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Day of the year
October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 69 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1641 –
Irish Catholic gentry from
Ulster attempt to
seize control of
Dublin Castle , the seat of
English rule in Ireland , so as to force concessions.
1642 – The
Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the
English Civil War .
1666 – The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the
Fujita scale or T8 on the
TORRO scale , strikes the county of
Lincolnshire , with winds of more than 213 miles per hour (343 km/h).
[3]
1707 – The
First Parliament of the
Kingdom of Great Britain convenes.
1798 – The forces of
Ali Pasha of Janina defeat the
French and capture the town of
Preveza in the
Battle of Nicopolis .
[4]
1812 – General
Claude François de Malet
begins a conspiracy to overthrow
Napoleon , claiming that the Emperor died in the
Russian campaign .
1850 – The first
National Women's Rights Convention begins in
Worcester, Massachusetts .
1856 –
Second Opium War : Dissatisfied with imperial commissioner
Ye Mingchen’s reparations for the alleged slighting of a British-owned vessel and at Consul
Harry Parkes’s urging,
British Rear-Admiral
Michael Seymour launches
an assault on the Barrier Forts outside Canton in the first military engagement of the
Second Opium War .
[5]
1864 –
American Civil War : The
Battle of Westport is the last significant engagement west of the
Mississippi River , ending in a
Union victory.
1868 –
Meiji Restoration : Having taken the
shogunate’s seat of power at
Edo and declared it his new capital as
Tokyo ,
Mutsuhito proclaims the start of the new
Meiji era .
[6]
1901–present
1906 –
Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an
airplane in the first
heavier-than-air flight in Europe.
1911 – The
Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight.
1912 –
First Balkan War : The
Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1923 –
German October : Due to a miscommunication with the party leadership, a militant section of the
Communist Party of Germany launches
an insurrection in Hamburg .
[7]
1924 –
Second Zhili–Fengtian War : Warlord
Feng Yuxiang , with the covert support of the
Empire of Japan ,
stages a coup in Beijing against his erstwhile superiors in the
Zhili clique , crippling their nearly victorious war effort against the
Fengtian clique and forcing them to withdraw from northern China.
[8]
1927 – The
Imatra Cinema is destroyed in a fire in
Tampere ,
Finland , during showing the 1924 film
Wages of Virtue ; 21 people die in the fire and almost 30 are injured.
[9]
1940 –
Adolf Hitler and
Francisco Franco
meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of
Spain entering the Second World War .
[10]
1941 –
The Holocaust :
Nazi Germany prohibits
Jews from emigrating, including in its
occupied territories .
[11]
1942 –
World War II : Allied forces commence the
Second Battle of El Alamein , which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard
American Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a
U.S. Army Air Force bomber near
Palm Springs, California .
1942 – World War II: The
Battle for Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal.
1944 – World War II: The
Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
1955 – Prime Minister
Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor
Bảo Đại in a
referendum and founds the
Republic of Vietnam .
1955 – The people of the
Saar region vote in a
referendum to unite with
West Germany instead of
France .
1956 – Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the
Hungarian Revolution .
1958 – Canada's
Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued.
1958 –
Belgian artist
Peyo 's comic characters,
the Smurfs , make their debut in
Spirou magazine.
[12]
1965 –
Vietnam War : The
1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) , in conjunction with the
Army of the Republic of Vietnam , launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the
siege of Plei Me .
1970 –
Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the
Blue Flame , fueled with
natural gas .
1972 – Vietnam War:
Operation Linebacker , a US bombing campaign against
North Vietnam in response to its
Easter Offensive , ends after five months.
1982 –
A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured.
1983 –
Lebanese Civil War : The
U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is
hit by a truck bomb , killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A
French Army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1989 –
The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist
Hungarian People's Republic .
1989 – Bankruptcy of
Wärtsilä Marine , the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.
1989 –
An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in
Pasadena, Texas , which registered a 3.5 on the
Richter magnitude scale , kills 23 and injures 314.
[13]
1991 – Signing of the
Paris Peace Accords which ends the
Cambodian–Vietnamese War .
1993 –
The Troubles : A
Provisional IRA bomb
prematurely detonates in
Belfast , killing the bomber and nine civilians.
1995 –
Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the
shooting death of popular Latin singer
Selena .
1998 –
Israel and the
Palestinian Authority sign the
Wye River Memorandum .
2001 –
Apple Computer releases the
iPod .
[14]
2002 –
Second Chechen War :
Chechen separatist terrorists
seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 – A powerful
earthquake and its aftershocks hit
Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2007 – A storm causes the Mexican
Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform.
2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude
earthquake strikes
Van Province, Turkey , killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2011 – The Libyan
National Transitional Council deems the
Libyan Civil War over.
2015 – The lowest
sea-level pressure in the
Western Hemisphere , and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in
Hurricane Patricia , which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.
2017 –
War against the Islamic State :
Philippine defense secretary
Delfin Lorenzana declares the end of the
Siege of Marawi .
[15]
2020 –
Second Libyan Civil War : The Second Libyan Civil War comes to an end as all parties to the 5+5 Joint Libyan Military Commission agree to a ceasefire.
[16]
2022 –
Xi Jinping is elected as
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the
Central Committee , beginning a third term of the
paramount leader of
China .
[17]
2022 –
Myanmar Air Force airstrikes a concert in
Hpakant Township , Kachin state killing at least 80 people, including senior
Kachin Independence Organisation officials, in the
Hpakant massacre .
[18]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1634 –
Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp , Swedish queen (d. 1715)
1654 –
Johann Bernhard Staudt , Austrian composer (d. 1712)
1698 –
Ange-Jacques Gabriel , French architect, designed the
École Militaire (d. 1782)
1705 –
Maximilian Ulysses Browne , Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
1713 –
Pieter Burman the Younger , Dutch philologist, poet, and educator (d. 1778)
1762 –
Samuel Morey , American engineer (d. 1843)
1766 –
Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy , French general (d. 1847)
1790 –
Chauncey Allen Goodrich , American minister, lexicographer, and educator (d. 1860)
1796 –
Stefano Franscini , Swiss statistician and politician (d. 1857)
[20]
1801 –
Albert Lortzing , German singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1851)
1805 –
John Russell Bartlett , American linguist and historian (d. 1886)
1813 –
Ludwig Leichhardt , German-Australian explorer (d. 1848)
1815 –
João Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotejipe , Brazilian politician (d. 1889)
1817 –
Pierre Larousse , French lexicographer and author (d. 1875)
1822 –
Gustav Spörer , German astronomer (d. 1895)
1832 –
Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg , Finnish priest and father of
K. J. Ståhlberg , the first
President of Finland (d. 1873)
[21]
1835 –
Adlai Stevenson I , American lawyer and politician, 23rd
Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
1837 –
Moritz Kaposi , Hungarian dermatologist (d. 1902)
1844 –
Sarah Bernhardt , French actress (d. 1923)
1844 –
Robert Bridges , English poet and playwright (d. 1930)
1857 –
Juan Luna , Filipino painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
1863 –
Mirko Breyer , Croatian writer, bibliographer, antiquarian, and one of the notable alleged and false victims of the
Stara Gradiška concentration camp (d. 1946)
1865 –
Neltje Blanchan , American historian and author (d. 1918)
1869 –
John Heisman , American football player and coach (d. 1936)
1870 –
Francis Kelley , Canadian-American bishop (d. 1948)
1873 –
William D. Coolidge , American physicist and engineer (d. 1975)
1874 –
Charles Kilpatrick , American runner and educator (d. 1921)
1875 –
Gilbert N. Lewis , American chemist and academic (d. 1946)
1876 –
Franz Schlegelberger , German judge and politician,
Reich Ministry of Justice (d. 1970)
1880 –
Dominikus Böhm , German architect (d. 1955)
1880 –
Una O'Connor , Irish-American actress and singer (d. 1959)
1883 –
Hugo Wast , Argentine writer (d. 1962)
1885 –
Lawren Harris , Canadian painter and educator (d. 1970)
1888 –
