Died on Sunday, 10th August – Famous Deaths

10/08/2025

Anas Al-Sharif, Palestinian journalist and videographer (born 1996)

Anas Jamal Mahmoud Al-Sharif was a Palestinian journalist and videographer for Al Jazeera Arabic, known for his frontline reporting from northern Gaza during the Gaza war. In 2024, Al-Sharif's Reuters team was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for their "raw and urgent" photos documenting the Gaza war.

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10/08/2024

Rachael Lillis, American voice actress and scriptwriter (born 1978)

Rachael Lillis was an American voice actress. She was best known for her performances as Misty, Jessie, and Jigglypuff in the first eight seasons of the English dub of the TV series Pokémon. She also provided voices for many other animation works and video games.

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Peggy Moffitt, American model and actress (born 1937)

Margaret Moffitt was an American model and actress. During the 1960s, she worked very closely with fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, and developed a signature style that featured heavy makeup and an asymmetrical haircut. As an actress, she had a number of bit parts in various films, including as a fashion model in Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup.

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10/08/2022

Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish actor, musician and comedian (born 1945)

Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004.

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10/08/2021

Tony Esposito, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1943)

Anthony James "Tony O" Esposito was a Canadian-American professional ice hockey goaltender, who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), 15 of those for the Chicago Blackhawks. He was one of the pioneers of the now popular butterfly style. Tony was the younger brother of Phil Esposito, a centre. Both brothers had notable careers and are enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Esposito's jersey number 35 was retired by the Blackhawks in 1988.

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10/08/2019

Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and child sex trafficker (born 1953)

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting his trial; his death was ruled a suicide.

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10/08/2017

Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani doctor and nun (born 1929)

Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, FCM was a German–Pakistani Catholic Christian religious sister and physician who was a member of the "Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary". She emigrated from Germany in 1961 and devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. Pfau was honoured with Hilal-e-Pakistan, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam, and the Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam awards.

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10/08/2015

Buddy Baker, American race car driver and sportscaster (born 1941)

Elzie Wylie "Buddy" Baker Jr. was an American professional stock car racing driver and commentator. Over the course of his 33-year racing career, he won 19 races in the NASCAR Cup Series, including the 1980 Daytona 500. Known by the nickname "Gentle Giant", Baker was noted for his prowess at NASCAR's superspeedways, Daytona and Talladega, at which he won a combined six races. After his racing career, he worked as a broadcaster and co-hosted a number of radio shows on Sirius XM.

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Endre Czeizel, Hungarian physician, geneticist, and academic (born 1935)

Endre Czeizel was a Hungarian physician, geneticist, public health administrator, and professor. He was a physician who graduated from Semmelweis University. He was known for discovering that vitamin B9 or folic acid prevents or reduces the formation of more serious developmental disorders, such as neural tube defects like spina bifida. He issued some of his English-language publications under the name Andrew E. Czeizel. He was the Hungarian Director of United Nations World Health Organization (1984-?). From 1996 thru 1998 he was the Director-General of the Hungarian National Institutes of Health. He died from leukemia following a successful bone marrow transplant after approximately one year.

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Knut Osnes, Norwegian footballer and coach (born 1922)

Knut "Bossen" Osnes was a Norwegian footballer and coach, who most notably played for Lyn and Norway, and coaching Lyn to the 1968 league title and a good run in the Cup Winners Cup the same year.

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Eriek Verpale, Belgian author and poet (born 1952)

Eric Verpaele, pseudonym: Eriek Verpale) was a Belgian writer. He attended a boarding school in Oostakker and studied Germanic and Slavic philology at the University of Ghent. He was an editor of the magazine Koebel, several literary magazines and the Belgisch-Israëlitisch Weekblad.

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10/08/2014

Jim Command, American baseball player and scout (born 1928)

James Dalton Command was an American professional baseball player and scout. He had two separate trials with the 1954–55 Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB), starting four games as a third baseman in July 1954, while also serving as a pinch hitter and pinch runner, playing in a total of 14 big league games. However, Command was a versatile performer during a 14-season minor league career – playing all the infield positions, the outfield, and, late in his career, converting to catcher.

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Dotty Lynch, American journalist and academic (born 1945)

Dotty Lynch was an academic, journalist and political pollster, best known for being the first woman to be chief polltaker for a presidential campaign when she worked for Gary Hart. She also served as political advisor to George McGovern and Jimmy Carter.

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Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (born 1912)

Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.

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Bob Wiesler, American baseball player (born 1930)

Robert George Wiesler was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Washington Senators in parts of five seasons spanning 1951–1958. Listed at 6' 3", 188 lb., he was a switch-hitter and threw left-handed.

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10/08/2013

William P. Clark Jr., American judge and politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor (born 1931)

William Patrick Clark Jr. was an American rancher, judge, and public servant who served under President Ronald Reagan as the deputy secretary of state from 1981 to 1982, United States national security advisor from 1982 to 1983, and the secretary of the interior from 1983 to 1985.

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Jonathan Dawson, Australian historian and academic (born 1941)

Jonathan Dawson was an Australian academic, filmmaker, film and literary critic and broadcaster.

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Eydie Gormé, American singer and actress (born 1928)

Eydie Gormé was an American singer who achieved notable success in pop, Latin, and jazz genres. She sang solo and in the duo Steve and Eydie with her husband, Steve Lawrence, on albums and television. She also performed on Broadway and in Las Vegas and was an occasional actress.

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David C. Jones, American general (born 1921)

David Charles Jones was a United States Air Force general and the ninth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this capacity, Jones served as the highest-ranking uniformed officer of the United States Armed Forces. He previously served as the ninth Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and fifteenth commander of the United States Air Forces in Europe.

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Jody Payne, American singer and guitarist (born 1936)

Jody Payne was an American country musician and singer. He is best known as a longtime guitarist in Willie Nelson's band, The Family.

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Amy Wallace, American author (born 1955)

Amy Wallace was an American writer. She was the daughter of writers Irving Wallace and Sylvia Wallace and the sister of writer and populist historian David Wallechinsky. She was co-author of the bestselling book The Book of Lists (1977).

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10/08/2012

Philippe Bugalski, French race car driver (born 1963)

Philippe Bernard Bugalski was a French rally driver.

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Ioan Dicezare, Romanian general and pilot (born 1916)

Ioan Dicezare was a leading Romanian fighter pilot and flying ace in World War II. He was born and died in Bucharest.

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Irving Fein, American producer and manager (born 1911)

Irving Fein was an American television and film producer, and the manager of entertainers Jack Benny and George Burns.

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William W. Momyer, American general and pilot (born 1916)

William Wallace Momyer was a general officer and fighter pilot in the United States Air Force (USAF). Among his notable posts were those commanding Air Training Command, the Seventh Air Force during the Vietnam War, and Tactical Air Command (TAC). During his tour in Southeast Asia, he was concurrently the deputy commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) for air operations and thus responsible for Operation Rolling Thunder, the air campaign against North Vietnam, which Momyer executed in the face of micromanagement from President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara.

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Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (born 1925)

Carlo Rambaldi was an Italian special effects and makeup effects artist. He was the winner of three Academy Awards: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). He is most famous for his work in those two last mentioned films, that is for the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien and the design of the title character of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. In 2017, he was inducted into the Visual Effects Society Hall of Fame.

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10/08/2011

Billy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1925)

Billy Wayne Grammer was an American country music singer and accomplished guitar player. He recorded the million-selling "Gotta Travel On", which made it onto both the country and pop music charts in 1959. Grammer would become a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry, eventually designing, and marketing his namesake guitar after co-founding a guitar company, in Nashville, Tennessee.

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10/08/2010

Markus Liebherr, German-Swiss businessman (born 1948)

Markus Liebherr was a German-born Swiss businessman and a member of one of Europe's top family business dynasties. He was a Swiss entrepreneur and owner of MALI International AG, which he founded in 1994.

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Adam Stansfield, English footballer (born 1978)

Adam Stansfield was an English professional footballer who played as a striker. He competed professionally for Yeovil Town, Hereford United and Exeter City, and won promotion from the Football Conference to The Football League with all three teams.

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David L. Wolper, American director and producer (born 1928)

David Lloyd Wolper was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, and North and South, and the theatrically-released films Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and L.A. Confidential (1997). He was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985 for his work producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, as well as helping to bring the games there. His 1971 film about the study of insects, The Hellstrom Chronicle, won an Academy Award.

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10/08/2008

Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (born 1942)

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records in the 1960s, serving as an in-house songwriter with his partner David Porter, as well as a session musician and record producer. Hayes and Porter were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of writing scores of songs for themselves, the duo Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, and others. In 2002, Hayes was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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10/08/2007

Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1925)

Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler was an American military serviceman and electrician. He was trained with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.

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James E. Faust, American lawyer and religious leader (born 1920)

James Esdras Faust was an American religious leader, lawyer, and politician. Faust was Second Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1995 until his death, an LDS Church apostle for 29 years, and a general authority of the church for 35 years.

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Jean Rédélé, French race car driver and pilot, founded Alpine (born 1922)

Jean Rédélé, was an automotive pioneer, pilot and founder of the French automotive brand Alpine.

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Tony Wilson, English journalist, producer, and manager, co-founded Factory Records (born 1950)

Anthony Howard Wilson was a British record label owner, radio and television presenter, nightclub manager and impresario, and a journalist for Granada Television, the BBC and Channel 4.

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10/08/2002

Michael Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1962)

Michael Houser was an American guitarist known as a founding member and lead guitarist of the band Widespread Panic. He appeared on seven studio albums during his 16-year tenure with the band from 1986 till 2002. He is also featured on 4 live albums by Widespread Panic as well as several archive releases, live video concerts and compilations. Two solo albums by Houser were released posthumously.

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Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (born 1926)

Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl in the 1960s. Nygaard and Dahl received the 2001 A. M. Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.

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10/08/2001

Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (born 1917)

Louis Boudreau, nicknamed "Old Shufflefoot", "Handsome Lou", and "the Good Kid", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 15 seasons, primarily as a shortstop on the Cleveland Indians, and managed four teams for 15 seasons including 10 seasons as a player-manager. He was also a radio announcer for the Chicago Cubs and in college was a dual-sport athlete in baseball and basketball, earning All-American honors in basketball for the University of Illinois.

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10/08/2000

Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (born 1925)

William Gilbert Anthony Parkhouse was a Welsh cricketer who played in seven Tests for England in 1950, 1950–51 and 1959.

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10/08/1999

Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television presenter (born 1928)

Jennifer Mary Paterson was a British celebrity cook, author, actress and television personality who appeared on the television programme Two Fat Ladies (1996–1999) with Clarissa Dickson Wright. Prior to this, she wrote cookery columns for The Spectator and for The Oldie.

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Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian historian, scholar, and critic (born 1899)

Baldev Upadhyaya was a Hindi and Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic. He wrote numerous books, collections of essays and a historical outline of Sanskrit literature. He is noted for discussing Sanskrit literature in the Hindi language. Earlier books related to Sanskrit literature were often written either in Sanskrit or in English.

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10/08/1997

Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director and screenwriter (born 1953)

Jean-Claude Lauzon was a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. Born to a working class family in Montreal, Quebec, Lauzon dropped out of high school and worked various jobs before studying film at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His two feature-length films, Night Zoo (1987) and Léolo (1992), established him as one of the most important Canadian directors of his generation. American film critic Roger Ebert wrote that "Lauzon is so motivated by his resentments and desires that everything he creates is pressed into the cause and filled with passion."

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Conlon Nancarrow, American-Mexican pianist and composer (born 1912)

Samuel Conlon Nancarrow was a US-born Mexican composer. Nancarrow is best remembered for his Studies for Player Piano, being one of the first composers to use auto-playing musical instruments, realizing their potential to play far beyond human performance ability. He lived most of his life in relative isolation and did not become widely known until the 1980s.

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10/08/1993

Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer (born 1968)

Øystein Aarseth, better known by his stage name Euronymous, was a Norwegian musician and a founder of and central figure in the early Norwegian black metal scene. He was a co-founder and guitarist of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and was the only constant member from the band's formation in 1984 until his murder in 1993. He was also founder and owner of the extreme metal record label Deathlike Silence Productions and record shop Helvete.

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10/08/1991

Lưu Trọng Lư, Vietnamese poet and playwright (born 1912)

Lưu Trọng Lư (1911–1991) was a Vietnamese poet, play writer, and novelist. He was born in 1911 at Cao Lao Hạ village, Bố Trạch District, Quảng Bình Province, North Central Coast, Vietnam. He attended Quốc học Huế school, then moved to Hanoi to work as a writer and journalist. He wrote many famous poems such as "The Voices of Autumn". He was one of the founders of the New Poetry Movement in Vietnam.

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10/08/1987

Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1893)

Georgios Athanasiadis–Novas was a Greek poet, lawyer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1965.

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10/08/1985

Nate Barragar, American football player and sergeant (born 1906)

Nathan Robert Barragar was an American collegiate and professional football player.

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10/08/1982

Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian author and poet (born 1962)

Anderson Bigode Herzer was a writer and poet. He died by suicide at the age of 20. The film Vera by Sérgio Toledo is based on Herzer's life.

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10/08/1980

Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (born 1917)

Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was a Pakistani general who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, under martial law. His presidency oversaw a civil war and genocide in East Pakistan, resulting in the province's secession as Bangladesh. He also served as the fifth commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from 1966 to 1971.

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10/08/1979

Dick Foran, American actor and singer (born 1910)

John Nicholas "Dick" Foran was an American actor and singer, known for his performances in Western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures. He appeared in dozens of movies of every type during his lengthy career, often with top stars leading the cast.

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Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (born 1889)

Walther Gerlach was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern–Gerlach effect. The experiment was conceived by Otto Stern in 1921 and successfully conducted first by Gerlach in early 1922. He was Nazi Germany's plenipotentiary of nuclear physics from December 1943 until his capture by US Army in May 1945.

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10/08/1976

Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (born 1894)

William Albert Stanley Oldfield was an Australian cricketer and businessman. He played for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. Oldfield's 52 stumpings during his Test career remains a record several decades after his final Test.

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10/08/1969

János Kodolányi, Hungarian author (born 1899)

János Kodolányi Hungarian writer of short stories, dramas, novels and sociographies. The Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences was named after him.

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10/08/1963

Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician (born 1903)

Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 until his death in 1963. He was the winner of most of the 1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries, though he was not nominated at the convention.

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Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and jurist (born 1877)

Ernst Wetter was a Swiss politician.

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10/08/1961

Julia Peterkin, American author (born 1880)

Julia Peterkin was an American author from South Carolina, who advocated for African Americans and wrote about the portrayals of the southern life. In 1929 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Low country. As a white author, she developed a unique perspective on the African American lifestyle during her time. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience. She collaborated with photographer Doris Ulmann on Roll, Jordan, Roll.

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10/08/1960

Hamide Ayşe Sultan, Ottoman princess (born 1887)

Hamide Ayşe Sultan was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Müşfika Kadın.

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10/08/1958

Frank Demaree, American baseball player and manager (born 1910)

Joseph Franklin Demaree was an American baseball outfielder. He played all or part of twelve seasons in the majors for the Chicago Cubs, New York Giants (1939–41), Boston Braves (1941–42), St. Louis Cardinals (1943) and St. Louis Browns (1944).

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10/08/1954

Robert Adair, American-born British actor (born 1900)

Robert Adair was an American-born British actor. He was born in San Francisco. He was also known as Robert A'Dair, the name by which he was billed in Journey's End (1930).

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10/08/1949

Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist (born 1892)

Homer Burton Adkins was an American chemist who studied the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adkins was regarded as top in his field and a world authority on the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adkins is known for his wartime work, where he experimented with chemical agents and poisonous gasses. Renowned for his work, Adkins eventually suffered a series of heart attacks and died in 1949.

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10/08/1948

Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese-American historian, author, and academic (born 1873)

Kan'ichi Asakawa was a Japanese academic, author, historian, curator and peace advocate. Asakawa was Japanese by birth and citizenship though he lived the majority of his life in the United States.

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Andrew Brown, Scottish footballer and coach (born 1870)

Andrew M. Brown was a Scottish-American soccer player, executive and coach who had a short tenure as coach of the United States men's national soccer team.

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Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (born 1880)

Augustus Montague Summers was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. As an independent scholar, he published many works on the English drama of the Stuart Restoration (1660–1688) and helped to organise and to promote the performance of plays from that period. He also wrote extensively on the occult and has been characterized as "arguably the most seminal twentieth-century purveyor of pop culture occultism."

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10/08/1945

Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and engineer (born 1882)

Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. By 1915 his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the solid-fueled rocket, signaling the era of the modern rocket and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph).

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10/08/1933

Alf Morgans, Welsh-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Western Australia (born 1850)

Alfred Edward Morgans was the fourth Premier of Western Australia, serving for just over a month, from 21 November to 23 December 1901.

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10/08/1932

Rin Tin Tin, American acting dog (born 1918)

Rin Tin Tin or Rin-Tin-Tin was a male German Shepherd born in Flirey, France, that became an international star in motion pictures. He was rescued from a World War I battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan, who nicknamed him "Rinty". Duncan trained Rin Tin Tin and obtained silent film work for the dog. Rin Tin Tin was an immediate box-office success and went on to appear in 27 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame. Along with the earlier canine film star Strongheart, Rin Tin Tin was responsible for greatly increasing the popularity of German Shepherd dogs as family pets. The immense profitability of his films contributed to the success of Warner Bros. studios and helped advance the career of Darryl F. Zanuck from screenwriter to producer and studio executive.

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10/08/1929

Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1878)

Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou was a French mathematician and astronomer. He is known for major contributions to several branches of analysis. The Fatou lemma and the Fatou set are named after him.

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Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician (born 1854)

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote.

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10/08/1922

Reginald Dunne, Irish Republican, executed for the killing of Sir Henry Wilson

Reginald William Dunne was Battalion Commandant of the London Battalion, IRA and one of two men hanged for the murder of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.

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Joseph O'Sullivan, Irish Republican, executed for the killing of Sir Henry Wilson

Joseph O'Sullivan, along with fellow Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer Reginald Dunne, shot dead Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson outside Wilson's home at 36 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London on 22 June 1922. Many Irish Republicans believed that this killing precipitated the start of the Irish Civil War. Convicted by a jury, he was sentenced to death by Mr Justice Shearman. Irish leader Éamon de Valera made a statement on the possible reason for the killing of Wilson: "I do not know who they were that shot Sir Henry Wilson, or why they shot him...I know that life has been made a hell for the Nationalist minority in Belfast and its neighborhood for the past couple of years"..

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10/08/1920

Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician and academic (born 1835)

Ádám Politzer was a Hungarian and Austrian physician and one of the pioneers and founders of otology.

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10/08/1918

Erich Löwenhardt, German lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)

Oberleutnant Erich Loewenhardt was a German soldier and military aviator who fought in the First World War and became a fighter ace credited with 54 confirmed aerial victories. Originally enlisting in an infantry regiment even though he was only 17, he fought in the Battle of Tannenberg, winning a battlefield commission on 2 October 1914. He would serve in the Carpathians and on the Italian Front before being medically discharged in mid-1915. Following a five month recuperation, Loewenhardt joined the Imperial German Air Service in 1916. After serving as an aerial observer and reconnaissance pilot, he underwent advanced training to become a fighter pilot with Jagdstaffel 10 in March 1917. Between 24 March 1917 and 10 August 1918, Loewenhardt shot down 45 enemy airplanes, as well as destroying nine observation balloons. Shortly after his final victory, he was killed in a collision with another German pilot.

