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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
78 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
1066 –
The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.[1] ·
1322 –
Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland,
forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.[2] ·
1582 –
Because of the adoption
of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this
year in Austria, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.[3] ·
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots,
goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.[4] ·
1656 –
The US state of Massachusetts enacts
the first punitive legislation against the Religious
Society of Friends (Quakers).[5] ·
1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers
a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.[6] ·
1773 –
The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission
of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth. ·
1805 –
War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an
Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm. ·
1806 –
War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of
Jena–Auerstedt. ·
1808 –
The Republic of Ragusa is
annexed by France. ·
1843 –
Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell arrested
by British on charges of criminal conspiracy. ·
1863 –
American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the
Union Army completely out of Virginia. ·
1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S.
Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. ·
1888 –
Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden
Scene. ·
1898 –
The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks
near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106. ·
1908 –
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series;
this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series. ·
1910 –
English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands
his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C. ·
1912 –
Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang
Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still
within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. ·
1913 – Senghenydd colliery
disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims
the lives of 439 miners. ·
1915 –
World War I: Bulgaria joins the
Central Powers. ·
1920 –
Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty
of Tartu, exchanging some territories. ·
1926 –
The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is
first published. ·
1933 –
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World
Disarmament Conference. ·
1938 –
The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter
plane. ·
1939 –
World War II: The German
submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within
her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland. ·
1940 –
World War II: The Balham
underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during
the London Blitz. ·
1943 –
World War II: Prisoners at the Sobibór
extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans. ·
1943
– World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying
Fortress during the Second Raid on
Schweinfurt. ·
1943
– World War II: The Second
Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with
José P. Laurel as its president. ·
1947 – Chuck Yeager becomes the first person
to exceed the speed of sound. ·
1949 –
The Smith
Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States
convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of
the federal government. ·
1952 –
Korean War: The Battle of
Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952. ·
1956 –
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar,
leader of India's Untouchable caste,
converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism). ·
1957 –
The 23rd Canadian
Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by
the Queen of Canada. ·
1957
– At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in
the history of the Spanish city of Valencia. ·
1962 –
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins
when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet
ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba. ·
1964 – Martin Luther King
Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial
inequality through nonviolence. ·
1964
– The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to
accept Nikita Khrushchev's
"voluntary" request to retire from his offices. ·
1966 –
The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system. ·
1968 –
The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by
the Apollo 7 crew. ·
1968
– The 6.5 Mw Meckering
earthquake shook the southwest portion of Western Australia
with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in
damage and leaving 20–28 people injured. ·
1968
– Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to
break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint
with a time of 9.95 seconds. ·
1973 –
In the Thammasat
student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against
the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by
soldiers. ·
1975 –
An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes
and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing
five crew members and one person on the ground.[7] ·
1977 – Anita Bryant gets a pie thrown in her
face at a news conference in Des Moines by gay rights activist Tom
Higgins for her anti-LGBT commentary.[8] ·
1979 –
The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws
approximately 100,000 people. ·
1981 –
Vice President Hosni Mubarak is
elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat. ·
1982 –
U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. ·
1991 –
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize. ·
1994 –
Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize
for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future
Palestinian self government. ·
1998 –
Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial
Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. ·
2003 –
The Steve Bartman
Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.[9] ·
2004 – MK Airlines
Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax
Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on
board. ·
2004
– Pinnacle
Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City,
Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.[10] ·
2012 – Felix Baumgartner successfully
jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere. ·
2014 –
A snowstorm and
avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone
Hudhud kills 43 people. ·
2014
– Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media
critic Anita Sarkeesian,
who was to give a lecture the next day. ·
2014
– The Serbia
vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42
minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually
awarded a win. ·
2015 –
A suicide bomb attack
in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others. ·
2017 –
A massive
truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more
than 400 others. Births[edit] ·
1257 – Przemysł II of Poland (d. 1296)[11] ·
1404 – Marie of Anjou (d. 1463) ·
1425 – Alesso Baldovinetti,
Italian painter (d. 1499) ·
1465 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and
antiquarian (d. 1547)[12] ·
1493 – Shimazu Tadayoshi,
Japanese daimyō (d. 1568) ·
1542 – Philip
IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1602) ·
1563 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and
cartographer (d. 1611) ·
1569 – Giambattista Marino,
Italian poet (d. 1625) ·
1609 – Ernest Günther, Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1689) ·
1630 – Sophia of Hanover (d.
1714)[13] ·
1633 – James II of England (d.
1701) ·
1639 – Simon van der Stel,
Dutch commander and politician, 1st Governor
of the Dutch Cape Colony (d. 1712) ·
1643 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor (d. 1712)[14] ·
1644 – William Penn, English businessman who
founded Pennsylvania (d.
1718) ·
1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and
academic (d. 1768) ·
1712 – George Grenville, English lawyer and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770) ·
1726 – Charles
Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and
politician (d. 1813) ·
1733 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of
Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798) ·
1784 – Ferdinand VII of
Spain (d. 1833) ·
1791 – Friedrich Parrot, Baltic German naturalist
(d. 1841)[15] ·
1801 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and
academic, created the Phenakistoscope (d. 1883) ·
1806 – Preston King,
American lawyer and politician (d. 1865) ·
1824 – Adolphe Monticelli,
French painter (d. 1886)[16] ·
1840 – Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic
(d. 1868) ·
1842 – Joe Start, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1927) ·
1844 – John See, English-Australian politician,
14th Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1907) ·
1848 – Byron Edmund Walker,
Canadian banker and philanthropist (d. 1924) ·
1853 – John William
Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (d. 1924) ·
1861 – Julia A. Ames, American journalist, editor,
and reformer (d. 1891)[17] ·
1867 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and
critic (d. 1902) ·
1869 – Joseph
Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (d. 1939) ·
1871 – Alexander von
Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher (d. 1942)[18] ·
1872 – Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (d.
1910) ·
1882 – Éamon de Valera,
American-Irish rebel and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (d.
1975) ·
1882
– Charlie Parker,
English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1959) ·
1888 – Katherine Mansfield,
New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1923) ·
1888
– Yukio Sakurauchi,
Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese
Minister of Finance (d. 1947) ·
1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower,
American general and politician, 34th President
of the United States (d. 1969) ·
1892 – Sumner Welles, American politician and
diplomat, 11th Under Secretary
of State (d. 1961) ·
1893 – Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993) ·
1894 – E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright
(d. 1962) ·
1894
– Victoria Drummond,
British marine engineer (d. 1978) ·
1897 – Alicja Dorabialska,
Polish chemist (d. 1975) ·
1898 – Thomas William
Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1950) ·
1900 – W. Edwards Deming,
American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993) ·
1902 – Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager
(d. 1963) ·
1904 – Christian Pineau, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d.
1995) ·
1904
– Mikhail Pervukhin,
Soviet politician, First
Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1978) ·
1906 – Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader,
founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d.
1949) ·
1906
– Hannah Arendt,
German-American philosopher and theorist (d. 1975)[19] ·
1907 – Allan Jones,
American actor and singer (d. 1992) ·
1909 – Mochitsura Hashimoto,
Japanese commander (d. 2000) ·
1909
– Dorothy Kingsley,
American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996) ·
1909
– Bernd Rosemeyer,
German racing driver (d. 1938) ·
1910 – John Wooden, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2010) [20] ·
1911 – Lê Đức
Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1990) ·
1914 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and
coach (d. 2004) ·
1914
– Raymond Davis Jr.,
American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2006) ·
1914
– Alexis Rannit,
Estonian poet and critic (d. 1985) ·
1915 – Loris Francesco
Capovilla, Italian cardinal (d. 2016) ·
1916 – C. Everett Koop, American admiral and
surgeon, 13th United
States Surgeon General (d. 2013) ·
1918 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist,
journalist, and politician (d. 1991) ·
1918
– Thelma Coyne Long,
Australian tennis player and captain (d. 2015) ·
1918
– Doug Ring, Australian cricketer and
sportscaster (d. 2003) ·
1921 – José Arraño Acevedo,
Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009) ·
1923 – Joel Barnett, English accountant and
politician, Chief
Secretary to the Treasury (d. 2014) ·
1926 – Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor (d.
1985) ·
1927 – Roger Moore, English actor and producer (d.
2017) ·
1928 – Joyce Bryant, American actress and singer[21] ·
1928
– Frank E. Resnik,
American chemist and businessman (d. 1995) ·
1929 – Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer and wrestler
(d. 2007) ·
1930 – Robert Parker,
American singer and saxophonist (d. 2020) ·
1930
– Mobutu Sese Seko,
Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (d.
1997) ·
1930
– Alan
Williams, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow
Secretary of State for Wales (d. 2014) ·
1932 – Enrico Di Giuseppe,
American tenor and actor (d. 2005) ·
1932
– Anatoly Larkin,
Russian-American physicist and academic (d. 2005) ·
1936 – Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer and manager
(d. 2017) ·
1936
– Jürg Schubiger,
Swiss psychotherapist and author (d. 2014) ·
1938 – Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran ·
1938
– John Dean, American lawyer and author,
13th White House Counsel ·
1938
– Elizabeth
Esteve-Coll, English curator and academic ·
1938
– Ron Lancaster,
American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008) ·
1938
– Shula Marks, South African historian and
academic ·
1938
– Melba Montgomery,
American country music singer ·
1939 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer,
founded the Ralph Lauren
Corporation ·
1939
– Rocky Thompson,
American golfer and politician ·
1940 – Perrie Mans, South African snooker player ·
1940
– Cliff Richard,
Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor ·
1940
– J. C. Snead, American golfer ·
1940
– Christopher Timothy,
Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1941 – Jerry Glanville, American football player
and coach ·
1941
– Eddie Keher, Irish sportsman (hurling) ·
1941
– Laurie Lawrence,
Australian rugby player and coach ·
1941
– Art Shamsky, American baseball player and
manager ·
1941
– Roger Taylor,
English tennis player ·
1942 – Bob Hiller, English rugby player ·
1942
– Evelio Javier,
Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1986) ·
1942
– Péter Nádas,
Hungarian author and playwright ·
1942
– Suzzanna, Indonesian actress (d. 2008) ·
1943 – Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and
politician, 5th President of Iran[22] ·
1944 – Udo Kier, German-American actor and director ·
1945 – Colin Hodgkinson, English bass player ·
1945
– Daan Jippes, Dutch author and illustrator ·
1945
– Lesley Joseph,
English actress ·
1946 – François Bozizé,
Gabonese general and politician, President
of the Central African Republic ·
1946
– Joey de Leon,
Filipino comedian, actor and television host ·
1946
– Justin Hayward,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1946
– Dan McCafferty,
Scottish singer-songwriter ·
1946
– Al Oliver, American baseball player ·
1946
– Craig Venter,
American biologist, geneticist, and academic ·
1947 – Norman Harris,
American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987) ·
1947
– Charlie Joiner,
American football player ·
1947
– Nikolai Volkoff,
Croatian-American wrestler (d. 2018) ·
1948 – Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer ·
1948
– Norman Ornstein,
American political scientist and scholar ·
1949 – Damian Lau, Hong Kong actor, director, and
producer ·
1949
– Katha Pollitt,
American poet and author ·
1949
– Dave Schultz,
Canadian ice hockey player and referee ·
1950 – Joey Travolta, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1951 – Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist ·
1952 – Harry Anderson, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 2018) [23] ·
1952
– Nikolai Andrianov,
Russian gymnast and coach (d. 2011) ·
1952
– Rick Aviles, American comedian and actor (d.
1995) ·
1953 – Kazumi Watanabe, Japanese guitarist and
composer ·
1954 – Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccan-Israeli
technician and academic ·
1955 – Iwona Blazwick, English curator and critic ·
1956 – Ümit Besen, Turkish singer-songwriter ·
1956
– Beth Daniel, American golfer and
sportscaster ·
1956
– Jennell Jaquays,
American game designer ·
1956
– Arleen Sorkin,
American actress, producer, and screenwriter ·
1957 – Michel Després,
Canadian lawyer and politician ·
1957
– Gen Nakatani,
Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th Japanese
Minister of Defense ·
1958 – Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1959 – A. J. Pero, American drummer (d. 2015) ·
1960 – Steve Cram, English runner and coach ·
1960
– Zbigniew
Kruszyński, Polish footballer and coach ·
1961 – Isaac Mizrahi, American fashion designer ·
1962 – Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player ·
1962
– Trevor Goddard,
English-American actor (d. 2003) ·
1962
– Chris Thomas King,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor ·
1962
– Shahar Perkiss,
Israeli tennis player[24] ·
1963 – Lori Petty, American actress ·
1964 – Joe Girardi, American baseball player and
manager ·
1965 – Steve Coogan, English actor, comedian,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1965
– Jüri Jaanson,
Estonian rower and politician[25] ·
1965
– Constantine Koukias,
Greek-Australian flute player and composer ·
1965
– Karyn White, American singer-songwriter ·
1967 – Pat Kelly,
American baseball player, coach, and manager ·
1967
– Sylvain Lefebvre,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1967
– Werner Daehn,
German actor ·
1967
– Stephen A. Smith,
American sports television personality ·
1968 – Jay
Ferguson, Canadian guitarist and songwriter ·
1968
– Johnny Goudie,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor ·
1968
– Matthew Le Tissier,
English footballer and journalist ·
1968
– Dwayne Schintzius,
American basketball player and coach (d. 2012) ·
1969 – P. J. Brown, American basketball player ·
1969
– Viktor Onopko,
Russian footballer and manager ·
1969
– David Strickland,
American actor (d. 1999) ·
1970 – Martin Barbarič,
Czech footballer and coach (d. 2013) ·
1970
– Jim Jackson,
American basketball player and sportscaster ·
1970
– Meelis Lindmaa,
Estonian footballer ·
1970
– Hiromi Nagasaku,
Japanese actress and singer ·
1970
– Pär Zetterberg,
Swedish footballer ·
1970
– Vasko Vassilev,
Bulgarian violinist ·
1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer and
manager ·
1971
– Robert Jaworski Jr.,
Filipino basketball player and politician ·
1972 – Erika deLone, American tennis player ·
1972
– Julian O'Neill,
Australian rugby league player ·
1973 – Thom Brooks, American-British political
philosopher and legal scholar ·
1973
– Lasha Zhvania,
Georgian businessman and politician ·
1974 – Jessica Drake, American porn actress and
director ·
1974
– Samuel José
da Silva Vieira, Brazilian footballer ·
1974
– Natalie Maines,
American singer-songwriter ·
1974
– Viktor Röthlin,
Swiss runner ·
1974
– Tümer Metin,
Turkish footballer ·
1975 – Michael Duberry, English footballer ·
1975
– Floyd Landis,
American cyclist ·
1975
– Carlos Spencer,
New Zealand rugby player ·
1976 – Tillakaratne Dilshan,
Sri Lankan cricketer ·
1977 – Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer ·
1977
– Barry Ditewig,
Dutch footballer ·
1977
– Kelly Schumacher,
American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player ·
1978 – Justin Lee Brannan,
American guitarist and songwriter ·
1978
– Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d.
