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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 October
October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
74 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
320 – Pappus of Alexandria,
Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and
writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest). ·
614 –
King Chlothar II promulgates
the Edict of Paris (Edictum
Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defend the rights of
the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment
in the Frankish Kingdom. ·
629 – Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks. ·
1009 –
The Church of
the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by
the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr
Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock. ·
1016 –
The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun. ·
1081 –
The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of
Dyrrhachium. ·
1356 – Basel earthquake,
the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys
the town of Basel, Switzerland. ·
1540 –
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the
fortified town of Mabila in
present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa. ·
1561 –
In Japan the fourth Battle of
Kawanakajima was fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen; resulting in a draw. ·
1565 –
Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese
trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay,
the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West. ·
1599 – Michael the Brave,
Prince of Wallachia, defeats the
Army of Andrew Báthory in
the Battle of Șelimbăr,
leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people. ·
1648 –
Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization. ·
1748 –
Signing of the Treaty
of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the
Austrian Succession. ·
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery. ·
1775
– American
Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine). ·
1779 –
American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is
lifted. ·
1797 – Treaty of Campo
Formio is signed between France and Austria ·
1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published
as The Whale by Richard
Bentley of London. ·
1860 –
The Second Opium War finally
ends at the Convention of Peking with
the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin,
an unequal treaty. ·
1867 –
United States takes possession of Alaska
after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million.
Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day. ·
1898 –
The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain. ·
1912 – First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues
a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the
war. ·
1914 –
The Schoenstatt Movement is
founded in Germany. ·
1921 –
The Crimean
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. ·
1922 –
The British
Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by
a consortium, to establish a nationwide
network of radio transmitters to
provide a national broadcasting service. ·
1929 –
The Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of
Canada in Edwards v. Canada when
it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. ·
1944 –
World War II: Soviet Union begins
the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany. ·
1944 –
World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm
Germany. ·
1945 –
The USSR's nuclear
program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory. ·
1945
– A group of the Venezuelan Armed
Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado
Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against
president Isaías Medina
Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day. ·
1945
– Argentine military officer and
politician Juan Perón marries
actress Eva Duarte. ·
1954 – Texas Instruments announces
the first transistor radio. ·
1963 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian
stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space. ·
1967 –
The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft
to measure the atmosphere of another planet. ·
1977 – German Autumn: a set of events revolving
around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and
the hijacking of
a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end
when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. ·
1979 –
The Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to
have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license. ·
1991 –
The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts
a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. ·
2003 – Bolivian gas
conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez
de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. ·
2007 – Karachi bombing:
A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450
more. Bhutto herself is uninjured. ·
2019 – NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first
all-women spacewalk when
they venture out of the International
Space Station to replace a power controller.[1] Births[edit] ·
1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of
Japan (d. 1192) ·
1130 – Zhu Xi, Chinese philosopher (d. 1200) ·
1405 – Pope Pius II (d. 1464)[2] ·
1444 – John
de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1476) ·
1482 – Philipp
III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1538) ·
1517 – Manuel da Nóbrega,
Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1570) ·
1523 – Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of
Poland (d. 1596) ·
1536 – William Lambarde, English antiquarian and
politician (d. 1601) ·
1547 – Justus Lipsius, Belgian philologist and scholar
(d. 1606) ·
1553 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (d. 1599) ·
1569 – Giambattista Marino,
Italian poet (d. 1625) ·
1587 – Lady Mary Wroth, English poet (d. 1651) ·
1596 – Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (d.
1655) ·
1616 – Nicholas Culpeper,
English botanist (d. 1654) ·
1630 – Henry Powle, English politician (d. 1692) ·
1634 – Luca Giordano, Italian painter and
illustrator (d. 1705) ·
1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck,
South African-Dutch merchant and politician, Governor-General
of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713) ·
1662 – Matthew Henry, Welsh minister and scholar
(d. 1714) ·
1663 – Prince Eugene of
Savoy (d. 1736) ·
1668 – John
George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694) ·
1701 – Charles le Beau, French historian and author
(d. 1778) ·
1706 – Baldassare Galuppi,
Italian harpsichord player
and composer (d. 1785) ·
1741 – Pierre
Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803) ·
1777 – Heinrich von Kleist,
German author and poet (d. 1811) ·
1785 – Thomas Love Peacock,
English author and poet (d. 1866) ·
1792 – Lucas Alamán, Mexican politician and
historian (d. 1853) ·
1804 – Mongkut, Thai king (d. 1868) ·
1822 – Midhat Pasha, Ottoman civil servant and
politician, 238th Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1883) ·
1831 – Frederick
III, German Emperor (d. 1888) ·
1836 – Frederick
August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (d. 1911) ·
1850 – Basil Hall
Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (d.
1935) ·
1854 – Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d.
1911) ·
1859 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher and
theologian, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1941) ·
1862 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat,
Ottoman general (d. 1952) ·
1865 – Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist and author (d.
1957) ·
1865
– Logan Pearsall Smith,
American-English author and critic (d. 1946) ·
1868 – Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931) ·
1870 – D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar
(d. 1966) ·
1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet and author (d.
1936) ·
1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian lawyer and politician,
25th Prime Minister of
Italy (d. 1951) ·
1875 – Len Braund, English cricketer, coach, and
umpire (d. 1955) ·
1878 – James Truslow Adams,
American historian and author (d. 1949) ·
1880 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky,
Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist (d. 1940) ·
1881 – Max Gerson, German-born American physician
(d. 1959) ·
1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton,
French cyclist (d. 1917) ·
1887 – Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and
politician, Governor of Hong
Kong (d. 1946) ·
1888 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (d. 1925) ·
1893 – Sidney Holland, New Zealand lieutenant and
politician, 25th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1961) ·
1893
– George Ohsawa,
Japanese philosopher and academic (d. 1966) ·
1894 – H. L. Davis, American author and poet (d.
1960) ·
1894
– Tibor Déry,
Hungarian author and translator (d. 1977) ·
1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers,
American theorist and author (d. 1980) ·
1898 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d.
1981) ·
1902 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972) ·
1902
– Pascual Jordan,
German physicist and theorist (d. 1980) ·
1903 – Lina Radke, German runner and coach (d.
1983) ·
1904 – A. J. Liebling, American journalist and
author (d. 1963) ·
1904
– Haim Shirman,
Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981) ·
1905 – Jan Gies, Dutch activist (d. 1993) ·
1905
– Félix
Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of
Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993) ·
1906 – James Brooks,
American painter and educator (d. 1992) ·
1909 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and
theorist (d. 2004) ·
1914 – Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997) ·
1915 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980) ·
1918 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch lawyer and
politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1991) ·
1918
– Konstantinos
Mitsotakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 178th Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 2017) ·
1918
– Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, and actor (d. 1999) ·
1919 – Ric Nordman, Canadian captain and politician
(d. 1996) ·
1919
– Anita O'Day,
American singer (d. 2006) ·
1919
– Pierre Trudeau,
Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister
of Canada (d. 2000) ·
1919
– Camilla Williams,
American soprano and educator (d. 2012) ·
1920 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and
politician, 9th Greek
Minister of Culture (d. 1994) ·
1921 – Jerry Cooke,
Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 2005) ·
1921
– Jesse Helms, American soldier, journalist,
and politician (d. 2008) ·
1921
– Beatrice Helen
Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d.
1972) ·
1923 – Jessie Mae Hemphill,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008) ·
1924 – Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter
and fiddler (d. 2014) ·
1925 – Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (d.
2011) ·
1926 – Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2017) ·
1926
– Klaus Kinski,
German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1991) ·
1927 – Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (d.
2013) ·
1927
– George C. Scott,
American actor and director (d. 1999) ·
1928 – Keith Jackson, American sportscaster and
actor ·
1928
– Maurice El Mediouni,
Algerian pianist and composer ·
1928
– Dick Taverne,
English lawyer and politician ·
1929 – Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan publisher and
politician, President of
Nicaragua ·
1929
– Hillard Elkins,
American producer and manager (d. 2010) ·
1929
– Kees Fens, Dutch author and critic (d. 2008) ·
1930 – Flora
Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, Scottish politician ·
1930
– Esther Hautzig,
Lithuanian-American author (d. 2009) ·
1931 – Chris Albertson, Icelandic-American
historian, journalist, and producer ·
1931
– Roger Climpson,
English-Australian journalist ·
1931
– Ien Dales, Dutch civil servant and
politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d.
1994) ·
1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis,
Lithuanian musicologist and politician ·
1933 – Forrest Gregg, American football player and
coach ·
1933
– Irwin M. Jacobs,
American electrical engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur ·
1933
– Ludovico Scarfiotti,
Italian race car driver (d. 1968) ·
1934 – Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (d.
1970) ·
1935 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006) ·
1936 – Jaime Lucas
Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal ·
1938 – Robert Dove, American lawyer and politician ·
1938
– Dawn Wells, American model and
actress, Miss Nevada 1959 ·
1939 – Flavio Cotti, Swiss lawyer and politician,
82nd President
of the Swiss Confederation ·
1939
– Mike Ditka, American football player, coach,
and sportscaster ·
1939
– Lee Harvey Oswald,
American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963) ·
1939
– Jan Erik Vold,
Norwegian poet, author, and translator ·
1940 – Cynthia Weil, American songwriter ·
1940
– Talitha Getty,
actress and model of Dutch extraction (d. 1971) ·
1941 – Timothy Bell,
Baron Bell, English businessman ·
1941
– Martha Burk, American psychologist and
author ·
1942 – Gianfranco Ravasi,
Italian cardinal and scholar ·
1943 – Christine
Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2014) ·
1943
– Birthe Rønn Hornbech,
Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs ·
1945 – Huell Howser, American television host and
actor (d. 2013) ·
1945
– Chris Shays, American politician ·
1946 – James Robert Baker,
American author and screenwriter (d. 1997) ·
1946
– Frank Beamer,
American football player and coach ·
1946
– Dafydd Elis-Thomas,
Welsh academic and politician ·
1946
– Howard Shore,
Canadian composer, conductor, and producer ·
1947 – Paul Chuckle, English comedian, actor, and
screenwriter ·
1947
– Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and
politician, Mayor of Amsterdam ·
1947
– Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (d. 1997) ·
1947
– Gary
Sullivan, Australian rugby league player ·
1948 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author,
and academic ·
1948
– Ntozake Shange,
American author, poet, and playwright ·
1949 – Joe Egan,
Scottish singer-songwriter ·
1949
– George Hendrick,
American baseball player and coach ·
1949
– Gary Richrath,
American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2015) ·
1950 – Wendy Wasserstein,
American playwright and author (d. 2006) ·
1951 – Mike
Antonovich, American ice hockey player and coach ·
1951
– Pam Dawber, American actress and producer ·
1951
– Terry McMillan,
American author and screenwriter ·
1951
– David Normington,
English civil servant and politician ·
1951
– Nic Potter, English bass player and
songwriter (d. 2013) ·
1952 – Roy Dias, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach ·
1952
– Paul Geroski,
American-English economist and academic (d. 2005) ·
1952
– Chuck Lorre, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1952
– Patrick Morrow,
Canadian mountaineer and photographer ·
1952
– Bảo Ninh,
Vietnamese soldier and author ·
1952
– Allen Ripley,
American baseball player (d. 2014) ·
1952
– Jerry Royster,
American baseball player, coach, and manager ·
1954 – Nick Houghton, English general ·
1954
– Arliss Howard,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1955 – Jean-Pierre Hautier,
Belgian journalist and television host (d. 2012) ·
1955
– Vanessa Briscoe Hay,
American singer-songwriter and keyboard player ·
1955
– Timmy Mallett,
English radio and television host ·
1955
– Stu Mead, American painter and illustrator ·
1955
– David Twohy, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1955
– Rita Verdonk,
Dutch journalist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice ·
1955
– Denis Watson,
Zimbabwean golfer ·
1955
– Mark Welland,
English physicist and academic ·
1956 – Craig Bartlett, American animator, producer,
screenwriter, and voice actor ·
1956
– Martina Navratilova,
Czech-American tennis player and coach ·
1956
– Jim Talent, American lawyer and politician ·
1957 – Jon Lindstrom, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1957
– Catherine Ringer,
French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress ·
1958 – Thomas Hearns, American boxer ·
1958
– Megumi Ishii,
Japanese actress and politician ·
1958
– Letitia James,
American lawyer, activist and politician[3] ·
1958
– Kjell Samuelsson,
Swedish ice hockey player and coach ·
1959 – Kirby Chambliss, American pilot ·
1959
– Mauricio Funes,
Salvadoran politician, former President of El Salvador ·
1959
– Milcho Manchevski,
Macedonian-American director and screenwriter ·
1959
– John Nord, American wrestler ·
1960 – Erin Moran, American actress (d. 2017) ·
1960
– Jean-Claude Van
Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and
screenwriter ·
1961 – Wynton Marsalis, American trumpet player,
composer, and educator ·
1961
– Rick Moody, American author and composer ·
1961
– Gladstone Small,
Barbadian-English cricketer ·
1962 – Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist ·
1962
– Vincent Spano,
American actor, director, and producer ·
1963 – Sigvart Dagsland, Norwegian singer, pianist
and composer ·
1964 – Dan Lilker, American singer-songwriter and
bass player ·
1964
– Charles Stross,
English journalist, author, and programmer ·
1965 – Curtis Stigers, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1965
– Zakir Naik, an Indian Islamic preacher;
founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) ·
1966 – Dave Price, American journalist and game
show host ·
1967 – Eric Stuart, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and voice actor ·
1968 – Rhod Gilbert, Welsh comedian ·
1968
– Stuart Law, Australian cricketer and coach ·
1968
– Michael Stich,
German tennis player and sportscaster ·
1969 – Volker Neumüller,
German talent manager ·
1969
– Nelson Vivas,
Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager ·
1970 – Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player and
coach ·
1970
– Mike Starink,
Dutch television host and actor ·
1971 – Nick O'Hern, Australian golfer ·
1972 – Mika Ninagawa, Japanese photographer and
director ·
1972
– Alex Tagliani,
Canadian race car driver ·
1973 – Stephen Allan, Australian golfer ·
1973
– James Foley,
American photographer and journalist (d. 2014) ·
1973
– Michalis Kapsis,
Greek footballer ·
1973
– Rachel
Nichols, American journalist and sportscaster ·
1973
– Sarah Winckless,
English rower ·
1974 – Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer and
sportscaster ·
1974
– Peter Svensson,
Swedish guitarist and songwriter ·
1974
– Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer ·
1974
– Amish Tripathi,
Indian author ·
1975 – Alex Cora, Puerto Rican-American baseball
player and sportscaster ·
1975
– Josh Sawyer, American video game designer ·
1977 – Flavia Colgan, Brazilian-American journalist ·
1977
– Kunal Kapoor,
Indian actor ·
1977
– Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand-American soccer
player and coach ·
1977
– David Vuillemin,
French motorcycle racer ·
1978 – Mike Tindall, English rugby player ·
1978
– Kenji Wu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and
actor ·
1979 – Damon Scott, British entertainer ·
1979
– Jaroslav
Drobný, Czech footballer ·
1979
– Ne-Yo, American singer, songwriter, record
producer, dancer, and actor ·
1980 – Birsen Yavuz, Turkish sprinter and hurdler ·
1981 – Nathan Hauritz, Australian cricketer ·
1981
– Tina Hergold,
Slovenian tennis player ·
1981
– Greg
Warren, American football player ·
1982 – Thierry Amiel, French singer-songwriter ·
1982
– Michael Dingsdag,
Dutch footballer ·
1982
– Mark Sampson,
Welsh footballer and manager ·
1982
– Simon Gotch, American wrestler ·
1983 – Dante,
Brazilian footballer ·
1984 – Robert Harting, German discus thrower ·
1984
– Freida Pinto,
Indian actress and model ·
1984
– Esperanza Spalding,
American singer-songwriter and bassist ·
1984
– Lindsey Vonn,
American skier ·
1984
– Milo Yiannopoulos,
British journalist and public speaker ·
1985 – Yoenis Céspedes,
Cuban baseball player ·
1985
– Andrew Garcia,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1986 – Wilma Elles, German actress and fashion
designer ·
1987 – Zac Efron, American actor and singer ·
1987
– Freja Beha Erichsen,
Danish model ·
1988 – Tessa Schram, Dutch director and actress ·
1989 – Laci Green, American YouTube personality,
video blogger, sex educator, and activist ·
1989
– Riisa Naka, Japanese model and actress ·
1990 – Bristol Palin, American public speaker and
reality television personality ·
1990
– Brittney Griner,
American professional basketball player ·
1990
– Drew Crawford,
American basketball player[4] ·
1991 – Roly Bonevacia, Dutch footballer ·
1992 – John John Florence,
American professional surfer ·
1993 – Ivan Cavaleiro, Portuguese professional footballer ·
1991
– Tyler Posey, American actor and musician ·
1994 – Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian Formula
One driver Deaths[edit] ·
AD 31 – Lucius Aelius Sejanus, Roman politician (b.
20 BC) ·
325 – Emperor Ming of Jin (b.
299) ·
AD 707 – Pope John VII (b. 650) ·
1035 – Sancho III of
Pamplona (b. 992) ·
1081 – Nikephoros
Palaiologos, Byzantine general ·
1101 – Hugh I, Count
of Vermandois (b. 1053) ·
1141 – Leopold, Duke of
Bavaria (b. 1108) ·
1214 – John de Gray, bishop of Norwich ·
1366 – Petrus Torkilsson,
Archbishop of Uppsala ·
1382 – James
Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of
Ireland (b. 1331) ·
1417 – Pope Gregory XII (b. 1326) ·
1442 – Infante
João of Portugal (b. 1400) ·
1480 – Uhwudong, Korean dancer and poet (b. 1440) ·
1503 – Pope Pius III (b. 1439) ·
1508 – Patrick
Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, Lord High Admiral of Scotland ·
1511 – Philippe de Commines,
French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447) ·
1526 – Lucas Vázquez de
Ayllón, Spanish explorer (b. 1475) ·
1541 – Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489) ·
1545 – John Taverner, English organist and composer
(b. 1490) ·
1558 – Mary of Hungary (b. 1505) ·
1561 – Yamamoto
Kansuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1501) ·
1564 – Johannes
Acronius Frisius, Dutch physician and mathematician (b. 1520) ·
1570 – Manuel da Nóbrega,
Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (b. 1517) ·
1604 – Igram van Achelen,
Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1528) ·
1646 – Isaac Jogues, French priest, missionary, and
martyr (b. 1607) ·
1667 – Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1603) ·
1678 – Jacob Jordaens, Belgian painter illustrator
(b. 1593) ·
1739 – António José da
Silva, Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705) ·
1744 – Sarah
Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660) ·
1770 – John
Manners, Marquess of Granby, English general and politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1721) ·
1775 – Christian August
Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715) ·
1817 – Etienne Nicolas Méhul,
French pianist and composer (b. 1763) ·
1865 – Henry
John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English soldier and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784) ·
1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and
engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b.
1791) ·
1876 – Francis Preston
Blair, American journalist (b. 1791) ·
1886 – Philipp Franz
von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796) ·
1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer
(b. 1808) ·
1892 – William W. Chapman,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1808) ·
1893 – Charles Gounod, French composer and educator
(b. 1818) ·
1908 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (b.
1840) ·
1911 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist and author
(b. 1857) ·
1921 – Ludwig III of
Bavaria (b. 1845) ·
1931 – Thomas Edison, American engineer and
businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847) ·
1934 – Santiago Ramón y
Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1852) ·
1935 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor
(b. 1882) ·
1941 – Manuel Teixeira
Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of
Portugal (b. 1860) ·
1942 – Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862) ·
1947 – Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890) ·
1948 – Walther von
Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881) ·
1956 – Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author
(b. 1869) ·
1959 – Boughera El Ouafi,
Algerian-French runner (b. 1898) ·
1961 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b.
1892) ·
1962 – Iván Petrovich,
Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894) ·
1965 – Henry Travers, Irish-American actor (b.
1874) ·
1966 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American
businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden,
Inc. (b. 1878) ·
1966
– S. S. Kresge,
American businessman, founded Kmart (b. 1867) ·
1969 – Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and
manager (b. 1899)[5] ·
1973 – Margaret
Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (b.
1886) ·
1973
– Walt Kelly, American illustrator and
animator (b. 1913) ·
1973
– Leo Strauss, German-American political
scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1899) ·
1975 – K. C. Douglas, American rural blues singer
(b. 1913) ·
1975
– Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928) ·
1975
– Graham Haberfield,
English actor (b. 1941) ·
1976 – Viswanatha
Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (b. 1895) ·
1977 – Andreas Baader, German militant (b. 1943) ·
1977
– Gudrun Ensslin,
German militant leader, founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1940) ·
1978 – Ramón Mercader,
Spanish journalist, assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914) ·
1980 – Edwin Way Teale, American photographer and
author (b. 1899) ·
1982 – Dwain Esper, American director and producer
(b. 1892) ·
1982
– Pierre Mendès France,
French lawyer and politician, 143rd Prime Minister
of France (b. 1907) ·
1982
– John Robarts,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b.
1917) ·
1982
– Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 40th First
Lady of the United States (b. 1885) ·
1983 – Diego Abad de
Santillán, Spanish economist and author (b. 1897) ·
1983
– Willie Jones,
American baseball player (b. 1925) ·
1984 – Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b.
1899) ·
1987 – Adriaan Ditvoorst,
Dutch director and screenwriter (b. 1940) ·
1988 – Frederick Ashton, Ecuadorian dancer and
choreographer (b. 1904) ·
2000 – Julie London, American singer and actress
(b. 1926) ·
2000
– Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (b.
1925) ·
2003 – Preston Smith,
American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (b.
1912) ·
2003
– Manuel Vázquez
Montalbán, Spanish journalist, author, and critic (b. 1939) ·
2005 – Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer
(b. 1934) ·
2005
– Bill King, American sportscaster (b. 1927) ·
2006 – Mario Francesco
Pompedda, Italian cardinal (b. 1929) ·
2006
– Anna Russell,
English-Canadian singer and actress (b. 1911) ·
2006
– Laurie Taitt,
Guyanese-English hurdler (b. 1934) ·
2007 – Alan Coren, English journalist and author
(b. 1938) ·
2007
– William J. Crowe,
American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b.
1925) ·
2007
– Vincent DeDomenico,
American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine
Train (b. 1915) ·
2007
– Lucky Dube, South African singer-songwriter
and keyboard player (b. 1964) ·
2008 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (b. 1945) ·
2009 – Adriaan Kortlandt,
Dutch ethologist and biologist (b. 1918) ·
2009
– Nancy Spero, American painter and academic
(b. 1926) ·
2010 – Marion Brown, American saxophonist and
musicologist (b. 1931) ·
2012 – Brain Damage,
American wrestler (b. 1977) ·
2012
– Sylvia Kristel,
Dutch model and actress (b. 1952) ·
2012
– Slater Martin,
American basketball player and coach (b. 1925) ·
2012
– George Mattos,
American pole vaulter (b. 1929) ·
2012
– Albert Lee Ueltschi,
American pilot and businessman, founded FlightSafety
International (b. 1917) ·
2012
– David S. Ware,
American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949) ·
2013 – Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician,
57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b.
1929) ·
2013
– Bum Phillips,
American football player and coach (b. 1923) ·
2013
– Allan Stanley,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926) ·
2013
– Bill Young, American sergeant and politician
(b. 1930) ·
2014 – Mariano Lebrón
Saviñón, Dominican author and academic (b. 1922) ·
2014
– Edward Regan,
American academic and politician (b. 1930) ·
2014
– Sidney Shapiro,
American-Chinese author and translator (b. 1915) ·
2015 – Robert Dickerson, Australian painter (b.
1924) ·
2015
– Gamal El-Ghitani,
Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1945) ·
2015
– Robert W. Farquhar,
American engineer (b. 1932) ·
2015
– Frank Watkins,
American bass player (b. 1968) ·
2015
– Paul West,
English-American author, poet, and academic (b. 1930) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Alaska Day (Alaska, United States) ·
Christian feast day: o Peter of Alcantara,
can also be celebrated on October 19. o October
18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Independence
Day (Azerbaijan), celebrates the independence of Azerbaijan from the Soviet Union in 1991. ·
Necktie Day (Croatia) ·
Persons Day (Canada) |
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