December 10th Birthdays

If you were born on December 10th, you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:

Fionnula Flanagan is 81 (nee Fionnghuala Manon Flanagan)

Emmy Award-winning Irish actress of stage, television (How the West Was Won; Rich Man, Poor Man; Brotherhood; To Have & to Hold; H.E.L.P.; Lost; Defiance), and movies (The Others; Youngblood; Waking Ned Devine), born December 10, 1941. (Fionnula Flanagan 2012: Sinn Fein Jorgebarrios)

Tisha Sterling is 78 (nee Patricia Ann Sterling)

American actress of television (The Young and the Restless; The Long, Hot Summer) and films (Coogan’s Bluff; Village of the Giants; Journey to Shiloh; Norwood; The Killer Inside Me; The Whales of August; Crazy Mama), born December 10, 1944. (Tisha Sterling 1968 Coogan’s Bluff Trailer)

Gloria Loring is 76 (nee Gloria Jean Goff; aka Gloria Loring-Lagler)

American actress of TV (Liz Chandler on Days of Our Lives; Renegade; Super Password), TV theme song singer-composer (The Facts of Life; Diff’rent Strokes), & pop singer (Friends and Lovers), born December 10, 1946. Ex of Alan Thicke, mother of Robin Thicke. (Gloria Loring 1969: Kenneth F Martel) 

Susan Dey is 70  

American model, actress of TV (Laurie Partridge on The Partridge Family; Grace Van Owen on L.A. Law; Emerald Point N.A.S.; Loves Me, Loves Me Not; Love & War) and movies (First Love; Skyjacked; Looker; Rain), born December 10, 1952. (Susan Dey 1970 The Partridge Family Photo: ABC TV Network)

Jacquelyn Mitchard is 69

Bram Stoker Award-winning American columnist (The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship), non-fiction author, & novelist (The Deep End of the Ocean; The Most Wanted; Cage of Stars; Still Summer; Twelve Times Blessed; No Time to Wave Goodbye), born December 10, 1953. (JacquelynMitchard.com)

John J. York is 64 (nee John Joseph Robert York)

American actor of television (Mac Scorpio on General Hospital, General  Hospital: Night Shift, Port Charles, & All My Children; Werewolf; Hotel; Clueless) and movies (The Eavesdropper; Steel and Lace; By God’s Grace; The Last Heist; Distortion), born December 10, 1958. (John J. York 2010 Photo: Ackgh73994)

Burke Moses is 63 (brother of Mark Moses)

American actor of stage (Beauty and the Beast), TV (Bulge Hackman on One Life to Live; Curtis Alden on Loving; Briggs on Guiding Light; Sean Baxter on As the World Turns; Andrew Miller on All My Children; Younger; The Client; Family Law), and movies (The Hotel Manor Inn), born December 10, 1959.

Kenneth Branagh is 62 (aka Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh)

Emmy-winning English filmmaker & actor of TV (Wallander) & movies (Dead Again; Much Ado About Nothing; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; The Gingerbread Man), born December 10, 1960. Ex of Emma Thompson; ex-partner of Helena Bonham Carter. (Kenneth Branagh 2009: Giorgia Meschini)

Nia Peeples is 61 (nee Virenia Gwendolyn Peeples)

American singer, dancer & actress of stage, TV (Nicole on Fame; Sydney Cooke on Walker, Texas Ranger; Pretty Little Liars; General Hospital; The Young and the Restless; Days of Our Lives) and movies (North Shore; Blues Brothers 2000; DeepStar Six), born December 10, 1961. (Nia Peeples 2013: RumorFix)

Bobby Flay is 58 (nee Robert William Flay; ex of Stephanie March)

Daytime Emmy Award-winning American chef, cookbook author, TV host (Beat Bobby Flay; Boy Meets Grill With Bobby Flay; Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction), & restaurateur (Bobby’s Burgers / Bobby’s Burger Palace; Mesa Grill), born December 10, 1964. (Bobby Flay 2016: U.S. DOS)

(Sidney Fox 1932: McClelland Barclay | Dorothy Lamour 1946)

Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on December 10th!

Remember These December 10th Famous Birthdays

Tommy Kirk (nee Thomas Lee Kirk)

American actor of TV (The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure; Matinee Theatre) & movies (Old Yeller; The Shaggy Dog; Son of Flubber; Swiss Family Robinson; The Misadventures of Merlin Jones; Bon Voyage; Savage Sam; Babes in Toyland; Pajama Party; The Monkey’s Uncle) (born Dec. 10, 1941 – died Sept. 28, 2021; age 79). (Tommy Kirk 1956 Freedom Highway) 

Harold Gould (nee Harold Vernon Goldstein)

American actor of stage, TV (The Golden Girls, Rhoda; The Feather and Father Gang; Spencer; Foot in the Door; The Long, Hot Summer; Hawaii Five-O), and movies (The Sting, Mrs. Pollifax-Spy; Silent Movie; Harper; The One and Only; Patch Adams) (born Dec. 10, 1923 – Sept. 11, 2010; age 86). Harold Gould died of prostate cancer. (Harold Gould 1965 12 O’Clock High)

Rumer Godden (nee Margaret Rumer Godden)

English writer and best-selling novelist (Black Narcissus; The River; In This House of Brede; An Episode of Sparrows; A Breath of Air; Kingfishers Catch Fire; The Greengage Summer; The Peacock Spring) (born Dec. 10, 1907 – died Nov. 8, 1998; age 90). Rumer Godden had several strokes before she died. (Rumer Godden 1958 Photo: Courtesy Rumer Godden Literary Trust)  

Dorothy Lamour (nee Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; ex of Herbie Kay)

American big band nightclub singer and movie actress (My Favorite Brunette; Road to Singapore; Road to Bali; Typhoon; Man About Town; Donovan’s Reef; The Hurricane; Moon Over Burma; Lulu Belle; Variety Girl; St. Louis Blues; The Jungle Princess; The Last Train From Madrid) (born Dec. 10, 1914 – died Sept. 22, 1996; age 81). (Dorothy Lamour 1949 Photo: New York Sunday News)

John Colicos

Canadian actor of stage, TV (The Secret Storm; General Hospital; Battlestar Galactica; Mannix) & movies (The Postman Always Rings Twice; Anne of the Thousand Days, Breaking Point; Raid on Rommel; Scorpio; Deadline for Murder; Red Sky at Morning; War Drums) (born Dec. 10, 1928 – Mar. 6, 2000; age 71).John Colicos died of a heart attack. (John Colicos 1980 The Changeling)

Sidney Fox (nee Sarah Liefer; aka Sydney Fox; lover of Carl Laemmle Jr.)

Austria-Hungarian-American WAMPAS Baby Star (1931), actress of Broadway & 1930s films (The Mouthpiece; Murders in the Rue Morgue; School for Girls; Strictly Dishonorable; Nice Women; Afraid to Talk; Once in a Lifetime; Midnight; Bad Sister) (born Dec. 10, 1907 – died Nov. 15, 1942; age 34). Sidney Fox died of an overdose of sleeping pills. (Sidney Fox 1932: McClelland Barclay)

Ray Collins

American actor of stage, radio (The Shadow), TV (The Halls of Ivy; Perry Mason), & movies (Citizen Kane; The Magnificent Ambersons; Never Say Goodbye; Texas Lady; The Red Stallion; Francis; The Human Comedy; The Best Years of Our Lives; The Heiress) (born Dec. 10, 1889 – died July 11, 1965; age 75). Ray Collins died of emphysema. (Ray Collins 1957 Perry Mason Photo: CBS TV)

Tommy Rettig (nee Thomas Noel Rettig)

American former 1950s-60s child and youth actor of television (Jeff Miller on Lassie; Never Too Young; Sugarfoot) and movies (The Last Wagon; At Gunpoint; The Raid; River of No Return; So Big; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; Panic in the Streets; The Cobweb), (born Dec. 10, 1941 – died Feb. 15, 1996; age 54). Tommy Rettig died of a heart attack. (Tommy Rettig 1957 Lassie)

Agnes Nixon (nee Agnes Eckhardt)

Daytime Emmy Award-winning American TV producer & screenwriter of TV (All My Children; Guiding Light; As the World Turns; Another World; Search for Tomorrow; Loving; The City; One Life to Live; Armstrong Circle Theatre) (born Dec. 10, 1922 – died Sept. 28, 2016; age 93). Agnes Nixon had Parkinson’s disease and died of pneumonia. (Agnes Nixon 1970 All My Children Photo)

Michael Clarke Duncan (partner of Omarosa)

American voice over and character actor of TV and movies (The Green Mile; Kung Fu Panda; The Whole Nine Yards; Planet of the Apes; The Scorpion King; Daredevil; Sin City; The Island; Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby) (born Dec. 10, 1957 – Sept. 3, 2012; age 54). Michael Clarke Duncan died after a heart attack. (Michael Clarke Duncan 2009 Photo: blackurbanite)

