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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 October
October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
70 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
451
The Chalcedonian Creed,
regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted by the Council of Chalcedon,
an ecumenical council.[1] ·
794 Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese
capital to Heian-kyō (now
Kyoto).[2] ·
906 Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads
a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking 4,0005,000 captives.[3] ·
1383
The male line of the Portuguese
House of Burgundy becomes extinct with the death of
King Fernando,
leaving only his daughter Beatrice. Rival claimants begin a period of civil war and
disorder.[4] ·
1575
King Philip II of Spain founds Aguascalientes City in
New Spain (now Mexico).[5] ·
1633
The Ming dynasty defeats the
Dutch East India Company. ·
1707
Four British naval vessels run aground on
the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the
first Longitude Act is
enacted in 1714. ·
1721 Russian Empire is proclaimed by
Tsar Peter I after
the Swedish defeat
in the Great Northern War. ·
1730
Construction of the Ladoga Canal is
completed. ·
1746
The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University)
receives its charter. ·
1777
American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware
River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank. ·
1784
Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska. ·
1790 Northwest Indian War:
Native American forces defeat the United States, ending the Harmar Campaign.[6] ·
1797 Andrι-Jacques
Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, from one
thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris. ·
1836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first
President of the Republic of Texas. ·
1844
Millerites, followers of Baptist preacher William Miller anticipate
the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The
following day became known as the Great Disappointment. ·
1859
Spain declares war on Morocco. ·
1866
A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred
three days before, on October 19. ·
1875
First telegraphic connection in Argentina. ·
1877
The Blantyre mining
disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. ·
1878
The Bramall Lane stadium
sees the first rugby match played under floodlights. ·
1879
Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first
practical electric incandescent
light bulb (it lasts 131⁄2 hours before burning out). ·
1883
The Metropolitan
Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of
Gounod's Faust. ·
1884
The International
Meridian Conference designates the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian. ·
1895
In Paris an express train derails after
overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of
concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft)
to the road below. ·
1907
A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker
Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907. ·
1910 Hawley Harvey
Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of
radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife. ·
1923
The royalist LeonardopoulosGargalidis coup d'ιtat attempt fails
in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment
of the Second Hellenic Republic. ·
1928 Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded
at the University of Puerto Rico. ·
1934
In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank
robber Pretty Boy Floyd. ·
1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Mτquet and 29 other hostages are
executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer. ·
1943
World War II: In the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts
an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and
rendering 150,000 homeless. ·
1946 Operation
Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of
military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of
postWorld War II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union. ·
1947
The Kashmir conflict between
India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India. ·
1957 Vietnam War: First United States casualties
in Vietnam. ·
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis:
President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower,
announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear
weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of
the Communist nation. ·
1963
A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in
UK with the loss of all on board. ·
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor. ·
1964
An all-party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which will become
the new official flag of Canada. ·
1966
The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1
selling album (The Supremes A'
Go-Go). ·
1966
The Soviet Union launches Luna 12. ·
1968
Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely
splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times. ·
1975
The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus. ·
1976 Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food
and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the
bladders of dogs. ·
1981
The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify
the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)
for its strike the previous August. ·
1983
Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States
Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons. ·
1999 Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy
France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity. ·
2001 Grand Theft Auto III is
released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games,
as well as spurring controversy around
violence in video games. ·
2005 Tropical
Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005
Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record
with 22 named storms. ·
2005
Bellview
Airlines Flight 210 crashes in Nigeria, killing all 117
people on board. ·
2006
A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National
referendum. ·
2007
A raid
on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger
commandos. All except one die in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force
planes are destroyed and 10 damaged. ·
2008
India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. ·
2013
The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to
legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage
Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013. ·
2014
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the
Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people. ·
2019 Same-sex marriage is
legalised, and abortion is
decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of
the Northern
Ireland Assembly not being restored. Births[edit] ·
955 Qian Weijun, king of Wuyue (d. 991) ·
1071 William IX,
Duke of Aquitaine (d. 1126)[7] ·
1197 Juntoku, Japanese emperor (d. 1242) ·
1511 Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and
mathematician (d. 1553)[8] ·
1559 Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (d. 1651). ·
1587 Joachim Jungius, German mathematician and
philosopher (d. 1657). ·
1592 Gustav Horn,
Count of Pori (d. 1657) ·
1659 Georg Ernst Stahl,
German chemist and physician (d. 1734) ·
1689 John V,
Portuguese king (d. 1750) ·
1701 Maria
Amalia, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1756) ·
1729 Johann Reinhold
Forster, German pastor and botanist (d. 1798) ·
1761 Antoine Barnave, French politician and orator (d. 1793). ·
1749 Cornelis van der Aa,
Dutch historian and bookseller (d. 1816) ·
1778 Javier de Burgos, Spanish jurist and politician (d. 1848) ·
1781 Louis
Joseph, Dauphin of France (d. 1789). ·
1783 Constantine
Samuel Rafinesque, Ottoman-French polymath and naturalist (d.
