| 53671 | May.10 | Birth | 1840 – Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian warlord (d. 1868) |
| 53672 | May.10 | Birth | 1841 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American publisher and broadcaster, co-founded Commercial Cable Company (d. 1918) |
| 53673 | May.10 | Birth | 1843 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1920) |
| 53674 | May.10 | Birth | 1847 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (d. 1923) |
| 53675 | May.10 | Birth | 1855 – Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator (d. 1936) |
| 53676 | May.10 | Birth | 1863 – Kaarle Krohn, Finnish historian and academic (d. 1933) |
| 53677 | May.10 | Birth | 1866 – Léon Bakst, Russian painter and costume designer (d. 1924) |
| 53678 | May.10 | Birth | 1872 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1950) |
| 53679 | May.10 | Birth | 1874 – Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and orientalist (d. 1941) |
| 53680 | May.10 | Birth | 1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright (d. 1918) |
| 53681 | May.10 | Birth | 1878 – Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (d. 1967) |
| 53682 | May.10 | Birth | 1878 – Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929) |
| 53683 | May.10 | Birth | 1879 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (d. 1926) |
| 53684 | May.10 | Birth | 1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1968) |
| 53685 | May.10 | Birth | 1886 – Felix Manalo, Filipino religious leader, founded Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963) |
| 53686 | May.10 | Birth | 1886 – Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (d. 1950) |
| 53687 | May.10 | Birth | 1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1971) |
| 53688 | May.10 | Birth | 1889 – Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1965) |
| 53689 | May.10 | Birth | 1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946) |
| 53690 | May.10 | Birth | 1891 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and academic (d. 1934) |
| 53691 | May.10 | Birth | 1894 – Elvira Popescu, Romanian-French actress and director (d. 1993) |
| 53692 | May.10 | Birth | 1894 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (d. 1979) |
| 53693 | May.10 | Birth | 1895 – Kama Chinen, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2010) |
| 53694 | May.10 | Birth | 1896 – Alberts Ozoliņš, Latvian weightlifter (d. 1985) |
| 53695 | May.10 | Birth | 1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987) |
| 53696 | May.10 | Birth | 1898 – Ariel Durant, American historian and author (d. 1981) |
| 53697 | May.10 | Birth | 1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987) |
| 53698 | May.10 | Birth | 1900 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979) |
| 53699 | May.10 | Birth | 1901 – John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist (d. 1971) |
| 53700 | May.10 | Birth | 1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1974) |