Famous people born on 10 May

• Fred AstaireAmerican dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer · 1899–1987
  88 yrs
• Heydar Aliyev3rd President of the Republic of Azerbaijan · 1923–2003
  80 yrs
• Gustav StresemannGerman politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate · 1878–1929
  51 yrs
• Mary II of EnglandQueen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694 · 1662–1695
  32 yrs
• Karl BarthSwiss Protestant theologian · 1886–1968
  82 yrs
• Sid ViciousEnglish bassist · 1957–1979
  21 yrs
• Augustin-Jean FresnelFrench engineer and physicist · 1788–1827
  39 yrs
• Benito Pérez GaldósSpanish realist novelist · 1843–1920
  76 yrs
• Rouget de LisleFrench army officer · 1760–1836
  76 yrs
• Alfred JodlGerman general and convicted war criminal · 1890–1946
  56 yrs
• George E. Smith ↗Nobel prize winning American physicist · 1930–2025
  95 yrs
• John Wilkes Booth ↗American stage actor and assassin · 1838–1865
  26 yrs
• Anne Robert Jacques Turgot ↗French economist and statesman · 1727–1781
  53 yrs
• Arnold Rüütel ↗Estonian politician, former President of Estonia · 1928–2024
  96 yrs
• Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin ↗British-born American astronomer · 1900–1979
  79 yrs
• Kim Jong-nam ↗Oldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il · 1971–2017
  45 yrs
• Yongle Emperor ↗Emperor of Ming dynasty China from 1402 to 1424 · 1360–1424
  64 yrs
• Ivan Cankar ↗Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist · 1876–1918
  42 yrs
• Marcel Mauss ↗French sociologist and anthropologist · 1872–1950
  77 yrs
• David O. Selznick ↗American film producer · 1902–1965
  63 yrs
• Olaf Stapledon ↗British novelist and philosopher · 1886–1950
  64 yrs
• Louis-Nicolas Davout ↗Marshal of France · 1770–1823
  53 yrs
• Richard Adams ↗English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down · 1920–2016
  96 yrs
• Yukteswar Giri ↗Indian yogi, occultist and guru · 1855–1936
  80 yrs
• John Desmond Bernal ↗Irish scientist · 1901–1971
  70 yrs
• Eric Berne ↗Canadian psychiatrist · 1910–1970
  60 yrs
• Einar Gerhardsen ↗22nd Prime Minister of Norway (1897– · 1897–1987
  90 yrs
• Louis Pierre Vieillot ↗French ornithologist · 1748–1830
  82 yrs
• Max Steiner ↗Austrian-born American music composer and conductor · 1888–1971
  83 yrs
• Ettore Scola ↗Italian screenwriter and film director · 1931–2016
  84 yrs
• Daniel Bell ↗American sociologist · 1919–2011
  91 yrs
• Hugo Banzer ↗President of Bolivia from 1971 to 1978 and 1997 to 2001 · 1926–2002
  75 yrs
• Vladislav Listyev ↗Russian journalist · 1956–1995
  38 yrs
• Anvar Chingizoghlu ↗Azerbaijani historian, journalist and writer · 1962–2022
  60 yrs
• Hans Jonas ↗German philosopher · 1903–1993
  89 yrs
• Johann Peter Hebel ↗German short story writer and dialectal poet · 1760–1826
  66 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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