1840). ·
1809 Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and
politician, Texas Attorney
General (d. 1889) ·
1811 Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer
(d. 1886)[9] ·
1818 Leconte de Lisle, French poet and author (d.
1894)[10] ·
1821 Collis Potter
Huntington, American businessman (d. 1900) ·
1832 August Labitzky, Czech composer and
conductor (d. 1903) ·
1844 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager
(d. 1923) ·
1844
Louis Riel, Canadian scholar and politician
(d. 1885) ·
1847 Koos de la Rey, South African general (d.
1914) ·
1850 Charles Kingston, Australian politician,
20th Premier of
South Australia (d. 1908) ·
1858 Augusta
Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1921)[11] ·
1859 Prince
Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (d. 1949). ·
1865 Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and
illustrator (d. 1943)[12] ·
1870 Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1953) ·
1870
Lord Alfred Douglas,
English author and poet (d. 1945) ·
1873 Gustaf John Ramstedt,
Finnish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950) ·
1873
Rama Tirtha, Indian philosopher and educator
(d. 1906) ·
1875 David van Embden, Dutch economist and
politician (d. 1962) ·
1878 Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician,
9th Estonian
Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1967) ·
1881 Clinton Davisson, American physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1958) ·
1881
Karl Bernhard
Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (d. 1908) ·
1882 Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator (d.
1953) ·
1882
N. C. Wyeth, American painter and
illustrator (d. 1945) ·
1885 Giovanni Martinelli,
Italian tenor and actor (d. 1969) ·
1886 Erik
Bergman, Swedish minister (d. 1970) ·
1887 John Reed,
American journalist and poet (d. 1920) ·
1893 Ernst Φpik, Estonian astronomer and
astrophysicist (d. 1985) ·
1893
Luis Otero,
Spanish footballer (d. 1955). ·
1894 Mei Lanfang, Chinese actor and singer (d.
1961) ·
1895 Johnny
Morrison, professional baseball player (d. 1966) ·
1896 Charles Glen King,
American biochemist and academic (d. 1988) ·
1896
Josι Leitγo de
Barros, Portuguese film director and playwright (d. 1967). ·
1897 Marjorie Flack, American author and
illustrator (d. 1958) ·
1898 Dαmaso Alonso, Spanish poet and philologist (d. 1990). ·
1899 Salarruι, Salvadoran writer and painter (d.
1975). ·
1900 Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927) ·
1903 George Wells Beadle,
American geneticist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1989) ·
1903
Curly Howard,
American comedian and vaudevillian (d. 1952) ·
1904 Constance Bennett,
American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1965) ·
1904
Saϊl Calandra,
Argentine football player (d. 1973). ·
1904
Karl Guthe Jansky,
American physicist and radio engineer (d. 1950). ·
1905 Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and
composer (d. 1969) ·
1906 Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator
(d. 1970) ·
1906
Aurelio Baldor,
Cuban mathematician and lawyer (d. 1978). ·
1907 Gόnther Treptow,
German tenor (d. 1981). ·
1908 John Gould,
American journalist and author (d. 2003). ·
1908
Josι Escobar
Saliente, Spanish cartoonist (d. 1994). ·
1913 Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer
and journalist (d. 1954) ·
1913
Bảo Đại,
Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997) ·
1913
Hans-Peter Tschudi,
Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President
of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2002) ·
1915 Yitzhak Shamir, Belarusian-Israeli civil
servant and politician, 7th Prime Minister
of Israel (d. 2012)[13] ·
1917 Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (d.
