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Deaths on May 10

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
1653 : John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61
1696 : Jean de La BruyŠre, French author, dies at 50
1710 : Georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46
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
1784 : Antoine Court de G‚belin, French vicar/writer, dies at 56
1785 : Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36
1789 : Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer, dies at 72
1794 : Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30
1798 : George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40
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 : Fran‡ois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74
1849 : Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter, dies at 89
1859 : Johan BJFS, archduke of Austria (Firechief & Housewife), dies
1863 : Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Conf general (Civil War), dies
1864 : James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brig-general, dies in battle at 34
1864 : Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union brig-general, dies at about 27
1869 : Bernhard Molique, composer, dies at 66
1869 : Wilhelm Bernard 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
1897 : William Thomas Best, composer, dies at 70
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 : Johannes Walter, German geologist (Die Denudation in Wste), dies
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 : Andr‚ Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1943 : Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1943 : Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1950 : John G Fletcher, US poet (Burning Mountain), dies
1954 : George Hirst, cricketer (36,323 1st-class runs, 2739 wickets), dies
1960 : Juri Olescha, writer, dies at 61
1964 : Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
1964 : Ignace Lilien, composer, dies at 66
1965 : Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch min of Colonization (1942-45), dies at 70
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
1976 : George Curzon, dies at 77
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
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 : 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

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