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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
83 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the
Franks. ·
1238 – James I of Aragon founds
the Kingdom of Valencia. ·
1410 –
The first known mention of the Prague astronomical
clock. ·
1446 –
The hangul alphabet is published in Korea. ·
1594 –
Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to
the Campaign of Danture. ·
1604 – Supernova 1604 is sighted, the most
recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way. ·
1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the
Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements. ·
1701 –
The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old
Saybrook. ·
1708 –
Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya. ·
1740 –
Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the
ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000. ·
1760 –
Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin. ·
1790 –
A severe earthquake in
northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea
and kills three thousand. ·
1799 – HMS Lutine sinks
with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000. ·
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded. ·
1806 –
Prussia begins the War of the
Fourth Coalition against France. ·
1812 –
War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two
British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. ·
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from
Spain. ·
1824 – Slavery in Latin
America: Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica. ·
1825 – Restauration arrives
in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway
to the United States. ·
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias,
the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated. ·
1834 –
Opening of the Dublin and
Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland. ·
1847 – Slavery
in the British and French Caribbean: Slavery is abolished in Saint Barthélemy. ·
1854 –
Crimean War: The siege of
Sevastopol begins. ·
1861 –
American Civil War: Union troops repel a
Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens. ·
1864 –
American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate
forces at Toms Brook, Virginia. ·
1873 –
A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute. ·
1874 –
The Universal Postal
Union is created by the Treaty of Bern. ·
1900 –
The Cook Islands become
a territory of the United Kingdom. ·
1907 – Las Cruces, New
Mexico is incorporated. ·
1911 –
An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese
monarchy. ·
1913 –
The steamship SS Volturno catches
fire in the mid-Atlantic. ·
1914 –
World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes
to an end. ·
1918 –
The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince
Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived
Kingdom of Finland. ·
1919 –
The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal. ·
1934 –
An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of
Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France,
in Marseille. ·
1936 –
Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins
to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles. ·
1937 – Murder of 9
Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local
population from the advancing Japanese army. ·
1941 –
A coup in Panama declares Ricardo
Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president. ·
1942 –
Australia's Statute
of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent. ·
1950 –
The Goyang
Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins. ·
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent
Commonwealth realm. ·
1962 –
A visible light-emitting diode (LED)
is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York. ·
1963 –
In Italy, a large landslide a causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000. ·
1966 –
Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre. ·
1967 –
A day after his capture, Ernesto
"Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite
a revolution in Bolivia. ·
1969 –
In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over
the trial of the "Chicago Eight". ·
1970 –
The Khmer Republic is
proclaimed in Cambodia. ·
1980 – Pope John Paul II greets
the Dalai Lama during
a private audience in Vatican City. ·
1981 –
President François Mitterrand abolishes capital
punishment in France. ·
1983 –
South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma
(present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others. ·
1986 – The
Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running
musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre. ·
1995 –
An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by
saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. ·
2003 – Mission: Space opens to the public in
Walt Disney World. ·
2006 –
North Korea conducts its first
nuclear test. ·
2009 –
First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar
Precursor Robotic Program. ·
2012 –
Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. ·
2016 –
The Arakan
Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first
attack on Myanmar security
forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar
border. ·
2019 –
Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern
Syria. Births[edit] ·
1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French minister and
theologian, founded the Collège de Sorbonne (d.
1274) ·
1221 – Salimbene di Adam,
Italian historian and scholar (d. 1290) ·
1261 – Denis of Portugal (d.
1325) ·
1328 – Peter I of Cyprus (d.
1369) ·
1581 – Claude
Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and
scholar (d. 1638) ·
1586 – Leopold V,
Archduke of Austria (d. 1632) ·
1593 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and
politician (d. 1674) ·
1609 – Thomas
Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (d. 1688) ·
1623 – Ferdinand Verbiest,
Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (d. 1688) ·
1704 – Johann Andreas
Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) ·
1757 – Charles X of France (d.
1836) ·
1796 – Joseph Bonomi
the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor (d. 1878) ·
1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns,
French composer and conductor (d. 1921) ·
1837 – Francis Wayland
Parker, American theorist and academic (d. 1902) ·
1840 – Simeon Solomon, English painter (d. 1905) ·
1845 – Carl Gustav Thulin,
Swedish shipowner (d. 1918) ·
1850 – Hermann von Ihering,
German-Brazilian zoologist (d. 1930) ·
1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer,
German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1919) ·
1858 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist
and chemist (d. 1935) ·
1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (d. 1935) ·
1863 – Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and
author (d. 1930) ·
1864 – Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (d.
1927) ·
1871 – Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (d.
1940) ·
1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and
educator (d. 1944) ·
1873
– Karl Schwarzschild,
German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916) ·
1873
– Charles Rudolph
Walgreen, American pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (d. 1939) ·
1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and
painter (d. 1947) ·
1877 – Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and
activist (d. 1928) ·
1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1960) ·
1880 – Charlie Faust, American baseball player (d.
1915) ·
1883 – Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress (d.
1956) ·
1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1980) ·
1888 – Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and
politician (d. 1938) ·
1888
– Irving Cummings,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1959) ·
1890 – Aimee Semple
McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (d.
1944) ·
1892 – Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet,
and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1975) ·
1893 – Mário de Andrade,
Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (d. 1945) ·
1897 – M. Bhaktavatsalam,
Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief
Minister of Madras State (d. 1987) ·
1898 – Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and
playwright (d. 1987) ·
1898
– Joe Sewell, American baseball player and
member of the Baseball Hall of
Fame (d. 1990) ·
1899 – Bruce Catton, American historian and author
(d. 1978) ·
1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented
the bendy straw (d.
1982) ·
1900
– Alastair Sim,
Scottish-English actor and academic (d. 1976) ·
1900
– Joseph Zubin,
Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1990) ·
1901 – Alice Lee Jemison,
Seneca political activist and journalist (d. 1964) ·
1902 – Freddie Young, English cinematographer (d.
1998) ·
1903 – Walter O'Malley, American lawyer and
businessman (d. 1979) ·
1906 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and
journalist (d. 1985) ·
1906
– Léopold Sédar
Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (d.
2001) ·
1907 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English
academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d.
2001) ·
1907
– Jacques Tati,
French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1982) ·
1907
– Horst Wessel,
German SA officer (d.
1930) ·
1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet and critic (d.
1961) ·
1908
– Werner von Haeften,
German lieutenant (d. 1944) ·
1908
– Lee Wiley, American singer (d. 1975) ·
1909 – Donald Coggan, English archbishop (d. 2000) ·
1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d.
2006) ·
1914 – Edward Andrews, American actor (d. 1985) ·
1915 – Clifford M. Hardin,
American academic and politician, 17th United
States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010) ·
1915
– Belva Plain, American author (d. 2010) ·
1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer
and author (d. 2007) ·
1918
– Charles Read,
Australian air marshal (d. 2014) ·
1918
– Bebo Valdés,
Cuban-Swedish pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2013) ·
1920 – Jens Bjørneboe,
Norwegian author and educator (d. 1976) ·
1920
– Yusef Lateef,
American saxophonist, composer, and educator (d. 2013) ·
1920
– Jason Wingreen,
American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
1921 – Michel Boisrond, French director and
screenwriter (d. 2002) ·
1921
– Tadeusz
Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014) ·
1922 – Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and
academic (d. 1997) ·
1922
– Philip "Fyvush"
Finkel, American actor (d. 2016) ·
1922
– Olga Guillot,
Cuban-American singer (d. 2010) ·
1923 – Donald Sinden, English actor (d. 2014) ·
1924 – Immanuvel Devendrar,
Indian soldier (d. 1957) ·
1924
– Arnie Risen, American basketball player (d.
2012)[1] ·
1926 – Danièle Delorme,
French actress and producer (d. 2015) ·
1927 – John Margetson, English scholar and
diplomat, British Ambassador to the Netherlands ·
1928 – Einojuhani
Rautavaara, Finnish composer and educator (d. 2016) ·
1930 – Hank Lauricella, American football player,
lieutenant, and politician (d. 2014) ·
1931 – Tony Booth,
English actor (d. 2017) ·
1931
– Homer
Smith, American football player and coach (d. 2011) ·
1932 – Robert McBain, English actor and
photographer (d. 2004) ·
1933 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2017) ·
1933
– Bill Tidy, English soldier and cartoonist ·
1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian historian and
author (d. 2018) ·
1934
– Abdullah Ibrahim,
South African pianist and composer ·
1935 – Prince
Edward, Duke of Kent ·
1935
– Don McCullin,
English photographer and journalist ·
1936 – Brian Blessed, English actor ·
1936
– Mick Young, Australian politician (d. 1996) ·
1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian academic and
politician, 11th President of Austria ·
1938
– John Sutherland,
English journalist, author, and academic ·
1939 – Nicholas Grimshaw,
English architect and academic ·
1939
– John Pilger, Australian-English journalist,
director, and producer ·
1939
– Stephen Sedley,
English lawyer and judge ·
1939
– O. V. Wright,
American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1980) ·
1940 – Gordon J. Humphrey,
American soldier, pilot, and politician ·
1940
– John Lennon, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (d. 1980) ·
1940
– Joe Pepitone,
American baseball player and coach ·
1941 – Brian Lamb, American broadcaster,
founded C-SPAN ·
1941
– Trent Lott, American lawyer and politician ·
1941
– Omali Yeshitela,
political activist and founder of the Uhuru Movement ·
1942 – Michael Palmer,
American physician and author (d. 2013) ·
1943 – Douglas Kirby, American psychologist and
author (d. 2012) ·
1943
– Jimmy Montgomery,
English footballer and coach ·
1943
– Mike Peters,
American cartoonist ·
1944 – Rita
Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy, English academic and politician ·
1944
– John Entwistle,
English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 2002) ·
1944
– Nona Hendryx,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress ·
1945 – Taiguara, Uruguayan-Brazilian
singer-songwriter (d. 1996) ·
1945
– Amjad Ali Khan,
Indian classical Sarod player ·
1947 – John Doubleday, English sculptor and painter ·
1947
– France Gall, French singer (d. 2018) ·
1947
– William E.
McAnulty Jr., American lawyer and judge (d. 2007) ·
1947
– Tony Zappone, American
photographer and journalist ·
1948 – Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1948
– John Gray,
English cricketer and rugby player ·
1949 – Rod Temperton, English keyboard player,
songwriter, and producer (d. 2016) ·
1949
– Mark Hopkinson,
American mass murderer (d. 1992) ·
1950 – Brian Downing, American baseball player ·
1950
– Yoshiyuki Konishi,
Japanese fashion designer ·
1950
– Reichi Nakaido,
Japanese singer and guitarist ·
1950
– Jody Williams,
American academic and activist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1952 – Simon Drew, English illustrator ·
1952
– Sharon Osbourne,
English television host and manager ·
1952
– John Rose,
English businessman ·
1952
– Dennis Stratton,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1953 – Sally Burgess, South African-English soprano
and educator ·
1953
– Hank Pfister,
American tennis player ·
1953
– Tony Shalhoub,
American actor and producer ·
1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor ·
1954
– James Fearnley,
English musician ·
1954
– John O'Hurley,
American actor and game show host ·
1954
– Rubén Magnano,
Argentine-Italian professional basketball coach ·
1955 – Linwood Boomer, Canadian actor, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1955
– Steve Ovett, English runner and sportscaster ·
1955
– Peter
Saville, English graphic designer and art director ·
1957 – Don Garber, American businessman ·
1957
– Ini Kamoze, Jamaican singer-songwriter ·
1958 – Al Jourgensen, Cuban-American
singer-songwriter and producer ·
1958
– Alan Nunnelee,
American lawyer and politician (d. 2015) ·
1958
– Mike Singletary,
American football player and coach ·
1959 – Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and
politician, First
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2015) ·
1960 – Kenny Garrett, American saxophonist and composer ·
1961 – Julian Bailey, English race car driver and
sportscaster ·
1961
– Kurt Neumann,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1961
– Ellen Wheeler, American
actress, director, and producer ·
1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer and
manager ·
1962
– Paul Radisich,
New Zealand race car driver ·
1962
– Hugh
Robertson, English soldier and politician, Minister
for Sport and the Olympics ·
1962
– Ōnokuni Yasushi,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna ·
1963 – Andy Platt, English rugby league player ·
1964 – Guillermo del Toro,
Mexican-American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1964
– Martín Jaite,
Argentine tennis player[2] ·
1965 – Jimbo Fisher, American football player and
coach ·
1966 – David Cameron, English politician,
former Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom ·
1966
– Christopher Östlund,
Swedish publisher, founded Plaza Magazine ·
1967 – Carling
Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player ·
1967
– Eddie Guerrero,
American wrestler (d. 2005) ·
1967
– Gheorghe Popescu,
Romanian footballer ·
1968 – Anbumani Ramadoss,
Indian politician ·
1969 – Guto Bebb, Welsh businessman and politician ·
1969
– Darren Britt,
Australian rugby league player ·
1969
– Simon Fairweather,
Australian archer ·
1969
– PJ Harvey, English musician,
singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer ·
1969
– Christine Hough,
Canadian figure skater and coach ·
1969
– Giles Martin,
English songwriter and producer ·
1969
– Steve McQueen,
English director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1970 – Kenny Anderson,
American basketball player and coach ·
1970
– Steve Jablonsky,
American composer ·
1970
– Annika Sörenstam,
Swedish golfer and architect ·
1971 – Wayne Bartrim, Australian rugby league
player and coach ·
1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and
keyboard player ·
1974 – Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi ·
1975 – Haylie Ecker, Australian violinist ·
1975
– Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, producer, and actor ·
1975
– Mark Viduka, Australian footballer ·
1976 – William
Alexander, American author and educator ·
1976
– Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer and coach ·
1976
– Özlem Türköne,
Turkish journalist and politician ·
1976
– Nick Swardson,
American actor and comedian ·
1977 – Emanuele Belardi, Italian footballer ·
1977
– Brian Roberts,
American baseball player ·
1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish singer-songwriter ·
1978
– Juan Dixon, American basketball player and
coach ·
1979 – Vernon Fox, American football player and
coach ·
1979
– Alex Greenwald,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ·
1979
– Todd Kelly, Australian race car driver ·
1979
– Chris O'Dowd,
Irish actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1979
– Brandon Routh,
American model and actor ·
1979
– Gonzalo Sorondo,
Uruguayan footballer ·
1980 – Lucy Akello, Ugandan social worker and
politician ·
1980
– Filip Bobek, Polish actor ·
1980
– Pāvels Doroševs,
Latvian football goalkeeper ·
1980
– Kert Kütt, Estonian
footballer ·
1980
– Amir Nussbaum,
Israeli footballer ·
1980
– Ibrahim Fazeel,
Maldivian footballer ·
1980
– Sarah Lovell,
Australian politician ·
1980
– Fábio Pinto, Brazilian
footballer ·
1980
– Thami Tsolekile,
South African cricketer ·
1980
– Warren Waugh, English
footballer ·
1980
– Henrik Zetterberg,
Swedish ice hockey player ·
1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor ·
1981
– Darius Miles,
American basketball player ·
1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player ·
1983
– Farhaan Behardien,
South African cricketer ·
1983
– Jang Mi-ran, South Korean weightlifter ·
1983
– Andreas Zuber,
Austrian race car driver ·
1985 – David Plummer,
American swimmer ·
1986 – Derek Holland, American baseball player ·
1986
– Laure Manaudou,
French swimmer ·
1986
– Stephane Zubar,
French footballer ·
1987 – Samantha Murray,
English tennis player ·
1987
– Bill Walker,
American basketball player ·
1988 – David
Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player ·
1989 – Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league
player ·
1990 – Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer ·
1991 – Tyson Frizell, Australian-Welsh rugby league
player ·
1992 – Tyler James Williams,
American actor and rapper ·
1993 – Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player ·
1993
– Lauren Davis,
American tennis player ·
1993
– Jayden Hodges,
Australian rugby league player ·
1993
– Scotty McCreery,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1993
– Wesley So, Filipino-American chess
grandmaster ·
1996 – Bella Hadid, American model ·
2001 – Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer[3] Deaths[edit] ·
680 – Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint ·
892 – Al-Tirmidhi, Persian scholar and hadith compiler (b. 824) ·
1047 – Pope Clement II ·
1212 – Philip I of Namur,
Marquis of Namur (b. 1175) ·
1253 – Robert Grosseteste,
English bishop and philosopher (b. 1175) ·
1273 – Elisabeth
of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (b. 1227) ·
1296 – Louis III,
Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269) ·
1390 – John I of Castile (b.
1358) ·
1555 – Justus Jonas, German academic and reformer
(b. 1493) ·
1562 – Gabriele Falloppio,
Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1523) ·
1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa (b.
1533) ·
1581 – Louis Bertrand,
Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1526) ·
1613 – Henry Constable, English poet (b. 1562) ·
1619 – Joseph Pardo,
Italian rabbi and merchant (b. 1561) ·
1691 – William Sacheverell,
English politician (b. 1638) ·
1729 – Richard Blackmore,
English physician and poet (b. 1654) ·
1793 – Jean Joseph Marie
Amiot, French missionary and linguist (b. 1718) ·
1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (b.
1720) ·
1806 – Benjamin Banneker,
American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731) ·
1808 – John Claiborne, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1777) ·
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias,
Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor
of Greece (b. 1776) ·
1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and author
(b. 1785) ·
1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and
politician, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818) ·
1900 – Heinrich von
Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843) ·
1911 – Jack Daniel, American businessman,
founded Jack Daniel's (b.
