Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 10
- 1482 - Death of Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
- 1746 - Birth of Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818)
- 1787 - Death of William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- 1788 - Birth of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)
- 1829 - Death of Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
- 1830 - Birth of François-Marie Raoult, French chemist (d. 1901)
- 1850 - Death of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
- 1910 - Death of Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)
- 2003 - Death of Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)