September 10

Birthdays:

1968 ~ Guy Ritchie, British movie director and former husband of Madonna.

1960 ~ Colin Firth, English actor.

1950 ~ Joe Perry (né Anthony Joseph Pereira), American musician and guitarist for Aerosmith.

1948 ~ Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress, author and former wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.  She was also the mother of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

1941 ~ Stephen Jay Gould (d. May 20, 2002), American paleontologist.  He died of cancer at age 60.

1937 ~ Jared Diamond, American biologist and author.

1934 ~ Roger Maris (d. Dec. 14, 1985), American baseball player.  He died of Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 51.

1934 ~ Charles Kuralt (d. July 4, 1997), American television journalist.  After his death, it was learned that he had a second, shadow family, while married to his first wife.  He died at age 62.

1933 ~ Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer.

1931 ~ Philip Baker Hall, American actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Bookman, the library cop on Seinfeld.

1929 ~ Arnold Palmer (d. Sept. 25, 2016), American golfer.  He died 15 days after his 87^th birthday.

1918 ~ Rin Tin Tin (d. Aug. 10, 1932), original German-American acting dog.  The dog died almost 14 years later, in August 1932.

1896 ~ Adele Astaire (née Adele Marie Austerlitz, d. Jan. 25, 1981), American dancer and elder sister of Fred Astaire.  She died at age 84.

1892 ~ Arthur Compton (b. Mar. 15, 1962), American physicist and recipient of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He died at age 69.

1890 ~ Elsa Schiaparelli (d. Nov. 13, 1973), Italian fashion designer.  She died at age 83.

1886 ~ Hilda Doolittle (d. Sept. 27, 1961), American poet and novelist.  She died 17 days after her 75^th birthday.

1839 ~ Isaac K. Funk (d. Apr. 4, 1912), American lexicographer and publisher.  He was a co-founder of Funk and Wagnalls.  He died at age 72.

1839 ~ Charles Sanders Peirce (d. Apr. 19, 1914), American philosopher and mathematician.  He died at age 74.

1794 ~ Marie Laveau (d. June 15, 1881), Louisiana Creole practitioner of VooDoo in New Orleans.  She died at age 86.

1787 ~ John J. Crittenden (d. July 26, 1863), 15^th and 22^nd United States Attorney General.  He served his first term during the William Henry Harrison administration, from March 1841 until September 1841.  He was Attorney General under President Millard Fillmore from July 1850 to March 1853.  He died at age 75.

1786 ~ Nicolás Bravo (d. Apr. 22, 1854), President of Mexico.  He died at age 67.

1753 ~ Sir John Soane (d. Jan. 20, 1837), English architect.  He died at age 83.

1721 ~ Peyton Randolph (d. Oct. 21, 1775), 1^st President of the Continental Congress.  He died at age 54.

1659 ~ Henry Purcell (d. Nov. 21, 1695), English composer.  He died at age 36.

1487 ~ Pope Julius III (né Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, d. Mar. 23, 1555).  He served as Pope from February 1550 until his death on this date 5 years later.  He died at age 67.

920 ~ King Louis IV of France (d. 954).  The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been born and died on September 10, at age 33 or 34.

Events that Changed the World:

2017 ~ Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida.  The hurricane had torn through the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm and caused massive damage.

2008 ~ The Large Hadron Collider at CERN was powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

2003 ~ Anna Lindh (1957 ~ 2003), the foreign minister of Sweden, was stabbed while shopping.  She died at age 53 the following day from her injuries.

2002 ~ Switzerland joined the United Nations.

1967 ~ The people of Gibraltar voted to remain British subjects as opposed to joining and becoming a part of Spain.

1955 ~ The western television series Gunsmoke premiered on CBS.  The show ran through March 31, 1975.

1946 ~ While on a train to Darjeeling, India, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent decided to leave the convent and live among the poor.  She would be known to the world as Mother Teresa (1910 ~ 1997).

1939 ~ Canada declared war on Nazi Germany, joining France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

1846 ~ Elias Howe (1819 ~ 1867) was granted a patent for the sewing machine.

1823 ~ Simón Bolívar (1783 ~ 1830) was named the President of Peru.

1813 ~ The United States defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

1776 ~ Nathan Hale (1755 ~ 1776) volunteered to spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.  He was caught and hanged as a traitor 12 days later, on September 22, 1776 at age 21.

1515 ~ Thomas Wolsey (1473 ~ 1530) became a Cardinal.

1509 ~ A massive earthquake struck Constantinople.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ Norman Farberow (b. Feb. 12, 1918), American psychologist who worked to save the suicidal.  He was 97 years old.

2014 ~ Richard Kiel (b. Sept. 13, 1939), American gentle giant who became a Bond villain.  He was the seven-foot-two actor who was best known for his role as Jaws in the 1977 James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me.  He died of a heart attack three days before his 75^th birthday.

2014 ~ Edward Nelson (b. May 4, 1932), American mathematician.  He died at age 82.

2012 ~ Edwin P. Wilson (b. May 3, 1928), American CIA agent who was convicted in 1983 for selling arms to Libya.  It was later discovered that the Department of Justice had covered up evidence, and his conviction was overturned.  He was freed in 2004.  He died at age 84.

2011 ~ Cliff Robertson (né Clifford Parker Robertson, III, b. Sept. 9, 1923), American Oscar-winning actor snubbed by Hollywood.  His acting career lost momentum in 1977 after he blew the whistle on a high-level check fraud going on at a top movie studio.  He died 1 day after his 88^th birthday.

2008 ~ Reudi Rymann (b. Jan. 31, 1933), Swiss yodeler who was a national icon.  He died at age 75.

2007 ~ Dame Anita Roddick (b. Oct. 23, 1942), English businesswoman and environmentalist.  She was founder of The Body Shop.  She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 64.

2007 ~ Jane Wyman (née Sarah Jane Mayfield, b. Jan. 5, 1917), American actress and first wife of President Ronald Reagan.  She died at age 90.

2005 ~ Sir Hermann Bondi (d. Nov. 1, 1919), Austrian mathematician.  He died at age 85.

2004 ~ Brock Adams (né Brockman Adams, b. Jan. 13, 1927), 5^th United States Secretary of Transportation.  He served under President Jimmy Carter from January 1977 until July 1979.  He died at age 77.

1983 ~ Felix Bloch (b. Oct. 23, 1905), Swiss-American physicist and recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He died at age 77.

1983 ~ Norah Lofts (née Norah Ethel Robinson, b. Aug. 27, 1904), British author of historical romantic novels.  She died about 2 weeks after her 79^th birthday.

1976 ~ Dalton Trumbo (né James Dalton Trumbo, b. Dec. 9, 1905), American screenwriter and novelist.  His life story was in the 2015 film, Trumbo, which starred Bryan Cranston.  He died at age 70.

1975 ~ Sir George Paget Thomson (b. May 3, 1892), English physicist and recipient of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He died at age 83.

1966 ~ Emil Julius Gumbel (b. July 18, 1891), German mathematician.  He died at age 75.

1948 ~ Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. Feb. 26, 1861).  He died at age 87.

1935 ~ Huey P. Long (b. Aug. 30, 1893), 40^th Governor of Louisiana.  He was also a United States Senator.  He was assassinated in the Louisiana Capital building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1935.  He was killed 11 days after his 42^nd birthday.

1931 ~ Dmitri Egorov (b. Dec. 31, 1869), Russian mathematician.  He died at age 61.

1889 ~ Prince Charles III of Monaco (b. Dec. 8, 1818).  He died at age 70.

1851 ~ Reverend Thomas H. Gallaudet (b. Dec. 10, 1787), American educator for the deaf.  He died at age 63.

1845 ~ Joseph Story (b. Sept. 18, 1779), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  He was appointed to the High Court by President James Madison.  He was 32 years old at the time of his appointment to the Court.  He served on the Court from November 1812 until his death 33 years later at age 65.  He died 8 days before his 66^th birthday.

1842 ~ Letitia Christian Tyler (b. Nov. 12, 1790), First Lady of the United States and first wife of President John Tyler.  She died at age 51 while her husband was in Office, thereby becoming the first wife of a President to die while in office.

1797 ~ Mary Wollstonecraft (b. Apr. 27, 1759), English author and early feminist, best known for her book, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.  She died at age 38 of complications following childbirth.

1749 ~ Émilie du Châtelet (né Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet, b. Dec. 17, 1706), French mathematician and author during the Age of Enlightenment.  She died a week after having given birth to her third child.

1732 ~ Jacques d’Allonville (b. July 14, 1671), French mathematician and astronomer.  He died at age 61.

1382 ~ King Louis I of Hungary (b. Mar. 5, 1326).  He was known as Louis the Great.  He was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 until his death 40 years later.  He died at age 56.

1167 ~ Empress Matilda of England (b. Feb. 7, 1102).  She died at age 65.

954 ~ King Louis IV of France (d. 920).  The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been born and died on September 10, at age 33 or 34.