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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
80 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)[1] ·
633 – Battle of
Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is
defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.[2] ·
1279 –
The Nichiren
Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.[3] ·
1398 –
In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.[4] ·
1406 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from
Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four
months before.[5] ·
1492 – Christopher Columbus's first
expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically
in The Bahamas.[6] ·
1654 –
The Delft Explosion devastates
the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. ·
1692 –
The Salem witch trials are
ended by a letter from the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Province. ·
1748 –
War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical
victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana. ·
1773 –
America's first
insane asylum opens. ·
1792 –
The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City. ·
1793 –
The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest
state university building in the United States, is laid at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ·
1798 –
Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule
known as the Peasants' War. ·
1799 – Jeanne
Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a
balloon with a parachute. ·
1810 –
The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest. ·
1822 – Pedro I of Brazil is
proclaimed the emperor. ·
1847 – Werner von Siemens founds
Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG. ·
1849 –
The city of Manizales, Colombia,
is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'. ·
1871 –
The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act,
naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes". ·
1890 – Uddevalla
Suffrage Association is formed. ·
1892 –
The Pledge
of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public
schools. ·
1901 –
President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive
Mansion" to the White House. ·
1915 –
World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German
firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium ·
1917 –
World War I: The First
Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest
single-day loss of life in New Zealand history. ·
1918 –
A massive forest fire kills
453 people in Minnesota. ·
1928 –
An iron lung respirator is used for the
first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. ·
1933 –
The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz
Federal Penitentiary. ·
1944 –
World War II: The Axis occupation
of Athens comes to an end. ·
1945 –
World War II: Desmond Doss is
the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. ·
1959 –
At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in
Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later
form APRA Rebelde. ·
1960 –
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on
a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine
assertion. ·
1960 –
Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death
during a live Television broadcast. ·
1962 –
The Columbus Day
Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind
velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages. ·
1963 –
After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was
released from the Soviet Union. ·
1964 –
The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first
spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure
suits. ·
1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes
independent from Spain. ·
1970 –
Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues
as President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more
troops before Christmas. ·
1971 –
The 2,500
year celebration of the Persian Empire begins. ·
1979 – Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and
most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded. ·
1983 –
Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million
bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four
years in jail. ·
1984 –
The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to
assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.
The bomb kills five people and wounds 31. ·
1988 –
Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in
the Walsh
Street police shootings, Australia. ·
1992 –
A 5.8 earthquake
occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died. ·
1994 –
The Magellan spacecraft burns
up in the atmosphere of Venus. ·
1997 –
The Sidi Daoud massacre in
Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock. ·
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University
of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie. ·
1999 –
Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a
bloodless coup. ·
1999 –
The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from
Georgia. ·
1999 –
The World Population reaches 6 billion. ·
2000 –
The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide
bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. ·
2002 –
Terrorists detonate bombs in
the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. ·
2005 –
The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two
cosmonauts in orbit for five days. ·
2013 –
Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in
Peru. ·
2017 –
The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO.[7] and is immediately followed by Israel. ·
2018 – Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel,
Windsor Castle. ·
2019 – Typhoon Hagibis makes
landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacutation of 1,000,000
people.[8] ·
2019
– Eliud Kipchoge from
Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with
a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.[9] ·
2019
– The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans,
which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20.[10] Births[edit] ·
1008 – Go-Ichijō,
emperor of Japan (d. 1036) ·
1240 – Trần Thánh
Tông, emperor of Vietnam (then Đại
Việt) (d. 1290) ·
1350 – Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Duke of Moscow (d.
1389) ·
1490 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer and priest
(d. 1548) ·
1533 – Asakura Yoshikage,
Japanese ruler (d. 1573) ·
1537 – Edward VI,
king of England (d. 1553) ·
1555 – Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby,
English diplomat (d. 1601) ·
1558 – Maximilian
III, archduke of Austria (d. 1618) ·
1576 – Thomas Dudley, English-American soldier and
politician, 3rd Governor
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1653) ·
1602 – William
Chillingworth, English scholar and theologian (d. 1644) ·
1614 – Henry More, English philosopher (d. 1687) ·
1687 – Sylvius Leopold
Weiss, German lute player and composer (d. 1750) ·
1710 – Jonathan Trumbull,
American colonel and politician, 16th Governor of
Connecticut (d. 1785) ·
1725 – Étienne Louis
Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810) ·
1792 – Christian Gmelin, German chemist and
pharmacist (d. 1860) ·
1798 – Pedro I,
emperor of Brazil (d. 1834) ·
1801 – Friedrich
Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician, 5th President
of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1873) ·
1815 – William J. Hardee,
American general (d. 1873) ·
1838 – George Thorn, Australian politician,
6th Premier of
Queensland (d. 1905) ·
1840 – Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (d.
1909)[11] ·
1855 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and
academic (d. 1922) ·
1860 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry,
American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930) ·
1864 – Kamini Roy, British India's first female
graduate, Bengali poet, social activist, and feminist writer (d. 1933)[12] ·
1865 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1940) ·
1866 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937) ·
1868 – August Horch, German engineer and
businessman, founded Audi (d. 1951) ·
1868
– Mariano Trías,
Filipino general and politician, 1st Vice
President of the Philippines (d. 1914) ·
1872 – Ralph Vaughan
Williams, English composer and educator (d. 1958)[13] ·
1874 – Jimmy Burke,
American baseball player and manager (d. 1942) ·
1875 – Aleister Crowley, English magician and
author (d. 1947) ·
1878 – Truxtun Hare, American football player and
hammer thrower (d. 1956) ·
1880 – Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (d.
1913) ·
1891 – Edith Stein, Polish nun and martyr; later
canonized (d. 1942) ·
1891
– Fumimaro Konoe,
Japanese soldier and politician, 39th Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1945) ·
1892 – Gilda dalla Rizza,
Italian soprano and actress (d. 1975)[14] ·
1893 – Velvalee Dickinson,
American spy (d. 1980) ·
1894 – Elisabeth of Romania,
queen consort of Greece (d. 1956) ·
1896 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and
translator, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1981) ·
1903 – Josephine Hutchinson,
American actress (d. 1998) ·
1904 – Lester Dent, American journalist and author
(d. 1959) ·
1904
– Ding Ling, Chinese author and educator (d.
1986) ·
1906 – Joe Cronin, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1984) ·
1906
– John Murray,
American playwright and producer (d. 1984) ·
1906
– Piero Taruffi,
Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1988) ·
1908 – Paul Engle, American novelist, poet,
playwright, and critic (d. 1991) ·
1908
– Ann Petry, American novelist (d. 1997)[15] ·
1910 – Robert Fitzgerald,
American poet, critic, and translator (d. 1985) ·
1910
– Malcolm Renfrew,
American chemist and academic (d. 2013) ·
1911 – Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (d. 1987) ·
1913 – Alice Chetwynd Ley,
English author and educator (d. 2004) ·
1914 – John E. Hodge, African-American chemist (d.
1996) ·
1916 – Alice Childress, American actress and
playwright (d. 1994) ·
1916
– Lock Martin, American actor (d. 1959) ·
1917 – Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer and
manager (d. 2004) ·
1919 – Gilles Beaudoin, Canadian politician,
34th Mayor of
Trois-Rivières (d. 2007) ·
1919
– Doris Miller,
American chef and soldier (d. 1943) ·
1920 – Christopher Soames,
English politician and diplomat, Governor of
Southern Rhodesia (d. 1987) ·
1921 – Art Clokey, American animator, producer,
screenwriter, and voice actor, created Gumby (d. 2010) ·
1921
– Jaroslav Drobný,
Czech-English tennis player and ice hockey player (d. 2001) ·
1921
– Logie Bruce Lockhart,
Scottish rugby player and journalist (d. 2020) ·
1922 – William H. Sullivan,
American soldier and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to the Philippines (d. 2013) ·
1923 – Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman,
co-founded Weight Watchers (d.
2015) ·
1923
– Goody Petronelli,
American boxer, trainer, and manager (d. 2012) ·
1924 – Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician (d. 2011) ·
1925 – Denis Lazure, Canadian psychiatrist and
politician (d. 2008) ·
1928 – Al Held, American painter and academic (d.
2005) ·
1928
– Domna Samiou,
Greek singer and musicologist (d. 2012) ·
1929 – Nappy Brown, American R&B
singer-songwriter (d. 2008) ·
1929
– Robert Coles,
American psychologist, author, and academic ·
1929
– Magnus Magnusson,
Icelandic journalist and academic (d. 2007) ·
1930 – Denis Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
and photographer (d. 2013) ·
1930
– Milica Kacin Wohinz,
Slovenian historian and author ·
1931 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist
and academic, co-developed Simula (d. 2002) ·
1932 – Dick Gregory, American comedian, actor, and
author (d. 2017) ·
1932
– Ned Jarrett, American race car driver and
sportscaster ·
1932
– John Moffat,
Danish physicist and academic ·
1933 – Guido Molinari, Canadian painter and art
collector (d. 2004) ·
1934 – James
"Sugar Boy" Crawford, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (d. 2012) ·
1934
– Richard Meier,
American architect, designed the Getty Center and City Tower ·
1934
– Albert Shiryaev,
Russian mathematician and academic ·
1934
– Oğuz Atay,
Turkish engineer and author (d. 1977) ·
1935 – Don Howe, English footballer and manager (d.
2015) ·
1935
– Tony Kubek, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1935
– Sam Moore, American soul singer-songwriter ·
1935
– Shivraj Patil,
Indian lawyer and politician, Indian
Minister of Defence ·
1935
– Luciano Pavarotti,
Italian tenor and actor (d. 2007) ·
1937 – Paul Hawkins,
Australian race car driver (d. 1969) ·
1937
– Robert Mangold,
American painter ·
1941 – Michael Mansfield,
English lawyer, academic, and republican ·
1942 – Melvin Franklin, American soul bass singer
(d. 1995) ·
1943 – Kostas Tsakonas, Greek actor (d. 2015) ·
1944 – Angela Rippon, English journalist and author ·
1945 – Aurore Clément,
French actress ·
1946 – Drew Edmondson, American politician[16] ·
1946
– Ashok Mankad,
Indian cricketer (d. 2008) ·
1946
– Daryl Runswick,
English bassist and composer ·
1947 – Chris Wallace, American journalist ·
1948 – John Engler, American businessman and
politician, 46th Governor of Michigan ·
1948
– Rick Parfitt,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016) ·
1949 – Dave Lloyd,
English cyclist and coach ·
1949
– Carlos the Jackal,
Venezuelan terrorist and murderer ·
1949
– Paul Went, English footballer and manager
(d. 2017) ·
1950 – Susan Anton, American actress and model ·
1950
– Dave Freudenthal,
American economist and politician, 31st Governor of Wyoming ·
1951 – Sally Little, South African-American golfer[17] ·
1951
– Ed Royce, American businessman and
politician ·
1951
– Norio Suzuki,
Japanese golfer ·
1952 – Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer and
coach ·
1952
– Béla Csécsei,
Hungarian educator and politician (d. 2012) ·
1952
– Roger Heath-Brown,
English mathematician and theorist ·
1953 – Les Dennis, English comedian and actor ·
1953
– David Threlfall,
English actor and director ·
1954 – Massimo Ghini, Italian actor ·
1954
– Michael Roe, American singer, songwriter,
and record producer ·
1954
– Linval Thompson,
Jamaican singer and producer ·
1955 – Einar Jan Aas, Norwegian footballer ·
1955
– Pat DiNizio, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2017) ·
1955
– Ante Gotovina,
Croatian general ·
1955
– Jane Siberry,
Canadian singer-songwriter and producer ·
1956 – Rafael Ábalos, Spanish author ·
1956
– Allan Evans,
Scottish footballer ·
1956
– Lutz Haueisen,
German cyclist ·
1956
– Catherine Holmes,
Australian judge ·
1956
– Gerti Schanderl,
German figure skater ·
1956
– David Vanian,
English singer-songwriter ·
1957 – Clémentine Célarié,
French actress, singer, and director ·
1957
– Serge Clerc, French comic book artist and
illustrator ·
1957
– Mike Dowler, Welsh football goalkeeper ·
1957
– Annik Honoré,
Belgian journalist and music promoter (d. 2014) ·
1957
– William F. Laurance,
Australian biologist ·
1958 – Steve Austria, American lawyer and
politician ·
1958
– Maria
de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias, Portuguese historian, author,
and academic (d. 2013) ·
1958
– Jeff Keith, American rock singer-songwriter ·
1958
– Bryn Merrick,
Welsh bass player (d. 2015) ·
1959 – Anna Escobedo Cabral,
American lawyer and politician, 42nd Treasurer
of the United States ·
1960 – Steve Lowery, American golfer ·
1960
– Carlo Perrone,
Italian footballer and manager ·
1960
– Dorothee Vieth,
German Paralympic cyclist[18] ·
1961 – Chendo, Spanish footballer ·
1962 – Carlos Bernard, American actor and director ·
1962
– Chris Botti, American trumpet player and
composer ·
1962
– John
Coleman, English footballer and manager ·
1962
– Branko Crvenkovski,
Macedonian engineer and politician, 3rd President
of the Republic of Macedonia ·
1962
– Deborah Foreman,
American actress and photographer ·
1962
– Mads Eriksen,
Norwegian guitarist and composer ·
1963 – Raimond Aumann, German footballer ·
1963
– Hideki Fujisawa,
Japanese composer ·
1963
– Satoshi Kon, Japanese animator and
screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
1963
– Dave Legeno, English actor and mixed martial
artist (d. 2014) ·
1963
– Alan
McDonald, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2012) ·
1963
– Luis Polonia,
Dominican baseball player ·
1965 – Dan Abnett, English author ·
1965
– J. J. Daigneault,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1965
– Scott O'Grady,
American captain and pilot ·
1966 – Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor and voice
over artist (d. 2015) ·
1966
– Wim Jonk, Dutch footballer ·
1966
– Brian Kennedy,
Northern Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1966
– Brenda Romero,
American game designer ·
1967 – Becky Iverson, American golfer ·
1968 – Bill Auberlen, American race car driver ·
1968
– Paul Harragon,
Australian rugby league player and sportscaster ·
1968
– Hugh Jackman,
Australian actor, singer, and producer ·
1968
– Leon Lett, American football player ·
1969 – Martie Maguire, American singer-songwriter,
violinist, and producer ·
1969
– Željko
Milinovič, Slovenian footballer ·
1969
– Dwayne Roloson,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1969
– José Valentín,
American baseball player, coach, and manager ·
1970 – Kirk Cameron, American actor, screenwriter,
and Christian evangelical/anti-evolution activist ·
1970
– Patrick Musimu,
Belgian diver and physiotherapist (d. 2011) ·
1970
– Tanyon Sturtze,
American baseball player ·
1970
– Charlie Ward,
American basketball player and coach ·
1971 – Tony Fiore, American baseball player ·
1971
– Steve Johnston,
Australian motorcycle racer ·
1971
– Bronzell Miller,
American football player and actor (d. 2013) ·
1972 – Neriah Davis, American model and actress ·
1972
– Juan Manuel Silva,
Argentinian race car driver ·
1972
– Tom Van Mol, Belgian footballer ·
1973 – Lesli Brea, Dominican baseball player ·
1973
– Martin Corry,
English rugby player ·
1974 – Stephen Lee,
English snooker player ·
1975 – Susana Félix, Portuguese singer-songwriter,
producer, and actress ·
1975
– Marion Jones,
American basketball player and runner ·
1976 – Simon Bridges, New Zealand politician ·
1977 – Cristie Kerr, American golfer ·
1977
– Bode Miller, American skier ·
1977
– Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer ·
1978 – Stefan Binder, German footballer ·
1978
– Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist ·
1979 – Steven Agnew, Northern Irish politician ·
1979
– Steve Borthwick,
English rugby player ·
1979
– Jordan Pundik,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1980 – Ledley King, English footballer ·
1981 – Tom Guiry, American actor ·
1981
– Brian
Kerr, Scottish footballer and manager ·
1981
– Giuseppe Lanzone,
American rower ·
1981
– Conrad Smith, New
Zealand rugby player ·
1981
– Sun Tiantian,
Chinese tennis player ·
1983 – Alex Brosque, Australian footballer ·
1983
– Carlton Cole,
English footballer ·
1983
– Mariko Yamamoto,
Japanese cricketer ·
1985 – Michelle Carter,
American shot putter ·
1985
– Mike
Green, Canadian hockey player ·
1985
– Anna Iljuštšenko,
Estonian high jumper ·
1985 – Greig Laidlaw, Scottish rugby player[19] ·
1986 – Ioannis Maniatis, Greek footballer ·
1986
– Sergio Peter,
German footballer ·
1986
– Tyler Blackburn,
American actor[20] ·
1987 – Marvin Ogunjimi, Belgian footballer ·
1988 – Sam Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player ·
1988
– Calum Scott, British singer[21] ·
1989 – Anna Ohmiya, Japanese curler ·
1990 – Henri Lansbury, English footballer ·
1991 – Nicolao Dumitru, Italian footballer ·
1992 – Josh Hutcherson, American actor and producer ·
1994 – Alex Katz,
American baseball player ·
1994
– Sean Monahan,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1994
– Olivia Smoliga,
American swimmer ·
1995 – Jessica Hogg, Welsh artistic gymnast[22] ·
1996 – James Graham,
British singer ·
1996 – Owen Watkin, Welsh rugby player[23] ·
1997 – Curtis Scott, Australian rugby league player ·
2002 – Iris Apatow, American actress ·
2004 – Darci Lynne, American ventriloquist[24] Deaths[edit] ·
322 BC – Demosthenes, Athenian statesman, (b. 384 BC) ·
638 – Honorius I, pope of the Catholic Church ·
642 – John IV, pope of the Catholic Church ·
884 – Tsunesada, Japanese prince (b. 825) ·
1095 – Leopold
II, margrave of Austria (b. 1050) ·
1152 – Adolf III of Berg,
German nobleman (b. 1080) ·
1176 – William
d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1109) ·
1320 – Michael IX
Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1277) ·
1328 – Clementia of Hungary,
queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1293) ·
1448 – Zhu Quan, Chinese prince, historian and
playwright (b. 1378) ·
1491 – Fritz Herlen, German painter (b. 1449) ·
1492 – Piero della
Francesca, Italian mathematician and painter (b. 1415) ·
1565 – Jean Ribault, French-American lieutenant and
navigator (b. 1520) ·
1576 – Maximilian
II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527) ·
1590 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter and
educator (b. 1543) ·
1600 – Luis de Molina, Spanish priest and
philosopher (b. 1535) ·
1601 – Nicholas Brend, English landowner (b. 1560) ·
1632 – Kutsuki Mototsuna,
Japanese commander (b. 1549) ·
1646 – François de
Bassompierre, French general and courtier (b. 1579) ·
1654 – Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (b. 1622) ·
1678 – Edmund Berry Godfrey,
English lawyer and judge (b. 1621) ·
1679 – William Gurnall, English minister,
theologian, and author (b. 1617) ·
1685 – Christoph Ignaz
Abele, Austrian lawyer and jurist (b. 1628) ·
1730 – Frederick IV,
king of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671) ·
1758 – Richard
Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Irish field marshal and politician
(b. 1680) ·
1812 – Juan José Castelli,
Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764) ·
1845 – Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer,
Quaker and philanthropist (b. 1780)[25] ·
1858 – Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797) ·
1870 – Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807) ·
1875 – Jean-Baptiste
Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827) ·
1896 – Christian
Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council
President of Denmark (b. 1817) ·
1898 – Calvin Fairbank, American minister and
activist (b. 1816) ·
