Events

Pre-1600

• 1066 The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.

• 1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.

• 1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.

1601–1900

• 1656 The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.

• 1758 Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.

• 1773 The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

• 1774 American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.

• 1791 The revolutionary group the United Irishmen is formed in Belfast, Ireland leading to the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

• 1805 War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm.

• 1806 War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.

• 1808 The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.

• 1809 The Treaty of Schönbrunn is signed, ending the War of the Fifth Coalition, the final successful war in Napoleon Bonaparte's military career.

• 1843 Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy.

• 1863 American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.

• 1884 George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

• 1888 Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

• 1898 The steam ship sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.

1901–present

• 1908 The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

• 1910 English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.

• 1912 Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.

• 1913 Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.

• 1915 World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

• 1920 Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.

• 1923 After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial.

• 1930 The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.

• 1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.

• 1939 World War II: The sinks the British battleship within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.

• 1940 World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.

• 1942 World War II: The German submarine U-69 (1940) sinks the Canadian passenger ferry SS Caribou approximately 20 nautical miles southwest of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland.

• 1943 World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.

• 1943 World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.

• 1943 World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.

• 1947 Flying the Bell X-1 over Muroc Army Air Field in California, Captain Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in level flight, reaching Mach 1.05.

• 1949 The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.

• 1952 Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.

• 1956 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).

• 1957 The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.

• 1957 At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.

• 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.

• 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

• 1964 The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.

• 1966 The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.

• 1966 The Dutch Cals cabinet fell after Norbert Schmelzer, the leader of the government party, filed a successful motion against the budget, in what later became known as the Night of Schmelzer.

• 1968 Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.

• 1968 The 6.5 Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.

• 1968 Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.

• 1973 In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.

• 1975 An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.

• 1979 The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.

• 1980 The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il as his successor.

• 1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

• 1982 U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.

• 1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

• 1994 Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.

• 1998 Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.

• 2003 The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.

• 2004 MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board.

• 2004 Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.

• 2012 Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.

• 2014 A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.

• 2014 The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.

• 2015 A suicide bomb attack in Tonsa, Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.

• 2017 An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonated a massive truck bomb at the Zobe junction in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing 587 people, injuring 316 others, and leaving more than 500 missing.

• 2021 About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike.

• 2023 Australians vote to reject a constitutional amendment that would have established an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

• 2025 A coup d'état successfully overthrows Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1257 Przemysł II of Poland (died 1296)

• 1404 Marie of Anjou (died 1463)

• 1425 Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (died 1499)

• 1465 Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (died 1547)

• 1493 Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyō (died 1568)

• 1542 Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (died 1602)

• 1563 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (died 1611)

• 1569 Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (died 1625)

1601–1900

• 1609 Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (died 1689)

• 1630 Sophia of Hanover (died 1714)

• 1633 James II of England (died 1701)

• 1639 Simon van der Stel, Dutch commander and politician, 1st Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (died 1712)

• 1643 Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor (died 1712)

• 1644 William Penn, English businessman who founded Pennsylvania (died 1718)

• 1687 Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and academic (died 1768)

• 1712 George Grenville, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1770)

• 1726 Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (died 1813)

• 1733 François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (died 1798)

• 1784 Ferdinand VII of Spain (died 1833)

• 1791 Friedrich Parrot, Baltic German naturalist (died 1841)

• 1801 Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope (died 1883)

• 1806 Preston King, American lawyer and politician (died 1865)

• 1824 Adolphe Monticelli, French painter (died 1886)

• 1840 Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (died 1868)

• 1842 Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (died 1927)

• 1844 John See, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of New South Wales (died 1907)

• 1845 Laura Askew Haygood, American educator and missionary (died 1900)

• 1848 Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker and philanthropist (died 1924)

• 1853 John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (died 1924)

• 1861 Julia A. Ames, American journalist, editor, and reformer (died 1891)

• 1867 Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (died 1902)

• 1869 Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (died 1939)

• 1871 Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher (died 1942)

• 1872 Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (died 1910)

• 1882 Éamon de Valera, American-Irish rebel and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (died 1975)

• 1882 Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 1959)

• 1888 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1923)

• 1888 Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (died 1947)

• 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (died 1969)

• 1892 Sumner Welles, American politician and diplomat, 11th Under Secretary of State (died 1961)

• 1893 Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (died 1974)

• 1893 Lillian Gish, American actress (died 1993)

• 1894 E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (died 1962)

• 1894 Victoria Drummond, British marine engineer (died 1978)

• 1894 Sail Mohamed, Algerian anarchist and Spanish Civil War veteran (died 1953)

• 1897 Alicja Dorabialska, Polish chemist (died 1975)

• 1898 Thomas William Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1950)

• 1900 W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (died 1993)

