What happened on February 10 ?

1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)

1524 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)

1609 - Sir John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)

1685 - Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)

1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)

1785 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1936)

1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)

1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)

1887 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)

1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)

1892 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)

1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, 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)

1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)

1901 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)

1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)

1904 - John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963)

1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)

1906 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)

1910 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1969)

1914 - Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)

1920 - Alex Comfort, physician and writer (d. 2000)

1926 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. 1993)

1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano

1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)

1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor

1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)

1932 - Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer

1933 - Richard Schickel, American film critic

1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet

1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada

1939 - Roberta Flack, American singer

1941 - Michael Apted, British director

1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)

1944 - Rufus Reid, American Jazz Musician, Bassist

1944 - Frank Keating, American politician

1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist

1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge

1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)

1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer

1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor

1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer

1951 - Roxanne Pulitzer, American model

1951 - Robert Iger, President and CEO of The Walt Disney Company

1955 - Christopher Adams, British judoka and professional wrestler (d. 2001)

1955 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer

1955 - James Cramer, American Television personality

1959 - Dennis Gentry, American Football Player

1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)

1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director

1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political consultant and commentator

1962 - Cliff Burton, American musician (d. 1986)

1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer

1963 - Lenny Dykstra, baseball player

1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster

1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist

1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer

1971 - Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler

1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler

1974 - Ty Law, American football player

1976 - Lance Berkman, baseball player

1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician

1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder

1980 - César Izturis, baseball player

1980 - Steve Tully, English footballer

1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer

1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)

1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprint athlete

1985 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper

1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress

1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress

1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress