Events

Pre-1600

• 312 Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.

• 437 Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.

• 1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.

• 1467 Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

1601–1900

• 1611 Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.

• 1621 The London Pageant of 1621 celebrates the inauguration of Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor).

• 1658 Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.

• 1665 Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.

• 1675 Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

• 1792 Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

• 1863 Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.

• 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet in one of the few night battles of the war, protecting the Union's recently opened supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.

• 1888 The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

1901–present

• 1914 World War I : the Ottoman Empire enters the war on the side of the Central Powers.

• 1918 World War I: the German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.

• 1923 Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

• 1929 Black Tuesday: The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and eventually contributing to the Great Depression.

• 1941 The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".

• 1944 World War II: The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.

• 1944 World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.

• 1948 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.

• 1953 BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.

• 1955 The sinks after probably striking a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol, with a loss of more than 600 sailers.

• 1956 Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.

• 1957 Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into the Knesset.

• 1960 An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.

• 1964 The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania.

• 1964 Biggest jewel heist in American history when Murph the Surf and gang burgle the American Museum of Natural History stealing the Star of India and other gems.

• 1967 Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50million visitors.

• 1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

• 1972 The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.

• 1980 Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in a crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida, leading to the cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.

• 1985 Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.

• 1986 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.

• 1991 The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

• 1994 Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.

• 1998 In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.

• 1998 Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time.

• 1998 ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with live coverage of the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.

• 1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.

• 1998 The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures over 200.

• 1999 A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.

• 2002 A fire destroys a luxurious department store in Ho Chi Minh City, where 1,500 people are shopping. More than 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for in the deadliest peacetime disaster in Vietnam.

• 2004 The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

• 2005 Bombings in Delhi, India kill 67 and injure over 200 people.

• 2006 ADC Airlines Flight 053 crashes after takeoff from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria killing 96 people and injuring nine.

• 2008 Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.

• 2008 A pair of deadly earthquakes hits Baluchistan, Pakistan, killing 215.

• 2012 Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing hundreds, while leaving nearly $70billion in damages and causing major power outages.

• 2014 A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.

• 2015 China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.

• 2018 A Boeing 737 MAX plane crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board. This is the first of two crashes that will lead to the plane being grounded worldwide.

• 2020 Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is suspended from the Labour Party following his response to findings from the EHRC on the issue of antisemitism within the party.

• 2022 At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea.

• 2022 At least 100 people are killed and over 300 are injured by a double car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1463 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (died 1512)

• 1497 Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Italian cardinal (died 1549)

• 1504 Shin Saimdang, South Korean painter and poet (died 1551)

• 1507 Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (died 1582)

• 1550 Laura Guidiccioni, Italian noblewoman and poet (died 1597/9)

• 1562 George Abbot, English archbishop and academic (died 1633)

1601–1900

• 1682 Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian, explorer, and author (died 1761)

• 1690 Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1754)

• 1704 John Byng, English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (died 1757)

• 1711 Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have doctorate in science (died 1778)

• 1740 James Boswell, Scottish lawyer and author (died 1795)

• 1808 Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (died 1873)

• 1812 Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (died 1907)

• 1815 Dan Emmett, American composer (died 1904)

• 1822 Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Russian-Polish cardinal (died 1902)

• 1831 James Boucaut, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of South Australia (died 1916)

• 1832 Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (died 1869)

• 1837 Harriet Powers, American folk artist and quilter (died 1910)

• 1855 Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (died 1939)

• 1855 Paul-Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic (died 1941)

• 1861 Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (died 1904)

• 1866 Antonio Luna, Filipino general and politician (died 1899)

• 1866 Carl Gustav Witt, German astronomer (died 1946)

• 1875 Marie of Romania (died 1938)

• 1877 Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film producer (died 1966)

• 1877 Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (died 1973)

• 1879 Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and politician (died 1941)

• 1879 Franz von Papen, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969)

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

• 1881 John DeWitt, American football player and hammer thrower (died 1930)

• 1882 Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (died 1944)

• 1883 Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water polo player (died 1966)

• 1891 Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (died 1951)

• 1897 Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany (died 1945)

• 1897 Billy Walker, English footballer (died 1964)

• 1898 Alan Barker, English soldier (died 1984)

• 1899 Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor (died 1972)

1901–present

• 1901 Émilienne Morin, French activist (died 1991)

• 1905 Henry Green, English author (died 1973)

• 1906 Fredric Brown, American author (died 1972)

• 1907 Edwige Feuillère, French actress (died 1998)

• 1910 A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author (died 1989)

• 1913 Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (died 2014)

• 1914 Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (died 2012)

• 1915 William Berenberg, American physician and academic (died 2005)

