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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 October
October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
75 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
690 –
Empress Wu Zetian establishes
the Zhou Dynasty of
China.[1] ·
1091 – London tornado of
1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart
of London. ·
1346 –
The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and
imprison him for eleven years. ·
1448 –
An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of
Kosovo. ·
1456 –
The University of
Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in
northern Europe. ·
1534 – Anti-Catholic
posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych
Zwingli's position on the Mass. ·
1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is
founded. ·
1604 – Kepler's Supernova is
observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus. ·
1610 –
French king Louis XIII is
crowned in Reims Cathedral. ·
1660 –
The Nine
regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are
hanged, drawn and quartered. ·
1662 –
Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France
for 40,000 pounds. ·
1771 –
Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at
age 15. ·
1777 –
American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his
army at Saratoga, New York. ·
1781 –
American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis
surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown. ·
1800 –
War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of
the Dutch colony of Curaçao. ·
1806 –
Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I,
is assassinated after an oppressive rule. ·
1814 –
Eight people die in the London Beer Flood. ·
1817 –
The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.[2] ·
1827 –
Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, is premiered at Milan. ·
1860 –
First The Open
Championship (referred to in North America as the British
Open). ·
1861 –
Aboriginal Australians kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo
massacre. ·
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the
Optical Phonograph (the first movie). ·
1907 – Marconi begins the first commercial
transatlantic wireless service. ·
1912 –
Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining
Montenegro in the First Balkan War. ·
1919 – RCA is
incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America. ·
1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax
evasion. ·
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and
moves to the United States. ·
1940 –
The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found
in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery. ·
1941 –
World War II: The USS Kearny becomes
the first US Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat. ·
1943 –
The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand
Railway) is completed. ·
1943
– Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór
extermination camp is closed. ·
1945 –
A massive
demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan
Perón's release. ·
1956 –
The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen
Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England. ·
1956
– Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of
the Century. ·
1961 –
Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores
of Algerian protesters. ·
1965 –
The 1964–65 New
York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51
million attendees. ·
1966 –
The 23rd Street Fire in
New York City kills 12 firefighters. ·
1969 –
The Caravaggio painting Nativity
with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from
the Oratory of
Saint Lawrence in Palermo.[3] ·
1970 –
FLQ terrorists murder Quebec
Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte. ·
1973 –
OPEC imposes an oil embargo against
countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War. ·
1977 –
The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands
in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued. ·
1979 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize. ·
1979
– The Department
of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of
Education. ·
1980 –
As part of the Holy
See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the
first state visit to the Vatican. ·
1988 – Uganda
Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino
International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.[4] ·
1989 –
The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta
earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central
Coast, killing Sixty-three. ·
1989
– The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General
Secretary. ·
1991 – 1991 Rudrapur
bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during
a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur,
Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.[5] ·
1992 –
Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro
Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ·
1994 –
Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while
investigating corruption in the armed forces. ·
2000 –
The Hatfield rail crash leads
to the collapse of Railtrack. ·
2001 –
Israeli tourism minister Rehavam
Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated
in a terrorist attack. ·
2003 – Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in
Taipei, becomes the world's tallest highrise. ·
2005 – The Colbert Report,
an American satirical news television program and talk show hosted by Stephen Colbert, premiered on Comedy Central. ·
2018 –
The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada. ·
2018
– Kerch
Polytechnic College attack in Crimea. ·
2019 –
Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa,
Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.[6] Births[edit] ·
503 – Lý Nam Đế,
first emperor of Vietnam (d.
