On This Day: September 10

Updated September 9, 2012, 2:28 pm

On Sept. 10, 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the United States 1st Division during World War I.

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On Sept. 10, 1934, Roger Maris, the professional baseball player who held the record for home runs in a single season from 1961 to 1998, was born. Following his death on Dec. 14, 1985, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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Historic Birthdays

Roger Maris 9/10/1934 – 12/14/1985 American professional baseball player.Go to obituary »

?	Alonso Perez Medina-Sidonia 9/10/1550 – ?/?/1619 Spanish naval commander
83	Sir John Soane 9/10/1753 – 1/20/1837 English Neoclassical architect
74	William Torrey Harris 9/10/1835 – 11/5/1909 American public school educator and philosopher
92	John Lynch 9/10/1847 – 11/2/1939 American politician; served in Mississippi legislature and U.S. Congress during Reconstruction
64	Carl Van Doren 9/10/1885 – 7/18/1950 American novelist, biographer and critic
54	Franz Werfel 9/10/1890 – 8/26/1945 German Expressionist poet, playwright and novelist
83	Elsa Schiaparelli 9/10/1890 – 11/13/1973 Italian-born French dress designer
69	Arthur Holly Compton 9/10/1892 – 3/15/1962 American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1927)
71	Cyril Connolly 9/10/1903 – 11/26/1974 English critic, novelist and founder of Horizon magazine