1849)[4] ·
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and
critic (b. 1873) ·
1934 – Alexander I of
Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander the Unifier
(b. 1888) ·
1934 – Louis Barthou, French union leader and
politician, 78th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1862) ·
1937 – Ernest
Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868) ·
1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician
and missionary (b. 1865) ·
1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress
(b. 1900) ·
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1865) ·
1945 – Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887) ·
1946 – Frank Castleman, American football player,
baseball player, and coach (b. 1877) ·
1947 – Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and
politician, 27th Japanese
Minister of Finance (b. 1888) ·
1950 – George Hainsworth,
Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895) ·
1953 – James Finlayson,
Scottish-American actor (b. 1887) ·
1955 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b.
1875) ·
1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882) ·
1958 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876) ·
1959 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and
biologist (b. 1892) ·
1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and
engineer (b. 1885) ·
1967 – Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician,
politician and guerrilla leader (b. 1928) ·
1967
– Cyril Norman
Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1897) ·
1967
– André Maurois,
French soldier and author (b. 1885) ·
1967
– Joseph Pilates,
German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (b. 1883) ·
1969 – Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928) ·
1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902) ·
1974 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman
(b. 1908) ·
1975 – Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910) ·
1976 – Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894) ·
1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and
actor (b. 1929) ·
1982 – Herbert
Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (b. 1893) ·
1985 – Emílio
Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (b.
1905) ·
1987 – Clare Boothe Luce,
American author, playwright, and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1903) ·
1987
– William P. Murphy,
American physician and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1892) ·
1988 – Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented
the Wankel engine (b.
1902) ·
1989 – Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and
playwright (b. 1921) ·
1989
– Penny Lernoux,
American journalist and author (b. 1940) ·
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home,
British cricketer and politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903) ·
1996 – Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and
critic (b. 1913) ·
1999 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and
composer (b. 1923) ·
1999
– Akhtar Hameed Khan,
Pakistani economist and scholar (b. 1914) ·
2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945) ·
2000
– Patrick Anthony
Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918) ·
2001 – Herbert Ross, American director, producer,
and choreographer (b. 1927) ·
2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and
politician (b. 1931) ·
2002
– Charles Guggenheim,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924) ·
2003 – Carolyn Gold
Heilbrun, American author and academic (b. 1926) ·
2003
– Carl Fontana,
American jazz trombonist (b. 1928) ·
2004 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher
and academic (b. 1930) ·
2005 – Louis Nye, American actor (b. 1913) ·
2006 – Danièle Huillet,
French filmmaker (b. 1933) ·
2006
– Paul Hunter, English snooker player (b.
1978) ·
2006
– Kanshi Ram, Indian lawyer and politician (b.
1934) ·
2007 – Enrico Banducci, American businessman,
founded hungry i (b. 1922) ·
2007
– Carol Bruce, American actress and singer (b.
1919) ·
2009 – Stuart M. Kaminsky,
American author and educator (b. 1934) ·
2009
– John Daido Loori,
American Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher (b. 1931) ·
2009
– Horst Szymaniak,
German footballer (b. 1934) ·
2010 – Maurice Allais, French economist and
physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1911) ·
2011 – Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989) ·
2012 – Sammi Kane Kraft, American actress (b. 1992) ·
2012
– Kenny Rollins,
American basketball player (b. 1923) ·
2012
– Harris Savides,
American cinematographer (b. 1957) ·
2013 – Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and
politician, 4th Governor of
Plateau State (b. 1933) ·
2013
– Srihari, Indian actor ·
2013
– Wilfried Martens,
Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1936) ·
2013
– Edmund Niziurski,
Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (b. 1925) ·
2014 – Boris
Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (b.
1929) ·
2014
– Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne
(b. 1957) ·
2014
– Carolyn Kizer,
American poet and academic (b. 1925) ·
2014
– Peter A. Peyser,
American soldier and politician (b. 1921) ·
2014
– Rita Shane, American soprano and educator
(b. 1936) ·
2015 – Ray Duncan,
American businessman (b. 1930) ·
2015
– Geoffrey Howe,
Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1926) ·
2015
– Ravindra Jain,
Indian composer and director (b. 1944) ·
2016 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre
director (b. 1926) ·
2017 – Jean Rochefort, French actor[5] (b. 1930) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Abraham o Denis o Ghislain o Innocencio
of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs
of Asturias o Blessed John Henry Newman o Robert Grosseteste (Church
of England) o Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o October
9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Fire Prevention Day (Canada, United States) ·
Hangul Day (South Korea) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962.
(Uganda) ·
Independence of
Guayaquil from Spain in 1820 (Ecuador) ·
Leif Erikson Day (United States,
Iceland and Norway) ·
National
Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania) ·
National Nanotechnology Day (United States) ·
Takayama Autumn
Festival (Takayama, Japan) |
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