• 1918 Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)

• 1918 Diana Serra Cary, American actress and author (died 2020)

• 1920 Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

• 1920 Václav Neumann, Czech violinist and conductor (died 1995)

• 1921 Baselios Thoma Didymos I, Indian metropolitan (died 2014)

• 1921 Baku Mahadeva, Sri Lankan civil servant and academic (died 2013)

• 1921 Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (died 2003)

• 1922 Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer (died 2008)

• 1923 Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (died 2015)

• 1923 Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch runner, hurdler, and long jumper (died 2015)

• 1924 Bernard Middleton, British restoration bookbinder (died 2019)

• 1925 Dominick Dunne, American journalist and author (died 2009)

• 1925 Robert Hardy, English actor (died 2017)

• 1925 Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (died 2012)

• 1925 Klaus Roth, British mathematician (died 2015)

• 1925 Zoot Sims, American saxophonist and composer (died 1985)

• 1926 Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish engineer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Turkey (died 2011)

• 1926 Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor and actor (died 2015)

• 1927 Frank Sedgman, Australian tennis player

• 1929 Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (died 2015)

• 1930 Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (died 2006)

• 1930 Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor and painter (died 2002)

• 1930 Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer and dancer

• 1930 Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (died 1992)

• 1932 Dick Garmaker, American basketball player (died 2020)

• 1932 Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and politician

• 1933 William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (died 2013)

• 1935 David Allen, English cricketer (died 2014)

• 1935 Eddie Hopkinson, English footballer (died 2004)

• 1935 Michael Jayston, English actor (died 2024)

• 1935 Isao Takahata, Japanese director (died 2018)

• 1937 Sonny Osborne, American bluegrass singer and banjo player (died 2021)

• 1938 Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1938 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1938 Peter Stampfel, American fiddle player, violinist, and singer-songwriter

• 1940 Connie Mack III, American lawyer and politician

• 1940 Jack Shepherd, English actor, director, and playwright (died 2025)

• 1940 Galen Weston, English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded George Weston Limited (died 2021)

• 1941 George Davies, English fashion designer

• 1941 Paul Tyler, Baron Tyler, English politician

• 1942 Lee Clayton, American rock/country musician and songwriter (died 2023)

• 1942 Bob Ross, American painter and television host (died 1995)

• 1943 Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 1996)

• 1944 Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman

• 1944 Mehmet Haberal, Turkish surgeon and academic

• 1944 Denny Laine, English singer-songwriter and musician (died 2023)

• 1944 Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch musician and songwriter

• 1945 Mick Gallagher, English keyboard player and songwriter

• 1945 Ron Maag, American businessman and politician

• 1945 Melba Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1945 Gerrit Ybema, Dutch civil servant and politician (died 2012)

• 1946 Peter Green, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

• 1947 Helen Coonan, Australian lawyer and politician, 52nd Australian Minister for Communications

• 1947 Richard Dreyfuss, American actor and activist

• 1948 Frans de Waal, Dutch-American ethologist, author, and academic (died 2024)

• 1948 Kate Jackson, American actress, director, and producer

• 1949 Kieron Baker, English footballer

• 1949 Raphael Carl Lee, American surgeon and academic

• 1949 Paul Orndorff, American football player and wrestler (died 2021)

• 1949 David Paton, Scottish guitarist

• 1949 James Williamson, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1950 Abdullah Gül, Turkish academic and politician, 11th President of Turkey

• 1951 Dirk Kempthorne, American businessman and politician, 49th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2026)

• 1951 Tiff Needell, English race car driver and television host

• 1952 Marcia Fudge, American lawyer and politician

• 1953 Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1955 Kevin DuBrow, American heavy metal singer-songwriter (died 2007)

• 1956 Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican-American boxer

• 1957 Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice artist, comedian, singer and producer

• 1958 Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter, sculptor, and illustrator

• 1958 David Remnick, American journalist and author

• 1958 Danny Vranes, American basketball player

• 1959 Jesse Barfield, American baseball player and coach

• 1959 Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1959 Finola Hughes, English actress

• 1959 John Magufuli, Tanzanian politician, 5th President of Tanzania (died 2021)

• 1960 Michael Carter, American football player and athlete

• 1960 Fabiola Gianotti, Italian physicist and academic

• 1960 Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer

• 1961 Randy Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer

• 1961 Joel Otto, American ice hockey player and coach

• 1962 Einar Örn Benediktsson, Icelandic singer, trumpet player, and politician

• 1963 Damian Chapa, American actor

• 1963 Gerald Morris, American author

• 1964 Yasmin Le Bon, English model

• 1964 Eddie McGuire, Australian businessman and television host

• 1965 Tyler Collins, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1965 Andrew Ettingshausen, Australian rugby league player and television host

