Notable Birthdays for December 10
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first free school for the deaf, in 1787
- poet Emily Dickinson in 1830
- librarian Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal book classification system, in 1851
- actor Una Merkel in 1903
- TV newscaster Chet Huntley in 1911
- actors Dorothy Lamour in 1914, Harold Gould in 1923, Dan Blocker in 1928, Tommy Kirk in 1941 (age 75) and Susan Dey in 1952 (age 64)
- actor/director Kenneth Branagh in 1960 (age 56)
- singer/actor Nia Peeples in 1961 (age 55)
- musician Meg White in 1974 (age 42)
- and actor Raven-Symone Pearman in 1985 (age 31).
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