Events

Pre-1600

• 619 A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.

• 1410 The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.

1601–1900

• 1675 Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.

• 1707 – Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.

• 1795 The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.

• 1868 Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.

• 1882 The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.

• 1889 North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

• 1899 The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

1901–present

• 1912 Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.

• 1914 World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.

• 1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".

• 1917 The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

• 1920 The Ocoee massacre commences in Orange County, Florida on the day of the 1920 United States presidential election.

• 1920 In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

• 1936 The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

• 1940 World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.

• 1947 In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.

• 1949 The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.

• 1951 Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.

• 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.

• 1956 Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.

• 1959 Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

• 1959 The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.

• 1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

• 1963 South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.

• 1964 King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.

• 1965 Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

• 1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

• 1967 Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

• 1973 Aeroflot Flight 19 is hijacked and diverted to Vnukovo International Airport, where the aircraft is stormed by authorities.

• 1982 Channel 4, the British free-to-air public broadcast television channel funded by its commercial activities, starts broadcasting.

• 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

• 1984 Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

• 1986 Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.

• 1988 The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

• 1988 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.

• 1990 British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

• 1997 Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.

• 1999 Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.

• 2000 Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.

• 2008 Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.

• 2016 The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.

• 2020 In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.

• 2022 A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.

Births

Pre-1600

• 971 Mahmud of Ghazni (died 1030)

• 1418 Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder and writer (died 1504)

• 1428 Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (died 1483)

• 1470 Edward V, King of England (died 1483)

• 1475 Anne of York, seventh child of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (died 1511)

• 1549 Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (died 1580)

1601–1900

• 1636 Edward Colston, English merchant and politician (died 1721)

• 1649 Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond (died 1660)

• 1696 Conrad Weiser, American soldier, monk, and judge (died 1760)

• 1699 Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter and educator (died 1779)

• 1709 Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (died 1759)

• 1734 Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (died 1820)

• 1755 Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (died 1793)

• 1777 Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor and translator (died 1822)

• 1795 James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (died 1849)

• 1799 John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (died 1885)

• 1808 Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (died 1889)

• 1815 George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1864)

• 1821 George Bowen, Irish-English diplomat, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1899)

• 1837 Émile Bayard, French illustrator and painter (died 1891)

• 1844 Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (died 1918)

• 1844 John J. Loud, American inventor (died 1916)

• 1847 Georges Sorel, French philosopher and author (died 1922)

• 1855 Henrik Schück, Swedish historian, author, and academic (died 1947)

• 1865 Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)

• 1877 Joseph De Piro, Maltese priest and missionary (died 1933)

• 1877 Aga Khan III, Indian 48th Shia Imam (died 1957)

• 1877 Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (died 1915)

• 1878 Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (died 1930)

• 1879 Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player and violinist (died 1965)

• 1883 Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (died 1947)

• 1885 Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (died 1972)

• 1886 Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (died 1971)

• 1890 Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (died 1933)

• 1890 Moa Martinson, Swedish author (died 1964)

• 1892 Alice Brady, American actress (died 1939)

• 1893 Battista Farina, Italian businessman, founded the Pininfarina Company (died 1966)

• 1894 Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (died 1976)

1901–present

• 1901 James Dunn, American actor (died 1967)

• 1903 Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1987)

• 1905 Isobel Andrews, New Zealand writer (died 1990)

• 1905 Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright (died 1989)

• 1906 Daniil Andreyev, Russian poet and mystic (died 1959)

• 1906 Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (died 1976)

• 1908 Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (died 1983)

• 1908 Bunny Berigan, American trumpet player (died 1942)

• 1910 Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian lawyer and politician, Egyptian Minister of Interior (died 1999)

• 1911 Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)

• 1911 Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist (died 1995)

• 1913 Burt Lancaster, American actor (died 1994)

• 1914 Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (died 1997)

• 1914 Ray Walston, American actor (died 2001)

• 1915 Sidney Luft, American film producer (died 2005)

• 1917 Ann Rutherford, American actress (died 2012)

• 1918 Alexander Vraciu, American commander and pilot of Romanian descent (died 2015)

• 1919 Warren Stevens, American actor (died 2012)

• 1920 Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (died 2013)

• 1921 Shepard Menken, American actor (died 1999)

• 1921 Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1994)

• 1922 Michael Loewe, British historian, Sinologist and writer (died 2025)

• 1923 Tibor Rosenbaum, Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (died 1980)

• 1924 David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1988)

• 1924 Rudy Van Gelder, American record producer and engineer (died 2016)

• 1926 Myer Skoog, American basketball player (died 2019)

• 1926 Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and DJ (died 2008)

• 1927 Steve Ditko, American author and illustrator (died 2018)

• 1927 John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman and politician (died 2022)

• 1928 Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian (died 2011)

• 1928 Paul Johnson, English journalist, historian, and author (died 2023)

• 1928 James Luisi, American basketball player and actor (died 2002)

• 1928 Shulamith Shahar, Latvian-born Israeli historian (died 2025)

• 1929 Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (died 2013)

• 1929 Robert Gover, American journalist and author (died 2015)

• 1929 Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan (died 2022)

• 1929 Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

• 1931 Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 2015)

• 1933 Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 2016)

• 1934 Joseph E. Brennan, American politician, 70th Governor of Maine (died 2024)

• 1934 Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player

• 1935 Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Indian author

• 1936 Rose Bird, American lawyer and judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (died 1999)

• 1937 Earl Carroll, American singer (died 2012)

• 1938 Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician

• 1938 David Eden Lane, American white supremacist (died 2007)

• 1938 Queen Sofía of Spain, Queen Consort of King Juan Carlos of Spain

• 1938 Josse Goffin, Belgian artist and graphic novelist (died 2024)

• 1939 Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones, English broadcaster and politician, Minister for Security

• 1939 Richard Serra, American sculptor and academic (died 2024)

• 1940 Jim Bakken, American football player

• 1940 Phil Minton, English singer and trumpet player

• 1941 Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician, Indian Minister of Communications

• 1941 Dave Stockton, American golfer

• 1941 Bruce Welch, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1942 Shere Hite, German sexologist, author, and educator (died 2020)

• 1942 Stefanie Powers, American actress

• 1943 Oldřich Pelčák, Czech cosmonaut and engineer (died 2023)

• 1944 Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

• 1944 Keith Emerson, English pianist, keyboard player, and composer (died 2016)

• 1945 Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (died 2013)

• 1945 Larry Little, American football player

• 1945 JD Souther, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024)

• 1946 Alan Jones, Australian race car driver and sportscaster

• 1946 Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (died 2001)

• 1947 Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer

• 1947 Kate Linder, American actress

• 1949 Lois McMaster Bujold, American author

• 1949 Grace Y. Sam, Palauan politician

• 1951 Thomas Mallon, American novelist, essayist, and critic

• 1951 Lindy Morrison, Australian rock drummer

• 1952 Ron Lee, American basketball player

• 1952 Maxine Nightingale, English R&B/soul singer

• 1955 Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer and manager

• 1956 Dale Brown, American author and pilot

• 1957 Carter Beauford, American drummer and composer

• 1958 Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager

• 1959 Peter Mullan, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1960 Rosalyn Fairbank, South African tennis player

• 1961 k.d. lang, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1961 Jeff Tedford, American football player and coach

• 1962 Mireille Delunsch, French operatic soprano

• 1962 Derek Mountfield, English footballer and manager

• 1963 Bobby Dall, American bass player

• 1963 Brian Kemp, American politician, 83rd Governor of Georgia

• 1963 Borut Pahor, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Slovenia

• 1964 – Alan Tait, English-Scottish rugby player and coach

• 1964 Lauren Vélez, American actress

• 1965 Nick Boles, English businessman and politician

• 1965 Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host

• 1966 David Schwimmer, American actor

• 1967 Kurt Elling, American singer-songwriter

• 1967 Scott Walker, American politician, 45th Governor of Wisconsin

• 1968 Neal Casal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer (died 2019)

• 1968 Keith Jennings, American basketball player and coach

• 1969 Reginald Arvizu, American rock musician

• 1971 Meta Golding, Haitian-American actress

• 1972 Marion Posch, Italian snowboarder

• 1972 Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer and coach

• 1972 Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach

• 1972 Samantha Womack, British actress, singer and director

• 1973 Ben Graham, Australian footballer

• 1973 Marisol Nichols, American actress

• 1974 Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player

• 1974 Nelly, American rapper

• 1974 Prodigy, American rapper (died 2017)

• 1974 Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey player (died 2011)

• 1975 Danny Cooksey, American actor and musician

• 1975 Stéphane Sarrazin, French race car driver

• 1975 Chris Walla, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1976 Matt Cullen, American ice hockey player

• 1976 Thierry Omeyer, French handball goalkeeper

• 1976 Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player

• 1977 Rodney Buford, American basketball player

• 1977 Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player

• 1977 Reshma Shetty, British-American actress

• 1977 Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster

• 1978 Carmen Cali, American baseball player

• 1979 Simone Puleo, Italian footballer

• 1979 Anna Sobolak, Polish politician and businessperson

• 1980 Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer

• 1980 Amos Roberts, Australian rugby player

• 1981 Monica Iozzi, Brazilian actress

• 1981 Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress

• 1981 Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer

• 1981 Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer

• 1981 Miryo, South Korean rapper

• 1981 Roddy White, American football player

• 1981 Esha Deol is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films.

• 1982 Yunel Escobar, Cuban-American baseball player

• 1982 Charles Itandje, French footballer

• 1983 Ebonette Deigaeruk, Nauruan weightlifter

• 1983 Darren Young, American wrestler

• 1985 Danny Amendola, American football player

• 1986 Andy Rautins, American-Canadian basketball player

• 1987 Danny Cipriani, English rugby player

• 1988 Lisa Bowman, Irish netball player

• 1988 Julia Görges, German tennis player

• 1989 Tibor Pleiß, German basketball player

• 1989 Natalie Pluskota, American tennis player

• 1989 Luke Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1990 Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer

• 1990 Kendall Schmidt, American singer, songwriter, and actor

• 1991 Jimmy Garoppolo, American football player

• 1994 Shaq Coulthirst, English footballer

• 1995 Hanna Öberg, Swedish biathlete

• 1997 Filip Hronek, Czech ice hockey player

• 1997 Davis Keillor-Dunn, English footballer

• 1998 Jordan Love, American football player

• 1999 Park Woo-jin, South Korean singer

• 2001 Moisés Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 1083 Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England (born 1031)

• 1148 Saint Malachy (born 1094)

• 1261 Bettisia Gozzadini (born 1209)

• 1319 John Sandale, Bishop of Winchester

• 1483 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1454)

• 1521 Margaret of Lorraine, Duchess of Alençon and nun (born 1463)

1601–1900

• 1610 Richard Bancroft, English archbishop and academic (born 1544)

• 1852 Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (born 1782)

• 1863 Theodore Judah, American engineer (born 1826)

• 1883 William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (born 1828)

• 1887 Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1811)

• 1887 Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1820)

• 1893 Daniel Payne, American educator and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (born 1811)

• 1898 George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (born 1826)

1901–present

• 1905 Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born 1817)

• 1911 Kyrle Bellew, English actor (born 1850)

• 1930 Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (born 1874)

• 1933 Gao Qifeng, Chinese painter (born 1889)

• 1935 Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (born 1905)

• 1944 Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and engineer (born 1889)

• 1945 Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (born 1868)

• 1949 Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (born 1872)

• 1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)