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10/08/1916

John J. Loud, American inventor (born 1844)

John Jacob Loud was an American inventor known for designing the first ballpoint pen.

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10/08/1915

Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (born 1887)

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number. This stemmed from his development of Moseley's law in X-ray spectra.

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10/08/1913

Johannes Linnankoski, Finnish author (born 1869)

Johannes Linnankoski was a Finnish author and playwright, who mainly influenced writing in the Golden Age of Finnish Art. His most famous work is the romance novel, The Song of the Blood-Red Flower (1905). His primary themes were guilt, punishment, and redemption as moral questions.

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10/08/1904

Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France (born 1846)

Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was a French Republican politician who served as the Prime Minister of France from 1899 to 1902. He served as Minister of the Interior at the same time, having previously occupied the latter office in 1881-1882 and 1883-1885.

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10/08/1896

Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (born 1848)

Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, therefore making the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality. Newspapers and magazines published photographs of Lilienthal gliding, favourably influencing public and scientific opinion about the possibility of flying machines becoming practical.

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10/08/1890

John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (born 1844)

John Boyle O'Reilly was an Irish poet, journalist, author and activist. As a youth in Ireland, he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenians, for which he was transported to Western Australia.

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10/08/1889

Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (born 1831)

Jakob Ernst Arthur Böttcher was a Baltic German pathologist and anatomist who was a native of Bauska, in what was then the Courland Governorate. He worked primarily within the Russian Empire.

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10/08/1875

Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (born 1808)

Karl Andree was a German geographer, publicist and consul.

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10/08/1862

Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese Go player (born 1829)

Shusaku was a Japanese professional Go player during the 19th century. He is known for his undefeated streak of 19 games during the annual castle games; his thirty-game match with Ota Yuzo; the eponymous Shusaku opening; and his posthumous veneration as a "Go sage". Next to his teacher, Hon'inbō Shūwa, he is considered to have been the strongest player from 1847/8 to his death in 1862. He was nicknamed Invincible Shusaku because of his castle games performance.

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10/08/1839

Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English lawyer and politician (born 1758)

Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, was a British Member of Parliament, High Sheriff of Cornwall and Grand Master of the Freemasons. Born in London, he succeeded to the baronetcy on 12 October 1772, at which point he inherited Clowance, the family's estate near Crowan, Cornwall.

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10/08/1806

Michael Haydn, Austrian composer and educator (born 1737)

Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period and the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.

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10/08/1802

Franz Aepinus, German-Russian philosopher and academic (born 1724)

Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus was a German mathematician, scientist, and natural philosopher residing in the Russian Empire. Aepinus is best known for his researches, theoretical and experimental, in electricity and magnetism.

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10/08/1796

Ignaz Anton von Indermauer, Austrian nobleman and government official (born 1759)

Ignaz Alois Anton von Indermauer zu Strelburg und Freifeld was an Austrian nobleman from Tyrol who served as the Landvögte and Kreishauptmann of Vorarlberg from 1791 until his death in 1796.

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10/08/1784

Allan Ramsay, Scottish-English painter (born 1713)

Allan Ramsay was a Scottish painter who specialised in portrait painting.

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10/08/1759

Ferdinand VI of Spain (born 1713)

Ferdinand VI, called the Learned and the Just, was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death in 1759. He was the third ruler of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty. He was the son of King Philip V and Queen Maria Luisa.

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10/08/1723

Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician, French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (born 1656)

Guillaume Dubois was a French cardinal and statesman.

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10/08/1660

Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond (born 1649)

Esmé Stuart, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 5th Duke of Lennox was the son and heir of James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox (1612–1655), of Cobham Hall in Kent, by his wife Mary Villiers (1622–1685), only daughter of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

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10/08/1655

Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (born 1572)

Alfonso de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo, marqués de Bedmar was a Spanish diplomat, bishop and Roman Catholic cardinal. He was born in Bedmar, in what is now the province of Jaén. Alfonso was the son of Luis de la Cueva-Benavides, 2nd señor of Bedmar, and Elvira Carrillo de Mendoza y Cárdenas.