548) ·
1253 – Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint
(d. 1303) ·
1493 – Bartolommeo
Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560) ·
1500 – Alonso de Orozco
Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591) ·
1538 – Irene di Spilimbergo,
Italian Renaissance poet and painter (d. 1559)[7] ·
1577 – Cristofano Allori,
Italian painter (d. 1621) ·
1577
– Dmitry Pozharsky,
Russian prince (d. 1642) ·
1582 – Johann Gerhard, German theologian and
academic (d. 1637) ·
1587 – Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor
(d. 1620) ·
1623 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian,
and academic (d. 1687) ·
1629 – Balthasar
Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1646) ·
1688 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and
composer (d. 1726) ·
1711 – Jupiter Hammon, American poet (d. 1806) ·
1719 – Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic
(d. 1792) ·
1720 – Maria
Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d.
1795)[8] ·
1725 – John Wilkes, English journalist and
politician (d. 1797) ·
1729 – Pierre-Alexandre
Monsigny, French composer and academic (d. 1817) ·
1735 – Franz
Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist (d. 1803) ·
1759 – Andrey Voronikhin,
Russian architect and painter (d. 1814) ·
1760 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French
economist and philosopher (d. 1825) ·
1760
– Henri de Saint-Simon,
French political and economic theorist (d. 1825) ·
1768 – Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King
Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1838) ·
1779 – Louis
Charles, French prince of the blood (d.
1808) ·
1779
– José Andrés
Pacheco de Melo, Argentine statesman and priest (d. approx. 1820) ·
1780 – Richard Mentor
Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United
States (d. 1850) ·
1781 – Johann Friedrich
Meckel, German anatomist (d. 1833) ·
1784 – Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay (d. 1854) ·
1785 – Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist (d.
1816) ·
1792 – John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong
Kong (d. 1826) ·
1797 – Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (d.1841) ·
1803 – Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (d. 1876) ·
1810 – Adolphe-Félix Cals,
French painter (d. 1880) ·
1811 – Albertus van Raalte,
Dutch-American pastor and educator (d. 1876) ·
1813 – Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and
playwright (d. 1837) ·
1814 – Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian,
scholar, and poet (d. 1888) ·
1817 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and
scholar (d. 1898) ·
1821 – Alexander
Gardner, Scottish photographer (d. 1882) ·
1828 – Aureliano
Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (d. 1890) ·
1833 – José E. Días,
Paraguayan general (d. 1867) ·
1835 – Louis-Léon Cugnot,
French sculptor (d. 1894) ·
1835
– Paul Haenlein,
German mechanical engineer (d.1905) ·
1840 – André Gill, French caricaturist (d. 1885) ·
1844 – Gustave Schlumberger,
French historian (d. 1929) ·
1845 – John J. Gardner, American politician (d.
1921) ·
1853 – Grand
Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920) ·
1859 – Childe Hassam, American painter and
illustrator (d. 1935) ·
1860 – Henry Campbell Black,
founder of Black's Law
Dictionary (d. 1927) ·
1864 – Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter,
and producer (d. 1943) ·
1865 – James Rudolph
Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United
States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950) ·
1867 – Josep Puig i
Cadafalch, Catalan architect
who designed the Casa Martí (d.
1956) ·
1871 – Segundo de Chomón,
Spanish cinematographer,
director, and screenwriter (d.1929) ·
1876 – Hippolyte
Aucouturier, French cyclist (d. 1944) ·
1878 – Jacobo
Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (d. 1953) ·
1880 – Jesús Reyes Ferreira,
Mexican artist and art collector (d. 1977) ·
1881 – Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (d. 1959) ·
1882 – Haritina Korotkevich,
Russian war heroine (d. 1904)[9] ·
1883 – Alexander Neill, Scottish educator (d. 1973) ·
1883
– Thaddeus Shideler,
American hurdler (d. 1966) ·
1886 – Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971) ·
1889 – Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese author (d. 1988) ·
1890 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928) ·
1892 – Theodor Eicke, German SS general (d. 1943) ·
1892
– Herbert Howells,
English organist, composer, and educator (d. 1983) ·
1893 – Raffaele Bendandi,
Italian clockmaker and seismologist (d. 1979) ·
1894 – Prince René,
Italian Prince of Denmark (d. 1962) ·
1894
– Pablo de Rokha,
Chilean poet (d. 1968) ·
1895 – Miguel Ydígoras
Fuentes, President of
Guatemala (1958–1963) (d. 1982) ·
1895
– Doris Humphrey,
American dancer and choreographer (d. 1958) ·
1896 – Roman
Petrovich, Russian prince (d. 1978) ·
1898 – Shinichi
Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998) ·
1898
– Eileen Sedgwick,
American actress (d. 1991) ·
1898
– Simon Vestdijk,
Dutch author and poet (d. 1971) ·
1900 – C. C. van Asch
van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932) ·
1900
– Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991) ·
1900
– Yvor Winters,
American critic and poet (d. 1968) ·
1901 – Emma Gamboa Alvarado,
Costa Rican educator (d. 1973)[10] ·
1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973) ·
1903 – Nathanael West, American author and
screenwriter (d. 1940) ·
1903
– Andrei Grechko,
Soviet general (d. 1976) ·
1905 – Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th
president of the United
Nations General Assembly (d. 1996) ·
1906 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d.
1987) ·
1907 – John Marley, American actor (d. 1984) ·
1908 – Hjördis Petterson,
Swedish actress (d. 1988) ·
1908
– Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player
(d. 1980) ·
1908
– Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach,
and manager (d. 1969) ·
1908
– Kenji
Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007) ·
1909 – Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981) ·
1909
– Leopoldo Panero,
Spanish poet (d. 1962) ·
1909
– Joaquín Satrústegui,
Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 1992) ·
1910 – Ester Wier, American author (d. 2000) ·
1910
– Marina Núñez del
Prado, Bolivian sculptor (d. 1995)[11] ·
1912 – Pope John Paul I, Catholic pope from August
1978- September 1978 (d. 1978) ·
1912
– Theodore Marier,
American composer and educator, founded the Boston
Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001) ·
1912
– Jack Owens,
American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982) ·
1913 – Faik Türün, Turkish general (d. 2003) ·
1913
– Robert Lowery,
American actor (d. 1971) ·
1913
– Marian Marsh,
Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (d. 2006) ·
1914 – Jerry Siegel, American author and
illustrator (d. 1996) ·
1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright and
screenwriter (d. 2005) ·
1916 – José López Rega,
Argentinean politician (d. 1989) ·
1917 – Adele Stimmel Chase,
American painter and sculptor (d. 2000) ·
1917
– Martin
Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999) ·
1917
– Sumner Locke Elliott,
Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991) ·
1917
– Marsha
Hunt, American actress and singer ·
1917
– Norman Leyden,
American composer and conductor (d. 2014) ·
1917
– Alfred Benlloch
Llorach, Spanish inventor (d. 2013) ·
1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and
dancer (d. 1987) ·
1918
– Ralph Wilson,
American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014) ·
1918
– Luis Alberto Solari,
Uruguayan artist (d. 1993) ·
1919 – Isaak
Markovich Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic ·
1919
– Violet Milstead,
Canadian World War II aviator
and bush pilot (d. 2014) ·
1919
– Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (d. 2005) ·
1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966) ·
1920
– Miguel Delibes,
Spanish journalist and author (d. 2010) ·
1920
– Zully Moreno,
Argentine actress (d. 1999) ·
1921 – George Mackay Brown,
Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996) ·
1921
– Priscilla Buckley,
American journalist and author (d. 2012) ·
1921
– Maria Gorokhovskaya,
Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)[12] ·
1921
– Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d.
2007) ·
1922 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer
(d. 2001) ·
1922
– Pierre Juneau,
Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal
World Film Festival (d. 2012) ·
1923 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and
composer (d. 2004) ·
1923
– Charles McClendon,
American football player and coach (d. 2001) ·
1924 – Don Coryell, American football player and
coach (d. 2010) ·
1924
– Anton Geiser,
Croatian SS officer (d. 2012) ·
1924
– Giacomo Mari,
Italian football midfielder (d. 1991) ·
1924
– Rolando Panerai,
Italian baritone ·
1925 – Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d.
