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Events

Pre-1600

• 130 – Emperor Hadrian establishes the city of Antinoöpolis on the Nile in honour of his companion Antinous, creating a new Hellenizing foundation in Roman Egypt.
• 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.

1601–1900

• 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.
• 1858 – Approximately 20 people die in Bradford, England, UK, after being poisoned from ingesting sweets that had been accidentally adulterated with arsenic trioxide.Template:Sfnm
• 1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
• 1864 – Second War of Schleswig: 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.

1901–present

• 1905 – Tsar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, nominally 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.
• 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic 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.
• 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.
• 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 of Imre Nagy recognizes newly established revolutionary workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads anti-Soviet militias in an attack on the headquarters of the Hungarian Working People's Party.
• 1959 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
• 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
• 1968 – A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos land in boats along a 25-mile long section of the eastern coast of South Korea in a failed attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of Park Chung Hee and bring about the reunification of Korea.
• 1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
• 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
• 1975 – Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic).
• 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.
• 1983 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Turkish provinces of Erzurum and Kars leaves approximately 1,340 people dead.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2013 – Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India.
• 2014 – Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.
• 2014 – Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas.
• 2015 – A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured.
• 2020 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.
• 2022 – A pedestrian suspension bridge collapses in the city of Morbi, Gujarat, leading to the deaths of at least 135 people.
• 2023 – First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Births

Pre-1600

• 39 BC – Julia the Elder, Roman daughter of Augustus (died 14)
• 1218 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (died 1234)
• 1327 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria (died 1345)
• 1447 – Lucas Watzenrode, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (died 1512)
• 1492 – Anne d'Alençon, French noblewoman (died 1562)
• 1513 – Jacques Amyot, French bishop and translator (died 1593)
• 1558 – Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (died 1652)

1601–1900

• 1624 – Paul Pellisson, French historian and author (died 1693)
• 1632 – Christopher Wren, English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (died 1723)
• 1660 – Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (died 1731)
• 1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (died 1705)
• 1712 – Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (died 1770)
• 1728 – Mary Hayley, English businesswoman (died 1808)
• 1735 – John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (died 1826)
• 1741 – Angelica Kauffman, painter (died 1807)
• 1751 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-English poet, playwright, and politician, Treasurer of the Navy (died 1816)
• 1762 – André Chénier, Turkish-French poet and playwright (died 1794)
• 1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian captain and author (died 1871)
• 1799 – Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (died 1885)
• 1839 – Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (died 1899)
• 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (died 1904)
• 1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (died 1929)
• 1868 – António Cabreira, Portuguese polygraph (died 1953)
• 1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (died 1949)
• 1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher (died 1945)
• 1873 – Francisco I. Madero, Mexican businessman and politician, 33rd President of Mexico (died 1913)
• 1877 – Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, Prime Minister of Latvia (died 1941)
• 1878 – Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (died 1929)
• 1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (died 1941)
• 1882 – Oldřich Duras, Czech chess player and composer (died 1957)
• 1882 – William Halsey Jr., American admiral (died 1959)
• 1882 – Günther von Kluge, Polish-German field marshal (died 1944)
• 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (died 1972)
• 1886 – Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1958)
• 1887 – Sukumar Ray, Indian-Bangladeshi author, poet, and playwright (died 1923)
• 1888 – Louis Menges, American soccer player, soldier, and politician (died 1969)
• 1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek footballer and high jumper (died 1913)
• 1892 – Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder (died 1972)
• 1893 – Roland Freisler, German soldier, lawyer, and judge (died 1945)
• 1894 – Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (died 1977)
• 1894 – Peter Warlock, English composer and critic (died 1930)
• 1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
• 1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
• 1896 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (died 1928)
• 1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (died 1985)
• 1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and educator (died 1928)
• 1896 – Harry R. Truman, American soldier and inn keeper on Mount St. Helens, killed in the eruption (died 1980)
• 1896 – Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (died 1985)
• 1897 – Agustín Lara, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (died 1970)
• 1898 – Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager (died 1989)
• 1900 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)

1901–present

• 1905 – Johnny Miles, English-Canadian runner (died 2003)
• 1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (died 1966)
• 1906 – Hermann Fegelein, German general (died 1945)
• 1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator (died 1970)
• 1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist and academic (died 1995)
• 1908 – Patsy Montana, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 1996)
• 1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (died 1963)
• 1908 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (died 1967)
• 1908 – Dmitry Ustinov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (died 1984)
• 1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (died 1966)
• 1910 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (died 1942)
• 1910 – Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian-Monegasque organist and composer (died 1994)
• 1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (died 2005)
• 1914 – Richard E. Holz, American minister and composer (died 1986)
• 1914 – Leabua Jonathan, Basotho lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (died 1987)
• 1914 – Anna Wing, English actress (died 2013)
• 1915 – Fred W. Friendly, American journalist and producer (died 1998)
• 1915 – Jane Randolph, American-Swiss actress and singer (died 2009)
• 1916 – Leon Day, American baseball player (died 1995)
• 1917 – Bobby Bragan, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2010)
• 1917 – Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (died 1994)
• 1917 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (died 1994)
• 1917 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (died 2005)
• 1920 – Christy Ring, Irish sportsman (died 1979)
• 1921 – Valli Lember-Bogatkina (died 2016)
• 1922 – Elena Mikhnenko, Ukrainian exile (died 1993)
• 1922 – Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (died 2021)
• 1922 – Jane White, American actress and singer (died 2011)
• 1923 – Gloria Oden, American poet and academic (died 2011)
• 1924 – John P. Craven, American soldier and engineer (died 2015)
• 1925 – Tommy Ridgley, American singer and bandleader (died 1999)
• 1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian race car driver and manager (died 2010)
• 1927 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player and manager (died 1999)
• 1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
• 1929 – Jean Chapman, English author
• 1929 – Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (died 2012)
• 1930 – Néstor Almendros, Spanish-American director and cinematographer (died 1992)
• 1930 – Christopher Foster, English economist and academic (died 2022)
• 1930 – Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (died 1956)
• 1930 – Don Meineke, American basketball player (died 2013)
• 1931 – Vince Callahan, American lieutenant and politician (died 2014)
• 1931 – David M. Wilson, Manx archaeologist, historian, and curator
• 1932 – Barun De, Indian historian and author (died 2013)
• 1932 – Louis Malle, French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1995)
• 1933 – Col Campbell, New Zealand gardener and television host (died 2012)
• 1934 – Keith Barnes, Welsh-Australian rugby player and coach (died 2024)
• 1934 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch flute player and conductor (died 2014)
• 1935 – Robert Caro, American journalist and author
• 1935 – Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian-Swiss author (died 2011)
• 1935 – Jim Perry, American baseball player
• 1935 – Michael Winner, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
• 1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast and trainer (died 2005)
• 1936 – Dick Vermeil, American football player and coach
• 1937 – Claude Lelouch, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1937 – Brian Price, Welsh rugby player (died 2023)
• 1938 – Morris Lurie, Australian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 2014)
• 1939 – Harvey Goldstein, English statistician and academic (died 2020)
• 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 (died 2019)
• 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 (died 2019)
• 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 (died 2015)
• 1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, comedian, director, and producer
• 1945 – Lynne Marta, American actress (died 2024)
• 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 (died 1968)
• 1947 – Tim Kirk, American illustrator and designer
• 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 (died 1996)
• 1949 – Leon Rippy, American actor
• 1950 – Phil Chenier, American basketball player and broadcaster
• 1950 – Tim Sheens, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1951 – Tony Bettenhausen Jr., American race car driver and businessman (died 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 (died 2014)
• 1958 – Joe Delaney, American football player (died 1983)
• 1958 – Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist and photographer
• 1958 – Pétur Guðmundsson, Icelandic basketball player and coach
• 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 (died 2020)
• 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 (died 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 (died 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 – Billy Brown, American actor
• 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 – 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 – Rich Alvarez, Filipino-Japanese basketball player
• 1980 – Choi Hong-man, South Korean wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1980 – Kareem Rush, American basketball player
• 1981 – Fiona Dourif, American actress
• 1981 – Joshua Jay, American magician and author
• 1981 – Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean model and actress
• 1981 – Ayaka Kimura, Japanese singer and actress
• 1981 – Shaun Sipos, Canadian actor
• 1981 – Ian Snell, American baseball player
• 1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman
• 1982 – Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Manny Parra, American baseball player
• 1982 – Clémence Poésy, French actress and model
• 1982 – Stalley, American rapper
• 1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player
• 1983 – Iain Hume, Canadian soccer player
• 1983 – Maor Melikson, Israeli footballer
• 1984 – Gedo, Egyptian footballer
• 1984 – Eva Marcille, American model and actress
• 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 – Desmond Jennings, American baseball player
• 1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
• 1986 – Keisuke Sohma, Japanese actor
• 1986 – Tamera Young, American basketball player
• 1987 – Danielle Fong, Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy
• 1987 – Ashley Graham, American model
• 1987 – Ali Riley, New Zealand footballer
• 1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress and singer
• 1989 – Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer
• 1989 – Nastia Liukin, Russian-American gymnast and actress
• 1990 – Joe Panik, American baseball player
• 1990 – Suwaibou Sanneh, Gambian sprinter
• 1991 – Jarell Eddie, American basketball player
• 1991 – Artemi Panarin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Tomáš Satoranský, Czech basketball player
• 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
• 1996 – Dennis Gilbert, American ice hockey player
• 1996 – Kennedy McMann, American actress
• 1996 – Kim Ji-sung, South Korean actress
• 1997 – Tage Thompson, American ice hockey player
• 1998 – Cale Makar, Canadian ice hockey player
• 2000 – Giselle, Japanese singer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 526 – Paul of Edessa, Syriac Orthodox bishop of Edessa
• 1137 – Sergius VII, Duke of Naples
• 1282 – Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (born 1211)
• 1459 – Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar and translator (born 1380)
• 1466 – Johann Fust, German printer (born c. 1400)
• 1522 – Jean Mouton, French composer and educator (born 1459)
• 1553 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German politician (born 1489)

1601–1900

• 1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet and illustrator (born 1528)
• 1611 – Charles IX of Sweden (born 1550)
• 1626 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (born 1580)
• 1632 – Henri II de Montmorency, French admiral and politician (born 1595)
• 1654 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (born 1633)
• 1680 – Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic (born 1616)
• 1685 – Michel Le Tellier, French lawyer and politician, French Secretary of State for War (born 1603)
• 1690 – Hieronymus van Beverningh, Dutch diplomat and politician (born 1614)
• 1730 – Nedîm, Turkish poet (born 1681)
• 1757 – Osman III, Ottoman sultan (born 1699)
• 1757 – Edward Vernon, English admiral and politician (born 1684)
• 1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1738)
• 1816 – Frederick I of Württemberg (born 1754)
• 1842 – Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (born 1784)
• 1853 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (born 1786)
• 1882 – William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (born 1818)
• 1883 – Dayananda Saraswati, Indian philosopher and scholar (born 1824)
• 1883 – Robert Volkmann, German pianist and composer (born 1815)
• 1893 – John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (born 1821)
• 1894 – Honoré Mercier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)
• 1895 – James Patterson, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Victoria (born 1833)
• 1896 – Carol Benesch, Czech architect, designed Peleș Castle (born 1822)
• 1899 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (born 1816)

