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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 of France, the future Charles VII of France.
• 1608 - John Smith of Jamestown is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy.
• 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 gets a patent for the sewing machine.
• 1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
• 1897 - In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse kills more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
• 1898 - Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• 1919 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
• 1927 - France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.
• 1932 - The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned Independent Subway System, is opened.
• 1939 - World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Triton (N15) off the coast of Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
• 1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia in the Allies of World War II.
• 1942 - World War II: The British Army carry out an Amphibious warfare landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Battle of Madagascar.
• 1943 - World War II: Germany forces begin their occupation of Rome.
• 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
• 1961 - At the 1961 Italian Grand Prix in Monza, a horrific crash on the 2nd lap of the race causes the death of Germany Formula One Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Scuderia Ferrari.
• 1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
• 1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a United Kingdom dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
• 1972 - The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
• 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
• 1976 - A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Adria Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• 1977 - Last execution (legal) by Guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.
• 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world – is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
• 2002 - Switzerland, known for its Neutral country, joins the United Nations.
• 2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.
• 2007 - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
• 2007 - The Premiers of Queensland of the Australian state of Queensland, Peter Beattie, announced he would resign from the top job on September 13.

Births

• 1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
• 1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
• 1550 - Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615)
• 1561 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
• 1588 - Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)
• 1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
• 1638 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
• 1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
• 1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
• 1758 - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
• 1786 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
• 1786 - William Mason (US politician), American politician (d. 1860)
• 1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
• 1836 - Joseph Wheeler, Confederate and United States Army General (d. 1906)
• 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
• 1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
• 1844 - Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
• 1852 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
• 1861 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
• 1866 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
• 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
• 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
• 1890 - Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945)
• 1892 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1962)
• 1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu language writer (d. 1976).
• 1896 - Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
• 1896 - Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
• 1896 - Robert Taschereau, Canadian Governor General and Supreme Court of Canada (d. 1970)
• 1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
• 1898 - Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1898 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
• 1904 - Max Shachtman, American Trotskyist politician (d. 1972)
• 1907 - Alva R. Fitch, United States Army Lt. General (d. 1989)
• 1914 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
• 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat
• 1918 - Rin_Tin_Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
• 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
• 1922 - Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer
• 1924 - Ted Kluszewski, Major League baseball player (d. 1988)
• 1928 - Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
• 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golfer
• 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor
• 1932 - Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
• 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
• 1934 - Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
• 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
• 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
• 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
• 1941 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
• 1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
• 1942 - Danny Hutton, American singer (Three Dog Night)
• 1943 - Billy Graham (wrestler), American professional wrestler
• 1943 - Daniel Truhitte, American actor
• 1943 - Neale Donald Walsch, American author
• 1944 - Sir Thomas Allen, English baritone
• 1945 - Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
• 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete
• 1946 - Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
• 1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director
• 1948 - Bob Lanier (basketball player), American basketball player
• 1948 - Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau
• 1948 - Judy Geeson, English actress
• 1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler
• 1949 - Bill O'Reilly (commentator), American journalist and commentator
• 1950 - Joe Perry (musician), American musician (Aerosmith)
• 1952 - Vic Toews, Canadian politician
• 1953 - Amy Irving, American actress
• 1957 - Carol Decker, UK singer T'Pau (band)
• 1957 - Kate Burton (actress), Swiss actress
• 1958 - Chris Columbus (filmmaker), American film director
• 1958 - Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister)
• 1959 - Peter Nelson, American actor
• 1960 - Colin Firth, English actor
• 1960 - David Lowery, American musician (Cracker (band))
• 1963 - Randy Johnson (pitcher), American baseball player
• 1963 - Bill Stevenson, American music producer, punk rock drummer (Descendents_(band)), (Black Flag_(band)), (ALL_(band)), (Only_Crime)
• 1965 - Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer (Bush (band))
• 1966 - Richard Ballerand, tri-national strategy adviser
• 1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
• 1968 - Guy Ritchie, British film director
• 1969 - Jonathon Schaech, American actor
• 1970 - Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter
• 1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
• 1972 - James Duval, American actor
• 1972 - Bente Skari, Norwegian cross country skier
• 1973 - Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
• 1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor
• 1974 - Mirko Filipovic, Croatia kickboxer and mixed martial artist
• 1974 - Ben Wallace, American basketball player
• 1975 - Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor
• 1975 - Sammy Knight, American football player
• 1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
• 1976 - Federico Gasperoni, San Marinese football player
• 1977 - Danys Báez, Cuban baseball player
• 1978 - Nish Selvadurai, Australian comedian
• 1979 - Øyvind 'Mustis' Johan Mustaparta, Keyboardist for the band Dimmu Borgir
• 1980 - Mikey Way, American bassist (My Chemical Romance)
• 1982 - Staffan Kronwall, Swedish hockey player
• 1982 - Guillermo Israilevich, Argentinian-Israeli footballer
• 1983 - Fernando Belluschi, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 - James B Graham, English rugby player
• 1988 - Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
• 1989 - Sanjaya Malakar, American Idol contestant

Deaths

• 210 BC - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
• 918 - Count Baldwin II, Count of Flanders (b. 865)
• 954 - King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
• 1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
• 1197 - Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
• 1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
• 1308 - Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (b. 1285)
• 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
• 1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and patron of arts
• 1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator
• 1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
• 1591 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
• 1604 - William Morgan (Bible translator), Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
• 1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
• 1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
• 1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
• 1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
• 1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
• 1759 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
• 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
• 1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
• 1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
• 1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
• 1898 - Elisabeth of Bavaria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
• 1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
• 1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
• 1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
• 1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
• 1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
• 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
• 1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
• 1961 - Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
• 1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
• 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
• 1971 - Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
• 1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
• 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish Formula One driver (b. 1944)
• 1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922)
• 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
• 1985 - Jock Stein, Scotland football (soccer) player and manager (b. 1922)
• 1991 - Jack Crawford (tennis player), Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
• 1995 - Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
• 1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1996 - Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
• 1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
• 1998 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
• 1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
• 2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
• 2001 - DJ Uncle Al (b.1969)
• 2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
• 2005 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer (b. 1924)
• 2006 - Patty Berg, American female golf player (b. 1918)
• 2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
• 2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
• 2007 - Jane Wyman, American actress (b.1917)
• 2007 - Anita Roddick, British Businesswoman (b.1942)
• 2007 - Ted Stepien, former owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Calendar of Saints - Nicholas of Tolentino; Saint Aubert.
• Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
• Gibraltar - National Day.
• Teacher's Day in China.
• Free Hugs - International Campaign.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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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 of France, the future Charles VII of France.
• 1608 - John Smith of Jamestown is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy.
• 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 gets a patent for the sewing machine.
• 1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
• 1897 - In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse kills more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
• 1898 - Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• 1919 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
• 1927 - France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.
• 1932 - The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned Independent Subway System, is opened.
• 1939 - World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Triton (N15) off the coast of Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
• 1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia in the Allies of World War II.
• 1942 - World War II: The British Army carry out an Amphibious warfare landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Battle of Madagascar.
• 1943 - World War II: Germany forces begin their occupation of Rome.
• 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
• 1961 - At the 1961 Italian Grand Prix in Monza, a horrific crash on the 2nd lap of the race causes the death of Germany Formula One Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Scuderia Ferrari.
• 1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
• 1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a United Kingdom dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
• 1972 - The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
• 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
• 1976 - A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Adria Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• 1977 - Last execution (legal) by Guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille.
• 1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world – is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
• 2002 - Switzerland, known for its Neutral country, joins the United Nations.
• 2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on September 11.
• 2007 - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
• 2007 - The Premiers of Queensland of the Australian state of Queensland, Peter Beattie, announced he would resign from the top job on September 13.

