May 10, 1810 James Shields, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1879 May 10, 1800 Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer May 10, 1795 Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian May 10, 1788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist May 10, 1783 Niccola Benvenuti, composer May 10, 1780 Peter Lichtenthal, composer May 10, 1776 George Thomas Smart, composer May 10, 1770 Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal (defeated Prussians) May 10, 1769 Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello, Marshal of France May 10, 1760 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise) May 10, 1760 J P Hebel, writer May 10, 1754 Asmus Jakob Carstens, painter May 10, 1741 Johann Michael Schmidt, composer May 10, 1730 George Ross, U.S. judge (signed Declaration of Independence) May 10, 1727 Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76) May 10, 1724 Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank) May 10, 1705 Gallus Zeiler, composer May 10, 1697 Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer May 10, 1536 Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall