Death Report

136,552 people died on 10th September 1977

Natural disasters in 1977
1977 Bucharest earthquake
Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977
Independence Day Derecho of 1977
1977 San Juan earthquake

People who died on September 10 (various years)
2007 - Ted Stepien, former owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers
2007 - Anita Roddick, British Businesswoman (b.1942)
2007 - Jane Wyman, American actress (b.1917)
2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith
2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga
2006 - Patty Berg, American female golf player
2005 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer
2004 - Brock Adams, American politician
2001 - DJ Uncle Al (b.1969)
2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer.
1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor
1998 - Carl Forgione, British actor
1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler
1996 - Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor
1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress
1995 - Charles Denner, French actor
1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player
1985 - Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager
1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa
1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician
1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish Formula One driver
1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer
1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1971 - Pier Angeli, Italian actress
1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist
1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader
1961 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver
1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor
1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria
1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer
1935 - Huey Long, American politician
1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician
1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec
1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player
1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated)
1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer
1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator
1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author
1759 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer
1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist
1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato
1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer
1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England
1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist
1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator
1591 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer
1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England
1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator
1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and patron of arts
1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated)
1308 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan
1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
1197 - Henry II of Champagne
1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
954 - King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)
210 BC - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.

Just imagine how long your list would be if you were born on sept 11th !!

136,528 People Died the day I was born.

Unusual Deaths in 1977
Tom pryce, a formula one driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal jansen van vuuren both died at the 1977 south african grand prix after van vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by pryce's car at approximately 170mph. pryce was struck in the face by the marshal's fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.
Natural disasters in 1977
1977 Bucharest earthquake
Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977
Independence Day Derecho of 1977
1977 San Juan earthquake
People who died on August 30 (various years)
2007 - Charles Vanik, American politician
2007 - Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert.
2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor
2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer
2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher
2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor
2002 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director
1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist
1996 - Christine Pascal, French actress and director
1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground)
1995 - Fischer Black, American economist
1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director
1993 - Richard Jordan, American actor,
1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor
1989 - Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic
1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author
1981 - Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman
1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress
1971 - Nathan Leopold, American murderer
1970 - Del Moore, American comedian
1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy
1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor
1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer
1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed)
1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed)
1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist
1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer
1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager
1906 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect
1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman
1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician
1879 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer
1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor
1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord
1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint
1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
1483 - King Louis XI of France
1428 - Emperor Shōkō
1158 - King Sancho III of Castile
526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)

140,815 total people died on the 8th January including a diver that got ripped apart when the decompression chamber was accidentally opened causing explosive decompression. Gruesome!!!

Also the Govenor of Oregon Tom McCall died the same day I was born.

133,039 total

Unusual Deaths in 1973
P�ter v�lyi, finance minister of hungary fell into a blast furnace (some sources say a pit of molten iron) on a visit to a steelworks factory at Miskolc.
Bruce lee, a martial arts actor, is thought to have died by a severe allergic reaction to equagesic. his brain had swollen about 13%. his autopsy was written as "death by misadventure."

The only interesting person listed for the day itself was; 1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author.