Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/December/December 10
- 1452 – Birth of mathematician and astronomer Johannes Stöffler
- 1520 – Martin Luther burns the papal bull Exsurge Domine in Wittenberg
- 1804 – Birth of mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- 1891 – Birth of poet Nelly Sachs, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1971 – Willy Brandt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize