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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 10th of May 0070 | EVENT | Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest. |
| 10th of May 1291 | EVENT | Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England. |
| 10th of May 1497 | EVENT | Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cadiz for his first voyage to the New World. |
| 10th of May 1503 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there. |
| 10th of May 1534 | EVENT | Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland. |
| 10th of May 1655 | EVENT | England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain. |
| 10th of May 1768 | EVENT | John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London. |
| 10th of May 1774 | EVENT | Louis XVI becomes King of France. |
| 10th of May 1775 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga. |
| 10th of May 1775 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. |
| 10th of May 1796 | EVENT | First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men. |
| 10th of May 1801 | EVENT | First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America. |
| 10th of May 1824 | EVENT | The National Gallery in London opens to the public. |
| 10th of May 1833 | EVENT | The desecration of the grave of the viceroy of southern Vietnam Le Van Duyet by Emperor Minh Mang provokes his adopted son to start a revolt. |
| 10th of May 1837 | EVENT | Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels. |
| 10th of May 1849 | EVENT | Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120. |
| 10th of May 1857 | EVENT | Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut. |
| 10th of May 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops. |
| 10th of May 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment "Attack-in-depth" assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general. |
| 10th of May 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia. |
| 10th of May 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6. |
| 10th of May 1869 | EVENT | The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike. |
| 10th of May 1872 | EVENT | Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States. |
| 10th of May 1877 | EVENT | Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogalniceanu's Declaration of Independence. This act is recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence. |
| 10th of May 1893 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883. |
| 10th of May 1908 | EVENT | Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia. |
| 10th of May 1922 | EVENT | The United States annex the Kingman Reef. |
| 10th of May 1924 | EVENT | J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972. |
| 10th of May 1933 | EVENT | Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings. |
| 10th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent. |
| 10th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. |
| 10th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| 10th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom. |
| 10th of May 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. |
| 10th of May 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. |
| 10th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign. |
| 10th of May 1946 | EVENT | First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground. |
| 10th of May 1954 | EVENT | Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts. |
| 10th of May 1960 | EVENT | The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth. |
| 10th of May 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill. |
| 10th of May 1979 | EVENT | The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing. |
| 10th of May 1981 | EVENT | Francois Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic. |
| 10th of May 1993 | EVENT | In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 156 workers. |
| 10th of May 1994 | EVENT | Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. |
| 10th of May 1997 | EVENT | A 7.3 Mw earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province, killing 1,567, injuring over 2,300, leaving 50,000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15,000 homes. |
| 10th of May 2002 | EVENT | F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds. |
| 10th of May 2005 | EVENT | A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate. |
| 10th of May 2008 | EVENT | An EF4 tornado strikes the Oklahoma-Kansas state line, killing 21 people and injuring over 100. |
| 10th of May 2008 | EVENT | War in Darfur: The Justice and Equality Movement and Sudanese government forces clash in Omdurman and Khartoum, the first time the fighting takes place in the nation's capital. |
| 10th of May 0213 | BIRTHDAY | Claudius II, Roman emperor (d. 270) |
| 10th of May 1265 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317) |
| 10th of May 1604 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686) |
| 10th of May 1641 | BIRTHDAY | Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691) |
| 10th of May 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1792) |
| 10th of May 1727 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (d. 1781) |
| 10th of May 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818) |
| 10th of May 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Gray, American sea captain (d. 1806) |
| 10th of May 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Singu Min, King of Burma (d. 1782) |
| 10th of May 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1826) |
| 10th of May 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (d. 1836) |
| 10th of May 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (d. 1823) |
| 10th of May 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (d. 1809) |
| 10th of May 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827) |
| 10th of May 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Russian-born queen of Wurttemberg (d. 1819) |
| 10th of May 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, British lexicographer (d. 1897) |
| 10th of May 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883) |
| 10th of May 1838 | BIRTHDAY | John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865) |
| 10th of May 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1868) |
| 10th of May 1841 | BIRTHDAY | James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher (New York Herald) (d. 1918) |
| 10th of May 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish novelist (d. 1920) |
| 10th of May 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923) |
| 10th of May 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Upendrakishore Ray, Indian writer, painter and composer (d. 1915) |
| 10th of May 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924) |
| 10th of May 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953) |
| 10th of May 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950) |
| 10th of May 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941) |
| 10th of May 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918) |
| 10th of May 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1929) |
| 10th of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Symon Petlura, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1926) |
| 10th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Manalo, Philippine Founder and 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963) |
| 10th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Olaf Stapledon, British author and philosopher (d. 1950) |
| 10th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968) |
| 10th of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971) |
| 10th of May 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Mae Murray, American actress (d. 1965) |
| 10th of May 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946) |
| 10th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2010) |
| 10th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Einar Gerhardsen, Prime minister of Norway (d. 1987) |
| 10th of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Ariel Durant, American historian (d. 1981) |
| 10th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987) |
| 10th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979) |
| 10th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | J.D. Bernal, British crystallographer (d. 1971) |
| 10th of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974) |
| 10th of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965) |
| 10th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (d. 1994) |
| 10th of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Markos Vamvakaris, Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter (d. 1972) |
| 10th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Spencer Chapman, British army officer (d. 1971) |
| 10th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Albert, American politician (d. 2000) |
| 10th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978) |
| 10th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Bel Kaufman, American author |
| 10th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Thatcher, British businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003) |
| 10th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011) |
| 10th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954) |
| 10th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician |
| 10th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Cooper, American Handgun Expert (d. 2006) |
| 10th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Weedon, British guitarist |
| 10th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Walker, American actress (d. 1992) |
| 10th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Heydar Aliyev, Ex-President and Leader of Azerbaijan Republic (d. 2003) |
| 10th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (d. 2002) |
| 10th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author |
| 10th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Ruutel, Estonian president |
| 10th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Antonine Maillet, French-Canadian novelist and playwright |
| 10th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster |
| 10th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Muni, American radio DJ (d. 2004) |
| 10th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter |
| 10th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer |
| 10th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanine Basinger, American film scholar |
| 10th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994) |
| 10th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (d. 1980) |
| 10th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Owens, American actor and announcer |
| 10th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (d. 1963) |
| 10th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Hickman, American baseball player |
| 10th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Tamara Press, Soviet athlete |
| 10th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter and actor |
| 10th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis champion |
| 10th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Marina Vlady, French actress |
| 10th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne A. Downing, retired United States Army general |
| 10th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Calhoun, American college basketball coach |
| 10th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Youssouf Sambo Ba, Burkinabe politician |
| 10th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | David Clennon, American actor |
| 10th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Darman, American economist |
| 10th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Abrahams, American film director |
| 10th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-France Pisier, French actress (d. 2011) |
| 10th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Donovan, Scottish musician |
| 10th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Gouldman, British musician and songwriter (10cc) |
| 10th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen Lipman, English actress |
| 10th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Mason, English musician (Traffic) |
| 10th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Diderik Wagenaar, Dutch composer and musical theorist |
| 10th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Ferguson, American musician and composer |
| 10th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Cooney, American author |
| 10th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Tessier, American author |
| 10th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer |
| 10th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Mora Morales, Spanish director and writer |
| 10th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Diamond, English journalist (d. 2001) |
| 10th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tito Santana, Mexican-American professional wrestler |
| 10th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | F. Charles Brunicardi, American surgeon |
| 10th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Berman, American sportscaster |
| 10th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon |
| 10th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Paige O'Hara, American Broadway singer and actress |
| 10th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Vladislav Listyev, Russian television anchor and journalist (d. 1995) |
