| 53851 | May.10 | Death | 1657 – Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (b. 1592) |
| 53852 | May.10 | Death | 1691 – John Birch, English soldier and politician (b. 1615) |
| 53853 | May.10 | Death | 1692 – Sarah Osborne, American woman accused of witchcraft (b. 1643) |
| 53854 | May.10 | Death | 1717 – John Hathorne, American merchant and politician (b. 1641) |
| 53855 | May.10 | Death | 1721 – Christian William I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (b. 1647) |
| 53856 | May.10 | Death | 1726 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1670) |
| 53857 | May.10 | Death | 1733 – Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681) |
| 53858 | May.10 | Death | 1737 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (b. 1702) |
| 53859 | May.10 | Death | 1774 – Louis XV of France (b. 1710) |
| 53860 | May.10 | Death | 1775 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1757) |
| 53861 | May.10 | Death | 1775 – Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (b. 1751) |
| 53862 | May.10 | Death | 1787 – William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (b. 1715) |
| 53863 | May.10 | Death | 1798 – George Vancouver, English navigator and explorer (b. 1757) |
| 53864 | May.10 | Death | 1807 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725) |
| 53865 | May.10 | Death | 1818 – Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735) |
| 53866 | May.10 | Death | 1829 – Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773) |
| 53867 | May.10 | Death | 1849 – Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760) |
| 53868 | May.10 | Death | 1863 – Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824) |
| 53869 | May.10 | Death | 1868 – Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808) |
| 53870 | May.10 | Death | 1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826) |
| 53871 | May.10 | Death | 1897 – Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863) |
| 53872 | May.10 | Death | 1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861) |
| 53873 | May.10 | Death | 1910 – Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826) |
| 53874 | May.10 | Death | 1945 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889) |
| 53875 | May.10 | Death | 1945 – Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898) |
| 53876 | May.10 | Death | 1950 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (b. 1883) |
| 53877 | May.10 | Death | 1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer and promoter (b. 1881) |
| 53878 | May.10 | Death | 1960 – Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899) |
| 53879 | May.10 | Death | 1962 – Shunroku Hata, Japanese field marshal and politician, 48th Japanese Minister of War (b. 1879) |
| 53880 | May.10 | Death | 1964 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881) |