Events

Pre-1600

• 1066 Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.

• 1211 Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.

• 1529 The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.

• 1582 Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.

1601–1900

• 1651 Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen.

• 1781 The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War with a Patriot victory. It occurred four days before the British surrender at Yorktown.

• 1783 The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

• 1793 Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.

• 1815 Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.

• 1864 American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.

• 1888 The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.

1901–present

• 1910 Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.

• 1923 The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.

• 1928 The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.

• 1932 Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.

• 1939 The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.

• 1940 President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.

• 1944 World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.

• 1951 Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.

• 1954 Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.

• 1956 FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.

• 1965 Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.

• 1966 The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

• 1970 During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.

• 1979 Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.

• 1979 A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.

• 1987 Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.

• 1987 A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.

• 1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.

• 1990 Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.

• 1991 The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

• 1991 The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.

• 1994 The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.

• 1997 The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

• 2001 NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within of Jupiter's moon Io.

• 2003 China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.

• 2006 The 6.7 Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.

• 2007 Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

• 2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.

• 2013 The 7.2 Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.

• 2016 One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

• 2018 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.

Births

Pre-1600

• 70 BC Virgil, Roman poet (died 19 BC)

• 1265 Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (died 1307)

• 1440 Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (died 1483)

• 1471 Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (died 1526)

• 1542 Akbar, Mughal emperor (died 1605)

• 1561 Richard Field, English cathedral dean (died 1616)

• 1564 Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1613)

• 1599 Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (died 1664)

1601–1900

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

• 1622 Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (died 1686)

• 1686 Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (died 1758)

• 1701 Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (died 1771)

• 1711 Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen of Sardinia (died 1741)

• 1762 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (died 1820)

• 1765 Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet, English politician and peer (died 1840)

• 1767 Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (died 1832)

• 1775 Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (died 1838)

• 1784 Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria (died 1849)

• 1785 José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (died 1821)

• 1789 William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (died 1847)

• 1802 Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, head of state of France in 1848 (died 1857)

• 1814 Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (died 1841)

• 1816 John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (died 1891)

• 1818 Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (died 1869)

• 1825 Marie of Prussia, Queen of Bavaria (died 1889)

• 1829 Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (died 1907)

• 1833 John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (died 1894)

• 1836 James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (died 1902)

• 1840 Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (died 1894)

• 1844 Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (died 1900)

• 1858 John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (died 1918)

• 1865 Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (died 1925)

• 1872 Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (died 1956)

• 1872 August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (died 1921)

• 1874 Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1899)

• 1878 Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (died 1966)

• 1879 Jane Darwell, American actress (died 1967)

• 1881 P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (died 1975)

• 1882 Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (died 1941)

• 1884 Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (died 1910)

• 1887 Frederick Fleet, English sailor and lookout on the Titanic (died 1965)

• 1888 S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (died 1939)

• 1890 Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer (died 1935)

• 1893 Carol II of Romania, King of Romania (died 1953)

• 1894 Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1965)

• 1897 Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1960)

• 1899 Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (died 1986)

• 1900 Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (died 1987)

1901–present

• 1901 Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (died 1952)

• 1905 C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (died 1980)

• 1906 Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (died 2004)

• 1906 Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday (died 1963)

• 1906 Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)

• 1907 Varian Fry, American journalist and author (died 1967)

• 1908 Herman Chittison, American pianist (died 1967)

• 1908 John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (died 2006)

• 1909 Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (died 2002)

• 1909 Robert Trout, American journalist (died 2000)

• 1910 Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1990)

• 1912 Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist (died 2007)

• 1913 Wolfgang Lüth, German U-boat captain (died 1945)

• 1914 Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (died 2007)

• 1916 Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1950)

• 1916 George Turner, Australian author and critic (died 1997)

• 1917 Jan Miner, American actress (died 2004)

• 1917 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (died 2007)

• 1917 Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (died 2013)

• 1919 Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist (died 1985)

• 1919 Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (died 1995)

• 1920 Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor (died 2012)

• 1920 Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress (died 1968)

• 1920 Peter Koch, American industrial engineer and wood scientist (died 1998)

• 1920 Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (died 1999)

• 1920 Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)

• 1921 Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (died 2006)

• 1922 Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author (died 2019)

• 1922 Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (died 1969)

• 1922 Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (died 2013)

• 1923 Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (died 1985)

• 1923 Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (died 2010)

• 1923 Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (died 2013)

• 1923 Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (died 2008)

• 1924 Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator (died 2022)

• 1924 Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author (died 2019)

• 1924 Warren Miller, American director and screenwriter (died 2018)

• 1925 Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (died 2012)

• 1925 Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (died 2012)

• 1925 Tony Hart, English painter and television host (died 2009)

• 1926 James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (died 2010)

• 1926 Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet (died 2012)

• 1926 Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (died 1984)

• 1926 Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)

• 1926 Jean Peters, American actress (died 2000)

• 1926 Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (died 1981)

• 1927 B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)

• 1929 Will Insley, American painter and architect (died 2011)

• 1930 FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (died 2000)

• 1930 Ned McWherter, American politician, 46th Governor of Tennessee (died 2011)

• 1931 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (died 2015)

• 1931 Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician

• 1932 Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer (died 2020)

• 1933 Nicky Barnes, American drug lord (died 2012)

• 1934 Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (died 2016)

• 1934 N. Ramani, Indian flute player (died 2015)

• 1935 Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1935 Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer (died 2025)

• 1935 Bobby Morrow, American sprinter (died 2020)

• 1935 Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)

• 1936 Michel Aumont, French actor (died 2019)

• 1936 Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman (died 2019)

• 1937 Linda Lavin, American actress and singer (died 2024)

• 1938 Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1993)

• 1938 Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist (died 1997)

• 1938 Brice Marden, American painter (died 2023)

• 1938 Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)

• 1940 Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach

• 1940 Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1941 Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author

• 1942 Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter

• 1942 Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral

• 1942 Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer

• 1943 Stanley Fischer, American and Israeli economist (died 2025)

• 1943 Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer (died 2018)

• 1944 Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania

• 1944 A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (died 2005)

• 1944 Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment

• 1944 David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)

• 1945 Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer (died 2015)

• 1945 Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal

• 1945 Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (died 2024)

• 1945 Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1946 Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director

• 1946 Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist

• 1946 Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer

• 1946 Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change

• 1947 Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress

• 1947 Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer

• 1948 Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2016)

• 1948 Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist

• 1949 Laurie McBain, American author

• 1949 Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV

• 1950 Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (died 2015)

• 1951 Peter Richardson, English actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1951 Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player

• 1951 Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player

• 1953 Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier

• 1953 Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)

• 1953 Larry Miller, American actor and comedian

• 1953 Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist

• 1954 Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator

• 1954 Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria

• 1954 Jere Burns, American actor

• 1954 Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic

• 1955 Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player

• 1955 Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator

• 1955 Tanya Roberts, American actress (died 2021)

• 1957 Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer

• 1957 Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer

• 1957 Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta

• 1958 Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author

• 1959 Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author

• 1959 Alex Paterson, English keyboard player

• 1959 Sarah Ferguson

• 1959 Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1961 Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1963 Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager

• 1964 Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

• 1965 Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer (died 2013)

• 1966 Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter

• 1966 Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager

• 1966 Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer

• 1966 Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer

• 1966 Dave Stead, English drummer

• 1967 Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina

• 1967 Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter

• 1968 Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager

• 1968 Vanessa Marcil, American actress

• 1968 Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player

• 1968 Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician

• 1969 Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer

• 1969 Dominic West, English actor and director

• 1970 Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

• 1970 Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier

• 1971 Andy Cole, English footballer and coach

• 1971 Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator

• 1972 Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach

• 1972 Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager

• 1973 Aleksandr Filimonov, Russian footballer

• 1974 Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress

• 1976 Elisa Aguilar, Spanish basketball player

• 1975 Chukwudi Iwuji, Nigerian-British actor

• 1977 Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver

• 1977 David Trezeguet, French footballer

• 1977 Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer

• 1978 Wes Moore, American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland

• 1978 Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler

• 1979 Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer

• 1979 Paul Robinson, English footballer

• 1979 Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1979 Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer

• 1980 Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist

• 1981 Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1981 Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player

• 1983 Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer

• 1983 Bruno Senna, Brazilian race car driver

• 1984 Izale McLeod, English footballer

• 1984 Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter

• 1985 Arron Afflalo, American basketball player

• 1986 Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter

• 1986 Carlo Janka, Swiss skier

• 1986 Nolito, Spanish footballer

• 1987 Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver

• 1988 Dominique Jones, American basketball player

• 1988 Mesut Özil, German footballer

• 1989 Blaine Gabbert, American football player

• 1989 Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer

• 1990 Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

• 1991 Brock Nelson, American ice hockey player

• 1992 Ncuti Gatwa, Rwandan-Scottish actor

• 1992 Teoscar Hernández, Dominican baseball player

• 1992 Vincent Martella, American actor

• 1993 Richaun Holmes, American basketball player

• 1993 Roh Tae-hyun, South Korean singer and dancer

• 1994 Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper

• 1994 Babar Azam, Pakistani cricket player

• 1995 Jack Flaherty, American baseball player

• 1995 Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player

• 1996 Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer

• 1996 Grace Van Dien, American actress

• 1996 Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer

• 1998 Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, Indonesian activist and politician

