May 10

2024 Calendar

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

Up to 1900

689 - Kasakabe, Japanese prince (b. 662)
1034 – Mieszko II Lambert, King of Poland (b. 990)
1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria
1424 – Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
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 humanist (b. 1457)
1566 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)
1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (b. 1596)
1657 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
1696 – Jean de La Bruyere, French writer (b. 1645)
1717 – John Hathorne, magistrate (b. 1641)
1737 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (b. 1702)
1774 – King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
1775 - Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen Consort of Denmark-Norway (b. 1751)
1787 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1794 - Princess Elisabeth of France (executed) (b. 1764)
1798 – George Vancouver, English naval officer and explorer (b. 1757)
1807 - Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
1818 – Paul Revere, engraver, American patriot (b. 1735)
1829 – Thomas Young, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics
1863 – Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general (b. 1824)
1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician (b. 1863)

1901 – 2000

1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
1904 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer (b. 1841)
1910 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)
1911 - La Fayette Grover, American politician, Governor of Oregon (b. 1823)
1916 - Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian nationalist leader, doctor and author (b. 1846)
1944 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (b. 1912)
1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian World Heavyweight Boxing Champion (b. 1881)
1967 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver (b. 1935)
1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1904)
1982 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
1984 - Joaquim Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1943)
1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician, composer and bandleader (b. 1944)
1990 – Walker Percy, American writer (b. 1916)
1992 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
1994 – John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
1999 – Shel Silverstein, poet, composer (b. 1930)

From 2001

2001 - Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, 16th Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
2002 - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
2002 – Lynda Lyon Block, American murderer (b. 1948)
2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
2005 – David Wayne, singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church (b. 1958)
2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer and musician (b. 1969)
2010 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
2012 – Gunnar Sonsteby, Norwegian resistance activist (b. 1918)
2012 - Carroll Shelby, American racing driver and auto designer (b. 1923)
2012 - Günther Kaufmann, German actor (b. 1947)
2014 - Patrick Lucey, 38th Governor of Wisconsin and former US Ambassador to Mexico (b. 1918)
2014 - Lem Johns, American secret service agent (b. 1925)
2014 - Andres Carrasco, Argentine neurologist (b. 1946)
2015 - Ninad Bedekar, Indian historian and writer (b. 1949)
2015 - Luiz Henrique da Silveira, Brazilian politician (b. 1940)
2015 - Kim Kyok-sik, North Korean military officer (b. 1938)
2015 - Chris Burden, American artist (b. 1946)
2016 - Louis van Gasteren, Dutch movie director (b. 1922)
2016 - Ilkka Hanski, Finnish ecologist (b. 1953)
2016 - Kang Young-hoon, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1922)
2016 - Riki Sorsa, Finnish singer (b. 1952)
2016 - Gene Gutowski, American film producer (b. 1925)
2016 - Mark Lane, American lawyer and author (b. 1927)
2017 - Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (b. 1924)
2017 - Greg Forristall, American politician (b. 1950)
2017 - Nelson Xavier, Brazilian actor (b. 1941)
2017 - Silvano Basagni, Italian sport shooter (b. 1938)
2017 - Emmanuèle Bernheim, French author and screenwriter (b. 1955)
2017 - Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
2018 - David Goodall, English-Australian botanist (b. 1914)
2018 - Alfonso Lovo Cordero, Nicaraguan politician (b. 1927)
2018 - Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess player (b. 1933)
2018 - Ken Hodgkisson, English footballer (b. 1933)
2018 - Kevin Kamenetz, American politician (b. 1957)
2018 - Graham Lovett, English footballer (b. 1947)
2018 - Adam Parfrey, American novelist, editor and publisher (b. 1957)
2019 - Frederick Brownell, South African vexillologist (b. 1940)
2019 - Hector Busby, New Zealand Maori navigator (b. 1932)
2019 - Bert Cooper, American boxer (b. 1966)
2019 - Gordon Neate, English footballer (b. 1941)
2019 - Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
2019 - Paul-Werner Scheele, German Roman Catholic theologian and bishop (b. 1928)
2019 - Dick Tomey, American football coach (b. 1938)

Births

Up to 1800

213 – Claudius II, Roman Emperor (d. 270)
850 - Emperor Seiwa of Japan (d. 881)
1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
1548 - Antonio Priuli, Doge (ruler) of Venice (d. 1623)
1604 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
1641 – Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
1697 - Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer (d. 1764)
1714 - Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1792)
1725 - John Hope, Scottish physician and botanist (d. 1786)
1727 - Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de Laune, French statesman (d. 1781)
1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician, physicist and chemist (d. 1818)
1755 – Robert Gray, American sea captain (d. 1806)
1756 – Singu Min, King of Burma (d. 1782)
1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1782)
1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French army officer and composer (d. 1836)
1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general (d. 1823)
1775 - Antoine Charles Louise Lasalle, French general (d. 1809)
1788 - Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1819)
1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)

1801 – 1900

1801 - Hugh J. Anderson, Governor of Maine (d. 1881)
1812 - William Henry Barlow, British railway engineer (d. 1902)
1813 - Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883)
1823 - John Sherman, American politician (d. 1900)
1827 - William Windom, American politician (d. 1891)
1830 - Henry Calderwood, Scottish minister and philosopher (d. 1897)
1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor who killed Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
1840 - Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1868)
1843 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish writer (d. 1920)
1848 - Thomas Lipton, Scottish merchant and yachtsman (d. 1931)
1855 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru (d. 1936)
1874 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
1878 – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
1886 - Olaf Stapledon, English writer and philosopher (d. 1950)
1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)
1888 - Lucy Wills, English physician and researcher (d. 1964)
1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born movie composer and conductor (d. 1979)
1895 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2010)
1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)
1899 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987).
1899 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
1900 – Ernst Ising, German mathematician (d. 1998)

1901 – 1950

1902 – David O. Selznick, American movie producer (d. 1965)
1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born movie director (d. 1974)
1908 - Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician (d. 2000)
1909 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
1911 - Bel Kaufman, German-born American teacher and author (d. 2014)
1912 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (d. 1944)
1912 - Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Scottish-born mother of Donald Trump (d. 2000)
1915 – Monica Dickens, English writer (d. 1992)
1915 – Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011)
1918 - George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)
1922 - David Azrieli, Canadian-Israeli tycoon, developer, designer, architect and philanthropist (d. 2014)
1923 – Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
1925 – Néstor Rossi, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1926 – Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
1928 - Marcel Rigout, French politician (d. 2014)
1928 – Arnold Rüütel, former President of Estonia
1929 – Antonine Maillet, French-Canadian novelist and playwright
1929 - George Coe, American actor (d. 2015)
1930 - Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster (d. 2013)
1930 - George E. Smith, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
1931 - Ettore Scola, Italian moviemaker (d. 2016)
1932 - Christiane Kubrick, German actress, dancer, painter and singer
1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
1934 - Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
1934 - Gary Owens, American DJ and voice actor (d. 2015)
1935 - William Duborgh Jensen, Norwegian fashion designer (d. 2017)
1935 - Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 1980)
1937 - Tamara Press, Soviet-Ukrainian athlete
1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player
1940 - Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (d. 2015)
1941 - Ken Kennedy, Irish rugby player
1942 - Peter Prince, British novelist
1942 - Jim Calhoun, American basketball player
1944 – Jim Abrahams, American movie producer and screenwriter
1944 - Marie France-Pisier, French actress (d. 2011)
1946 – Donovan, Scottish musician
1946 – Dave Mason, English musician
1946 – Maureen Lipman, English actress
1946 - Diderik Wagenaar, Dutch composer and theorist
1947 - Colin Stein, Scottish footballer
1950 - Natalya Bondarchuk, Russian actress and movie director

1951 – 1975

1952 – Manuel Mora Morales, Spanish director and writer
1952 - Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer
1952 - Roland Kaiser, German Schlager singer
1952 - Vanderlei Luxemburgo, Brazilian footballer and manager
1953 – Tito Santana, Mexican-American professional wrestler
1954 - Mike Hagerty, American actor
1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon
1956 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (d. 1995)
1957 – Sid Vicious, English musician (d. 1979)
1958 – Rick Santorum, American politician
1960 – Bono (Paul Hewson), Irish singer, lead vocalist of U2
1960 - Dean Heller, United States Senator from Nevada
1960 - Victoria Rowell, American actress and writer
1961 - Blyth Tait, New Zealand equestrian
1961 - Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
1962 - John Ngugi, Kenyan long-distance runner
1963 - Anatoly Lebed, Estonian-Russian lieutenant (d. 2012)
1963 – Lisa Nowak, American astronaut
1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
1966 – Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
1966 - Deborah Criddle, British paralympic equestrian
1966 - David Mackenzie, Scottish film director
1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
1967 – Young MC, American rapper
1967 - Jon Ronson, English journalist and writer
1968 – Al Murray, British comedian
1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
1970 – Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan pianist
1970 – David Weir, Scottish footballer
1970 - Sally Phillips, English actress
1971 - Adriano Giannini, Italian actor
1971 - Monisha Kaltenborn, Austrian Formula One team principal
1971 - Kim Jong-nam, North Korean political figure (d. 2017)
1971 - Linda Papadopoulos, Canadian psychologist
1972 – Christian Wörns, German footballer
1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer

From 1976

1976 – Rachel Gordon, Australian actress
1977 – Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
1977 - David Menkin, American voice actor
1977 – Nick Heidfeld, German racing driver
1977 - Anna Maxwell Martin, English actress
1980 – Namitha Kapoor, Indian actress
1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
1983 – Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician
1983 - Natalia Zabala, Spanish model
1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Emilio Izaguirre, Honduran footballer
1986 - Pendyana Harikrishna, Indian chess player
1987 - Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
1987 - Emmanuel Emenike, Nigerian footballer
1988 - Adam Lallana, English footballer
1989 - Lindsey Shaw, American actress
1990 – Lauren Potter, American actress
1992 - Jake Zyrus, Filipino singer and actor
1993 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
1994 - Yuki Ito, Japanese ski jumper
1995 - Missy Franklin, American swimmer
2013 - Prince Taufa'ahau Manumataongo of Tonga

Deaths

Observances

Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)
Constitution Day (Federated States of Micronesia)
Mother's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico)
Western Christianity: Earliest day on which Pentecost can fall