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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 October
October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
76 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
456 – Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and
becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.[1] ·
690 –
Empress Wu Zetian ascends
to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese
Empire. ·
912 – Abd ar-Rahman III becomes
the 8th Emir of Córdoba.[2] ·
955 –
King Otto I defeats a
Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. ·
1311 –
The Council of Vienne convenes
for the first time.[3] ·
1384 – Jadwiga is
crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman. ·
1590 –
Prince Gesualdo of
Venosa murders his wife and her lover. ·
1736 –
Mathematician William Whiston's
predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.[4] ·
1780 –
American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native
American raid on New England. ·
1780 –
The Great Hurricane
of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000
and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.[5] ·
1793 –
French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed. ·
1793
– War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces
Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge. ·
1805 –
War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.[6] ·
1813 –
The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig. ·
1817 –
Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging
the racial-caste in Venezuela.[7] ·
1834 –
Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground. ·
1836 –
Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose
their livestock. ·
1841 – Queen's
University is founded in the Province of Canada. ·
1843 – William Rowan
Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of
complex numbers. ·
1846 – William T. G. Morton administers
ether anesthesia during a surgical operation. ·
1847 –
The novel Jane Eyre is
published in London. ·
1859 –
John Brown leads
a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. ·
1869 –
The Cardiff Giant,
one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". ·
1869
– Girton College,
Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential
college for women. ·
1875 – Brigham Young
University is founded in Provo, Utah. ·
1882 –
The Nickel
Plate Railroad opens for business. ·
1905 –
The Partition of
Bengal in India takes place. ·
1906 –
The Wilhelm Voigt fools
the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian
officer. ·
1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit
between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.[8] ·
1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family
planning clinic in the United States. ·
1919 –
Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers'
Party.[9] ·
1923 – The Walt Disney
Company is founded. ·
1934 –
Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist
encirclement. ·
1939 – World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts
the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain. ·
1940 –
Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established. ·
1943 –
Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the
Ghetto of Rome. ·
1946 – Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found
guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by
hanging. ·
1947 –
The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and
the Mangsee Islands from
the United Kingdom. ·
1949 –
The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus
ending the Greek Civil War. ·
1950 – The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is
published. ·
1951 –
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in
Rawalpindi. ·
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins:
Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear
missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point). ·
1964 –
China detonates its first nuclear weapon. ·
1964
– Leonid Brezhnev becomes
leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of
government. ·
1968 –
Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for
participating in the Olympics
Black Power salute. ·
1968
– Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of
Walter Rodney from the country. ·
1968
– Yasunari Kawabata becomes
the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ·
1970 –
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during
the October Crisis. ·
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức
Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ·
1975 –
Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian
journalists, Portuguese Timor. ·
1975
– Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from
Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox. ·
1975
– The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional
crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's
annual budget. ·
1978 – Pope John Paul II becomes
the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. ·
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize. ·
1991 –
George Hennard runs amok in
Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20. ·
1995 –
The Million Man March takes
place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attended.[10] ·
1995
– The Skye Bridge in
Scotland is opened. ·
1996 –
Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in
Guatemala City. ·
1998 –
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in
London on a murder extradition warrant. ·
2002 –
The Bibliotheca
Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library
of Alexandria. ·
2013 – Lao Airlines
Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport
in Laos, killing 49 people. ·
2017 – Storm Ophelia strikes
the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss. Births[edit] ·
1351 – Gian Galeazzo
Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402) ·
1396 – William
de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450) ·
1430 – James II of Scotland (d.
1460) ·
1483 – Gasparo Contarini,
Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1542) ·
1535 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (d. 1585) ·
1588 – Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and
historian (d. 1657) ·
1605 – Charles Coypeau
d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (d. 1677) ·
1620 – Pierre Paul Puget,
French painter and sculptor (d. 1694) ·
1678 – Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714) ·
1679 – Jan Dismas Zelenka,
Czech viol player and composer (d. 1745) ·
1710 – András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field
marshal (d. 1790) ·
1714 – Giovanni
Arduino, Italian geologist and academic (d. 1795) ·
1726 – Daniel Chodowiecki,
Polish-German painter and educator (d. 1801) ·
1729 – Pierre van Maldere,
Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768) ·
1752 – Johann
Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (d. 1827) ·
1754 – Morgan Lewis,
American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York (d.
1844) ·
1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d.
1843) ·
1762 – Paul Hamilton,
American soldier and politician, 3rd United
States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1816) ·
1789 – William Burton,
American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (d.
1866) ·
1795 – William Buell
Sprague, American minister, historian, and author (d. 1876) ·
1802 – Isaac Murphy, American educator and
politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (d.
1882) ·
1803 – Robert Stephenson,
English railway and civil engineer (d. 1859) ·
1804 – Benjamin
Russell, American painter and educator (d. 1885) ·
1806 – William P. Fessenden,
American lawyer and politician, 26th United
States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1869) ·
1815 – Francis Lubbock, American colonel and
politician, 9th Governor of Texas (d.
1905) ·
1818 – William
Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1882) ·
1819 – Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and
politician (d. 1886) ·
1831 – Lucy Stanton,
American activist (d. 1910) ·
1832 – Vicente Riva Palacio,
Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (d. 1896) ·
1840 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and
politician, 2nd Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1900) ·
1841 – Itō Hirobumi, Japanese lawyer and
politician, 1st Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1909) ·
1844 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian civil servant and
politician, 1st Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1919) ·
1847 – Maria Pia of Savoy (d.
1911) ·
1852 – Carl von In der Maur,
Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913) ·
1854 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist,
philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938) ·
1854
– Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and
poet (d. 1900) ·
1855 – Samad bey
Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani
Minister of Defense (d. 1931) ·
1861 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (d.
1927) ·
1861
– Richard Sears,
American tennis player (d. 1943) ·
1863 – Austen Chamberlain,
English businessman and politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1937) ·
1867 – Mario
Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (d. 1963) ·
1869 – Claude H. Van Tyne,
American historian and author (d. 1930) ·
1872 – Walter Buckmaster,
English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster &
Moore (d. 1942) ·
1876 – Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and
rugby player (d. 1913) ·
1881 – William Orthwein, American swimmer and water
polo player (d. 1955) ·
1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti,
Italian sculptor (d. 1916) ·
1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and
politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Israel (d. 1973) ·
1888 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1953) ·
1888
– Paul Popenoe,
American founder of relationship
counseling (d. 1979) ·
1890 – Michael
Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish
Minister for Finance (d. 1922) ·
1890
– Maria Goretti,
Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902) ·
1890
– Paul Strand, American photographer and director
(d. 1975) ·
1897 – Louis de Cazenave,
French soldier (d. 2008) ·
1898 – William O. Douglas,
American lawyer and jurist (d. 1980) ·
1900 – Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author
and illustrator (d. 1979) ·
1900
– Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (d.
1988) ·
1900
– Goose Goslin, American
baseball player and manager (d. 1971) ·
1903 – Cecile de Brunhoff,
French author and pianist (d. 2003) ·
1903
– Big Joe Williams,
American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982) ·
1904 – Björn Berglund,
Swedish actor (d. 1968) ·
1905 – Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager
(d. 1990) ·
1906 – León Klimovsky,
Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1907 – Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and
academic (d. 1973) ·
1908 – Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and
educator (d. 2006)[11] ·
1908
– Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and
politician, Prime Minister
of Albania (d. 1985) ·
1911 – Otto von Bülow,
German commander (d. 2006) ·
1912 – Clifford Hansen, American rancher and
politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (d.
2009) ·
1918 – Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher
and academic (d. 1990) ·
1918
– Abraham Nemeth,
American mathematician and academic (d. 2013) ·
1918
– Tony Rolt, English race car driver and
engineer (d. 2008) ·
1919 – Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and
author (d. 2003)[12] ·
1921 – Matt Batts, American baseball player and
coach (d. 2013) ·
1921
– Sita Ram Goel,
Indian historian, publisher and writer (d. 2003) ·
1921
– MacKenzie Miller,
American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010) ·
1922 – Max Bygraves, English-Australian actor and
singer (d. 2012) ·
1922
– Leon Sullivan,
American minister and activist (d. 2001) ·
1923 – Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965) ·
1923
– Bert Kaempfert,
German conductor and composer (d. 1980) ·
1923
– Bill McLaren,
Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010) ·
1924 – Gerard Parkes, Irish-Canadian actor (d.
2014) ·
1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-American actress,
singer, and producer [13] ·
1926 – Charles Dolan, American businessman,
founded Cablevision and HBO ·
1927 – Günter Grass, German novelist, poet,
playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2015) ·
1928 – Mary Daly, American philosopher and
theologian (d. 2010)[14] ·
1928
– Ann Morgan Guilbert,
American actress (d. 2016) ·
1929 – Fernanda Montenegro,
Brazilian actress ·
1930 – John Polkinghorne,
English physicist, theologian and priest ·
1930
– Carmen Sevilla,
Spanish actress ·
1931 – Charles Colson, American lawyer and
politician (d. 2012) ·
1931
– Valery Klimov,
Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator ·
1931
– Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress ·
1931
– P. W. Underwood,
American football player and coach (d. 2013) ·
1932 – John
Grant, English journalist and politician (d. 2000) ·
1932
– Henry Lewis,
American bassist and conductor (d. 1996) ·
1932
– Lucien Paiement,
Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013) ·
1933 – Nobuyo Ōyama, Japanese voice actress ·
1934 – Peter Ashdown, English race car driver ·
1936 – Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter ·
1936
– Andrei Chikatilo,
Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (d. 1994) ·
1936
– Mladen Koščak,
Croatian footballer (d. 1997) ·
1936
– Akira Machida,
Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief
Justice of Japan (d. 2015) ·
1938 – Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (d.
1999) ·
1938
– Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and
actress (d. 1988) ·
1940 – Barry Corbin, American actor and producer ·
1940
– Dave DeBusschere,
American basketball player and coach (d. 2003) ·
1940
– Ivan Della Mea,
Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2009) ·
1941 – Tim McCarver, American baseball player,
sportscaster, and singer ·
1941
– Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne,
English computer programmer and politician ·
1943 – Fred Turner,
Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player ·
1944 – Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and
manager ·
1945 – Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist,
botanist, and television host ·
1945
– Roger Hawkins,
American session drummer ·
1945
– Paul Monette,
American author and poet (d. 1995) ·
1946 – Geoff Barnett,
English footballer ·
1946
– Suzanne Somers,
American actress and producer ·
1947 – Nicholas Day,
English actor ·
1947
– Terry Griffiths,
Welsh snooker player and coach ·
1947
– Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1947
– David Zucker,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1948 – Alison Chitty, English production designer
and costume designer ·
1948
– Bruce Fleisher,
American golfer ·
1948
– Hema Malini, Indian actress, director,
producer, and politician ·
1948
– Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and
coach ·
1950 – Károly Horváth,
Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (d. 2015) ·
1950
– Angry Grandpa,
American internet personality (d. 2017) ·
1952 – Christopher Cox, American lawyer and
politician ·
1952
– Cordell Mosson,
American bass player (d. 2013) ·
1952
– Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and
playwright (d. 2019) ·
1952
– Glenys
Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician ·
1953 – Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter,
and producer ·
1953
– Paulo Roberto Falcão,
Brazilian footballer and manager ·
1954 – Lorenzo Carcaterra,
American author and blogger ·
1954
– Michael
Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary
of State for Scotland ·
1954
– Serafino Ghizzoni,
Italian rugby player ·
1954
– Corinna Harfouch,
German actress ·
1955 – Ellen Dolan, American actress ·
1956 – Marin Alsop, American violinist and
conductor ·
1956
– John
Chavis, American football player and coach ·
1956
– Meg Rosoff, American-English author ·
1956
– Rudra Mohammad
Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (d. 1992) ·
1957 – Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator ·
1958 – Roy McDonough, English footballer and
manager ·
1958
– Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1959 – Kevin Brennan,
Welsh journalist and politician ·
1959
– Brian Harper,
American baseball player ·
1959
– Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1959
– Philip Maini, Northern
Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford ·
1959
– Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician ·
1959
– Jamie Salmon,
English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster ·
1959
– Erkki-Sven Tüür,
Estonian flute player and composer ·
1959
– John Whittingdale,
English politician ·
1960 – Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and
songwriter (d. 2015) ·
1960
– Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist,
and producer ·
1961 – Marc Levy, French author ·