2010) ·
1926 – Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019) ·
1926
– Beverly Garland,
American actress (d. 2008) ·
1926
– Roberto Lippi,
Italian race car driver (d. 2011) ·
1928
– Santiago Stevenson,
Panamanian singer and minister (d. 2007) ·
1928
– Alejandro Végh
Villegas, Uruguayan politician (d. 2017) ·
1929 – Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and
manager (d. 2016) ·
1930 – Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer
(d. 2003) ·
1930
– Robert
Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (d. 2003) ·
1930
– Jimmy Breslin,
American journalist and author (d. 2017) ·
1931 – Ernst Hinterberger,
Austrian author and playwright (d. 2012) ·
1931
– José Alencar,
Brazilian businessman and politician (d. 2011) ·
1931
– Anatoly Pristavkin,
Russian writer (d. 2008) ·
1932
– Paul
Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994) ·
1933 – William Anders, Hong Kong-American general
and astronaut ·
1933
– The Singing Nun,
Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985) ·
1934 – Alan Garner, English author and playwright ·
1934
– Johnny Haynes,
English-Scottish footballer (d. 2005) ·
1934
– Rico Rodriguez,
American trombonist (d. 2015) ·
1935 – Sydney
Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain
of the Household (d. 2014) ·
1935
– Michael Eavis,
English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival ·
1935
– Carlos Pairetti,
Argetine racing driver ·
1936 – Sathima Bea Benjamin,
South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013) ·
1936
– Hiroo Kanamori,
Japanese-American seismologist and academic ·
1936
– Santiago Navarro,
Spanish basketball player (d. 1993) ·
1936
– Bert Nievera,
Filipino-American singer (d. 2018) ·
1937 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor ·
1937
– José María
Álvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician ·
1937
– Aida Navarro,
Venezuelan mezzo-soprano ·
1937
– Renato Prada Oropeza,
Bolivian-Mexican scientist (d. 2011) ·
1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and
stuntman (d. 2007) ·
1938
– Les Murray,
Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (d. 2019) ·
1938
– António Calvário,
Portuguese singer and artist ·
1939 – Oliver Rackham, English botanist and
academic (d. 2015) ·
1940 – Stephen Kovacevich,
American pianist and conductor ·
1940
– Jim
Smith, English footballer and manager (d. 2019) ·
1940
– Peter Stringfellow,
English businessman (d. 2018) ·
1941 – Earl Thomas Conley,
American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019) ·
1941
– Jim Seals,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist ·
1941
– Paul Ellison,
American musician ·
1942 – Steve Jones,
American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2017) ·
1942
– Gary
Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1943 – Ignacio Rupérez,
Spanish diplomat and journalist (d. 2015) ·
1944 – Ángel Cristo, Spanish circus performer (d. 2010) ·
1946 – Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010) ·
1946
– Michael Hossack,
American drummer (d. 2012) ·
1946
– Cameron Mackintosh,
English producer and manager ·
1946
– Adam Michnik,
Polish journalist and historian ·
1946
– Drusilla Modjeska,
English-Australian author and critic ·
1946
– Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter ·
1946
– Manuel Ibáñez,
Mexican actor and comedian ·
1946
– Julio Miranda,
Argentine politician ·
1946
– Daniela Payssé,
Uruguayan politician (d. 2018) ·
1946
– José Perramón,
Spanish handball player ·
1946
– Jaime Ravinet,
Chilean politician ·
1946
– Rüdiger Wittig,
German geobotanist and
ecologist ·
1946
– Akira Kushida,
Japanese vocalist ·
1947 – Gene Green, American lawyer and politician ·
1947
– Michael McKean,
American singer-songwriter, actor, and director ·
1947
– Robert Post,
American educator and academic ·
1947
– Omar Azziman,
adviser to the King of Morocco ·
1948 – Robert Jordan, American soldier and author
(d. 2007) ·
1948
– Margot Kidder,
Canadian-American actress (d. 2018) ·
1948
– George Wendt,
American actor and comedian ·
1948
– Osvaldo Castro,
Chilean footballer ·
1949 – Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and
politician, 5th Prime Minister
of Barbados ·
1949
