Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 10

Births

• 1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
• 1878 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1929)
• 1899 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987) (pictured)
• 1955 - Mark David Chapman, American assassin of John Lennon
• 1960 - Bono, Irish singer (U2)

Deaths

• 1818 - Paul Revere, American patriot (b. 1735)
• 1850 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
• 1863 - Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (b. 1824)
• 1977 - Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1999 - Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)