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Day of the year
October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 74 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
33 – Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons
Nero and
Drusus , and banished to the island of
Pandateria by
Tiberius ,
Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation.
[1]
320 –
Pappus of Alexandria , Greek philosopher, observes an
eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (
Almagest ).
614 – King
Chlothar II promulgates the
Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii ), a sort of Frankish
Magna Carta that defends the rights of the
Frankish nobles while it
excludes Jews from all civil employment in the
Frankish Kingdom .
629 –
Dagobert I is crowned
King of the Franks .
1009 – The
Church of the Holy Sepulchre , a Christian church in
Jerusalem , is completely destroyed by the
Fatimid caliph
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , who hacks the Church's foundations down to
bedrock .
1016 – The
Danes defeat the
English in the
Battle of Assandun .
1081 – The
Normans defeat the
Byzantine Empire in the
Battle of Dyrrhachium .
1281 –
Pope Martin IV excommunicates King
Peter III of Aragon
[2] for usurping the crown of Sicily (a sentence renewed on 7 May and 18 November 1282).
[3]
1356 –
Basel earthquake , the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of
Basel , Switzerland.
1540 – Spanish conquistador
Hernando de Soto 's forces destroy the fortified town of
Mabila in present-day
Alabama , killing
Tuskaloosa .
1561 – In
Japan the fourth
Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between the forces of
Uesugi Kenshin and
Takeda Shingen , resulting in a draw.
1565 – Ships belonging to the
Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading
carrack in the
Battle of Fukuda Bay , the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.
1597 –
King Philip II of Spain sends his
third and final armada against England , but it ends in failure due to storms. The remaining ships are captured or sunk by the English.
[4]
1599 –
Michael the Brave , Prince of
Wallachia , defeats the Army of
Andrew Báthory in the
Battle of Șelimbăr , leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
1601–1900
1901–present
1912 –
First Balkan War : King
Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
1914 – The
Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.
1921 – The
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1922 – The
British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a
consortium , to establish a nationwide network of
radio transmitters to provide a national
broadcasting service.
1929 – The
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the
Supreme Court of Canada in
Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under
Canadian law .
1944 –
World War II :
Soviet Union begins the liberation of
Czechoslovakia from
Nazi Germany .
1944 – World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
1945 – The
USSR 's nuclear program receives plans for the United States
plutonium bomb from
Klaus Fuchs at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory .
1945 – A group of the
Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas,
Marcos Pérez Jiménez and
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud , stages
a coup d'état against president
Isaías Medina Angarita , who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1945 –
Argentine military officer and politician
Juan Perón marries actress
Eva Duarte .
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the
Regency TR-1 , the first mass-produced transistor radio.
1963 –
Félicette , a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
1967 – The
Soviet probe
Venera 4 reaches
Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1977 –
German Autumn : A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of
Hanns Martin Schleyer and the
hijacking of a
Lufthansa flight by the
Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
1979 – The
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
1991 – The Supreme Council of
Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the
Soviet Union .
1992 –
Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into
Mount Papandayan near the town of
Garut in
West Java ,
Indonesia , killing 31.
[7]
2003 –
Bolivian gas conflict :
Bolivian President
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 –
Karachi bombing : A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former
Pakistani Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
2019 –
NASA Astronauts
Jessica Meir and
Christina Koch take part in the first all-female
spacewalk when they venture out of the
International Space Station to replace a power controller.
[8]
2019 –
Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164
Metro stations. President
Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.