Onésime Gagnon , Canadian scholar and politician, 20th
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1961)
1892 –
Speckled Red , American blues/boogie-woogie piano player and singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
1894 –
Rube Bressler , American baseball player (d. 1966)
1894 –
Emma Vyssotsky , American astronomer and academic (d. 1975)
1896 –
Hilario Abellana , Filipino politician (d. 1945)
[22]
1896 –
Lilyan Tashman , American actress (d. 1934)
1897 –
John Baker , English air marshal (d. 1978)
1897 –
Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena , Spanish writer (d. 1975)
1899 –
Bernt Balchen , Norwegian aviator (d. 1973)
1900 –
Douglas Jardine , Indian-English cricketer and lawyer (d. 1958)
1901–present
1902 –
Robert Eberan von Eberhorst , Austrian engineer (d. 1982)
1902 –
Luther Evans , American political scientist and politician (d. 1981)
1904 –
Harvey Penick , American golfer and coach (d. 1995)
1905 –
Felix Bloch , Swiss physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
1905 –
Yen Chia-kan , Chinese lawyer and politician,
President of the Republic of China (d. 1993)
1905 –
Gertrude Ederle , American swimmer (d. 2003)
[23]
1908 –
František Douda , Czech shot putter (d. 1990)
1908 –
Ilya Frank , Russian physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1909 –
Zellig Harris , American linguist and methodologist (d. 1992)
1910 –
Richard Mortensen , Danish painter and educator (d. 1993)
1910 –
Hayden Rorke , American actor (d. 1987)
1911 –
Jack Keller , American hurdler (d. 1978)
1915 –
Simo Puupponen , Finnish writer (d. 1967)
1918 –
Augusta Dabney , American actress (d. 2008)
1918 –
James Daly , American actor (d. 1978)
1918 –
Paul Rudolph , American architect and academic, designed the
Lippo Centre (d. 1997)
1919 –
Manolis Andronikos , Greek archaeologist and academic (d. 1992)
1920 –
Ted Fujita , Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (d. 1998)
1920 –
Bob Montana , American illustrator (d. 1975)
1920 –
Gianni Rodari , Italian writer (d. 1980)
1920 –
Vern Stephens , American baseball player (d. 1968)
1922 –
Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington , English politician (d. 2018)
1922 –
Coleen Gray , American actress (d. 2015)
[24]
1923 –
Aslam Farrukhi , Indian-Pakistani linguist, author, and scholar (d. 2016)
1923 –
Ned Rorem , American composer and author (d. 2022)
1923 –
Frank Sutton , American actor (d. 1974)
1924 –
Arthur Brittenden , English journalist (d. 2015)
1925
Fred Shero , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1990)
[25]
1927 –
Sonny Criss , American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
1927 –
Dezső Gyarmati , Hungarian water polo player and coach (d. 2013)
1927 –
Leszek Kołakowski , Polish-English historian and philosopher (d. 2009)
1929 –
Luis Alarcón , Chilean actor (d. 2023)
1929 –
Shamsur Rahman , Bangladeshi poet and journalist (d. 2006)
1930 –
Unto Mononen , Finnish musician (d. 1968)
1931 –
Jim Bunning , American baseball player and politician (d. 2017)
1931 –
William P. Clark, Jr. , American judge and politician, 12th
United States National Security Advisor (d. 2013)
1931 –
Diana Dors , English actress (d. 1984)
1931 –
Johnny Kitagawa , Japanese businessman, and talent manager (d. 2019)
[26]
1932 –
Vasily Belov , Russian novelist, poet and playwright (d. 2012)
1933 –
Carol Fran , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2021)
1933 –
Carlos Lemos Simmonds , sixth
Vice President of Columbia (d. 2003)
1934 –
Caitro Soto , Afro-Peruvian musician (d. 2004)
1935 –
JacSue Kehoe , American neuroscientist (d. 2019)
1936 –
Charles Goodhart , English economist and academic
1936 –
Philip Kaufman , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1937 –
Johnny Carroll , American rockabilly musician (d. 1995)
1937 –
Carlos Lamarca , Brazilian captain (d. 1971)
1937 –
Deven Verma , Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1938 –
Alan G`ilzean , Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2018)
1939 –
Charlie Foxx , American R&B/soul singer and guitarist (d. 1998)
1939 –
C. V. Vigneswaran , Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st
Chief Minister of the Northern Province
1940 –
Ellie Greenwich , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2009)
1940 –
Jane Holzer , American model, actress, producer, and art collector
1940 –
Pelé , Brazilian footballer and actor (d. 2022)
[27]
1941 –
René Metge , French rally driver
1941 –
Colin Milburn , English cricketer (d. 1990)
1941 –
Igor Smirnov , Moldovan engineer and politician, 1st
President of Transnistria
1942 –
Douglas Dunn , Scottish poet, critic, and academic
1942 –
Bernd Erdmann , German footballer and manager
1942 –
Anita Roddick , English businesswoman and activist, founded
The Body Shop (d. 2007)
1943 –
Alida Chelli , Italian actress and singer (d. 2012)
1944 –
Mike Harding , English singer-songwriter and comedian
1945 –
Maggi Hambling , English sculptor and painter
1945 –
Kim Larsen , Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)
1945 –
Graça Machel , Mozambican politician and humanitarian
1945 –
Ernie Watts , American saxophonist
1945 –
Maury Yeston , American composer, lyricist, and music theorist
1946 –
Graeme Barker , English archaeologist and academic
1946 –
Alicia Borinsky , Argentine writer
1946 –
Mel Martínez , American lawyer and politician, 12th
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
1946 –
Miklós Németh , Hungarian javelin thrower
1947 –
Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi , co-founder of the
Palestinian movement
Hamas (d. 2004)
1947 –
Kazimierz Deyna , Polish footballer (d. 1989)
1947 –
Greg Ridley , English bass player (d. 2003)
1948 –
Hermann Hauser , Austrian-English businessman, co-founded
Acorn Computers and
Olivetti Research Laboratory
1948 –
Gerry Robinson , Irish-born British businessman, arts patron and television personality
1948 –
Brian Ross , American journalist
1948 –
Jordi Sabatés , Spanish musician
1949 –
Krešimir Ćosić ,
Croatian soldier and politician
1949 –
Oscar Martínez , Argentine theater actor
1949 –
Nick Tosches , American journalist, author, and poet (d. 2019)
1949 –
Würzel , English singer and guitarist (d. 2011)
1950 –
Maths O. Sundqvist , Swedish businessman (d. 2012)
1951 –
Ángel de Andrés López , Spanish actor (d. 2016)
1951 –
Charly García , Argentine singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1951 –
Fatmir Sejdiu , Kosovan academic and politician, 2nd
President of Kosovo
1951 –
David Wills , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 –
Pierre Moerlen , French drummer (d. 2005)
1952 –
Ken Tipton , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1953 –
Taner Akçam , Turkish sociologist and historian
1953 –
Joaquín Lavín , Chilean politician and economist
1953 –
Pauline Black , English singer, actress and author
[28]
1954 –
Ang Lee , Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
[29]
1956 –
Adam Nawałka , Polish football player and manager
1956 –
Darrell Pace , American archer
[30]
1956 –
Dianne Reeves , American singer
[29]
1956 –
Dwight Yoakam , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
[29]
1957 –
Paul Kagame , Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th
President of Rwanda
1957 –
Graham Rix , English footballer and coach
1958 –
Michael Eric Dyson , American activist, author, and academic
1958 –
Rose Nabinger , German singer
1958 –
Frank Schaffer , German sprinter
1960 –
Mirwais Ahmadzaï , Swiss-French keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1960 –
Katoucha Niane , French model and actress (d. 2008)
1960 –
Randy Pausch , American author and academic (d. 2008)
1960 –
Wayne Rainey , American motorcycle racer
1961 –
Laurie Halse Anderson , American author
1961 –
Vinicio Gómez , Guatemalan politician (d. 2008)
1961 –
Andoni Zubizarreta , Spanish footballer and sportscaster
1963 –
Gordon Korman , Canadian-American author
1963 –
Rashidi Yekini , Nigerian footballer (d. 2012)
1964 –
Eddy Cue , American computer scientist and businessman
1964 –
Robert Trujillo , American bass player and songwriter
[29]
1965 –
Augusten Burroughs , American author and screenwriter
1965 –
Al Leiter , American baseball player and sportscaster
1966 –
Alex Zanardi , Italian racing driver and cyclist
1967 –
Dale Crover , American musician
1967 –
Omar Linares , Cuban baseball player
1967 –
Jaime Yzaga , Peruvian tennis player
