Events

Pre-1600

• 285 or 286 Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.

• 473 Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.

• 1147 Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.

• 1147 Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights conquer Lisbon.

• 1415 Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.

1601–1900

• 1616 Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.

• 1747 War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.

• 1760 King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.

• 1809 Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign.

• 1812 War of 1812: The American frigate, , commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate .

• 1822 Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.

• 1854 The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.

• 1861 The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.

• 1868 The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.

• 1875 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist.

1901–present

• 1911 The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.

• 1917 Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.

• 1920 After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.

• 1924 The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.

• 1927 The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

• 1932 George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.

• 1940 Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

• 1944 World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.

• 1944 World War II: The under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

• 1944 World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

• 1945 Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.

• 1949 The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.

• 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

• 1968 A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.

• 1968 Soyuz 2 is launched.

• 1971 The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

• 1973 Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.

• 1980 Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.

• 1983 The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.

• 1989 The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal.

• 1990 The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.

• 1995 A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.

• 1997 After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.

• 1999 A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.

• 2001 Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

• 2009 The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.

• 2010 A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

• 2023 A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.

Births

Pre-1600

• 840 Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, founder of the Saffarid dynasty (died 879)

• 1102 William Clito, French son of Sybilla of Conversano (died 1128)

• 1330 Louis II, Count of Flanders, (died 1384)

• 1453 Giuliano de' Medici (died 1478)

• 1510 Renée of France (died 1574)

• 1574 François de Sourdis, French Catholic prelate (died 1628)

• 1589 Jan Stanisław Sapieha, Polish-Lithuanian noble (died 1635)

1601–1900

• 1612 James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (died 1650)

• 1667 Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (died 1718)

• 1683 Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English-Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1757)

• 1692 Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain (died 1766)

• 1709 Georg Gebel, German organist and composer (died 1753)

• 1714 James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (died 1799)

• 1736 Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (died 1824)

• 1743 Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1812)

• 1749 Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, Swedish chamberlain (died 1802)

• 1754 Richard Howell, 3rd Governor of New Jersey (died 1802)

• 1755 François Joseph Lefebvre, French military commander (died 1820)

• 1757 Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman (died 1831)

• 1759 Maria Feodorovna, Russian wife of Paul I of Russia (died 1828)

• 1759 William Grenville, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1834)

• 1760 Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian (died 1842)

• 1767 Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and politician (died 1830)

• 1768 Frederick William, ruler of Nassau-Weilburg (died 1816)

• 1772 Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein, French memoirist (died 1857)

• 1772 Géraud Duroc, French general and diplomat (died 1813)

• 1779 Pedro Velarde y Santillán, Spanish artillery captain (died 1808)

• 1781 Friedrich von Berchtold, Bohemian physician and botanist (died 1876)

• 1782 Levi Lincoln Jr., American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1868)

• 1789 Carlos María de Alvear, Argentine soldier and statesman (died 1852)

• 1789 Heinrich Schwabe, German astronomer (died 1875)

• 1790 Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (died 1878)

• 1792 Jeanne Jugan, French nun (died 1879)

• 1795 John P. Kennedy, American novelist and Whig politician (died 1870)

• 1800 Maria Jane Jewsbury, English writer, poet, literary reviewer (died 1833)

• 1800 Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet, historian, and politician, Secretary at War (died 1859)

• 1800 Jacques Paul Migne, French priest (died 1875)

• 1800 Julius von Mohl, German orientalist (died 1876)

• 1802 Richard Parkes Bonington, English painter (died 1828)

• 1802 Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (died 1864)

• 1803 Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist (died 1884)

• 1806 Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (died 1856)

• 1811 Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (died 1832)

• 1814 Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours (died 1896)

• 1815 Camillo Sivori, Italian virtuoso violinist and composer (died 1894)

• 1819 Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist (died 1904)

• 1821 Antonio Ciseri, Swiss-Italian painter (died 1891)

• 1825 Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (died 1899)

• 1825 Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, German astronomer and geophysicist (died 1884)

• 1827 Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (died 1907)

• 1832 Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (died 1909)

• 1838 Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (died 1875)

• 1838 James Maybrick, English cotton merchant, victim of the "Aigburth Poisoning" (died 1889)

• 1844 Philip Wicksteed, English economist (died 1927)

• 1848 Carlo Emery, Italian entomologist (died 1925)

• 1848 Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian novelist (died 1904)

• 1852 Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Russian author (died 1912)

• 1853 Karl August Otto Hoffmann, German botanist (died 1909)

• 1856 Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archaeologist (died 1936)

• 1858 Take Ionescu, Romanian politician, diplomat, journalist and lawyer (died 1922)

• 1864 John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company (died 1920)

• 1864 Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian-American pianist and composer (died 1956)

• 1864 Toktogul Satylganov, Kyrgyz Akyn, poet and singer (died 1933)

• 1866 Thomas Armat, American mechanic and inventor (died 1948)

• 1866 Norbert Klein, Bishop of Brno (died 1933)

• 1866 Georg Schumann, German composer (died 1952)

• 1867 Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (died 1937)

• 1868 Dan Burke, American baseball player (died 1933)

• 1868 Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (died 1946)

• 1870 Elsa Reger, German writer (died 1951)

• 1874 Emma Gramatica, Italian actress (died 1965)

• 1874 Victor Sonnemans, Belgian water polo player (died 1962)

• 1874 Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (died 1916)

• 1875 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, American author and educator (died 1961)

• 1875 Arthur Birkett, British cricketer (died 1941)

• 1877 Adolf Moller, German rower (died 1968)

• 1877 Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (died 1957)

• 1879 Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (died 1925)

• 1880 Bohumír Šmeral, Czech politician (died 1941)

• 1881 Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1973)

• 1882 John T. Flynn, American journalist and author (died 1964)

• 1882 Tony Jackson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1921)

• 1882 André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1964)

• 1882 Theodora Agnes Peck, American author and poet (died 1964)

• 1883 Nikolay Krestinsky, Russian revolutionary and politician (died 1938)

• 1884 Maria Czaplicka, Polish cultural anthropologist (died 1921)

• 1885 Sam M. Lewis, American singer and lyricist (died 1959)

• 1885 Xavier Lesage, French equestrian (died 1968)

• 1886 Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (died 1972)

• 1886 Karl Polanyi, Austro-Hungarian economist and historian (died 1964)

• 1887 Alexander McCulloch, British rower (died 1951)

• 1888 Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and pilot (died 1957)

• 1888 Nils Dardel, Swedish-American painter (died 1943)

• 1888 Jan Palouš, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (died 1971)

• 1888 Léon Tom, Belgian fencer and bobsledder

• 1889 Abel Gance, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1981)

• 1890 Floyd Bennett, American aviator (died 1928)

• 1890 Kōtarō Tanaka, Japanese jurist and politician (died 1974)

• 1891 Charles Coughlin, Canadian-American priest and radio host (died 1979)

• 1891 Karl Elmendorff, German conductor (died 1962)

• 1892 Nell Shipman, Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, and producer (died 1970)

• 1894 Claude Cahun, French photographer and sculptor (died 1954)

• 1894 Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish poet and songwriter (died 1973)

• 1894 Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Prime Minister of Finland (died 1982)

• 1895 Levi Eshkol, Ukrainian-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1969)

• 1895 Vsevolod Merkulov, Russian head of the NKGB (died 1953)

• 1895 Arthur Schmidt, German officer (died 1987)

• 1896 Nils Backlund, Swedish water polo player (died 1964)

• 1897 Erwin von Lahousen, German Abwehr official (died 1955)

• 1897 Karl Olivecrona, Swedish lawyer and philosopher (died 1980)

• 1897 Luigi Pavese, Italian actor (died 1969)

• 1898 Karl Anton, German director, screenwriter and producer (died 1979)

• 1899 Armand Thirard, French cinematographer (died 1973)

• 1900 Johan Greter, Dutch equestrian (died 1975)

• 1900 Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (died 1978)

• 1900 William Stevenson, American track and fielder (died 1985)

1901–present

• 1901 Roy Fox, British dance bandleader (died 1982)

• 1902 Henry Steele Commager, American historian and author (died 1998)

• 1902 Carlo Gnocchi, Italian priest, educator and writer (died 1956)

• 1902 Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (died 1933)

• 1903 Piet van der Horst, Dutch cyclist (died 1983)

• 1904 Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1985)

• 1904 Denny Shute, American golfer (died 1974)

• 1904 Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-American animator (died 1968)

• 1905 Bob McPhail, Scottish footballer (died 2000)

• 1906 Karl Humenberger, Austrian footballer (died 1989)

• 1908 Carmen Dillon, English film and production designer (died 2000)

• 1908 Gotthard Handrick, German fighter pilot and Olympic athlete (died 1978)

• 1908 Polly Ann Young, American actress (died 1997)

• 1909 Whit Bissell, American actor (died 1996)

• 1909 Ken Domon, Japanese photographer (died 1990)

• 1909 Edward Flynn, American boxer (died 1976)

• 1909 Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director and screenwriter (died 1985)

• 1910 William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (died 1994)

• 1910 Johnny Mauro, American race car driver (died 2003)

• 1910 Tyrus Wong, Chinese-American artist (died 2016)

• 1912 Abdelkader Ben Bouali, French footballer (died 1997)

• 1912 Alfred Klingler, German field handballer

• 1912 Minnie Pearl, American entertainer and philanthropist (died 1996)

• 1912 Luigi Raimondi, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1975)

• 1913 Klaus Barbie, German SS captain (died 1991)

• 1913 Larry Itliong, Filipino-American union organizer (died 1977)

• 1913 Anton Kochinyan, Soviet-Armenian politician (died 1990)

• 1914 John Berryman, American poet and scholar (died 1972)

• 1915 Ivan M. Niven, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (died 1999)

• 1916 Helge Larsson, Swedish canoeist (died 1971)

• 1917 Carl Forssell, Swedish fencer (died 2005)

• 1917 Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (died 2001)

• 1918 David Ausubel, American psychologist (died 2008)

• 1919 Beate Uhse-Rotermund, German pilot and entrepreneur (died 2001)

• 1919 Raoul Remy, French cyclist (died 2002)

• 1920 Megan Taylor, British figure skater (died 1993)

• 1921 Michael I of Romania (died 2017)

• 1922 Gloria Lasso, Spanish singer (died 2005)

• 1923 Achille Silvestrini, Italian prelate (died 2019)

• 1923 Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (died 2012)

• 1923 Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player (died 2010)

• 1924 Billy Barty, American actor (died 2000)

• 1924 Earl Palmer, American Hall of Fame drummer (died 2008)

• 1925 Oralia Dominguez, Mexican operatic mezzo-soprano singer (died 2013)

• 1925 Joseph Michel, Belgian politician (died 2016)

• 1926 Bo Carpelan, Finnish poet and author (died 2011)

• 1926 Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (died 2020)

• 1926 Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian-American soprano and actress (died 2012)

• 1927 Barbara Cook, American singer and actress (died 2017)

• 1927 Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Uruguay (died 2016)

• 1927 Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist and author (died 1987)

• 1927 Lauretta Masiero, Italian actress and singer (died 2010)

• 1928 Jeanne Cooper, American actress (died 2013)

• 1928 Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (died 2021)

• 1928 Anthony Franciosa, American actor (died 2006)

• 1928 Adolphe Gesché, Belgian Catholic priest and theologian (died 2003)

• 1928 Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic (died 2016)

• 1928 Marion Ross, American actress

• 1928 Yakov Rylsky, Soviet sabre fencer (died 1999)

• 1929 Michel Knuysen, Belgian rower (died 2013)

• 1929 Zdravko Milev, Bulgarian chess player (died 1984)

• 1929 Claude Rouer, French cyclist (died 2021)

• 1929 Peter Rühmkorf, German writer (died 2008)

• 1930 Harold Brodkey, American author and academic (died 1996)

• 1930 Karoly Honfi, Hungarian chess player (died 1996)

• 1931 Annie Girardot, French actress and singer (died 2011)

• 1931 Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2018)

• 1932 Vitold Fokin, Ukrainian first deputy prime minister (died 2025)

• 1932 Jerzy Pawłowski, Polish fencer and double agent (died 2005)

• 1932 Theodor Pištěk, Czech costume designer

• 1933 René Brodmann, Swiss footballer (died 2000)

• 1933 Martti Mansikka, Finnish gymnast (died 2024)

• 1934 Carlos Sherman, Belarusian–Spanish translator, writer, activist (died 2005)

• 1935 Rusty Schweickart, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut

• 1936 Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (died 2015)

• 1936 Arnfinn Nesset, Norwegian nurse and convicted serial killer

• 1936 Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and singer

• 1937 Vendramino Bariviera, Italian cyclist (died 2001)

• 1937 Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, Spanish prelate

• 1937 Roberto Menescal, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1938 Bob Webster, American diver

• 1939 Zelmo Beaty, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)

• 1939 Sara Dylan, American actress and model

• 1939 Nikolay Kiselyov, Soviet Nordic combined athlete (died 2005)

• 1939 Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007)

• 1939 Dave Simmonds, British motorcycle racer (died 1972)

• 1939 Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2005)

• 1940 Jimmy Herman, Canadian actor (died 2013)

• 1940 Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach (died 2023)

• 1941 Lynda Benglis, American sculptor and painter

• 1941 Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2020)

• 1941 Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor (died 2011)

• 1941 Anne Tyler, American author and critic

• 1941 Dave Weill, American discus thrower

• 1942 Terumasa Hino, Japanese jazz trumpeter

• 1942 Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and producer (died 2018)

• 1942 Franklin Loufrani, French President of the Smiley Company

• 1943 Orso Maria Guerrini, Italian actor

• 1943 Roy Lynes, English keyboardist and singer

• 1944 Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (died 2013)

• 1944 Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1944 James Carville, American lawyer and political consultant

• 1944 Donald Ford, Scottish footballer

• 1944 Fred Housego, Scottish-English taxi driver and game show host

• 1944 Kati Kovács, Hungarian singer-songwriter and actress

• 1944 Ren Zhengfei, Chinese businessman

• 1945 Peter Ledger, Australian-American painter and illustrator (died 1994)

• 1945 Yuriy Meshkov, Ukrainian politician and Russian separatist (died 2019)

• 1945 Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Polish lawyer, screenwriter and politician (died 2026)

• 1945 Francisco Sá, Argentine footballer

• 1945 Phil Volk, American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer

• 1945 David S. Ward, American director and screenwriter

• 1945 Keaton Yamada, Japanese voice actor

• 1946 Elías Figueroa, Chilean footballer

• 1946 Peter Lieberson, American composer (died 2011)

• 1947 Requena Nozal, Spanish artist

• 1947 Glenn Tipton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1948 Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach

• 1948 Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach

• 1948 Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach

• 1948 Sigleif Johansen, Norwegian biathlete

• 1949 Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager

• 1949 Walter Hyatt, American singer-songwriter (died 1996)

• 1949 Brian Kerwin, American actor

• 1949 Wilfried Louis, Haitian footballer

• 1950 Anne Alvaro, French actress

• 1950 Fernando Arêas Rifan, Brazilian bishop

• 1950 Roger Davies, English footballer

• 1950 John Matuszak, American footballer (died 1989)

• 1950 Francisco Oscar Lamolina, Argentine football referee

• 1950 Chris Norman, English singer-songwriter

• 1951 Richard Lloyd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1952 Samir Geagea, Lebanese commander and politician

• 1952 Wendy Hall, English computer scientist, mathematician, and academic

• 1952 Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (died 2004)

• 1952 Tove Nilsen, Norwegian author

• 1953 Daniele Bagnoli, Italian volleyball coach

• 1953 Jasem Yaqoub, Kuwaiti footballer

• 1954 Mike Eruzione, American ice hockey player and coach

• 1954 Ed Powers, American founder of Ed Powers Productions

• 1955 Glynis Barber, South African-English actress

• 1955 Robin Eubanks, American trombonist and educator

• 1955 Gale Anne Hurd, American producer

• 1955 Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter

• 1955 Leena Lander, Finnish author

• 1955 Lito Lapid, Filipino actor

• 1956 Stephen Leather, British author

• 1957 Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress

• 1957 Enrique López Zarza, Mexican footballer

• 1957 Robbie McIntosh, English guitarist

• 1957 Piet Wildschut, Dutch footballer

• 1958 Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer

• 1958 Kjell Inge Røkke, Norwegian businessman and philanthropist

• 1959 Óscar Aguirregaray, Uruguayan footballer

• 1959 Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (died 2013)

• 1960 Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director and screenwriter

• 1961 John Sivebæk, Danish footballer

• 1961 Chad Smith, American drummer

• 1962 David Furnish, Canadian filmmaker

• 1962 Steve Gainer, American cinematographer and director

• 1962 Steve Hodge, English footballer and manager

• 1962 John Stollmeyer, American soccer player

• 1963 John Levén, Swedish bassist

• 1963 Michael Lynagh, Australian rugby union footballer

• 1963 Melinda McGraw, American actress

• 1963 Tracy Nelson, American actress

• 1963 José Ortiz, Puerto Rican basketball player (died 2026)

• 1964 Michael Boatman, American actor

• 1964 Johan de Kock, Dutch footballer

• 1964 Nicole, German singer

• 1964 Kevin Michael Richardson, American voice actor and singer

• 1965 2 Cold Scorpio, American wrestler

• 1965 Mathieu Amalric, French actor and director

• 1965 Valdir Benedito, Brazilian footballer

• 1965 Claire Colebrook, Australian philosopher, theorist, and academic

• 1965 Dominique Herr, Swiss footballer

• 1965 Derrick Rostagno, American tennis player

• 1965 Rainer Strecker, German actor

• 1965 Karl Malin, Austrian politician

• 1966 Zana Briski, British photographer and filmmaker

• 1966 Lionel Charbonnier, French footballer

• 1966 Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1966 Perry Saturn, American wrestler

• 1967 Martin Marinov, Australian canoeist

• 1967 Taiyō Matsumoto, Japanese manga artist

• 1967 Gary Sundgren, Swedish footballer

• 1968 Doris Fitschen, German footballer

• 1968 Christopher McQuarrie, American filmmaker

• 1968 Speech, American rapper

• 1969 Samantha Bee, Canadian-American comedian and television host

• 1969 Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player and coach

• 1969 Slavko Cicak, Swedish chess Grandmaster

• 1969 Nika Futterman, American voice actress, comedian and singer

• 1969 Ibragim Gasanbekov, Azerbaijani footballer

• 1969 Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer

• 1969 Alex Webster, American bass player

• 1970 J. A. Adande, American journalist and academic

• 1970 Peter Aerts, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist

• 1970 Adam Goldberg, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1970 Damir Mršić, Bosnian basketball player

• 1970 Adam Pascal, American actor and singer

• 1970 Rafa, Spanish footballer

• 1970 Ed Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1970 Daniel Scheinhardt, German footballer

• 1970 Chely Wright, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1971 Simon Charlton, English footballer and manager

• 1971 Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer

• 1971 Neil Fallon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1971 Leslie Grossman, American actress

• 1971 Rosie Ledet, American singer-songwriter and accordion player

• 1971 Pedro Martínez, Dominican-American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1971 Midori, Japanese-American violinist and educator

• 1971 Craig Robinson, American actor and singer

• 1971 Elif Şafak, French-Turkish journalist, author, and academic

• 1972 Cristian Dulca, Romanian footballer

• 1972 Rodolfo Falcón, Cuban swimmer

• 1972 Maxi Mounds, American nude big-bust model and pornographic actress

• 1972 Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1972 Persia White, American actress, singer, and musician

• 1973 Fırat Aydınus, Turkish football referee

• 1973 Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (died 2005)

• 1973 Michael Weston, American actor

• 1974 Lee Byung-kyu, South Korean baseball player

• 1974 Yoo Yong-sung, South Korean badminton player

• 1975 Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1975 Ryan Clement, American football player

