What happened on May 10 ?

1034 - Mieszko II 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)

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 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (b. 1702)

1774 - King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)

1787 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)

1792 - John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress

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)

1889 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)

1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)

1904 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)

1945 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)

1950 - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)

1955 - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881)

1960 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)

1964 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)

1977 - Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)

1988 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)

1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1944)

1990 - Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916)

1994 - John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)

1999 - Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)

2001 - Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)

2002 - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (b. 1948)

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)