1961
– Randy Vasquez,
American actor, director, and producer ·
1961
– Scott O'Hara,
American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998) ·
1962 – Flea, Australian-American bass player,
songwriter, and actor ·
1962
– Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball
player and activist (d. 2010) ·
1962
– Dmitri Hvorostovsky,
Russian opera singer (d. 2017) ·
1962
– Nico Lazaridis,
German footballer ·
1962
– Tamara McKinney,
American skier ·
1963 – Gilberto Duavit Jr.,
Filipino businessman ·
1963
– Brendan Kibble,
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1963
– Timothy Leighton,
English physicist and academic ·
1964 – Shawn Little, Canadian lawyer and politician
(d. 2012) ·
1964
– James Thompson,
American-Finnish author (d. 2014) ·
1965 – Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator ·
1965
– Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1966 – Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist ·
1966
– Mary Elizabeth
McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director ·
1967 – Michael Laffy, Australian footballer ·
1967
– Davina McCall,
English television host and actress ·
1968 – Randall Batinkoff,
American actor and producer ·
1968
– Mark Lee,
Singaporean actor and singer ·
1968
– Francesco Libetta,
Italian pianist, composer, and conductor ·
1968
– Todd Stashwick,
American actor and writer ·
1968
– Elsa Zylberstein,
French actress ·
1969 – Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and
composer (d. 2018) ·
1969
– Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler ·
1969
– Terri J. Vaughn,
American actress and producer ·
1969
– Wendy Wilson,
American singer-songwriter ·
1970 – Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed
martial artist ·
1970
– Mehmet Scholl,
German footballer and manager ·
1971 – Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1971
– Paul Sparks, American actor ·
1971
– Frank Cuesta,
Spanish television presenter ·
1972 – Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress,
and author ·
1972
– Darius Kasparaitis,
Lithuanian-Russian ice hockey player and coach ·
1972
– Kordell Stewart,
American football player and radio host ·
1973 – Justin Credible, American wrestler ·
1973
– David Unsworth,
English footballer and manager ·
1974 – Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer ·
1974
– Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1975 – Ernesto Noel Aquino,
Honduran footballer ·
1975
– Brynjar Gunnarsson,
Icelandic footballer ·
1975
– Jacques Kallis,
South African cricketer ·
1975
– Kellie Martin,
American actress, director, and producer ·
1977 – John Mayer, American singer-songwriter,
rapper, guitarist, and producer ·
1980 – Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player ·
1980
– Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player ·
1981 – Brea Grant, American actress and writer[15] ·
1981
– Martin Halle,
Danish footballer ·
1981
– Boyd Melson, American boxer ·
1981
– Anthony Reyes,
American baseball player ·
1982 – Frédéric Michalak,
French rugby player ·
1982
– Cristian Riveros,
Paraguayan footballer ·
1982
– Prithviraj Sukumaran,
Indian actor, singer, and producer ·
1983 – Philipp
Kohlschreiber, German tennis player ·
1983
– Kenny Omega, Canadian wrestler ·
1984 – François Pervis,
French track cyclist ·
1984
– Rachel Reilly,
American talk show host and actress ·
1985 – Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1985
– Verena Sailer,
German sprinter ·
1985
– Casey Stoner,
Australian motorcycle racer ·
1985
– Peter Wallace,
Australian rugby league player ·
1986 – Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer ·
1986
– Derk Boerrigter,
Dutch footballer ·
1988 – Zoltán Stieber,
Hungarian footballer ·
1989 – Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player ·
1992 – Bryce Harper, American baseball player ·
1992
– Kostas Fortounis,
Greek footballer ·
1992
– Stuart Lightbody,
Irish badminton player[16] ·
1993 – Caroline Garcia, French tennis player ·
1994 – Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player ·
1997 – Charles
Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver ·
1997
– Naomi Osaka, Haitian-Japanese tennis player Deaths[edit] ·
385 – Fú Jiān, Chinese emperor (b. 337) ·
786 – Lullus, archbishop of Mainz (b. 710) ·
976 – Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (b. 915) ·
1027 – Fujiwara
no Kenshi, Japanese empress (b. 994) ·
1130 – Pedro González de
Lara, Castilian magnate ·
1284 – Shams al-Din Juvayni,
Persian statesman, vizier and minister of finance of
the Ilkhanate ·
1323 – Amadeus V,
count of Savoy (b. 1249) ·
1333 – Nicholas V,
antipope of Rome (b. 1260) ·
1438 – Anne of Gloucester,
English noblewoman (b. 1383) ·
1355 – Louis the Child,
king of Sicily (b. 1338) ·
1523 – Luca Signorelli, Italian painter (b. c.1450) ·
1553 – Lucas Cranach the
Elder, German painter and engraver (b. 1472) ·
1555 – Hugh Latimer, English bishop and saint (b.
