What happened on September 10 ?

920 - King Louis IV of France (d. 954)

1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)

1487 - Pope Julius III (d. 1555)

1550 - Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615)

1588 - Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)

1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)

1638 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)

1659 - Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)

1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)

1758 - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)

1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvec?ur de Perthes, French archaelogist (d. 1868)

1836 - Joseph Wheeler, Confederate Lt. General and United States General (d. 1906)

1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)

1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher

1844 - Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)

1852 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)

1861 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)

1866 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)

1886 - Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)

1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)

1890 - Franz Werfel, poet and author (d. 1945)

1892 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)

1896 - Ye Ting Chinese military leader (d. 1946 )

1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)

1904 - Max Shachtman, American Trotskyist politician

1914 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)

1915 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)

1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat

1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)

1922 - Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer

1928 - Jean Vanier, Canadian humanitarian.

1929 - Arnold Palmer, American golfer

1931 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor

1933 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)

1934 - Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)

1934 - Roger Maris, baseball player (d. 1985)

1938 - Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer

1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)

1941 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor

1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)

1943 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler

1945 - Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer

1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete

1946 - Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)

1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director

1948 - Bob Lanier, American basketball player

1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler

1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist, author, and commentator

1950 - Joe Perry, American musician (Aerosmith)

1953 - Amy Irving, American actress

1957 - Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister)

1958 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor

1958 - Chris Columbus, American film director

1959 - Peter Nelson, American actor

1960 - Colin Firth, English actor

1960 - David Lowery, American musician (Cracker (band))

1963 - Randy Johnson, American baseball player

1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player

1968 - Big Daddy Kane, American rapper

1968 - Guy Ritchie, British film director

1969 - Jonathon Schaech, American actor

1970 - Robert Green, English football player

1972 - Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete

1972 - James Duval, American actor

1973 - Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer

1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor

1974 - Ben Wallace, American basketball player

1976 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player

1980 - Mikey Way, American bassist (My Chemical Romance)