May 10

May 10 is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 235 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 23 – A sunspot is observed by Han Dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
• 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.
• 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.
• 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
• 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
• 1655 – England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
• 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
• 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
• 1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
• 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
• 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
• 1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
• 1833 – The desecration of the grave of the viceroy of southern Vietnam Lê Văn Duyệt by Emperor Minh Mạng provokes his adopted son to start a revolt.
• 1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
• 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.
• 1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment "Attack-in-depth" assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
• 1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
• 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
• 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
• 1877 – Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence. Recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
• 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
• 1904 – the Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG was founded. Horch was a car brand manufactured in Germany, which mergered into the Auto Union corporation (Audi)
• 1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1916 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
• 1922 – The United States annex the Kingman Reef.
• 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
• 1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
• 1940 – World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
• 1940 – World War II: German raids on British shipping convoys and military airfields begin.
• 1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
• 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
• 1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
• 1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
• 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
• 1948 – The Republic of China implements "temporary provisions" granting President Chiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991.
• 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
• 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
• 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
• 1970 – Bobby Orr scores "The Goal" to win the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, for the Boston Bruins' fourth NHL championship in their history.
• 1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
• 1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
• 1981 – François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
• 1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 156 workers.
• 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
• 1997 – A 7.3 M_w earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province, killing 1,567, injuring over 2,300, leaving 50,000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15,000 homes.
• 1997 – The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.
• 2002 – F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
• 2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
• 2008 – An EF4 tornado strikes the Oklahoma-Kansas state line, killing 21 people and injuring over 100.
• 2012 – The Damascus bombings were carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring 400 others
• 2013 – The Freedom Tower becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

Births

• 213 – Claudius Gothicus, Roman emperor (d. 270)
• 1002 – Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Iraqi historian and scholar (d. 1071)
• 1265 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
• 1604 – Jean Mairet, French playwright (d. 1686)
• 1697 – Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer (d. 1764)
• 1714 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1792)
• 1727 – Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, French economist and politician (d. 1781)
• 1755 – Robert Gray, American captain (d. 1806)
• 1756 – Singu Min, Burmese king (d. 1782)
• 1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German author and poet (d. 1826)
• 1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French army officer and composer (d. 1836)
• 1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general (d. 1823)
• 1775 – Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, French general (d. 1809)
• 1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)
• 1788 – Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1819)
• 1810 – E. Cobham Brewer, English author (d. 1897)
• 1812 – William Henry Barlow, English engineer (d. 1902)
• 1813 – Montgomery Blair, American lieutenant and politician, 20th United States Postmaster General (d. 1883)
• 1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
• 1840 – Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian warlord (d. 1868)
• 1841 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American publisher (d. 1918)
• 1843 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author (d. 1920)
• 1847 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923)
• 1855 – Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru, astronomer, and educator (d. 1936)
• 1863 – Kaarle Krohn, Finnish folklorist (d. 1933)
• 1863 – Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Indian violinist, composer, and painter (d. 1915)
• 1866 – Léon Bakst, Russian painter and costume designer (d. 1924)
• 1868 – Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953)
• 1872 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
• 1874 – Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, poitician, historian, and orientalist (d. 1941)
• 1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright (d. 1918)
• 1878 – Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (d. 1967)
• 1878 – Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
• 1879 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian politician (d. 1926)
• 1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1968)
• 1886 – Olaf Stapledon, English author and philosopher (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Felix Manalo, Filipino religious leader, founded Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963)
• 1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer (d. 1971)
• 1889 – Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1965)
• 1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
• 1891 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (d. 1934)
• 1894 – Elvira Popescu, Romanian-French actress and director (d. 1993)
• 1894 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (d. 1979)
• 1895 – Kama Chinen, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2010)
• 1896 – Alberts Ozoliņš, Latvian weightlifter (d. 1985)
• 1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Ariel Durant, American historian and author (d. 1981)
• 1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)
• 1900 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979)
• 1901 – John Desmond Bernal, English crystallographer (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1974)
• 1902 – David O. Selznick, American director and producer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and SS officer (d. 1994)
• 1904 – David Brown, English entrepreneur, and managing director of David Brown Limited, Vosper Thornycroft and Aston Martin (d. 1993)
• 1905 – Louis Kaufman, American violinist (d. 1994)
• 1905 – Robert Madgwick, Australian academic (d. 1979)
• 1905 – Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican-American painter and illustrator (d. 1998)
• 1905 – Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1972)
• 1907 – Freddie Spencer Chapman, English army officer (d. 1971)
• 1908 – Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters) (d. 1978)
• 1911 – Roland Gladu, Canadian baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1911 – Bel Kaufman, American author and educator
• 1915 – Monica Dickens, English author (d. 1992)
• 1915 – Denis Thatcher, English soldier and businessman (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011)
• 1918 – T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician and author
• 1918 – George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)
• 1920 – Jeff Cooper, American soldier (d. 2006)
• 1920 – Helen Crummy, Scottish activist, founded the Craigmillar Festival Society (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Bert Weedon, English guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Nancy Walker, American actress and director (d. 1992)
• 1923 – Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijan general and politician, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Otar Korkia, Georgian basketball player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1926 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
• 1928 – Arnold Rüütel, Estonian agronomist and politician, 3rd President of Estonia
• 1928 – Lothar Schmid, German chess player (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Antonine Maillet, Canadian author and playwright
• 1930 – Scott Muni, American radio host (d. 2004)
• 1930 – George E. Smith, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1930 – Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English author
• 1932 – Karthigesu Sivathamby, Sri Lankan Tamil academic (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Françoise Fabian, French actress
• 1934 – Jeanine Basinger, American historian and educator
• 1934 – Richard Peck, American author
• 1934 – Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
• 1935 – Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1980)
• 1936 – Timothy Birdsall, English illustrator (d. 1963)
• 1936 – Gary Owens, American radio host and voice actor
• 1937 – Jim Hickman, American baseball player
• 1937 – Tamara Press, Ukrainian shot putter and discus thrower
• 1938 – Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter, and actor
• 1938 – Henry Fambrough, American singer (The Spinners)
• 1938 – Dang Nhat Minh, Vietnamese director and screenwriter
• 1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player
• 1938 – Marina Vlady, French actress
• 1940 – Wayne A. Downing, American general (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Wayne Dyer, American author
• 1940 – Herbert Müller, Swiss racing driver (d. 1981)
• 1941 – Danny Rapp, American singer (Danny & the Juniors) (d. 1983)
• 1942 – Jim Calhoun, American basketball player and coach
• 1942 – Carl Douglas, Jamaican-English singer
• 1942 – Youssouf Sambo Bâ, Nigerien-Burkinabe politician
• 1943 – David Clennon, American actor
• 1943 – Richard Darman, American economist (d. 2008)
• 1944 – Jim Abrahams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1944 – Jackie Lomax, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Marie-France Pisier, French actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• 1946 – Donovan, Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1946 – Graham Gouldman, English guitarist and songwriter (10cc, The Mindbenders, Wax)
• 1946 – Maureen Lipman, English actress
• 1946 – Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Traffic and Fleetwood Mac)
• 1946 – Mai Šein, Estonian architect
• 1946 – Diderik Wagenaar, Dutch composer and theorist
• 1947 – Caroline B. Cooney, American author
• 1947 – Jay Ferguson, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne)
• 1947 – Thomas Tessier, American author
• 1948 – Meg Foster, American actress
• 1949 – Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer
• 1950 – Natalya Bondarchuk, Russian actress and director
• 1952 – Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer (Wizex, Chips, Kikki, Bettan & Lotta, and Kjell Roos Band)
• 1952 – Lee Brilleaux, South African-English singer-songwriter (Dr Feelgood) (d. 1994)
• 1952 – Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer (Sly and Robbie, The Aggrovators, The Upsetters, and The Revolutionaries)
• 1953 – Christopher Paul Curtis, American author
• 1953 – John Diamond, English journalist (d. 2001)
• 1953 – Tito Santana, American wrestler
• 1953 – Jim Zorn, American football player and coach
• 1954 – F. Charles Brunicardi, American physician
• 1955 – Chris Berman, American sportscaster
• 1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer
• 1955 – Rick Steves, American television host and author
• 1956 – Yves Jacques, Canadian actor
• 1956 – Paige O'Hara, American actress and singer
• 1956 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (d. 1995)
• 1956 – Jonathan Roberts, American screenwriter, producer, and author
• 1957 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Vicious White Kids, The Flowers of Romance) (d. 1979)
• 1958 – Gaétan Boucher, Canadian speed skater
• 1958 – Rick Santorum, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 – Victoria Rowell, American actress and dancer
• 1959 – Danny Schayes, American basketball player
• 1960 – Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, actor, and activist (U2)
• 1960 – Dean Heller, American politician
• 1960 – Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-Slovenian runner
• 1961 – Danny Carey, American drummer and songwriter (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus, Green Jellÿ, and Zaum)
• 1961 – Randy Cunneyworth, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 – Candi Kubeck, American pilot (d. 1996)
• 1961 – Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
• 1962 – Guy Hemmings, Canadian curler
• 1962 – Brad Soderberg, American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Robby Thompson, American baseball player and coach
• 1963 – Anatoly Lebed, Estonian-Russian lieutenant (d. 2012)
• 1963 – Lisa Nowak, American commander and astronaut
• 1963 – A. Raja, Indian politician
• 1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian model
• 1965 – Rony Seikaly, Lebanese-American basketball player and radio host
• 1966 – Jonathan Edwards, English triple jumper
• 1967 – Scott Brison, Canadian banker and politician
• 1967 – Young MC, English-American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1967 – Jon Ronson, English journalist and author
• 1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
• 1968 – Thomas Coville, French sailor
• 1968 – Al Murray, English comedian and television host
• 1968 – Erik Palladino, American actor
• 1968 – William Regal, English wrestler and sportscaster
• 1968 – Ed Sanders, English carpenter
• 1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1969 – John Scalzi, American author
• 1970 – Perry Blake, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan-American pianist
• 1970 – Gina Philips, American actress
• 1970 – Sally Phillips, Hong Kong-English actress
• 1970 – Dallas Roberts, American actor
• 1970 – David Weir, Scottish footballer
• 1971 – Adriano Giannini, Italian actor
• 1971 – Craig Mack, American rapper
• 1971 – Ådne Søndrål, Norwegian speed skater
• 1971 – Leslie Stefanson, American model and actress
• 1971 – Monisha Kaltenborn, Indian-Austrian businesswoman
• 1972 – Radosław Majdan, Polish footballer
• 1973 – Aviv Geffen, Israeli singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blackfield)
• 1973 – Ollie le Roux, South African rugby player
• 1973 – Tora Sudiro, Indonesian actor
• 1973 – Jerome Williams, American basketball player
• 1974 – Liu Fang, Chinese pipa player
• 1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
• 1975 – Andrea Anders, American actress
• 1975 – Torbjørn Brundtland, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (Röyksopp, Aedena Cycle, Alanïa, and Drum Island)
• 1975 – Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
• 1975 – Adam Deadmarsh, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Shin Jung-hwan, South Korean singer and comedian (Roo'ra)
• 1976 – Stuart Braithwaite, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mogwai)
• 1976 – Rachel Gordon, Australian actress
• 1976 – Steve Howard, Scottish footballer
• 1976 – Rob Malda, American journalist and blogger, founded the Slashdot
• 1976 – Udo Mechels, Belgian singer
• 1976 – Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi, Greek javelin thrower
• 1977 – Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
• 1977 – Nick Heidfeld, German race car driver
• 1977 – Denise Ho, Hong Kong-Canadian singer and actress
• 1977 – Chas Licciardello, Australian comedian and television host
• 1977 – Keith Murray, American singer and guitarist (We Are Scientists)
• 1977 – Sergei Nakariakov, Russian trumpet player
• 1978 – Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer
• 1978 – Kenan Thompson, American actor
• 1979 – Lee Hyori, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Fin.K.L)
• 1981 – Samuel Dalembert, Haitian-Canadian basketball player
• 1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
• 1981 – Nicky Whelan, Australian actress and model
• 1982 – Jeremy Gable, English-American playwright
• 1982 – Daniel Harris, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Gustav Fridolin, Swedish journalist and politician
• 1983 – Natalia Zabala, Spanish model, Miss Spain 2007
• 1984 – Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 – Kristyna Myles, English singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1985 – Odette Annable, American actress
• 1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Emilio Izaguirre, Honduran footballer
• 1987 – Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
• 1987 – Anej Lovrečič, Slovenian footballer
• 1989 – Lindsey Shaw, American actress
• 1990 – Josh Dugan, Australian rugby player
• 1990 – Karmen Pedaru, Estonian model
• 1990 – Lauren Potter, American actress
• 1991 – Giorgos Machlelis, Greek footballer
• 1992 – Zia Marquez, Filipino actress
• 1992 – Charice Pempengco, Filipino singer-songwriter and actress
• 1993 – Tímea Babos, Hungarian tennis player
• 1993 – Halston Sage, American actress and singer
• 1993 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
• 1994 – Ellen Allgurin, Swedish tennis player
• 1995 – Missy Franklin, American swimmer
• 1996 – Kateřina Siniaková, Czech tennis player
• 2013 – Taufaʻahau Manumataongo of Tonga

Deaths

• 689 – Kusakabe, Japanese crown prince (b. 662)
• 1034 – Mieszko II Lambert, Polish son of Bolesław I Chrobry (b. 990)
• 1290 – Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (b. 1271)
• 1424 – Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan (b. 1347)
• 1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
• 1493 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1433)
• 1521 – Sebastian Brant, German author (b. 1457)
• 1566 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)
• 1641 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (b. 1596)
• 1657 – Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (b. 1592)
• 1691 – John Birch, English soldier and politician (b. 1615)
• 1692 – Sarah Osborne, American woman accused of witchcraft (b. 1643)
• 1717 – John Hathorne, American merchant and politician (b. 1641)
• 1726 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)
• 1733 – Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
• 1737 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (b. 1702)
• 1774 – Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
• 1775 – Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (b. 1751)
• 1775 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1757)
• 1787 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
• 1798 – George Vancouver, English navy officer and explorer (b. 1757)
• 1807 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
• 1818 – Paul Revere, American soldier (b. 1735)
• 1829 – Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 – Hokusai, Japanese painter (b. 1760)
• 1863 – Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 – Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist (b. 1826)
• 1897 – Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician (b. 1863)
• 1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
• 1910 – Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)
• 1916 – Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian nationalist leader, doctor and author (b. 1846)
• 1937 – William Tedmarsh, English-American actor (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Konrad Henlein, Czech politician (b. 1898)
• 1950 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (b. 1883)
• 1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian-American boxer (b. 1881)
• 1955 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
• 1956 – Michalis Karaolis, Cypriot politician (b. 1934)
• 1960 – Yury Olesha, Russian author (b. 1899)
• 1962 – Shunroku Hata, Japanese field marshal (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Eugene Lipscomb, American football player and wrestler (b. 1931)
• 1964 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
• 1965 – Karl Burman, Estonian architect and painter (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
• 1967 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian race car driver, (b. 1935)
• 1968 – Scotty Beckett, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1974 – Hal Mohr, American cinematographer (b. 1894)
• 1976 – Elias Aslaksen, Norwegian religious leader (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1982 – Peter Weiss, German painter (b. 1916)
• 1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese author (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Dimitar Ilievski-Murato, Macedonian mountaineer (b. 1953)
• 1989 – Woody Shaw, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1944)
• 1990 – Susan Oliver, American actress, director, and pilot (b. 1932)
• 1990 – Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Sylvia Syms, American singer (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Stephen Ross, Baron Ross of Newport, English politician (b. 1926)
• 1994 – John Wayne Gacy, American criminal (b. 1942)
• 1997 – Joan Weston, American roller blander (b. 1935)
• 1999 – Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian judge (b. 1923)
• 2000 – Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2001 – James E. Myers, American actor, songwriter, and producer (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, 16th Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
• 2002 – Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 – John Cunniff, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1944)
• 2002 – Lynda Lyon Block, American murderer (b. 1948)
• 2002 – Yves Robert, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess player (b. 1937)
• 2005 – David Wayne, American singer-songwriter (Metal Church, Reverend, and Wayne) (b. 1958)
• 2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
• 2006 – Val Guest, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
• 2006 – A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (b. 1990)
• 2010 – Frank Frazetta, American illustrator and painter (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Robert B. Salter, Canadian surgeon (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Michael Baze, American jockey (b. 1987)
• 2012 – Horst Faas, German photographer and journalist (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Evelyn Bryan Johnson, American pilot (b. 1909)
• 2012 – Günther Kaufmann, German actor (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Pekka Marjamäki, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Joyce Redman, Irish-English actress (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Bernardo Sassetti, Portuguese pianist and composer (b. 1970)
• 2012 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver and designer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian captain and author (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Gulumbu Yunupingu, Australian painter (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Walter Wink, American theologian and scholar (b. 1935)
• 2013 – John Bush, English admiral (b. 1914)
• 2013 – Vincent Dowling, Irish-American actor and director (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Laurence Haddon, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Boicho Kokinov, Bulgarian scientist (b. 1960)
• 2013 – Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay, English politician (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian and politician (b. 1932)
• 2013 – John Shea, Jr., American judge and politician (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alphius, Philadelphus, and Cyrinus
  • Aurelian of Limoges
  • Calepodius
  • Catald
  • Comgall
  • Damien of Molokai (canonized October 11, 2009)
  • Gordianus and Epimachus
  • John of Avila
  • Solange
  • May 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)
• Constitution Day (Federated States of Micronesia)
• Earliest possible day on which Pentecost can fall, while June 13 is the latest; celebrated seven weeks after Easter Day. (Christianity)
• Mother's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to May 10.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada