Famous Deaths on 10th May

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238 - Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered
995 - Boudouin, bishop of Utrecht
1290 - Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)
1424 - Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
1493 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
1521 - Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457)
1566 - Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65
1569 - Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer
1637 - Susanna van Baerle, Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37
1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)
1653 - John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61
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)
1710 - Georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46
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)
1760 - Johann Christoph Graupner, composer, dies at 77
1764 - Picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies
1770 - Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61
1774 - Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64
1785 - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36
1787 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1789 - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer, dies at 72
1792 - John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1794 - Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30
1798 - George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40
1807 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
1818 - Paul Revere, American patriot, dies
1820 - Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49
1826 - Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer, dies at 86
1829 - Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies
1833 - Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74
1849 - Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter, dies at 89
1859 - John Archduke of Austria, dies
Confederate General Thomas Jackson (1863) 1863 - Thomas Jackson, ["Stonewall"], Confederate general (Civil War), dies at 39
1864 - James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brig-general, dies in battle at 34
1864 - Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union brig-general, dies at about 27
1868 - Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
1869 - Wilhelm Bernhard Molique, composer, dies at 66
1880 - John Goss, composer/organist, dies at 79
1885 - Edward Stephen, composer, dies at 62
1885 - Ferdinand Hiller, composer, dies at 73
1889 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
1897 - William Thomas Best, composer, dies at 70
1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)
1904 - Henry M Stanley, [John Rowlands], British explorer, dies
1909 - Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies
1910 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85
1910 - William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
1915 - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle
1920 - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies
1923 - Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
1924 - Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58
1937 - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (b. 1876)
1938 - Percy McAlister, cricketer (8 Tests, punches Clem Hill in 1912), dies
1940 - Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56
1942 - Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields), dies at 74
1943 - Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1943 - Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1943 - Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1945 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
1950 - John G Fletcher, US poet (Burning Mountain), dies
1950 - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)
1954 - George Hirst, cricketer (36,323 1st-class runs, 2739 wickets), dies
1955 - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881)
1955 - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
1960 - Juri Olescha, writer, dies at 61
1960 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
1963 - Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
1964 - Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
1964 - Ignace Lilien, composer, dies at 66
1964 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
1965 - Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch min of Colonization (1942-45), dies at 70
1967 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver, (b. 1935)
1968 - Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral v England 1936-37), dies
1968 - Philippa Bevans, dies at 55
1968 - Scotty Beckett, dies at 38
1971 - Mihail Jora, composer, dies at 79
1971 - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer, dies at 75
1973 - Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian, dies at 62
1973 - Loren Tindall, dies of heart attack at 51
1974 - Hal Mohr, Cinematographer, Husband of Evelyn Venable (b. 1894)
1976 - George Curzon, dies at 77
1976 - Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888)
1977 - Joan Crawford, actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 69
1979 - John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, satirist (Beachcomber), dies
1979 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros & the Lonely Man), dies at 67
1982 - Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies
1982 - Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65
1983 - John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92
1984 - Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist, dies at 41
1984 - Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56
1988 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1944)
1990 - Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at 61
1990 - Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73
1991 - Armand HF Boni, [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies
1992 - Sylvia Sims [Blagman], American jazz singer dies aged 74
1992 - Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74
1992 - John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 81
1992 - Liesbeth Saijers, sculptor, dies
1992 - Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74
1994 - John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52
1994 - Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69
1994 - Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81
1995 - Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92
1995 - Hilde Jarecki, educationist, dies at 83
1995 - Jimmy Raney, jazz guitarist, dies at 67
1997 - Joanie Weston, roller derby queen (Bay Bombers), dies at 61
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)
2002 - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (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)
2011 - Michael Baze, American horse racing jockey (b. 1987)
2012 - Evelyn Johnson, American pilot, dies at 102
2012 - Carroll Shelby, American automobile designer, dies at 89