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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 10th of December 1041 | EVENT | The adopted son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. |
| 10th of December 1508 | EVENT | The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice. |
| 10th of December 1520 | EVENT | Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. |
| 10th of December 1541 | EVENT | Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. |
| 10th of December 1665 | EVENT | The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter |
| 10th of December 1684 | EVENT | Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley. |
| 10th of December 1799 | EVENT | France adopts the metre as its official unit of length. |
| 10th of December 1817 | EVENT | Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state. |
| 10th of December 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy. |
| 10th of December 1861 | EVENT | Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance. |
| 10th of December 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea : Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia. |
| 10th of December 1868 | EVENT | The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. |
| 10th of December 1869 | EVENT | Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia |
| 10th of December 1884 | EVENT | Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time. |
| 10th of December 1898 | EVENT | Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. |
| 10th of December 1901 | EVENT | The first Nobel Prizes are awarded. |
| 10th of December 1902 | EVENT | Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania. |
| 10th of December 1906 | EVENT | U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize. |
| 10th of December 1907 | EVENT | The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected. |
| 10th of December 1927 | EVENT | The Grand Ole Opry premieres on radio. |
| 10th of December 1932 | EVENT | Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy. |
| 10th of December 1935 | EVENT | The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. |
| 10th of December 1936 | EVENT | Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication. |
| 10th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya. |
| 10th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of the Philippines : Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland. |
| 10th of December 1948 | EVENT | The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| 10th of December 1949 | EVENT | Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan. |
| 10th of December 1955 | EVENT | The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television. |
| 10th of December 1965 | EVENT | The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name. |
| 10th of December 1968 | EVENT | Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. |
| 10th of December 1978 | EVENT | Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 10th of December 1979 | EVENT | Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested. |
| 10th of December 1983 | EVENT | Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raul Alfonsin. |
| 10th of December 1989 | EVENT | Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy. |
| 10th of December 1993 | EVENT | The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages. |
| 10th of December 1994 | EVENT | Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down. |
| 10th of December 1394 | BIRTHDAY | King James I of Scotland (d. 1437) |
| 10th of December 1452 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Stoffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531) |
| 10th of December 1588 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637) |
| 10th of December 1751 | BIRTHDAY | George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813) |
| 10th of December 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851) |
| 10th of December 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851) |
| 10th of December 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881) |
| 10th of December 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852) |
| 10th of December 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821) |
| 10th of December 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877) |
| 10th of December 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890) |
| 10th of December 1824 | BIRTHDAY | George MacDonald, Scottish writer and preacher (d. 1905) |
| 10th of December 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913) |
| 10th of December 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886) |
| 10th of December 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Melvil Dewey, American librarian, (d. 1931) |
| 10th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947) |
| 10th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Louys, French author (d. 1925) |
| 10th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933) |
| 10th of December 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d. 1972) |
| 10th of December 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965) |
| 10th of December 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945) |
| 10th of December 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967) |
| 10th of December 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967) |
| 10th of December 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Alexander, British Army Field Marshal, first Earl of Tunis (d. 1969) |
| 10th of December 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Nelly Sachs, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1970) |
| 10th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986) |
| 10th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Rumer Godden, English writer (d. 1998) |
| 10th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005) |
| 10th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992) |
| 10th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990) |
| 10th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974) |
| 10th of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976) |
| 10th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987) |
| 10th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996) |
| 10th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 10th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979) |
| 10th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 10th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995) |
| 10th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008) |
| 10th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977) |
| 10th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002) |
| 10th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Lucia Hiriart, First Lady of Chile (1974 : 1990), wife of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet |
| 10th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 10th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997) |
