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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 October
October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
69 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
4004 BC – James Ussher's proposed creation date
of the world according to the Bible. ·
42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark
Antony and Octavian decisively
defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide. ·
425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman
emperor at the age of six. ·
501 –
The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic,
absolves Pope Symmachus of
all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius. ·
1086 –
Spanish Reconquista: At the Battle of Sagrajas,
the Almoravids defeats the Castilians, but are unable to take advantage of
their victory. ·
1157 –
The Battle of Grathe
Heath ends a civil war in Denmark. ·
1295 –
The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and
France against England is signed in Paris. ·
1641 –
Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of
Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, so as to force
concessions. ·
1642 –
The Battle of Edgehill is
the first major battle of the English Civil War. ·
1707 –
The First
Parliament of Great Britain convenes. ·
1739 –
The War of Jenkins' Ear begins
when Prime Minister Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain. ·
1812 –
A French general begins a conspiracy to
overthrow Napoleon, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia. ·
1850 –
The first National
Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts. ·
1864 –
American Civil War: The Battle of Westport is
the last significant engagement west of the Mississippi River. ·
1906 – Alberto
Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air
flight in Europe. ·
1911 –
The Italo-Turkish War sees
the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a
reconnaissance flight. ·
1912 –
First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between
the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. ·
1939 –
The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine
"Betty" Bomber makes its maiden flight. ·
1942 –
World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle
of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the
North African campaign. ·
1942
– All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American
Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a USAAF
bomber near Palm Springs, California. ·
1942
– World War II: The Battle for
Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal. ·
1944 –
World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins. ·
1955 –
Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo
Đại in a referendum and
founds the Republic of Vietnam. ·
1955 –
The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to
unite with Germany instead of France. ·
1956 –
Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the Hungarian
Revolution. ·
1958 –
Canada's Springhill
mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine
others are rescued. ·
1965 –
Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with South
Vietnamese forces, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces
during the siege of Plei Me. ·
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record
in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural
gas. ·
1972 –
Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker,
a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter
Offensive, ends after five months. ·
1973 –
Watergate scandal: President Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of
his Oval Office conversations. ·
1982 – A gunfight breaks
out between police officers and members of a religious cult
in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and
police officers injured. ·
1983 –
Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a
truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army
barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops. ·
1989 – The
Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian
People's Republic. ·
1989
– Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine;
the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then. ·
1991 –
Signing of the Paris Peace
Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese
War. ·
1993 –
The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely
detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. ·
1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is
found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin
singer Selena. ·
1998 –
Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum. ·
2002 –
Chechen terrorists seize the
House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers
hostage. ·
2004 –
A powerful earthquake and
its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people,
injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated. ·
2007 –
A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a
wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue
operations after evacuation of the platform. ·
2011 –
A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes
Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands. ·
2011
– The Libyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan Civil War over. ·
2012 –
After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern
Ireland completing the digital switchover. ·
2015 –
The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest
reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia,
which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280
million in damages. Births[edit] ·
1006 – Wen Yanbo,
Chinese grand chancellor (d. 1097) ·
1255 – Ferdinand de la
Cerda, Spanish noble (d. 1275) ·
1491 (estimated)
– Ignatius of Loyola,
Catholic priest (d. 1556)[1] ·
1516 – Charlotte of Valois,
French princess (d. 1524) ·
1634 – Hedwig
Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish queen (d. 1715) ·
1654 – Johann Bernhard
Staudt, Austrian composer (d. 1712) ·
1698 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel,
French architect, designed the École Militaire (d.
1782) ·
1705 – Maximilian
Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757) ·
1713 – Pieter Burman
the Younger, Dutch philologist, poet, and educator (d. 1778) ·
1762 – Samuel Morey, American engineer (d. 1843) ·
1766 – Emmanuel
de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (d. 1847) ·
1790 – Chauncey Allen
Goodrich, American minister, lexicographer, and educator (d. 1860) ·
1796 – Stefano Franscini,
Swiss statistician and politician (d. 1857)[2] ·
1801 – Albert Lortzing, German singer-songwriter
and actor (d. 1851) ·
1805 – John Russell
Bartlett, American linguist and historian (d. 1886) ·
1813 – Ludwig Leichhardt,
German-Australian explorer (d. 1848) ·
1815 – João
Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotejipe, Brazilian politician (d.
1889) ·
1817 – Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer and
author (d. 1875) ·
1822 – Gustav Spörer, German astronomer (d. 1895) ·
1835 – Adlai Stevenson I,
American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice
President of the United States (d. 1914) ·
1837 – Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist (d.
1902) ·
1844 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923) ·
1844
– Robert Bridges,
English poet and playwright (d. 1930) ·
1857 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (d.
1899) ·
1863 – Mirko Breyer, Croatian writer, bibliographer,
antiquarian, and one of the notable alleged and false victims of the Stara
Gradiška concentration camp (d. 1946) ·
1865 – Neltje Blanchan, American historian and
author (d. 1918) ·
1869 – John Heisman, American football player and
coach (d. 1936) ·
1870 – Francis Kelley, Canadian-American bishop (d.
1948) ·
1873 – William D. Coolidge,
American physicist and engineer (d. 1975) ·
1874 – Charles
Kilpatrick, American runner and educator (d. 1921) ·
1875 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist and
academic (d. 1946) ·
1876 – Franz Schlegelberger,
German judge and politician, Reich Ministry
of Justice (d. 1970) ·
1880 – Dominikus Böhm,
German architect (d. 1955) ·
1880
– Una O'Connor,
Irish-American actress and singer (d. 1959) ·
1883 – Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (d. 1962) ·
1885 – Lawren Harris, Canadian painter and educator
(d. 1970) ·
1888 – Onésime Gagnon,
Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant
Governor of Quebec (d. 1961) ·
1892 – Speckled Red, American blues/boogie-woogie
piano player and singer-songwriter (d. 1973) ·
1894 – Rube Bressler, American baseball player (d.
1966) ·
1894
– Emma Vyssotsky,
American astronomer and academic (d. 1975) ·
1896 – André Lévêque,
French soldier and engineer (d. 1930) ·
1896
– Lilyan Tashman,
American actress (d. 1934) ·
1897 – John Baker,
English air marshal (d. 1978) ·
1897
– Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, Spanish writer
(d. 1975) ·
1899 – Bernt Balchen, Norwegian aviator (d. 1973) ·
1900 – Douglas Jardine, Indian-English cricketer
and lawyer (d. 1958) ·
1902 – Robert Eberan
von Eberhorst, Austrian engineer (d. 1982) ·
1902
– Luther Evans,
American political scientist and politician (d. 1981) ·
1904 – Harvey Penick, American golfer and coach (d.
1995) ·
1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1983) ·
1905
– Yen Chia-kan,
Chinese lawyer and politician, President
of the Republic of China (d. 1993) ·
1905
– Gertrude Ederle,
American swimmer (d. 2003) ·
1908 – František Douda,
Czech shot putter (d. 1990) ·
1908
– Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1990) ·
1909 – Zellig Harris, American linguist and
methodologist (d. 1992) ·
1910 – Richard Mortensen,
Danish painter and educator (d. 1993) ·
1910
– Hayden Rorke,
American actor (d. 1987) ·
1911 – Jack Keller,
American hurdler (d. 1978) ·
1915 – Simo Puupponen, Finnish writer (d. 1967) ·
1918 – Augusta Dabney, American actress (d. 2008) ·
1918
– James Daly,
American actor (d. 1978) ·
1918
– Paul Rudolph,
American architect and academic, designed the Lippo Centre (d.
1997) ·
1919 – Manolis Andronikos,
Greek archaeologist and academic (d. 1992) ·
1920 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist
and academic (d. 1998) ·
1920
– Bob Montana, American illustrator (d. 1975) ·
1920
– Gianni Rodari,
Italian writer (d. 1980) ·
1920
– Vern Stephens,
American baseball player (d. 1968) ·
1922 – Jean
Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (d. 2018) ·
1922
– Coleen Gray, American actress (d. 2015) ·
1923 – Aslam Farrukhi, Indian-Pakistani linguist,
author, and scholar (d. 2016) ·
1923
– Ned Rorem, American composer and author ·
1923
– Frank Sutton,
American actor (d. 1974) ·
1924 – Arthur Brittenden,
English journalist (d. 2015) ·
1925 – Johnny Carson, American comedian and talk
show host (d. 2005) ·
1925
– Manos Hatzidakis,
Greek composer and theorist (d. 1994) ·
1925
– Fred Shero, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and coach (d. 1990)[3] ·
1927 – Sonny Criss, American saxophonist and
composer (d. 1977) ·
1927
– Dezső Gyarmati,
Hungarian water polo player and coach (d. 2013) ·
1927
– Leszek
Kołakowski, Polish-English historian and philosopher (d.
2009) ·
1929 – Shamsur Rahman,
Bangladeshi poet and journalist (d. 2006) ·
1930 – Luis Alarcón, Chilean actor ·
1930
– Unto Mononen,
Finnish musician (d. 1968) ·
1931 – Jim Bunning, American baseball player and
politician (d. 2017) ·
1931
– William P. Clark,
Jr., American judge and politician, 12th United
States National Security Advisor (d. 2013) ·
1931
– Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984) ·
1932 – Vasily Belov, Russian novelist, poet and
playwright (d. 2012) ·
1933 – Carol Fran, American singer-songwriter and
pianist ·
1933
– Carlos Lemos
Simmonds, sixth Vice President
of Columbia (d. 2003) ·
1934 – Caitro Soto, Afro-Peruvian musician (d.
2004) ·
1935 – Chi-Chi Rodríguez,
Puerto Rican-American golfer ·
1935
– JacSue Kehoe,
American neuroscientist ·
1936 – Charles Goodhart, English economist and
academic ·
1936
– Philip Kaufman,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1937 – Johnny Carroll, American rockabilly musician
(d. 1995) ·
1937
– Carlos Lamarca,
Brazilian captain (d. 1971) ·
1937
– Deven Verma, Indian actor, director, and
producer (d. 2014) ·
1938 – Alan G`ilzean, Scottish footballer and
manager (d. 2018) ·
1939 – Charlie Foxx,
American R&B/soul singer and guitarist (d. 1998) ·
1939
– C. V. Vigneswaran,
Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st Chief
Minister of the Northern Province ·
1940 – Ellie Greenwich, American singer-songwriter
and producer (The Raindrops)
(d. 2009) ·
1940
– Jane Holzer, American model, actress,
producer, and art collector ·
1940
– Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor ·
1941 – René Metge, French rally driver ·
1941
– Colin Milburn,
English cricketer (d. 1990) ·
1941
– Igor Smirnov,
Moldovan engineer and politician, 1st President of
Transnistria ·
1942 – Michael Crichton, American author, director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) ·
1942
– Douglas Dunn,
Scottish poet, critic, and academic ·
1942
– Bernd Erdmann,
German footballer and manager ·
1942
– Anita Roddick,
English businesswoman and activist, founded The Body Shop (d. 2007) ·
1943 – Alida Chelli, Italian actress and singer (d.
2012) ·
1944 – Mike Harding, English singer-songwriter and
comedian ·
1945 – Maggi Hambling, English sculptor and painter ·
1945
– Kim Larsen, Danish singer-songwriter and
guitarist (Gasolin') ·
1945
– Graça Machel,
Mozambican politician and humanitarian ·
1945
– Ernie Watts, American saxophonist ·
1945
– Maury Yeston,
American composer, lyricist, and music theorist ·
1946 – Graeme Barker, English archaeologist and
academic ·
1946
– Alicia Borinsky,
Argentine writer ·
1946
– Mel Martínez,
American lawyer and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development ·
1946
– Miklós Németh,
Hungarian javelin thrower ·
1947 – Abdel Aziz
al-Rantisi, co-founder of the Palestinian movement Hamas ·
1947
– Kazimierz Deyna,
Polish footballer (d. 1989) ·
1947
– Greg Ridley, English bass player (d. 2003) ·
1948 – Hermann Hauser, Austrian-English
businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti
Research Laboratory ·
1948
– Gerry Robinson,
Irish-born British businessman, arts patron and television personality ·
1948
– Brian Ross,
American journalist ·
1948
– Jordi Sabatés,
Spanish musician ·
1949 – Krešimir
Ćosić, Croatian soldier and politician ·
1949
– Oscar Martínez,
Argentine theater actor ·
1949
– Nick Tosches,
American journalist, author, and poet (d. 2019) ·
1949
– Würzel, English singer and guitarist (d.
2011) ·
1950 – Maths O. Sundqvist,
Swedish businessman (d. 2012) ·
1951 – Charly García, Argentine singer-songwriter
and keyboard player ·
1951
– Ángel de Andrés
López, Spanish actor (d. 2016) ·
1951
– Fatmir Sejdiu,
Kosovan academic and politician, 2nd President of Kosovo ·
1951
– David Wills,
American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1952 – Pierre Moerlen, French drummer (Gong) (d. 2005) ·
1952
– Ken Tipton, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1953 – Taner Akçam, Turkish sociologist and
historian ·
1953
– Joaquín Lavín,
Chilean politician and economist ·
1954 – Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1956 – Adam Nawałka, Polish football player
and manager ·
1956
– Darrell Pace,
American archer[4] ·
1956
– Dianne Reeves,
American singer ·
1956
– Dwight Yoakam,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ·
1957 – Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician,
6th President of Rwanda ·
1957
– Graham Rix, English footballer and coach ·
1958 – Michael Eric Dyson,
American activist, author, and academic ·
1958
– Rose Nabinger,
German singer ·
1958
– Frank Schaffer,
German sprinter ·
1959 – Nancy Grace, American lawyer and journalist ·
1959
– Sam Raimi, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1959
– "Weird
Al" Yankovic, American singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor ·
1960 – Mirwais Ahmadzaï,
Swiss-French keyboard player, songwriter, and producer ·
1960
– Katoucha Niane,
French model and actress (d. 2008) ·
1960
– Randy Pausch,
American author and academic (d. 2008) ·
1960
– Wayne Rainey,
American motorcycle racer ·
1961 – Laurie Halse
Anderson, American author ·
1961
– Vinicio Gómez,
Guatemalan politician (d. 2008) ·
1961
– Andoni Zubizarreta,
Spanish footballer and sportscaster ·
1962 – Doug Flutie, American football player,
sportscaster, and drummer ·
1963 – Gordon Korman, Canadian-American author ·
1963
– Rashidi Yekini,
Nigerian footballer ·
1964 – Anabell López, Cuban singer ·
1964
– Robert Trujillo,
American bass player and songwriter ·
1964
– Eddy Cue, American computer scientist and
businessman ·
1965 – Augusten Burroughs,
American author and screenwriter ·
1965
– Al Leiter, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1966 – Alex Zanardi, Italian racing driver and
cyclist ·
1967 – Dale Crover, American singer-songwriter,
drummer, and producer ·
1967
– Omar Linares,
Cuban baseball player ·
1967
– Walt Flanagan,
American actor and illustrator ·
1967
– Jaime Yzaga, Peruvian tennis player ·
1969 – Dolly Buster, Czech film producer and
director, actress and author ·
1969
– Trudi Canavan,
Australian author and illustrator ·
1969
– Bill
O'Brien, American football player and coach ·
1969
– Brooke Theiss,
American actress ·
1970 – Matthew Barzun, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ·
1970
– Grant Imahara,
American television presenter and engineer ·
1970
– Kenji Nomura,
Japanese voice actor ·
1970
– Zoe Wiseman, American model and photographer ·
1971 – Carlo Forlivesi, Italian-Japanese composer
and scholar ·
1971
– Chris Horner,
American cyclist ·
1972 – Kate del Castillo,
Mexican actress ·
1972
– Tiffeny Milbrett,
American soccer player ·
1972
– Dominika Paleta,
Polish-Mexican actress ·
1972
– Eduardo Paret,
Cuban baseball player ·
1972
– Bryan Pratt, American lawyer and politician ·
1972
– Jasmin St. Claire,
Virgin Islander-American actress ·
1972
– Jimmy Wayne, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1973 – Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer ·
1974 – Aravind Adiga, Indian journalist and author ·
1974
– Beatrice Faumuina,
New Zealand discus thrower ·
1974
– Sander Westerveld,
Dutch footballer ·
1974
– Christine Yoshikawa,
Canadian pianist ·
1975 – Jessicka, American singer-songwriter ·
