August 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 258 – Lawrence of Rome (Saint Lawrence), Spanish-born deacon of Rome (martyred) (b. 225)
• 1535 – Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (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 natural philosopher (b. 1724)
• 1806 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
• 1839 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
• 1862 – Honinbo Shusaku, 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 Loewenhardt, German flying ace (b. 1897)
• 1920 – Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-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, the first famous dog of that name (b. 1918)
• 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
• 1948 – Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (b. 1873)
• 1948 – Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
• 1948 – Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Frank Demaree, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• 1963 – Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903)
• 1963 – Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
• 1969 – Leno LaBianca, American businessman (b. 1925)
• 1969 – Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (b. 1930)
• 1976 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
• 1979 – Dick Foran, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Yahya Khan, Pakistani politician (b. 1917)
• 1982 – Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (b. 1962)
• 1986 – Alan Rouse, British mountaineer (b. 1951)
• 1993 – Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth), Norwegian guitarist (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
• 1987 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, the 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
• 1997 – Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec film director (b. 1953)
• 1999 – Paṇḍit Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
• 2000 – Gilbert Parkhouse, English 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 (b. c. 1944)
• 2007 – Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American military pilot and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
• 2007 – James E. Faust, American religious figure (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Chris Reyka, American law enforcement official (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, keyboardist and actor (b. 1942)
• 2010 – Adam Stansfield, Professional footballer who played for Exeter City F.C. (b. 1978)