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• 612 BC Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king

the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide allegedly by inducing an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her

• 258 Saint Lawrence, Christian martyr, burned to death
• 794 Fastrada, 3rd wife of French King Charles the Great, dies at 30
• 955 Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle
• 1250 Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
• 1535 Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
• 1589 Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49
• 1628 Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned
• 1637 Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)

Dutch admiral (Eighty Years' War, First Anglo-Dutch War), killed in the Battle of Scheveningen by a sharpshooter at 55

• 1655 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50
• 1717 Nicolaas Witsen, Dutch statesman and mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76
• 1723 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 66
• 1759 Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain (1746-59), dies at 46
• 1784 Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter, dies at 70
• 1802 Franz Aepinus, German physician and physicist, dies at 77
• 1817 Francis Cabot Lowell, American mill owner (founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill), dies at 42
• 1839 John St Aubyn, British fossil collector, dies at 81
• 1842 Captain William Hobson, first British Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi, dies of a stroke at 49
• 1843 Jakob F. Fries, German philosopher, dies at 69
• 1844 Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, youngest daughter and fourth child of Tsar Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, and his wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, dies at 19
• 1857 John Wilson Croker, politician
• 1859 George Staunton, English writer and traveller to China, dies at 68
• 1861 Nathaniel Lyon, American Brigadier-General (Union Army), 1st Union General to die in battle at 43
• 1862 Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese professional Go player, dies at 33
• 1868 Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian military leader and revolutionary who fought against Ottoman rule, killed in battle at 28
• 1875 Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (founded journal Globus), dies at 66
• 1876 Edward William Lane, British lexicographer and translator (One Thousand & One Nights), dies at 74
• 1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer (explored winged flight through gliders), dies falling to his death from his glider at 48

African American abolitionist and inventor who held patents for a type of furniture called the chamber commode and the Refrigerating Apparatus, dies at around 82 [1]

• 1904 Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician (29th Prime Minister of France), dies at 57
• 1915 Henry Moseley, English physicist (relationship between atomic number and charge of the atomic nucleus), shot and killed at Gallipoli during WWI, at 27
• 1918 Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
• 1920 Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician, dies at 84
• 1921 John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies
• 1929 Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and women's suffrage activist, dies at 75
• 1929 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
• 1934 John Kane, Scottish-American primitivist painter (Self-Portrait), dies at 73
• 1943 C. Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
• 1943 J. Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
• 1943 J. Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
• 1944 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat, attempted to assassinate Hitler, executed by Nazi regime at 39

American rocket pioneer (invented and built the first liquid-fueled rocket), dies of throat cancer at 62

• 1948 Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
• 1948 Emmy Hennings-Ball [Emma Cordsen], German poet and performer dies at 63
• 1948 Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian, writer, and peace activist, dies at 74
• 1948 Montague Summers, English clergyman and writer (Malleus Maleficarum), dies at 68
• 1960 Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies at 94
• 1960 Oswald Veblin, mathematician
• 1963 Ernst Wetter, Member of the Swiss Federal Council, dies at 85
• 1963 Estes Kefauver, American politician (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60
• 1963 Patrick Kennedy, son of US President John F, Kennedy, dies at only 3 days
• 1966 (Jacobus) "J.C." Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels - Embers), dies at 79
• 1966 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (black force), dies at 79
• 1969 Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
• 1969 Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
• 1970 Alexander Gode, German-American linguist, dies at 63
• 1979 Walther Gerlach, German physicist who, with Otto Stern, co-discovered spin quantization in a magnetic field (Stern–Gerlach effect), dies at 90
• 1987 I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87
• 1987 Uys Krige, South African playwright and novelist (Orphan of the Desert), dies at 77
• 1988 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68), dies at 86
• 1990 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies
• 1991 Josef Lipski, Polish Senator, anti-Communist dissident, and human rights advocate, dies of heart disease at 65
• 1992 Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician (served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, known as Dr. Death), dies at 78
• 1995 Fay Honey Knopp, American activist (founded a Quaker ministry for men and women in prisons), dies of complications from ovarian cancer at 76
• 1996 Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78
• 1999 Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899)
• 2002 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist, dies at 75
• 2007 Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
• 2007 James E. Faust, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b. 1920)
• 2012 Carlo Rambaldi, Italian Special effects artist, dies at 86
• 2017 Kim Wall, Swedish journalist killed investigating Danish inventor Peter Madsen, dies at 30 [or 11th Aug]

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