| 10th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Vicious, English bassist (The Sex Pistols) (d. 1979) |
| 10th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Suzuki, Japanese creator of Virtua Fighter series |
| 10th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Santorum, American politician |
| 10th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Gaetan Boucher, Canadian speed skater |
| 10th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Schayes, American basketball player |
| 10th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Rowell, American actress |
| 10th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Bono, Irish singer (U2) |
| 10th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Heller, American politician |
| 10th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Merlene Ottey, Jamaican/Slovenian track athlete |
| 10th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress |
| 10th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Carey, American drummer (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus) |
| 10th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Soderberg, American college basketball head coach |
| 10th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | A. Raja, Indian politician |
| 10th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Nowak, American astronaut |
| 10th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rony Seikaly, Lebanese basketball player |
| 10th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel |
| 10th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Edwards, English athlete |
| 10th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Brison, Canadian politician |
| 10th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Ronson, British journalist and author |
| 10th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Young MC, American rapper |
| 10th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster |
| 10th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Al Murray, British comedian |
| 10th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | William Regal (Darren Matthews), English professional wrestler |
| 10th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Palladino, American actor |
| 10th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Sanders, British actor and television personality |
| 10th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer |
| 10th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | John Scalzi, American writer |
| 10th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan pianist |
| 10th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Philips, American actress |
| 10th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Carter, American voice actor |
| 10th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Perry Blake, Irish singer/songwriter |
| 10th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Phillips, British actress and comedienne |
| 10th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dallas Roberts, American actor |
| 10th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | David Weir, Scottish footballer |
| 10th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Adriano Giannini, Italian actor |
| 10th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Mack, American rapper |
| 10th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Stefanson, American actress |
| 10th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Adne S?ndral, Norwegian speed skater |
| 10th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rados?aw Majdan, Polish footballer |
| 10th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Aviv Geffen, Israeli singer/songwriter (Blackfield) |
| 10th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Williams, American basketball player |
| 10th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ollie le Roux, South African rugby player |
| 10th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Liu Fang, Chinese musician |
| 10th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer |
| 10th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Anders, American Actress |
| 10th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Torbj?rn Brundtland, Norwegian musician (Royksopp) |
| 10th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Deadmarsh, American ice hockey player |
| 10th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Helio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver |
| 10th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shin Jung-hwan, Korean singer |
| 10th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Braithwaite, Scottish musician (Mogwai) |
| 10th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Howard, Scottish footballer |
| 10th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Gordon, Australian actress |
| 10th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Malda, American internet writer/editor (Slashdot) |
| 10th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Udo Mechels, Belgian singer |
| 10th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi, Greek javelin thrower |
| 10th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Heidfeld, German Formula One driver |
| 10th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Ho, Hong Kong singer |
| 10th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer |
| 10th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Chas Licciardello, Australian comedian |
| 10th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Murray, American singer (We Are Scientists) |
| 10th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kenan Thompson, American actor |
| 10th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Hyori, South Korean singer |
| 10th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Namitha Kapoor, Indian actress |
| 10th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Dalembert, Haitian basketball player |
| 10th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer |
| 10th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Harris, Australian rules footballer |
| 10th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Gable, American playwright |
| 10th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician |
| 10th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Zabala, Spanish beauty pageant contestant |
| 10th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kristyna Myles, British singer |
| 10th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 10th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 10th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Odette Yustman, American actress |
| 10th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Anej Lovrecic, Slovenian footballer |
| 10th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Chandler, American basketball player |
| 10th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsey Shaw, American actress |
| 10th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Dugan, Australian rugby league player |
| 10th of May 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Machlelis, Greek footballer |
| 10th of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Zia Marquez, Filipino actress |
| 10th of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Charice Pempengco, Filipino singer |
| 10th of May 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Mirai Shida, Japanese actress |
| 10th of May 1034 | DEATH | Mieszko II, King of Poland (Born 990) |
| 10th of May 1290 | DEATH | Duke Rudolph II of Austria (Born 1271) |
| 10th of May 1424 | DEATH | Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan |
| 10th of May 1482 | DEATH | Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (Born 1397) |
| 10th of May 1493 | DEATH | Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician |
| 10th of May 1521 | DEATH | Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (Born 1457) |
| 10th of May 1566 | DEATH | Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (Born 1501) |
| 10th of May 1641 | DEATH | Johan Baner, Swedish soldier (Born 1596) |
| 10th of May 1657 | DEATH | Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (Born 1592) |
| 10th of May 1691 | DEATH | Colonel John Birch, English soldier (Born 1615) |
| 10th of May 1692 | DEATH | Sarah Osborne, one of the first accused in the Salem witch trials (Born circa 1643) |
| 10th of May 1696 | DEATH | Jean de La Bruyere, French writer (Born 1645) |
| 10th of May 1717 | DEATH | John Hathorne, American magistrate (Born 1641) |
| 10th of May 1726 | DEATH | Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (Born 1670) |
| 10th of May 1733 | DEATH | Barton Booth, English actor (Born 1681) |
| 10th of May 1737 | DEATH | Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (Born 1702) |
| 10th of May 1774 | DEATH | King Louis XV of France (Born 1710) |
| 10th of May 1775 | DEATH | Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (Born 1757) |
| 10th of May 1787 | DEATH | William Watson, English physician and scientist (Born 1715) |
| 10th of May 1792 | DEATH | John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress |
| 10th of May 1798 | DEATH | George Vancouver, British navy officer and explorer (Born 1757) |
| 10th of May 1807 | DEATH | Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (Born 1725) |
| 10th of May 1818 | DEATH | Paul Revere, American patriot (Born 1735) |
| 10th of May 1829 | DEATH | Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (Born 1773) |
| 10th of May 1850 | DEATH | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (Born 1778) |
| 10th of May 1863 | DEATH | Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (Born 1824) |
| 10th of May 1868 | DEATH | Henry Bennett, American politician (Born 1808) |
| 10th of May 1889 | DEATH | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (Born 1826) |
| 10th of May 1897 | DEATH | Andres Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (Born 1863) |
| 10th of May 1904 | DEATH | Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (Born 1861) |
| 10th of May 1937 | DEATH | William Tedmarsh, English-born silent movie actor (Born 1876) |
| 10th of May 1945 | DEATH | Richard Glucks, German SS officer (Born 1889) |
| 10th of May 1945 | DEATH | Konrad Henlein, pro-Nazi Czechoslovakian politician (Born 1898) |
| 10th of May 1950 | DEATH | Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer, archivist (Born 1883) |
| 10th of May 1955 | DEATH | Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (Born 1881) |
| 10th of May 1955 | DEATH | John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (Born 1865) |
| 10th of May 1956 | DEATH | Michalis Karaolis, Greek-Cypriot EOKA fighter (Born 1934) |
| 10th of May 1960 | DEATH | Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (Born 1899) |
| 10th of May 1963 | DEATH | Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (Born 1931) |
| 10th of May 1964 | DEATH | Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (Born 1881) |
| 10th of May 1967 | DEATH | Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver, (Born 1935) |
| 10th of May 1968 | DEATH | Scotty Beckett, American child actor (Born 1929) |
| 10th of May 1974 | DEATH | Hal Mohr, American cinematographer, husband of Evelyn Venable (Born 1894) |
| 10th of May 1976 | DEATH | Elias Aslaksen, Norwegian religious figure (Born 1888) |
| 10th of May 1977 | DEATH | Joan Crawford, American actress (Born 1905) |
| 10th of May 1982 | DEATH | Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (Born 1916) |
| 10th of May 1988 | DEATH | Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (Born 1902) |
| 10th of May 1989 | DEATH | Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (Born 1944) |
| 10th of May 1990 | DEATH | Susan Oliver, American actress (Born 1932) |
| 10th of May 1990 | DEATH | Walker Percy, American author (Born 1916) |
| 10th of May 1992 | DEATH | Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (Born 1917) |
| 10th of May 1993 | DEATH | Stephen Ross, English politician (Born 1926) |
| 10th of May 1994 | DEATH | John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (Born 1942) |
| 10th of May 1997 | DEATH | Joan Weston, American Roller Derby (Born 1935) |
| 10th of May 1999 | DEATH | Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (Born 1930) |
| 10th of May 2000 | DEATH | Dede Fortin, Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs) (Born 1962) |
| 10th of May 2000 | DEATH | Jules Deschenes, Quebec superior court judge (Born 1923) |
| 10th of May 2001 | DEATH | Deborah Walley, American actress (Born 1943) |
| 10th of May 2001 | DEATH | Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician (Born 1934) |
| 10th of May 2002 | DEATH | Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (Born 1948) |
| 10th of May 2002 | DEATH | Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (Born 1920) |
| 10th of May 2002 | DEATH | Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (Born 1919) |
| 10th of May 2003 | DEATH | Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (Born 1937) |
| 10th of May 2005 | DEATH | David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (Born 1958) |
| 10th of May 2006 | DEATH | Val Guest, British film director (Born 1911) |
| 10th of May 2006 | DEATH | Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (Born 1917) |
| 10th of May 2006 | DEATH | A. M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (Born 1922) |
| 10th of May 2006 | DEATH | Soraya, Colombian-American singer (Born 1969) |
| 10th of May 2008 | DEATH | Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (Born 1928) |
| 10th of May 2008 | DEATH | Jessie Jacobs, Australian actress (Born 1990) |
| 10th of May 2010 | DEATH | Frank Frazetta, American artist (Born 1928) |
| 10th of May 2011 | DEATH | Michael Baze, American horse racing jockey (Born 1987) |