Events

Pre-1600

• 690 Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.

• 1091 London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.

• 1346 The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.

• 1448 An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.

• 1456 The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.

• 1534 Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.

• 1558 Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.

1601–1900

• 1604 Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

• 1610 French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.

• 1660 The nine regicidess who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.

• 1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.

• 1713 Great Northern War: Russia defeats Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne.

• 1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.

• 1777 American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.

• 1781 American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.

• 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria, ending the War of the First Coalition.

• 1800 War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.

• 1806 Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.

• 1811 The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence.

• 1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.

• 1850 Riots start, which lead to a massacre in Aleppo.

• 1860 First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).

• 1861 Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.

1901–present

• 1907 Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.

• 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.

• 1919 Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I

• 1931 Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.

• 1933 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.

• 1940 The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.

• 1941 World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.

• 1943 The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.

• 1943 Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.

• 1945 A large demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.

• 1952 Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.

• 1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.

• 1961 Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.

• 1961 The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.

• 1965 The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51million attendees.

• 1966 The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.

• 1969 The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.

• 1970 FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.

• 1973 OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

• 1975 'Salem's Lot, an American vampire novel by Stephen King, is published.

• 1977 The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.

• 1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

• 1979 The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education.

• 1980 As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.

• 1988 Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.

• 1989 The 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.

• 1989 The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.

• 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.

• 1992 Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

• 1994 Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.

• 2000 The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.

• 2001 Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by Hamdi Quran, a member of the PFLP, thus becoming the highest-ranking Israeli to be killed by a Palestinian.

• 2004 A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of the East Tower of the Parque Central Urban Complex in Caracas, Venezuela.

• 2017 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.

• 2018 The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.

• 2018 A mass shooting and bombing at Kerch Polytechnic College in Crimea kills 21 people including the attacker and injures 70 others.

• 2019 Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.

• 2019 The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.

• 2023 An explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza kills hundreds of Palestinians during the Gaza war.

Births

Pre-1600

• 503 Lý Nam Đế, first emperor of Vietnam (died 548)

• 1253 Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (died 1303)

• 1493 Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (died 1560)

• 1500 Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (died 1591)

• 1538 Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (died 1559)

• 1577 Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (died 1621)

• 1577 Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (died 1642)

• 1582 Johann Gerhard, German theologian and academic (died 1637)

• 1587 Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (died 1620)

1601–1900

• 1623 Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (died 1687)

• 1629 Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (died 1646)

• 1688 Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer (died 1726)

• 1711 Jupiter Hammon, American poet (died 1806)

• 1719 Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic (died 1792)

• 1720 Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer (died 1795)

• 1725 John Wilkes, English journalist and politician (died 1797)

• 1729 Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic (died 1817)

• 1735 Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist (died 1803)

• 1759 Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter (died 1814)

• 1760 Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (died 1825)

• 1768 Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (died 1838)

• 1779 Louis Charles, French prince of the blood (died 1808)

• 1779 José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argentine statesman and priest (died approx. 1820)

• 1780 Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (died 1850)

• 1781 Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist (died 1833)

• 1784 Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay (died 1854)

• 1785 Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist (died 1816)

• 1792 John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (died 1826)

• 1797 Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (died 1841)

• 1803 Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (died 1876)

• 1810 Adolphe-Félix Cals, French painter (died 1880)

• 1811 Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor and educator (died 1876)

• 1813 Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (died 1837)

• 1814 Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (died 1888)

• 1817 Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (died 1898)

• 1821 Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (died 1882)

• 1828 Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (died 1890)

• 1833 José E. Días, Paraguayan general (died 1867)

• 1835 Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (died 1894)

• 1835 Paul Haenlein, German mechanical engineer (died 1905)

• 1840 André Gill, French caricaturist (died 1885)

• 1844 Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (died 1929)

• 1845 John J. Gardner, American politician (died 1921)

• 1853 Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (died 1920)

• 1859 Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator (died 1935)

• 1860 Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary (died 1927)

• 1864 Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (died 1943)

• 1865 James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1950)

• 1867 Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí (died 1956)

• 1869 Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale, Hindustani classical vocalist

• 1871 Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (died 1929)

• 1876 Hippolyte Aucouturier, French road cyclist (died 1944)

• 1878 Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (died 1953)

• 1880 Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector (died 1977)

• 1881 Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (died 1959)

• 1882 Haritina Korotkevich, Russian war heroine (died 1904)

• 1883 Alexander Neill, Scottish educator (died 1973)

• 1883 Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (died 1966)

• 1886 Spring Byington, American actress (died 1971)

• 1889 Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese author (died 1988)

• 1890 Roy Kilner, English cricketer (died 1928)

• 1892 Theodor Eicke, German SS general (died 1943)

• 1892 Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator (died 1983)

• 1893 Raffaele Bendandi, Italian clockmaker and seismologist (died 1979)

• 1894 Prince René, Italian Prince of Denmark (died 1962)

• 1894 Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (died 1968)

• 1895 Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (died 1982)

• 1895 Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (died 1958)

• 1896 Roman Petrovich, Russian prince (died 1978)

• 1898 Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (died 1998)

• 1898 Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (died 1991)

• 1898 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (died 1971)

• 1900 C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (died 1932)

• 1900 Jean Arthur, American actress (died 1991)

• 1900 Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (died 1968)

1901–present

• 1901 Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator (died 1973)

• 1902 Irene Ryan, American actress (died 1973)

• 1903 Andrei Grechko, Soviet general (died 1976)

• 1903 Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (died 1940)

• 1905 Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (died 1996)

• 1906 Paul Derringer, American baseball player (died 1987)

• 1906 Andrey Tikhonov, Soviet mathematician (died 1993)

• 1907 John Marley, American actor (died 1984)

• 1908 Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (died 2007)

• 1908 Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (died 1988)

• 1908 Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player (died 1980)

• 1908 Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1969)

• 1909 Cozy Cole, American drummer (died 1981)

• 1909 Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (died 1962)

• 1909 Joaquín Satrústegui, Spanish lawyer and politician (died 1992)

• 1910 Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (died 1995)

• 1910 Ester Wier, American author (died 2000)

• 1912 Pope John Paul I (died 1978)

• 1912 Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (died 2001)

• 1912 Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1982)

• 1913 Robert Lowery, American actor (died 1971)

• 1913 Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (died 2006)

• 1913 Faik Türün, Turkish general (died 2003)

• 1914 Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (died 1996)

• 1915 Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2005)

• 1916 José López Rega, Argentinean politician (died 1989)

• 1917 Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (died 2013)

• 1917 Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (died 1999)

• 1917 Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer (died 2022)

• 1917 Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (died 1989)

• 1917 Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (died 2014)

• 1917 Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (died 1991)

• 1917 Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor (died 2000)

• 1918 Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (died 1987)

• 1918 Luis Alberto Solari, Uruguayan artist (died 1993)

• 1918 Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (died 2014)

• 1919 Isaak Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian theoretical physicist and academic (died 2021)

• 1919 Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (died 2014)

• 1919 Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (died 2005)

• 1920 Montgomery Clift, American actor (died 1966)

• 1920 Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (died 2010)

• 1920 Zully Moreno, Argentine actress (died 1999)

• 1921 Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (died 2012)

• 1921 Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (died 2001)

• 1921 George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (died 1996)

• 1921 Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (died 2007)

• 1922 Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 2001)

• 1922 Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (died 2012)

• 1923 Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (died 2004)

• 1923 Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (died 2001)

• 1924 Don Coryell, American football player and coach (died 2010)

• 1924 Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (died 2012)

• 1924 Giacomo Mari, Italian footballer (died 1991)

• 1924 Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone (died 2019)

• 1925 Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (died 2010)

• 1926 Julie Adams, American actress (died 2019)

• 1926 Beverly Garland, American actress (died 2008)

• 1926 Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (died 2011)

• 1928 Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and minister (died 2007)

• 1928 Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan politician (died 2017)

• 1929 Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager (died 2016)

• 1930 Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer (died 2003)

• 1930 Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (died 2003)

• 1931 José Alencar, Brazilian businessman and politician (died 2011)

• 1932 Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (died 1994)

• 1931 Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and playwright (died 2012)

• 1931 Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer (died 2008)

• 1933 William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut (died 2024)

• 1933 The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (died 1985)

• 1934 Alan Garner, English author and playwright

• 1934 Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (died 2005)

• 1934 Rico Rodriguez, Jamaican trombonist (died 2015)

• 1935 Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (died 2014)

• 1935 Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival

• 1935 Carlos Pairetti, Argentine racing driver (died 2022)

• 1936 Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (died 2013)

• 1936 Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic

• 1936 Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (died 1993)

• 1936 Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (died 2018)

• 1937 José María Álvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician

• 1937 Aida Navarro, Venezuelan mezzo-soprano

• 1937 Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (died 2011)

• 1937 Paxton Whitehead, English actor (died 2023)

• 1938 António Calvário, Portuguese singer and artist

• 1938 Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (died 2007)

• 1938 Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (died 2019)

• 1939 Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic (died 2015)

• 1940 Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor

• 1940 Jim Smith, English footballer and manager (died 2019)

• 1940 Peter Stringfellow, English businessman (died 2018)

• 1941 Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)

• 1941 Paul Ellison, American musician

• 1941 Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist (died 2022)

• 1942 Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2017)

• 1942 Gary Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1943 Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist (died 2015)

• 1944 Ángel Cristo, Spanish circus performer (died 2010)

• 1946 Ronni Chasen, American publicist (died 2010)

• 1946 Michael Hossack, American drummer (died 2012)

• 1946 Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez, Mexican actor and comedian

• 1946 Akira Kushida, Japanese vocalist

• 1946 Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager

• 1946 Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian

• 1946 Julio Miranda, Argentine politician (died 2021)

• 1946 Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic

• 1946 Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician (died 2018)

• 1946 José Perramón, Spanish handball player

• 1946 Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician

• 1946 Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter

• 1946 Rüdiger Wittig, German geobotanist and ecologist

• 1947 Omar Azziman, adviser to the King of Morocco

• 1947 Gene Green, American lawyer and politician

• 1947 Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director

• 1947 Robert Post, American educator and academic

• 1948 Osvaldo Castro, Chilean footballer

• 1948 Robert Jordan, American soldier and author (died 2007)

• 1948 Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (died 2018)

• 1948 George Wendt, American actor and comedian (died 2025)

• 1949 Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados (died 2020)

• 1949 Bill Hudson, American musician and actor

• 1950 Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal

• 1950 Sandra Reemer, Indo-Dutch singer (died 2017)

• 1950 Howard Rollins, American actor (died 1996)

• 1951 Dirk Beheydt, Belgian footballer

• 1951 Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater

• 1951 Roger Pontare, Swedish singer

• 1951 Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist

• 1953 Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader

• 1953 Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer

• 1954 Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer

• 1955 Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek Minister of Finance

• 1955 Mike Bratz, American basketball player

• 1956 Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1956 Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut

• 1956 Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina

• 1956 Ken Morrow, American ice hockey player and executive

• 1956 Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author

• 1957 Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek folk singer

• 1957 Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player (died 2002)

• 1957 Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer

• 1957 Antonio Galdo, Italian journalist

• 1957 Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster (died 2025)

• 1957 Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist

• 1957 Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor

• 1958 Howard Alden, American guitarist

• 1958 Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter

• 1958 Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress (died 1977)

• 1958 Craig Murray, British diplomat

• 1959 Mustafa Aberchán, Spanish politician

• 1959 Ron Drummond, American author and scholar

• 1959 Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (died 2016)

• 1959 Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter

• 1959 Eugenio Hernández Flores, Mexican politician

• 1959 Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (died 2021)

• 1959 Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic

• 1959 Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic

• 1960 Guy Henry, English actor

• 1960 Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer

• 1960 Bernie Nolan, Irish singer (died 2013)

• 1960 Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic

• 1961 David Means, American short story writer

• 1962 Glenn Braggs, American baseball player

• 1962 Jay Humphries, American basketball player

• 1962 Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor

• 1963 Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist

• 1963 Toby Young, English journalist and academic

• 1964 Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician

• 1964 Gregg Wallace, English television presenter

• 1965 Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer

• 1965 Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor

• 1966 Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach

• 1966 Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager

• 1966 Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and novelist

• 1966 Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and sportscaster

• 1967 René Dif, Danish musician

• 1967 Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer

• 1967 Simon Segars, English businessman

• 1967 Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player

• 1968 Alejandra Ávalos, Mexican artist

• 1968 Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster

• 1968 Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor

• 1968 David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager

• 1969 Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster

• 1969 Jesús Ángel García, Spanish racewalker

• 1969 Wood Harris, American actor

• 1969 Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor

• 1969 Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1970 Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer

• 1970 John Mabry, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster

• 1970 J. C. MacKenzie, Canadian actor

• 1971 Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter and dancer

• 1971 Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1971 Martin Heinrich, American politician

• 1971 Derrick Plourde, American drummer (died 2005)

• 1971 Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1972 Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor

• 1972 Sharon Leal, American actress

• 1972 Musashi, Japanese karateka and kickboxer

• 1972 Tarkan, German-Turkish singer

• 1973 Rubén Garcés, Panamanian basketball player

• 1973 Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach

• 1973 Bhagwant Mann, Indian Politician

• 1974 Ariel Levy, American journalist and author

• 1974 Matthew Macfadyen, English actor

• 1974 Obdulio Ávila Mayo, Mexican politician

• 1974 Bárbara Paz, Brazilian actress

• 1974 Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player

• 1974 John Rocker, American baseball player

• 1974 Darío Sala, Argentine footballer

• 1974 Gabriel Silberstein, Chilean tennis player

• 1974 Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer

• 1975 Jericó Abramo Masso, Mexican politician

• 1975 Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player

• 1975 Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer

• 1976 Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer

• 1976 Seth Etherton, American baseball player

• 1976 Carlos Loret de Mola, Mexican journalist

• 1976 Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and coach

• 1977 Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer

• 1977 Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer

• 1977 Bryan Bertino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1977 Walter Calderón, Ecuadorian footballer

• 1977 Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician

• 1977 Ryan McGinley, American photographer

• 1977 André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager

• 1978 Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player and coach

• 1978 Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician

• 1978 Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress

• 1978 Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician

• 1979 Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist

• 1979 Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist (died 2022)

• 1979 Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver

• 1979 Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player

• 1980 Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player

• 1980 Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer

• 1980 Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer

• 1980 Angel Parker, American actress

• 1980 Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver

• 1980 Justin Shenkarow, American actor

• 1981 Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer

• 1981 Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer-songwriter

• 1981 Holly Holm, American mixed martial artist

• 1981 Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer

• 1981 Ben Rothwell, American mixed-martial artist

• 1982 Rubén Ramírez, Argentine footballer

• 1982 Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer

• 1982 Marion Rolland, French skier

• 1983 Michelle Ang, New Zealand actress

• 1983 Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater

• 1983 Felicity Jones, English actress

• 1983 Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer

• 1983 Riki Miura, Japanese actor

• 1983 Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer

• 1983 Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer

• 1983 Mitch Talbot, American baseball player

• 1983 Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer

• 1984 Sami Lepistö, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1984 Chris Lowell, American actor

• 1984 Giovanni Marchese, Italian footballer

• 1984 Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator

• 1984 Luke Rockhold, American mixed martial artist

• 1984 Anja Eline Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader

• 1984 Gottfrid Svartholm, Swedish computer specialist

• 1984 Jared Tallent, Australian race walker

• 1985 Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1985 Max Irons, English-Irish actor

• 1985 Collins John, Dutch footballer

• 1985 Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer

• 1986 Alexandre Bonnet, French footballer

• 1986 Antoni Bou, Spanish motorcyclist

• 1986 Aija Brumermane, Latvian basketball player

• 1986 Constant Djakpa, Ivorian footballer

• 1986 Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater

• 1986 Nicolás Richotti, Argentine basketball player

• 1987 Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer

• 1987 Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer

• 1987 Elliot Grandin, French footballer

• 1987 Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer

• 1988 Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player

• 1988 Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model

• 1988 Marina Salas, Spanish actress

• 1989 Débora García, Spanish footballer

• 1989 Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer

• 1989 Sophie Luck, Australian actress

• 1989 Charles Oliveira, Brazilian mixed martial artist

• 1989 David Timor, Spanish footballer

• 1990 Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer

• 1990 Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player

• 1990 Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer

• 1990 Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer

• 1990 Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player

• 1991 Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress

• 1992 Jacob Artist, American actor, singer, and dancer

• 1992 Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer

• 1992 Anthony Gill, American basketball player

• 1992 Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress

• 1993 Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer

• 1993 Vincent Poirier, French basketball player

• 1995 Jamal Adams, American football player

• 1995 Ha-seong Kim, South Korean baseball player

• 1996 Jake DeBrusk, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1997 Robert Williams III, American basketball player

• 2001 Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer

• 2002 Matthew Knies, American professional ice hockey player

• 2002 Lily, Australian-South Korean singer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• AD 33 Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (born 14 BC)

• 532 Pope Boniface II

• 866 Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (born 836)

• 1271 Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet

• 1277 Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (born c. 1254)

• 1346 John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray

• 1346 Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn

• 1456 Nicolas Grenon, French composer (born 1375)

• 1485 John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports

• 1528 Hernando Alonso, Spanish conquistador, first Jew executed in the New World

• 1552 Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (born 1498)

• 1575 Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (born 1511)

• 1586 Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (born 1554)

• 1587 Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1541)

1601–1900

• 1616 John Pitts, English priest and scholar (born 1560)

