September 10 - 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)
• 1382 – Louis I of Hungary, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem, Sicily, andPoland (b. 1326)
• 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
• 1482 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron (b. 1422)
• 1519 – John Colet, English churchman and educator (b. 1467)
• 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)
• 1748 – Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
• 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)
• 1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American gangster (b. 1886)
• 1935 – Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
• 1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
• 1939 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German soldier (b. 1888)
• 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)
• 1994 – Charles Drake, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Yasutomo Nagai, motorbike driver (b.1965)
• 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)
• 2008 – Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and senator (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Domagoj Kapec, Croatian hockey player (b. 1989)