[9]
[10]
Births
Pre-1600
1127 –
Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1130 –
Zhu Xi , Chinese philosopher (d. 1200)
1405 –
Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
[11]
1444 –
John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1476)
1482 –
Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1538)
1517 –
Manuel da Nóbrega , Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1570)
1523 –
Anna Jagiellon , daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596)
1536 –
William Lambarde , English antiquarian and politician (d. 1601)
1547 –
Justus Lipsius , Belgian philologist and scholar (d. 1606)
1553 –
Luca Marenzio , Italian composer (d. 1599)
1569 –
Giambattista Marino , Italian poet (d. 1625)
1587 –
Lady Mary Wroth , English poet (d. 1651)
1595 –
Edward Winslow , American Pilgrim leader (d. 1655)
1601–1900
1616 –
Nicholas Culpeper , English botanist (d. 1654)
1630 –
Henry Powle , English politician (d. 1692)
1634 –
Luca Giordano , Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1705)
1653 –
Abraham van Riebeeck , South African-Dutch merchant and politician,
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
1662 –
Matthew Henry , Welsh minister and scholar (d. 1714)
1663 –
Prince Eugene of Savoy (d. 1736)
1668 –
John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
1701 –
Charles le Beau , French historian and author (d. 1778)
1706 –
Baldassare Galuppi , Italian
harpsichord player and composer (d. 1785)
1741 –
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , French general and author (d. 1803)
1770 –
Thomas Phillips , English artist (d. 1845)
[12]
1777 –
Heinrich von Kleist , German author and poet (d. 1811)
1785 –
Thomas Love Peacock , English author and poet (d. 1866)
1792 –
Lucas Alamán , Mexican politician and historian (d. 1853)
1804 –
Mongkut , Thai king (d. 1868)
1822 –
Midhat Pasha , Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1883)
1831 –
Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888)
1836 –
Frederick August Otto Schwarz , American businessman, founded
FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)
1850 –
Basil Hall Chamberlain , English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (d. 1935)
1854 –
Billy Murdoch , Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1859 –
Henri Bergson , French philosopher and theologian,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1862 –
Mehmet Esat Bülkat , Ottoman general (d. 1952)
1865 –
Arie de Jong , Dutch linguist and author (d. 1957)
1865 –
Logan Pearsall Smith , American-English author and critic (d. 1946)
1868 –
Ernst Didring , Swedish author (d. 1931)
1869 –
Johannes Linnankoski , Finnish author (d. 1913)
[13]
1870 –
D. T. Suzuki , Japanese author and scholar (d. 1966)
1872 –
Mikhail Kuzmin , Russian poet and author (d. 1936)
1873 –
Ivanoe Bonomi , Italian lawyer and politician, 25th
Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
1875 –
Len Braund , English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1955)
1878 –
James Truslow Adams , American historian and author (d. 1949)
1880 –
Ze'ev Jabotinsky , Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist (d. 1940)
1881 –
Max Gerson , German-born American physician (d. 1959)
1882 –
Väinö Kivisalo , Finnish politician (d. 1953)
[14]
1882 –
Lucien Petit-Breton , French cyclist (d. 1917)
1887 –
Takashi Sakai , Japanese general and politician,
Governor of Hong Kong (d. 1946)
1888 –
Paul Vermoyal , French actor (d. 1925)
1893 –
Sidney Holland , New Zealand lieutenant and politician, 25th
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1961)
1893 –
George Ohsawa , Japanese philosopher and academic (d. 1966)
1894 –
H. L. Davis , American author and poet (d. 1960)
1894 –
Tibor Déry , Hungarian author and translator (d. 1977)
1897 –
Isabel Briggs Myers , American theorist and author (d. 1980)
1898 –
Lotte Lenya , Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
1901–present
1902 –
Miriam Hopkins , American actress (d. 1972)
1902 –
Pascual Jordan , German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)
1903 –
Lina Radke , German runner and coach (d. 1983)
1904 –
Aarne Juutilainen , Finnish army captain (d. 1976)
[15]
1904 –
A. J. Liebling , American journalist and author (d. 1963)
1904 –
Haim Shirman , Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981)
1905 –
Jan Gies , Dutch activist (d. 1993)
1905 –
Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st
President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993)
1906 –
James Brooks , American painter and educator (d. 1992)
1909 –
Norberto Bobbio , Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2004)
1914 –
Raymond Lambert , Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
1915 –
Victor Sen Yung , American actor (d. 1980)
1918 –
Molly Geertsema , Dutch lawyer and politician,
Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1991)
1918 –
Konstantinos Mitsotakis , Greek lawyer and politician, 178th
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2017)
1918 –
Bobby Troup , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1999)
1919 –
Ric Nordman , Canadian captain and politician (d. 1996)
1919 –
Anita O'Day , American singer (d. 2006)
[16]
1919 –
Pierre Trudeau , Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th
Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
[16]
1919 –
Camilla Williams , American soprano and educator (d. 2012)
1920 –
Melina Mercouri , Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th
Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994)
[16]
1921 –
Jerry Cooke , Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 2005)
1921 –
Jesse Helms , American journalist and politician (d. 2008)
1921 –
Beatrice Helen Worsley , Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)
1923 –
Jessie Mae Hemphill , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
1924 –
Buddy MacMaster , Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2014)
1925 –
Ramiz Alia , Albanian politician, 1st
President of Albania (d. 2011)
1926 –
Chuck Berry , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
[16]
1926 –
Klaus Kinski , German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1927 –
Marv Rotblatt , American baseball player (d. 2013)
1927 –
George C. Scott , American actor and director (d. 1999)
1928 –
Maurice El Mediouni , Algerian pianist and composer (d. 2024)
1928 –
Keith Jackson , American sportscaster and actor (d. 2018)
[16]
1928 –
Dick Taverne , English lawyer and politician
1929 –
Violeta Chamorro , Nicaraguan publisher and politician,
President of Nicaragua
1929 –
Hillard Elkins , American producer and manager (d. 2010)
1929 –
Kees Fens , Dutch author and critic (d. 2008)
1929 –
Frank Stanmore , Australian rugby league player (d. 2005)
[17]
1930 –
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun , Scottish politician
1930 –
Esther Hautzig , Lithuanian-American author (d. 2009)
1931 –
Chris Albertson , Icelandic-American historian, journalist, and producer (d. 2019)
1931 –
Roger Climpson , English-Australian journalist
1931 –
Ien Dales , Dutch civil servant and politician,
Dutch Minister of the Interior (d. 1994)
1932 –
Vytautas Landsbergis , Lithuanian musicologist and politician
1933 –
Forrest Gregg , American football player and coach (d. 2019)
1933 –
Irwin M. Jacobs , American electrical engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur
1933 –
Ludovico Scarfiotti , Italian race car driver (d. 1968)
1934 –
Inger Stevens , Swedish-American actress (d. 1970)
1935 –
Peter Boyle , American actor (d. 2006)
[16]
1936 –
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino , Cuban cardinal (d. 2019)
[18]
1938 –
Robert Dove , American lawyer and politician (d. 2021)
1938 –
Dawn Wells , American model and actress,
Miss Nevada 1959 (d. 2020)
[16]
1939 –
Flavio Cotti , Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd
President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2020)
1939 –
Mike Ditka , American football player, coach, and sportscaster
[16]
1939 –
Lee Harvey Oswald , American assassin of
John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
[16]
1939 –
Paddy Reilly , Irish folk singer and guitarist
[19]
1939 –
Jan Erik Vold , Norwegian poet, author, and translator
1940 –
Talitha Getty , actress and model of Dutch extraction (d. 1971)
1940 –
Cynthia Weil , American songwriter (d. 2023)
1941 –
Timothy Bell, Baron Bell , English businessman (d. 2019)
[20]
1941 –
Martha Burk , American psychologist and author
1942 –
Gianfranco Ravasi , Italian cardinal and scholar
1943 –
