September 10

September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
• 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
• 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
• 1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
• 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
• 1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
• 1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
• 1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
• 1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
• 1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
• 1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
• 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
• 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
• 1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
• 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• 1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
• 1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
• 1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
• 1935 – India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded.
• 1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
• 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
• 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
• 1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
• 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
• 1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
• 1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
• 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
• 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
• 1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
• 1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
• 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
• 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
• 1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
• 1990 – The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, the largest church in Africa, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
• 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
• 2001 – Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
• 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
• 2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
• 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
• 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 2014 – The first Invictus Games took place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

Births

• 920 – Louis IV of France (d. 954)
• 1169 – Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)
• 1487 – Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
• 1550 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (d. 1615)
• 1561 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentinian soldier and politician (d. 1634)
• 1588 – Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1666)
• 1624 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
• 1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain (d. 1683)
• 1659 – Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (d. 1695)
• 1714 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
• 1753 – John Soane, English architect, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall (d. 1837)
• 1758 – Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
• 1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854)
• 1786 – William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
• 1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (d. 1868)
• 1801 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
• 1821 – William Jervois, English caption, engineer, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (d. 1906)
• 1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912)
• 1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, scientist, and philosopher (d. 1914)
• 1844 – Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble (d. 1918)
• 1852 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
• 1852 – Alice Brown Davis, American tribal chief (d. 1935)
• 1855 – Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (d. 1895)
• 1860 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
• 1861 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1941)
• 1866 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (d. 1930)
• 1871 – Charles Collett, English engineer (d. 1952)
• 1872 – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (d. 1933)
• 1876 – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet and playwright (d. 1966)
• 1883 – Jock Delves Broughton, English accused murderer (d. 1942)
• 1884 – Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (d. 1964)
• 1885 – Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (d. 1955)
• 1885 – David Kolehmainen, Finnish wrestler (d. 1918)
• 1885 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American author and critic (d. 1950)
• 1886 – H.D., American author and poet (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian soldier and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (d. 1976)
• 1887 – Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (d. 1961)
• 1888 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (d. 1976)
• 1889 – Ivar Böhling, Finnish wrestler (d. 1929)
• 1890 – Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
• 1890 – Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
• 1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
• 1893 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1894 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1956)
• 1895 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (d. 1976)
• 1896 – Adele Astaire, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
• 1896 – Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Ye Ting, Chinese general (d. 1946)
• 1897 – Georges Bataille, French philosopher and author (d. 1962)
• 1897 – Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Bessie Love, American actress and singer (d. 1986)
• 1898 – Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (d. 1999)
• 1903 – Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (d. 2003)
• 1904 – Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (d. 1972)
• 1906 – Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
• 1907 – Alva R. Fitch, American general (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1994)
• 1908 – Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (d. 2002)
• 1912 – Mary Walter, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Lincoln Gordon, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Brazil (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, English-Irish politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Robert Wise, American director and producer (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor and director (d. 1985)
• 1917 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean poet and diplomat (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Lex van Delden, Dutch composer (d. 1988)
• 1920 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2000)
• 1921 – John W. Morris, American general (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)
• 1924 – Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
• 1925 – Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
• 1925 – Dick Lucas, English minister and cleric
• 1925 – Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1926 – Beryl Cook, English painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and conductor
• 1928 – Roch Bolduc, Canadian politician
• 1928 – Walter Martin, American minister and author, founded the Christian Research Institute (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L'Arche
• 1929 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1979)
• 1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer
• 1930 – Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Isabel Colegate, English author
