Famous Deaths on August 10

• 612 BC Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king

• 258 Saint Lawrence, Christian martyr, dies in Rome during persecutions by Emperor Valerian, burned to death
• 794 Fastrada, 3rd wife of French King Charles the Great, dies at 30
• 955 Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle
• 1250 Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
• 1535 Ippolito de’ Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
• 1589 Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49
• 1628 Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned
• 1637 Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader and author of “Loci Theologici”, dies at 54

• 1655 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50
• 1717 Nicolaas Witsen, Dutch statesman and mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76
• 1723 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 66
• 1730 Sebastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist, dies at 74
• 1759 Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain (1746-59), dies at 46
• 1784 Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter, dies at 70
• 1802 Franz Aepinus, German physician and physicist, dies at 77
• 1806 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer, dies at 68
• 1817 Francis Cabot Lowell, American mill owner (founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill), dies at 42
• 1821 Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
• 1839 John St Aubyn, British fossil collector, dies at 81
• 1841 Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37
• 1842 Captain William Hobson, first British Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi, dies of a stroke at 49
• 1843 Jakob F. Fries, German philosopher, dies at 69
• 1844 Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, youngest daughter and fourth child of Tsar Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, and his wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, dies at 19
• 1857 John Wilson Croker, politician
• 1859 George Staunton, English writer and traveller to China, dies at 68
• 1861 Nathaniel Lyon, American Brigadier-General (Union Army), 1st Union General to die in battle at 43
• 1862 Hon’inbō Shūsaku, Japanese professional Go player, dies at 33
• 1864 Thomas Potter Cooke, English actor, first person to portray Frankenstein on stage, dies at 77 [1]
• 1867 Ira Aldridge, famed African-American Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies at 63 [1]
• 1868 Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian military leader and revolutionary who fought against Ottoman rule, killed in battle at 28
• 1875 Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (founded journal Globus), dies at 66
• 1876 Edward William Lane, British lexicographer and translator (One Thousand & One Nights), dies at 74
• 1886 Eduard Grell, German composer, dies at 85
• 1896 Otto Lilenthal, German aviation pioneer, killed from injuries sustained during a glider test at 48
• 1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer (explored winged flight through gliders), dies falling to his death from his glider at 48
• 1897 James William Abert, American army officer and explorer who travelled the Canadian River, dies at 76

• 1901 Moxley Sorrel, American Confederate general, served on General Longstreet’s staff, dies at 63
• 1902 George Vernon, English cricket batsman (1 Test; Middlesex CCC, MCC), dies from malaria at 46
• 1904 Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician (29th Prime Minister of France), dies at 57
• 1910 Joe Gans, American boxer (world lightweight champion 1902–08; International Boxing HOF), dies of tuberculosis at 35
• 1911 Carl Lumbye, Danish composer, dies at 70
• 1911 James “Soup” Perkins, American jockey (Kentucky Derby 1985; winningest jockey in America 1895), dies from a heart attack at 32
• 1915 Henry Moseley, English physicist (relationship between atomic number and charge of the atomic nucleus), shot and killed at Gallipoli during WWI, at 27
• 1918 Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
• 1920 Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician, dies at 84
• 1921 John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies
• 1928 Rex Cherryman, American actor (Camille, The Sunshine Trail, In for Thirty Days), dies from septic poisoning at 31
• 1929 Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and women’s suffrage activist, dies at 75
• 1929 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician known for the Fatou lemma and the Fatou set, dies at 51
• 1932 Rin Tin Tin, American Hollywood shepherd dog (Clash of the Wolves), dies at 13
• 1934 John Kane, Scottish-American primitivist painter (Self-Portrait), dies at 73
• 1938 Joseph Moorat, British composer (Prunella), dies at 73
• 1943 C. Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
• 1943 J. Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
• 1943 J. Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
• 1944 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat, attempted to assassinate Hitler, executed by Nazi regime at 39

• 1948 Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
• 1948 Emmy Hennings-Ball [Emma Cordsen], German poet and performer dies at 63
• 1948 Kan’ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian, writer, and peace activist, dies at 74
• 1948 Lucille Bogan, American blues singer and songwriter (“Sweet Petunia”; “Black Angel Blues”), dies from coronary sclerosis at 51
• 1948 Montague Summers, English clergyman and writer (Malleus Maleficarum), dies at 68
• 1958 Frank Demaree, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1936, 37; Chicago Cubs, NY Giants), dies of internal haemorrhage at 48
• 1960 Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies at 94

• 1960 Oswald Veblin, mathematician
• 1962 Ted Husing, American sportscaster (Monday Night Fights CBS), dies at 60
• 1963 Ernst Wetter, Member of the Swiss Federal Council, dies at 85
• 1963 Estes Kefauver, American politician (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60
• 1963 Patrick Kennedy, son of US President John F, Kennedy, dies at only 3 days
• 1965 Ray Robinson, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test; NSW, South Australia, Otago), dies at 51
• 1966 (Jacobus) “J.C.” Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels – Embers), dies at 79
• 1966 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (black force), dies at 79
• 1967 John Francis Larchet, Irish arranger (Irish national anthem), composer (By the Waters of Moyle), and musical director (Abbey Theatre – Dublin, 1908-35), dies at 83
• 1969 Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
• 1969 Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
• 1970 Alexander Gode, German-American linguist, dies at 63
• 1970 Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer (The Soldiers Requiem), commits suicide at 52
• 1973 Douglas Kennedy, American actor (Dark Passage, The Lone Ranger & the Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer at 57
• 1974 Ivor Dean, British stage and screen actor (Treasure Island; The Saint – “Inspector Teal”), dies at 56
• 1974 Pedro Regas, Greek stage actor (Only Angels Have Wings, Pat Paulsen’s Half a Comedy Hour), dies at 77
• 1976 Bert Oldfield, Australian cricket wicketkeeper (54 Tests, 130 dismissals, 4 x 50; NSW CA), dies at 81
• 1976 Jerry Gray [Generoso Graziano], American violinist, arranger (Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller). and composer(“Pennsylvania 6-5000″,”A String of Pearls”), dies at 61
• 1976 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German expressionist painter and print maker (Die Brücke founder), dies at 91
• 1976 Ray “Crash” Corrigan, American actor (Crash Corrigan’s Ranch), dies at 74
• 1977 Vince Barnett, American actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75
• 1979 John Nicholas “Dick” Foran, American actor (OK Crackerby, Fort Apache, Winners of the West), dies at 69
• 1979 Walther Gerlach, German physicist who, with Otto Stern, co-discovered spin quantization in a magnetic field (Stern–Gerlach effect), dies at 90
• 1986 Don McRae, New Zealand cricket medium pace bowler (1 Test; Canterbury CA) and soccer goalkeeper (1 cap; Nomads United FC), dies at 71
• 1987 Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies
• 1987 I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87
• 1987 Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat), dies
• 1987 Uys Krige, South African playwright and novelist (Orphan of the Desert), dies at 77
• 1988 Adela Rogers St John “The World’s Greatest Girl Reporter”, American journalist, screenwriter and author (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
• 1988 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68), dies at 86
• 1990 Cookie Lavagetto, American baseball third baseman (MLB All Star 1938-41; Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers) and manager (Washington Senators 1957-61), dies at 77
• 1990 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies
• 1991 (Henry) “Buster” Smith, American jazz alto saxophonist, arranger, and bandleader (Blue Devils; Count Basie), dies of a heart attack at 86
• 1991 Josef Lipski, Polish Senator, anti-Communist dissident, and human rights advocate, dies of heart disease at 65
• 1992 Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician (served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, known as Dr. Death), dies at 78
• 1993 Euronymous [Øystein Aarseth], Norwegian black-metal guitarist and producer (Mayhem), stabbed to death by a musical rival at 25
• 1993 Ken England, American screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82
• 1994 Bill Baker, American doo-wop singer The Five Satins – “In The Still Of The Night”), dies at 58
• 1995 Donald Bisset, British children book writer, illustrator (Upside Down Stories) and actor (Battle of the Sexes), dies of natural causes at 84
• 1995 Fay Honey Knopp, American activist (founded a Quaker ministry for men and women in prisons), dies of complications from ovarian cancer at 76
• 1995 Peter Lancelot Williams, English dance journalist, dies at 81
• 1996 Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78
• 1996 Rex Tucker, British TV writer and director of early “Doctor Who”, dies at 83
• 1997 Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (Soundings 4), dies at 84
• 1997 Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43
• 1999 Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899)
• 2000 Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricket batsman (7 Tests England, 2 x 50; Glamorgan CCC, MCC), dies at 74
• 2001 Lou Boudreau, American Baseball HOF shortstop (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series & AL MVP 1948; AL batting champion 1944; Cleveland Indians) and manager (Cleveland, Boston RS, KC A’s, Chicago Cubs), dies at 84
• 2001 Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde, Indian abstract painter, part of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, dies at 77 [1]
• 2002 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist, dies at 75

