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
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)