Famous Deaths In May - 10

0238  Death of Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered on this day in history.  

0995  On this day in history death of boudouin, bishop of Utrecht  

1290  On May - 10 death of duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)  

1424  On May - 10 death of go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan  

1493  On May - 10 death of colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician  

1521  On May - 10 death of sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457)  

1566  Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65 on May - 10.  

1569  On May - 10 death of juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer  

1637  Susanna van Baerle, Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

1641  On this day in history death of johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)  

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1653  On May - 10 john Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61  

1657  Death of Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592) on this day in history.  

1691  On May - 10 death of colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)  

1696  On May - 10 death of jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)  

1710  On May - 10 georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46  

1717  On May - 10 death of john Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641)  

1726  On this day in history death of charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)  

1733  Death of Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681) on May - 10.  

1737  On May - 10 death of nakamikado Emperor of Japan (b. 1702)  

1760  Johann Christoph Graupner, composer, dies at 77 on May - 10.  

1764  On this day in history picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies  

1770  Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61 on May - 10.  

1774  Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64 on this day in history.  

1785  Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36 on May - 10.  

1787  Death of William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715) on this day in history.  

1789  On this day in history guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer, dies at 72  

1792  Death of John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress on this day in history.  

1794  Death of Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30 on this day in history.  

1798  George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40 on May - 10.  

1807  On this day in history death of comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)  

1818  Paul Revere, American patriot, dies on May - 10.  

1820  Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1826  On May - 10 giuseppe Sigismondo, composer, dies at 86  

1829  On May - 10 thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies  

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1265  On May - 10 birth of emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)  

1536  Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall was born on this day in history.  

1604  On this day in history birth of jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)  

1697  On this day in history birth of jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer  

1705  On May - 10 birth of gallus Zeiler, composer  

1724  On May - 10 birth of johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank)  

1727  On this day in history birth of anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76)  

1730  On this day in history birth of george Ross, US judge (signed Declaration of Independence)