10 May Deaths

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. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

Deaths

689 – Prince Kusakabe of Japan (b. 662)
884 – Ahmad ibn Tulun, ruler of Egypt and Syria (b. 835)
1290 – Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (b. 1271)
1299 – Kyawswa of Pagan, deposed ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (born 1260)
1299 – Theingapati, heir to the Pagan Kingdom
1403 – Katherine Swynford, widow of John of Gaunt
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, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1433)
1521 – Sebastian Brant, German author (b. 1457)
1566 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)
1569 – John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1500)
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)
1717 – John Hathorne, American merchant and politician (b. 1641)
1721 – Christian William I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (b. 1647)
1726 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1670)
1737 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (b. 1702)
1774 – Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
1787 – William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (b. 1715)
1798 – George Vancouver, English navigator and explorer (b. 1757)
1807 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
1818 – Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
1829 – Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
1849 – Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
1863 – Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
1868 – Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
1891 – Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
1897 – Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
1910 – Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
1945 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
1945 – Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
1960 – Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)
1962 – Shunroku Hata, Japanese field marshal and politician, 48th Japanese Minister of War (b. 1879)
1964 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)
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 and singer (b. 1929)
1974 – Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)
1976 – Elias Aslaksen, Norwegian religious leader (b. 1888)
1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)
1982 – Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)
1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese author and academic (b. 1902)
1989 – Dimitar Ilievski-Murato, Macedonian mountaineer (b. 1953)
1989 – Woody Shaw, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1944)
1990 – Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (b. 1916)
1992 – K. G. Ramanathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1920)
1999 – Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1930)
1999 – Eric Willis, Australian politician, 34th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1922)
2000 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
2000 – Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
2001 – Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, 16th Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
2002 – Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
2002 – Yves Robert, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Serbian-American chemist and chess player (b. 1937)
2005 – David Wayne, American singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
2006 – Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
2006 – A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1922)
2008 – Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
2010 – Frank Frazetta, American illustrator and painter (b. 1928)
2012 – Horst Faas, German photographer and journalist (b. 1933)
2012 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver and designer (b. 1923)
2012 – Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian captain and author (b. 1918)
2014 – Carmen Argibay, Argentinian lawyer and judge (b. 1939)
2014 – Patrick Lucey, American soldier and politician, 38th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1918)
2015 – Ninad Bedekar, Indian historian, author, and academic (b. 1949)
2015 – Chris Burden, American sculptor, illustrator, and academic (b. 1946)
2016 – Carlos García y García, Peruvian politician, Second Vice President (b. ?)

Source: wikipedia