Died on This Day (10-Aug)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Jeffrey Epstein | Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American sex offender and financier. | American financier and sex offender | 66 | 1 | |
John Saunders | John Peterson Saunders was a Canadian-American sports journalist. | Canadian-American sports journalist | 61 | 4 | |
Ioan Dicezare | Ioan Dicezare was a leading Romanian fighter pilot and flying ace in World War II. | Romanian flying ace | 95 | 8 | |
Ron Allen | Ronald Allen was an African-American poet and playwright who described his work as a "concert of language. | Afro-American poet and playwright | 62 | 10 | |
James Stillman Rockefeller | James Stillman Rockefeller was a member of the prominent U. | Rockefeller family Olympic medalist | 102 | 16 | |
Milt Mead | Milton E. "Milt" Mead was an American track and field athlete and basketball player. | American track and field athlete | 68 | 20 | |
Cookie Lavagetto | Harry Arthur "Cookie" Lavagetto was an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager. | American baseball player and coach | 77 | 30 | |
Yahya Khan | General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan HPk, HJ, SPk, NePl ; commonly known as Yahya Khan, was a Pakistani military general who served as the third President of Pakistan and Chief Martial Law Administrator following his predecessor Ayub Khan's resignation from 25 March 1969 until his resignation on 20 December 1971. | Pakistani president | 63 | 40 | |
Bernd Alois Zimmermann | Bernd Alois Zimmermann was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten, which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. | German composer | 52 | 50 | |
Felix Hoppe-Seyler | Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology. | German chemist anad physiologist | 69 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Ruth Pfau | 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". | Pakistani physician and nun | 87 | 3 | |
David C. Jones | David Charles Jones was a United States Air Force general and the ninth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. | U.S. Air Force general | 92 | 7 | |
Moraíto Chico II | Moraíto Chico was a Flamenco guitarist. He was known as one of the best and most in-demand accompanying guitarists of his generation, and regularly accompanied José Mercé, Diego Carrasco and other popular flamenco singers. | Spanish musician | 54 | 9 | |
Roy Marlin Voris | Captain Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris was an aviator in the United States Navy, a World War II flying ace, and the founder of the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels. | Recipient of the Purple Heart medal | 85 | 15 | |
Michael Houser | Michael Houser was a founding member and lead guitarist of the band Widespread Panic. | American guitarist | 40 | 18 | |
Gijs van Aardenne | Gijsbert Michiel Vredenrijk "Gijs" van Aardenne was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and businessperson. | Dutch politician | 65 | 25 | |
Kenny Baker | Kenneth Laurence Baker was an American singer and actor who first gained notice as the featured singer on radio's The Jack Benny Program during the 1930s. | Actor, singer | 72 | 35 | |
Robert Barton | Robert Childers Barton was an Anglo-Irish politician, Irish nationalist and farmer who participated in the negotiations leading up to the signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. | Irish lawyer, soldier, statesman and farmer | 94 | 45 | |
Robert H. Goddard | Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. | American physicist | 62 | 75 | |
Richard Ottley | Sir Richard Ottley was an English Royalist politician and soldier who served as a youth in the English Civil War in Shropshire. | English politician | 44 | 350 |