May 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1034 – Mieszko II Lambert (b. 990)
• 1290 – Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (b. 1271)
• 1424 – Emperor Go-Kameyama, 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 – John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)
• 1692 – Sarah Osborne, American woman accused of witchcraft during 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 – Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, queen consort of Denmark-Norway (b. 1751)
• 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, English navy officer and explorer (b. 1757)
• 1807 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, 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 – Thomas "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 actor (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Konrad Henlein, German nazi politician (b. 1898)
• 1950 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer, and archivist (b. 1883)
• 1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881)
• 1955 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
• 1956 – Michalis Karaolis, Greek-Cypriot government clerk and member of EOKA (b. 1934)
• 1960 – Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
• 1963 – Eugene Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
• 1964 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
• 1965 – Hubertus van Mook, Dutch 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 figure (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, composer, and bandleader (b. 1944)
• 1989 – Dimitar Ilievski-Murato, Macedonian mountaineer (b. 1953)
• 1990 – Susan Oliver, American actress (b. 1932)
• 1990 – Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Sylvia Syms, American singer (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Stephen Ross, English politician (b. 1926)
• 1994 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer and rapist (b. 1942)
• 1997 – Joan Weston, American athlete (b. 1935)
• 1999 – Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian judge (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
• 2002 – Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 – John Cunniff, American ice hockey coach (b. 1944)
• 2002 – Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (b. 1948)
• 2002 – Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist, writer, and chess player (b. 1937)
• 2005 – David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church, Reverend, and Wayne) (b. 1958)
• 2006 – Val Guest, English director (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
• 2006 – A. M. Rosenthal, American columnist and editor (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (b. 1969)
• 2008 – Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Jessie Jacobs, Australian actress (b. 1990)
• 2010 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Robert B. Salter, Canadian surgeon (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Michael Baze, American horse racing jockey (b. 1987)
• 2012 – Horst Faas, German photojournalist, Pulitzer Prize recipient (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Evelyn Johnson, American pilot (b. 1909)
• 2012 – Günther Kaufmann, German actor (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Pekka Marjamäki, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Adam Christopher Mayes, American murder (b. 1976)
• 2012 – Joyce Redman, Irish-English actress (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian resistance movement member and author (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Gulumbu Yunupingu, Australian artist (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Walter Wink, American theologian (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver and auto designer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Bernardo Sassetti, Portuguese musician (b. 1970)