Victor McLaglen (father of Andrew V. McLaglen)

Academy Award-winning British boxer, WWI veteran, actor of classic & silent films (What Price Glory?; The Loves of Carmen; The Glorious Adventure; The Unholy Three; A Girl in Every Port; The Informer; Dishonored; The Quiet Man; Gunga Din; The Magnificent Brute; Guilty as Hell; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon) (born Dec. 10, 1886 – died Nov. 7, 1959; age 72). (Victor McLaglen 1930)

Una Merkal

Tony Award-winning American actress of stage & movies (Coquette; Summer and Smoke; Abraham Lincoln; Destry Rides Again; 42nd Street; The Maltese Falcon; The Merry Widow; The Bank Dick; The Mating Game; The Parent Trap; Spinout; Summer Magic) (born Dec. 10, 1903 – died Jan. 2, 1986; age 82). Una Merkel died of a sleeping pill overdose. (Una Merkel 1939: Radio Mirror)

George J. Lewis

Mexican-American actor of TV (Don de la Vega on Zorro; The Lone Ranger; Death Valley Days; The Gene Autry Show; Annie Oakley; 77 Sunset Strip; Daniel Boone) & films (Zorro’s Black Whip; The Bad and the Beautiful) (born Dec. 10, 1903 – died Dec. 8, 1995; age 91). George J. Lewis died of a stroke. (George J. Lewis 1939 The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair)

Hal Baylor (nee Hal Harvey Fieberling)

American character actor of movies, TV (Death Valley Days; The Virginian; Gunsmoke; Rawhide; Perry Mason; Laramie; 77 Sunset Strip; Cheyenne; 26 Men; My Favorite Martian; Hazel; Batman; The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp; Mannix; Emergency!; Star Trek), and boxer (born Dec. 10, 1918 – died Jan. 5, 1998; age 79). Cause of death for Hal Baylor is unknown. (Hal Baylor 1960 Bonanza)

Anne Gwynne (nee Marguerite Gwynne Trice; mother of Gwynne Gilford)

American actress of TV (Public Prosecutor) & films (Moon Over Las Vegas; Murder in the Blue Room; The Ghost Goes Wild; I Ring Doorbells; The Glass Alibi; The Enchanted Valley; The Black Cat; Weird Woman; Ride ‘Em Cowboy; King of the Bullwhip) (born Dec. 10, 1918 – died Mar. 31, 2003; age 84). Mother-in-law of Robert Pine, grandmother of Chris Pine. (Anne Gwynne 1943)

Dan Blocker (nee Bobby Dan Davis Blocker; father of David & Dirk Blocker)

American Korean War veteran (Purple Heart), co-founder of Bonanza Steakhouse restaurants, actor of TV (Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza; Cimarron City) & films (Come Blow Your Horn; The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County) (born Dec. 10, 1928 – died May 13, 1972; age 43). Dan Blocker died of a pulmonary embolism after gallbladder surgery. (Dan Blocker 1960 Bonanza)

Ada Lovelace (nee Augusta Ada Byron; aka Lady King, Countess of Lovelace)

English writer, scientist & mathematician, contributor to Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine algorithm (arguably, the 1st computer programmer), & daughter of George, Lord Byron. Married William King (8th Baron King, Earl of Lovelace, Viscount Ockham) (born Dec. 10, 1815 – died Nov. 27, 1852 ; age 36). Ada Lovelace died of uterine cancer. (Ada Lovelace 1832) 

Emily Dickinson

American poet (Hope Is The Thing With Feathers; I’m Nobody! Who Are You?; Because I Could Not Stop For Death; I Heard a Fly Buzz; A Bird, Came Down the Walk; Faith Is a Fine Invention; Success Is Counted Sweetest; To Fight Aloud is Very Brave; Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant; Nobody Knows This Little Rose) (born Dec. 10, 1830 – died May 15, 1886; age 55). (Emily Dickinson c. 1847)

Mary Norton (nee Kathleen Mary Pearson)

Carnegie Medal-winning English children’s fantasy book author & novelist (The Magic Bed-Knob; Bonfires and Broomsticks; The Borrowers; The Borrowers Afield; the Borrowers Afloat; The Borrowers Aloft; The Borrowers Avenged; Are the Giants Dead?; Poor Stainless), whose book inspired the film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (born Dec. 10, 1903 – Aug. 29, 1992; age 88). Mary Norton died of a stroke. 

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