• 1660 Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (born 1601)

• 1673 Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (born 1630)

• 1690 Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (born 1647)

• 1696 Geoffrey Shakerley (1619–1696), English politician (born 1619)

• 1757 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (born 1683)

• 1776 Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (born 1681)

• 1780 William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (born 1705)

• 1781 Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (born 1705)

• 1786 Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1723)

• 1806 Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (born 1758)

• 1836 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (born 1782)

• 1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (born 1778)

• 1849 Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (born 1810)

• 1868 Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (born 1775)

• 1887 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (born 1824)

• 1889 Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1828)

• 1893 Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (born 1808)

1901–present

• 1910 Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (born 1819)

• 1918 Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (born 1886)

• 1920 Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican) died on Hunger Strike (born 1881)

• 1928 Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (born 1853)

• 1931 Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (born 1884)

• 1937 J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (born 1862)

• 1938 Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (born 1854)

• 1948 Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (born 1869)

• 1955 Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (born 1873)

• 1956 Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (born 1920)

• 1957 Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (born 1884)

• 1958 Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (born 1896)

• 1958 Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (born 1876)

• 1962 Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (born 1882)

• 1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (born 1865)

• 1965 Bart King, American cricketer (born 1873)

• 1966 Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (born 1883)

• 1966 Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (born 1917)

• 1967 Puyi, Chinese emperor (born 1906)

• 1970 Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1921)

• 1970 Vola Vale, American actress (born 1897)

• 1970 Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (born 1890)

• 1972 Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1914)

• 1972 George, Crown Prince of Serbia (born 1887)

• 1973 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (born 1926)

• 1978 George Clark, American race car driver (born 1890)

• 1978 Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (born 1887)

• 1979 S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (born 1904)

• 1979 John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (born 1898)

• 1979 Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (born 1909)

• 1981 Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (born 1927)

• 1981 Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (born 1895)

• 1981 Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (born 1887)

• 1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (born 1905)

• 1987 Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (born 1925)

• 1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (born 1919)

• 1992 Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (born 1912)

• 1992 Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)

• 1993 Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1963)

• 1996 Chris Acland, English musician and drummer of Lush (born 1966)

• 1997 Larry Jennings, American magician and author (born 1933)

• 1998 Joan Hickson, English actress (born 1906)

• 1998 Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (born 1920)

• 1999 Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (born 1915)

• 2000 Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (born 1924)

• 2000 Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (born 1964)

• 2001 Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (born 1915)

• 2001 Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (born 1922)

• 2001 Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (born 1926)

• 2002 Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (born 1935)

• 2004 Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (born 1952)

• 2006 Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (born 1924)

• 2006 Christopher Glenn, American journalist (born 1938)

• 2007 Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (born 1918)

• 2007 Teresa Brewer, American singer (born 1931)

• 2007 Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (born 1939)

• 2008 Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (born 1955)

• 2008 Levi Stubbs, American singer (born 1936)

• 2008 Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (born 1923)

• 2009 Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (born 1931)

• 2009 Vic Mizzy, American composer (born 1916)

• 2011 Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (born 1919)

• 2012 Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (born 1951)

• 2012 Émile Allais, French skier (born 1912)

• 2012 Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (born 1930)

• 2012 Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (born 1922)

• 2012 Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1936)

• 2013 Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (born 1926)

• 2013 Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (born 1944)

• 2013 Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (born 1926)

• 2013 Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (born 1928)

• 2013 Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (born 1966)

• 2014 Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (born 1937)

• 2014 Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (born 1943)

• 2014 Tom Shaw, American bishop (born 1945)

• 2014 Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (born 1919)

• 2015 Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (born 1926)

• 2015 Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (born 1946)

• 2015 Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (born 1949)

• 2015 Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (born 1947)

• 2017 Gord Downie, Canadian musician (born 1964)

• 2019 Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (born 1951)

• 2024 Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1931)

• 2024 Toshiyuki Nishida, Japanese actor (born 1947)

• 2024 Andrew Schally, Polish-American endocrinologist (born 1926)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Andrew of Crete

• Anstrudis

• Catervus

• Ethelred and Ethelberht

• Florentius of Orange

• François-Isidore Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)

• Hosea

• Ignatius of Antioch

• John the Short (John Colobus)

• Marguerite Marie Alacoque (pre-1969 calendar, Visitadines)

• Nothhelm

• Rule of Andrew

• Richard Gwyn

• Victor of Capua

• October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

• Loyalty Day (Argentina)

• National Police Day (Thailand)

• National Heroes Day (Somaliland)

References

External links