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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.

Events

Pre-1600

1601–1900

  • 1604 – Kepler's Supernova is 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, Connecticut.[1]
  • 1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
  • 1740 – Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
  • 1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
  • 1779 – American Revolutionary War: A combined Franco-American assault on British defenses during the Siege of Savannah is repulsed with heavy casualties.[2]
  • 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.
  • 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 is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
  • 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.[3]
  • 1864 – American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia during Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign.[4]
  • 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.[5]

1901–present

  • 1911 – An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
  • 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 elects Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as King of Finland, but he never accedes to the throne due to Germany's defeat in World War I.
  • 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.
  • 1963 – In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
  • 1966 – Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits 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, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
  • 1984 – The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.[6]
  • 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
  • 1986 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.[7]
  • 1992 – The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York
  • 1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
  • 2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
  • 2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008 financial crisis.[8]
  • 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.
  • 2024 – Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.[9]

Births

Pre-1600

  • 1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French minister and theologian, founded the Collège de Sorbonne (died 1274)
  • 1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian historian and scholar (died 1290)
  • 1261 – Denis of Portugal (died 1325)
  • 1328 – Peter I of Cyprus (died 1369)
  • 1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (died 1638)
  • 1586 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (died 1632)
  • 1593 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (died 1674)

1601–1900

  • 1609 – Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (died 1688)
  • 1623 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (died 1688)
  • 1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (died 1777)
  • 1757 – Charles X of France (died 1836)
  • 1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor (died 1878)
  • 1823 – Mary Ann Shadd, American-Canadian abolitionist (died 1893)[10]
  • 1826 – Agathon Meurman, Finnish politician and journalist (died 1909)[11]
  • 1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (died 1921)
  • 1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (died 1902)
  • 1840 – Simeon Solomon, English painter (died 1905)
  • 1845 – Carl Gustav Thulin, Swedish shipowner (died 1918)
  • 1850 – Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (died 1930)
  • 1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
  • 1858 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (died 1935)
  • 1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (died 1935)
  • 1863 – Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (died 1930)
  • 1864 – Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (died 1927)
  • 1871 – Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (died 1940)
  • 1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (died 1944)
  • 1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (died 1916)
  • 1873 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (died 1939)
  • 1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter (died 1947)
  • 1877 – Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (died 1928)
  • 1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
  • 1880 – Charlie Faust, American baseball player (died 1915)
  • 1883 – Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress (died 1956)
  • 1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (died 1980)
  • 1888 – Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (died 1938)
  • 1888 – Irving Cummings, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1959)
  • 1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (died 1944)
  • 1892 – Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
  • 1893 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (died 1945)
  • 1895 – Eugene Bullard, American pilot (died 1961)[12]
  • 1897 – M. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras State (died 1987)
  • 1898 – Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright (died 1987)
  • 1898 – Joe Sewell, American baseball player (died 1990)
  • 1899 – Bruce Catton, American historian and author (died 1978)
  • 1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor (died 1982)
  • 1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (died 1976)
  • 1900 – Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (died 1990)

1901–present

  • 1901 – Alice Lee Jemison, Seneca political activist and journalist (died 1964)
  • 1902 – Freddie Young, English cinematographer (died 1998)
  • 1903 – Walter O'Malley, American lawyer and businessman (died 1979)[13]
  • 1906 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (died 1985)
  • 1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (died 2001)
  • 1907 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (died 2001)
  • 1907 – Jacques Tati, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1982)
  • 1907 – Horst Wessel, German SA officer (died 1930)
  • 1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet and critic (died 1961)
  • 1908 – Werner von Haeften, German lieutenant (died 1944)
  • 1909 – Donald Coggan, English archbishop (died 2000)
  • 1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (died 2006)
  • 1914 – Edward Andrews, American actor (died 1985)
  • 1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, American academic and politician, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (died 2010)
  • 1915 – Belva Plain, American author (died 2010)
  • 1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (died 2007)[13]
  • 1918 – Charles Read, Australian air marshal (died 2014)
  • 1918 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2013)
  • 1920 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author and educator (died 1976)
  • 1920 – Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (died 2013)
  • 1920 – Jason Wingreen, American actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
  • 1921 – Michel Boisrond, French director and screenwriter (died 2002)
  • 1921 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (died 2014)
  • 1922 – Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (died 1997)
  • 1922 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor (died 2016)
  • 1922 – Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (died 2010)
  • 1923 – Donald Sinden, English actor (died 2014)
  • 1924 – Immanuvel Devendrar, Indian soldier (died 1957)
  • 1924 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (died 2012)[14]
  • 1926 – Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (died 2015)
  • 1927 – John Margetson, English scholar and diplomat, British Ambassador to the Netherlands (died 2020)
  • 1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer and educator (died 2016)
  • 1931 – Tony Booth, English actor (died 2017)
  • 1933 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
  • 1933 – Melvin Sokolsky, American fashion photographer (died 2022)[15]
  • 1933 – Bill Tidy, English soldier and cartoonist (died 2023)[16]
  • 1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian historian and author (died 2018)
  • 1934 – Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer (died 2026)
  • 1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
  • 1935 – Don McCullin, English photographer and journalist
  • 1936 – Brian Blessed, English actor
  • 1936 – Mick Young, Australian politician (died 1996)
  • 1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian academic and politician, 11th President of Austria
  • 1939 – Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect and academic (died 2025)
  • 1939 – John Pilger, Australian-English journalist, director, and producer (died 2023)
  • 1940 – John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1980)[13]
  • 1941 – Brian Lamb, American broadcaster, founded C-SPAN[13]
  • 1941 – Trent Lott, American lawyer and politician
  • 1941 – Omali Yeshitela, political activist and founder of the Uhuru Movement
  • 1943 – Douglas Kirby, American psychologist and author (died 2012)
  • 1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist
  • 1944 – Rita Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy, English academic and politician
  • 1944 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 2002)[13]
  • 1944 – Nona Hendryx, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress[17]
  • 1945 – Amjad Ali Khan, Indian classical Sarod player
  • 1945 – Taiguara, Uruguayan-Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 1996)
  • 1947 – France Gall, French singer (died 2018)
  • 1948 – Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[17]
  • 1949 – Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (died 2016)
  • 1950 – Yoshiyuki Konishi, Japanese fashion designer
  • 1950 – Reichi Nakaido, Japanese singer and guitarist
  • 1950 – Jody Williams, American academic and activist, Nobel Prize laureate[13]
  • 1951 – Robert Wuhl, American actor, comedian, and writer[17]
  • 1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English television host and manager[17]
  • 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[17]
  • 1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor[17]
  • 1954 – James Fearnley, English musician[17]
  • 1954 – Rubén Magnano, Argentine-Italian basketball coach
  • 1954 – John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host[17]
  • 1955 – Linwood Boomer, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter[17]
  • 1955 – Steve Ovett, English runner and sportscaster
  • 1957 – Ini Kamoze, Jamaican singer-songwriter
  • 1958 – Al Jourgensen, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1958 – Michael Paré, American actor[17]