Christine Charbonneau , Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1943 –
Birthe Rønn Hornbech , Danish police officer and politician,
Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
1945 –
Huell Howser , American television host and actor (d. 2013)
1945 –
Chris Shays , American politician
1946 –
James Robert Baker , American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1946 –
Frank Beamer , American football player and coach
1946 –
Dafydd Elis-Thomas , Welsh academic and politician
1946 –
Howard Shore , Canadian composer, conductor, and producer
[21]
1947 –
Paul Chuckle , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1947 –
Job Cohen , Dutch scholar and politician,
Mayor of Amsterdam
1947 –
John Johnson , American basketball player (d. 2016)
[22]
1947 –
Joe Morton , American actor
[21]
1947 –
Laura Nyro , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1997)
[16]
1947 –
Gary Sullivan , Australian rugby league player
1948 –
Hans Köchler , Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
1948 –
Ntozake Shange , American author, poet, and playwright (d. 2018)
[23]
1949 –
Joe Egan , Scottish singer-songwriter
1949 –
George Hendrick , American baseball player and coach
1949 –
Gary Richrath , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2015)
1950 –
Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright and author (d. 2006)
[16]
1951 –
Mike Antonovich , American ice hockey player and coach
1951 –
Pam Dawber , American actress and producer
[16]
1951 –
Terry McMillan , American author and screenwriter
[16]
1951 –
David Normington , English civil servant and politician
1951 –
Nic Potter , English bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
1952 –
Roy Dias , Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
1952 –
Paul Geroski , American-English economist and academic (d. 2005)
1952 –
Chuck Lorre , American director, producer, and screenwriter
[24]
[25]
1952 –
Patrick Morrow , Canadian mountaineer and photographer
1952 –
Bảo Ninh , Vietnamese soldier and author
1952 –
Allen Ripley , American baseball player (d. 2014)
1952 –
Jerry Royster , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1954 –
Nick Houghton , English general
1954 –
Arliss Howard , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1954 –
Bob Weinstein , American film executive
[26]
1955 –
Jean-Pierre Hautier , Belgian journalist and television host (d. 2012)
1955 –
Vanessa Briscoe Hay , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1955 –
Timmy Mallett , English radio and television host
1955 –
Stu Mead , American painter and illustrator
1955 –
David Twohy , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 –
Rita Verdonk , Dutch journalist and politician,
Dutch Minister of Justice
1955 –
Denis Watson , Zimbabwean golfer
1955 –
Mark Welland , English physicist and academic
1956 –
Craig Bartlett , American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1956 –
Martina Navratilova , Czech-American tennis player and coach
[16]
1956 –
Jim Talent , American lawyer and politician
1957 –
Jon Lindstrom , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
[21]
1957 –
Catherine Ringer , French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1958 –
Thomas Hearns , American boxer
1958 –
Megumi Ishii , Japanese actress and politician
1958 –
Letitia James , American lawyer, activist and politician
[27]
1958 –
Kjell Samuelsson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1959 –
Kirby Chambliss , American pilot
1959 –
Mauricio Funes , Salvadoran politician, former President of El Salvador
1959 –
Milcho Manchevski , Macedonian-American director and screenwriter
1959 –
John Nord , American wrestler
1960 –
Erin Moran , American actress (d. 2017)
[16]
1960 –
Jean-Claude Van Damme , Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter
[21]
1961 –
Wynton Marsalis , American trumpet player, composer, and educator
[21]
1961 –
Rick Moody , American author and composer
1961 –
Gladstone Small , Barbadian-English cricketer
1962 –
Min Ko Naing , Burmese activist
1962 –
Vincent Spano , American actor, director, and producer
[21]
1963 –
Sigvart Dagsland , Norwegian singer, pianist and composer
1964 –
Dan Lilker , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1964 –
Charles Stross , English journalist, author, and programmer
