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September 10 in history

215 sourced entries recorded on September 10, from 169 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 506Council of Agde: The bishops of Visigothic Gaul under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles meet.source
  • 1147The German crusaders under Conrad III reach Constantinople, where there is a frosty exchange of letters between Conrad and Manuel I. The German forces make camp at Galata on the northern shore of the Golden Horn. Manuel orders that a full-scale effort must be made to transport the Germans, who are causing troubles by sacking the Philopatium, across the Bosporus.source
  • 1191September 9–10 – Richard I and his Crusader forces march on to Jaffa and set about rebuilding its fortifications, which Saladin has destroyed by his scorched-earth policy. Mid-September, a large number of French nobles begin to resist – such as Hugh III. They argue about the refortification of Jaffa, instead of a direct strike inland on Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Saladin evacuates and demolishes most of the fortresses of southern Palestina.source
  • 1308(Tokuji 3, 25th day of the 8th month) At the age of 11, Hanazono becomes the 95th Emperor of Japan upon the death of his cousin, the Emperor Go-Nijō. Emperor Hanazono will rule until 1348.source
  • 1315The Battle of Connor is fought in County Antrim in the north of Ireland as part of the Bruce campaign in Ireland. Scottish-Irish forces commanded by Edward Bruce, brother of Scotland's King Robert the Bruce, rout the army commanded by "The Red Earl", Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster. Those earls not captured by the Scottish army flee to Carrickfergus Castlesource
  • 1364Philip of Anjou becomes Titular Emperor of Constantinople and Prince of Taranto.source
  • 1368Xu Da captures the city of Tongzhou after defeating a Yuan army, forcing Huizong to flee to Shangdu.source
  • 1389In Greece, Andronikos Asen Zaccaria, chief law enforcement officer of the Principality of Achaea, ruled by the Republic of Genoa, imprisons the Duke of Athens, Nerio Acciaioli, after the Navarrese commander Pedro de San Superano had invited Acciaioli to discuss peace.source
  • 1436At the Battle of Piperdean, fought near the border between Scotland and England, a force of 4,000 English troops led by the George de Dunbar and the Earl of Northumberland to take back Dunbar Castle is repelled by the Earl of Angus, who as Warden of the Scottish Marches. The Scots surprise the marching English troops and kill an estimated 1,500 men, including 40 knights, while losing 200 men of their own.source
  • 1440A rebellion in Hungary, instigated by Ladislaus Garai against the newly elected King Laszlo (who is also king of Poland), is ended when Garai's army is annihilated in a battle at Bátaszék by the troops of General János Hunyadi and of Nicholas of Ilok, ruler of Croatia.source
  • 1451The Ottoman Empire renews its treaty with Republic of Venice and, on September 20, a truce with the Kingdom of Hungary.source
  • 1468Treaty of Ancenis is signed between France and Francis II, duke of Brittany.source
  • 1481Alphonso II of Naples recaptures the city of Otranto.source
  • 1509The Constantinople earthquake destroys 109 mosques and kills an estimated 10,000 people.source
  • 1510(Eishō 7, 18th day of the 8th month) An estimated 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the Seto Inland Sea (Setonaikai) strikes off the coast of Japan near what is now Nanko-Higashi.source
  • 1512Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque departs from the Indian city of Cochin with 14 ships and 1,700 troops to retake the fortress of Goa, capital of Portuguese India, from Bijapur's General Rasul Khan. A day before a planned Portuguese attack on Bihar's army, Rasul Khan and his occupying forces depart from Goa.source
  • 1540Gibraltar is sacked by the fleet of Barbary pirate Ali Hamet, a Sardinian renegade in the service of the Ottoman Empire, and many of its leading citizens are taken as captives to Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera in Morocco. This leads to construction of the defensive Charles V Wall, at this time known as the Muralla de San Benito.source
  • 1547Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: An English army under the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England, defeats a Scottish army under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the Regent. The English seize Edinburgh.source
  • 1547Battle of Pinkie (Cleugh): An English army under the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England, defeats a Scottish army under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the Regent. The great Highland bagpipe is perhaps heard in the field. The English seize Edinburgh and Hume Castle is surrendered to them by Mariotta Haliburton.source
  • 1547Conspirators led by Ferrante Gonzaga murder Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and son of the Pope, and hang his body from a window of his palace in Piacenza.source
  • 1550Spanish troops, commanded by Genoa's General Andrea Doria, capture the Tunisian fortress of Mahdia from the Ottoman Empire after fighting that began on June 28.source
  • 1564Battle of Kawanakajima in Japan: Takeda Shingen fights the forces of Uesugi Kenshin for the final time, to a draw.source
  • 1570A party of ten Spanish Jesuit missionaries land on the Virginia Peninsula of North America to establish the Ajacán Mission, which will be massacred in February 1571.source
  • 1576After a siege that has lasted a year and two days, the Spanish Army abandons its siege of the Dutch city of Woerden.source
  • 1579(5th waning of Tawthalin 941 ME) In the Kingdom of Mrauk U in what is now Myanmar and Bangladesh, King Min Phalaung becomes the owner of the first of three white elephants, and gives himself the title of Hsinbyushin.source
  • 1580Italian and Spanish troops sent by Pope Gregory XIII to aid the Second Desmond Rebellion and commanded by Sebastiano di San Giuseppi land at Smerwick on the Dingle Peninsula.source
  • 1593With no fortress or troops to defend Croatia, Ottoman General Mehmed Pasha captures the city of Sisak. Selânikî Mustafa Efendi, Tarih-i Selânikî (Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1999)source
  • 1598Prince Michael II of Wallachia begins the siege of Nicopolis (now Nikopol in Bulgaria).source
  • 1602Rory O'Donnell (Rudhraighe Ó Domhnaill) becomes the last Irish King of Tyrconnell upon the death of his brother, Hugh Roe O'Donnell (Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill). After less than a year, Rory allows Tyrconnell (modern-day County Donegal in Northern Ireland) to come under Irish control in return for being created the Earl of Tyrconnell.source
  • 1607Jamestown President Edward Maria Wingfield is deposed and John Ratcliffe elected.source
  • 1608John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, and begins expanding the fort.source
  • 1609Jamestown: Capt. George Percy replaces Captain John Smith as president of the Council, and Smith returns to England.source
  • 1623Murat IV, age 11, succeeds his deposed uncle Mustafa I as Ottoman Emperor. Because Murat is a minor, his mother, Kösem Sultan, serves as regent until 1632.source
  • 1627The Siege of La Rochelle begins as the Roman Catholic nations of France and Spain move to suppress the revolt of Protestant Huguenots in the western French city.source
  • 1645English Civil War: Prince Rupert surrenders Bristol.source
  • 1660The estates gather at Copenhagen Castle to solve the financial problems faced after the wars and Frederick plays the different estates against each other.source
  • 1672William III of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, dismisses nine of the regenten who lead cities in the Netherlands, after being granted authority by the States-General.source
  • 1677Henry Purcell is appointed a musician to the court of Charles II of England.source
  • 1689September 3–12 – Messengers from over 100 Baptist churches assemble in the City of London to discuss and endorse the 1677 document that will become known as the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith.source
  • 1693France begins the siege of the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) fort of Charleroi.source
  • 1704Lower Largo-born sailor Alexander Selkirk chooses to be marooned from a privateer ship in the Juan Fernández Islands.source
  • 1711September 10 (also dated September 12) – John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried, two African American slaves and two Native Americans leave on an exploration expedition from New Bern, North Carolina, and travel north by canoe up the Neuse River.source
  • 1718In France, Armande Félice de La Porte Mazarin and the Vicomtesse de Polignac, both mistresses of the Duc de Richelieu, fight a duel with pistols at the Bois de Boulogne near Paris. Lady Mazarin, who had initiated the duel, is wounded in the shoulder and both survive. Richelieu, though impressed by the willingness of the ladies to fight over his affections, comments Je ne sacrifierai pas un de mes cheveux, ni à l’une, ni à l’autre ("I will not sacrifice anything, not to one, nor to the other.")source
  • 1721September 10 (August 23 Old Style) – The Treaty of Nystad is signed, ending the Great Northern War.source
  • 1721Great Northern War ends.source
  • 1721The Treaty of Nystad is signed, ending the Great Northern War.source
  • 1724Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist.source
  • 1759Battle of Pondicherry: An inconclusive naval battle is fought off the coast of India, between the French Admiral d'Aché and the British under George Pocock. The French forces are badly damaged and sail home, never to return.source
  • 1759Battle of Frisches Haffsource
  • 1763the Freeman's Journal newspaper begins publication in Dublin, established by three merchants under the management of Henry Brooke with contributions by the radical politician Charles Lucas and initially in support of the Protestant Ascendancy.source
  • 1769Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): Russian forces take the Ottoman fortress of Chocim in Bukovina.source
  • 1775August 29 – September 12 – The Independence Hurricane from South Carolina to Nova Scotia kills 4,170, mostly fishermen and sailors.source
  • 1781American Revolution: Graves gives up trying to break through the now-reinforced French fleet and returns to New York, leaving Cornwallis to his fate.source
  • 1785The United States and the Kingdom of Prussia sign a Treaty of Amity and Commerce.source
  • 1794The University of Tennessee is established at Knoxville.source
  • 1798The Piedmontese Republic is declared in the territory of Piedmont.source
  • 1798Battle of St. George's Caye: Off the coast of British Honduras (modern-day Belize), a group of European settlers and Africans defeats a Spanish force sent from Mexico to drive them out.source
  • 1813War of 1812 – Battle of Lake Erie: An American squadron under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeats a British squadron, capturing 6 ships.source
  • 1822September 8–13 – Battle of Nauplia: In a series of naval engagements, the Ottoman Fleet fails to break through the Greek Fleet, under Admiral Andreas Vokos Miaoulis.source
  • 1823Simón Bolívar is named dictator of Peru.source
  • 1835The Cruelty to Animals Act extends protection of domesticated animals from maltreatment, including outright prohibition on bear-baiting and cockfighting in England and Wales.source
  • 1840Ottoman and British troops bombard Beirut, and land troops on the coast, to pressure Egyptian Muhammad Ali to retreat from the country.source
  • 1846Elias Howe is awarded the first United States patent for a sewing machine, using a lockstitch design.source
  • 1848The Austrian commander Karl von Urban makes the first stand against the Revolution in Hungary, assembling in his headquarters in Năsăud hundreds of delegates from all districts of the Principality of Transylvania. As a result, 918 communities in the region distance themselves from the Revolution.source
  • 1858Fitzroy, Victoria becomes a municipality in its own right, after separating from the City of Melbourne.source
  • 1858The statue of Frederick VI is unveiled at Frederiksberg Runddel.source
  • 1860Piedmontese forces invade the Papal States, hoping to link up with Garibaldi in Naples.source
  • 1862Francisco Solano López is appointed second President of Paraguay.source
  • 1889Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi becomes Albert I, Prince of Monaco.source
  • 1894Richard Strauss marries Pauline De Ahna.source
  • 1897Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.source
  • 1897Lattimer Massacre: A sheriff's posse kills more than 19 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.source
  • 1898Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni assassinates Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva, as an act of propaganda of the deed.source
  • 1904American criminal Bill Miner stages Canada's first-ever train robberysource
  • 1905Crystal Palace F.C. is founded in London.source
  • 1908At the 1908 Icelandic prohibition referendum, a ban on importing alcohol is approved by 60.1% of voters.source
  • 1908The first Minas Geraes-class Dreadnought battleship for Brazil, Minas Geraes, is launched at Armstrong Whitworth's yard on the River Tyne in England, catalysing the "South American dreadnought race".source
  • 1908The first Minas Geraes-class Dreadnought battleship for Brazil, Minas Geraes, is launched at Armstrong Whitworth's yard on the River Tyne in England, catalysing the "South American dreadnought race".source
  • 1913Haaken C. Mathiesen, landowner and businessperson (born 1827)source
  • 1913Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar is premiered in Gloucester Cathedral, England, with soprano Aino Ackté.source
  • 1919The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, ending World War I with Austria-Hungary and declaring that the latter's empire is to be dissolved. The Republic of German-Austria becomes the First Austrian Republic but retains less than 40% of the prewar imperial territory.source
  • 1919September 10–15 – The Florida Keys hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas.source
  • 1919September 10 – September 15: The Florida Keys Hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas.source
  • 1923The Irish Free State joins the League of Nations.source
  • 1924September 9–11 – The Kohat riots break out in India.source
  • 1931The worst hurricane in British Honduras history kills an estimated 1,500.source
  • 1932The IND Eighth Avenue Line, at this time the world's longest subway line (31 mi), begins operation in Manhattan.source
  • 1934September 5–10 – The 6th Nuremberg Rally is staged by the German Nazi Party.source
  • 1936The first World Speedway Championship is held at Wembley Stadium in London, England. It is won by Australian Lionel Van Praag, with Englishman Eric Langton second and Australian Bluey Wilkinson third.source
  • 1937Nine nations meet in the Nyon Conference, led by the United Kingdom and France, to address international piracy in the Mediterranean.source
  • 1938Hermann Göring, in a speech at Nuremberg, calls the Czechs a "miserable pygmy race" who are "harassing the human race". That same evening, Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia, makes a broadcast in which he appeals for calm.source
  • 1938Hermann Göring, in a speech at Nuremberg, calls the Czechs a "miserable pygmy race" who are "harassing the human race." That same evening, Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia, makes a broadcast in which he appeals for calm.source
  • 1943Fire in the Grand Bazaar (Kapalıçarşı) 202 shops were destroyedsource
  • 19431943 Tottori earthquakesource
  • 1945Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death for being a Nazi collaborator in Norway.source
  • 1946Operation Black Tulip, the expulsion of Germans from the Netherlands, begins in Amsterdam.source
  • 1951The United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran.source
  • 1952The European Parliamentary Assembly (from March 1962, the European Parliament) opens.source
  • 1952The Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany is signed. According to the Agreement, West Germany was to pay Israel for the slave labor and persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, and to compensate for Jewish property that was stolen by the Nazis.source
  • 1955September 10–20: Hurricane Hilda (1955).source
  • 1955The long-running Western television series Gunsmoke debuts, on the CBS network in the United States.source
  • 1957Hallvard Devold, Arctic explorer, trapper and meteorologist (born 1898)source
  • 1959MASA is founded when the state-owned investment bank, SOMEX, acquires the private company, Sheppard Hnos.source
  • 19601960 Summer Olympic Games: Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia wins the gold medal in the marathon, running barefoot in a world time, and becoming the first person from Sub-Saharan Africa to win Olympic gold.source
  • 1961During the F1 Italian Grand Prix on the circuit of Monza, German Wolfgang von Trips, driving a Ferrari, crashes into a stand, killing 14 spectators and himself.source
  • 1963Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on April 11, 2006).source
  • 1964The African Development Bank (AfDB) is founded.source
  • 1967In a Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, only 44 voters out of 12,182 in the British Crown colony of Gibraltar support union with Spain.source
  • 1971September 9–13 – Attica Prison riot: A revolt breaks out at the maximum-security prison in Attica, New York. In the end, state police and the United States National Guard storm the facility; 42 are killed, 10 of them hostages.source
  • 1971September 5–18: Hurricane Edith.source
  • 1972Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and becomes the youngest Formula One World Champion at the age of 25.source
  • 1974The Portuguese military junta grants independence to Guinea-Bissau.source
  • 1976Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (modern-day Zagreb, Croatia), killing all 176 aboard.source
  • 1976September 7 – 11: Hurricane Kathleensource
  • 1977Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is the last person executed by guillotine in France (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the Western world.source
  • 1981September 4–12. Major Soviet military exercise Zapad’81 (West’81) takes place in Belarus and the Baltic States.source
  • 1981September 5–10. First round of National Congress of Solidarity Delegates takes place in Gdańsk, at Hala Olivia. Solidarity has 9,5 million members. Of all its regions, most numerous is Upper Silesia - Zagłębie Dąbrowskie (Region Śląsko-Dąbrowski) - 1,4 mln members, Mazovia - 911,000 members, and Lower Silesia - 900,000 members. During the Congress, The Message to Working People of Eastern Europe is issued, as well as a Letter to Polonia of the Whole World.source
  • 1981Picasso's painting Guernica is moved from New York to Madrid.source
  • 1987September 7–21 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.source
  • 1988September 8–19: Hurricane Gilbertsource
  • 1989The Hungarian government opens the country's western border (with Austria) to refugees from East Germany.source
  • 1989A Romanian cruiser carrying 179 people collides with a Bulgarian tugboat on the Danube, near Galați. Only 18 people are rescued from the cruiser.source
  • 1989September 10–11 – Norway's ruling Labour Party loses eight seats in the parliamentary elections, its worst showing since 1945.source
  • 1989The landfall of Typhoon Sarah.source
  • 1990September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.source
  • 1990The first Pizza Hut opens up in the Soviet Union.source
  • 1993Pope John Paul II visits Estonia and Latvia.source
  • 1995September 4–15 – The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.source
  • 1998At midnight, a shooting occurs aboard an Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Russian Navy docked in the northern Russian port city of Severomorsk.source
  • 2000September 7–14 – Fuel protests in the United Kingdom, with refineries blockaded and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.source
  • 2003The four-day World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2003 begins in Cancún.source
  • 2003Al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri release their first video statement since 2001.source
  • 2008The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, located at CERN, near Geneva, under the Franco-Swiss border.source
  • 2008The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is switched on at CERN, in Geneva.source
  • 2011The MV Spice Islander I, carrying at least 800 people, sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people.source
  • 2015Scientists announce the discovery of Homo naledi, a previously unknown species of early human in South Africa.source
  • 2016A magnitude 5.9 earthquake killed 19 people and injured 253 in Tanzania.source
  • 2020It is announced that former Prime Minister Charlot Salwai is set to stand trial for November 23, charged with ten counts of bribery and corruption.source
  • 2023Storm Daniel, a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, kills at least 5,000 people, with a further 10,000 to 100,000 reported missing. In the city of Derna in Libya, two dams collapse, resulting in a quarter of the city being destroyed.source
  • 2025A liquid petroleum gas truck overturns and explodes at an overpass in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, killing 32 people and injuring 90 others.source

Births

  • 877Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria (died 940)source
  • 904Guo Wei, emperor of Later Zhou (died 954)source
  • 1169Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (died 1183)source
  • 1423Eleanor, Princess of Asturias (died 1425)source
  • 1447Paolo da San Leocadio, Italian painter in Spain (died 1520)source
  • 1487Pope Julius III (died 1555)source
  • 1497Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (died 1563)source
  • 1561Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (died 1634)source
  • 1624Thomas Sydenham, English physician (died 1689)source
  • 1638Maria Theresa of Spain, queen consort of Louis XIV of France (died 1683)source
  • 1659Henry Purcell, English composer (died 1695)source
  • 1714Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (died 1774)source
  • 1721Peyton Randolph, 1st and 3rd President of the Continental Congress (died 1775)source
  • 1753John Soane, English architect (died 1837)source
  • 1753John Soane, architect (died 1837)source
  • 1786Nicolás Bravo, 3-time President of Mexico (died 1854)source
  • 1787John J. Crittenden, U.S. Senator from Kentucky 1817-1819, 1835-1841, 1842-1848 & 1855-1861 (died 1863)source
  • 1836Joseph Wheeler, American general, politician (died 1906)source
  • 1839Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (died 1914)source
  • 1890Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist (died 1976)source
  • 1933Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer, artist (died 2019)source

Deaths

  • 169Marcus Annius Verus, Roman co-rulersource
  • 602Dugu Qieluo, empress of the Chinese Sui dynasty (born 544)source
  • 689Guo Zhengyi, official of the Chinese Tang dynastysource
  • 710Li Chongfu, imperial prince of the Chinese Tang dynasty (born c. 680)source
  • 918Baldwin II, Frankish margravesource
  • 952Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (born 885)source
  • 954Louis IV, king of the West Frankish Kingdomsource
  • 954King Louis IV (d'Outremer) dies after a hunting accident (near his palace in Corbeny). He is succeeded by his 13-year-old son Lothair III under the guardianship of Hugh the Great, count of Paris.source
  • 1056William, margrave of the Nordmarksource
  • 1142Sancho de Larrosa, Spanish bishopsource
  • 1161Tala'i ibn Ruzzik, Fatimid viziersource
  • 1167Matilda, Holy Roman Empress (born 1102)source
  • 1191Ralph de Warneville, Norman bishopsource
  • 1197Henry II, Count of Champagne, king of Jerusalem, dies from falling out a first-floor window at his palace in Acre. His widow, Isabella I, becomes regent while the kingdom is thrown into consternation.source
  • 1197Henry II, Count of Champagne (or Henry II), king of Jerusalem (born 1166)source
  • 1198Richard FitzNeal, bishop of London (born 1130)source
  • 1217William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English noblemansource
  • 1281John II, margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (born 1237)source
  • 1305Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian friar and mysticsource
  • 1308Go-Nijō, Japanese emperor (born 1285)source
  • 1382King Louis I of Hungary (born 1326)source
  • 1382Lajos I, King of Hungary and Croatia and Poland, dies at the age of 56 after 40 years as the Hungarian monarch.source
  • 1384Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and nominal Duchess of Brittany (born 1319)source
  • 1419John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (born 1371)source
  • 1419John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin.source
  • 1419John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by his opponents. His death at the hands of supporters of the Dauphin Charles intensifies France's civil chaos.source
  • 1419John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (born 1371)source
  • 1479Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati, Italian Catholic cardinal (born 1422)source
  • 1482Federico da Montefeltro, Italian mercenary (born 1422)source
  • 1504Duke Philibert II of Savoy (born 1480)source
  • 1541September 9–11 – Spanish noblewoman Beatriz de la Cueva serves as governor of the colony of Guatemala, before she is killed in a mudslide from Volcán de Agua, which ruins the capital city, Ciudad Vieja.source
  • 1547Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (born 1503)source
  • 1549Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (born 1501)source
  • 1591Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (born 1542)source
  • 1602Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tyrconnell, leader in the Nine Years War (born 1572)source
  • 162255 Christians are executed in Nagasaki during the Great Genna Martyrdom.source
  • 1641Ambrose Barlow, English Catholic martyr (born 1585) (executed)source
  • 1669Henrietta Maria of France, queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1609)source
  • 1669Henrietta Maria of France, queen consort of Charles I of England (born 1609)source
  • 1676Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (born 1609)source
  • 1689John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse, English politician and noble (born 1614)source
  • 1748Mother Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino founder of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (born 1663)source
  • 1749Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician, physicist (born 1706)source
  • 1797Mary Wollstonecraft, English feminist author (born 1759)source
  • 1827Ugo Foscolo, Greek-born Italian writer, revolutionary and poet (born 1778)source
  • 1842William Hobson, Irish-born officer in the British Royal Navy, first Governor-General of New Zealand and co-author of Treaty of Waitangi (born 1792)source
  • 1842William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealandsource
  • 1884George Bentham, English botanist (born 1800)source
  • 1898Empress Elisabeth of Austria, empress consort of Austria, queen consort of Hungary (assassinated) (born 1837)source
  • 1904Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan politician and military leader (born 1856), of wounds received in the Battle of Masoller.source
  • 1935Huey Long, American politician (assassinated 2 days before) (born 1893)source
  • 1939Władysław Raginis commits suicide at Wiznasource
  • 1949Wiley Rutledge, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born 1894)source
  • 2025Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing activist and influential ally of President Trump, is assassinated at a campus event in Utah, prompting widespread reactions and reprisals both domestically and internationally.source