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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 October
October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
62 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after
the Battle of the
Iron Bridge. ·
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian
pirates. ·
1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at
the Battle of Rignano,
securing his position as duke until his death two years later. ·
1270 –
The Eighth Crusade ends
by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing
his deceased brother King Louis IX of
France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia. ·
1340 – Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion
at the Battle of Río Salado. ·
1485 –
King Henry VII of England is
crowned, beginning the Tudor reign. ·
1657 – Anglo-Spanish
War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios. ·
1806 – War of the
Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force,
Prussian General von
Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the
city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers. ·
1817 – Simón Bolívar becomes
President of the Third
Republic of Venezuela. ·
1831 – Nat Turner is arrested for leading the
bloodiest slave
rebellion in United States history. ·
1843 – Fuerte Bulnes, the first Chilean settlement
in the strait of Magellan,
is founded. ·
1863 –
Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I,
King of the Hellenes. ·
1864 –
The Treaty of Vienna is
signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria. ·
1888 –
The Rudd Concession is
granted by Matabeleland to
agents of Cecil Rhodes. ·
1905 – Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto,
granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a
duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar) ·
1918 – World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs
the Armistice of Mudros with
the Allies. ·
1918
– World War I: Lands
of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and
Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian
parliaments ·
1920 –
The Communist
Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. ·
1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's
first television
transmitter. ·
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play
of H. G. Wells's The
War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in
the United States. ·
1941 – President Roosevelt approves
$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid
to the Allied nations. ·
1941
– Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec
extermination camp. ·
1942 – World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code
books from the sinking German submarine
U-559. ·
1944 –
Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to
the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp, where they die from disease the following
year, shortly before the end of WWII. ·
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs
a contract for the Brooklyn
Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line. ·
1947 –
The General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of
the World Trade
Organization (WTO), is founded. ·
1948 –
A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with
passengers capsizes and
sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta,
killing 23 of the 27 people on board.[1] ·
1953 – President Eisenhower approves
the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning
the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union. ·
1956 – Hungarian
Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils.
Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters. ·
1959 – Piedmont
Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle
Airport in Albemarle
County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.[2] ·
1961 –
The Soviet Union detonates
the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive
device ever detonated. ·
1961
– Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is
decreed that Joseph Stalin's
body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite
marker. ·
1973 –
The Bosphorus Bridge in
Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the
Bosphorus for the second time. ·
1974 – The Rumble in
the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire. ·
1975 –
Prince Juan Carlos I of
Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the
country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. ·
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border
dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International
Court of Justice. ·
1983 –
The first democratic
elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are
held. ·
1985 – Space Shuttle
Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. ·
1991 – The
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid
Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.[3] ·
1993 – The Troubles: Loyalists carry out a mass shooting at
a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern
Ireland, killing six Catholics and
two Protestants. ·
1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58%
to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province
of Canada in their second referendum on
national sovereignty. ·
2005 –
The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed
in the firebombing of
Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a
thirteen-year rebuilding project. ·
2014 – Sweden is the first European Union member state to
officially recognize the State of Palestine. ·
2015 –
Sixty-four people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a
nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest. Births[edit] ·
39 BC – Julia the Elder, Roman daughter of Augustus (d. 14) ·
1218 – Emperor Chūkyō of
Japan (d. 1234) ·
1327 – Andrew, Duke of
Calabria (d. 1345) ·
1447 – Lucas Watzenrode, Prince-Bishop of Warmia
(d. 1512) ·
1492 – Anne d'Alençon,
French noblewoman (d. 1562) ·
1513 – Jacques Amyot, French bishop and translator
(d. 1593) ·
1558 – Jacques-Nompar
de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (d. 1652) ·
1624 – Paul Pellisson, French historian and author
(d. 1693) ·
1632 – Christopher Wren, English physicist,
mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d.
1723) ·
1660 – Ernest August, Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1731) ·
1668 – Sophia
Charlotte of Hanover (d. 1705) ·
1712 – Giovanni
Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian
and cleric (d. 1770) ·
1728 – Mary Hayley, English businesswoman (d. 1808) ·
1735 – John Adams, American lawyer and politician,
2nd President
of the United States (d. 1826) ·
1751 – Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-English poet, playwright, and
politician, Treasurer of the
Navy (d. 1816) ·
1762 – André Chénier,
Turkish-French poet and playwright (d. 1794) ·
1786 – Philippe-Joseph
Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian captain and author (d. 1871) ·
1799 – Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (d. 1885) ·
1839 – Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (d.
1899) ·
1857 – Georges
Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d.
1904) ·
1861 – Antoine Bourdelle,
French sculptor and painter (d. 1929) ·
1868 – António Cabreira,
Portuguese polygraph (d. 1953)[4] ·
1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d.
1949) ·
1871
– Paul Valéry,
French poet and philosopher (d. 1945) ·
1873 – Francisco I. Madero,
Mexican businessman and politician, 33rd President of Mexico (d.
1913) ·
1877 – Hugo Celmiņš,
Latvian politician, Prime Minister
of Latvia (d. 1941) ·
1878 – Arthur Scherbius, German electrical
engineer, invented the Enigma machine (d. 1929)[5] ·
1881 – Elizabeth Madox
Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941) ·
1882 – Oldřich Duras, Czech chess player and
composer (d. 1957) ·
1882
– William Halsey, Jr.,
American admiral (d. 1959) ·
1882
– Günther von Kluge,
Polish-German field marshal (d. 1944) ·
1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (d.
1972) ·
1886 – Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and
playwright (d. 1958) ·
1887 – Sukumar Ray, Indian-Bangladeshi author,
poet, and playwright (d. 1923) ·
1888 – Louis Menges, American soccer player,
soldier, and politician (d. 1969) ·
1888
– Konstantinos
Tsiklitiras, Greek footballer and high jumper (d. 1913) ·
1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder
(d. 1972) ·
1893
– Roland Freisler,
German soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 1945) ·
1894 – Jean Rostand, French biologist and
philosopher (d. 1977) ·
1894
– Peter Warlock,
English composer and critic (d. 1930) ·
1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and
bacteriologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1964) ·
1895
– Dickinson W.
Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1973) ·
1896 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928) ·
1896
– Ruth Gordon, American actress and
screenwriter (d. 1985) ·
1896
– Kostas Karyotakis,
Greek poet and educator (d. 1928) ·
1896
– Harry Randall Truman,
American soldier (d. 1980) ·
1896
– Antonino Votto,
Italian conductor (d. 1985) ·
1897 – Agustín Lara, Mexican singer-songwriter and
actor (d. 1970) ·
1898 – Bill Terry, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1989) ·
1900 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist
and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1991) ·
1905 – Johnny Miles, English-Canadian runner (d.
2003) ·
1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d.
1966) ·
1906
– Hermann Fegelein,
German general (d. 1945) ·
1906
– Alexander Gode,
German-American linguist and translator (d. 1970) ·
1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist and
academic (d. 1995) ·
1908 – Patsy Montana, American singer-songwriter
and actress (d. 1996) ·
1908
– U.
Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (d. 1963) ·
1908
– Peter
Smith, English cricketer (d. 1967) ·
1908
– Dmitry Ustinov, Marshal of
the Soviet Union (d. 1984) ·
1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and
academic (d. 1966) ·
1910 – Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian-Monegasque organist
and composer (d. 1994) ·
1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005) ·
1914 – Richard E. Holz, American minister and
composer (d. 1986) ·
1914
– Leabua Jonathan,
Basotho lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister
of Lesotho (d. 1987) ·
1914
– Anna Wing, English actress (d. 2013) ·
1915 – Fred W. Friendly, American journalist and
producer (d. 1998) ·
1915
– Jane Randolph,
American-Swiss actress and singer (d. 2009) ·
1916 – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995) ·
1917 – Bobby Bragan, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 2010) ·
1917
– Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (d.
1994) ·
1917
– Nikolai Ogarkov,
Russian field marshal (d. 1994) ·
1917
– Maurice Trintignant,
French race car driver (d. 2005) ·
1920
– Christy Ring, Irish
sportsman (d. 1979) ·
1921 – Valli
Lember-Bogatkina (d. 2016)[6] ·
1922 – Jane White, American actress and singer (d.
2011) ·
1924 – John P. Craven, American soldier and
engineer (d. 2015) ·
1923 – Gloria Oden, American poet and academic (d.
2011) ·
1925 – Tommy Ridgley, American singer and
bandleader (d. 1999) ·
1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian race car driver and
manager (d. 2010) ·
1927 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1999) ·
1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1999) ·
1928
– Peter Wales, English cricketer (d. 2018) ·
1929 – Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (d. 2012) ·
1929
– Jean Chapman,
English author ·
1930 – Néstor Almendros,
Spanish-American director and cinematographer (d. 1992) ·
1930
– Christopher
Foster, English economist and academic ·
1930
– Clifford Brown,
American trumpet player and composer (d. 1956) ·
1930
– Don Meineke, American basketball player (d.
2013) ·
1931 – Vince Callahan, American lieutenant and politician
(d. 2014) ·
1931
– David M. Wilson,
Manx archaeologist, historian, and curator ·
1932 – Barun De, Indian historian and author (d.
2013) ·
1932
– Louis Malle, French director, producer, and
screenwriter (d. 1995) ·
1933 – Col Campbell, New Zealand gardener and
television host (d. 2012) ·
1934 – Keith Barnes, Welsh-Australian rugby player
and coach ·
1934
– Frans Brüggen,
Dutch flute player and conductor (d. 2014) ·
1935 – Robert Caro, American journalist and author ·
1935
– Agota Kristof,
Hungarian-Swiss author (d. 2011) ·
1935
– Jim Perry,
American baseball player ·
1935
– Michael Winner,
English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast and
trainer (d. 2005) ·
1936
– Dick Vermeil,
American football player and coach ·
1937 – Claude Lelouch, French actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1937
– Brian Price,
Welsh rugby player ·
1938 – Morris Lurie, Australian novelist, short
story writer, and playwright (d. 2014) ·
1939
– Harvey Goldstein,
English statistician and academic ·
1939
– Leland H. Hartwell,
American biologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1939
– Eddie Holland,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1939
– Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and
model ·
1941 – Marcel Berlins, French-English lawyer,
journalist, and academic ·
1941
– Aleksandr Dulichenko,
Russian-Estonian linguist and academic ·
1941
– Theodor W. Hänsch,
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1941
– Otis Williams,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1941
– Bob
Wilson, English footballer and sportscaster ·
1942 – Sven-David Sandström,
Swedish composer and historian ·
1943 – Paul Claes, Belgian poet and translator ·
1943
– Joanna Shimkus,
Canadian actress ·
1943
– David
Triesman, Baron Triesman, English union leader and politician ·
1944 – Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi businessman and
politician (d. 2015) ·
1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, comedian,
director, and producer ·
1946 – Robert L. Gibson, American captain, pilot,
and astronaut ·
1946
– Andrea Mitchell,
American journalist ·
1946
– Anthony Shorrocks,
English economist, author, and academic ·
1946
– Chris Slade, Welsh drummer ·
1947 – Glenn Andreotta, American soldier (d. 1968) ·
1947
– Timothy B. Schmit,
American singer-songwriter and bass player ·
1947
– Herschel Weingrod,
American screenwriter and producer ·
1948 – Richard
Alston, English dancer and choreographer ·
1948
– Garry McDonald,
Australian actor and screenwriter ·
1949 – Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (d. 1996) ·
1950 – Tim Sheens, Australian rugby league player and
coach ·
1951 – Tony Bettenhausen,
Jr., American race car driver and businessman (d. 2000) ·
1951
– Trilok Gurtu,
Indian drummer and songwriter ·
1951
– Harry Hamlin,
American actor ·
1951
– Poncho Sanchez,
American singer and conga player ·
1953 – Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American lawyer and
politician ·
1953
– Charles Martin Smith,
American actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1954 – Mahmoud El Khatib,
Egyptian footballer ·
1954
– T. Graham Brown,
American country singer-songwriter ·
1954
– Jeannie Kendall,
American country singer-songwriter ·
1954
– Mario Testino,
Peruvian-English photographer ·
1955 – Heidi Heitkamp, American lawyer and
politician, 28th Attorney
General of North Dakota ·
1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress ·
1957 – Shlomo Mintz, Israeli violinist and
conductor ·
1957
– Kevin Pollak,
American actor, game show host, and producer ·
1958 – Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and
composer (d. 2014) ·
1958
– Joe Delaney, American football player (d.
1983) ·
1958
– Stefan Dennis,
Australian actor and singer ·
1958
– Ramona d'Viola,
American cyclist and photographer ·
1959 – Vincent Lagaf', French actor, singer, and
game show host ·
1960 – Charnele Brown, American actress and singer ·
1960
– Grayson Hugh,
American singer-songwriter ·
1960
– Diego Maradona,
Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager ·
1961 – Scott Garrelts, American baseball player ·
1961
– Giorgos
Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician, Greek
Minister of Finance ·
1961
– Larry Wilmore,
American comedian and television host ·
1962
– Stefan Kuntz,
German footballer and manager ·
1962 – Danny Tartabull, Puerto Rican baseball
player ·
1962
– Courtney Walsh,
Jamaican cricketer ·
1963 – Michael Beach, American actor and producer ·
1963
– Rebecca Heineman,
American video game designer and programmer ·
1963
– Andrew Solomon,
American-English journalist and author ·
1963
– Mike Veletta,
Australian cricketer and coach ·
1963
– Kristina Wagner,
American actress ·
1964 – Adnan Al Talyani, Emirati footballer ·
1964
– Humayun Kabir Dhali,
Bangladeshi journalist and author ·
1964
– Howard Lederer,
American poker player ·
1965 – Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1967 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1967
– Leonidas Kavakos,
Greek violinist and conductor ·
1968 – Emmanuelle Claret,
French biathlete (d. 2013) ·
1968
– Jack Plotnick,
American actor, director, and producer ·
1968
– Ken Stringfellow,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1969 – Stanislav Gross, Czech lawyer and
politician, 5th Prime
Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015) ·
1969
– Snow, Canadian
rapper and reggae singer-songwriter ·
1969
– Vangelis Vourtzoumis,
Greek basketball player ·
1970 – Ben Bailey, American comedian and game show
host ·
1970
– Tory Belleci,
American visual effects designer and television presenter ·
1970
– Christine
Bersola-Babao, Filipino journalist and actress ·
1970
– Nia Long, American actress ·
1970
– Ekaterini Voggoli,
Greek discus thrower ·
1971 – Fredi Bobic, Slovenian-German footballer and
manager ·
1971
– Tzanis
Stavrakopoulos, Greek basketball player ·
1971
– Peter New, Canadian actor, voice actor and
screenwriters ·
1971
– Suzan van der Wielen,
Dutch field hockey player ·
1972 – Jessica Hynes, English actress, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1973 – Michael Buettner, Australian rugby league
player and official ·
1973
– Silvia Corzo,
Colombian lawyer and journalist ·
1973
– Edge, Canadian
wrestler and actor ·
1973
– Michael Oakes,
English footballer and manager ·
1973
– Raci
Şaşmaz, Turkish actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1975 – Ian D'Sa, English-Canadian
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1975
– Marco Scutaro,
Venezuelan baseball player ·
1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer ·
1976
– Ümit Özat, Turkish
footballer and manager ·
1976
– Maurice Taylor,
American basketball player ·
1978 – Martin Dossett, American football player ·
1978
– Stephanie Izard,
American chef ·
1978
– Matthew Morrison,
American singer-songwriter and actor ·
1978
– Dan Poulter, English physician and
politician ·
1978
– Derren Witcombe,
New Zealand rugby player and cricketer ·
1979 – Jason Bartlett,
American baseball player ·
1980 – Choi Hong-man, South Korean wrestler and
mixed martial artist ·
1980
– Kareem Rush, American basketball player ·
1980
– Rich Alvarez,
Filipino-Japanese basketball player ·
1981 – Joshua Jay, American magician and author ·
1981
– Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean model and actress ·
1981
– Ayaka Kimura,
Japanese singer and actress ·
1981
– Ian Snell, American baseball player ·
1981
– Ivanka Trump,
American model and businesswoman ·
1982 – Stalley, American rapper ·
1982
– Andy Greene, American ice hockey player ·
1982
– Manny Parra, American baseball player ·
1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player ·
1983
– Iain Hume, Scottish-Canadian footballer ·
1983
– Maor Melikson,
Israeli footballer ·
1984 – Eva Marcille, American model and actress ·
1984
– Gedo, Egyptian
footballer ·
1984
– David Mooney, Irish footballer ·
1984
– Isaac Ross, New Zealand rugby player ·
1984
– Tyson Strachan,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1985 – Ragnar Klavan, Estonian footballer ·
1986 – Thomas Morgenstern,
Austrian ski jumper ·
1986
– Keisuke Sohma,
Japanese actor ·
1987 – Ali Riley, New Zealand footballer ·
1987
– Danielle Fong,
Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder and Chief Scientist of LightSail Energy ·
1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress and singer ·
1989 – Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer ·
1989
– Nastia Liukin,
Russian-American gymnast and actress ·
1990 – Suwaibou Sanneh, Gambian sprinter ·
1992 – Matt Parcell, Australian rugby league player ·
1992
– Camila Silva,
Chilean tennis player ·
1993 – Marcus Mariota, American football player ·
1994 – Mia Eklund, Finnish tennis player ·
1996 – Devin Booker, American basketball player Deaths[edit] ·
526 – Paul of Edessa, Syriac Orthodox bishop of Edessa ·
1137 – Sergius VII, Duke of Naples ·
1282 – Roger
Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer ·
1282
– Ibn Khallikan,
Iraqi scholar and judge (b. 1211) ·
1459 – Poggio Bracciolini,
Italian scholar and translator (b. 1380)[7] ·
1466 – Johann Fust, German printer (b. c. 1400) ·
1522 – Jean Mouton, French composer and educator
(b. 1459) ·
1553 – Jacob Sturm von
Sturmeck, German politician (b. 1489) ·
1602 – Jean-Jacques
Boissard, French poet and illustrator (b. 1528) ·
1611 – Charles IX of Sweden (b.
1550) ·
1626 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and
mathematician (b. 1580) ·
1632 – Henri II de
Montmorency, French admiral and politician (b. 1595) ·
1654 – Emperor
Go-Kōmyō of Japan (b. 1633) ·
1680 – Antoinette Bourignon,
French-Flemish mystic (b. 1616) ·
1685 – Michel Le Tellier,
French lawyer and politician, French
Secretary of State for War (b. 1603) ·
1690 – Hieronymus van
Beverningh, Dutch diplomat and politician (b. 1614) ·
1730 – Nedîm, Turkish poet (b. 1681) ·
1757 – Osman III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1699) ·
1757
– Edward Vernon,
English admiral and politician (b. 1684) ·
1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland,
English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738) ·
1816 – Frederick I of
Württemberg (b. 1754) ·
1842 – Allan
Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (b. 1784) ·
1853 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786) ·
1882 – William
Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New
South Wales (b. 1818) ·
1883 – Dayananda Saraswati,
Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1824) ·
1883
– Robert Volkmann,
German pianist and composer (b. 1815) ·
1893 – John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician,
3rd Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1821) ·
1894 – Honoré Mercier,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (b.
1840) ·
1895 – James
Patterson, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Victoria (b.
1833) ·
1896 – Carol Benesch, Czech architect,
designed Peleș Castle (b.
1822) ·
1899 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and
philanthropist (b. 1816) ·
1905 – Boyd Dunlop Morehead,
Australian politician, 10th Premier of
Queensland (b. 1843) ·
1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded
the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1828) ·
1912 – Alejandro Gorostiaga,
Chilean colonel (b. 1840) ·
1912
– James S. Sherman,
American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1855) ·
1915 – Charles Tupper, Canadian physician, lawyer,
and politician, 6th Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1821) ·
1917 – Talbot Mercer
Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883) ·
1919 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
American author and poet (b. 1850) ·
1923 – Bonar Law, Canadian-English banker and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858) ·
1933 – Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (b. 1869) ·
1942 – Walter Buckmaster,
English polo player and stockbroker, co-founder of Buckmaster &
Moore (b. 1872) ·
1943 – Max Reinhardt, Austrian-born American actor
and director (b. 1873) ·
1957 – Fred Beebe, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1880) ·
1961 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and
politician, 2nd President
of the Italian Republic (b. 1874)[8] ·
1963 – U.
Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1908) ·
1965 – Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (b. 1888) ·
1966 – Yiorgos Theotokas,
Greek author and playwright (b. 1906) ·
1968 – Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor,
singer, and director (b. 1899) ·
1968
– Conrad Richter,
American journalist and novelist (b. 1890) ·
1968
– Rose Wilder Lane,
American journalist and author (b. 1886) ·
1973 – Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (b.
1894) ·
1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz,
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1887) ·
1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and
engineer, inventor of the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887)[9] ·
1982 – Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian author and educator
(b. 1907) ·
1987 – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist,
scholar, and author (b. 1904) ·
1988 – T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter
(b. 1911) ·
1998
– Florence Nagle,
English trainer and breeder of racehorses (b. 1894) ·
1990 – V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, and
producer (b. 1901) ·
1992 – Joan Mitchell, American painter (b. 1925) ·
1993 – Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (b. 1911) ·
1996 – John Young,
Scottish actor (b. 1916) ·
1997 – Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1912) ·
1999 – Maigonis Valdmanis,
Latvian basketball player (b. 1933) ·
2000 – Steve Allen, American actor, television
personality, game show panelist, and talk show host (b. 1921) ·
2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem,
Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
2002
– Jam Master Jay,
American rapper and producer (b. 1965) ·
2003 – Steve O'Rourke, English race car driver and
manager (b. 1940) ·
2004 – Phyllis Frost, Australian philanthropist,
founded Keep Australia Beautiful (b. 1917) ·
2004
– Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (b.
1924) ·
2005 – Al López, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1908) ·
2005
– Shamsher Singh Sheri,
Indian politician (b. 1942) ·
2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and
author (b. 1926) ·
2006
– Junji Kinoshita,
Japanese playwright and scholar (b. 1914) ·
2007 – Washoe,
American chimpanzee (b. 1965) ·
2007
– Robert Goulet,
American actor and singer (b. 1933) ·
2007
– Linda S. Stein,
American businesswoman and manager (b. 1945) ·
2007
– John Woodruff,
American runner and colonel (b. 1915) ·
2008 – Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (b.
1950) ·
2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss,
French anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1908) ·
2010 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1927) ·
2012 – Franck Biancheri, French politician (b.
1961) ·
2012
– Samina Raja, Pakistani poet and educator (b.
1961) ·
2012
– Dan Tieman, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1940) ·
2013 – Bill Currie,
American baseball player (b. 1928) ·
2013
– Pete Haycock,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951) ·
2013
– Michael Palmer,
American physician and author (b. 1942) ·
2013
– Frank Wess, American saxophonist and flute
player (b. 1922) ·
2014 – Elijah Malok Aleng,
Sudanese general and politician (b. 1937) ·
2014
– Renée Asherson,
English actress (b. 1915) ·
2014
– Juan Flavier,
Filipino physician and politician (b. 1935) ·
2014
– Ida Elizabeth
Osbourne, Australian actress and radio host (b. 1916) ·
2014
– Bob Geigel, American wrestler and promoter
(b. 1924) ·
2014
– Thomas Menino,
American businessman and politician, 53rd Mayor of Boston (b. 1942) ·
2015 – Mel Daniels, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1944) ·
2015
– Al Molinaro, American actor (b. 1919) ·
2015
– Sinan Şamil Sam,
Turkish boxer (b. 1974) ·
2015
– Norm Siebern,
American baseball player and scout (b. 1933) ·
2017 – Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (b. 1972) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia) ·
Christian feast day: o Ethelnoth
(Egelnoth) the Good o Blessed Dominic Collins (Catholic,
Ireland, Society of Jesus) o Blessed Maria Teresa
of St. Joseph o John Wycliffe (Episcopal
Church (USA)) o October
30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political
Repressions (former Soviet
republics, except Ukraine) ·
Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community, India) |
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