1901–present

• 1902 Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (died 1963)

• 1904 Christian Pineau, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1995)

• 1904 Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1978)

• 1906 Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (died 1949)

• 1906 Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (died 1975)

• 1907 Allan Jones, American actor and singer (died 1992)

• 1909 Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (died 2000)

• 1909 Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer (died 1997)

• 1909 Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver (died 1938)

• 1910 John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)

• 1911 Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)

• 1914 Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (died 2004)

• 1914 Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)

• 1914 Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic (died 1985)

• 1915 Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (died 2016)

• 1916 C. Everett Koop, American admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General (died 2013)

• 1918 Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician (died 1991)

• 1918 Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain (died 2015)

• 1921 José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (died 2009)

• 1923 Joel Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (died 2014)

• 1926 Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor (died 1985)

• 1927 Roger Moore, English actor and producer (died 2017)

• 1928 Joyce Bryant, American actress and singer (died 2022)

• 1928 Frank E. Resnik, American chemist and businessman (died 1995)

• 1928 Gary Graffman, American concert pianist (died 2025)

• 1929 Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer and wrestler (died 2007)

• 1930 Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist (died 2020)

• 1930 Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (died 1997)

• 1930 Alan Williams, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (died 2014)

• 1936 Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer and manager (died 2017)

• 1936 Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (died 2014)

• 1938 John Dean, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel

• 1938 Shula Marks, South African historian and academic

• 1938 Melba Montgomery, American country music singer (died 2025)

• 1938 Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran

• 1939 Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation

• 1940 Perrie Mans, South African snooker player (died 2023)

• 1940 Cliff Richard, Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor

• 1940 J. C. Snead, American golfer

• 1941 Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach

• 1941 Eddie Keher, Irish sportsman

• 1941 Laurie Lawrence, Australian rugby player and coach

• 1941 Art Shamsky, American baseball player and manager

• 1941 Roger Taylor, English tennis player

• 1942 Bob Hiller, English rugby player

• 1942 Evelio Javier, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 1986)

• 1942 Péter Nádas, Hungarian author and playwright

• 1942 Suzzanna, Indonesian actress (died 2008)

• 1943 Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran

• 1944 Udo Kier, German-American actor and director (died 2025)

• 1945 Daan Jippes, Dutch author and illustrator

• 1945 Lesley Joseph, English actress

• 1946 François Bozizé, Gabonese general and politician, President of the Central African Republic

• 1946 Joey de Leon, Filipino comedian, actor and television host

• 1946 Justin Hayward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1946 Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2022)

• 1946 Craig Venter, American biologist, geneticist, and academic (died 2026)

• 1947 Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-American wrestler (died 2018)

• 1948 Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer

• 1948 Norman Ornstein, American political scientist and scholar

• 1949 Damian Lau, Hong Kong actor, director, and producer

• 1949 Katha Pollitt, American poet and author

• 1949 Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player and referee

• 1950 Joey Travolta, American actor, director, and producer

• 1951 Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist

• 1952 Harry Anderson, American actor and screenwriter (died 2018)

• 1952 Nikolai Andrianov, Russian gymnast and coach (died 2011)

• 1952 Rick Aviles, American comedian and actor (died 1995)

• 1953 Greg Evigan, American actor

• 1953 Kazumi Watanabe, Japanese guitarist and composer

• 1954 Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic

• 1955 Iwona Blazwick, English curator and critic

• 1955 Arleen Sorkin, American actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2023)

• 1956 Chris Bangle, American automotive designer

• 1956 Ümit Besen, Turkish singer-songwriter

• 1956 Beth Daniel, American golfer

• 1956 Jennell Jaquays, American game designer (died 2024)

• 1957 Michel Després, Canadian lawyer and politician

• 1957 Gen Nakatani, Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th Japanese Minister of Defense

• 1958 Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer

• 1959 Alexei Kasatonov, Russian ice hockey player

• 1959 A. J. Pero, American drummer (died 2015)

• 1960 Steve Cram, English runner and coach

• 1960 Zbigniew Kruszyński, Polish footballer and coach

• 1961 Isaac Mizrahi, American fashion designer

• 1962 Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player

• 1962 Trevor Goddard, English-American actor (died 2003)

• 1962 Chris Thomas King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

• 1962 Shahar Perkiss, Israeli tennis player

• 1963 Lori Petty, American actress

• 1964 Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager

• 1965 Steve Coogan, English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter

• 1965 Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower and politician

• 1965 Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian flute player and composer

• 1965 Karyn White, American singer-songwriter

• 1967 Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach, and manager

• 1967 Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1967 Werner Daehn, German actor

• 1967 Jason Plato, British racing driver

• 1967 Stephen A. Smith, American sports television personality

• 1968 Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist and songwriter

• 1968 Johnny Goudie, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

• 1968 Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer and journalist

• 1968 Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player and coach (died 2012)

• 1969 P. J. Brown, American basketball player

• 1969 Viktor Onopko, Russian footballer and manager

• 1969 David Strickland, American actor (died 1999)

• 1970 Martin Barbarič, Czech footballer and coach (died 2013)

• 1970 Jim Jackson, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1970 Meelis Lindmaa, Estonian footballer

• 1970 Hiromi Nagasaku, Japanese actress and singer

• 1970 Jon Seda, American actor

• 1970 Vasko Vassilev, Bulgarian violinist

• 1970 Pär Zetterberg, Swedish footballer

• 1971 Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer and manager (died 2025)

• 1971 Robert Jaworski Jr., Filipino basketball player and politician

• 1972 Erika deLone, American tennis player

• 1972 Julian O'Neill, Australian rugby league player

• 1973 Thom Brooks, American-British political philosopher and legal scholar

• 1973 George Floyd, American police brutality victim (died 2020)

• 1973 Lasha Zhvania, Georgian businessman and politician

• 1974 Jessica Drake, American porn actress and director

• 1974 Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter

• 1974 Tümer Metin, Turkish footballer

• 1974 Viktor Röthlin, Swiss runner

• 1974 Samuel, Brazilian footballer

• 1975 Michael Duberry, English footballer

• 1975 Floyd Landis, American cyclist

• 1975 Shaznay Lewis, English singer and songwriter

• 1975 Carlos Spencer, New Zealand rugby player

• 1976 Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricketer

• 1976 Daniel Tjärnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1977 Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer

• 1977 Barry Ditewig, Dutch footballer

• 1977 Kelly Schumacher, American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player

• 1978 Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist and songwriter, and politician

• 1978 Paul Hunter, English snooker player (died 2006)

• 1978 Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player

• 1978 Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer

• 1978 Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

• 1979 Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress

• 1979 Liina-Grete Lilender, Estonian figure skater and coach

• 1980 Paúl Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer

• 1980 Amjad Khan, Danish-English cricketer

• 1980 Scott Kooistra, American football player

• 1980 Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer

• 1980 Terrence McGee, American football player

• 1980 Ben Whishaw, English actor

• 1981 Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer

• 1982 Ryan Hall, American runner

• 1982 Carlos Mármol, Dominican baseball player

• 1982 Matt Roth, American football player

• 1983 Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower

• 1983 Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player

• 1984 LaRon Landry, American football player

• 1984 Alex Scott, English footballer

• 1985 Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver

• 1985 Alanna Nihell, Irish boxer

• 1985 Ivan Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament

• 1986 Tom Craddock, English footballer

• 1986 Wesley Matthews, American basketball player

• 1986 Skyler Shaye, American actress

• 1987 Jay Pharoah, American actor and comedian

• 1988 Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer

• 1988 Max Thieriot, American actor

• 1989 Arca, Venezuelan musician

• 1990 Jordan Clark, English cricketer

• 1992 Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer

• 1993 Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer

• 1993 Charlie Kirk, American media personality and political activist (died 2025)

• 1994 Joe Burgess, English rugby league player

• 1994 Jaelen Feeney, Australian rugby league player

• 1994 Jared Goff, American football player

• 1998 Ariela Barer, American actress

• 1999 Quinn Hughes, American ice hockey player

• 2001 Rowan Blanchard, American actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 530 Antipope Dioscorus

• 841 Shi Yuanzhong, Chinese governor

• 869 Pang Xun, Chinese rebel leader

• 962 Gerloc, Frankish noblewoman

• 996 Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid caliph (born 955)

1066 Battle of Hastings:

• Harold Godwinson, English king (born 1022)

• Leofwine Godwinson, English nobleman and brother of Harold

• Gyrth Godwinson, English nobleman and brother of Harold

• 1077 Andronikos Doukas, Byzantine courtier (born 1022)

• 1092 Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (born 1018)

• 1184 Yusuf I, Almohad caliph (born 1135)

• 1213 Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, English sheriff and Chief Justiciar

• 1217 Isabella, English noblewoman and wife of John of England (born c. 1173)

• 1240 Razia Sultana, female sultan of Delhi (born c. 1205)

• 1256 Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (born 1239)

• 1318 Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (born 1275)

• 1366 Ibn Nubata, Arab poet (born 1287)

• 1416 Henry the Mild, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

• 1536 Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (born 1503)

• 1552 Oswald Myconius, Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1488)

• 1565 Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (born 1521)

• 1568 Jacques Arcadelt, Dutch singer and composer (born 1507)

1601–1900

• 1610 Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (born 1540)

• 1618 Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton, English nobleman (bornc. 1570)