1975
– Michelle Beadle,
American sportscaster ·
1975
– Odalys García,
Cuban actress ·
1975
– Phillip Gillespie,
Australian cricket umpire ·
1975
– Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer ·
1975
– Keith Van Horn,
American basketball player ·
1975
– Manuela Velasco,
Spanish actress ·
1976 – Cat Deeley, English model, actress, and
television host ·
1976
– Sergio Diduch,
Argentine footballer ·
1976
– Ryan Reynolds,
Canadian-American actor and producer ·
1977 – Brad Haddin, Australian cricketer ·
1977
– Alex Tudor, English cricketer and coach ·
1978 – Jimmy Bullard, English footballer ·
1978
– Steve Harmison,
English cricketer and sportscaster ·
1978
– John Lackey, American baseball player ·
1978
– Archie Thompson,
New Zealand-Australian footballer ·
1979 – Ramón Castro,
Venezuelan baseball player ·
1979
– Simon
Davies, Welsh footballer ·
1979
– Prabhas, Telugu film actor ·
1979
– Jorge Solís,
Mexican boxer ·
1979
– Bud Smith, American baseball player ·
1980 – Mate Bilić, Croatian footballer ·
1980
– Pedro Liriano,
Dominican baseball player ·
1981 – Daniela Alvarado, Venezuelan actress ·
1981
– Jeroen Bleekemolen,
Dutch racing driver ·
1981
– Leticia Dolera,
Spanish actress ·
1981
– Ben Francisco,
American baseball player ·
1981
– Lee Ki-woo, South Korean actor ·
1981
– Jackie Long, American actor and producer ·
1981
– Mirel Rădoi,
Romanian footballer ·
1981
– Huo Siyan, Chinese actress ·
1982 – Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer ·
1982
– Rickey Paulding,
American basketball player ·
1982
– Kristjan Kangur,
Estonian basketball player ·
1982
– Aleksandar
Luković, Serbian footballer ·
1982
– Rodolfo Dantas Bispo,
Brazilian footballer ·
1983 – Filippos Darlas, Greek footballer ·
1983
– Valentin Demyanenko,
Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani canoeist[5] ·
1983
– Goldie Harvey,
Nigerian singer-songwriter (d. 2013) ·
1984 – Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model ·
1984
– Jeffrey Hoogervorst,
Dutch footballer ·
1984
– Simone Masini,
Italian footballer ·
1984
– Meghan McCain,
American journalist and author ·
1984
– Michael Sim, Australian golfer ·
1984
– Keiren Westwood,
English footballer ·
1985 – Miguel, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1985
– Mohammed Abdellaoue,
Norwegian footballer ·
1985
– Masiela Lusha,
Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian ·
1985
– Chris Neal, English footballer ·
1985
– Luca Spinetti,
Italian footballer ·
1985
– Panagiotis Vouis,
Greek footballer ·
1986 – Emilia Clarke, English actress ·
1986
– Briana Evigan,
American actress and dancer ·
1986
– Jake Robinson,
English footballer ·
1986
– Jessica Stroup,
American actress ·
1987 – Faye, Swedish singer-songwriter (Play) ·
1987
– Robin Copeland,
Irish rugby player ·
1987
– Félix Doubront,
Venezuelan baseball player ·
1987
– Kyle Gibson, American baseball player ·
1987
– Seo In-guk, South Korean singer and actor ·
1987
– Miyuu Sawai, Japanese model and actress ·
1987
– Naomi Watanabe,
Japanese actress ·
1988 – Jordan Crawford, American basketball player ·
1988
– Aleksandr Salugin,
Russian footballer ·
1988
– Carolin Schiewe,
German footballer ·
1989 – Viktor Agardius, Swedish footballer ·
1989
– Alain Broja,
Venezuelan footballer ·
1989
– Jonita Gandhi,
Indo-Canadian singer ·
1989
– Anisya Kirdyapkina,
Russian race walker ·
1989
– Andriy Yarmolenko,
Ukraian footballer ·
1990 – Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1991 – Emil Forsberg, Swedish footballer ·
1991
– Jorge Taufua,
Australian rugby league player ·
1991
– Princess Mako
of Akishino, member of the Japanese Imperial
Family ·
1992 – Álvaro Morata, Spanish footballer ·
1993 – Josh Ruffels, English footballer ·
1993
– Taylor Spreitler,
American actress ·
1995 – Ireland Baldwin, American model ·
1997 – Jaydn Su'A, New Zealand rugby league player ·
1998 – Amandla Stenberg, American actress[6] ·
2002 – Shin Eun-soo, South Korean actress Deaths[edit] ·
42 BC – Marcus
Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman general and politician (b. 85 BC) ·
877 – Ignatios of
Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch (b. 797) ·
891 – Yazaman al-Khadim,
Abbasid general and politician ·
902 – Ibrahim II of
Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir (b. 850) ·
930 – Daigo, Japanese emperor (b. 885) ·
945 – Hyejong of Goryeo,
Korean king (b. 912) ·
949 – Yōzei, Japanese emperor (b. 869) ·
1134 – Abu al-Salt, Andalusian polymath ·
1157 – Sweyn III,
Danish king (b. c. 1125) ·
1456 – John of Capistrano,
Italian priest and saint (b. 1386) ·
1550 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (b. 1480) ·
1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and
astronomer (b. 1529) ·
1590 – Bernardino de
Sahagún, Spanish-born Franciscan, compiler of the Florentine Codex of Aztecs history in Mexico (b. 1499) ·
1616 – Leonhard Hutter, German theologian and
academic (b. 1563) ·
1688 – Charles
du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (b.
1610) ·
1730 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683) ·
1764 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte,
French admiral (b. 1683) ·
1774 – Michel Benoist, French missionary and
astronomer (b. 1715) ·
1867 – Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (b.
1791) ·
1869 – Edward
Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799) ·
1872 – Théophile Gautier,
French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811) ·
1885 – Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist,
and politician, Secretary of
State of Texas (b. 1829) ·
1893 – Alexander of
Battenberg (b. 1857) ·
1910 – Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853) ·
1915 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician
(b. 1848) ·
1916 – Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and
soldier (b. 1889) ·
1917 – Eugène Grasset,
Swiss illustrator (b. 1845) ·
1921 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman,
founded Dunlop Rubber (b.
1840) ·
1935 – Charles Demuth, American painter and
educator (b. 1883) ·
1939 – Zane Grey, American dentist and author (b.
1872) ·
1942 – Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer
(b. 1901) ·
1943 – Wakashima
Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876) ·
1944 – Charles Glover
Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1877) ·
1944
– Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931) ·
1950 – Al Jolson, Lithuanian-American actor and
singer (b. 1886) ·
1953 – Adrien de Noailles,
French son of Jules
Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869) ·
1959 – George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885) ·
1959
– Gerda Lundequist,
Swedish actress (b. 1871) ·
1964 – Frank Luther Mott,
American historian and journalist (b. 1886) ·
1978 – Maybelle Carter, American singer and
autoharp player (Carter Family)
(b. 1909) ·
1983 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b.
1947) ·
1984 – Oskar Werner, Austrian-German actor (b.
1922) ·
1986 – Edward Adelbert
Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1893) ·
1988 – Asashio Tarō
III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (b. 1929) ·
1989 – Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer,
and dancer (b. 1911) ·
1990 – Thomas Williams,
American author and academic (b. 1926) ·
1994 – Robert Lansing,
American actor (b. 1928) ·
1996 – Bob Grim,
American baseball player (b. 1930) ·
1997 – Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and
screenwriter (b. 1916) ·
1998 – Barnett Slepian, American physician (b.