• 2003 Bill Perkins, American cool jazz tenor saxophonist (Woody Herman; Stan Kenton; Bud Shank; The Tonight Show Band, 1970-82), and recording engineer, dies of cancer at 79
• 2003 Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer (Tierra Rica”; “La Vida En Rosa”), dies of cancer at 64
• 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, record label owner and radio broadcaster, dies of a heart attack at 57

• 2010 Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (World C’ship gold 400m 1991), dies by overdose medication containing diphenhydramine at 42
• 2010 David L Wolper, American television and film producer (Roots; The Thorn Birds; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; Welcome Back, Kotter), dies at 82
• 2012 Al Freeman Jr, American stage and screen actor (One Life to Live, 1972-87 – “Capt. Ed Hall”; My Sweet Charlie; The Detective), and director, dies at 78
• 2012 Carlo Rambaldi, Italian Special effects artist, dies at 86
• 2013 Eydie Gormé [Edithe Gormezano], American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop singer (“Blame It On The Bossa Nova”; Steve and Eydie), dies at 84
• 2014 Graham Gedye, New Zealand cricket batsman (4 Tests, 2 x 50; Auckland), dies at 85
• 2015 Buddy Baker, American auto racer (Daytona 500 1980; 19 x NASCAR Cup Series wins), dies at 74
• 2016 John Saunders, Canadian-American sports journalist for ESPN and ABC (1986-2016), dies from heart and diabetes complications at 61
• 2017 Kim Wall, Swedish journalist killed investigating Danish inventor Peter Madsen, dies at 30 [or 11th Aug]
• 2017 Xavier Benguerel, Catalan composer (Llibre Vermell; Jo, Dalí), dies at 86
• 2019 Jeffrey Epstein, infamous American financier and criminal (sex offender and trafficker), dies in prison by suicide at 66
• 2020 Lorna Beal (née Larter), Australian cricket wicket-keeper (7 Tests; 16 dismissals), dies at 96
• 2020 Vladimir Popović, Serbian soccer midfielder (20 caps, Yugoslavia; Red Star Belgrade) and manager (Intercontinental Cup, Red Star Belgrade 1991), dies at 85
• 2021 Tony Esposito, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (6 x NHL All Star; Vezina Trophy 1970, 72, 74; Chicago Blackhawks), dies from pancreatic cancer at 78
• 2022 Abdul Wadud [Ronald DeVaughn], American jazz, avant-garde, and classical cellist (Camille; By Myself), dies at 75
• 2022 Fernando Chalana, Portuguese soccer winger (27 caps; Benfica, Bordeaux), dies from degenerative disease at 63
• 2022 Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish actor (Jake in “Pojat”) and musician (Eino Leino), dies at 77 [1]
• 2024 Galina Zybina, Russian athlete (Olympic gold USSR women’s discus 1952; 15 x WRs 1952-58), dies at 93
• 2024 Natwar Singh, Indian politician and diplomat, dies at 93

August 10 Highlights