2006) ·
1978
– Jana Macurová,
Czech tennis player ·
1978
– Steven
Thompson, Scottish footballer ·
1978
– Usher, American
singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor ·
1979 – Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress ·
1979
– Liina-Grete Lilender,
Estonian figure skater and coach ·
1980 – Paúl Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer ·
1980
– Amjad Khan,
Danish-English cricketer ·
1980
– Scott Kooistra,
American football player ·
1980
– Niels Lodberg,
Danish footballer ·
1980
– Terrence McGee,
American football player ·
1980
– Ben Whishaw, English actor[26] ·
1981 – Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer ·
1982
– Ryan Hall,
American runner ·
1982
– Matt Roth,
American football player ·
1983 – Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower ·
1984 – LaRon Landry, American football player ·
1984
– Alex
Scott, English footballer ·
1985 – Alexandre Sarnes
Negrão, Brazilian racing driver ·
1985
– Ivan
Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament ·
1986 – Tom Craddock, English footballer ·
1988 – Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer ·
1990 – Jordan Clark,
English cricketer ·
1992 – Ahmed Musa,
Nigerian footballer ·
1993 – Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer ·
1994 – Joe Burgess, English rugby league player ·
1994
– Jaelen Feeney,
Australian rugby league player ·
1994
– Jared Goff, American football player ·
2001 – Rowan Blanchard, American actress[27] Deaths[edit] ·
841 – Shi Yuanzhong, Chinese governor ·
869 – Pang Xun, Chinese rebel leader ·
962 – Gerloc, Frankish noblewoman ·
996 – Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid caliph (b. 955) ·
1066 – Harold Godwinson, English king (b. 1022) ·
1066
– Leofwine Godwinson,
English nobleman and brother of Harold II ·
1066
– Gyrth Godwinson,
English nobleman and brother of Harold II ·
1077 – Andronicus
Ducas, Byzantine courtier (b. 1022) ·
1092 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and
politician (b. 1018) ·
1184 – Yusuf I, Almohad caliph (b. 1135) ·
1213 – Geoffrey
Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, English sheriff and Chief Justiciar ·
1217 – Isabella,
English noblewoman and wife of John of England (b.
c. 1173) ·
1240
– Razia Sultana,
Only female sultan of Delhi (b. c. 1205)[28] ·
1256 – Kujō Yoritsugu,
Japanese shogun (b. 1239) ·
1318 – Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (b. 1275) ·
1416 – Henry
the Mild, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ·
1536 – Garcilaso de
la Vega, Spanish poet (b. 1503) ·
1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss theologian and
reformer (b. 1488) ·
1565 – Thomas
Chaloner, English poet and politician (b. 1521) ·
1568 – Jacques Arcadelt, Dutch singer and composer
(b. 1507) ·
1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (b.
1540) ·
1618 – Gervase
Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton, English nobleman (b.c. 1570) ·
1619 – Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian
(b. 1562) ·
1631 – Sophie of
Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (b. 1557) ·
1637 – Gabriello Chiabrera,
Italian poet (b. 1552) ·
1669 – Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer
(b. 1623) ·
1703 – Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop and poet (b.
1634) ·
1711 – Tewoflos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1708) ·
1758 – James Francis
Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (b. 1696) ·
1747 – Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (b. 1678) ·
1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and
educator (b. 1761) ·
1911 – John Marshall Harlan,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1833) ·
1923 – Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet,
and playwright (b. 1848) ·
1929 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader
(b. 1844) ·
1930 – Samuel van Houten,
Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (b.
1837) ·
1942 – Noboru
Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (b. 1902) ·
1943 – Sobibór uprising: o Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer
(b. 1910) o Siegfried Graetschus,
German sergeant (b. 1916) o Johann Niemann, German lieutenant (b. 1913) ·
1944 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891) ·
1953 – Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1877) ·
1953
– Kyuichi Tokuda,
Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894) ·
1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist,
academic, and explorer (b. 1882) ·
1959 – Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer
and radio host (b. 1907) ·
1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor,
singer, and producer (b. 1909) ·
1960 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic
(b. 1880) ·
1961 – Paul Ramadier, French politician,
129th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1888) ·
1961
– Harriet Shaw Weaver,
English journalist and activist (b. 1876) ·
1965 – William Hogenson, American sprinter (b.
