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May 10, 2002 David Riesman, American Sociologist May 10, 2001 Deborah Walley, actress, the second movie Gidget, dies at 57 May 10, 2000 Craig Stevens, actor, Peter Gunn, dies at 81 May 10, 1999 Shel Silverstein, writer, Where the Sidewalk Ends, dies at 66 May 10, 1997 Joanie Weston, roller derby queen with the Bay Bombers, dies at 61 May 10, 1995 Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92 May 10, 1995 Hilde Jarecki, educationist, dies at 83 May 10, 1995 Jimmy Raney, jazz guitarist, dies at 67 May 10, 1994 John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52 May 10, 1994 Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69 May 10, 1994 Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81 May 10, 1992 Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74 May 10, 1992 John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 81 May 10, 1992 Liesbeth Saijers, sculptor, dies May 10, 1992 Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74 May 10, 1991 Armand HF Boni, [Armand the Good], Flemish poet and writer, dies May 10, 1990 Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at 61 May 10, 1990 Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73 May 10, 1984 Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist, dies at 41 May 10, 1984 Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56 May 10, 1983 John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92 May 10, 1982 Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies May 10, 1982 Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65 May 10, 1979 John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, satirist (Beachcomber), dies May 10, 1979 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros and the Lonely Man), dies at 67 May 10, 1977 Joan Crawford, actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 69 May 10, 1976 George Curzon, dies at 77 May 10, 1973 Jack E Leonard, Chicago, Illinois, comedian, dies at 62 May 10, 1973 Loren Tindall, dies of heart attack at 51 May 10, 1971 Mihail Jora, composer, dies at 79 May 10, 1971 Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer, dies at 75 May 10, 1968 Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral vs. England 1936-37), dies May 10, 1968 Philippa Bevans, dies at 55 May 10, 1968 Scotty Beckett, dies at 38 May 10, 1965 Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch min of Colonization (1942-45), dies at 70 May 10, 1964 Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35 May 10, 1964 Ignace Lilien, composer, dies at 66 May 10, 1960 Juri Olescha, writer, dies at 61 May 10, 1950 John G Fletcher, U.S. poet (Burning Mountain), dies May 10, 1943 Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged May 10, 1943 Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged May 10, 1943 Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged May 10, 1942 Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber and Lewis Fields), dies at 74 May 10, 1940 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56 May 10, 1937 Johannes Walter, German geologist (Die Denudation in Wuste), dies May 10, 1924 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58 May 10, 1923 Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated May 10, 1920 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies May 10, 1915 Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle May 10, 1910 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85 May 10, 1910 William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies May 10, 1909 Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies May 10, 1904 Henry M Stanley, [John Rowlands], British explorer, dies May 10, 1904 Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh Explorer May 10, 1897 William Thomas Best, composer, dies at 70 May 10, 1885 Edward Stephen, composer, dies at 62 May 10, 1885 Ferdinand Hiller, composer, dies at 73 May 10, 1880 John Goss, composer/organist, dies at 79 May 10, 1869 Bernhard Molique, composer, dies at 66 May 10, 1869 Wilhelm Bernard Molique, composer, dies at 66 May 10, 1864 James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brig-general, dies in battle at 34 May 10, 1864 Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union brig-general, dies at about 27 May 10, 1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Conf general (Civil War), dies May 10, 1863 Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier May 10, 1860 Theodore Parker, American Theologian May 10, 1859 Johan BJFS, archduke of Austria (Firechief and Housewife), dies May 10, 1849 Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter, dies at 89 May 10, 1833 Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74 May 10, 1829 Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies May 10, 1826 Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer, dies at 86 May 10, 1820 Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49 May 10, 1818 Paul Revere, American patriot, dies May 10, 1798 George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40 May 10, 1794 Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30 May 10, 1789 Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer, dies at 72 May 10, 1785 Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36 May 10, 1784 Antoine Court de Gebelin, French vicar/writer, dies at 56 May 10, 1774 Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64 May 10, 1770 Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61 May 10, 1764 Picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies May 10, 1760 Johann Christoph Graupner, composer, dies at 77 May 10, 1710 Georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46 May 10, 1696 Jean de La Bruyere, French author, dies at 50 May 10, 1653 John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61 May 10, 1637 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37 May 10, 1569 Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer May 10, 1566 Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65 May 10, 995 Boudouin, bishop of Utrecht May 10, 238 Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered |