births
May 10, 1760
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French captain, engineer, and composer (died 1836)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin, which would later be known as La Marseillaise and become the French national anthem.
May 10
May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 235 days remain until the end of the year.