2013) ·
1918 Lou Klein, American baseball player, coach,
and manager (d. 1976) ·
1919 Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet,
playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2013)[14] ·
1920 Timothy Leary, American psychologist and
author (d. 1996) ·
1921 Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 1981)[15] ·
1921
Alexander Kronrod,
Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986) ·
1921
Harald Nugiseks,
Estonian sergeant (d. 2014) ·
1923 Bert Trautmann, German footballer and
manager (d. 2013) ·
1925 Slater Martin, American basketball player
and coach (d. 2012) ·
1925
Edith Kawelohea
McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author, and hula expert (d. 2014) ·
1925
Robert Rauschenberg,
American painter and illustrator (d. 2008) ·
1927 Allan Hendrickse, South African minister and
politician (d. 2005) ·
1928 Clare Fischer, American pianist, composer
and arranger (d. 2012) ·
1928
Nelson Pereira
dos Santos, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter (d.
2018) ·
1929 Michael
Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett, English director and producer (d.
2015) ·
1929
Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2012) ·
1929
Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990) ·
1930 Estela de Carlotto,
Argentine human rights activist ·
1930
Josι Guardiola,
Spanish singer (d. 2012) ·
1931 Ann Rule, American police officer and author
(d. 2015) ·
1933 Carlos Alberto
Sacheri, Argentine philosopher (d. 1974) ·
1933
Helmut Senekowitsch,
Austrian footballer and manager (d. 2007) ·
1934 Donald McIntyre, New Zealand opera singer ·
1936 John Blashford-Snell,
English soldier, author, and explorer ·
1936
Peter Cook,
English architect and academic ·
1936
Jovan Pavlović,
Serbian metropolitan (d. 2014) ·
1937 Josι Larralde, Argentine singer-songwriter ·
1937
Manos Loοzos,
Egyptian-Greek composer (d. 1982) ·
1938 K. Indrapala, Sri Lankan historian and
academic ·
1938
Derek Jacobi,
English actor ·
1938
Christopher Lloyd,
American actor, comedian and producer ·
1939 Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician,
2nd President of
Mozambique ·
1939
George Cohen,
English footballer ·
1939
Jean-Pierre
Desthuilliers, French poet and critic (d. 2013) ·
1939
Tony Roberts,
American actor and singer ·
1941 Ahmet Mete
Işıkara, Turkish geophysicist and earthquake scientist
(d. 2013) ·
1941
Charles Keating,
English-American actor (d. 2014) ·
1942 Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1966) ·
1942
Annette Funicello,
American actress and singer (d. 2013) ·
1943 Allen Coage, American-Canadian wrestler and
coach (d. 2007) ·
1943
Catherine E. Coulson,
American actress (d. 2015) ·
1943
Jan de Bont, Dutch director, producer, and cinematographer ·
1943
Catherine Deneuve,
French actress and singer ·
1943
Seif Sharif Hamad,
Zanzibari politician, 2nd Chief Minister
of Zanzibar ·
1945 Eddie Brigati, American singer-songwriter ·
1945
Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and game show
host ·
1945
Buzz Potamkin,
American director and producer, founded Buzzco Associates (d.