• 1619 Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (born 1562)

• 1631 Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (born 1557)

• 1637 Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (born 1552)

• 1669 Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (born 1623)

• 1703 Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop and poet (born 1634)

• 1711 Tewoflos, Ethiopian emperor (born 1708)

• 1758 James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (born 1696)

• 1831 Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (born 1761)

1901–present

• 1911 John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (born 1833)

• 1923 Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (born 1848)

• 1929 Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (born 1844)

• 1930 Samuel van Houten, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (born 1837)

• 1942 Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (born 1902)

1943 Sobibór uprising:

• Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (born 1910)

• Siegfried Graetschus, German sergeant (born 1916)

• Johann Niemann, German lieutenant (born 1913)

• 1944 Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (born 1891)

• 1953 Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (born 1877)

• 1953 Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (born 1894)

• 1958 Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (born 1882)

• 1958 Nikolay Zabolotsky, Russian-Soviet poet and translator (born 1903)

• 1959 Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (born 1907)

• 1959 Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (born 1909)

• 1960 Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (born 1880)

• 1961 Paul Ramadier, French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (born 1888)

• 1961 Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (born 1876)

• 1965 William Hogenson, American sprinter (born 1884)

• 1965 Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (born 1914)

• 1966 George Carstairs, Australian rugby league player (born 1900)

• 1966 Arthur Folwell, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (born 1904)

• 1967 Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (born 1902)

• 1969 Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (born 1914)

• 1969 August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (born 1914)

• 1970 Mavis Wheeler, English socialite and artist's model, also known for shooting her lover (born 1908)

• 1973 Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (born 1897)

• 1973 Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general and engineer (born 1929)

• 1976 Edith Evans, English actress (born 1888)

• 1977 Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1903)

• 1982 Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1889)

• 1983 Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (born 1887)

• 1984 Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

• 1985 Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (born 1916)

• 1986 Keenan Wynn, American actor (born 1916)

• 1986 Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (born 1902)

• 1990 Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)

• 1997 Harold Robbins, American author (born 1915)

• 1998 Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (born 1917)

• 1998 Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (born 1916)

• 1999 Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (born 1922)

• 2000 Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1909)

• 2000 Tony Roper, American race car driver (born 1964)

• 2002 Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (born 1911)

• 2003 Patrick Dalzel-Job, English linguist, commander, and navigator (born 1913)

• 2004 Ted Blakey, American historian, activist, and businessman (born 1925)

• 2006 Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)

• 2006 Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (born 1926)

• 2006 Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (born 1937)

• 2008 Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (born 1915)

• 2008 Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (born 1926)

• 2009 Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor and screenwriter (born 1938)

• 2009 Collin Wilcox, American actress (born 1935)

• 2009 Lou Albano, American professional wrestler (born 1933)

• 2010 Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (born 1952)

• 2010 Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (born 1924)

• 2011 Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1948)

• 2011 Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (born 1949)

• 2012 John Clive, English actor and author (born 1933)

• 2012 Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (born 1920)

• 2012 James R. Grover Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1919)

• 2012 Larry Sloan, American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (born 1922)

• 2012 Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (born 1930)

• 2012 Dody Weston Thompson, American photographer (born 1923)

• 2012 Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (born 1927)

• 2013 Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (born 1965)

• 2013 Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and politician (born 1936)

• 2013 Kōichi Iijima, Japanese author and poet (born 1930)

• 2013 Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (born 1954)

• 2013 Frank Moore, American painter and poet (born 1946)

• 2013 Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (born 1940)

• 2014 A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (born 1923)

• 2014 Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (born 1933)

• 2014 Elizabeth Peña, American actress (born 1959)

• 2015 Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (born 1947)

• 2015 Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (born 1933)

• 2015 Margaret Keyes, American historian and academic (born 1918)

• 2015 Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (born 1930)

• 2016 Helen Kelly, New Zealand trade union leader (born 1964)

• 2019 Harold Bloom, American literary critic (born 1930)

• 2019 Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and model (born 1994)

• 2021 Lee Wan-koo, South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea

• 2022 Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (born 1950)

• 2024 Thomas J. Donohue, American business executive (born 1938)

• 2024 Tina Kaidanow, American diplomat and government official (born 1965)

• 2024 Janet Nelson, British historian (born 1942)

• 2024 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and academic (born 1933)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Angadrisma

• Fortunatus of Todi

• Joseph Schereschewsky (Episcopal Church (USA))

• Pope Callixtus I

• October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Intercession of the Theotokos

• Day of the Cathedral of the Living Pillar (Georgian Orthodox Church)

• Mother's Day (Belarus)

• National Education Day (Poland), formerly Teachers' Day

• Nyerere Day (Tanzania)

• Second Revolution Day (Yemen)

• World Standards Day (International)

References

External links