• 1931 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
• 1932 – Bo Goldman, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer
• 1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel and astronaut (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer
• 1934 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
• 1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (d. 1985)
• 1934 – Jim Oberstar, American politician (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Larry Sitsky, Australian pianist, composer, and educator
• 1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet and author
• 1937 – Jared Diamond, American biologist, geographer, and author
• 1938 – David Hamilton, English radio and television host
• 1939 – Cynthia Lennon, English author
• 1939 – Hans Sotin, German opera singer
• 1939 – David Stratton, English-Australian critic and television host
• 1940 – Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1940 – Buck Buchanan, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1940 – Bob Chance, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and author (d. 2002)
• 1941 – Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy (d. 1997)
• 1942 – Danny Hutton, Irish-American singer (Three Dog Night)
• 1943 – Júnior, Filipino-Spanish singer and actor (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Daniel Truhitte, American actor and singer
• 1943 – Neale Donald Walsch, American author
• 1944 – Thomas Allen, English opera singer and academic
• 1945 – Dennis Burkley, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1945 – José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Gerard Henderson, Australian journalist and author
• 1945 – Mike Mullane, American colonel and astronaut
• 1946 – Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
• 1946 – Jim Hines, American sprinter
• 1946 – Patrick Norman, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1946 – Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
• 1947 – David Pountney, English director and manager
• 1948 – Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese historian and author
• 1948 – Brian Donohoe, Scottish politician
• 1948 – Tony Gatlif, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1948 – Judy Geeson, English actress
• 1948 – Bob Lanier, American basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress and talk show host, 12th Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada
• 1948 – Charlie Waters, American football player, coach, and radio host
• 1949 – Babette Cole, English author and illustrator
• 1949 – Don Muraco, American wrestler
• 1949 – Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and author
• 1949 – Rick Rosas, American bass player (Mark & the Escorts) (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Rosie Flores, American singer and guitarist (Asleep at the Wheel and Screamin' Sirens)
• 1950 – Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Aerosmith and The Joe Perry Project)
• 1951 – Sarah Coakley, English philosopher, theologian, and academic
• 1951 – Harry Groener, German-American actor and dancer
• 1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist, co-founded Code Pink
• 1952 – Vic Toews, Paraguayan-Canadian lawyer and politician, 48th Canadian Minister of Justice
• 1953 – Amy Irving, American actress and singer
• 1953 – John Thurso, Scottish politician
• 1954 – Jackie Ashley, English journalist
• 1954 – Lorely Burt, English politician
• 1954 – Clark Johnson, American actor, director, and producer
• 1955 – Armin Hahne, German race car driver
• 1956 – Johnnie Fingers, Irish pianist, songwriter, and producer (The Boomtown Rats)
• 1956 – Johnny Hickman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cracker)
• 1956 – Erick Zonca, French director and producer
• 1957 – Kate Burton, Swiss-American actress
• 1957 – Carol Decker, English singer-songwriter (T'Pau)
• 1957 – Andreï Makine, Russian-French author
• 1958 – Chris Columbus, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer (Bananarama and Shakespears Sister)
• 1959 – Jim Meskimen, American voice actor
• 1959 – Peter Nelson, American actor and producer
• 1960 – Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator
• 1960 – Colin Firth, English actor, singer, and producer
• 1960 – Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven)
• 1962 – Co Stompé, Dutch darts player
• 1962 – Wiljan Vloet, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1963 – Randy Johnson, American baseball player and actor
• 1963 – Marian Keyes, Irish author
• 1963 – Bill Stevenson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (All, Descendents, The Lemonheads, and Only Crime)
• 1964 – John E. Sununu, American engineer and politician
• 1965 – Robin Goodridge, English drummer (Bush, Spear of Destiny, and Stone Gods)
• 1966 – Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1968 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper, producer, and actor (Juice Crew)
• 1968 – Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Ai Jing, Chinese-American singer and painter
• 1969 – Johnathon Schaech, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper
• 1970 – Dean Gorré, Surinamese footballer and manager
• 1970 – Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter (Drop Nineteens)
• 1971 – Joe Bravo, American jockey
• 1972 – James Duval, American actor and producer
• 1972 – Katarína Hasprová, Slovak singer and actress
• 1972 – Ghada Shouaa, Syrian heptathlete
• 1972 – Bente Skari, Norwegian skier
• 1973 – Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
• 1973 – Nancy Coolen, Dutch singer and television host (Twenty 4 Seven)
• 1973 – Mark Huizinga, Dutch martial artist
• 1974 – Sandra Cacic, Croatian-American tennis player
• 1974 – Mirko Filipović, Croatian mixed martial artist, boxer, and politician
• 1974 – Ryan Phillippe, American actor
• 1974 – Ben Wallace, American basketball player
• 1975 – Viktor Kassai, Hungarian football referee
• 1975 – Dan O'Toole, Canadian sportscaster
• 1975 – Melanie Pullen, American photographer
• 1976 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
• 1976 – Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Matt Morgan, American basketball player, wrestler, and actor
• 1976 – Reinder Nummerdor, Dutch volleyball player
• 1978 – Julia Goldsworthy, English politician
• 1978 – Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1979 – Jacob Young, American actor and singer
• 1980 – Michelle Alves, Brazilian model
• 1980 – Jayam Ravi, Indian actor
• 1981 – Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
• 1981 – Germán Denis, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 – Javi Varas, Spanish footballer
• 1983 – Fernando Belluschi, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
• 1983 – Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
• 1984 – Sander Post, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Harry Treadaway, English actor
• 1984 – Luke Treadaway, English actor
• 1985 – Aleksandrs Čekulajevs, Latvian footballer
• 1985 – James Graham, English rugby player
• 1985 – Aya Kamiki, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
• 1985 – Elyse Levesque, Canadian actress
• 1985 – Shota Matsuda, Japanese actor
• 1986 – Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer
• 1986 – Hiroki Uchi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Kanjani Eight and NEWS)
• 1987 – Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
• 1987 – Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Jared Lee Loughner, American murderer
• 1988 – Coco Rocha, Canadian model
• 1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
• 1990 – Chandler Massey, American actor
• 1991 – Boadu Maxwell Acosty, Ghanaian footballer
• 1991 – Adam Nichols, English singer and guitarist (Miranda Chartrand and Adam Nichols)
• 1992 – Ayub Masika, Kenyan footballer
• 1999 – Ian O'Reilly, Irish actor

