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December 10th


- Alfred Nobel Day or Nobeldagen, presentation ceremony of the Nobel Prize. (Sweden))
- Christian Feast Day
- Constitution Day (Thailand)
- Human Rights Day (International)
- International Animal Rights Day

December 10th


- 1994 - Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
- 1993 - The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
- 1989 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy.
- 1983 - Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
- 1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
- 1978 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
- 1955 - The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
- 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
- 1948 - The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- 1941 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
- 1941 - World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
- 1936 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
- 1935 - The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
- 1932 - Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1927 - The Grand Ole Opry premieres on radio.
- 1907 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
- 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
- 1904 - Pi Kappa Phi founded at the College of Charleston
- 1902 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
- 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
- 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
- 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.
- 1861 - American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
- 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
- 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
- 1665 - The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
- 1541 - Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
- 1520 - Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
- 1508 - The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
- 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adopted son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.

December 10th


- 1990 - Giulia Boverio, Italian actress
- 1990 - Pál Joensen, Faroe swimmer
- 1989 - Ng Chee Yang, Singaporean singer
- 1988 - Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer
- 1987 - Gonzalo Higuaín, French/Argentine footballer
- 1986 - Matthew Bates, English footballer
- 1985 - Matt Forte, American football player
- 1985 - T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
- 1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
- 1985 - Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer
- 1984 - Jayson Paul, American wrestler
- 1984 - Mark Applegarth, Rugby League player and Sex God
- 1983 - Patrick Flueger, American actor
- 1983 - Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
- 1983 - Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
- 1983 - Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
- 1982 - Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress
- 1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
- 1981 - Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer
- 1981 - Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
- 1980 - Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer
- 1979 - Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
- 1978 - Marko Jaric, Serbian basketball player
- 1978 - Summer Phoenix, American actress
- 1977 - Mr. Águila, Mexican wrestler
- 1977 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
- 1975 - Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008)
- 1975 - Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
- 1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
- 1972 - Marcos di Palma, Argentine racing driver
- 1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
- 1971 - Brian Nichols, American spree killer
- 1970 - Bryant Stith, American basketball player
- 1969 - Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 - Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
- 1965 - Greg Giraldo, American comedian
- 1965 - J Mascis, American musician
- 1965 - Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
- 1964 - Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
- 1964 - George Newbern, American actor
- 1962 - John de Wolf, former Dutch International footballer
- 1961 - Nia Peeples, American singer/actress
- 1961 - Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician
- 1960 - Michael Schoeffling, American actor
- 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
- 1959 - Mark Aguirre, American basketball player
- 1959 - Udi Aloni, American-Israeli filmmaker, writer, and activist
- 1958 - Pepsi Demacque, aka Helen Pepsi Demacque-Crockett English singer
- 1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
- 1957 - Paul Hardcastle, English composer and musician
- 1957 - Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and speaker
- 1956 - Rod Blagojevich, 40th Governor of Illinois
- 1956 - Roberto Cassinelli, Italian politician and lawyer
- 1955 - Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist
- 1954 - Jack Hues, English musician
- 1953 - Chris Bury, American journalist
- 1952 - Clive Anderson, English television presenter
- 1952 - Susan Dey, American actress
- 1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
- 1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
- 1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
- 1947 - R?sul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician
- 1947 - Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
- 1946 - Thomas Lux, American poet
- 1945 - Mukhtar Altynbayev, former Kazakhstani Minister of Defense and General of the Army of Kazakhstan
- 1944 - Steve Renko, American baseball player
- 1941 - Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
- 1941 - Tommy Kirk, American actor
- 1941 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
- 1941 - Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)
- 1939 - Dick Bavetta, American basketball referee
- 1939 - Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
- 1938 - Porter Goss, American politician, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- 1938 - Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor
- 1935 - Terry Allcock, English footballer
- 1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
- 1933 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
- 1928 - Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
- 1928 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (d. 2000)
- 1925 - Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Carolyn Kizer, American poet
- 1924 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
- 1923 - Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1922 - Lucía Hiriart, First Lady of Chile (1974–1990), wife of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet
- 1920 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
- 1920 - Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
- 1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
- 1918 - Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1918 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
- 1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
- 1914 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
- 1912 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
- 1911 - Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
- 1909 - Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990)
- 1908 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
- 1907 - Rumer Godden, English writer (d. 1998)
- 1907 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
- 1903 - Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1891 - Harold Alexander, British Army Field Marshal, first Earl of Tunis (d. 1969)
- 1891 - Nelly Sachs, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
- 1885 - Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
- 1884 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
- 1882 - Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
- 1880 - Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
- 1878 - Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d. 1972)
- 1870 - Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
- 1870 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
- 1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)
- 1851 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian, (d. 1931)
- 1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
- 1827 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
- 1824 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and preacher (d. 1905)
- 1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
- 1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877)
- 1820 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
- 1815 - Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
- 1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
- 1804 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
- 1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
- 1751 - George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
- 1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
- 1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
- 1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)