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May 10 is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 235 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 70 – 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.
• 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.
• 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
• 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
• 1655 – England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
• 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
• 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
• 1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
• 1796 – 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.
• 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
• 1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
• 1833 – 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.
• 1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
• 1849 – 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.
• 1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.
• 1864 – 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.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
• 1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
• 1869 – 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.
• 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
• 1877 – Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence. Recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
• 1893 – 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.
• 1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1922 – The United States annex the Kingman Reef.
• 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
• 1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
• 1940 – World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
• 1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
• 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
• 1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
• 1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
• 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
• 1948 – The Republic of China implements "temporary provisions" granting President Chiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991.
• 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
• 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
• 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
• 1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
• 1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
• 1981 – François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
• 1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 156 workers.
• 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
• 1997 – A 7.3 M_w 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.
• 1997 – The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.
• 2002 – 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.
• 2005 – 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.
• 2008 – An EF4 tornado strikes the Oklahoma-Kansas state line, killing 21 people and injuring over 100.
• 2012 – The Damascus bombings were carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring 400 others

Births

• 213 – Claudius Gothicus, Roman emperor (d. 270)
• 1265 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
• 1604 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
• 1641 – Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
• 1697 – Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer (d. 1764)
• 1714 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1792)
• 1727 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (d. 1781)
• 1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818)
• 1755 – Robert Gray, American sea captain (d. 1806)
• 1756 – Singu Min, Myanma king of Konbaung Dynasty (d. 1782)
• 1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1826)
• 1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French Army officer and composer (d. 1836)
• 1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French marshal (d. 1823)
• 1775 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French general (d. 1809)
• 1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)
• 1788 – Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1819)
• 1810 – E. Cobham Brewer, English writer and editor (d. 1897)
• 1813 – Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883)
• 1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
• 1840 – Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1868)
• 1841 – James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher (d. 1918)
• 1843 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (d. 1920)
• 1847 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923)
• 1855 – Yukteswar Giri, Vedic astrologer and educator (d. 1936)
• 1863 – Upendrakishore Ray, Indian writer, painter, and composer (d. 1915)
• 1866 – Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)
• 1868 – Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953)
• 1872 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
• 1874 – Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian, and orientalist (d. 1941)
• 1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
• 1878 – Gustav Stresemann, German politician and statesman, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1929)
• 1879 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1926)
• 1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (d. 1968)
• 1886 – Olaf Stapledon, English author and philosopher (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Felix Manalo, Philippine founder and 1st executive minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963)
• 1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)
• 1889 – Mae Murray, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
• 1891 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (d. 1934)
• 1894 – Elvira Popescu, Romanian-French actress (d. 1993)
• 1895 – Kama Chinen, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2010)
• 1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, Prime minister of Norway (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Ariel Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
• 1899 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)
• 1899 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian composer (d. 1979)
• 1901 – J.D. Bernal, English crystallographer (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian director (d. 1974)
• 1902 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and Nazi leader (d. 1994)
• 1905 – Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1972)
• 1907 – Freddie Spencer Chapman, English army officer (d. 1971)
• 1908 – Carl Albert, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (Carter Family) (d. 1978)
• 1911 – Roland Gladu, Canadian baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1911 – Bel Kaufman, American author
• 1915 – Monica Dickens, English writer (d. 1992)
• 1915 – Denis Thatcher, English businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011)
• 1918 – T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician and author
• 1918 – George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)
• 1920 – Jeff Cooper, American Marine, firearms instructor, and writer (d. 2006)
• 1920 – Bert Weedon, English guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Helen Crummy, Scottish activist (d. 2011).
• 1922 – Nancy Walker, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1923 – Heydar Aliyev, Russian politician, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
• 1926 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
• 1928 – Arnold Rüütel, Estonian agronomist and politician, 3rd President of Estonia
• 1929 – Antonine Maillet, French-Canadian novelist and playwright
• 1930 – Scott Muni, American disc jockey(d. 2004)
• 1930 – Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster
• 1930 – George E. Smith, American applied physicist, Nobel Laureate
• 1931 – Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1933 – Françoise Fabian, French actress
• 1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
• 1934 – Jeanine Basinger, American scholar
• 1934 – Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
• 1935 – Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer(d. 1980)
• 1936 – Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (d. 1963)
• 1936 – Gary Owens, American disc jockey and voice actor
• 1937 – Jim Hickman, American baseball player
• 1937 – Tamara Press, Soviet athlete
• 1938 – Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter, and actor
• 1938 – Henry Fambrough, American singer (The Spinners)
• 1938 – Dang Nhat Minh, Vietnamese director
• 1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player
• 1938 – Marina Vlady, French actress
• 1940 – Wayne A. Downing, American army general (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Danny Rapp, American singer and musician (Danny & the Juniors) (d. 1983)
• 1942 – Jim Calhoun, American basketball coach
• 1942 – Carl Douglas, Jamaican-English singer
• 1942 – Youssouf Sambo Bâ, Burkinabé politician
• 1943 – David Clennon, American actor
• 1943 – Richard Darman, American economist
• 1944 – Jim Abrahams, American director
• 1944 – Marie-France Pisier, French actress (d. 2011)
• 1946 – Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor
• 1946 – Graham Gouldman, English musician and songwriter (10cc, The Mindbenders, Wax)
• 1946 – Maureen Lipman, English actress
• 1946 – Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and musician (Traffic)
• 1946 – Diderik Wagenaar, Dutch composer and theorist
• 1947 – Caroline Cooney, American author
• 1947 – Jay Ferguson, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne)
• 1947 – Thomas Tessier, American author
• 1948 – Meg Foster, American actress
• 1949 – Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer
• 1952 – Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer (Wizex, Chips, Kikki, Bettan & Lotta, and Kjell Roos Band)
• 1952 – Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer (Sly and Robbie, The Aggrovators, The Upsetters, and The Revolutionaries)
• 1953 – John Diamond, English journalist (d. 2001)
• 1953 – Tito Santana, American wrestler
• 1953 – Jim Zorn, American football player and coach
• 1954 – F. Charles Brunicardi, American physician
• 1955 – Chris Berman, American sportscaster
• 1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon
• 1956 – Yves Jacques, French-Canadian actor
• 1956 – Paige O'Hara, American actress and singer
• 1956 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (d. 1995)
• 1956 – Jonathan Roberts, American screenwriter, producer, and author
• 1957 – Sid Vicious, English singer and musician (The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Vicious White Kids, The Flowers of Romance) (d. 1979)
• 1958 – Gaétan Boucher, Canadian speed skater
• 1958 – Rick Santorum, American politician
• 1959 – Victoria Rowell, American actress
• 1959 – Danny Schayes, American basketball player
• 1960 – Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, philanthropist, and activist (U2)
• 1960 – Dean Heller, American politician
• 1960 – Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-Slovenian track athlete
• 1961 – Danny Carey, American drummer and songwriter (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus, Volto!, Green Jellÿ, and Zaum)
• 1961 – Randy Cunneyworth, Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1961 – Candi Kubeck, American pilot of Valujet Flight 592 (d. 1996)
• 1961 – Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
• 1962 – Guy Hemmings, Canadian curler
• 1962 – Brad Soderberg, American basketball coach
• 1962 – Robby Thompson, American baseball player
• 1963 – Lisa Nowak, American astronaut
• 1963 – A. Raja, Indian politician
• 1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian model
