Famous Deaths for 10th August 2024

794 – Fastrada, 3rd wife of French King Charles the Great, dies at 30
1723 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 66
1973 – Douglas Kennedy, American actor (Dark Passage, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer at 57
1977 – Vince Barnett, American actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75
1979 – John Nicholas “Dick” Foran, American actor (OK Crackerby, Fort Apache, Winners of the West), dies at 69
1986 – Don McRae, New Zealand cricket medium pace bowler (1 Test; Canterbury CA) and soccer goalkeeper (1 cap; Nomads United FC), dies at 71
1992 – Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician (served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, known as Dr. Death), dies at 78
1994 – Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao, murdered at 58
2000 – Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricket batsman (7 Tests England, 2 x 50; Glamorgan CCC, MCC), dies at 74
2022 – Abdul Wadud [Ronald DeVaughn], American jazz, avant-garde, and classical cellist (Camille; By Myself), dies at 75

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