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T Calendar Gears Gregorian
Calendar Full Year 2020
October 7 is
the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
85 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
3761 BC The epoch reference date
epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar. ·
1403
VenetianGenoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by
a Venetian fleet. ·
1477 Uppsala University is
inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in
February the same year. ·
1513
War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice. ·
1571
The Battle of Lepanto is
fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat. ·
1691
The charter for the Province of
Massachusetts Bay is issued. ·
1763
King George III issues the Royal
Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America
north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. ·
1777 American Revolutionary
War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of
Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis
Heights. ·
1780
American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist
irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina. ·
1800
French corsair Robert Surcouf,
commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British
38-gun Kent. ·
1826
The Granite Railway begins
operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S. ·
1828 Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece,
is liberated by the French expeditionary force. ·
1840 Willem II becomes
King of the Netherlands. ·
1864 American Civil War:
A US Navy ship captures a
Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport. ·
1868 Cornell University holds
opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any
American university to that date. ·
1870
Franco-Prussian War: Lιon Gambetta escapes the siege of
Paris in a hot-air balloon. ·
1879
Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create
the Dual Alliance. ·
1912
The Helsinki Stock
Exchange sees its first transaction. ·
1916
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 2220 in the most lopsided college football game in
American history. ·
1919 KLM,
the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline
still operating under its original name. ·
1924 Andreas
Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short
period of time. ·
1929 Photius II becomes
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. ·
1933 Air France is inaugurated, after being
formed by a merger of five French airlines. ·
1940 World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the
United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the
United States. ·
1944
World War II: During an uprising at
Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV. ·
1949
The communist German Democratic Republic (East
Germany) is formed. ·
1950 Mother Teresa establishes the
Missionaries of Charity. ·
1958
The 1958 Pakistani
coup d'ιtat inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule. ·
1958
The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. ·
1959
The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits
the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. ·
1963
President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. ·
1977
The Fourth Soviet
Constitution is adopted. ·
1985
The Mameyes landslide kills
almost 200 people in Puerto Rico. ·
1985
Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the
coast of Egypt. ·
1987
Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not
internationally recognized. ·
1988
A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the
situation becomes a multinational
effort to free the whales. ·
1991
Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski
dvori in Zagreb, Croatia. ·
1993
The flood of '93 ends
at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River
falls below flood stage. ·
1996 Fox News Channel begins broadcasting. ·
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the
University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten
by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later. ·
2000 Israeli-Palestinian
conflict: Hezbollah militants
capture three Israeli Defense
Force soldiers in a cross-border
raid. ·
2001
The U.S.
invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert
operations on the ground. ·
2002
The Space
Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly
of the International Space Station.[1] ·
2008
Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts
the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to
its entry into earth's atmosphere. ·
2016
In the wake of Hurricane Matthew,
the death toll rises to 800. Births[edit] ·
14 BC Drusus Julius Caesar,
Roman politician (d. 23 AD) ·
1301
Grand Prince Aleksandr
Mikhailovich of Tver (d. 1339) ·
1409 Elizabeth of
Luxembourg (d. 1442) ·
1471 Frederick I of
Denmark (d. 1533) ·
1474 Bernhard
III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1536) ·
1482 Ernest,
Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1553) ·
1573 William Laud, English archbishop and
academic (d. 1645) ·
1576 John Marston,
English poet and playwright (d. 1634) ·
1586 Isaac Massa, Dutch diplomat (d. 1643) ·
1589 Archduchess
Maria Maddalena of Austria (d. 1631) ·
1591 Pierre Le Muet, French architect (d. 1669) ·
1597 Captain John
Underhill, English settler and soldier (d. 1672) ·
1635 Roger de Piles, French painter (d. 1709) ·
1713 Granville Elliott,
English general (d. 1759) ·
1728 Caesar Rodney, American soldier, lawyer, and
politician, 4th Governor of
Delaware (d. 1784) ·
1744 Sergey Vyazmitinov,
Russian general and politician, War Governor
of Saint Petersburg (d. 1819) ·
1746 William Billings, American composer and
educator (d. 1800) ·
1748 Charles XIII of
Sweden (d. 1818) ·
1769 Solomon Sibley, American lawyer, jurist, and
politician, 1st Mayor of Detroit (d.
1846) ·
1786 Louis-Joseph
Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871) ·
1798 Jean-Baptiste
Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875) ·
1819 Ann Eliza Smith, American author and patriot
(d. 1905)[2] ·
1821 Richard H. Anderson,
American general (d. 1879) ·
1832 Charles Crozat
Converse, American lawyer and composer (d. 1918) ·
1835 Felix Draeseke, German composer and educator
(d. 1913) ·
1836 Henri Elzιar
Taschereau, Canadian scholar and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of
Canada (d. 1911) ·
1841 Nicholas I of
Montenegro (d. 1921) ·
1849 James Whitcomb Riley,
American poet and author (d. 1916) ·
1860 Leonidas
Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (d. 1936) ·
1866 Wlodimir Ledσchowski,
Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior
General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942) ·
1870 Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country
banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian (d. 1952) ·
1876 Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (d.
1934) ·
1879 Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor
activist and poet (d. 1915) ·
1881 Mikhail Drozdovsky,
Ukrainian-Russian general (d. 1918) ·
1884 Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot
(d. 1927) ·
1885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and
philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1962) ·
1885
Claud Ashton Jones,
American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1948) ·
1887 Jack
Russell, English cricketer and coach (d. 1961) ·
1888 Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and
politician, 33rd Vice
President of the United States (d. 1965) ·
1888
Edna Meade Colson,
African American educator and activist (d. 1985)[3] ·
1889 Robert Z. Leonard,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968) ·
1892 Dwain Esper, American director and producer
(d. 1982) ·
1893 Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author
and publisher (d. 1979) ·
1894 Del Lord, Canadian-American actor and
director (d. 1970) ·
1895 Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and
author (d. 1980) ·
1896 Paulino Alcαntara,
Spanish Filipino football player and manager (d. 1964) ·
1897 Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader
(d. 1975) ·
1897
Thakin Mya, Burmese lawyer and politician
(d. 1947) ·
1900 Heinrich Himmler, German commander and
politician (d. 1945) ·
1904 Armando Castellazzi,
Italian footballer and coach (d. 1968) ·
1905 Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977) ·
1907 Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian
and author (d. 1985) ·
1909 Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (d. 1990) ·
1909
Shura Cherkassky,
Ukrainian-American pianist and educator (d. 1995) ·
1909
Erastus Corning 2nd,
American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (d. 1983) ·
1910 Henry Plumer
McIlhenny, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1986) ·
1911 Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet
player, and bandleader (d. 1973) ·
1912 Fernando Belaϊnde
Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 85th President of Peru (d.
2002) ·
1912
Peter Walker,
English race car driver (d. 1984) ·
1913 Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and
author (d. 1987) ·
1913
Raimond Valgre,
Estonian pianist, guitarist, and composer (d. 1949) ·
1914 Begum Akhtar, Indian actress (d. 1974)[4] ·
1914
Sarah Churchill,
English actress (d. 1982) ·
1914
Alfred Drake,
American actor and singer (d. 1992) ·
1914
Herman Keiser,
American golfer (d. 2003) ·
1915 Walter Keane, American plagiarist (d. 2000) ·
1917 June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006) ·
1918 Harry V. Jaffa, American historian, philosopher,
and academic (d. 2015) ·
1919 Henriette Avram, American computer scientist
and academic (d. 2006) ·
1919
Zelman Cowen,
Australian academic and politician, 19th Governor-General
of Australia (d. 2011) ·
1919
Georges Duby,
French historian and author (d. 1996) ·
1920 Georg Leber, German soldier and
politician, German
Federal Minister of Defence (d. 2012) ·
1920
Jack Rowley, English footballer and manager
(d. 1998) ·
1921 Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and
coach (d. 2004) ·
1922 Grady Hatton, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 2013) ·
1922
William Zinsser,
American journalist and critic (d. 2015) ·
1923 Irma Grese, German SS officer
(d. 1945) ·
1923
Břetislav Pojar,
Czech animator and director (d. 2012) ·
1923
Jean-Paul Riopelle,
Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002) ·
1927 Al Martino, American singer and actor (d.
2009) ·
1927
R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and
author (d. 1989) ·
1927
Demetrio Gonzαlez,
Spanish-Mexican film actor and singer (d. 2015) ·
1928 Josι Messias, Brazilian composer, singer,
writer, host and critic (d. 2015) ·
1928
Ali Kafi, Pakistani politician (d. 2013) ·
1928
Lorna Wing, English autism researcher (d.
2014) ·
1929 Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and
producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation ·
1929
Mariano Gagnon,
American Catholic priest and author (d. 2017) ·
1929
Robert Westall,
English journalist and author (d. 1993) ·
1930 Curtis Crider, American race car driver (d.
2012) ·
1931 Cotton Fitzsimmons,
American basketball player and coach (d. 2004) ·
1931
Tommy
Lewis, American football player and coach (d. 2014) ·
1931
R. Sivagurunathan,
Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and academic (d. 2003) ·
1931
Desmond Tutu,
South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1932 Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (d. 2013) ·
1933 Harold Dunaway, American race car driver and
pilot (d. 2012) ·
1934 Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and
academic (d. 2014) ·
1934
Ulrike Meinhof,
German far-left terrorist, co-founder of the Red Army Faction, journalist (d. 1976) ·
1934
Julian
Thompson, English general and historian ·
1935 Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist,
playwright, and essayist ·
1936 Michael Hurll, English director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
1937 Christopher Booker,
English journalist and author ·
1937
Chet Powers, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1994) ·
1937
Maria Szyszkowska,
Polish academic and politician ·
1938 Yvonne Brewster, Jamaican actress and
theatre director[5] ·
1938
Ann Jones,
English tennis player and sportscaster ·
1939 John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
and author ·
1939
Clive James, Australian television host,
author, and critic (d. 2019) ·
1939
Harry Kroto, English chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2016) ·
1939
Laurent
Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cardinal ·
1939
Bill Snyder, American football player and
coach ·
1940 Bruce Vento, American educator and
politician (d. 2000) ·
1942 Joy Behar, American talk show host, comedian
and television personality ·
1943 Josι Cardenal, Cuban baseball player and
coach ·
1943
Oliver North,
American colonel, journalist, and author ·
1944 Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and
musician (d. 1979) ·
1944
Donald Tsang,
Chinese civil servant and politician, 2nd Chief
Executive of Hong Kong ·
1945 Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter and
director ·
1945
David Wallace,
Scottish physicist and academic ·
1946 John Brass, Australian rugby player and
coach ·
1946
Catharine MacKinnon,
American lawyer, activist, and author ·
1947 Chris Bambridge, Australian footballer and
referee ·
1948 Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist ·
1948
John F. B. Mitchell,
English climatologist and author ·
1948
Stephen Rucker,
American composer ·
1949 Dave Hope, American bass player and priest ·
1950 Dick Jauron, American football player and
coach ·
1950
Jakaya Kikwete,
Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of
Tanzania ·
1951 Enki Bilal, French comic book creator,
comics artist and film director ·
1951
John Mellencamp,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ·
1952 Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and
politician, 4th President of Russia ·
1952
Jacques Richard,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002) ·
1952
Graham Yallop,
Australian cricketer ·
1953 Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and
playwright (d. 2014) ·
1953
Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor ·
1953
Tico Torres, American drummer ·
1955 Ralph
Johnson, American computer scientist and author ·
1955
Bill Henson, Australian photographer ·
1955
Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and
educator ·
1956 Steve Bainbridge, English rugby player ·
1956
Mike Shipley,
Australian-English sound engineer and producer (d. 2013) ·
1956
Brian Sutter, Canadian
ice hockey player and coach ·
1957 Joey Marquez, Filipino basketball player,
actor, and politician ·
1957
Michael W. Smith,
American singer-songwriter and actor ·
1957
Jayne Torvill,
English figure skater ·
1959 Dylan Baker, American actor ·
1959
Simon Cowell,
English businessman and producer ·
1959
Lourdes Flores,
Peruvian lawyer and politician ·
1959
Jean-Marc Fournier,
Canadian lawyer and politician ·
1959
Brazo de Oro,
Mexican wrestler (d. 2017) ·
1960 Kevin Boyle,
American historian and author ·
1961 Brian Mannix, Australian singer-songwriter ·
1961
Tony Sparano,
American football player and coach (d. 2018) ·
1962 Dave Bronconnier, Canadian businessman and
politician, 35th Mayor of Calgary ·
1962
Micky Flanagan,
English comedian ·
1962
William
Johnson, German-English cricketer ·
1964 Sam Brown,
English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer ·
1964
Dan Savage, American LGBT rights activist,
journalist and television producer ·
1964
Paul
Stewart, English footballer ·
1965 Genji Hashimoto, Japanese race car driver ·
1965
Kumiko Watanabe,
Japanese voice actress ·
1966 Sherman Alexie, American novelist, short
story writer, poet, and filmmaker ·
1966
Marco Beltrami,
Italian-American composer and conductor ·
1966
Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author
(d. 2012) ·
1967 Michelle Alexander,
American law professor, author and activist ·
1967
Peter Baker,
English golfer ·
1967
Toni Braxton,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress ·
1967
Luke Haines, English singer-songwriter and
keyboard player ·
1968 Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1969 Bobbie Brown, American model and actress ·
1969
Malia Hosaka,
American wrestler ·
1969
Per Mathisen,
Norwegian bass player and composer ·
1969
Maria Whittaker,
English model, actress, and singer ·
1971 Daniel Boucher,
Canadian singer and actor ·
1972 Marlou Aquino, Filipino basketball player ·
1972
Ben Younger, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1973 Dida,
Brazilian footballer ·
1973
Priest Holmes,
American football player ·
1973
Sami Hyypiδ,
Finnish footballer and manager ·
1973
Grigol
Mgaloblishvili, Georgian politician and diplomat, 7th Prime Minister
of Georgia ·
1974 Rune Glifberg, Danish skateboarder ·
1974
Ruslan Nigmatullin,
Russian footballer ·
1974
Charlotte Perrelli,
Swedish singer ·
1975 Giorgos Karadimos,
Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1975
Damian Kulash,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1975
Tim Minchin, English-Australian comedian,
actor, and singer ·
1976 Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer ·
1976
Taylor Hicks,
American singer-songwriter ·
1976
Gilberto Silva,
Brazilian footballer ·
1976
Santiago Solari,
Argentinian footballer and manager ·
1976
Charles Woodson,
American football player ·
1977 Antoine Revoy, French comics writer and
illustrator ·
1978 Alison Balsom, English trumpet player and
educator ·
1978
Alesha Dixon,
English singer-songwriter and dancer ·
1978
Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer ·
1979 Simona Amβnar, Romanian gymnast ·
1979
Aaron Ashmore,
Canadian actor ·
1979
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian actor ·
1981 Austin Eubanks, American motivational speaker
(d. 2019) ·
1982 Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer ·
1982
Jermain Defoe,
English footballer ·
1982
Robby Ginepri,
American tennis player ·
1982
Li Yundi, Chinese pianist ·
1982
Lockett Pundt,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1983 Archie Bland, English journalist and author ·
1983
Dwayne Bravo,
Trinidadian cricketer ·
1983
Flying Lotus,
American rapper, DJ, and producer ·
1983
Scottie Upshall,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1984 Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer ·
1984
Toma Ikuta, Japanese actor and singer ·
1984
Simon Poulsen,
Danish footballer ·
1984
Zachary Wyatt,
American soldier and politician ·
1985 Evan Longoria, American baseball player ·
1986 Chase Daniel, American football player ·
1986
Lee Nguyen, American soccer player ·
1986
Gunnar
Nielsen, Faroese footballer ·
1986
Bree Olson, American actress, model, and
former porn actress ·
1986
Amy Satterthwaite,
New Zealand cricketer ·
1987 Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer ·
1987
Aiden English,
American wrestler ·
1987
Sam Querrey, American tennis player ·
1988 Diego da Silva Costa,
Brazilian footballer ·
1988
Lauren Mayberry,
Scottish singer-songwriter ·
1989 Trent Merrin, Australian rugby league player ·
1990 Sebastiαn Coates,
Uruguayan footballer ·
1991 Lay, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor ·
1992 Mookie Betts, American baseball player ·
1995 Lyndon Dykes, Australian professional
footballer ·
1995
Lloyd Jones,
English professional footballer ·
1995
Bram van Vlerken,
Dutch professional football player ·
1995
Mathias Dyngeland,
Norwegian footballer ·
1998 Trent
Alexander-Arnold, English professional footballer ·
2001 Princess Senate
Seeiso, Princess of Lesotho Deaths[edit] ·
336 Mark, pope of the Catholic Church ·
858 Montoku, Japanese emperor (b. 826) ·
929 Charles the Simple,
French king (b. 879) ·
950 Li,
Chinese empress consort ·
951 Shi Zong,
emperor of the Liao Dynasty (b.
919) ·
951
Xiao,
Chinese Khitan empress
dowager ·
951
Zhen,
Chinese Khitan empress consort ·
988 Qian Chu, king of Wuyue (b. 929) ·
1242 Juntoku, Japanese emperor (b. 1197) ·
1259 Ezzelino III da
Romano, Italian ruler ·
1363 Eleanor
de Bohun, English noblewoman (b. 1304) ·
1368 Lionel
of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Belgian-English politician (b.
1338) ·
1461 Jean Poton de
Xaintrailles, follower of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1390) ·
1468 Sigismondo
Pandolfo Malatesta, Italian nobleman (b. 1417) ·
1553 Cristσbal de Morales,
Spanish composer (b. 1500) ·
1571 Sufi Ali Pasha, Ottoman soldier and
politician, Ottoman
Governor of Egypt ·
1571
Dorothea of
Saxe-Lauenburg, Danish queen consort of Christian III of
Denmark (b. 1511) ·
1577 George Gascoigne, English soldier, courtier,
and poet (b. 1535) ·
1612 Giovanni
Battista Guarini, Italian poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1538) ·
1620 Stanisław
Żσłkiewski, Polish-Lithuanian commander (b. 1547) ·
1637 Victor
Amadeus I, duke of Savoy (b. 1587) ·
1651 Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (b. 1559) ·
1653 Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581) ·
1708 Guru Gobind Singh,
Indian 10th Sikh guru (b.
1666) ·
1772 John Woolman, American preacher and
abolitionist (b. 1720) ·
1787 Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and
missionary (b. 1711) ·
1792 George Mason, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1725) ·
1793 Wills
Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, President
of the Board of Trade (b. 1718) ·
1796 Thomas Reid, Scottish mathematician and
philosopher (b. 1710) ·
1849 Edgar Allan Poe, American short story
writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809) ·
1884 Bernard Petitjean,
French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829) ·
1894 Oliver Wendell
Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809) ·
1903 Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and
academic (b. 1832) ·
1904 Isabella Bird, English historian and
explorer (b. 1831) ·
1906 Honorι Beaugrand,
Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b.
1848) ·
1911 John Hughlings
Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835) ·
1919 Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and
politician, 2nd Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1856) ·
1925 Christy Mathewson,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1880) ·
1926 Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and
academic (b. 1856) ·
1933 Alexander Peacock,
Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (b.
