Deaths in History on September 10

Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BC)

Founder of the Qin dynasty and 1st emperor of a unified China (220 - 210 BC), dies reportedly from ingesting mercury pills meant to make him immortal at 49

827 Pope Valentine dies after 40 days in office [date approximate]
918 Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, dies at about 53
954 Louis IV [Louis of Overseas], King of France (936-54), dies at about 33
1167 Empress Matilda [Maud], claimant to the English throne, daughter of Henry I of England, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
1197 Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
1217 William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
1279 Robert Kilwardby [Anglicus], English Archbishop of Canterbury (1272-78), philosopher and Cardinal, dies (b. 1215)
1305 Nicholas van Tolentino, Italian saint, dies
1308 Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
1382 Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary/Poland, dies

John the Fearless (1371-1419)

Duke of Burgundy (1404-19), assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France at 48

1482 Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron
1519 John Colet, English churchman and educator
1547 Pierlugi Faraese, Italian son of Pope Paul III, murdered
1559 Anthony Denny, English knight of the shire and confidant of King Henry VIII of England, dies at 58
1600 John Bruhesius [Bruhesen], bishop of Groningen, dies
1604 William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
1623 John I Van de Velde the Elder, Dutch calligrapher (Mirror of Write-Konste), dies
1669 Henrietta Maria, French-born daughter of Henry IV of France and queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
1676 Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
1748 Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, Filipino Religious Sister of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 85
1749 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (translation of Newton's Principia), dies in childbirth at 42
1759 Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer and Jesuit missionary, dies at 55
1765 Jacob Gilles, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at about 74

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

English author and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, dies of septicaemia at 38

1801 Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (stabbed girlfriend Elizabeth Banks in famous case), hung at 20
1806 Johann Christoph Adelung, German linguist, librarian, translator and lexicographer, dies at 74
1828 Count d'Andreossi, French general and parliament leader, dies at 67
1839 Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66
1842 Letitia Tyler, US President Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51
1845 Joseph Story, American lawyer and 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45), dies at 65
1851 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American pioneer of educating the deaf, dies at 63
1862 Carlos Antonio López, 1st President of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71
1898 Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, and wife of Franz Joseph I, dies from a stab wound at 60
1915 Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec, dies at 93
1925 Henry Lincoln "Linc" Johnson, American attorney and politician, remembered as one of the most prominent early 20th century African-American Republicans, dies of a stroke at 55
1931 Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (differential geometry and mathematical analysis), dies at 61
1937 Sergei Tretyakov, Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda, executed by Stalinist regime at 47
1944 Jaap P. Musch, Dutch resistance fighter, murdered by Nazis
1952 Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
1955 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer and the founder of Blackburn Aircraft, dies at 70
1960 Fjodor Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63

New Zealand father of modern plastic Surgery who pioneered skin graft techniques on injured soldiers in WWI, dies at 78 of a slight cerebral thrombosis gained while operating on the leg of an 18-year-old girl [1]

1963 Eugène Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra), dies at 89
1965 Father Divine [Reverend Major Jealous Divine], "the Messenger", African American religious leader
1966 Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
1975 George Paget Thomson, English physicist who demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937), dies at 83 [1]
1975 Robert Gordon Sproul, American educator and college president (University of California), dies at 84
1976 Dalton Trumbo, American writer and film director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70
1976 Mordecai Johnson, 1st African American president of Howard U, dies at 86
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, Tunisian convicted murderer who was the last person to be executed in Western Europe, is beheaded in Marseille by guillotine at 28
1979 Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (1975-79), dies at 56
1982 Max Winders, Belgian architect (WWII), responsible for bringing the Belgian gold stock, dies at 100
1983 "John Vorster, South African Prime Minister (1966-78), dies at 67
1983 Felix Bloch, Swiss-American nuclear physicist (1st Director of CERN, Nobel Prize for Physics 1952), dies at 77
1983 Jon Brower Minnoch, American, world's heaviest recorded man at 1,400lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone), dies at 41
1983 Norah Lofts, British author (The Town House), dies at 79
1985 Ernest Julius Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist known for his studies of meteors and the structure and evolution of the cosmos, dies at 91
1990 Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
1993 Stuart Rose, British designer (British Post Office), dies at 81
1994 Amy Clampitt, American poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
1996 Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor, dies at 100
2000 Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
2001 DJ Uncle Al [Albert Moss] American DJ, shot and killed at 32
2004 Brock Adams, American politician, dies at 77
2006 Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965-2006), dies at 88
2007 Anita Roddick, English businesswoman and cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop), dies at 64 [1]
2007 Ted Stepien, American businessman and basketball team owner, dies at 82
2010 Edwin Charles Tubb, British sci-fi writer (Earth is Heaven, Earthfall), dies at 90
2013 Clay Shaw, American politician (Rep-R-FL, 1981-2007), dies from lung cancer at 74
2014 Richard Kiel, American actor, dies from a heart attack at 74
2016 Eddie Antar, founder and CEO (Crazy Eddie Electronics Store), dies at 68