1901–present

• 1905 – Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Queensland (born 1843)
• 1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1828)
• 1912 – Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean colonel (born 1840)
• 1912 – James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (born 1855)
• 1915 – Charles Tupper, Canadian physician, lawyer, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1821)
• 1917 – Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (born 1883)
• 1919 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (born 1850)
• 1923 – Bonar Law, Canadian-English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1858)
• 1929 – Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (born 1877)
• 1933 – Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (born 1869)
• 1942 – Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and stockbroker, co-founder of Buckmaster & Moore (born 1872)
• 1943 – Max Reinhardt, Austrian-born American actor and director (born 1873)
• 1957 – Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (born 1880)
• 1961 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (born 1874)
• 1963 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1908)
• 1965 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (born 1888)
• 1966 – Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright (born 1906)
• 1968 – Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (born 1899)
• 1968 – Conrad Richter, American journalist and novelist (born 1890)
• 1968 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (born 1886)
• 1973 – Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (born 1894)
• 1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
• 1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, inventor of the "bouncing bomb" (born 1887)
• 1982 – Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian author and educator (born 1907)
• 1987 – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (born 1904)
• 1988 – T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter (born 1911)
• 1988 – Florence Nagle, English trainer and breeder of racehorses (born 1894)
• 1990 – V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1901)
• 1992 – Joan Mitchell, American painter (born 1925)
• 1993 – Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (born 1911)
• 1993 – Peter Kemp, English soldier, mercenary, and writer (born 1915)
• 1996 – John Young, Scottish actor (born 1916)
• 1997 – Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1912)
• 1999 – Maigonis Valdmanis, Latvian basketball player (born 1933)
• 2000 – Steve Allen, American actor, television personality, game show panelist, and talk show host (born 1921)
• 2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)
• 2002 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and producer (born 1965)
• 2003 – Steve O'Rourke, English race car driver and manager (born 1940)
• 2004 – Phyllis Frost, Australian philanthropist, founded Keep Australia Beautiful (born 1917)
• 2004 – Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (born 1924)
• 2005 – Al López, American baseball player and manager (born 1908)
• 2005 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian politician (born 1942)
• 2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and author (born 1926)
• 2006 – Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright and scholar (born 1914)
• 2007 – Washoe, American chimpanzee (born 1965)
• 2007 – Robert Goulet, American actor and singer (born 1933)
• 2007 – Linda S. Stein, American businesswoman and manager (born 1945)
• 2007 – John Woodruff, American runner and colonel (born 1915)
• 2008 – Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (born 1950)
• 2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (born 1908)
• 2010 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (born 1927)
• 2012 – Franck Biancheri, French politician (born 1961)
• 2012 – Samina Raja, Pakistani poet and educator (born 1961)
• 2012 – Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (born 1940)
• 2013 – Bill Currie, American baseball player (born 1928)
• 2013 – Pete Haycock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1951)
• 2013 – Michael Palmer, American physician and author (born 1942)
• 2013 – Frank Wess, American saxophonist and flute player (born 1922)
• 2014 – Elijah Malok Aleng, Sudanese general and politician (born 1937)
• 2014 – Renée Asherson, English actress (born 1915)
• 2014 – Juan Flavier, Filipino physician and politician (born 1935)
• 2014 – Ida Elizabeth Osbourne, Australian actress and radio host (born 1916)
• 2014 – Bob Geigel, American wrestler and promoter (born 1924)
• 2014 – Thomas Menino, American businessman and politician, 53rd Mayor of Boston (born 1942)
• 2015 – Mel Daniels, American basketball player and coach (born 1944)
• 2015 – Al Molinaro, American actor (born 1919)
• 2015 – Sinan Şamil Sam, Turkish boxer (born 1974)
• 2015 – Norm Siebern, American baseball player and scout (born 1933)
• 2017 – Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (born 1972)
• 2024 – Matt Peacock, Australian journalist and author (born 1952)

Holidays and observances

• Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
• Christian feast day:
  • Ethelnoth (Egelnoth) the Good
  • Blessed Dominic Collins (Catholic, Ireland, Society of Jesus)
  • Gerard of Potenza
  • Blessed Maria Teresa of St. Joseph
  • John Wycliffe (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Marcellus of Tangier
  • Saturninus of Cagliari
  • Serapion of Antioch
  • Talarican (Tarkin)
  • Theonistus
  • Zenobios and Zenobia
  • October 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former Soviet republics, except Ukraine)
• Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community, India)
• Mischief Night (Ireland, Canada, United Kingdom, United States and other places)

External links

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