems included "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "The Chariot," "Hope Is the Thing," "I'm Nobody," "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass," "Safe in Alabaster," "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church," "This is My Letter to the World," "Two Butterflies" "Victory Comes Late."

William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist and publisher (The Liberator), was born on December 10, 1805.

British author Rumer Godden (Thursday's Children) was born on December 10, 1907.

Italian author Giovanni Battista Guarini (Faithful Shepherd) was born on December 10, 1538.

Chester Robert (Chet) Huntley, American television newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report) and author (Generous Years: Remembrances of a Frontier Boyhood ),was born on December 10, 1911.

American humorist, screenwriter (1964 High School Yearbook Parody, Animal House,Caddyshack and Lemmings) and National Lampoon co-founder Douglas Kenney was born on December 10, 1947.

Carolyn Ashley Kizer, American author (Cool Calm & Collected: Poems, Harping On: Poems, Knock Upon Silence, Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women, Midnight Was My Cry: New and Selected Poems, The Nearness of You: Poems for Men, Picking and Choosing: Prose on Prose, Pro Femina: A Poem, The Ungrateful Garden and Yin) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1985), was born on December 10, 1925. Carolyn Kizer co-founded Poetry Northwest.

George MacDonald, Scottish science fiction author (Princess and Curdie), was born on December 10, 1824.

Otto Neurath, Austrian-British philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences), was born on December 10, 1882.

British children's author Mary Spenser Norton (Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The Borrowers), was born on December 10, 1903.

William Charles Franklyn Plomer, British-South African editor and author (Double Lives, The Family Tree, The Invaders, I Speak of Africa, Museum Pieces, Paper Houses, Taste and Remember and Turbott Wolfe), was born on December 10, 1903. William Plomer edited several of Ian Fleming's earliest James Bond spy novels.

Leonie (Nelly) Sachs, German-Swedish poet, dramatist (Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels, Fahrt ins Staublose, Flucht und Verwandlung, In den Wohnungen des Todes, O the Chimneys, Suche nach Lebenden, Verzauberung and Zeichen im Sand) and Nobel Prize winner (1966), was born on December 10, 1891.

December 10th Birthdays: Famous Performers

American jazz singer John Kenneth (Ken) Albers (The Four Freshmen) was born on December 10, 1924.

Scot Alexander, American alternative rock bassist (Dishwalla) was born on December 10, 1972.

Frank Beard, American country rock drummer (ZZ Top), was born on December 10, 1951.

American actor Dan Blocker (Bonanza, Cimarron City, Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County, Come Blow Your Horn, Lady in Cement and Ponderosa) was born on December 10, 1928.

Kenneth Charles Branagh, Irish actor (Alien Love Triangle, Celebrity, Conspiracy, Fortunes of War, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog, A Month in the Country, Othello, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Swing Kids, The Gingerbread Man, The Theory of Flight, To the Lighthouse, Valkyrie and Wild Wild West) and film director (As You Like It, Dead Again, Hamlet, Henry V, Love's Labour's Lost, The Magic Flute, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, A Midwinter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, Peter's Friends, Sleuth and Swan Song) was born on December 10, 1960. Kenneth Branagh co-founded the British Renaissance Theater Company.

American blues pianist and singer Henry Roeland Byrd 1918. Henry Byrd was also known as Bald Head, Fess and Professor Longhair.

Jessica Cleaves, American pop-rock singer (Friends of Distinction), was born on December 10, 1943.

Canadian actor John Colicos (Battlestar Galactica) was born on December 10, 1928.

Ray Collins, American actor (Good Sam, Homecoming and Rose Marie), was born on December 10, 1889.

Tim Considine, American actor (My Three Sons), was born on December 10, 1941.

Susan Hallock Dey, American actress (Blue River, Comeback Kid, Emerald Point N.A.S., First Love, L.A. Law, Love and War and The Partridge Family), was born on December 10, 1952.

American actor Michael Clarke Duncan (Cats and Dogs, The Green Mile, The Island, The Scorpion King and The Whole Nine Yards) was born on December 10, 1957.

Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress (Hard Copy, How the West Was Won, Money for Nothing, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Rich Man Poor Man, Youngblood), was born on December 10, 1941.

American chef, restaurateur and television personality (BBQ with Bobby Flay, Boy Meets Grill, FoodNation, Grill It with Bobby Flay, Grillin' & Chillin', Hot Off the Grill with Bobby Flay and Throwdown with Bobby Flay) Bobby Flay was born on December 10, 1964.

Berend F. (Bear Bossu) Gertenbach, singer and actor (Pub Chantant), was born on December 10, 1942.

Peter Michael Goetz, American actor (Dad, Glory, Jumping Jack Flash, King Kong Lives,My Girl, Prince of the City, Wolfen and The World According to Garp), was born on December 10, 1941.

Gloria Jean (Gloria Loring) Goff, American singer (Those Four), actress (Days of our Lives) and television personality (The Carol Burnett Show), was born on December 10, 1946. Gloria Loring was married to actor Alan Thicke.

Harold Gould, American actor (Dream Chasers, The Feather and Father Gang, The Golden Girls, He & She, Kenny Rogers as the Gambler, Rhoda, Romero, Seems Like Old Times, Singer & Sons, Spencer, The Sting and Under One Roof), was born on December 10, 1923.

