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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
Notable Deaths on August 10
104 people
258 – 2025
August 10 has seen 104 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 258 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1918 — Erich Löwenhardt
German lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)
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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
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He would serve in the Carpathians and on the Italian Front before being medically discharged in mid-1915
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Following a five month recuperation, Loewenhardt joined the Imperial German Air Service in 1916
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After serving as an aerial observer and reconnaissance pilot, he underwent advanced training to become a fighter pilot with Jagdstaffel 10 in March 1917
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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847
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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955
1241
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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1250
1284
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…
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1316
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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1322
1410
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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1535
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…
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1536
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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1653
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…
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1655
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…
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1660
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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1723
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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1759
Scottish-English painter (born 1713)
Allan Ramsay was a Scottish painter who specialised in portrait painting.
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1784
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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1796
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…
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1802
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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1806
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…
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1839
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…
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1862
German geographer and journalist (born 1808)
Karl Andree was a German geographer, publicist and consul.
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1875
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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1889
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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1890
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…
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1896
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…
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1904
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…
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1913
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…
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1915
American inventor (born 1844)
John Jacob Loud was an American inventor known for designing the first ballpoint pen.
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1916
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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1920
Irish Republican, executed for the killing of Sir Henry Wilson
Reginald William Dunne was Battalion Commandant of the London Battalion, Irish Republican Army (IRA) and one of two men hanged for the murder of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.
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1922
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…
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1922
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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1929
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…
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1929
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…
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1932
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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1933
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…
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1945
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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1948
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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1948
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…
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1948
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…
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1949
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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1954
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…
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1958
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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1960
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…
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1961
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…
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1963
1963
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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1969
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…
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1976
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…
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1979
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…
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1979
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 in East Pakistan, resulting in Bangladesh's…
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1980
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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1982
American football player and sergeant (born 1906)
Nathan Robert Barragar was an American collegiate and professional football player.
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1985
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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1987
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…
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1991
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…
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1993
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…
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1997
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…
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1997
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…
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1999
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…
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1999
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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2000
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…
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2001
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…
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2002
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…
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2002
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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2007
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…
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2007
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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2007
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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2007
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…
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2008
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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2010
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…
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2010
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)…
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2010
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…
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2011
2012
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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2012
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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2012
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…
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2012
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…
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2012
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…
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2013
Australian historian and academic (born 1941)
Jonathan Dawson was an Australian academic, filmmaker, film and literary critic and broadcaster.
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2013
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…
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2013
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.…
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2013
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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2013
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…
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2013
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…
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2014
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…
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2014
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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2014
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…
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2014
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.…
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2015
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…
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2015
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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2015
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,…
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2015
2017
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…
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2019
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…
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2021
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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2022
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…
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2024
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.…
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2024
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…
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2025
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Erich Löwenhardt — German World War I flying ace
FeaturedErich Löwenhardt
Death year1918
Known forOriginally 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
Deaths on this date104 (258 – 2025)
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