– Bill Hudson,
American musician and actor ·
1950 – Philippe Barbarin,
French cardinal ·
1950
– Howard Rollins,
American actor (d. 1996) ·
1950
– Sandra Reemer,
Indo-Dutch singer (d. 2017) ·
1951 – Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater ·
1951
– Roger Pontare,
Swedish singer ·
1951
– Shari Ulrich,
American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist ·
1951
– Dirk Beheydt,
Belgian football player. ·
1953 – Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and
bandleader ·
1953
– Domenico Penzo,
Italian footballer ·
1954 – Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer ·
1955 – Georgios
Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek
Minister of Finance ·
1955
– Mike Bratz, American basketball player ·
1956 – Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1956
– Mae Jemison, American physician, academic,
and astronaut ·
1956
– Pat McCrory, American businessman and
politician, 74th Governor of
North Carolina ·
1956
– Stephen Palumbi,
American academic and author ·
1957 – Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer ·
1957
– Steve McMichael,
American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster ·
1957
– Vincent Van Patten,
American tennis player and actor ·
1957
– Antonio Galdo,
Italian journalist ·
1957
– Nelson Barrera,
Mexican baseball player (d. 2002) ·
1957
– Pino Palladino,
Welsh bassist ·
1957
– Eleftheria
Arvanitaki, Greek folk singer ·
1958 – Howard Alden, American guitarist ·
1958
– Alan Jackson,
American singer-songwriter ·
1958
– Craig Murray,
British diplomat ·
1958
– Sandra Mozarowsky,
Spanish actress (d. 1977) ·
1959 – Ron Drummond, American author and scholar ·
1959
– Francisco Flores
Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El
Salvador (d. 2016) ·
1959
– Russell Gilbert,
Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter ·
1959
– Norm Macdonald,
Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter ·
1959
– Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic ·
1959
– Richard Roeper,
American journalist and critic ·
1959
– Mustafa Aberchán,
Spanish politician ·
1959
– Eugenio
Hernández Flores, Mexican politician ·
1960 – Guy Henry,
English actor ·
1960
– Rob Marshall,
American director, producer, and choreographer ·
1960
– Bernie Nolan,
Irish singer (d. 2013) ·
1960
– Philippe Sands,
American lawyer and academic ·
1961 – David Means, American short story writer ·
1962 – Glenn Braggs, American baseball player ·
1962
– Mike Judge, American animator, director,
screenwriter, producer and actor ·
1962
– Jay Humphries,
American basketball player ·
1963 – Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and
journalist ·
1963
– Toby Young, English journalist and academic ·
1964 – Gregg Wallace, English television presenter ·
1964
– Margarita
Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician ·
1965 – Aravinda de Silva,
Sri Lankan cricketer ·
1965
– Rhys Muldoon,
Australian actor ·
1966 – Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and
coach ·
1966
– Danny Ferry, American basketball player and
manager ·
1966
– Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and
novelist ·
1966
– Tommy Kendall,
American race car driver and sportscaster ·
1967 – Simon Segars, English businessman ·
1967
– Nathalie Tauziat,
French tennis player ·
1967
– René Dif, Danish musician ·
1967
– Pedro González Vera,
Chilean footballer ·
1968 – Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and
sportscaster ·
1968
– Ziggy Marley,
Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor ·
1968
– David
Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager ·
1968
– Alejandra Ávalos,
Mexican artist ·
1969 – Ernie Els, South African golfer and
sportscaster ·
1969
– Jesús Ángel García,
Spanish racewalker[13] ·
1969
– Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper,
producer, and actor ·
1969
– Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1969
– Wood Harris, American actor ·
1970 – Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer ·
1970
– John Mabry, American baseball player, coach,
and sportscaster ·
1970
– J. C. MacKenzie,
Canadian actor ·
1971 – Blues Saraceno, American guitarist,
songwriter, and producer ·
1971
– Chris Kirkpatrick,
American singer-songwriter and dancer ·
1971
– Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and
bass player ·
1971
– Martin Heinrich,
American politician ·
1971
– Derrick Plourde,
American drummer (d. 2005) ·
1972 – Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor ·
1972
– Tarkan,
German-Turkish singer ·
1972
– Akio
"Musashi" Mori, Japanese karateka and kickboxer ·
1973 – Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach ·
1973
– Rubén Garcés,
Panamanian basketball player ·
1974 – Ariel Levy,
American journalist and author ·
1974
– Matthew Macfadyen,
English actor ·
1974
– Obdulio Ávila Mayo,
Mexican politician ·
1974
– Bárbara Paz,
Brazilian actress ·
1974
– Janne Puurtinen,
Finnish keyboard player ·
1974
– John Rocker, American baseball player ·
1974
– Darío Sala,
Argentine footballer ·
1974
– Gabriel Silberstein,
Chilean tennis player ·
1974
– Dhondup Wangchen,
Chinese director and producer ·
1975 – Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice
hockey player ·
1975
– Jericó Abramo Masso,
Mexican politician ·
1975
– Vina Morales,
Filipino actress and singer ·
1976 – Sebastián Abreu,
Uruguayan footballer ·
1976
– Seth Etherton,
American baseball player ·
1976
– Carlos Loret de Mola,
Mexican journalist ·
1976
– Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and
coach ·
1977 – Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer[14] o Alimi Ballard, American television actor ·
1977
– Alimi Ballard,
American actor and producer ·
1977
– Bryan Bertino,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1977
– Walter Calderón,
Ecuadorian footballer ·
1977
– Marko
Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician ·
1977
– Ryan McGinley,
American photographer ·
1977
– André Villas-Boas,
Portuguese footballer and manager ·
1978 – Pablo Iglesias
Turrión, Spanish politician ·
1978
– Jerry Flannery,
Irish rugby player and coach ·
1978
– Erin Karpluk,
Canadian actress ·
1978
– Chuka Umunna,
English lawyer and politician ·
1979 – Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and
violinist ·
1979
– Alexandros
Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist ·
1979
– Kimi Räikkönen,
Finnish race car driver ·
1979
– Kostas Tsartsaris,
Greek basketball player ·
1980 – Yekaterina Gamova,
Russian volleyball player ·
1980
– Mohammad Hafeez,
Pakistani cricketer ·
1980
– Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer ·
1980
– Angel Parker,
American actress ·
1980
– Alessandro
Piccolo, Italian race car driver ·
1980
– Justin Shenkarow,
American actor ·
1981 – Horacio Cervantes,
Mexican footballer ·
1981
– Kurumi Enomoto,
Japanese singer-songwriter ·
1981
– Tsubasa Imai,
Japanese singer, actor, and dancer ·
1981
– Ben Rothwell,
American mixed-martial artist ·
1982 – Rubén
Ramírez, Argentine football striker ·
1982
– Nick Riewoldt,
Australian footballer ·
1982
– Marion Rolland,
alpine ski racer ·
1983 – Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress ·
1983
– Milica Brozovic,
Serbian-Russian figure skater ·
1983
– Felicity Jones,
English actress ·
1983
– Toshihiro Matsushita,
Japanese footballer ·
1983
– Riki Miura, Japanese actor ·
1983
– Junichi Miyashita,
Japanese swimmer ·
1983
– Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer ·
1983
– Mitch Talbot,
American baseball player ·
1983
– Vitali Teleš,
Estonian footballer ·
1984 – Chris Lowell, American actor ·
1984
– Giovanni Marchese,
Italian footballer ·
1984
– Randall Munroe,
American author and illustrator ·
1984
– Luke Rockhold,
American mixed martial artist ·
1984
– Anja Eline
Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader ·
1984
– Gottfrid Svartholm,
Swedish computer specialist ·
1984
– Jared Tallent,
Australian race walker ·
1985 – Carlos
González, Venezuelan baseball player ·
1985
– Max Irons, English-Irish actor ·
1985
– Collins John,
Dutch footballer ·
1985
– Tomokazu Nagira,
Japanese footballer ·
1986 – Alexandre Bonnet, French football midfielder ·
1986
– Antoni Bou, Spanish motorcyclist ·
1986
– Aija Brumermane,
Latvian basketball player ·
1986
– Constant Djakpa,
Ivorian footballer ·
1986
– Yannick Ponsero,
French figure skater ·
1986
– Nicolás Richotti,
Argentine basketball player ·