Anne Gwynne, American actress (House of Frankenstein and Ride 'Em Cowboy), was born on December 10, 1918.

Paul Hardcastle, British jazz keyboardist (Direct Drive and First Light) was born on December 10, 1958.

American actor (Bulletproof Monk, Cages, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, Hawaiian Heat, The Hawaiians, The Incredible Hulk, Kung Fu: The Movie, Pacific Heights, Pearl Harbor, Red Sun Rising, The Sand Pebbles, Seven Years in Tibet, Sidekicks and Taking Care of Business) and voice-over artist (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Duck Dodgers, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and Samurai Jack) Makoto (Mako) Iwamutsu was born on December 10, 1933.

Eddie (Guitar Slim) Jones, American blues guitarist ("The Things That I Used to Do"), was born on December 10, 1926.

British rock bassist and singer Christopher (Ace) Kefford (The Move) was born on December 10, 1946.

American actor Tommy Kirk (The Absent-Minded Professor, Bikini Beach, Blood of Ghastly Horror, Old Yeller, Pajama Party, The Shaggy Dog, Son of Flubber, The Swiss Family Robinson and Village of the Giants) was born on December 10, 1941.

George J. Lewis, Mexican actor (Zorro), was born on December 10, 1903.

Joseph Donald (J) Mascis, American rock guitarist and singer (Dinosaur Jr. and Witch), was born on December 10, 1965.

British actor Victor McLaglen (The Informer) and Academy Award winner (1935), was born on December 10, 1886.

American actress Una Merkel (42nd Street and Abraham Lincoln), was born on December 10, 1903.

George Merritt, British actor (I Monster and Q Planes), was born on December 10, 1890.

American singer and actor Dennis Morgan (21 Beacon Street) was born on December 10, 1910.

Burke Moses, American actor (As the World Turns), was born on December 10, 1959.

Italian actor Amedeo Nazzari (Lure of Sila), was born on December 10, 1907.

American pop guitarist and singer Joe (Cappy Bianco) Olivier (Bill Haley and His Comets) was born on December 10, 1927.

Walter (Clyde) Orange, American rock-soul drummer and singer (The Commodores), was born on December 10, 1946.

Raven-Symone Christina Pearman, American singer (The Cheetah Girls) and actress (The Cheetah Girls, The Cosby Show, Dr. Doolittle, Hangin' With Mr. Cooper and That's So Raven), was born on December 10, 1985.

American actor Tommy Rettig (The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Cobweb, Jeff's Collie, Lassie and River of No Return), was born on December 10, 1941.

Johnny Rodriquez, American singer ("Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande," "Foolin'," "Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico" and "You Always Come Back to Hurtin' Me"), was born on December 10, 1951.

Don Sebesky, American jazz trombonist, bandleader (The Jimmy Dean Show) and author (The Contemporary Arranger), was born on December 10, 1937. Don Sebesky worked with George Benson, Warren Covington, Paul Desmond, Tommy Dorsey, Maynard Ferguson, Freddie Hubbard, Stan Kenton, Claude Thornhill, Kai Winding, Wes Montgomery and other jazz artists.

American country music singer Kevin Grant Sharp ("Beautiful People," "I Think I'll Stay," "If You Love Somebody," "Love Is All That Really Matters," "Make a Wish," "Nobody Knows," "She's Sure Taking It Well," "You Are the Reason Why" and "Your Love Reaches Me") was born on December 10, 1970.

Mary Leta (Dorothy Lamour) Slaton, American actress (Donovan's Reef, Duffy's Tavern, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Hurricane; The Love Goddesses, Pajama Party, Road to Bali, Road to Morocco,Road to Singapore,Road to Zanzibar and Typhoon) and World War II war bonds spokeswoman, was born on December 10, 1914.

American actress Patricia (Tisha) Sterling (Betrayal, Coogan's Bluff,Defiant, Killer Inside Me, Powder Keg and Snatched) was born on December 10, 1944.

Chad Stuart, British rock guitarist, singer (Chad and Jeremy) and television personality (The Smothers Brothers Show), was born on December 10, 1943.

British actress Jill Summers (Coronation Street) was born on December 10, 1910.

Ralph Tavares, American-Cape Verdean R&B singer (The Tavares Brothers), was born on December 10, 1948.

Nia Peeples Vernia, American dancer and television personality (Fame and Party Machine), was born on December 10, 1961.

American rock drummer and singer Meg White (The White Stripes) was born on December 10, 1974.

Theodore Wilson, American actor (Sanford Arms and That's My Mama), was born on December 10, 1943.

John J. York, American actor (General Hospital), was born on December 10, 1958.

December 10th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Melvil Louis K. Dewey, American librarian (Dewey Decimal Classification System), was born on December 10, 1851. Melvil Dewey was co-founder of the American Library Association, Library Journal, and the New York State Library Association.

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American special education pioneer (American School for the Deaf), was born on December 10, 1787.

December 10th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

Antonin Novotny, Czechoslovakian President, was born on December 10, 1904.

Hungarian Premier Kalman Tisza was born on December 10, 1830.

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Happy Birthday, December 10th.

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