10 December: today's birthdays

• Kenneth Branagh - Irish actor and film director. He was married to English actress Emma Thompson
• Emmanuelle Chriqui - Canadian actress. She played Sloan McQuewick in TV series Entourage
• Emily Dickinson - American poet. Her first volume of poems was published after her death
• Adriano Ferreira Pinto - Brazilian soccer player
• Bobby Flay - American chef
  
• Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín - French soccer player from Argentina
• Ludwig Klages - German philosopher, psychologist and graphologist. He wrote a complete theory of graphology
• Adolf Loos - Austrian architect, born in Brno. He is considered one of the fathers of modern architecture
• J Mascis - American musician, born Joseph Donald Mascis Junior. He is best known as the singer and guitarist of rock band Dinosaur Jr. 
• Olivier Messiaen - French composer, organist and ornithologist
• Otto Neurath - Austrian philosopher, sociologist, and political economist
• Antonín Novotný - Czech politician
• Nelly Sachs - German poet and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966