  • 1958 – Mike Singletary, American football player and coach[13]
  • 1959 – Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (died 2015)
  • 1960 – Kenny Garrett, American saxophonist and composer[17]
  • 1961 – Julian Bailey, English racing driver and sportscaster
  • 1961 – Kurt Neumann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[17]
  • 1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer and manager
  • 1962 – Paul Radisich, New Zealand racing driver
  • 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[17]
  • 1964 – Martín Jaite, Argentine tennis player[18]
  • 1966 – David Cameron, English politician, 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 (died 2005)
  • 1967 – Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
  • 1968 – Guto Bebb, Welsh businessman and politician
  • 1968 – Anbumani Ramadoss, Indian politician
  • 1969 – Darren Britt, Australian rugby league player
  • 1969 – Simon Fairweather, Australian archer
  • 1969 – PJ Harvey, English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer[17]
  • 1969 – Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater and coach
  • 1969 – Giles Martin, English songwriter and producer
  • 1969 – Steve McQueen, English director, producer, and screenwriter[17]
  • 1970 – Kenny Anderson, American basketball player and coach
  • 1970 – Steve Jablonsky, American composer
  • 1970 – Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer and architect[13]
  • 1971 – Wayne Bartrim, Australian rugby league player and coach
  • 1971 – Sian Evans, Welsh singer[19]
  • 1973 – Steve Burns, American actor, television host and musician[20]
  • 1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
  • 1974 – Keith Booth, American basketball player and coach[21]
  • 1974 – Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi
  • 1975 – Haylie Ecker, Australian violinist
  • 1975 – Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor[17]
  • 1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
  • 1976 – William Alexander, American author and educator
  • 1976 – Stephen Neal, American football player[22]
  • 1976 – Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer and coach
  • 1976 – Özlem Türköne, Turkish journalist and politician
  • 1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor and comedian[13]
  • 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 racing driver
  • 1979 – Lecrae, American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor[17]
  • 1979 – Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1979 – Brandon Routh, American model and actor[17]
  • 1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
  • 1980 – Lucy Akello, Ugandan social worker and politician
  • 1980 – Filip Bobek, Polish actor
  • 1980 – Sarah Lovell, Australian politician
  • 1980 – Thami Tsolekile, South African cricketer
  • 1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
  • 1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor[17]
  • 1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player[23]
  • 1983 – Farhaan Behardien, South African cricketer
  • 1983 – Trevor Daley, Canadian ice hockey player[24]
  • 1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
  • 1983 – Spencer Grammer, American actress[17]
  • 1983 – Jang Mi-ran, South Korean weightlifter
  • 1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
  • 1984 – Marie Kondo, Japanese author and television presenter[13]
  • 1985 – David Plummer, American swimmer
  • 1986 – Derek Holland, American baseball player
  • 1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
  • 1986 – David Phelps, American baseball player[25]
  • 1986 – Jan Christian Vestre, Norwegian businessman and politician[26]
  • 1986 – Stephane Zubar, French footballer
  • 1987 – Craig Brackins, American basketball player[27]
  • 1987 – Samantha Murray Sharan, British tennis player[28]
  • 1987 – Henry Walker, American basketball player[29]
  • 1988 – Starling Marte, Dominican baseball player[30]
  • 1988 – David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player
  • 1989 – Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player
  • 1990 – Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer
  • 1990 – Jake Lamb, American baseball player[31]
  • 1992 – Jerian Grant, American basketball player[32]
  • 1992 – Sam Mewis, American soccer player[33]
  • 1992 – Tyler James Williams, American actor[17]
  • 1993 – Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player
  • 1993 – Lauren Davis, American tennis player[34]
  • 1993 – Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player
  • 1993 – George Kittle, American football player[35]
  • 1993 – Scotty McCreery, American singer and songwriter[17]
  • 1993 – Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster[36]
  • 1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress[13]
  • 1996 – Jacob Batalon, Filipino-American actor[13]
  • 1996 – Bella Hadid, American model[37]
  • 1997 – Jharrel Jerome, American actor[17]
  • 1997 – Megan Moroney, American singer-songwriter.[38]
  • 2000 – Penei Sewell, American football player[39]
  • 2001 – Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer[40]
  • 2002 – Ben Shelton, American tennis player[41]