2012) ·
1945
Sheila Sherwood,
English long jumper ·
1945
Michael Stoute,
Barbadian-English horse trainer ·
1945
Leslie West, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1946 Claude Charron, Canadian educator and
politician ·
1946
Godfrey Chitalu,
Zambian footballer (d. 1993) ·
1946
Deepak Chopra,
Indian-American physician and author ·
1946
Elizabeth Connell,
South African mezzo-soprano (d. 2012) ·
1946
Kelvin MacKenzie,
English journalist ·
1946
Jaime Nebot, Ecuadorian politician ·
1947 Raymond Bachand, Canadian lawyer and
politician ·
1947
Haley Barbour,
American lawyer and politician, 62nd Governor of
Mississippi ·
1948 Mike Hendrick, English cricketer, coach, and
umpire ·
1948
Pierre Lartigue,
French rally driver ·
1948
Debbie Macomber,
American author ·
1949 Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor (d. 1990) ·
1949
Vasilios Magginas,
Greek politician, Greek Minister of Employment (d. 2015) ·
1949
Manfred Trojahn,
German flute player, composer, and conductor ·
1949
Arsθne Wenger,
French footballer and manager ·
1950 Donald Ramotar, Guyanese politician,
8th President of Guyana ·
1952 Julie Dash, American director, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1952
Jeff Goldblum,
American actor and producer ·
1953 Renι Arce Islas,
Mexican politician ·
1954 Graham Joyce, English author and educator
(d. 2014) ·
1956 John Adam,
Australian rugby league player ·
1956
Alejandro Kuropatwa,
Argentine photographer (d. 2003) ·
1957 Henry Lauterbach, German jumper ·
1957
Daniel Melingo,
Argentine musician ·
1958 Bobby Blotzer, American drummer ·
1959 Roberto
Navarro, Argentine journalist ·
1959
Arto Salminen,
Finnish journalist and author (d. 2005) ·
1959
Marc Shaiman,
American composer and songwriter ·
1960 Darryl Jenifer, American bass player ·
1960
Cris Kirkwood,
American singer-songwriter and bass player ·
1961 Takaaki Ishibashi,
Japanese comedian, singer, and actor ·
1961
Barbara Potter,
American tennis player[16] ·
1962 Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian ·
1963 Brian Boitano, American figure skater ·
1964 Draen Petrović,
Croatian basketball player (d. 1993) ·
1964
TobyMac, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1965 Valeria Golino, Italian actress ·
1965
John Wesley Harding,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1965
A. L. Kennedy,
Scottish comedian, journalist, and author ·
1965
Otis Smith,
American football player and coach ·
1965
Piotr Wiwczarek,
Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1966 Yuri Arbachakov, Russian-Japanese boxer ·
1967 Salvatore Di
Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor ·
1967
Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer ·
1967
Oona
King, Baroness King of Bow, English academic and politician ·
1967
Ulrike Maier,
Austrian skier (d. 1994) ·
1967
Carlos Mencia,
Honduran-American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1967
Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1968 Stephanie Cutter, American lawyer and
political consultant ·
1968
Jay Johnston,
American actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1968
Shelby Lynne,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1968
Stιphane Quintal,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1968
Shaggy,
Jamaican singer-songwriter and DJ ·
1969 Julio Borges, Venezuelan politician ·
1969
Hιctor Carrasco,
Dominican baseball player ·
1969
Spike Jonze, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1969
Helmut Lotti,
Belgian singer-songwriter ·
1969
Coque Malla, Spanish musician and actor ·
1970 Winston Bogarde, Dutch footballer and
manager ·
1970
Amy Redford, American actress, director, and
producer ·
1971 Amanda Coetzer, South African tennis player ·
1971
Kornιl Dαvid,
Hungarian basketball player ·
1971
Josι Manuel Martνnez,
Spanish runner ·
1971
Jennifer Lee,
American screenwriter, director, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney
Animation Studios ·
1972 D'Lo Brown, American wrestler and accountant ·
1972
Saffron Burrows,
English-American actress ·
1972
Vνctor Saldaρo,
the only Argentine man sentenced to death in the US ·
1973 Andrιs Palop, Spanish footballer and manager ·
1973
Ichiro Suzuki,
Japanese baseball player ·
1973
Mark van der Zijden,
Dutch swimmer ·
1974 Tim Kinsella, American singer-songwriter ·
1974
Jeff McInnis,
American basketball player ·
1974
Miroslav atan,
Slovak ice hockey player ·
1975 Martνn Cardetti,
Argentinian footballer and manager ·
1975
Jesse Tyler Ferguson,
American actor ·
1975
Mνchel Salgado,
Spanish footballer ·
1976 Luke Adams,
Australian race walker ·
1976
Laidback Luke,
Dutch DJ ·
1976
Jon Foreman, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1978 Dion Glover, American basketball player and
coach ·
1978
Chaswe Nsofwa,
Zambian footballer (d. 2007) ·
1978
Owais Shah, Pakistani-English cricketer ·
1979 Doni,
Brazilian footballer ·
1980 Niall Breslin, Irish singer-songwriter,
guitarist, producer, and footballer ·
1980
Luke O'Donnell,
Australian rugby league player ·
1980
Sonia Sui, Taiwanese model and actress ·
1981 Michael Fishman, American actor and producer ·
1981
Olivier Pla, French racing driver ·
1982 Robinson Canσ, Dominican baseball player ·
1982
Tim Erfen, German footballer ·
1982
Heath Miller,
American football player ·
1982
Mark Renshaw, Australian
cyclist ·
1983 Byul,
South Korean singer ·
1983
Anton Mόller,
German footballer ·
1983
Plan B,
British singer and actor ·
1984 Horacio Agulla, Argentine rugby player ·
1984
Aleks Marić,
Australian basketball player ·
1985 Federico Αgreda,
Venezuelan musician ·
1985
Hadise, Belgian-Turkish singer-songwriter
and dancer ·
1985
Zac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and
drummer ·
1986 Kenji Ebisawa, Japanese actor ·
1986
Kara Lang, Canadian footballer ·
1986
Ștefan Radu,
Romanian footballer ·
1986
Akihiro
Sato, Japanese footballer ·
1987 Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian runner ·
1987
Donny Montell,
Lithuanian singer-songwriter ·
1987
Park Ha-sun, South Korean actress ·
1987
Reen Yu, Taiwanese actress ·
1988 Sarah Barrow, English diver[17] ·
1988
Parineeti Chopra,
Indian actress ·
1988
Elena Muhhina,
Estonian figure skater ·
1988
Aykut Demir, Turkish footballer ·
1990 Nicolαs Francella,
Argentine actor ·
1990
Jonathan Lipnicki,
American actor ·
1992 Sofia Vassilieva, American actress ·
1993 Charalambos
Lykogiannis, Greek footballer ·
1995 Saidy Janko, Swiss footballer ·
1996 B.I, South Korean singer-songwriter and
dancer ·
1996
Johannes Hψsflot
Klζbo, Norwegian ski runner[18] Deaths[edit] ·
726 Itzamnaaj K'awiil,
a Maya ruler of Dos Pilas ·
741 Charles Martel, Frankish king (b. 688) ·
842 Abo, Japanese prince (b. 792) ·
1383 Ferdinand I of
Portugal (b. 1345) ·
1455 Johannes Brassart,
Flemish composer ·
1493 James
Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton ·
1521 Edward Poynings, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (b.
1459) ·
1565 Jean Grolier de
Serviθres, French book collector (b. 1479) ·
1604 Domingo Bαρez,
Spanish theologian (b. 1528) ·
1625 Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyō (b.
1561) ·
1708 Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian and
academic (b. 1636) ·
1751 William IV,
Prince of Orange (b. 1711)[19] ·
1761 Louis
George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1702) ·
1755 Elisha Williams, American minister,
academic, and jurist (b. 1694) ·
1792 Guillaume Le Gentil,
French astronomer (b. 1725) ·
1847 Sahle Selassie, Ethiopian ruler (b. 1795) ·
1853 Juan Antonio
Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President
of Uruguay (b. 1784) ·
1859 Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer
(b. 1784) ·
1883 George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and
footballer (b. 1856) ·
1883
Thomas Mayne Reid,
Irish-American soldier and author (b. 1818) ·
1885 Lewis Majendie, English politician (b. 1835) ·
1891 Ernst von
Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (b. 1846) ·
1902 Herman
Adolfovich Trautschold, German geologist and paleontologist (b.
1817) ·
1906 Paul Cιzanne, French painter (b. 1839) ·
1914 Konishiki Yasokichi
I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866) ·
1917 Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (b.
1863) ·
1917
Charles Pardey Lukis,
founder of the Indian
Journal of Medical Research and later Director-General of
the Indian Medical Service (b. 1857) ·
1927 Borisav
Stanković, Serbian author (b. 1876) ·
1928 Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian lawyer
and politician, 5th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1862) ·
1934 Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b.
1904) ·
1935 Edward Carson, Irish-English lawyer and
politician, Attorney
General for England and Wales (b. 1854) ·
1935
Ettore Marchiafava,
Italian physician (b. 1847) ·
1941 Guy Mτquet, French militant (b. 1924) ·
1952 Ernst Rόdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist,
and eugenicist (b. 1874) ·
1954 Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian author
and poet (b. 1899) ·
1956 Hannah Mitchell, English activist (b. 1872) ·
1959 George Bouzianis, Greek painter and educator
(b. 1885) ·
1959
Joseph Cahill,
Australian politician, 29th Premier of New
South Wales (b. 1891) ·
1965 Muriel George, English singer and actress
(b. 1883) ·
1969 Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1922) ·
1972 James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet, writer,
theologian, and social commentator. (b. 1926) ·
1973 Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor
(b. 1876) ·
1979 Nadia Boulanger, French composer and
educator (b. 1887) ·
1979
Mieko Kamiya,
Japanese psychiatrist and author (b. 1914) ·
1982 Richard Hugo, American poet (b. 1923) ·
1985 Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano and
educator (b. 1894) ·
1986 Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer
(b. 1947) ·
1986
Thorgeir Stubψ,
Norwegian guitarist and composer (b. 1943) ·
1986
Ye Jianying, Chinese general and
politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (b.
1897) ·
1986
Albert Szent-Gyφrgyi,
Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1893) ·
1987 Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919) ·
1988 Cynthia Freeman, American author (b. 1915) ·
1989 Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter,
producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915) ·
1989
Jacob Wetterling,
American kidnapping victim (b. 1978) ·
1990 Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher
and academic (b. 1918) ·
1991 Hachiro Kasuga, Japanese singer and actor
(b. 1924) ·
1992 Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908) ·
1992
Cleavon Little,
American actor (b. 1939) ·
1993 Innes Ireland, English racing driver and
engineer (b. 1930) ·
1995 Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet,
critic (b. 1922) ·
1995
Mary Wickes, American actress and singer (b.
1910) ·
1997 Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director,
and screenwriter (b. 1905) ·
1998 Eric Ambler, English author, screenwriter,
and producer (b. 1909) ·
2001 Helmut Krackowizer,
Austrian motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1922) ·
2002 Richard Helms, American intelligence agent
and diplomat, 8th Director
of Central Intelligence (b. 1913) ·
2002
Geraldine of Albania (b.
1915) ·
2005 Arman, French-American painter and sculptor
(b. 1928) ·
2005
Tony Adams,
Irish-American actor and producer (b. 1953) ·
2006 Arthur Hill,
Canadian-American actor (b. 1922) ·
2007 Θve Curie, French pianist and journalist (b.
1904) ·
2009 Don Lane, American-Australian actor, singer,
and talk show host (b. 1933) ·
2009
Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (b.
1926) ·
2010 Eio Sakata, Japanese Go player (b. 1920) ·
2011 Sultan bin Abdulaziz,
Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1930) ·
2012 Betty Binns Fletcher,
American lawyer and judge (b. 1923) ·
2012
Mike Morris,
English talk show host (b. 1946) ·
2012
Gabrielle Roth,
American dancer, singer, and author (b. 1941) ·
2013 Marylou Dawes, Canadian pianist and educator
(b. 1933) ·
2013
Lajos Fόr, Hungarian
historian and politician, Minister
of Defence of Hungary (b. 1930) ·
2013
William
Harrison, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933) ·
2013
James Robinson
Risner, American general and pilot (b. 1925) ·
2014 George
Francis, English footballer and soldier (b. 1934) ·
2014
John-Roger Hinkins,
American religious leader and author (b. 1934) ·
2014
Ashok Kumar,
Indian director and cinematographer (b. 1941) ·
2014
John
Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (b. 1922) ·
2015 Willem Aantjes, Dutch civil servant and
politician (b. 1923) ·
2015
Ηetin Altan,
Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1927) ·
2015
Murphy Anderson,
American illustrator (b. 1926) ·
2015
Arnold Klein,
American dermatologist and author (b. 1945) ·
2015
Joshua Wheeler,
American sergeant (b. 1975) ·
2016 Steve Dillon, British comic book artist (b.
1962) ·
2016
Sheri S. Tepper,
American writer (b. 1929) ·
2017 George Young,
British-Australian musician, songwriter and record producer (b. 1946) ·
2017
Paul Weitz,
American astronaut (b. 1932) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Aaron the
Illustrious (Syriac Orthodox
Church) o Cordula o October
22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest
day on which Labour Day can
fall, while October 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in
October (New Zealand) ·
Fechner Day (International
observance) ·
International
Stuttering Awareness Day ·
Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan) ·
National
Santri Day (Indonesia) ·
Wombat Day (Australia) |
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