1861) ·
1939 Harvey Williams
Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869) ·
1943 Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b.
1880) ·
1944 Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b.
1918) ·
1950 Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer
(b. 1876) ·
1951 Anton Philips, Dutch businessman,
co-founded Philips (b. 1874) ·
1956 Clarence Birdseye,
American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886) ·
1959 Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b.
1921) ·
1966 Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b.
1890) ·
1966
Johnny Kidd,
English singer songwriter (b. 1935) [6] ·
1967 Norman Angell, English journalist and
politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1872) ·
1969 Lιon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888) ·
1970 Alphonse-Marie
Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906) ·
1983 George O. Abell, American astronomer,
professor, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927) ·
1985 Cemal Reşit Rey,
Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904) ·
1990 Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b.
1893) ·
1990
Chiara Badano,
Italian beatified (b.1971) ·
1991 Harry W. Brown,
American colonel and pilot (b. 1921) ·
1991
Leo Durocher,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1905) ·
1991
Darren Millane,
Australian footballer (b. 1965) ·
1992 Allan Bloom, American philosopher and
educator (b. 1930) ·
1992
Babu Karam Singh Bal,
Indian businessman and politician (b.1927) ·
1993 Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor
(b. 1910) ·
1994 Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician
and immunologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1911) ·
1995 Ivan Hutchinson, Australian film critic and
author (b. 1928) ·
1995
Olga Taussky-Todd,
Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (b.
1906) ·
1996 Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese-Dutch author,
playwright, and politician (b. 1903) ·
1998 Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and
weightlifter (b. 1952) ·
2001 Herblock, American cartoonist and author (b.
1909) ·
2001
Christopher Adams,
English-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1955) ·
2001
Roger Gaudry,
Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913) ·
2002 Pierangelo Bertoli,
Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942) ·
2003 Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician
(b. 1932) ·
2003
Arthur Berger,
American composer and educator (b. 1912) ·
2004 Tony Lanfranchi, English race car driver (b.
1935) ·
2005 Charles Rocket, American actor and comedian
(b. 1949) ·
2006 Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish cyclist (b. 1985) ·
2006
Anna Politkovskaya,
American-Russian journalist and activist (b. 1958) ·
2007 Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b.
1975) ·
2007
George E.
Sangmeister, American lawyer and politician (b. 1931) ·
2009 Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917) ·
2010 T Lavitz, American keyboard player,
composer, and producer (b. 1956) ·
2010
Milka Planinc,
Croatian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924) ·
2011 Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (b.
1925) ·
2011
Andrew Laszlo,
Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1926) ·
2012 Mervyn M. Dymally,
Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant
Governor of California (b. 1926) ·
2012
Ivo Michiels,
Belgian-French author and poet (b. 1923) ·
2012
Wiley Reed, American-Australian
singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944) ·
2013 Mick Buckley, English footballer (b. 1953) ·
2013
Patrice Chιreau,
French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944) ·
2013
David E. Jeremiah,
American admiral (b. 1934) ·
2013
Leandro Mendoza,
Filipino police officer and politician, 36th Executive
Secretary of the Philippines (b. 1946) ·
2013
Joe Rogers,
American lawyer and politician, 45th Lieutenant
Governor of Colorado (b. 1964) ·
2014 Nika Kiladze, Georgian footballer (b. 1988) ·
2014
Siegfried Lenz,
Polish-German author and playwright (b. 1926) ·
2014
Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and
singer (b. 1917) ·
2015 Harry Gallatin, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1927) ·
2015
Hossein Hamadani,
Iranian general (b. 1951) ·
2015
W. R. Mitchell,
English journalist and author (b. 1928) ·
2015
Jurelang Zedkaia,
Marshallese politician, 5th President
of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950) ·
2016 Ross Higgins, Australian actor, comedian (b.
1930) Holidays
and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Henry Muhlenberg (some Lutheran Churches, Episcopal
Church of the USA) o Osgyth o October
7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Teachers' Day (Laos) |
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