1914 – Margaret E. Knight,
American inventor (b. 1838) ·
1915 – Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865) ·
1923 – Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857) ·
1924 – Anatole France, French journalist, novelist,
and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1844) ·
1926 – Edwin Abbott Abbott,
English theologian and author (b. 1838) ·
1933 – John Lister,
English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847) ·
1940 – Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1880) ·
1946 – Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883) ·
1948 – Susan Sutherland
Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885) ·
1954 – George Welch,
American soldier and pilot (b. 1918) ·
1956 – Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter
(b. 1872) ·
1957 – Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and
physician (b. 1865) ·
1958 – Gordon Griffith, American actor, director,
and producer (b. 1907) ·
1960 – Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and
politician (b. 1898) ·
1964 – John Watkins,
Canadian diplomat (b. 1902) ·
1965 – Paul Hermann Müller,
Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1899) ·
1967 – Ram Manohar Lohia,
Indian activist and politician (b. 1910) ·
1969 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and
actress (b. 1912) ·
1969
– Serge Poliakoff,
Russian-French painter and academic (b. 1906) ·
1969
– Julius Saaristo,
Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (b. 1891) ·
1970 – Feodor
Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter
(b. 1891) ·
1970
– Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani
poet and academic (b. 1930) ·
1971 – Dean Acheson, American lawyer and
politician, 51st United
States Secretary of State (b. 1893) ·
1971
– Gene Vincent,
American musician (b. 1935) ·
1972 – Robert Le Vigan, French-Argentinian actor
and politician (b. 1900) ·
1973 – Peter Aufschnaiter,
Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (b. 1899) ·
1978 – Nancy Spungen, American figure of the 1970s
punk rock scene (b. 1958) ·
1984 – Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925) ·
1985 – Johnny Olson, American radio host and game
show announcer (b. 1910) ·
1985
– Ricky
Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953) ·
1987 – Alf Landon, American lieutenant and
politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b.
1887) ·
1987
– Fahri Korutürk,
Turkish commander and politician, 6th President of Turkey (b.
1903) ·
1988 – Ruth Manning-Sanders,
Welsh-English poet and author (b. 1886) ·
1988
– Coby Whitmore,
American painter and illustrator (b. 1913) ·
1989 – Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and
screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (b.
1920) ·
1990 – Rifaat el-Mahgoub,
Egyptian politician (b. 1926) ·
1990
– Peter Wessel Zapffe,
Norwegian physician, mountaineer, and author (b. 1899) ·
1991 – Sheila Florance, Australian actress (b.
1916) ·
1991
– Arkady Strugatsky,
Russian author and translator (b. 1925) ·
1991
– Regis Toomey,
American actor (b. 1898) ·
1993 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902) ·
1994 – Gérald Godin, Canadian journalist and
politician (b. 1938) ·
1996 – René Lacoste, French tennis player and
fashion designer, co-founded Lacoste (b. 1904) ·
1996
– Roger Lapébie,
French cyclist (b. 1911) ·
1997 – John Denver, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor (b. 1943) ·
1998 – Mario
Beaulieu, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930) ·
1998
– Matthew Shepard,
American murder victim (b. 1976) ·
1999 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1936) ·
1999
– Robert Marsden Hope,
Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1919) ·
2001 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English
academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b.