1987 – Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer ·
1987
– Jarosław Fojut,
Polish footballer ·
1987
– Elliot Grandin,
French football winger ·
1987
– Hideto Takahashi,
Japanese footballer ·
1988 – Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player ·
1988
– Tori Matsuzaka,
Japanese actor and model ·
1988
– Marina Salas,
Spanish actress ·
1989 – Débora García,
Spanish football midfielder ·
1989
– Oleksandr Isakov,
Ukrainian swimmer ·
1989
– Sophie Luck, Australian actress ·
1989
– David Timor, Spanish footballer ·
1990 – Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer ·
1990
– Maica García Godoy,
Spanish water polo player ·
1990
– Ronald González
Tabilo, Chilean footballer ·
1990
– Saki Kumagai,
Japanese footballer ·
1990
– Patrick Lambie,
South African rugby player ·
1991 – Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress ·
1992 – Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer ·
1992
– Keerthy Suresh,
Indian actress ·
1993 – Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer ·
2001 – Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road
racer Deaths[edit] ·
AD 33 – Agrippina the Elder,
Roman wife of Germanicus (b.
14 BC) ·
532 – Pope Boniface II ·
866 – Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (b. 836) ·
1271 – Steinvör
Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet ·
1277 – Beatrice of
Falkenburg, German queen consort (b. c. 1254) ·
1346 – John
Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray ·
1346 – Maurice
de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn ·
1456 – Nicolas Grenon, French composer (b. 1375) ·
1485 – John Scott of
Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports ·
1552 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant
theologian (b. 1498) ·
1575 – Gaspar
Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511) ·
1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and
general (b. 1554) ·
1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b.
1541) ·
1616 – John Pitts,
English priest and scholar (b. 1560) ·
1660 – Adrian Scrope, English colonel and
politician (b. 1601) ·
1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh,
English politician, Lord High
Treasurer of England (b. 1630) ·
1690 – Margaret Mary
Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647) ·
1757 – René
Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b.
1683) ·
1776 – Pierre
François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b.
1681) ·
1780 – William Cookworthy,
English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705) ·
1781 – Edward
Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)[15] ·
1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli,
Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723) ·
1806 – Jean-Jacques
Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General
of Haiti (b. 1758) ·
1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) ·
1837 – Johann Nepomuk
Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778) ·
1849 – Frédéric Chopin,
Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810) ·
1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775) ·
1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and
chemist (b. 1824) ·
1889 – Nikolay
Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828) ·
1893 – Patrice
de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician,
3rd President of France (b.
1808) ·
1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and
songwriter (b. 1819) ·
1918 – Malak Hifni Nasif,
Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886) ·
1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and
illustrator (b. 1853) ·
1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob,
German neurologist and academic (b. 1884) ·
1937 – J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b.
1862) ·
1938 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist,
philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854) ·
1948 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b.
1869) ·
1955 – Dimitrios Maximos,
Greek banker and politician (b. 1873) ·
1956 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b.
1920) ·
1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b.