• 1975 Agustín Julio, Colombian footballer

• 1975 Zadie Smith, English author and academic

• 1975 Antony Starr, New Zealand actor

• 1976 Deon Burton, Jamaican footballer

• 1976 Ahmed Dokhi, Saudi Arabian footballer

• 1976 Akihisa Ikeda, Japanese manga artist

• 1976 Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer

• 1976 Brett Kirk, Australian footballer and coach

• 1976 Anton Sikharulidze, Russian pair skater

• 1977 The Alchemist, American rapper, DJ, and producer

• 1977 Rodolfo Bodipo, Equatoguinean retired footballer

• 1977 Mitică Pricop, Romanian sprint canoer

• 1977 Birgit Prinz, German footballer and psychologist

• 1977 Rakan Rushaidat, Croatian actor

• 1977 Kateryna Serebrianska, Ukrainian gymnast

• 1977 Mihai Tararache, Romanian footballer

• 1977 Yeho, Israeli singer and actor

• 1978 Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer

• 1978 Zachary Knighton, American actor

• 1978 Bobby Madden, Scottish football referee

• 1978 Robert Mambo Mumba, Kenyan footballer

• 1978 Markus Pöyhönen, Finnish sprinter

• 1978 An Yong-hak, North Korean footballer

• 1979 Bat for Lashes, English singer

• 1979 Rob Hulse, English footballer

• 1979 Mariana Klaveno, American actress

• 1979 João Lucas, Portuguese footballer (died 2015)

• 1979 Rosa Mendes, Canadian-American wrestler and model

• 1980 Mehcad Brooks, American model and actor

• 1980 Félicien Singbo, Beninois footballer

• 1981 Hiroshi Aoyama, Japanese motorcycle racer

• 1981 Josh Henderson, American actor and singer

• 1981 Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer

• 1982 Victoria Francés, Spanish illustrator

• 1982 Devin Green, American basketball player

• 1982 Guido Grünheid, German basketball player

• 1982 Camilla Jensen, Danish curler

• 1982 Michael Sweetney, American basketball player

• 1982 Mickaël Tavares, Senegalese footballer

• 1983 Hotaru Akane, Japanese actress and activist (died 2016)

• 1983 Stanislav Bohush, Ukrainian footballer

• 1983 Daniele Mannini, Italian footballer

• 1983 Princess Yōko of Mikasa

• 1983 Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress

• 1984 Nicolas Besch, French ice hockey player

• 1984 Ticia Gara, Hungarian chess player

• 1984 Sara Lumholdt, Swedish singer and dancer

• 1984 Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1984 Iván Ramis, Spanish footballer

• 1984 Karolina Šprem, Croatian tennis player

• 1985 Ciara, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

• 1985 Óscar Granados, Costa Rican footballer

• 1985 Kara Lynn Joyce, American swimmer

• 1985 Daniele Padelli, Italian footballer

• 1986 Tweety Carter, American basketball player

• 1986 Roger Espinoza, Honduran footballer

• 1986 Eddie Gaven, American soccer player

• 1986 Kristian Sarkies, Australian footballer

• 1986 Ekaterina Shumilova, Russian biathlete

• 1987 Bill Amis, American basketball player

• 1987 Darron Gibson, Irish footballer

• 1987 Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast

• 1988 Robson Conceição, Brazilian boxer

• 1988 Lewis McGugan, English professional footballer

• 1988 Chandler Parsons, American basketball player

• 1988 Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer

• 1988 Karim Yoda, French footballer

• 1989 Filip Grgić, Croatian taekwondo practitioner

• 1989 Sten Grytebust, Norwegian footballer

• 1989 David Hala, Australian rugby league player

• 1989 Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer

• 1989 Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress

• 1990 Mattia Cattaneo, Italian cyclist

• 1990 Sara Chafak, Finnish beauty pageant winner

• 1990 Asha Philip, British athlete

• 1990 Milena Rašić, Serbian volleyball player

• 1990 Dzina Sazanavets, Belarusian weightlifter

• 1991 Davide Faraoni, Italian footballer

• 1991 Isabella Shinikova, Bulgarian tennis player

• 1992 Clarisse Agbegnenou, French judoka

• 1992 Davide Formolo, Italian cyclist

• 1992 Sergey Ridzik, Russian freestyle skier

• 1993 Isaiah Austin, American basketball player

• 1993 Iván Garcia, Mexican diver

• 1993 William Howard, French basketball player

• 1993 Rachel Matthews, American actress

• 1993 Zeno Robinson, American voice actor

• 1994 Richard Jouve, French cross-country skier

• 1994 Jefferson Lerma, Colombian footballer

• 1994 Matteo Lodo, Italian rower

• 1994 Gor Minasyan, Armenian weightlifter

• 1994 Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster

• 1995 Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress

• 1995 Jock Landale, Australian basketball player

• 1995 Patrick McCaw, American basketball player

• 1996 PJ Dozier, American basketball player

• 1997 Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer

• 1998 Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player

• 1998 Lee Know, South Korean singer

• 1999 Romeo Langford, American basketball player

• 2000 Dominik Szoboszlai, Hungarian footballer

• 2000 Vincent Zhou, American figure skater

• 2001 Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 625 Pope Boniface V

• 912 Rudolph I, king of Burgundy (born 859)

• 1047 Magnus the Good, Norwegian king (born 1024)

• 1053 Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu

• 1154 Stephen, King of England

• 1180 John of Salisbury, French bishop (born c. 1120)

• 1200 Conrad of Wittelsbach, German cardinal (born 1120)

• 1230 Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (born 1180)

• 1292 Robert Burnell, Lord Chancellor of England

• 1349 James III of Majorca (born 1315)

• 1359 Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (born 1293)

• 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, English philosopher, poet, and author (born c. 1343)

• 1415 Charles I of Albret

• 1415 Philip II, Count of Nevers (born 1389)

• 1415 Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont (born 1371)

• 1415 Jean I, Duke of Alençon (born 1385)

• 1415 Anthony, Duke of Brabant (born 1384)

• 1415 Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, English soldier (born 1394)

• 1415 Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, English politician (born 1373)

• 1415 Dafydd Gam, Welsh nobleman (born c. 1380)

• 1478 Catherine of Bosnia (born 1425)

• 1492 Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop (born 1455)

• 1495 John II of Portugal (born 1455)

• 1514 William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and academic, founded University of Aberdeen (born 1431)

• 1557 William Cavendish, English courtier and civil servant (born 1505)

1601–1900

• 1647 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)

• 1651 Saint Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint (born 1551)

• 1683 William Scroggs, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (born 1623)

• 1733 Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1667)

• 1757 Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (born 1672)

• 1760 George II of Great Britain (born 1683)

• 1806 Henry Knox, American general and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of War (born 1750)

• 1826 Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (born 1745)

• 1833 Abbas Mirza, Persian prince (born 1789)

• 1852 John C. Clark, American lawyer and politician (born 1793)

• 1889 Émile Augier, French playwright (born 1820)

• 1895 Charles Hallé, German-English pianist and conductor (born 1819)

1901–present

• 1902 Frank Norris, American journalist and novelist (born 1870)

• 1910 Willie Anderson, Scottish-American golfer (born 1878)

• 1916 William Merritt Chase, American painter and educator (born 1849)

• 1919 William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland (born 1849)

• 1920 Alexander of Greece (born 1893)

• 1920 Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright, politician, Lord Mayor of Cork died on hunger strike (born 1879)

• 1920 Joe Murphy, (Irish-American), died on hunger strike during the 1920 Cork hunger strike (born 1895)

• 1921 Bat Masterson, American lawman, buffalo hunter, and sport writer (born 1853)

• 1924 Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet, and activist (born 1876)

• 1938 Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author (born 1892)

• 1940 Thomas Waddell, Irish-Australian politician, 15th Premier of New South Wales (born 1854)

• 1941 Franz von Werra, Swiss-German captain and pilot (born 1914)

• 1945 Robert Ley, German politician (born 1890)

• 1949 Mary Acworth Orr Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (born 1867)

• 1953 Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (born 1867)

• 1954 Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, Indian jeweller and namesake of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers (born 1874)

• 1955 Sadako Sasaki, Japanese girl (born 1943)

• 1956 Risto Ryti, Finnish lawyer, politician and Governor of the Bank of Finland; 5th President of Finland (born 1889)

• 1957 Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)