1884) ·
1965
– Randall Jarrell,
American poet and author (b. 1914) ·
1967 – Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright
(b. 1902) ·
1969 – Haguroyama Masaji,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914) ·
1969
– August Sang, Estonian poet and translator
(b. 1914) ·
1973 – Edmund A. Chester,
American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1897) ·
1973
– Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general and engineer
(b. 1929) ·
1976 – Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888) ·
1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and
actor (b. 1903) ·
1982 – Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the
Vienna Circle (b. 1889) ·
1983 – Willard Price, Canadian-American historian
and author (b. 1887) ·
1984 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1918) ·
1985 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b.
1916) ·
1986 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916) ·
1986
– Takahiko Yamanouchi,
Japanese physicist (b. 1902) ·
1990 – Leonard Bernstein,
American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918) ·
1997 – Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915) ·
1998 – Cleveland Amory, American author and
activist (b. 1917) ·
1998
– Frankie Yankovic,
American accordion player (b. 1916) ·
1999 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and
politician, 1st President of
Tanzania (b. 1922) ·
2000 – Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey
player (b. 1909) ·
2000
– Tony Roper,
American race car driver (b. 1964) ·
2002 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and
conductor (b. 1911) ·
2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job,
English linguist, commander, and navigator (b. 1913) ·
2006 – Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1937) ·
2006
– Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist
(b. 1926) ·
2006
– Gerry Studds,
American educator and politician (b. 1937) ·
2008 – Robert Furman, American engineer and
intelligence officer (b. 1915) ·
2008
– Kazys
Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1926) ·
2009 – Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor and
screenwriter (b. 1938) ·
2009
– Collin Wilcox,
American actress (b. 1935) ·
2009
– Lou Albano, American professional wrestler
(b. 1933) ·
2010 – Simon MacCorkindale,
English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952) ·
2010
– Benoit Mandelbrot,
Polish-American mathematician and economist (b. 1924) ·
2011 – Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and
politician (b. 1948) ·
2011
– Ashawna Hailey,
American computer scientist and philanthropist (b. 1949) ·
2012 – John Clive, English actor and author (b.
1933) ·
2012
– Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and
author (b. 1920) ·
2012
– James R. Grover Jr.,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1919) ·
2012
– Larry Sloan, American publisher,
co-founded Price Stern Sloan (b.
1922) ·
2012
– Arlen Specter,
American lieutenant and politician (b. 1930) ·
2012
– Dody Weston Thompson,
American photographer (b. 1923) ·
2012
– Gart Westerhout,
Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1927) ·
2013 – Wally Bell, American baseball player and
umpire (b. 1965) ·
2013
– Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and
politician (b. 1936) ·
2013
– Kōichi Iijima,
Japanese author and poet (b. 1930) ·
2013
– Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager
(b. 1954) ·
2013
– Frank
Moore, American painter and poet (b. 1946) ·
2013
– Käty van der
Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (b. 1940) ·
2014 – A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and
academic (b. 1923)[29] ·
2014
– Leonard Liggio,
American author and academic (b. 1933) ·
2014
– Elizabeth Peña,
American actress (b. 1959) ·
2015 – Nurlan Balgimbayev,
Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime
Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1947) ·
2015
– Mathieu Kérékou,
Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (b.
1933) ·
2015
– Margaret Keyes,
American historian and academic (b. 1918) ·
2015
– Radhakrishna
Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (b. 1930) ·
2016 – Helen Kelly,
New Zealand trade union leader (b. 1964) ·
2019 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic
(b.1930)[30] ·
2019
– Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and
model (b.1994)[31] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Joseph
Schereschewsky (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o October
14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) o Intercession
of the Theotokos ·
Day
of the Cathedral of the
Living Pillar (Georgian
Orthodox Church) ·
National
Education Day (Poland), formerly Teachers' Day ·
Nyerere Day (Tanzania) ·
Second Revolution
Day (Yemen) ·
World Standards Day (International) ·
Defender of
Ukraine Day (Ukraine) |
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