The 10t o December is the 344t day o the year (345t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 21 days bidin.
- 1394 - James I o Scotland (d. 1437)
- 1728 - John Clerk o Eldin, Scots merchant, author, airtist, geologist an laundawner (d. 1812)
- 1804 - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathemateecian (d. 1851)
- 1815 - Ada Lovelace, Inglis mathemateecian an writer (d. 1852)
- 1824 - George MacDonald, Scots poet an novelist (d. 1905)
- 1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
- 1891 - Nelly Sachs, German writer (d. 1970)
- 1907 - Lucien Laurent, French fitbawer (d. 2005)
- 1926 - Mike Haughney, Scots fitbawer (d. 2002)
- 1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (d. 1994)
- 1942 - Ann Gloag, Scots businesswumman
- 1943 - Barbara Rae, Scots airtist an prentmakker
- 1944 - Andris Berzins, umwhile Preses o Latvie
- 1952 - Clive Anderson, Inglis telly presenter
- 1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Northren Erse actor
- 1963 - Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player
- 1964 - Edith Gonzalez, Mexican actress (d. 2019)
- 1970 - Alec Cleland, Scots fitbawer
- 1985 - Charlie Adam, Scots fitbawer
- 1987 - Gonzalo Higuaín, Argentine fitbawer
- 1988 - Wilfried Bony, Ivorian fitbawer
- 2014 - Princess Gabriella, Coontess o Carladès
- 2014 - Jacques, Hereditary Prince o Monaco
- 1198 - Averroes, Spaingie astronomer, pheesicist an philosopher (b. 1126)
- 1865 - Leopold I o Belgium (b. 1790)
- 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swadish inventor (b. 1833)
- 1917 - Mackenzie Bowell, Prime meenister o Canadae (b. 1823)
- 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scots airtist, designer an airchitect (b. 1868)
- 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (b. 1867)
- 2005 - Richard Pryor, American actor an comedian (b. 1940)
- 2006 - Augusto Pinochet, Preses o Chile (b. 1915)
- 2016 - A. A. Gill, Inglis writer an creetic (b. 1954)
- 2019 - Yury Luzhkov, Roushie politeecian (b. 1936)
- 2020 - Dame Barbara Windsor, Inglis actress (b. 1937)
- Nobel Prize Day
- Human Richts Day
- Constitution Day (Thailand)