1946) ·
1999 – Eric Reece, Australian politician,
32nd Premier of Tasmania (b.
1909) ·
2000 – Yokozuna,
American wrestler (b. 1966) ·
2001 – Josh Kirby, English illustrator (b. 1928) ·
2001
– Daniel Wildenstein,
French art dealer and historian (b. 1917) ·
2002 – Adolph Green, American playwright and
songwriter (b. 1915) ·
2003 – Tony Capstick, English actor and singer (b.
1944) ·
2003
– Soong Mei-ling,
Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek,
2nd First
Lady of the Republic of China (b. 1898) ·
2004 – Robert Merrill, American actor and singer
(b. 1919) ·
2004
– Bill
Nicholson, English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1919) ·
2005 – William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948) ·
2005
– John Muth, American economist and academic
(b. 1930) ·
2005
– Stella Obasanjo,
Nigerian wife of Olusegun Obasanjo,
10th First Lady of
Nigeria (b. 1945) ·
2006 – Lebo Mathosa, South African singer (Boom Shaka) (b. 1977) ·
2007 – John Ilhan, Turkish-Australian businessman,
founded Crazy John's (b.
1965) ·
2007
– Lim Goh Tong,
Malaysian-Chinese businessman (b. 1918) ·
2008 – Kevin Finnegan, English boxer (b. 1948) ·
2009 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian-American actor (b.
1913) ·
2010 – Fran Crippen, American swimmer (b. 1984) ·
2010
– Stanley Tanger,
American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Tanger
Factory Outlet Centers (b. 1923) ·
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman,
American chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1917) ·
2011
– Marco Simoncelli,
Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987) ·
2012 – William Joel Blass,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1917) ·
2012
– Wilhelm Brasse,
Polish photographer (b. 1917) ·
2012
– Roland de la Poype,
French soldier and pilot (b. 1920) ·
2012
– Sunil Gangopadhyay,
Indian author and poet (b. 1934) ·
2012
– Michael Marra,
Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1952) ·
2013 – Wes Bialosuknia, American basketball player
(b. 1945) ·
2013
– Anthony Caro,
English sculptor and academic (b. 1924) ·
2013
– Niall Donohue,
Irish hurler (b. 1990) ·
2013
– Gypie Mayo, English guitarist and songwriter
(Dr. Feelgood and The Yardbirds) (b. 1951) ·
2013
– Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist
and sportscaster (b. 1920) ·
2014 – Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (b.
1922) ·
2014
– John Bramlett,
American football player (b. 1941) ·
2014
– Bernard Mayes,
English-American journalist and academic (b. 1929) ·
2014
– Joan Quigley,
American astrologer and author (b. 1927) ·
2014
– Tullio Regge,
Italian physicist and academic (b. 1931) ·
2014
– Alvin Stardust,
English singer and actor (b. 1942) ·
2015 – Leon Bibb,
American-Canadian singer (b. 1922) ·
2015
– Roger De Clerck,
Belgian businessman (b. 1924) ·
2015
– Jim
Roberts, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1940) ·
2015
– Fred Sands, American businessman and
philanthropist, co-founded the Museum
of Contemporary Art (b. 1938) ·
2016 – Jack Chick, American cartoonist and
publisher (b. 1924) ·
2016
– Wim van der Voort,
Dutch speed skater (b. 1923) ·
2016
– Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter (b.
1959) ·
2017 – Walter Lassally, German cinematographer (b.
1926) ·
2018 – Todd Reid, Australian tennis player (b.
1984) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Feast of
the Most Holy Redeemer o James the Just (i.e. James, brother of
Jesus) (Lutheran, Episcopal Church
(USA), Eastern Orthodox) o Amon of Toul (Diocese of Toul) o Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius o October
23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) o Christmas or the Feast of Señor Noemi
(the Child Jesus) in
the Apostolic
Catholic Church ·
Aviator's Day (Brazil) ·
Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand) ·
Day
of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle (Republic of
North Macedonia) ·
Liberation Day (Libya) ·
Mole Day (International
observance) ·
Paris Peace
Agreement Day (Cambodia) |
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