Monday 10th of September 1404

Baron, knight, companion-in-arms of Jeanne D'Arc and serial killer of children Gilles de Rais aka Gilles de Retz is born as Gilles de Montmorency-Laval in Château de Champtocé, Champtocé-sur-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, France.

Saturday 10th of September 1487

221st Pope Julius III is born as Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte in Monte San Savino, Toscana, Italy.

Tuesday 10th of September 1585

Composer Ercole Porta is born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Wednesday 10th of September 1659

Composer Henry Purcell is born in St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, London, Westminster, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 10th of September 1883

Baronet and murderer Jock John Henry Delves Broughton aka Sir Murder is born in Doddington Hall, Doddington, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

Friday 10th of September 1886

Poet and writer Hilda Doolittle aka H. D. is born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.

Monday 10th of September 1888

38-year-old Polish Jewish bootmaker John Pizer aka Leather Apron is arrested in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Pizer was suspected of being Jack the Ripper. He was cleared of suspicion when it turned out that he had alibis for two of the murders.

Wednesday 10th of September 1890

Poet and writer Franz Viktor Werfel is born in Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

Sunday 10th of September 1893

KZ-Aufseherin in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Johanna Bormann aka Wiesel is born in Birkenfeld, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

Thursday 10th of September 1896

19-year-old Marie Moussier-Lorut is killed by serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est in Busset, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Friday 10th of September 1897

Writer and philosopher Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille is born in Billom, Puy-de-Dôme, France.

Tuesday 10th of September 1918

German Shepherd dog movie star Rin Tin Tin is born in Flirey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

Friday 10th of September 1920

Actress and model Olive Thomas dies of acute nephritis caused by accidently drinking mercury bichloride in a drunken mood in the Hotel Ritz five days earlier at the age of 74 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 10th of September 1926

Murderer Henry Jackson is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.

Sunday 10th of September 1933

Fashion designer Karl Otto Lagerfeld is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Thursday 10th of September 1936

The dismembered body of an unidentified man is found as victim of Unidentified serial killer Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run aka Cleveland Torso Murderer in East 37th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

Only half the torso was found. Nothing remained below the hips. The head was never found nor the body identified.

Tuesday 10th of September 1940

Multiple child murderer Robert Anthony Bob Buell is born in Norwood, Ohio, United States.

Sunday 10th of September 1961

83 die in President Airlines Douglas DC-6B crash in River Shannon, Shannon, Munster, Ireland.

Saturday 10th of September 1966

41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Translation – Action for Two Voices' with Juan Hidalgo at the 'Destruction In Art Symposium' in African Centre, 33 King Street, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Friday 10th of September 1971

Actress Pier Angeli commits suicide by acute barbiturate poisoning at the age of 39 in 355 S. McCarty Drive, Beverly Hills, California, United States.

Angeli couldn’t bear the death of James Dean with whom she was romantically involved.

Sunday 10th of September 1972

Pop artist Evelyne Devaux Axell dies in a car crash at the age of 37 in Zwijnaarde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Tuesday 10th of September 1974

Start of the trial against 40-year-old Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof considering her part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Schwurgerichtskammer des Landgerichts III, Tegeler Weg 17-21, Berlin, Moabit, Berlin, Germany.

Friday 10th of September 1976

176 die in British Airways Flight 476 Hawker Siddeley Trident and Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550 Douglas DC-9 mid-air collision in Vrhovec, Zagrebačka županija, Yugoslavia.

Saturday 10th of September 1977

Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is executed by the Guillotine by Marcel Chevalier at the age of 28 in Baumettes Prison, 239 Chemin de Morgiou, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Djandoubi was the last person to be executed in Western Europe and the last person executed by beheading in the Western world.

Friday 10th of September 1982

Noise music band Club Moral play their 18th concert in Surplus, Kanaalkom, Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium.

Also played: Pseudo Code, Etat Brut, Waving Ondulata, Kaa Antilope, D 333, Front 242, Luc Van Acker

Saturday 10th of September 1983

Jon Brower Minnoch aka the Heaviest Human Ever Recorded dies of heart and respiratory failure at the age of 42 in Seattle, Washington, United States.

At the age of 12, Minnoch weighed 133 kilograms with an estimated height of 170cm and by age 22 he weighed 230 kilograms and was 185cm in height. At the age of 36 it was estimated that Minnoch must have weighed in excess of 635 kg. At the time of his death Minnoch weighed 362 kg.

Thursday 10th of September 1987

Cop killer Joseph Blaine Starvaggi is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Starvaggi had no last meal request.

Friday 10th of September 1999

Rapist and murderer Willis Jay Barnes is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Tuesday 10th of September 2002

Double murderer Tony Lee Walker is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Walker's last meal request was for french fries, five pieces of fried chicken, and three Dr. Peppers.

Wednesday 10th of September 2003

Double murderer Larry Allen Hayes is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Hayes' last meal request was for two bacon double cheeseburgers, French fries, onion rings, ketchup, cole slaw, two diet Cokes, one quart of milk, one pint of Rocky Road ice cream, one pint of fried okra, salad dressing, tomato and onion.

Saturday 10th of September 2005

A parade of mule carts with bricks for the construction of Wim Delvoye's tattooed pigs' New Quarters at the Convergence exhibition in 798 Art District, Beijing, Dashanzi, Hebei, China.

Tuesday 10th of September 2019

Double murderer Mark Anthony Soliz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Thursday 10th of September 2020

Actress Diana Enid Elizabeth Rigg known for playing Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series The Avengers dies of cancer at the age of 82 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.