• 1965 Michael Passons, American singer-songwriter

• 1966 Mary Bucholtz, American linguist and academic

• 1967 Beth Chapman, American reality television star (died 2019)

• 1967 Thorsten Fink, German footballer and manager

• 1967 Joely Fisher, American actress and director

• 1967 Rufus Sewell, English actor

• 1968 Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater and physician

• 1969 David Farr, English director and playwright

• 1969 Chris Verene, American photographer

• 1970 Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer and manager

• 1970 Dan Ratushny, Canadian ice hockey player and coach and lawyer

• 1970 Kaido Reivelt, Estonian physicist and academic

• 1970 Toby Smith, English keyboardist and songwriter (died 2017)

• 1970 Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer and sportscaster

• 1971 Daniel J. Bernstein, American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic

• 1971 Greg Blewett, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster

• 1971 Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer

• 1971 Winona Ryder, American actress and producer

• 1972 Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress and producer

• 1972 Takafumi Horie, Japanese businessman, founded Livedoor

• 1972 Gabrielle Union, American actress and producer

• 1973 Vonetta Flowers, American bobsledder, sprinter, and long jumper

• 1973 Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1973 Robert Pires, French footballer

• 1974 R. A. Dickey, American baseball player

• 1974 Michael Vaughan, English cricketer and sportscaster

• 1974 Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician

• 1975 Baba Ali, Iranian-American comedian, games developer, businessman, and actor

• 1975 Joy Osmanski, American actress

• 1976 Stephen Craigan, Irish footballer and manager

• 1976 Milena Govich, American actress, singer, and dancer

• 1976 Raghava Lawrence, Indian actor, director, and choreographer

• 1976 Mark Sheehan, Irish guitarist (died 2023)

• 1977 Jon Abrahams, American actor

• 1977 Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor

• 1978 Travis Henry, American football player

• 1978 Kelly Smith, English footballer

• 1979 Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan lawyer and politician

• 1979 Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor, director, and producer

• 1980 Ben Foster, American actor

• 1980 Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-Italian rugby player

• 1981 Amanda Beard, American swimmer

• 1981 Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer

• 1981 Angelika dela Cruz, Filipino actress and singer

• 1982 Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer

• 1982 Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syrian revolutionary and military leader, President of Syria

• 1983 Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor

• 1983 Maurice Clarett, American football player

• 1983 Freddy Eastwood, Welsh footballer

• 1983 Jérémy Mathieu, French footballer

• 1983 Nurcan Taylan, Turkish weightlifter

• 1984 Chris Baio, American bass player

• 1984 Lee Chung-ah, South Korean actress

• 1984 Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1985 Cal Crutchlow, English motorcycle racer

• 1985 Ximena Sariñana, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress

• 1985 Vijender Singh, Indian boxer

• 1986 Italia Ricci, Canadian actress

• 1987 Andy Dalton, American football player

• 1987 Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater

• 1987 Tove Lo, Swedish singer

• 1987 Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer and actress

• 1988 Janoris Jenkins, American football player

• 1989 Irina Karamanos, Chilean anthropologist and political scientist, First Lady of Chile

• 1989 Primož Roglič, Slovenian ski jumper and cyclist

• 1990 Ender Inciarte, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1990 Ben Proudfoot, Canadian filmmaker

• 1990 Eric Saade, Swedish singer

• 1991 Parris Goebel, New Zealand dancer and choreographer

• 1991 Nikita Zaitsev, Russian ice hockey player

• 1992 Evan Fournier, French basketball player

• 1992 Colin Miller, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1993 Ágnes Bukta, Hungarian tennis player

• 1993 India Eisley, American actress

• 1994 Danielle Hunter, American football player

• 1996 Vince Dunn, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1996 Mikko Rantanen, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1996 Astrid S, Norwegian singer and songwriter

• 1998 Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 1050 Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury

• 1266 Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (born 1204)

• 1268 Conradin, King of Sicily (born 1252)

• 1268 Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (born 1249)

• 1321 Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (born 1253)

• 1339 Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (born 1301)

• 1590 Dirck Coornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (born 1522)

1601–1900

• 1618 Walter Raleigh, English admiral, explorer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1554)

• 1650 David Calderwood, Scottish historian and theologian (born 1575)

• 1666 Edmund Calamy the Elder, English minister and activist (born 1600)

• 1666 James Shirley, English dramatist (born 1596)

• 1783 Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1717)

• 1804 Sarah Crosby, English Methodist preacher (born 1729)