1487) ·
1555
– Nicholas Ridley,
English bishop and martyr (b. 1500) ·
1591 – Gregory XIV, pope of the Catholic Church (b.
1535)[17] ·
1594 – William Allen,
English cardinal (b. 1532) ·
1621 – Jan Pieterszoon
Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1562) ·
1628 – François de Malherbe,
French poet and critic (b. 1555) ·
1637 – Johann Rudolf
Stadler, Swiss clock-maker (b. 1605)[18] ·
1649 – Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter and
illustrator (b. 1621) ·
1655 – Joseph Solomon
Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b.
1591) ·
1660 – John Cook,
English politician, Solicitor
General for England and Wales (b. 1608) ·
1679 – Roger
Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Irish-English soldier and politician
(b. 1621) ·
1680 – Raimondo
Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1609) ·
1730 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac,
French-American explorer and politician, 3rd French
Governor of Louisiana (b. 1658) ·
1730
– Nevşehirli
Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Greek politician, 139th Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1666) ·
1750 – Sylvius Leopold
Weiss, German lute player and composer (b. 1687) ·
1755 – Gerard Majella, Italian saint (b. 1725) ·
1774 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750) ·
1791 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician
(b. 1739) ·
1793 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born queen
consort of Louis XVI of France (b.
1755)[19] ·
1793
– John Hunter,
Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728) ·
1796 – Victor
Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726) ·
1799 – Veerapandiya
Kattabomman Indian activist (b. 1760) ·
1810 – Nachman of Breslov,
Ukrainian religious leader, founded the Breslov Hasidic
group (b. 1772) ·
1822 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer
(b. 1724) ·
1877 – Théodore Barrière,
French playwright (b. 1823) ·
1888 – John Wentworth,
American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815) ·
1904 – Haritina Korotkevich,
Russian heroine (b. 1882)[20] ·
1908 – Joseph Leycester
Lyne, English monk (b. 1837) ·
1909 – Jakub
Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (b. 1856) ·
1913 – Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus,
and hammer thrower (b. 1885) ·
1936 – Effie Adelaide
Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859) ·
1937 – Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright
(b. 1899) ·
1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main
Trial: o Hans Frank, German lawyer, politician and
war criminal (b. 1900) o Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and
politician, German
Minister of the Interior (b. 1877) o Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890) o Ernst Kaltenbrunner,
Austrian SS officer (b. 1903) o Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b.
1882) o Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and
politician (b. 1893) o Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician
(b. 1894) o Arthur Seyss-Inquart,
Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor
of Austria (b. 1892) o Julius Streicher, German journalist and
politician (b. 1887) o Joachim von
Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister
for Foreign Affairs of Germany (b. 1893) ·
1947 – Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b.
1868)[21] ·
1951 – Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer
and politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Pakistan (b 1895) ·
1956 – Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873) ·
1957 – John Anthony
Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and
educator (b. 1887) ·
1958 – Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of
Mexico (b. 1897) ·
1959 – Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897) ·
1959
– George Marshall,
American general and politician, 3rd United
States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1880) ·
1962 – Gaston Bachelard, French poet and
philosopher (b. 1884) ·
1964 – Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1906) ·
1966 – George O'Hara,
American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899) ·
1968 – Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b.
1914) ·
1971 – Robin Boyd,
Australian architect and educator, designed the Domain Park Flats (b.