1907) ·
2001
– Hikmet
Şimşek, Turkish conductor (b. 1924) ·
2001
– Richard Buckle,
Ballet critic and writer (b. 1916) ·
2001
–Afsar Ahmad Siddiqui,
Bangladesh politician (b. 1935) ·
2002 – Ray Conniff, American bandleader and
composer (b. 1916) ·
2002
– Audrey Mestre,
French biologist and diver (b. 1974) ·
2003 – Jim Cairns, Australian economist and
politician, 4th Deputy
Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1914) ·
2003
– Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928) ·
2003
– Bill Shoemaker,
American jockey (b. 1931) ·
2005 – C. Delores Tucker,
American activist and politician (b. 1927) ·
2006 – Angelika Machinek,
German glider pilot (b. 1956)[26] ·
2006.
– Eugène Martin,
French race car driver (b. 1915) ·
2006
– Gillo Pontecorvo,
Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1919) ·
2007 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed
the Nakagin Capsule
Tower (b. 1934) ·
2008 – Karl Chircop, Maltese physician and
politician (b. 1965) ·
2009 – Dickie Peterson American
singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1948) ·
2009
– Frank
Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974) ·
2010 – Austin Ardill, Northern Irish soldier and
politician (b. 1917) ·
2010
– Woody Peoples,
American football player (b. 1943) ·
2010
– Belva Plain, American author (b. 1919) ·
2011 – Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931) ·
2011
– Dennis Ritchie,
American computer scientist, created the C programming
language (b. 1941) ·
2012 – James Coyne,
Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor
of the Bank of Canada (b. 1910) ·
2012
– Norm Grabowski,
American hot rod builder and actor (b. 1933) ·
2012
– Sukhdev Singh Kang,
Indian judge and politician, 14th Governor of Kerala (b.
1931) ·
2012
– Torkom Manoogian,
Iraqi-Armenian patriarch (b. 1919) ·
2012
– Erik Moseholm,
Danish bassist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1930) ·
2012
– Břetislav Pojar,
Czech animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923) ·
2013 – George Herbig, American astronomer and
academic (b. 1920) ·
2013
– Oscar Hijuelos,
American author and academic (b. 1951) ·
2013
– Hans Wilhelm Longva,
Norwegian diplomat (b. 1942) ·
2013
– Malcolm Renfrew,
American chemist and academic (b. 1910) ·
2014 – Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political
scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1933) ·
2014
– Graham Miles,
English snooker player (b. 1941) ·
2014
– Roberto Telch,
Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1943) ·
2015 – Abdallah Kigoda, Tanzanian politician,
8th Tanzanian
Minister of Industry and Trade (b. 1953) ·
2015
– Joan Leslie, American actress, dancer, and
vaudevillian (b. 1925) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Edith Cavell and Elizabeth Fry (Church of England) o Fiacc o Our Lady of the
Pillar (Fiestas del Pilar) o Radim Gaudentius (Czech Republic) o October
12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Children's Day (Brazil) ·
Discovery
of America by Columbus-related
observances (see also October 8): o Día de la Hispanidad or Fiesta Nacional
de España, also Armed Forces Day (Spain) o Día de la Raza (El Salvador, Uruguay) o Día de la
Resistencia Indígena, "Day of Indigenous Resistance" (Venezuela) o Día de las Américas (Belize) o Día de las Culturas,
"Day of the Cultures" (Costa Rica) o Día
del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural, "Day of respect for
cultural diversity" (Argentina) ·
Discovery Day (The Bahamas, Colombia) ·
Feast for Life of Aleister Crowley, celebrated as
"Crowleymas" (Thelema) ·
Fiesta Nacional
de España (Spain) ·
Independence
Day (Equatorial Guinea), celebrates the independence of Equatorial Guinea from
Spain in 1968. ·
UN Spanish
Language Day (United Nations) ·
International
Day Against DRM[27] |
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