What happened on August 10 ?

612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king

258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr

1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)

1633 - Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)

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 raper (b. 1713)

1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)

1806 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)

1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)

1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)

1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)

1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)

1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)

1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)

1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)

1963 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)

1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)

1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)

1976 - Bert Oldfield, Australian test cricketer (b. 1894)

1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)

1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)

1993 - ÿystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)

1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)

2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)

2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)

2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer

2005 - Lee Seung Seop, Korean gamer