Deaths

• 918 – Baldwin II, Count of Flanders (b. 865)
• 1167 – Empress Matilda of England (b. 1102)
• 1197 – Henry II, Count of Champagne (b. 1166)
• 1217 – William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English politician
• 1306 – Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian mystic and saint (b. 1245)
• 1308 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
• 1382 – Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
• 1419 – John the Fearless, French son of Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (b. 1371)
• 1482 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian warlord (b. 1422)
• 1519 – John Colet, English theologian and scholar (b. 1467)
• 1559 – Anthony Denny, English politician (b. 1501)
• 1591 – Richard Grenville, English admiral and politician (b. 1542)
• 1604 – William Morgan, Welsh bishop (b. 1545)
• 1607 – Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1545)
• 1669 – Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
• 1676 – Gerrard Winstanley, English activist (b. 1609)
• 1680 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer (b. 1610)
• 1748 – Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino nun, founded the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
• 1749 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
• 1759 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian missionary and explorer (b. 1703)
• 1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher and author (b. 1759)
• 1801 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
• 1842 – William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
• 1842 – Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1851 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (b. 1787)
• 1867 – Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1788)
• 1889 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
• 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
• 1905 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
• 1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
• 1915 – Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1879 )
• 1919 – J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher, founded the Archibald Prize (b. 1856)
• 1920 – Olive Thomas, American model and actress (b. 1894)
• 1922 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (b. 1840)
• 1923 – Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1869)
• 1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (b. 1886)
• 1933 – Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1934 – George Henschel, German-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1850)
• 1935 – Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
• 1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1938 – Charles Cruft, English businessman, founded Crufts (b. 1852)
• 1939 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German general (b. 1888)
• 1948 – Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
• 1952 – Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect (b. 1866)
• 1954 – Peter Anders, German tenor (b. 1908)
• 1961 – Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1965 – Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
• 1965 – Abdul Hamid, Indian soldier (b. 1933)
• 1966 – Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (b. 1891)
• 1971 – Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 1973 – Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1975 – Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
• 1975 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Dalton Trumbo, American author and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
• 1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1983 – Norah Lofts, English author (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Jon Brower Minnoch, American heaviest man (b. 1941)
• 1983 – B. J. Vorster, South African politician, 4th State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
• 1985 – Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
• 1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1987 – Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (b. 1937)
• 1988 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Charles Drake, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
• 1996 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
• 1997 – Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1929)
• 1998 – Carl Forgione, English actor (b. 1944)
• 1999 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2001 – DJ Uncle Al, American rapper and DJ (b. 1969)
• 2004 – Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Patty Berg, American golfer (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Daniel Wayne Smith, American son of Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
• 2007 – Anita Roddick, English businesswoman, founded The Body Shop (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Ted Stepien, American businessman (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Vernon Handley, English conductor (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Domagoj Kapec, Croatian ice hockey player (b. 1989)
• 2010 – Gizela Dali, Greek actress (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Billie Mae Richards, Canadian voice actress (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Cliff Robertson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Vondell Darr, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Robert Gammage, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Lance LeGault, American actor and stuntman (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Stanley Long, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Tadahiro Matsushita, Japanese politician (b. 1939)
• 2012 – John Moffatt, English actor and playwright (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Steven Springer, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1951)
• 2013 – John Hambrick, American journalist and actor (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Syria (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Josef Němec, Czech boxer (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Lyn Peters, Argentinian-American actress (b. 1941)
• 2013 – E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant and politician (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Jack Vance, Canadian general (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Emilio Botín, Spanish banker and businessman (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Edward Nelson, American mathematician and academic (b. 1932)
• 2014 – George Spencer, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Paul K. Sybrowsky, American religious leader (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances

• Amerindian Heritage Day (Guyana)
• Christian feast day:
  • Aubert
  • Nicholas of Tolentino
  • Theodard of Maastricht
  • Alexander Crummell (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Edmund James Peck, Missionary to the Eskimo, 1924 (commemoration, Anglican Church of Canada)
• National Day (Gibraltar)
• Teachers' Day (People's Republic of China and Hong Kong)
• World Suicide Prevention Day (international)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada