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December 10 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

December 10 is a Sagittarius birthday in the second decan of Sagittarius with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 6 in 2027; Emily Dickinson (1830), Ada Lovelace (1815) and Nelly Sachs (1891) were born on December 10 too.

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December 10 zodiac sign: Sagittarius

Sun sign: Sagittarius
Sun at noon UTC: 17.6° to 19.0° Sagittarius
Decan: Second of Sagittarius, 10° to 20°
Element and mode: Fire, mutable
Ruling planet: Jupiter

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Sagittarius for the whole of December 10, in every time zone on Earth, between 17.6° and 19.0° of the sign at noon UTC, so a December 10 birthday is a Sagittarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on December 10 the Sun is in the second decan of Sagittarius, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to the Moon in the Chaldean order and is read through Aries, ruled by Mars, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from December 2 to December 11, and December 10 is its ninth day.

In most years December 10 is the 19th day of the Sun’s season in Sagittarius, which runs from November 22 to December 21 counted at noon UTC, with eleven days of it still to come. December 10 is the 344th day of a common year and the 345th of a leap year, with 21 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous December 10 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, in 1804, and the most recent Gonzalo Higuaín, in 1987; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Michael Clarke Duncan (1957–2012), American actor
Gonzalo Higuaín (born 1987), Argentine association football player
Kenneth Branagh (born 1960), British actor and filmmaker

Born from 1900 to 1949

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), French composer, organist and ornithologist
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist

Born in the 1800s

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), English mathematician
Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), Jewish German poet and playwright
Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1878), Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851), German mathematician
Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian and Czech architect and art collector
César Franck (1822–1890), Belgian-French composer and organist

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 66 people the Almanac’s table keeps for December 10, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

December 10 birthday personality

The Moon takes the middle decan of Sagittarius in the Chaldean order and Aries lends Mars’s dash by triplicity, so tradition reads a restless, warm-hearted optimism here, quick to set out and quick to forgive. The reflection is whether leaving has become easier than staying.

The 10th adds 1 and 0 to make 1 again, and numerologists read the zero as an amplifier: the 1’s initiative with more room around it. It is read as a birthday for starting over well. Read with fire, the 1 is a match struck in the open air: quick to catch, quick to lead, and in need of something lasting to burn.

A question to carry from December 10: what would your hope begin today if no one needed to approve it first?

The Sun in Sagittarius and the number 1 are only part of the story: your Moon, your rising sign and the rest of your chart have as much to say, and the tradition offers all this as a mirror, never a verdict.

Birthday number 1

Born on the 10th, 1 + 0 = 1, so your birthday number is 1: a 1 vibration supports initiative, courage, leadership, and clear beginnings, with initiative and self-direction as its gift and impatience, isolation, or ego pressure as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

A Greek sphinx with a lion's body, folded wings and a serene woman's face, seated on a stone plinth, an engraving — The Sphinx, keeper of riddles

For a birthday on December 10 the house method reduces the birth month and the day on their own and adds the Universal Year of 2027, 11 (2 + 0 + 2 + 7 = 11, a master number kept whole), as it stands: December, the 12th month, reduces to 3, the 10th reduces to 1, and 3 + 1 + 11 = 15, which reduces to 6, so 2027 is your Personal Year 6.

A Personal Year 6 is read as a year of home, family and responsibility, of love that shows itself in care. Under the Universal Year 11 the reading turns that care toward healing and toward a community wider than the household.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 6: Jan 7 Feb 8 Mar 9 Apr 1 May 11 Jun 3 Jul 4 Aug 5 Sep 6 Oct 7 Nov 8 Dec 9

In 2027 December 10 falls on a Friday, the day the old reckoning gives to Venus, and is a Personal Day 1 (9 + 10 = 19, then 1) in a Personal Month 9 (6 + 12 = 18, then 9), while May is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

December birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones: Turquoise, tanzanite and zircon
Birth flowers: Narcissus, and holly as the second flower

December’s turquoise, tanzanite and zircon come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its narcissus and holly from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is December 10?

Sagittarius: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Sagittarius for the whole of December 10 in every year and every time zone, 17.6° to 19.0° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is December 10 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Sagittarius all day on December 10 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is December 21, eleven days later.

Who was born on December 10?

Among the best known people born on December 10 are Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) and Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), with Michael Clarke Duncan, Nikolay Nekrasov and Gonzalo Higuaín and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for December 10?

1. Born on the 10th, 1 + 0 = 1, so your birthday number is 1: a 1 vibration supports initiative, courage, leadership, and clear beginnings, with initiative and self-direction as its gift and impatience, isolation, or ego pressure as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a December 10 birthday?

6. For a birthday on December 10 the house method reduces the birth month and the day on their own and adds the Universal Year of 2027, 11 (2 + 0 + 2 + 7 = 11, a master number kept whole), as it stands: December, the 12th month, reduces to 3, the 10th reduces to 1, and 3 + 1 + 11 = 15, which reduces to 6, so 2027 is your Personal Year 6.