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10/08/1653

Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (born 1598)

Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp or Maarten van Tromp was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-Dutch War.

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10/08/1536

Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Dauphin of France, Brother of Henry II (born 1518)

Francis III was Dauphin of France and, after 1524, Duke of Brittany. Francis and his brother, Henry, were exchanged as hostages for their father, Francis I, who had been captured at the Battle of Pavia. They would be hostages for three years. Made duke of Brittany in 1532, this precipitated Brittany's integration with the Kingdom of France. Francis died 10 August 1536, possibly from tuberculosis.

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10/08/1535

Ippolito de' Medici, Italian cardinal (born 1509)

Ippolito de' Medici was the only son of Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, born out of wedlock to his mistress Pacifica Brandano.

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10/08/1410

Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1337)

Louis de Bourbon, called the Good, was the third Duke of Bourbon. He was also the Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and Lord of Beaujeu.

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10/08/1322

John of La Verna, Italian ascetic (born 1259)

John of Fermo, more often called John of La Verna, from his time spent on that mountain was an Italian Franciscan friar, who was a noted ascetic and preacher.

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10/08/1316

Felim mac Aedh Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht

Felim McHugh O'Connor was king of Connacht in Ireland from January 1310 to 10 August 1316. The beginning of his kingship saw a revival in the ancient form of inauguration performed for the Kings of Connacht after a period of apparent lapse in the practice. His reign took place against the background of a Gaelic recovery following the Anglo-Norman invasion and the disputed High Kingship of Edwurd Bruce. He was the last King of Connacht to truly hold power over the entire province and his death halted the gains that had been made following the Anglo Norman invasion, by his kingdom. His foster father Maelruanid Mac Diarmata King of Magh Lurg would play an instrumental role in his reign.

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10/08/1284

Tekuder, Khan of the Mongol Ilkhanate

Ahmed Tekuder, also known as Sultan Ahmad, was the sultan of the Ilkhanate from 1282 to 1284. He was a son of Hulegu and brother of Abaqa. He was eventually succeeded by his nephew Arghun Khan.

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10/08/1250

Eric IV of Denmark (born 1216)

Eric IV, also known as Eric Ploughpenny or Eric Plowpenny, was King of Denmark from 1241 until his death in 1250. His reign was marked by conflict and civil wars against his brothers.

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10/08/1241

Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (born 1184)

Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany, also known as Damsel of Brittany, Pearl of Brittany, or Beauty of Brittany, was the eldest daughter of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, and Constance, Duchess of Brittany. Her father was the fourth son of King Henry II of England, and she was the niece of the English kings Richard I and John. As a potential threat to ascendency to the English throne, John imprisoned her in 1202 and she was held in captivity until her death. Like Empress Matilda and Elizabeth of York, Eleanor's claim to the English throne gained little support from the barons, under the expectation that the monarch should be male, despite legal provision for a female monarch. Some historians have commented that her imprisonment was "the most unjustifiable act of King John".

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10/08/0955

Conrad ('the Red'), duke of Lorraine

Conrad, called the Red, was Duke of Lorraine from 944 until 953. He became the progenitor of the Imperial Salian dynasty.

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10/08/0847

Al-Wathiq, Abbasid caliph (born 816)

Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Wathiq bi'Llah, commonly known by his regnal name al-Wathiq bi'Llah, was an Abbasid caliph who reigned from 842 until his death in 847.

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10/08/0796

Eanbald, archbishop of York

Eanbald I of York died on 10 August 796, was an 8th-century Archbishop of York.

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10/08/0794

Fastrada, Frankish noblewoman (born 765)

Fastrada was queen consort of East Francia by marriage to Charlemagne, as his third wife.

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10/08/0258

Lawrence of Rome, Spanish-Italian deacon and saint (born 225)

Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians ordered by the Roman emperor Valerian in 258.

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