1969 –
Dolly Buster , Czech film producer and director, actress and author
1969 –
Trudi Canavan , Australian author and illustrator
1969 –
Bill O'Brien , American football player and coach
1969 –
Brooke Theiss , American actress
1970 –
Matthew Barzun , American diplomat,
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1970 –
Grant Imahara , American television presenter and engineer (d. 2020)
1970 –
Kenji Nomura , Japanese voice actor
1970 –
Zoe Wiseman , American model and photographer
1971 –
Carlo Forlivesi , Italian-Japanese composer and scholar
1971 –
Chris Horner , American cyclist
1972 –
Tiffeny Milbrett , American soccer player
1972 –
Dominika Paleta , Polish-Mexican actress
1972 –
Eduardo Paret , Cuban baseball player
1972 –
Bryan Pratt , American lawyer and politician
1972 –
Jasmin St. Claire , Virgin Islander-American actress
1972 –
Jimmy Wayne , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[29]
1973 –
Christian Dailly , Scottish footballer
1974 –
Aravind Adiga , Indian journalist and author
1974 –
Beatrice Faumuina , New Zealand discus thrower
1974 –
Sander Westerveld , Dutch footballer
1974 –
Christine Yoshikawa , Canadian pianist
1975 –
Michelle Beadle , American sportscaster
1975 –
Odalys García , Cuban actress
1975 –
Phillip Gillespie , Australian cricket umpire
1975 –
Jessicka , American singer-songwriter
1975 –
Yoon Son-ha , South Korean actress and singer
1975 –
Keith Van Horn , American basketball player
1975 –
Manuela Velasco , Spanish actress
1976 –
Cat Deeley , English model, actress, and television host
[29]
1976 –
Sergio Diduch , Argentine footballer
1976 –
Ryan Reynolds , Canadian-American actor and producer
[29]
1977 –
Brad Haddin , Australian cricketer
1977 –
Alex Tudor , English cricketer and coach
1978 –
Jimmy Bullard , English footballer
1978 –
Steve Harmison , English cricketer and sportscaster
1978 –
John Lackey , American baseball player
1978 –
Archie Thompson , New Zealand-Australian footballer
1979 –
Ramón Castro , Venezuelan baseball player
1979 –
Simon Davies , Welsh footballer
1979 –
Lynn Greer , American basketball player
[31]
1979 –
Prabhas , Telugu film actor
1979 –
Jorge Solís , Mexican boxer
1979 –
Bud Smith , American baseball player
1980 –
Mate Bilić , Croatian footballer
1980 –
Pedro Liriano , Dominican baseball player
1981 –
Daniela Alvarado , Venezuelan actress
1981 –
Jeroen Bleekemolen , Dutch racing driver
1981 –
Leticia Dolera , Spanish actress
1981 –
Ben Francisco , American baseball player
1981 –
Lee Ki-woo , South Korean actor
1981 –
Mirel Rădoi , Romanian footballer
1982 –
Valentin Badea , Romanian footballer
1982 –
Kristjan Kangur , Estonian basketball player
1982 –
Aleksandar Luković , Serbian footballer
1982 –
Rickey Paulding , American basketball player
1982 –
Rodolfo , Brazilian footballer
1983 –
Filippos Darlas , Greek footballer
1983 –
Valentin Demyanenko , Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani canoeist
[32]
1983 –
Goldie Harvey , Nigerian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1984 –
Izabel Goulart , Brazilian model
1984 –
Jeffrey Hoogervorst , Dutch footballer
1984 –
Simone Masini , Italian footballer
1984 –
Meghan McCain , American journalist, author, and television personality
[29]
1984 –
Michael Sim , Australian golfer
1984 –
Keiren Westwood , English footballer
1985 –
Mohammed Abdellaoue , Norwegian footballer
1985 –
Masiela Lusha , Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
[29]
1985 –
Miguel , American singer-songwriter and producer
[29]
1985 –
Chris Neal , English footballer
1985 –
Luca Spinetti , Italian footballer
1985 –
Panagiotis Vouis , Greek footballer
1986 –
Emilia Clarke , English actress
[29]
1986 –
Briana Evigan , American actress and dancer
1986 –
Inbar Lavi , Israeli actress
[29]
1986 –
Jovanka Radičević , Montenegrin handball player
[33]
1986 –
Jake Robinson , English footballer
1986 –
Jessica Stroup , American actress
[29]
1987 –
Carmella , American wrestler
[34]
1987 –
Robin Copeland , Irish rugby player
1987 –
Félix Doubront , Venezuelan baseball player
1987 –
Faye , Swedish singer-songwriter
1987 –
Kyle Gibson , American baseball player
[35]
1987 –
Seo In-guk , South Korean singer and actor