Births

• 1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
• 1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
• 1550 - Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615)
• 1561 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
• 1588 - Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)
• 1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
• 1638 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
• 1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
• 1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
• 1758 - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
• 1786 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
• 1786 - William Mason (US politician), American politician (d. 1860)
• 1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
• 1836 - Joseph Wheeler, Confederate and United States Army General (d. 1906)
• 1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
• 1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
• 1844 - Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
• 1852 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
• 1861 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
• 1866 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
• 1886 - Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
• 1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
• 1890 - Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945)
• 1892 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1962)
• 1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu language writer (d. 1976).
• 1896 - Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
• 1896 - Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
• 1896 - Robert Taschereau, Canadian Governor General and Supreme Court of Canada (d. 1970)
• 1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
• 1898 - Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1898 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
• 1904 - Max Shachtman, American Trotskyist politician (d. 1972)
• 1907 - Alva R. Fitch, United States Army Lt. General (d. 1989)
• 1914 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
• 1915 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat
• 1918 - Rin_Tin_Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
• 1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
• 1922 - Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer
• 1924 - Ted Kluszewski, Major League baseball player (d. 1988)
• 1928 - Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
• 1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golfer
• 1931 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor
• 1932 - Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
• 1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
• 1934 - Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
• 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
• 1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
• 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
• 1941 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
• 1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
• 1942 - Danny Hutton, American singer (Three Dog Night)
• 1943 - Billy Graham (wrestler), American professional wrestler
• 1943 - Daniel Truhitte, American actor
• 1943 - Neale Donald Walsch, American author
• 1944 - Sir Thomas Allen, English baritone
• 1945 - Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
• 1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete
• 1946 - Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
• 1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director
• 1948 - Bob Lanier (basketball player), American basketball player
• 1948 - Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau
• 1948 - Judy Geeson, English actress
• 1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler
• 1949 - Bill O'Reilly (commentator), American journalist and commentator
• 1950 - Joe Perry (musician), American musician (Aerosmith)
• 1952 - Vic Toews, Canadian politician
• 1953 - Amy Irving, American actress
• 1957 - Carol Decker, UK singer T'Pau (band)
• 1957 - Kate Burton (actress), Swiss actress
• 1958 - Chris Columbus (filmmaker), American film director
• 1958 - Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister)
• 1959 - Peter Nelson, American actor
• 1960 - Colin Firth, English actor
• 1960 - David Lowery, American musician (Cracker (band))
• 1963 - Randy Johnson (pitcher), American baseball player
• 1963 - Bill Stevenson, American music producer, punk rock drummer (Descendents_(band)), (Black Flag_(band)), (ALL_(band)), (Only_Crime)
• 1965 - Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer (Bush (band))
• 1966 - Richard Ballerand, tri-national strategy adviser
• 1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
• 1968 - Guy Ritchie, British film director
• 1969 - Jonathon Schaech, American actor
• 1970 - Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter
• 1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
• 1972 - James Duval, American actor
• 1972 - Bente Skari, Norwegian cross country skier
• 1973 - Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
• 1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor
• 1974 - Mirko Filipovic, Croatia kickboxer and mixed martial artist
• 1974 - Ben Wallace, American basketball player
• 1975 - Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor
• 1975 - Sammy Knight, American football player
• 1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
• 1976 - Federico Gasperoni, San Marinese football player
• 1977 - Danys Báez, Cuban baseball player
• 1978 - Nish Selvadurai, Australian comedian
• 1979 - Øyvind 'Mustis' Johan Mustaparta, Keyboardist for the band Dimmu Borgir
• 1980 - Mikey Way, American bassist (My Chemical Romance)
• 1982 - Staffan Kronwall, Swedish hockey player
• 1982 - Guillermo Israilevich, Argentinian-Israeli footballer
• 1983 - Fernando Belluschi, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 - James B Graham, English rugby player
• 1988 - Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
• 1989 - Sanjaya Malakar, American Idol contestant

Deaths

• 210 BC - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
• 918 - Count Baldwin II, Count of Flanders (b. 865)
• 954 - King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
• 1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
• 1197 - Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
• 1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
• 1308 - Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (b. 1285)
• 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
• 1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and patron of arts
• 1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator
• 1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
• 1591 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
• 1604 - William Morgan (Bible translator), Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
• 1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
• 1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
• 1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
• 1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
• 1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
• 1759 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
• 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
• 1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
• 1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
• 1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
• 1898 - Elisabeth of Bavaria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
• 1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
• 1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
• 1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
• 1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
• 1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
• 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
• 1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
• 1961 - Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
• 1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
• 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
• 1971 - Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
• 1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
• 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish Formula One driver (b. 1944)
• 1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922)
• 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
• 1985 - Jock Stein, Scotland football (soccer) player and manager (b. 1922)
• 1991 - Jack Crawford (tennis player), Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
• 1995 - Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
• 1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1996 - Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
• 1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
• 1998 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
• 1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
• 2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
• 2001 - DJ Uncle Al (b.1969)
• 2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
• 2005 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer (b. 1924)
• 2006 - Patty Berg, American female golf player (b. 1918)
• 2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
• 2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
• 2007 - Jane Wyman, American actress (b.1917)
• 2007 - Anita Roddick, British Businesswoman (b.1942)
• 2007 - Ted Stepien, former owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Calendar of Saints - Nicholas of Tolentino; Saint Aubert.
• Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
• Gibraltar - National Day.
• Teacher's Day in China.
• Free Hugs - International Campaign.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

September 10 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 10
1973: Bomb blasts rock central London. Scotland Yard hunts a teenage suspect after two bombs at mainline stations injure 13 people and bring chaos to central London.

Kerrang! September 10, 2008
Who said I was trying to be funny? Gerard Way... Hannah Bond's rotting corpse

Sporting birthdays - September 10 | Mail Online
Arnold 'The King' Palmer, seven-time major winner and one of the greatest golfers to walk the earth celebrates his 79th today

BBC ON THIS DAY | Front Page
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Hurray for the European Court of Human Rights. It has rejected an emergency injunction to block the Large Hadron Collider from turning on on 10 September.

Wednesday 10 September: No parking - DPM's Diary by C P Bound
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The Q Daily / September 10, 2008
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Late travel deals: September 10
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National Sport - September 10 : Express & Star:
Expressandstar.com take a quick look around the national scene in the world of sport. Expressandstar.com take a quick look around the national scene in the world of sport ...