Famous Deaths on 10 Aug

Famous Deaths on 10 Aug

1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
1653 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
1759 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)
1806 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
1915 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
1918 - Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
1928 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
1929 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1932 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
1948 - Andrew Brown, Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870)
1948 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(b. 1873)
1958 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
1963 - Estes Kefauver, American politician, United States Congressman & Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)
1963 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
1976 - Bert Oldfield, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
1979 - Dick Foran, American actor (b. 1910)
1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
1997 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec film director (b. 1953)
1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899)
2000 - Gilbert Parkhouse, Former England cricketer (b. 1925)
2001 - Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
2007 - Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
2007 - James E. Faust, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b. 1920)
2007 - Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
2008 - Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king