1987 –
Miyuu Sawai , Japanese model and actress
1987 –
Naomi Watanabe , Japanese actress
1988 –
Jordan Crawford , American basketball player
1988 –
Aleksandr Salugin , Russian footballer
1988 –
Carolin Schiewe , German footballer
1989 –
Viktor Agardius , Swedish footballer
1989 –
Alain Baroja , Venezuelan footballer
1989 –
Zach Brown , American football player
[36]
1989 –
Jonita Gandhi , Indo-Canadian singer
1989 –
Anisya Kirdyapkina , Russian race walker
1989 –
Andriy Yarmolenko , Ukrainian footballer
1991 –
Emil Forsberg , Swedish footballer
[37]
1991 –
Princess Mako of Akishino , member of the
Japanese Imperial Family
[38]
1991 –
Jorge Taufua , Australian rugby league player
[39]
1993 –
Josh Ruffels , English footballer
[40]
1997 –
Nick Bosa , American football player
[41]
1997 –
Élie Okobo , French basketball player
[42]
1997 –
Jaydn Su'A , New Zealand rugby league player
[43]
1998 –
Jordan Goodwin , American basketball player
[44]
1999 –
Yui Kobayashi , Japanese idol
[45]
Deaths
Pre-1600
42 BC –
Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger , Roman general and politician (b. 85 BC)
877 –
Ignatios of Constantinople , Byzantine patriarch (b. 797)
891 –
Yazaman al-Khadim , Abbasid general and politician
902 –
Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya , Aghlabid emir (b. 850)
930 –
Daigo , Japanese emperor (b. 885)
945 –
Hyejong of Goryeo , Korean king (b. 912)
949 –
Yōzei , Japanese emperor (b. 869)
1134 –
Abu al-Salt , Andalusian polymath
1157 –
Sweyn III , Danish king (b. c. 1125)
1456 –
John of Capistrano , Italian priest and saint (b. 1386)
1550 –
Tiedemann Giese , Polish bishop (b. 1480)
1581 –
Michael Neander , German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1601–1900
1616 –
Leonhard Hutter , German theologian and academic (b. 1563)
1688 –
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange , French philologist and historian (b. 1610)
1730 –
Anne Oldfield , English actress (b. 1683)
1764 –
Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte , French admiral (b. 1683)
1774 –
Michel Benoist , French missionary and astronomer (b. 1715)
1852 –
Georg August Wallin , Finnish explorer,
orientalist , and professor (b. 1811)
[46]
1867 –
Franz Bopp , German linguist and academic (b. 1791)
1869 –
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , English lawyer and politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
1872 –
Théophile Gautier , French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
1885 –
Charles S. West , American lawyer, jurist, and politician,
Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
1893 –
Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
1901–present
1910 –
Chulalongkorn , Thai king (b. 1853)
1915 –
W. G. Grace , English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
1916 –
Richard McFadden , Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
1917 –
Eugène Grasset , Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
1921 –
John Boyd Dunlop , Scottish businessman, founded
Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
1935 –
Charles Demuth , American painter and educator (b. 1883)
1939 –
Zane Grey , American dentist and author (b. 1872)
1942 –
Ralph Rainger , American pianist and composer (b. 1901)
1943 –
Wakashima Gonshirō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st
Yokozuna (b. 1876)
1944 –
Charles Glover Barkla , English-Scottish physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1944 –
Hana Brady , Czech
holocaust victim (b. 1931)
1950 –
Al Jolson , Lithuanian-American actor and singer (b. 1886)
1953 –
Adrien de Noailles , French son of
Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869)
1959 –
George Bouzianis , Greek painter (b. 1885)
1959 –
Gerda Lundequist , Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1964 –
Frank Luther Mott , American historian and journalist (b. 1886)
1975 –
Marjorie Maynard British artist and farmer (b. 1891)
1978 –
Maybelle Carter , American singer and autoharp player (
Carter Family ) (b. 1909)
1980 –
Tibor Rosenbaum , Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (b. 1923)
[47]
1983 –
Jessica Savitch , American journalist (b. 1947)