1965 –
Zakir Naik , Indian Islamic preacher; founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)
1965 –
Curtis Stigers , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 –
Dave Price , American journalist and game show host
1967 –
Eric Stuart , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
1968 –
Rhod Gilbert , Welsh comedian
1968 –
Stuart Law , Australian cricketer and coach
1968 –
Michael Stich , German tennis player and sportscaster
1969 –
Volker Neumüller , German talent manager
1969 –
Nelson Vivas , Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
1970 –
Doug Mirabelli , American baseball player and coach
1970 –
Mike Starink , Dutch television host and actor
1971 –
Nick O'Hern , Australian golfer
1972 –
Mika Ninagawa , Japanese photographer and director
1972 –
Alex Tagliani , Canadian race car driver
1973 –
Stephen Allan , Australian golfer
1973 –
James Foley , American photographer and journalist (d. 2014)
1973 –
Michalis Kapsis , Greek footballer
1973 –
Rachel Nichols , American journalist and sportscaster
1973 –
Sarah Winckless , English rower
1974 –
Robbie Savage , Welsh footballer and sportscaster
1974 –
Peter Svensson , Swedish guitarist and songwriter
[21]
1974 –
Amish Tripathi , Indian author
1974 –
Zhou Xun , Chinese actress and singer
1975 –
Alex Cora , Puerto Rican baseball player and manager
1975 –
Josh Sawyer , American video game designer
1977 –
Flavia Colgan , Brazilian-American journalist
1977 –
Kunal Kapoor , Indian actor
1977 –
Ryan Nelsen , New Zealand-American soccer player and coach
1977 –
David Vuillemin , French motorcycle racer
1978 –
Mike Tindall , English rugby player
1978 –
Kenji Wu , Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
1979 –
Jaroslav Drobný , Czech footballer
1979 –
Ne-Yo , American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor
[21]
1979 –
Damon Scott , British entertainer
1980 –
Birsen Yavuz , Turkish sprinter and hurdler
1981 –
Nathan Hauritz , Australian cricketer
1981 –
Tina Hergold , Slovenian tennis player
1981 –
Greg Warren , American football player
1982 –
Thierry Amiel , French singer-songwriter
1982 –
Michael Dingsdag , Dutch footballer
1982 –
Simon Gotch , American wrestler
1982 –
Mark Sampson , Welsh footballer and manager
1983 –
Dante , Brazilian footballer
1984 –
Robert Harting , German discus thrower
1984 –
Freida Pinto , Indian actress and model
[21]
1984 –
Esperanza Spalding , American singer-songwriter and bassist
[21]
1984 –
Lindsey Vonn , American skier
[21]
1984 –
Milo Yiannopoulos , British journalist and public speaker
[16]
1985 –
Yoenis Céspedes , Cuban baseball player
1985 –
Andrew Garcia , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1986 –
Wilma Elles , German actress and fashion designer
1987 –
Zac Efron , American actor and singer
[21]
1987 –
Freja Beha Erichsen , Danish model
1988 –
Tessa Schram , Dutch director and actress
1989 –
Laci Green , American
YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist
1989 –
Joy Lauren , American actress, director, and producer
[21]
1989 –
Riisa Naka , Japanese model and actress
1990 –
Drew Crawford , American basketball player
[28]
1990 –
Brittney Griner , American basketball player
[16]
1990 –
Bristol Palin , American public speaker and reality television personality
[16]
1991 –
Roly Bonevacia , Dutch footballer
1991 –
Tyler Posey , American actor and musician
[21]
1991 –
Toby Regbo , English actor
[21]
1992 –
John John Florence , American surfer
1992 –
Barry Keoghan , Irish actor
[16]
1993 –
Ivan Cavaleiro , Portuguese footballer
1994 –
Enhō Akira , Japanese sumo wrestler
[29]
1994 –
Pascal Wehrlein , German-Mauritian race car driver
1996 –
Terance Mann , American basketball player
[30]
Deaths
Pre-1600
31 –
Lucius Aelius Sejanus , Roman politician (b. 20 BC)
325 –
Emperor Ming of Jin (b. 299)
707 –
Pope John VII (b. 650)
815 –
Abu'l-Saraya , Zaydi rebel leader
[31]
1035 –
Sancho III of Pamplona (b. 992)
1081 –
Nikephoros Palaiologos , Byzantine general
1101 –
Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (b. 1053)
1141 –
Leopold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108)
1214 –
John de Gray , bishop of Norwich
1366 –
Petrus Torkilsson , Archbishop of Uppsala
1382 –
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond , Irish politician,