• 1999 Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer

• 1999 Ben Woodburn, Welsh footballer

• 2000 Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender

• 2005 Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 55 BC Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (born 98 BC)

• 412 Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria

• 892 Al-Mu'tamid, Abbasid caliph

• 898 Lambert of Italy (born 880)

• 912 Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (born 844)

• 925 Rhazes, Persian polymath (born 864)

• 961 Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba

• 1002 Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (born 946)

• 1080 Rudolf of Rheinfelden (born 1025)

• 1173 Petronilla of Aragon (born 1135)

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

• 1243 Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint (born 1174)

• 1326 Walter Stapledon, bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England, and his brother Sir Richard Stapledon, judge and politician.

• 1385 Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow

• 1389 Pope Urban VI (born 1318)

• 1404 Marie Valois, French princess (born 1344)

• 1496 Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (born 1443)

• 1564 Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (born 1514)

1601–1900

• 1674 Robert Herrick, English poet (born 1591)

• 1684 Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (born 1626)

• 1690 Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (born 1622)

• 1715 Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (born 1675)

• 1788 Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (born 1735)

• 1810 Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (born 1755)

• 1811 Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (born 1735)

• 1817 Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (born 1746)

• 1819 Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (born 1744)

• 1820 Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (born 1771)

• 1837 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (born 1760)

• 1838 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (born 1802)

• 1891 Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (born 1837)

• 1900 Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (born 1850)

1901–present

• 1910 Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (born 1886)

• 1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (born 1876)

• 1918 Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (born 1838)

• 1925 Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (born 1848?)

• 1930 Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (born 1866)

• 1934 Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (born 1860)

• 1940 Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (born 1882)

• 1945 Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France, convicted Vichy collaborator (born 1883)

• 1946 Hermann Göring, German general and Nazi politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (born 1893)

• 1948 Edythe Chapman, American actress (born 1863)

• 1955 Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (born 1914)

• 1958 Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (born 1907)

• 1958 Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (born 1908)

• 1959 Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (born 1909)

• 1959 Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1880)

• 1960 Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (born 1890)

• 1961 Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (born 1896)

• 1963 Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (born 1908)

• 1964 Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (born 1891)

• 1965 Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (born 1891)

• 1966 Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (born 1876)

• 1968 Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (born 1909)

• 1976 Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)

• 1978 W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (born 1918)

• 1978 Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (born 1899)

• 1980 Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1900)

• 1980 Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (born 1896)

• 1983 Pat O'Brien, American actor (born 1899)

• 1987 Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (born 1949)

• 1987 Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (born 1908)

• 1988 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (born 1892)

• 1989 Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (born 1935)

• 1990 Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (born 1932)

• 1993 Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (born 1913)

• 1994 Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (born 1934)

• 1995 Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1967)

• 1995 Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (born 1976)

• 1999 Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (born 1917)

• 2000 Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

• 2000 Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (born 1924)

• 2001 Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (born 1901)

• 2003 Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (born 1919)

• 2004 Per Højholt, Danish poet (born 1928)

• 2005 Jason Collier, American basketball player (born 1977)

• 2005 Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (born 1945)

• 2007 Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (born 1933)

• 2008 Edie Adams, American actress and singer (born 1927)

• 2008 Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (born 1914)

• 2008 Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (born 1922)

• 2009 Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (born 1939)

• 2010 Richard C. Miller, American photographer (born 1912)

• 2010 Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (born 1926)

• 2010 Johnny Sheffield, American actor (born 1931)

• 2011 Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (born 1920)

• 2012 Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1920)

• 2012 Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (born 1933)

• 2012 Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (born 1953)

• 2012 Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1922)

• 2013 Donald Bailey, American drummer (born 1933)

• 2014 Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (born 1931)

• 2017 Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (born 1950)

• 2017 Deng Ken, Chinese politician, younger brother of former Paramount leader of China Deng Xiaoping (born 1911)

• 2018 Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (born 1953)

• 2021 David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (born 1952)

• 2024 Mike Jackson, English general (born 1944)

• 2025 Jim Bolger, New Zealand businessman and politician, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1935)

Holidays and observances

• Breast Health Day (Europe)

Christian feast day:

• Bruno of Querfurt

• Cúan of Ahascragh

• Teresa of Ávila

• Thecla of Kitzingen

• October 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (United States)

• Shwmae Su'mae Day (Wales)

• White Cane Safety Day

• World Students' Day

References

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