1984 –
Oskar Werner , Austrian-German actor (b. 1922)
1986 –
Edward Adelbert Doisy , American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
1988 –
Asashio Tarō III , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th
Yokozuna (b. 1929)
1989 –
Armida , Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
1990 –
Thomas Williams , American author and academic (b. 1926)
1994 –
Robert Lansing , American actor (b. 1928)
1996 –
Bob Grim , American baseball player (b. 1930)
1997 –
Bert Haanstra , Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1998 –
Barnett Slepian , American physician (b. 1946)
1999 –
Eric Reece , Australian politician, 32nd
Premier of Tasmania (b. 1909)
2000 –
Yokozuna , American wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 –
Josh Kirby , English illustrator (b. 1928)
2001 –
Daniel Wildenstein , French art dealer and historian (b. 1917)
2002 –
Adolph Green , American playwright and songwriter (b. 1915)
2003 –
Tony Capstick , English actor and singer (b. 1944)
2003 –
Soong Mei-ling , Chinese wife of
Chiang Kai-shek , 2nd
First Lady of the Republic of China (b. 1898)
2004 –
Robert Merrill , American actor and singer (b. 1919)
2004 –
Bill Nicholson , English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1919)
2005 –
William Hootkins , American actor (b. 1948)
2005 –
John Muth , American economist and academic (b. 1930)
2005 –
Stella Obasanjo , Nigerian wife of
Olusegun Obasanjo , 10th
First Lady of Nigeria (b. 1945)
2006 –
Lebo Mathosa , South African singer (
Boom Shaka ) (b. 1977)
2007 –
John Ilhan , Turkish-Australian businessman, founded
Crazy John's (b. 1965)
2007 –
Lim Goh Tong , Malaysian-Chinese businessman (b. 1918)
2008 –
Kevin Finnegan , English boxer (b. 1948)
2009 –
Lou Jacobi , Canadian-American actor (b. 1913)
2010 –
Fran Crippen , American swimmer (b. 1984)
2010 –
Stanley Tanger , American businessman and philanthropist, founded the
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (b. 1923)
2011 –
Herbert A. Hauptman , American chemist and mathematician,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
2011 –
Marco Simoncelli , Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
2012 –
William Joel Blass , American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
2012 –
Wilhelm Brasse , Polish photographer (b. 1917)
2012 –
Roland de la Poype , French soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
2012 –
Sunil Gangopadhyay , Indian author and poet (b. 1934)
2012 –
Michael Marra , Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
2013 –
Wes Bialosuknia , American basketball player (b. 1945)
2013 –
Anthony Caro , English sculptor and academic (b. 1924)
2013 –
Niall Donohue , Irish hurler (b. 1990)
2013 –
Gypie Mayo , English guitarist and songwriter (
Dr. Feelgood and
The Yardbirds ) (b. 1951)
2013 –
Bill Mazer , Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1920)
2014 –
Ghulam Azam , Bangladeshi politician (b. 1922)
2014 –
John Bramlett , American football player (b. 1941)
2014 –
Bernard Mayes , English-American journalist and academic (b. 1929)
2014 –
Joan Quigley , American astrologer and author (b. 1927)
2014 –
Tullio Regge , Italian physicist and academic (b. 1931)
2014 –
Alvin Stardust , English singer and actor (b. 1942)
2015 –
Leon Bibb , American-Canadian singer (b. 1922)
2015 –
Roger De Clerck , Belgian businessman (b. 1924)
2015 –
Jim Roberts , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1940)
2015 –
Fred Sands , American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the
Museum of Contemporary Art (b. 1938)
2016 –
Jack Chick , American cartoonist and publisher (b. 1924)
2016 –
Wim van der Voort , Dutch speed skater (b. 1923)
2016 –
Pete Burns , English singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2017 –
Walter Lassally , German cinematographer (b. 1926)
2018 –
Todd Reid , Australian tennis player (b. 1984)
2022 –
Adriano Moreira , Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the
CDS – People's Party (b.
1922 )
[48]
2023 –
Aira Samulin , Finnish entrepreneur and dance teacher (b. 1927)
[49]
2023 –
Bishan Singh Bedi , Indian cricketer (b. 1946)
[50]
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