Deaths

Pre-1600

  • 680 – Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint
  • 892 – Al-Tirmidhi, Persian scholar and hadith compiler (born 824)
  • 1047 – Pope Clement II
  • 1212 – Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (born 1175)
  • 1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English bishop and philosopher (born 1175)
  • 1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (born 1227)
  • 1296 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (born 1269)
  • 1390 – John I of Castile (born 1358)
  • 1555 – Justus Jonas, German academic and reformer (born 1493)
  • 1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (born 1523)
  • 1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa (born 1533)
  • 1581 – Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (born 1526)

1601–1900

  • 1613 – Henry Constable, English poet (born 1562)
  • 1619 – Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (born 1561)
  • 1691 – William Sacheverell, English politician (born 1638)
  • 1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (born 1654)
  • 1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary and linguist (born 1718)
  • 1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (born 1720)
  • 1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (born 1731)
  • 1808 – John Claiborne, American lawyer and politician (born 1777)
  • 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (born 1776)
  • 1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and author (born 1785)
  • 1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1818)
  • 1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1843)

1901–present

  • 1906 – Henriette Wulfsberg, Norwegian school owner and writer (born 1843)[42]
  • 1911 – Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (born 1849)[43]
  • 1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and critic (born 1873)
  • 1926 – Evald Relander, Finnish teacher, agronomist and banker (born 1856)[44]
  • 1934 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander the Unifier (born 1888)
  • 1934 – Louis Barthou, French union leader and politician, 78th Prime Minister of France (born 1862)
  • 1937 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1868)
  • 1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (born 1865)
  • 1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (born 1900)
  • 1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
  • 1944 – Stefanina Moro, Italian partisan (born 1927)[45]
  • 1945 – Gottlieb Hering, German captain (born 1887)
  • 1946 – Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (born 1877)
  • 1947 – Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (born 1888)
  • 1950 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (born 1895)
  • 1953 – James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (born 1887)
  • 1955 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (born 1875)
  • 1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (born 1882)
  • 1958 – Pope Pius XII (born 1876)
  • 1958 – John Boland, American politician (born 1884)[46]
  • 1959 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and biologist (born 1892)
  • 1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (born 1885)
  • 1967 – Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (born 1928)
  • 1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
  • 1967 – André Maurois, French soldier and author (born 1885)
  • 1967 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (born 1883)
  • 1969 – Don Hoak, American baseball player (born 1928)
  • 1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (born 1902)
  • 1974 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (born 1908)
  • 1975 – Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (born 1910)
  • 1976 – Walter Warlimont, German general (born 1894)
  • 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1929)
  • 1982 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (born 1893)
  • 1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (born 1905)
  • 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1903)
  • 1987 – William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
  • 1988 – Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (born 1902)
  • 1989 – Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (born 1921)
  • 1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (born 1940)
  • 1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1903)
  • 1996 – Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (born 1913)
  • 1999 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (born 1923)
  • 1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (born 1914)
  • 2000 – David Dukes, American actor (born 1945)
  • 2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1918)
  • 2001 – Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (born 1927)
  • 2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (born 1931)
  • 2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924)
  • 2003 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (born 1926)
  • 2003 – Carl Fontana, American jazz trombonist (born 1928)
  • 2004 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1930)
  • 2005 – Louis Nye, American actor (born 1913)
  • 2006 – Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (born 1933)
  • 2006 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (born 1978)
  • 2006 – Kanshi Ram, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
  • 2007 – Enrico Banducci, American businessman, founded hungry i (born 1922)
  • 2007 – Carol Bruce, American actress and singer (born 1919)
  • 2009 – Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author and educator (born 1934)
  • 2009 – John Daido Loori, American Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher (born 1931)
  • 2009 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (born 1934)
  • 2010 – Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
  • 2011 – Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (born 1989)
  • 2012 – Sammi Kane Kraft, American actress (born 1992)
  • 2012 – Kenny Rollins, American basketball player (born 1923)
  • 2012 – Harris Savides, American cinematographer (born 1957)
  • 2013 – Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (born 1933)
  • 2013 – Srihari, Indian actor (born 1964)
  • 2013 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1936)
  • 2013 – Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (born 1925)
  • 2014 – Boris Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (born 1929)
  • 2014 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (born 1957)
  • 2014 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (born 1925)
  • 2014 – Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (born 1921)
  • 2014 – Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (born 1936)
  • 2015 – Ray Duncan, American businessman (born 1930)
  • 2015 – Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1931)[47]
  • 2015 – Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1926)
  • 2015 – Ravindra Jain, Indian composer and director (born 1944)
  • 2016 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (born 1926)
  • 2017 – Jean Rochefort, French actor[48] (born 1930)
  • 2024 – George Baldock, British-born Greek international footballer (born 1993)[49]
  • 2024 – Dieter Burdenski, German footballer (born 1950)[50]
  • 2024 – Lily Ebert, Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor (born 1923)[51]
  • 2024 – Lee Wei Ling, Singaporean neurologist (born 1955)[52]
  • 2024 – Clark R. Rasmussen, American politician (born 1934)[53]
  • 2024 – Leif Segerstam, Finnish conductor and composer (born 1944)[54]
  • 2024 – Ratan Tata, Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1937)[55]

Holidays and observances

  • Christian feast day:
  • 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)
  • World Post Day[56]
  • Indian Foreign Service Day[57]

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