May 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1034 – Mieszko II, King of Poland (b. 990)
• 1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)
• 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
• 1521 – Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457)
• 1566 – Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (b. 1501)
• 1641 – Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)
• 1657 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
• 1691 – Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)
• 1692 – Sarah Osborne, one of the first accused in the Salem witch trials (b. circa 1643)
• 1696 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
• 1717 – John Hathorne, American magistrate (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 – King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
• 1775 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1757)
• 1787 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
• 1792 – John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
• 1798 – George Vancouver, British navy officer and explorer (b. 1757)
• 1807 – Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
• 1818 – Paul Revere, American patriot (b. 1735)
• 1829 – Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
• 1863 – Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (b. 1824)
• 1868 – Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
• 1897 – Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)
• 1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
• 1937 – William Tedmarsh, English-born silent movie actor (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Konrad Henlein, pro-Nazi Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1898)
• 1950 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)
• 1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881)
• 1955 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
• 1960 – Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
• 1963 – Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
• 1964 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
• 1967 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver, (b. 1935)
• 1968 – Scotty Beckett, American child actor (b. 1929)
• 1974 – Hal Mohr, American cinematographer, husband of Evelyn Venable (b. 1894)
• 1976 – Elias Aslaksen, Norwegian leader of the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1982 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
• 1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1944)
• 1990 – Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Susan Oliver, American actress (b. 1932)
• 1992 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Stephen Ross, English Politician (b. 1926)
• 1994 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
• 1997 – Joan Weston, American Roller Derby queen (b. 1935)
• 1999 – Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs) (b. 1962)
• 2000 – Jules Deschênes, Quebec superior court judge (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
• 2001 – Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948)
• 2002 – Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
• 2005 – David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (b. 1958)
• 2006 – Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
• 2006 – A. M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer (b. 1969)
• 2006 – Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
• 2008 – Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Jessie Jacobs, Australian actress (b. 1990)
• 2010 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)