Lord Justice of Ireland (b. 1331)
1417 –
Pope Gregory XII (b. 1326)
1442 –
Infante João of Portugal (b. 1400)
1480 –
Uhwudong , Korean dancer and poet (b. 1440)
1503 –
Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
1508 –
Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell , Lord High Admiral of Scotland
1511 –
Philippe de Commines , French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
1526 –
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón , Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1541 –
Margaret Tudor , queen of
James IV of Scotland (born
1489 )
1545 –
John Taverner , English organist and composer (b. 1490)
1558 –
Mary of Hungary (b. 1505)
1561 –
Yamamoto Kansuke , Japanese samurai (b. 1501)
1564 –
Johannes Acronius Frisius , Dutch physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1570 –
Manuel da Nóbrega , Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (b. 1517)
1601–1900
1604 –
Igram van Achelen , Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1528)
1646 –
Isaac Jogues , French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1607)
1667 –
Fasilides , Ethiopian emperor (b. 1603)
1678 –
Jacob Jordaens , Belgian painter illustrator (b. 1593)
1739 –
António José da Silva , Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)
1744 –
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
1770 –
John Manners, Marquess of Granby , English general and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1721)
1775 –
Christian August Crusius , German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1817 –
Etienne Nicolas Méhul , French pianist and composer (b. 1763)
1865 –
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , English soldier and politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1871 –
Charles Babbage , English mathematician and engineer, invented the
mechanical computer (b. 1791)
1876 –
Francis Preston Blair , American journalist (b. 1791)
1886 –
Philipp Franz von Siebold , German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
1889 –
Antonio Meucci , Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)
1892 –
William W. Chapman , American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
1893 –
Charles Gounod , French composer and educator (b. 1818)
1901–present
1908 –
Nozu Michitsura , Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)
1911 –
Alfred Binet , French psychologist and author (b. 1857)
1921 –
Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1931 –
Thomas Edison , American engineer and businessman, invented the
phonograph (b. 1847)
1931 –
Lesser Ury , German painter (b. 1861)
[32]
1934 –
Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1935 –
Gaston Lachaise , French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
1941 –
Manuel Teixeira Gomes , Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th
President of Portugal (b. 1860)
1942 –
Mikhail Nesterov , Russian painter (b. 1862)
1947 –
Michiaki Kamada , Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
1948 –
Walther von Brauchitsch , German field marshal (b. 1881)
1956 –
Yoshio Markino , Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
1959 –
Boughera El Ouafi , Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
1961 –
Tsuru Aoki , Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
1962 –
Iván Petrovich , Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)
1965 –
Henry Travers , Irish-American actor (b. 1874)
1966 –
Elizabeth Arden , Canadian-American businesswoman, founded
Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)
1966 –
S. S. Kresge , American businessman, founded
Kmart (b. 1867)
1969 –
Gyula Mándi , Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1899)
[33]
1973 –
Margaret Caroline Anderson , American publisher, founded
The Little Review (b. 1886)
1973 –
Walt Kelly , American illustrator and animator (b. 1913)
1973 –
Leo Strauss , German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1899)
1975 –
K. C. Douglas , American rural blues singer (b. 1913)
1975 –
Al Lettieri , American actor (b. 1928)
1975 –
Graham Haberfield , English actor (b. 1941)
1976 –
Viswanatha Satyanarayana , Indian poet and author (b. 1895)
1977 –
Andreas Baader , German militant (b. 1943)
1977 –
Gudrun Ensslin , German militant leader, founded the
Red Army Faction (b. 1940)
