December 10 is the birthday of 54 notable people we've found so far, including authors, politicians, entrepreneurs and historical figures, and 5 of them are billionaires.
Jeff Greene is an American real estate entrepreneur. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was a candidate in the 2010 Senate election primaries in Florida.
Harsh Vardhan Goenka (born 23 December 1957) is an Indian industrialist and the chairman of RPG Enterprises, a Mumbai-based business conglomerate comprising over fifteen companies operating sectors, including infrastructure, tyres, information technology, and life sciences.
Lee Dong-chae is a South Korean businessman. The founder and largest shareholder of the company Eco Pro, he is among the richest people in South Korea. In December 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.7 billion and ranked the 16th richest person in the county.
Share of the 54 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors30% (16 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (13 people)
Politicians24% (13 people)
Musicians19% (10 people)
Athletes15% (8 people)
Actors13% (7 people)
Artists13% (7 people)
Countries
28 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States11 (11 people)
France5 (5 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Austria3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
South Korea2 (2 people)
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Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Branagh trained at RADA in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024.
Dublin International Film Festival, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
1815–1852 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
Antoine Claudet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Howard Martin Temin was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.
Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Alfred Perdue Jr. is an American diplomat, politician, and businessman serving as the 14th United States ambassador to China since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, Perdue previously served as a United States senator for Georgia from 2015 to 2021.
United States Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Karel Schwarzenberg was a Czech politician, diplomat and statesman who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic from 2007 to 2009 and then again between 2010 and 2013.
Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Andris Bērziņš is a Latvian businessman and politician who was President of Latvia from 2011 to 2015. Bērziņš was the President of Unibanka from 1993 to 2004. He was elected as President by the Saeima on 2 June 2011.
Kang Daniel, stylized as KANGDANIEL, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, television host, and businessman who rose to fame in early 2017 as the first-place winner of the second season of reality competition series Produce 101.
Richard J. Pratt was an Australian businessman, chairman of the privately owned company Visy Industries, and a leading figure of Melbourne society. In the year before his death, Pratt was Australia's fourth-richest person, with a personal fortune valued at A$5.48 billion.
Swinburne Commons (YouTube channel), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rakhat Mukhtaruly Aliyev was a Kazakh politician and diplomat, who died in an Austrian prison awaiting trial on charges of murder. His trial was planned to start in Vienna in first half of year 2015.
Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who played as a striker. He is a player development coach for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman-Maday, also known as simply Raven, is an American actress, singer, and director. She has received several accolades, including five NAACP Image Awards, two Kids' Choice Awards, three Young Artist Awards, and five Emmy Award nominations.
W!ZARD Radio Media, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji, was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and Indian independence activist.
Gandhi_Rajagopalachari.jpg: Unknown authorUnknown author derivative work: Ganeshk (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Brian Molko is a British-American musician who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the band Placebo. He is known for his nasal voice and high registered vocals, feminine/androgynous appearance, aggressive guitar style and non-standard tunings.
Martin Mycielski, European Parliament (Stansfield), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works, which explore diverse narrative forms and themes of intimacy and introspection, have earned her international acclaim.
Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer. She is best remembered for having appeared in the Road to. movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1824–1905 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th century, he was also an outstanding teacher of composition and musical analysis.
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was a British-American actor and boxer. His film career spanned from the early 1920s through the 1950s, initially as a leading man, though he was better known for his character acting.
Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants and number theory.
August Kaselowsky; Giesecke u. Devrient (heliogr.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement.
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat. He is best known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow Trials and in the Nuremberg trials.
G. Vail / Г. Вайль(Grigory Mikhailovich Vayl/Григорий Михайлович Вайль; 1905 – 1975), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cornelia Maria Funke is a German author of children's fiction. Born in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, she began her career as a social worker before becoming a book illustrator.
Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lucien Laurent was a French footballer who played as a forward. Playing for France, at the 1930 FIFA World Cup, he scored the first ever FIFA World Cup goal, against Mexico.
Stade_rennais_1936-37.jpg: Unknown authorUnknown author derivative work: Buffoleo (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alex North was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Antonín Josef Novotný was a Czechoslovak politician who served as the President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968, and as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968.
Pierre-Félix Louÿs was a Belgian poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who sought to "express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection".
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the mid-nineteenth century, particularly as represented by…
Vezenberg & Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist.
Heinrich Hoffman, (1919) Ein Jahr bayrische Revolution im Bilde Munich: Photobericht Hoffmann, copy in the Schwadron Col, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kiki Bertens is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking was world No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest-ranked Dutch female player ever. Her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 16, she achieved in April 2018.
This page lists 54 people born on December 10, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2025. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on December 10. Read the full methodology.
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