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August 10, 2000 Joan Marsh, actress, Road to Zanzibar, dies at 86 August 10, 1999 Jennifer Paterson, cook/writer/motorcyclist, Two Fat Ladies, dies at 71 August 10, 1997 Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43 August 10, 1996 Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78 August 10, 1996 Rex Tucker, TV writer/director, dies at 83 August 10, 1995 Fay Honey Knopp, activist, dies at 76 August 10, 1995 Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist, dies at 81 August 10, 1994 Bill Baker, singer, dies at 58 August 10, 1994 Kay Petre, early racing driver, dies at 91 August 10, 1994 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curaeao, murdered at 58 August 10, 1993 Ken England, U.S. screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82 August 10, 1991 Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies August 10, 1990 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies August 10, 1988 Adela Rogers St. John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94 August 10, 1988 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86 August 10, 1987 Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies August 10, 1987 Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86 August 10, 1987 I. 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Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87 August 10, 1987 Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat), dies August 10, 1985 Kenny Backer, comedian (Time Bandits), dies of a heart attack at 72 August 10, 1979 Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69 August 10, 1977 Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75 August 10, 1976 Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74 August 10, 1974 Ilona Massey, actress and singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64 August 10, 1974 Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57 August 10, 1974 Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's Comedy Hour), dies at 92 August 10, 1973 Douglas Kennedy, actor (Lone Ranger and Lost City of Gold), dies at 57 August 10, 1970 Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Germ composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52 August 10, 1967 John Francis Larchet, composer, dies at 83 August 10, 1966 Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79 August 10, 1966 Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies August 10, 1963 Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60 August 10, 1963 Matya Rakosi, [Rosencranz], premier of Hungary (1952-53), dies at 71 August 10, 1963 Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days August 10, 1962 Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60 August 10, 1960 Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies August 10, 1960 Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72 August 10, 1960 Oswald Veblin, mathematician August 10, 1960 Edith Rogers, American Politician August 10, 1948 E Ball-Hennings, writer, dies at 63 August 10, 1945 Robert H Goddard, U.S., rocket pioneer, dies at 62 August 10, 1944 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies August 10, 1943 C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies August 10, 1943 J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies August 10, 1943 J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies August 10, 1938 Joseph Moorat, composer, dies at 73 August 10, 1934 John Kane, Scotish/US miner/painter, dies at 73 August 10, 1932 Slang, writer, dies August 10, 1930 William H Taft, U.S. president (1909-13), dies August 10, 1929 Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75 August 10, 1921 John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies August 10, 1911 Carl Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 70 August 10, 1905 Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged August 10, 1904 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies August 10, 1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies August 10, 1890 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet August 10, 1886 Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85 August 10, 1875 Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66 August 10, 1867 Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867 August 10, 1861 Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43 August 10, 1859 George Staunton, writer August 10, 1857 John Wilson Croker, politician August 10, 1843 Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies August 10, 1841 Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37 August 10, 1821 Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52 August 10, 1806 Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68 August 10, 1802 Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77 August 10, 1784 Allan Ramsay, artist August 10, 1759 Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46 August 10, 1730 Sebastien de Brossard, composer, dies at 74 August 10, 1723 Abbe Dubois, French archbishop of Canbrier/premier (1722-23), dies August 10, 1717 Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), dies August 10, 1655 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50 August 10, 1653 Maarten Harpertsz Tromp, [Bestevaer], lt-adm, dies in battle at 55 August 10, 1628 Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned August 10, 1589 Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49 August 10, 1250 Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered August 10, 1002 Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies August 10, 955 Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle August 10, 794 Fastrada, 3rd wife of French king Charles the Great, dies at 30 |