• 1957 Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, English-Irish author, poet, and playwright (born 1878)

• 1960 Harry Ferguson, Irish-English engineer, founded the Ferguson Company (born 1884)

• 1963 Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (born 1898)

• 1967 Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright (born 1886)

• 1969 Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (born 1893)

• 1970 Ülo Sooster, Estonian painter (born 1924)

• 1971 Mikhail Yangel, Soviet missile designer (born 1911)

• 1972 Johnny Mantz, American race car driver (born 1918)

• 1973 Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (born 1932)

• 1973 Cleo Moore, American actress (born 1928)

• 1973 Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (born 1891)

• 1975 Vladimir Herzog, Brazilian journalist and activist (born 1937)

• 1976 Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (born 1903)

• 1977 Félix Gouin, French politician (born 1884)

• 1979 Gerald Templer, English field marshal and politician, British High Commissioner in Malaya (born 1898)

• 1980 Virgil Fox, American organist and educator (born 1912)

• 1980 Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (born 1948)

• 1980 Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (born 1921)

• 1982 Bill Eckersley, English footballer (born 1925)

• 1982 Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver (born 1901)

• 1985 Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter (born 1952)

• 1986 Forrest Tucker, American actor (born 1919)

• 1989 Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (born 1912)

• 1990 Alberto da Costa Pereira, Portuguese footballer (born 1929)

• 1991 Bill Graham, German-American concert promoter (born 1931)

• 1992 Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1936)

• 1992 Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (born 1916)

• 1993 Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1958)

• 1993 Vincent Price, American actor (born 1911)

• 1994 Kara Hultgreen, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1965)

• 1994 Mildred Natwick, American actress (born 1905)

• 1995 Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (born 1920)

• 1995 Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (born 1918)

• 1999 Leonard Boyle, Irish and Canadian palaeographer and medievalist (born 1923)

• 1999 Payne Stewart, American golfer (born 1957)

• 2000 Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (born 1909)

• 2002 Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (born 1930)

• 2002 René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (born 1923)

• 2002 Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (born 1944)

• 2003 Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher (born 1920)

• 2003 Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician (born 1925)

• 2004 John Peel, English radio host and producer (born 1939)

• 2010 Lisa Blount, American actress (born 1957)

• 2010 Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (born 1951)

• 2010 Vesna Parun, Croatian poet and author (born 1922)

• 2012 Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (born 1907)

• 2012 Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)

• 2012 John Connelly, English footballer (born 1938)

• 2012 Emanuel Steward, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster (born 1944)

• 2013 Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1934)

• 2013 Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic (born 1924)

• 2013 Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (born 1930)

• 2013 Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)

• 2013 Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (born 1930)

• 2013 Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)

• 2013 Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (born 1942)

• 2014 Jack Bruce, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1943)

• 2014 Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (born 1940)

• 2015 David Cesarani, English historian and author (born 1956)

• 2015 Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (born 1944)

• 2015 Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (born 1988)

• 2015 Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (born 1955)

• 2016 Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (born 1944)

• 2016 Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (born 1922)

• 2018 Thomas Keating, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1923)

• 2019 Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (born 1937)

• 2024 Phil Lesh, American bassist (born 1940)

• 2024 Kim Soo-mi, South Korean actress (born 1949)

• 2025 Satish Shah, Indian actor and comedian (born 1951)

• 2025 Rolf Dupuy, anarchist and historian of the anarchist movement in France and Spain (born 1946)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day (Romania)

Christian feast day:

• Bernat Calbó (Bernard of Calvo)

• Pope Boniface I

• Canna

• Blessed Carlo Gnocchi

• Crysanthus and Daria (Western Christianity)

• Crispin and Crispinian

• Fructus

• Gaudentius of Brescia

• Goeznovius

• Minias of Florence

• Mar Nestorius (in the Nestorian churches)

• Tabitha (Dorcas)

• Tegulus

• Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy

• The Six Welsh Martyrs and companions (in Wales)

• The Hallowing of Nestorius

• October 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country)

• Republic Day (Kazakhstan)

• Retrocession Day and the memorial day for the Battle of Guningtou ()

• Sovereignty Day (Slovenia)

• Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)

References

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