• 1952 Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (born 1862)

• 1958 Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (born 1923)

• 1959 Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (born 1885)

• 1960 Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (born 1896)

• 1961 Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (born 1894)

• 1961 Harriet Bosse, Swedish-Norwegian actress (born 1878)

• 1961 James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (born 1894)

1963 1963 South Vietnamese coup

• Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (born 1901)

• Ngô Đình Nhu, South Vietnamese politician and tactical strategist (born 1910)

• 1966 Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)

• 1966 Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1892)

• 1970 Richard Cushing, American cardinal (born 1895)

• 1970 Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (born 1903)

• 1971 Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (born 1939)

• 1972 Grigoriy Plaskov, Soviet artillery lieutenant (born 1898)

• 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)

• 1981 Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (born 1927)

• 1982 Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (born 1914)

• 1990 Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (born 1901)

• 1991 Irwin Allen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1916)

• 1991 Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1936)

• 1992 Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (born 1930)

• 1992 Hal Roach, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1892)

• 1994 Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (born 1917)

• 1996 Eva Cassidy, American singer (born 1963)

• 1996 John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician (born 1902)

• 1998 Vincent Winter, Scottish actor and production manager (born 1957)

• 2000 Robert Cormier, American journalist and author (born 1925)

• 2002 Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (born 1935)

• 2003 Frank McCloskey, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician (born 1939)

• 2004 Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the 1st president and founder of the UAE (born 1918)

• 2004 Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, and producer (born 1957)

• 2005 Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and manager (born 1919)

• 2007 Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (born 1978)

• 2007 Igor Moiseyev, Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1906)

• 2007 The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (born 1923)

• 2008 Madelyn Dunham, American banker and business executive (born 1922)

• 2009 José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor, costume designer and assistant director (born 1922)

• 2009 Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (born 1915)

• 2010 Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (born 1924)

• 2011 Boots Plata, Filipino director and screenwriter (born 1943)

• 2012 Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian-American mathematician and academic (born 1930)

• 2012 Robert Morton Duncan, American soldier and judge (born 1927)

• 2012 Joe Ginsberg, American baseball player (born 1926)

• 2012 Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (born 1926)

• 2012 Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (born 1916)

• 2012 Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Indian politician (born 1957)

• 2013 Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (born 1939)

• 2013 Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist (born 1956)

• 2013 Clifford Nass, American author and academic (born 1958)

• 2013 Kjell Qvale, Norwegian-American businessman (born 1919)

• 2014 Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (born 1929)

• 2014 Michael Coleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1956)

• 2014 Veljko Kadijević, Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal Secretary of People's Defence (born 1925)

• 2014 Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (born 1925)

• 2014 Shabtai Teveth, Israeli historian and author (born 1925)

• 2015 Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish painter, historian, and academic (born 1924)

• 2015 Mike Davies, Welsh-American tennis player and businessman (born 1936)

• 2015 Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (born 1933)

• 2015 Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)

• 2017 Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician (born 1944)

• 2018 Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (born 1927)

• 2019 Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican television personality, astrologer, actor, and dancer (born 1932)

• 2021 Neal Smith, American politician (born 1920)

• 2022 Atilio Stampone, Argentine pianist and composer (born 1926)

• 2023 Humaira Himu, Bangladeshi actress (born 1985)

• 2024 Janey Godley, Scottish actor, writer and comedian (born 1961)

• 2024 Alan Rachins, American actor (born 1942)

• 2024 Paul Stephenson, British civil rights activist (born 1937)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Agapius and companions

• Domninus of Vienne

• Erc of Slane (Ireland)

• Justus of Trieste

• Victorinus of Pettau

• November 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• All Souls' Day (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion)

• Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)

• Day of the Dead, the second day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration (Mexico)

• Dziady (Belarus)

• Arrival of Indentured Labourers (Mauritius)

• International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (United Nations)

• Statehood Day (North Dakota and South Dakota, United States)

References

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