September 10

2024 Calendar

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

Up to 1900

210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, Chinese Emperor (b. 259 BC)
918 – Baldwin II, Count of Flanders (b. 865)
954 – King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
1167 – Empress Matilda of England (b. 1102)
1197 – Henry II, Count of Champagne (b. 1166)
1306 – Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian saint and mystic (b. 1245)
1308 – Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (b. 1285)
1382 – Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1371)
1482 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian warlord (b. 1422)
1591 – Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
1669 – Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, British female philosopher (b. 1759)
1815 – John Singleton Copley, American artist (b. 1738)
1827 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet and novelist (b. 1778)
1842 – William Hobson, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
1842 – Letitia Christian Tyler, First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
1889 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria (b. 1837)

1901 – 2000

1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
1923 – Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1935 – Huey Long, American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1938 – Charles Cruft, British businessman (b. 1852)
1948 – King 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 (b. 1880)
1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
1965 – Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
1966 – Ernst Julius Gumbel, German mathematician (b. 1891)
1971 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
1975 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist (b. 1892)
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, last person to be executed by guillotine in France (b. 1949)
1979 – Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist (b. 1905)
1983 – John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
1983 – Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest-recorded person (b. 1941)
1983 – Norah Lofts, English novelist (b. 1904)
1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (b. 1922)
1991 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
1994 – Max Morlock, German footballer (b. 1925)
1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
1996 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)

From 2001

2004 – Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (b. 1928)
2005 – Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
2006 – Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (b. 1918)
2007 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
2011 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
2012 – Vondell Darr, American actress (b. 1919)
2012 – Lance LeGault, American actor (b. 1935)
2014 – Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
2014 – Emilio Botin, Spanish businessman (b. 1934)
2015 – Dickie Moore, American actor (b. 1925)
2015 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
2015 – Norman Farberow, American psychologist (b. 1918)
2015 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (b. 1931)
2015 – James E. Proctor, Jr., American politician (b. 1936)
2015 – Antoine Lahad, Lebanese military officer (b. 1927)
2016 – Jutta Limbach, German jurist (b. 1934)
2017 – Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, director, writer and comedian (b. 1931)
2017 – Xavier Atencio, American animator, lyricist and engineer (b. 1919)
2017 – Nancy Dupree, American historian (b. 1927)
2017 – René Laurentin, French theologian (b. 1917)
2017 – Don Ohlmeyer, American entertainment executive (b. 1945)
2017 – B. V. Radha, Indian actress (b. 1948)
2017 – Len Wein, American comic book writer (b. 1948)

Births

1901 – 1950

1904 – Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (d. 1972)
1904 – Juan José Arévalo, President of Guatemala (d. 1990)
1906 – Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
1908 – Angus Bethune, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
1910 – Franz Hengsbach, German cardinal (d. 1991)
1911 – Renée Simonot, French actress
1911 – Nelly Omar, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2013)
1912 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian politician (d. 2002)
1914 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Irish politician (d. 1990)
1914 – Robert Wise, American director and producer (d. 2005)
1918 – Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
1920 – C. R. Rao, Indian-American mathematician and statistician
1921 – Alfred Bengsch, German cardinal (d. 1979)
1922 – Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
1923 – Shmuel Eisenstadt, Israeli sociologist (d. 2010)
1924 – Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader (d. 2015)
1925 – Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
1925 – Hubert Hammerer, Austrian Olympic shooter
1926 – Ladislav Adamec, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 2007)
1926 – Beryl Cook, British painter (d. 2008)
1927 – Gerhard Jahn, German politician (d. 1998)
1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian theologian and philosopher
1928 – Otto F. Kernberg, Austrian psychoanalyst
1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer (d. 2016)
1931 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
1932 – Félix Malloum, President of Chad (d. 2009)
1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1934 – Jim Oberstar, American politician (d. 2014)
1935 – Giacomo Losi, Italian footballer
1936 – Peter Lovesey, English crime fiction writer
1937 – Jared Diamond, American evolutionary biologist
1939 – Cynthia Lennon, English ex-wife of John Lennon (d. 2015)
1939 – Hans Sotin, German opera singer
1940 – Roy Ayers, American jazz musician
1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American palaeontologist (d. 2002)
1941 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor (d. 2014)
1941 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer (d. 1997)
1945 – José Feliciano, Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer
1946 – Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
1946 – Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
1946 – Shlomo Sand, Israeli historian
1948 – Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress, writer and biographer
1948 – Bob Lanier, American basketball player
1948 – Brian Donohoe, Scottish politician
1948 – Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese author
1948 – Ted Poe, American politician
1950 – Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter

1951 – 1975

1951 – Eliseo Alberto, Cuban writer (d. 2011)
1952 – Bruno Giacomelli, Italian racing driver
1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist
1952 – Patrick McGorry, Australian psychiatrist
1953 – Amy Irving, American actress, movie producer and singer
1953 – John Thurso, Scottish politician
1954 – Jackie Ashley, English journalist
1954 – Lorely Burt, English politician
1954 – Clark Johnson, American actor, director and movie producer
1956 – Johnnie Fingers, Irish musician, songwriter and producer
1957 – Carol Decker, English singer-songwriter
1958 – Chris Columbus, American movie director, producer and screenwriter
1958 – Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
1960 – Colin Firth, English actor
1960 – Margaret Ferrier, Scottish politician
1963 – Randy Johnson, American baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner
1964 – John E. Sununu, American politician
1964 – Edmund de Waal, English artist
1966 – Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
1968 – Guy Ritchie, British director, screenwriter and producer
1968 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper and producer
1968 – Juan Maldacena, Argentine-American physicist
1969 – David Trueba, Spanish writer, journalist, screenwriter, actor and director
1970 – Ménélik, French rapper
1972 – Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
1973 – Deniz Yücel, German journalist
1974 – Ryan Philippe, American actor
1975 – Viktor Kassai, Hungarian footballer and referee

From 1976

1976 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
1976 – Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
1978 – Julia Goldsworthy, English politician
1980 – Mikey Way, musician, bassist for My Chemical Romance
1982 – Stephen McManus, Scottish footballer
1983 – Fernando Belluschi, Argentine footballer
1983 – Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
1985 – David Clarkson, Scottish footballer
1985 – Aya Kamiki, Japanese musical artist
1985 – Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
1986 – Hiroki Uchi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
1986 – Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer
1987 – Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter
1987 – Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Jared Lee Loughner, American murderer
1990 – Chandler Massey, American actor
1993 – Ruggero Pasquarelli, Italian actor and singer
1997 – Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer

Deaths

Observances

National Day (Gibraltar)
Teacher's Day (People's Republic of China and Hong Kong)
International Suicide Prevention Day
Children's Day (Honduras)