• 1965 – Rony Seikaly, Lebanese basketball player
• 1966 – Jonathan Edwards, English athlete
• 1967 – Scott Brison, Canadian politician
• 1967 – Jon Ronson, English journalist and author
• 1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
• 1967 – Young MC, American singer-songwriter, rapper, producer, and actor
• 1968 – Thomas Coville, French yacht racer
• 1968 – William Regal, English wrestler
• 1968 – Al Murray, English comedian
• 1968 – Erik Palladino, American actor
• 1968 – Ed Sanders, English actor and carpenter
• 1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
• 1969 – John Scalzi, American writer
• 1970 – Perry Blake, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan-American pianist
• 1970 – Gina Philips, American actress
• 1970 – Sally Phillips, English actress and comedienne
• 1970 – Dallas Roberts, American actor
• 1970 – David Weir, Scottish footballer
• 1971 – Adriano Giannini, Italian actor
• 1971 – Craig Mack, American rapper
• 1971 – Ådne Søndrål, Norwegian speed skater
• 1971 – Leslie Stefanson, American actress
• 1972 – Radosław Majdan, Polish footballer
• 1973 – Aviv Geffen, Israeli singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Blackfield)
• 1973 – Ollie le Roux, South African rugby player
• 1973 – Jerome Williams, American basketball player
• 1974 – Liu Fang, Chinese pipa player
• 1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
• 1975 – Andrea Anders, American actress
• 1975 – Torbjørn Brundtland, Norwegian musician (Röyksopp)
• 1975 – Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
• 1975 – Adam Deadmarsh, American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Shin Jung-hwan, Korean singer and comedian (Roo'ra)
• 1976 – Stuart Braithwaite, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (Mogwai)
• 1976 – Rachel Gordon, Australian actress
• 1976 – Steve Howard, Scottish footballer
• 1976 – Rob Malda, American writer and editor, founder of Slashdot
• 1976 – Udo Mechels, Belgian singer
• 1976 – Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi, Greek javelin thrower
• 1977 – Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
• 1977 – Nick Heidfeld, German race car driver
• 1977 – Denise Ho, Hong Kong-Canadian singer and actress
• 1977 – Chas Licciardello, Australian comedian
• 1977 – Keith Murray, American singer and musician (We Are Scientists)
• 1977 – Sergei Nakariakov, Russian trumpeter
• 1978 – Kenan Thompson, American actor
• 1979 – Lee Hyori, South Korean singer, dancer, actress, and designer (Fin.K.L)
• 1980 – Namitha Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1981 – Samuel Dalembert, Haitian basketball player
• 1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
• 1982 – Jeremy Gable, American playwright
• 1982 – Daniel Harris, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician
• 1983 – Natalia Zabala, Spanish model, Miss Spain 2007
• 1984 – Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 – Kristyna Myles, English singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Odette Annable, American actress
• 1986 – Emilio Izaguirre, Honduran football player
• 1987 – Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
• 1987 – Anej Lovrečič, Slovenian footballer
• 1989 – Lindsey Shaw, American actress
• 1990 – Josh Dugan, Australian rugby player
• 1990 – Karmen Pedaru, Estonian fashion model
• 1990 – Lauren Potter, American actress
• 1991 – Giorgos Machlelis, Greek footballer
• 1992 – Zia Marquez, Filipino actress
• 1992 – Charice, Filipino singer and actress
• 1993 – Tímea Babos, Hungarian tennis player
• 1993 – Halston Sage, American actress
• 1993 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
• 1994 – Ellen Allgurin, Swedish tennis player
• 1995 – Missy Franklin, American swimmer
• 1996 – Martin Skatškov, Estonian gaylord

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)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alphius, Philadelphus, and Cyrinus
  • Aurelian of Limoges
  • Calepodius
  • Catald
  • Comgall
  • Damien of Molokai (canonized October 11, 2009)
  • Gordianus and Epimachus
  • John of Avila
  • Solange
  • May 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)
• Constitution Day (Federated States of Micronesia)
• Earliest possible day on which Pentecost can fall, while June 13 is the latest; celebrated seven weeks after Easter Day. (Christianity)
• Mother's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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