Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 10
- 1521 - Death of humanist and satirist Sebastian Brant, author of the Ship of Fools
- 1566 - Death of botanist Leonhart Fuchs
- 1760 - Birth of poet Johann Peter Hebel
- 1878 - Birth of politician Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany 1923 and recipient of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1933 - Nazis and like-minded professors and students start the book burning on the Opernplatz in Berlin