| 10th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006) |
| 10th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Carolyn Kizer, American poet |
| 10th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | John Colicos, Canadian actor (d. 2000) |
| 10th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972) |
| 10th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006) |
| 10th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994) |
| 10th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Allcock, English footballer |
| 10th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Porter Goss, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida, 19th and last Director of Central Intelligence, and 1st Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
| 10th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor |
| 10th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Cunliffe, English university professor |
| 10th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Bavetta, American basketball referee |
| 10th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress |
| 10th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985) |
| 10th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Kirk, American actor |
| 10th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy) |
| 10th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 10th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Renko, American baseball player |
| 10th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mukhtar Altynbayev, former Kazakhstani Minister of Defense and General of the Army of Kazakhstan |
| 10th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Lux, American poet |
| 10th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | R?sul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician |
| 10th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player |
| 10th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980) |
| 10th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004) |
| 10th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John Boozman, American politician, junior senator of Arkansas |
| 10th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer |
| 10th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Anderson, English television presenter |
| 10th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Dey, American actress |
| 10th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Bury, American journalist |
| 10th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Hues, English musician |
| 10th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist |
| 10th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Blagojevich, 40th Governor of Illinois |
| 10th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Cassinelli, Italian politician and lawyer |
| 10th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor |
| 10th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and speaker |
| 10th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hardcastle, English composer and musician |
| 10th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Pepsi Demacque, aka Helen Pepsi Demacque-Crockett English singer |
| 10th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Udi Aloni, American-Israeli filmmaker, writer, and activist |
| 10th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Aguirre, American basketball player |
| 10th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Wolf Hoffmann, German musician (Accept) |
| 10th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Schoeffling, American actor |
| 10th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director |
| 10th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nia Peeples, American singer/actress |
| 10th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician |
| 10th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John de Wolf, former Dutch International footballer |
| 10th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur |
| 10th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | George Newbern, American actor |
| 10th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Giraldo, American comedian (d. 2010) |
| 10th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | J Mascis, American musician |
| 10th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress |
| 10th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player |
| 10th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Bryant Stith, American basketball player |
| 10th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Nichols, American spree killer |
| 10th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Donovan Frankenreiter, American surfer |
| 10th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo) |
| 10th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes) |
| 10th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008) |
| 10th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Josip Skoko, Australian footballer |
| 10th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mr. Aguila, Mexican wrestler |
| 10th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress |
| 10th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marko Jaric, Serbian basketball player |
| 10th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Summer Phoenix, American actress |
| 10th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler |
| 10th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer |
| 10th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Chang, American violinist |
| 10th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer |
| 10th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer |
| 10th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer |
| 10th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress |
| 10th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Katrin Siska, Estonian singer |
| 10th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Flueger, American actor |
| 10th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Xavier Samuel, Australian actor |
| 10th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer |
| 10th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jayson Paul, American wrestler |
| 10th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Applegarth, Rugby League player |
| 10th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Forte, American football player |
| 10th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player |
| 10th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Raven-Symone, American actress and singer |
| 10th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tresor Mputu, Congolese footballer |
| 10th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Bates, English footballer |
| 10th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Gonzalo Higuain, French/Argentine footballer |
| 10th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer |
| 10th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Ng Chee Yang, Singaporean singer |
| 10th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Giulia Boverio, Italian actress |
| 10th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Pal Joensen, Faroese swimmer |
| 10th of December 0949 | DEATH | Herman I, Duke of Swabia |
| 10th of December 1041 | DEATH | Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (Born 1010) |
| 10th of December 1198 | DEATH | Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (Born 1126) |
| 10th of December 1508 | DEATH | Rene II, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1451) |
| 10th of December 1603 | DEATH | William Gilbert, English scientist (Born 1544) |
| 10th of December 1618 | DEATH | Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (Born 1551) |
| 10th of December 1626 | DEATH | Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (Born 1581) |
| 10th of December 1665 | DEATH | Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer |
| 10th of December 1736 | DEATH | Antonio Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (Born 1663) |
| 10th of December 1831 | DEATH | Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (Born 1770) |
| 10th of December 1850 | DEATH | Francois Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (Born 1787) |
| 10th of December 1850 | DEATH | Jozef Bem, Polish general (Born 1794) |
| 10th of December 1865 | DEATH | King Leopold I of Belgium (Born 1790) |
| 10th of December 1896 | DEATH | Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (Born 1833) |
| 10th of December 1909 | DEATH | Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief (Born 1822) |
| 10th of December 1911 | DEATH | Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (Born 1817) |
| 10th of December 1917 | DEATH | Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Canadian politician (Born 1823) |
| 10th of December 1920 | DEATH | Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (Born 1868) |
| 10th of December 1926 | DEATH | Nikola Pasic, Serbian politician (Born 1845) |
| 10th of December 1928 | DEATH | Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (Born 1868) |
| 10th of December 1936 | DEATH | Bobby Abel, English cricketer (Born 1857) |
| 10th of December 1936 | DEATH | Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1867) |
| 10th of December 1941 | DEATH | Colin Kelly, American pilot (Born 1915) |
| 10th of December 1944 | DEATH | John Brunt, British military officer (Born 1922) |
| 10th of December 1945 | DEATH | Theodor Dannecker, German Nazi officer (Born 1913) |
| 10th of December 1946 | DEATH | Damon Runyon, American writer (Born 1884) |
| 10th of December 1946 | DEATH | Walter Johnson, American baseball player (Born 1887) |
| 10th of December 1951 | DEATH | Algernon Blackwood, English writer (Born 1869) |
| 10th of December 1953 | DEATH | Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (Born 1872) |
| 10th of December 1956 | DEATH | David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer (Born 1891) |
| 10th of December 1958 | DEATH | Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (Born 1864) |
| 10th of December 1967 | DEATH | Otis Redding, American soul singer (Born 1941) |
| 10th of December 1967 | DEATH | Phalon Jones, American soul and R&B musician (Born 1949) |
| 10th of December 1967 | DEATH | Ronnie Caldwell, American soul and R&B musician (Born 1948) |
| 10th of December 1968 | DEATH | Thomas Merton, American monk and author (Born 1915) |
| 10th of December 1968 | DEATH | George Forrest, Northern Irish politician (Born 1921) |
| 10th of December 1968 | DEATH | Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (Born 1886) |
| 10th of December 1973 | DEATH | Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (Born 1922) |
| 10th of December 1977 | DEATH | Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (Born 1901) |
| 10th of December 1978 | DEATH | Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (Born 1924) |
| 10th of December 1979 | DEATH | Ann Dvorak, American film actress (Born 1912) |
| 10th of December 1982 | DEATH | Freeman Gosden, American actor (Born 1899) |
| 10th of December 1986 | DEATH | Susan Cabot, American actress (Born 1927) |
| 10th of December 1986 | DEATH | Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (Born 1942) |
| 10th of December 1987 | DEATH | Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist (Born 1901) |
| 10th of December 1987 | DEATH | Nikos Stavridis, Greek actor (Born 1910) |
| 10th of December 1988 | DEATH | Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (Born 1911) |
| 10th of December 1988 | DEATH | Richard S. Castellano, American actor (Born 1933) |
| 10th of December 1990 | DEATH | Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (Born 1898) |
| 10th of December 1991 | DEATH | Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (Born 1945) |
| 10th of December 1991 | DEATH | Greta Kempton, American artist (Born 1901) |
| 10th of December 1992 | DEATH | Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (Born 1908) |
| 10th of December 1994 | DEATH | Keith Joseph, English politician (Born 1918) |
| 10th of December 1994 | DEATH | Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (Born 1905) |
| 10th of December 1995 | DEATH | Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (Born 1967) |
| 10th of December 1996 | DEATH | Faron Young, American singer (Born 1932) |
| 10th of December 1999 | DEATH | Franjo Tu?man, Croate politician (Born 1922) |
| 10th of December 1999 | DEATH | Shirley Hemphill, American actress (Born 1947) |
| 10th of December 1999 | DEATH | Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (Born 1942) |
| 10th of December 2000 | DEATH | Marie Windsor, American film actress (Born 1919) |
| 10th of December 2001 | DEATH | Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (Born 1911) |
| 10th of December 2002 | DEATH | Andres Kung, Swedish-born Estonian politician and journalist (Born 1945) |
| 10th of December 2004 | DEATH | Gary Webb, American journalist (Born 1955) |
| 10th of December 2005 | DEATH | Eugene McCarthy, America politician (Born 1916) |
| 10th of December 2005 | DEATH | Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (Born 1940) |
| 10th of December 2006 | DEATH | Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (Born 1915) |
| 10th of December 2007 | DEATH | Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian actress (Born 1981) |
| 10th of December 2007 | DEATH | Aqsa Parvez, Pakastani-born Canadian honor killing victim (Born 1991) |
| 10th of December 2008 | DEATH | Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (Born 1948) |
| 10th of December 2009 | DEATH | Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist (Born 1925) |
| 10th of December 2010 | DEATH | John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1917) |
| 10th of December 2010 | DEATH | J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (Born 1913) |
| 10th of December 2010 | DEATH | MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (Born 1921) |