August 10 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king


• 258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr


• 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 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(b. 1873)


• 1948 - Andrew Brown, Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870)


• 1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)


• 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 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)


• 1979 - Dick Foran, American actor (b. 1910)


• 1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)


• 1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)


• 1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)


• 1997 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec film director (b. 1953)


• 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 - Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)


• 2007 - James E. Faust, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b. 1920)


• 2007 - Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)


• 2008 - Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor (b. 1942)