1978 –
Ramón Mercader , Spanish journalist, assassin of
Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
1980 –
Edwin Way Teale , American photographer and author (b. 1899)
1982 –
Dwain Esper , American director and producer (b. 1892)
1982 –
Pierre Mendès France , French lawyer and politician, 143rd
Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
1982 –
John Robarts , Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th
Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1982 –
Bess Truman , American wife of
Harry S. Truman , 40th
First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
1983 –
Diego Abad de Santillán , Spanish economist and author (b. 1897)
1983 –
Willie Jones , American baseball player (b. 1925)
1984 –
Henri Michaux , French painter and poet (b. 1899)
1987 –
Adriaan Ditvoorst , Dutch director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
2000 –
Julie London , American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 –
Gwen Verdon , American actress and dancer (b. 1925)
2003 –
Preston Smith , American businessman and politician, 40th
Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2003 –
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán , Spanish journalist, author, and critic (b. 1939)
2005 –
Johnny Haynes , English-Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
2005 –
Bill King , American sportscaster (b. 1927)
2006 –
Mario Francesco Pompedda , Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
2006 –
Anna Russell , English-Canadian singer and actress (b. 1911)
2006 –
Laurie Taitt , Guyanese-English hurdler (b. 1934)
2007 –
Alan Coren , English journalist and author (b. 1938)
2007 –
William J. Crowe , American admiral and diplomat,
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
2007 –
Vincent DeDomenico , American businessman, founded the
Napa Valley Wine Train (b. 1915)
2007 –
Lucky Dube , South African singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1964)
2008 –
Dee Dee Warwick , American singer (b. 1945)
2009 –
Adriaan Kortlandt , Dutch ethologist and biologist (b. 1918)
2009 –
Nancy Spero , American painter and academic (b. 1926)
2010 –
Marion Brown , American saxophonist and musicologist (b. 1931)
2010 –
Billy Raimondi , American baseball player (b. 1912)
[34]
2012 –
Brain Damage , American wrestler (b. 1977)
2012 –
Sylvia Kristel , Dutch model and actress (b. 1952)
2012 –
Slater Martin , American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
2012 –
George Mattos , American pole vaulter (b. 1929)
2012 –
Albert Lee Ueltschi , American pilot and businessman, founded
FlightSafety International (b. 1917)
2012 –
David S. Ware , American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
2013 –
Tom Foley , American lawyer and politician, 57th
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1929)
2013 –
Bum Phillips , American football player and coach (b. 1923)
2013 –
Allan Stanley , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
2013 –
Bill Young , American sergeant and politician (b. 1930)
2014 –
Mariano Lebrón Saviñón , Dominican author and academic (b. 1922)
2014 –
Edward Regan , American academic and politician (b. 1930)
2014 –
Sidney Shapiro , American-Chinese author and translator (b. 1915)
2015 –
Robert Dickerson , Australian painter (b. 1924)
2015 –
Gamal El-Ghitani , Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1945)
2015 –
Robert W. Farquhar , American engineer (b. 1932)
2015 –
Frank Watkins , American bass player (b. 1968)
2015 –
Paul West , English-American author, poet, and academic (b. 1930)
2017 –
Marino Perani , Italian football player and manager (b. 1939)
[35]
2018 –
Lisbeth Palme , Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of
UNICEF (b. 1931)
[36]
2018 –
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab , 5th
President of the Sudan (b. 1934)
[37]
2019 –
Rui Jordão , Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
[38]
2020 –
René Felber , 81st
President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1933)
[39]
2021 –
Colin Powell , American military leader and statesman, 65th
Secretary of State (b. 1937)
[40]
2022 –
Harvey Wollman , American politician, 26th
Governor of South Dakota (b. 1935)
[41]
Holidays and observances
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