February 10 - Births

Births

1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
1524 – Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
1606 – Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
1609 – John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
1685 – Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
1696 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer and violinist (d. 1765)
1744 – William Cornwallis, English Royal Navy admiral (d.1819)
1775 – Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
1795 – Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
1824 – Samuel Plimsoll, British politician
1846 – Lord Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1847 – Nabinchandra Sen, Bengali poet (d. 1909)
1859 – Alexandre Millerand, French politician (d. 1943)
1868 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (d. 1879)
1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish stage and film actress, theatre and film director (d. 1954)
1884 – Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (d. 1976)
1888 – Alexander Cudmore, American soccer player (d. 1944)
1890 – Fanny Kaplan, Russian revolutionary (d. 1918)
1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1960)
1892 – Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (d. 1980)
1893 – Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
1894 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
1897 – Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
1897 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
1898 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
1901 – Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1903 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
1904 – John Farrow, American director (d. 1963)
1905 – Walter A. Brown, American team owner (d. 1964)
1905 – Chick Webb (William Henry), American drummer and band leader (d. 1939)
1906 – Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
1906 – Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
1908 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and music educator (d. 2000)
1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel laureate (d. 1969)
1910 – Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (d. 1978)
1913 – Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
1914 – Larry Adler, American harmonica player (d. 2001)
1920 – Alex Comfort, English physician and writer (d. 2000)
1920 – Neva Patterson, American actress (d. 2010)
1920 – José Manuel Castañón, Spanish writer (d. 2001)
1922 – Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary
1924 – Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2005)
1925 – Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (d. 2012)
1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
1927 – Leontyne Price, American soprano
1927 – Brian Priestman, English conductor
1927 – William Tetley, Canadian professor and politician
1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1929 – Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
1929 – Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
1930 – E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator
1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor
1931 – Doug Young, American voice actor
1933 – Richard Schickel, American film critic
1934 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
1935 – John Alcorn, American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
1935 – Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer
1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer
1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, Canadian politician
1939 – Peter Purves, English actor and TV presenter
1940 – Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh, Saudi Arabian scholar, 4th Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
1940 – Kenny Rankin, American singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
1940 – Mary Rand, English athlete
1941 – Michael Apted, British director
1943 – Ral Donner, American singer (d. 1984)
1943 – Bill Laskey, American football player
1944 – Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
1944 – Frank Keating, American politician
1944 – Frances Moore Lappe, American writer and activist
1944 – Rufus Reid, American bassist
1944 – Vernor Vinge, American novelist
1946 – Eliot Wald, American comedy writer
1947 – Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist
1947 – Butch Morris, American cornetist and composer
1947 – Nicholas Owen, English journalist
1948 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
1948 – Conrad Cummings, American composer
1949 – Jim Corcoran, Canadian singer and songwriter
1949 – Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
1949 – Nigel Olsson, English drummer
1949 – Harold Sylvester, American actor
1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
1951 – Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
1952 – Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean politician
1954 – Larry McWilliams, American baseball player
1955 – Christopher Adams, English wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
1955 – Jim Cramer, American TV personality
1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer
1956 – Enele Sopoaga, Tuvaluan politician and diplomat
1957 – Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar, Mongolian poet and politician (d. 1999)
1958 – Michael Weiss, American pianist
1959 – John Calipari, American basketball coach
1959 – Dennis Gentry, American football player
1959 – Lisa McPherson, American scientologist (d. 1995)
1960 – Robert Addie, English actor (d. 2003)
1961 – Theo Gries, German footballer
1961 – Alexander Payne, American film director
1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator
1962 – Cliff Burton, American bass player (Metallica) (d. 1986)
1962 – Bobby Czyz, American boxer
1962 – Piero Pelù, Italian singer and songwriter (Litfiba)
1962 – Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
1963 – Philip Glenister, English actor
1964 – Glenn Beck, American author, radio and TV host
1964 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
1964 – Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
1964 – Francesca Neri, Italian actress
1965 – Mario Jean, Canadian comedian and TV actor
1966 – Daryl Johnston, American football player
1966 – Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
1966 – Ji Suk-jin, South Korean variety shows artist
1967 – Laura Dern, American actress
1967 – Jacky Durand, French cyclist
1967 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (d. 1999)
1967 – Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
1968 – Matthias Hamann, German footballer
1968 – Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player
1968 – Garrett Reisman, American astronaut
1968 – Atika Suri, Indonesian TV newscaster
1969 – Laurie Dhue, American TV personality
1969 – Joe Mangrum, American artist
1970 – Iván Velázquez Caballero, Mexican drug trafficker
1970 – Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
1970 – Melissa Doyle, Australian TV personality
1970 – Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
1970 – Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
1971 – Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1971 – Lisa Marie Varon, American wrestler
1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress
1974 – Ty Law, American football player
1974 – Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
1974 – Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
1975 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player
1975 – Kool Savas, German rapper
1976 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player
1976 – Keeley Hawes, English actress
1976 – Vedran Runje, Croatian footballer
1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1978 – Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
1978 – Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
1979 – Joey Hand, American race car driver
1979 – Jumaine Jones, American basketball player
1979 – Daryl Palumbo, American musician (Glassjaw, Head Automatica)
1979 – Ross Powers, American snowboarder
1980 – César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Bruno Sundov, Croatian basketball player
1981 – Christian Fickert, German footballer
1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1981 – Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
1981 – Holly Willoughby, English TV presenter
1982 – Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
1982 – Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Bless, Canadian rapper
1983 – Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian gymnast
1983 – Ricardo Clark, American soccer player
1983 – James Ryan, New Zealand rugby player
1984 – Brent Everett, Canadian porn actor and director
1984 – Alex Gordon, American baseball player
1984 – Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1986 – Jeff Adrien, American basketball player
1986 – Radamel Falcao García, Colombian footballer
1986 – Roberto Jiménez Gago, Spanish footballer
1986 – Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
1987 – Erin Burger, South African netballer
1987 – Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine footballer
1987 – Choi Siwon, South Korean singer (Super Junior)
1987 – Yuja Wang, Chinese classical pianist
1989 – Bunmi Mojekwu, English actress
1990 – Sooyoung (Choi Soo-young), South Korean singer (Girls' Generation)
1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress
1992 – Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
1992 – Misha B, British singer
1994 – Makenzie Vega, American actress
1995 – Haruna Kawaguchi, Japanese model and actress
1996 – Christina Parie, Australian singer-songwriter
1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
1998 – Candy Hsu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1999 – Tiffany Espensen, Chinese-American actress