1919) ·
1972 – Nick Begich, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1932) ·
1972
– Hale Boggs, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1914) ·
1972
– Leo G. Carroll,
English-American actor (b. 1886) ·
1973 – Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and
actor (b. 1909) ·
1975 – Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer
(b. 1885) ·
1978 – Dan Dailey, American actor, singer, dancer,
and director (b. 1913) ·
1979 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic
(b. 1903) ·
1981 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician,
5th Foreign
Affairs Minister of Israel (b. 1915) ·
1981
– Eugene Eisenmann,
Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist (b. 1906) ·
1982 – Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915) ·
1983 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and
conductor (b. 1895) ·
1986 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and
pianist (b. 1921) ·
1989 – Walter Farley, American author and educator
(b. 1915) ·
1989
– Scott O'Dell,
American journalist and author (b. 1898) ·
1989
– Cornel Wilde,
American actor (b. 1915) ·
1990 – Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader
(b. 1919) ·
1990
– Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist and
educator (b. 1914) ·
1992 – Shirley Booth, American actress and singer
(b. 1898) ·
1996 – Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938) ·
1996
– Eric Malpass,
English author (b. 1910) ·
1997 – Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918) ·
1997
– James A. Michener,
American author and philanthropist (b. 1907) ·
1998 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist and
academic (b. 1943) ·
1999 – Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor,
and screenwriter (b. 1921) ·
2000 – Mel Carnahan, American lieutenant, lawyer,
and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (b.
1934) ·
2000
– Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923) ·
2001 – Etta Jones, American singer-songwriter (b.
1928) ·
2003 – Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter (b. 1919) ·
2003
– Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer (b.
1915) ·
2003
– László Papp,
Hungarian boxer (b. 1926) ·
2004 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist and
politician, 11th White House
Press Secretary (b. 1925) ·
2006 – John Victor Murra,
Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916) ·
2006
– Valentín Paniagua,
Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (b.
1936) ·
2007 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921) ·
2007
– Toše Proeski,
Macedonian singer-songwriter (b. 1981) ·
2008 – Dagmar Normet, Estonian author and
translator (b. 1921) ·
2010 – Eyedea, American rapper and producer (b.
1981) ·
2010
– Barbara Billingsley,
American actress (b. 1915) ·
2011 – Dan Wheldon, English race car driver (b.
1978) ·
2012 – Frank Moore Cross,
American scholar and academic (b. 1921) ·
2012
– John A. Durkin,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1936) ·
2012
– Mario Gallegos, Jr.,
American firefighter and politician (b. 1950) ·
2012
– Bódog Török,
Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1923) ·
2012
– Eddie Yost, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Govind
Purushottam Deshpande, Indian playwright and academic (b. 1938) ·
2013
– George Hourmouziadis,
Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1932) ·
2013
– Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)[22] ·
2013
– Laurel Martyn,
Australian ballerina and choreographer (b. 1916) ·
2013
– Robert B. Rheault,
American colonel (b. 1925) ·
2013
– Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and
politician (b. 1944) ·
2014 – Ioannis
Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919) ·
2014
– Allen Forte, American musicologist and
theorist (b. 1926) ·
2014
– Seppo Kuusela,
Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934) ·
2014
– John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough,
English businessman (b. 1926) ·
2015 – Richard J. Cardamone,
American lawyer and judge (b. 1925) ·
2015
– James W. Fowler,
American psychologist and academic (b. 1940) ·
2015
– William James,
Australian general and physician (b. 1930) ·
2015
– Vera Williams,
American author and illustrator (b. 1927) ·
2015
– Memduh Ün, Turkish
film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920) ·
2016 – Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb,
Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921) ·
2017 – Daphne Caruana
Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964) ·
2017
– Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923) ·
2017
– John Dunsworth,
Canadian actor (b. 1946) ·
2017
– Sean Hughes,
British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965) Science Fiction - Space[edit] ·
1997
– Lost in Space,
the United States is gearing up to colonize space. The Jupiter 2, a
futuristic saucer-shaped spacecraft, stands on its launch pad undergoing
final preparations. Its mission is to take a single family on a Ninety Eight
year journey to an Earthlike planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri. Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Boss's Day (United States and Canada) ·
Christian feast day: o Balderic
(Baudry) of Monfaucon o Colmán of Kilroot
(Colman mac Cathbaid) o Eliphius o Gall o Nicholas Ridley (Anglicanism) o Blessed Thevarparampil
Kunjachan (Syro-Malabar
Catholic Church / Catholic Church) o October
16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Pope John Paul II
Day (Poland) ·
Death
anniversary of Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistan) ·
Teachers' Day (Chile) ·
World Anaesthesia
Day (International) ·
World Food Day (International) |
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