Famous people born on 10 December

• Emily DickinsonAmerican poet · 1830–1886
  55 yrs
• Ada LovelaceEnglish mathematician · 1815–1852
  36 yrs
• Nelly SachsJewish German poet and playwright · 1891–1970
  78 yrs
• Michael Clarke DuncanAmerican actor · 1957–2012
  54 yrs
• Nikolay NekrasovRussian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher · 1821–1878
  56 yrs
• Andrea PalladioItalian architect · 1508–1580
  71 yrs
• Carl Gustav Jacob JacobiGerman mathematician · 1804–1851
  46 yrs
• Olivier Messiaen ↗French composer, organist and ornithologist · 1908–1992
  83 yrs
• Clarice Lispector ↗Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist · 1920–1977
  56 yrs
• Adolf Loos ↗Austrian and Czech architect and art collector · 1870–1933
  62 yrs
• Philip Sidney ↗English poet, courtier, diplomat · 1554–1586
  31 yrs
• César Franck ↗Belgian-French composer and organist · 1822–1890
  67 yrs
• Kanō Jigorō ↗Japanese educator and judoka · 1860–1938
  77 yrs
• George MacDonald ↗Scottish writer and Christian minister · 1824–1905
  80 yrs
• Howard Temin ↗American geneticist · 1934–1994
  59 yrs
• Antonín Novotný ↗Czech politician · 1904–1975
  70 yrs
• Jorge Semprún ↗Spanish-French writer · 1923–2011
  87 yrs
• Pierre Louÿs ↗French writer and poet · 1870–1925
  54 yrs
• Victor McLaglen ↗British-American actor · 1886–1959
  72 yrs
• Andrey Vyshinsky ↗Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat · 1883–1954
  70 yrs
• C. Rajagopalachari ↗Indian politician and activist · 1878–1972
  94 yrs
• Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ↗British military commander and field marshal; Governor General of Canada · 1891–1969
  77 yrs
• Otto Neurath ↗Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist · 1882–1945
  63 yrs
• Edith González ↗Mexican actress · 1964–2019
  54 yrs
• William Lloyd Garrison ↗American journalist and abolitionist · 1805–1879
  73 yrs
• Melvil Dewey ↗American librarian · 1851–1931
  80 yrs
• Dorothy Lamour ↗American actress and singer · 1914–1996
  81 yrs
• Karel Schwarzenberg ↗Czech politician, minister of foreign affairs and vice prime minister · 1937–2023
  85 yrs
• Lucien Laurent ↗French footballer · 1907–2005
  97 yrs
• George Shaw ↗English botanist and zoologist · 1751–1813
  61 yrs
• Zinaida Serebryakova ↗Russian and French painter · 1884–1967
  82 yrs
• Jan Długosz ↗Polish archbishop and historian · 1415–1480
  64 yrs
• Mako ↗Japanese-American actor · 1933–2006
  72 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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