1896) ·
1958
– Charlie Townsend,
English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876) ·
1962 – Natalia Goncharova,
Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882) ·
1963 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and
academic (b. 1865) ·
1965 – Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873) ·
1966 – Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier
(b. 1883) ·
1966
– Wieland Wagner,
German director and manager (b. 1917) ·
1967 – Puyi,
Chinese emperor (b. 1906) ·
1970 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer,
and politician (b. 1921) ·
1970
– Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897) ·
1970
– Quincy Wright,
American political scientist and academic (b. 1890) ·
1972 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1914) ·
1972
– George,
Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887) ·
1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann,
Austrian author and poet (b. 1926) ·
1978 – George Clark,
American race car driver (b. 1890) ·
1978
– Giovanni Gronchi,
Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President
of the Italian Republic (b. 1887) ·
1979 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist and
screenwriter (b. 1904) ·
1979
– John Stuart,
Scottish-English actor (b. 1898) ·
1979
– Eugenio Mendoza,
Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909) ·
1981 – Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and
songwriter (b. 1927) ·
1981
– Albert Cohen,
Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895) ·
1981
– Lina Tsaldari,
Greek politician (b. 1887) ·
1983 – Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political
scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905) ·
1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and
politician (b. 1925) ·
1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford,
American singer and actor (b. 1919) ·
1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist,
academic, and politician (b. 1912) ·
1992
– Orestis Laskos,
Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908) ·
1993 – Criss Oliva, American guitarist and
songwriter (b. 1963) ·
1996 – Chris Acland, English musician & drummer
of Lush (b. 1966) ·
1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author
(b. 1933) ·
1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906) ·
1998
– Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and
politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b.
1920) ·
1999 – Nicholas Metropolis,
Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915) ·
2000 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football
player and wrestler (b. 1924) ·
2000
– Joachim Nielsen,
Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964) ·
2001 – Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1915) ·
2001
– Micheline Ostermeyer,
French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922) ·
2001
– Rehavam Ze'evi,
Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism
Minister of Israel (b. 1926) ·
2002 – Derek Bell,
Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935) ·
2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b.
1952) ·
2006 – Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b.
1924) ·
2006
– Christopher Glenn,
American journalist (b. 1938) ·
2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show
host (b. 1918) ·
2007
– Teresa Brewer,
American singer (b. 1931) ·
2007
– Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic
(b. 1939) ·
2008 – Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author
(b. 1955) ·
2008
– Levi Stubbs, American singer (b. 1936) ·
2008
– Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded
the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b.
1923) ·
2009 – Norma Fox Mazer, American author and
educator (b. 1931) ·
2009
– Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916) ·
2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr.,
American businessman (b. 1919) ·
2012 – Milija Aleksic, English-South African
footballer (b. 1951) ·
2012
– Émile Allais,
French skier (b. 1912) ·
2012
– Henry Friedlander,
German-American historian and author (b. 1930) ·
2012
– Stanford R.
Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy
Conversion Devices (b. 1922) ·
2012
– Kōji Wakamatsu,
Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936) ·
2013 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and
activist (b. 1926) ·
2013
– Terry Fogerty,
English rugby player and coach (b. 1944) ·
2013
– Arthur Maxwell House,
Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b.
1926) ·
2013
– Lou Scheimer,
American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928) ·
2013
– Rene Simpson,
Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966) ·
2014 – Edwards Barham, American farmer and
politician (b. 1937) ·
2014
– Masaru Emoto,
Japanese author and activist (b. 1943) ·
2014
– Tom Shaw,
American bishop (b. 1945) ·
2014
– Berndt von Staden,
German diplomat, German
Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919) ·
2015 – Danièle Delorme,
French actress and producer (b. 1926) ·
2015
– Howard Kendall,
English footballer and manager (b. 1946) ·
2015
– Anne-Marie Lizin,
Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949) ·
2015
– Tom
Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947) ·
2017 – Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964)[16] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Catervus o François-Isidore
Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) o Hosea o John the Short (John Colobus) o Marguerite
Marie Alacoque (formerly) o Nothhelm o October
17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Dessalines Day (Haiti) ·
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty |
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