• 1829 Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (born 1751)

• 1871 Andrea Debono, Maltese trader and explorer (born 1821)

• 1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and KKK leader (born 1821)

• 1892 William Harnett, American painter (born 1848)

• 1897 Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (born 1839)

• 1900 Fatima Cates, British Muslim convert and activist (born 1865)

1901–present

• 1901 Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (born 1873)

• 1905 Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (born 1873)

• 1911 Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (born 1847)

• 1916 John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (born 1851)

• 1918 Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (born 1873)

• 1919 Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (born 1843)

• 1924 Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (born 1849)

• 1932 Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (born 1857)

• 1933 Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (born 1863)

• 1933 George Luks, American painter and illustrator (born 1867)

• 1933 Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (born 1853)

• 1936 Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (born 1874)

• 1939 Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (born 1864)

• 1941 Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (born 1897)

• 1942 Edward S. Anthoine, American politician and lawyer (born 1882)

• 1949 George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1872)

• 1949 Thomas Slater Price, British chemist (born 1875)

• 1950 Gustaf V of Sweden (born 1858)

• 1951 Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (born 1864)

• 1953 William Kapell, American pianist (born 1922)

• 1956 Louis Rosier, French race car driver (born 1905)

• 1957 Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American production manager and producer (born 1885)

• 1958 Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1886)

• 1961 Astrid Holm, Danish actress (born 1893)

• 1963 Adolphe Menjou, American actor (born 1890)

• 1971 Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)

• 1971 Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)

• 1975 Edmund Hirst, British chemist (born 1898)

• 1977 Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (born 1926)

• 1980 Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1911)

• 1981 Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1921)

• 1985 Evgeny Lifshitz, Soviet physicist (born 1915)

• 1986 Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (born 1913)

• 1987 Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (born 1913)

• 1988 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (born 1903)

• 1993 Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (born 1914)

• 1994 Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (born 1918)

• 1995 Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, screenwriter (born 1924)

• 1996 Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (born 1908)

• 1997 Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (born 1930)

• 1997 Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1947)

• 1998 Paul Misraki, Turkish-French pianist and composer (born 1908)

• 1999 Greg, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1931)

• 2000 Carlos Guastavino, Argentinian pianist and composer (born 1912)

• 2002 Glenn McQueen, Canadian-American animator (born 1960)

• 2003 Hal Clement, American pilot, author, and educator (born 1922)

• 2003 Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor (born 1921)

• 2004 Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (born 1901)

• 2004 – Admire Vega, Japanese thoroughbred horse (born 1966)

• 2004 Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (born 1946)

• 2004 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, Premier of Dominica (born 1923)

• 2004 Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (born 1916)

• 2005 Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (born 1924)

• 2005 Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (born 1903)

• 2008 Mike Baker, American singer-songwriter (born 1963)

• 2011 Jimmy Savile, English radio and television host (born 1926)

• 2012 Letitia Baldrige, American etiquette expert and author (born 1926)

• 2012 J. Bernlef, Dutch author, poet, and songwriter (born 1937)

• 2012 Kenneth G. Ryder, American academic (born 1924)

• 2012 Wallace L. W. Sargent, English-American astronomer and academic (born 1935)

• 2012 Jack Vaughn, American boxer and diplomat (born 1920)

• 2013 Jean Rénald Clérismé, Haitian priest and politician, Foreign Minister of Haiti (born 1937)

• 2013 Sherman Halsey, American director and producer (born 1957)

• 2013 John Spence, American soldier and engineer (born 1918)

• 2013 Graham Stark, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

• 2014 Roger Freeman, American lawyer and politician (born 1965)

• 2014 Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1968)

• 2014 H. Gary Morse, American businessman (born 1936)

• 2015 Luther Burden, American basketball player and coach (born 1953)

• 2015 Ernesto Herrera, Filipino businessman and politician (born 1942)

• 2015 Boris Kristančič, Slovene basketball player and coach (born 1931)

• 2015 Ranko Žeravica, Serbian basketball player and coach (born 1929)

• 2019 John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (born 1942)

• 2020 Angelika Amon, Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist (born 1967)

• 2021 Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer (born 1945)

• 2023 Hiroshi Morie, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (born 1968)

• 2024 Teri Garr, American actress and comedian (born 1944)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Abraham of Rostov

• Blessed Chiara Badano

• Colman mac Duagh

• Douai Martyrs

• Gaetano Errico

• James Hannington (Anglicanism)

• Michele Rua

• Narcissus of Jerusalem

• Theuderius

• October 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Coronation Day (Cambodia)

• National Cat Day (United States)

• Republic Day (Turkey) or Cumhuriyet Bayramı

References

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