September 10 :: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 210 BC - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.


• 918 - Count Baldwin II 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-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)


• 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)


• 1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron


• 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, 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 Austria (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)


• 1952 - Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)


• 1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)


• 1961 - Wolfgang 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 race car 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, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)


• 1991 - Jack Crawford, 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 musician (b. 1924)


• 2006 - Patty Berg, American 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 basketball team owner (b. 1925)