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Day of the year
October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 76 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
456 –
Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
[1]
690 – Empress
Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
912 –
Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba.
[2]
955 – King Otto I
defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
1311 – The
Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
[3]
1384 –
Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
[4]
1590 – Prince
Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
[5]
1601–1900
1736 – Mathematician
William Whiston 's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
[6]
1780 – American Revolutionary War: The British-led
Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
1780 – The
Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
[7]
1793 – French Revolution: Queen
Marie Antoinette is executed.
1793 – War of the First Coalition: French victory at the
Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
1805 – War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon
surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.
[8]
1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day
Battle of Leipzig .
[9]
1817 – Italian explorer and archaeologist
Giovanni Belzoni , uncovered the
Tomb of Seti I in the
Valley of the Kings .
[10]
1817 – Simón Bolívar sentences
Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
[11]
1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London
burns to the ground .
1836 – Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers
repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.
1841 –
Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.
1843 –
William Rowan Hamilton invents
quaternions , a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.
1846 –
William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.
1847 – The novel
Jane Eyre is published in London.
[12]
1859 – John Brown
leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
[13]
1869 – The
Cardiff Giant , one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1869 –
Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1875 –
Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1882 – The
Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1901–present
1905 – The
Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1909 –
William Howard Taft and
Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
[14]
1916 –
Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1919 – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the
German Workers' Party .
[15]
1923 –
Walt Disney and his brother,
Roy , found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio , today known as
The Walt Disney Company .
[16]
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the
Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
1939 –
World War II :
No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
1940 – Holocaust in Poland: The
Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1943 – Holocaust in Italy:
Raid on the Roman Ghetto .
[17]
1946 –
Nuremberg trials : Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal
are executed by hanging .
1947 – The Philippines takes over the administration of the
Turtle Islands and the
Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
1949 – The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the
Greek Civil War .
1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan,
Liaquat Ali Khan , is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1953 –
Cuban revolutionary
Fidel Castro delivers his "
History Will Absolve Me " speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the
Fulgencio Batista government for leading an
attack on the Moncada Barracks .
[18]
1962 –
Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
1964 – China detonates its
first nuclear weapon .
1964 –
Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while
Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
1968 – Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the
Olympics Black Power salute .
1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the
Rodney riots , inspired by the barring of
Walter Rodney from the country.
1968 –
Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1970 – Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the
War Measures Act during the
October Crisis .
1973 –
Henry Kissinger and
Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 – Indonesian troops kill the
Balibo Five , a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor.
1975 – Three-year-old
Rahima Banu , from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
1975 – The Australian Coalition sparks a
constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.
1978 – Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is
elected to the papacy as
Pope John Paul II , he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1984 –
Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991 – George Hennard
runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
1995 – The
Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.
[19]
1995 – The
Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.
1996 – Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive
crush at
a match in Guatemala City.
1998 – Former Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet is
arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
2002 – The
Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.
2013 –
Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
2017 –
Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1605 –
Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy , French writer and composer (d. 1677)
1620 –
Pierre Paul Puget , French painter and sculptor (d. 1694)
1678 –
Anna Waser , Swiss painter (d. 1714)
1679 –
Jan Dismas Zelenka , Czech
viol player and composer (d. 1745)
1710 –
András Hadik , Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1790)
1714 –
Giovanni Arduino , Italian geologist and academic (d. 1795)
1726 –
Daniel Chodowiecki , Polish-German painter and educator (d. 1801)
1729 –
Pierre van Maldere , Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768)
1752 –
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn , German theologian and academic (d. 1827)
1754 –
Morgan Lewis , American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd
Governor of New York (d. 1844)
1758 –
Noah Webster , American lexicographer (d. 1843)
1762 –
Paul Hamilton , American soldier and politician, 3rd
United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1816)
1789 –
William Burton , American physician and politician, 39th
Governor of Delaware (d. 1866)
1795 –
William Buell Sprague , American minister, historian, and author (d. 1876)
1802 –
Isaac Murphy , American educator and politician, 8th
Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882)
1803 –
Robert Stephenson , English railway and civil engineer (d. 1859)
1804 –
Benjamin Russell , American painter and educator (d. 1885)
1806 –
William P. Fessenden , American lawyer and politician, 26th
United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1869)
1815 –
Francis Lubbock , American colonel and politician, 9th
Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1818 –
William Forster , Indian-Australian politician, 4th
Premier of New South Wales (d. 1882)
1819 –
Austin F. Pike , American lawyer and politician (d. 1886)
1831 –
Lucy Stanton , American activist (d. 1910)
[20]
1832 –
Vicente Riva Palacio , Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (d. 1896)
1840 –
Kuroda Kiyotaka , Japanese general and politician, 2nd
Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1841 –
Itō Hirobumi , Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909)
1847 –
Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911)
1852 –
Carl von In der Maur , Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913)
1854 –
Karl Kautsky , Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938)
1854 –
Oscar Wilde , Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (d. 1900)
[21]
1855 –
Samad bey Mehmandarov , Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd
Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (d. 1931)
1861 –
J. B. Bury , Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927)
1861 –
Richard Sears , American tennis player (d. 1943)
1863 –
Austen Chamberlain , English businessman and politician,
Chancellor of the Exchequer ,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
1867 –
Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (d. 1963)
1869 –
Claude H. Van Tyne , American historian and author (d. 1930)
1872 –
Walter Buckmaster , English polo player and businessman, co-founded
Buckmaster & Moore (d. 1942)
1876 –
Jimmy Sinclair , South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913)
1881 –
William Orthwein , American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1955)
1884 –
Rembrandt Bugatti , Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
1886 –
David Ben-Gurion , Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1888 –
Eugene O'Neill , American playwright,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1888 –
Paul Popenoe , American founder of
relationship counseling (d. 1979)
1890 –
Michael Collins , Irish general and politician, 2nd
Irish Minister for Finance (d. 1922)
1890 –
Maria Goretti , Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902)
1890 –
Paul Strand , American photographer and director (d. 1975)
1897 –
Louis de Cazenave , French soldier (d. 2008)
1898 –
William O. Douglas , American lawyer and jurist (d. 1980)
1900 –
Edward Ardizzone , Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979)
1900 –
Primo Conti , Italian painter and poet (d. 1988)
1900 –
Goose Goslin , American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)
1901–present
1903 –
Cecile de Brunhoff , French author and pianist (d. 2003)
1903 –
Big Joe Williams , American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1904 –
Björn Berglund , Swedish actor (d. 1968)
1905 –
Ernst Kuzorra , German footballer and manager (d. 1990)
1906 –
León Klimovsky , Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1907 –
Richard Titmuss , English sociologist and academic (d. 1973)
1908 –
Olivia Coolidge , English-American author and educator (d. 2006)
[22]
1908 –
Enver Hoxha , Albanian general and politician,
Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)
1911 –
Otto von Bülow , German commander (d. 2006)
1912 –
Clifford Hansen , American rancher and politician, 26th
Governor of Wyoming (d. 2009)
1918 –
Louis Althusser , Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1990)
1918 –
Abraham Nemeth , American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
1918 –
Tony Rolt , English race car driver and engineer (d. 2008)
1919 –
Kathleen Winsor , American journalist and author (d. 2003)
[23]
1920 –
Paddy Finucane , Irish fighter pilot and flying ace (d. 1942)
1921 –
Matt Batts , American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
1921 –
Sita Ram Goel , Indian historian, publisher and writer (d. 2003)
1921 –
MacKenzie Miller , American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)
1922 –
Max Bygraves , English-Australian actor and singer (d. 2012)
1922 –
Leon Sullivan , American minister and activist (d. 2001)
1923 –
Linda Darnell , American actress (d. 1965)
1923 –
Bert Kaempfert , German conductor and composer (d. 1980)
1923 –
Bill McLaren , Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010)
1924 –
Gerard Parkes , Irish-Canadian actor (d. 2014)
1925 –
Daniel J. Evans , American politician, 16th
Governor of Washington
[24]
1925 –
Angela Lansbury , English-American actress, singer, and producer (d. 2022)
[25]
[26]
1926 –
Charles Dolan , American businessman, founded
Cablevision and
HBO
1926 –
Ed Valigursky , American illustrator (d. 2009)
[27]
1927 –
Günter Grass , German novelist, poet, playwright,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1928 –
Mary Daly , American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
[28]
1928 –
Ann Morgan Guilbert , American actress (d. 2016)
1929 –
Fernanda Montenegro , Brazilian actress
1930 –
John Polkinghorne , English physicist, theologian and priest (d. 2021)
1930 –
Carmen Sevilla , Spanish actress (d. 2023)
1931 –
Charles Colson , American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1931 –
Valery Klimov , Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 2022)
1931 –
Rosa Rosal , Filipino actress
1931 –
P. W. Underwood , American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1932 –
John Grant , English journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1932 –
Henry Lewis , American bassist and conductor (d. 1996)
1932 –
Lucien Paiement , Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013)
1933 –
Nobuyo Ōyama , Japanese voice actress
1934 –
Peter Ashdown , English race car driver
1936 –
Peter Bowles , English actor and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1936 –
Andrei Chikatilo , Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
1936 –
Mladen Koščak , Croatian footballer (d. 1997)
1936 –
Akira Machida , Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th
Chief Justice of Japan (d. 2015)
1938 –
Carl Gunter, Jr. , American politician (d. 1999)
1938 –
Nico , German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988)
1940 –
Barry Corbin , American actor and producer
[29]
1940 –
Dave DeBusschere , American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
1940 –
Ivan Della Mea , Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2009)
1941 –
Mel Counts , American basketball player
[30]
1941 –
Tim McCarver , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2023)
1941 –
Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne , English computer programmer and politician
1943 –
Fred Turner , Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
[29]
1944 –
Kaizer Motaung , South African footballer and manager
1944 –
Elizabeth Loftus , American psychologist
[31]
1945 –
Stefan Buczacki , English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host
1945 –
Roger Hawkins , American session drummer (d. 2021)
1945 –
Paul Monette , American author and poet (d. 1995)
1946 –
Geoff Barnett , English footballer (d. 2021)
1946 –
Suzanne Somers , American actress and producer (d. 2023)
[29]
1947 –
Nicholas Day , English actor
1947 –
Terry Griffiths , Welsh snooker player and coach
1947 –
Bob Weir , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[29]
1947 –
David Zucker , American director, producer, and screenwriter
[29]
1948 –
Alison Chitty , English production designer and costume designer
1948 –
Bruce Fleisher , American golfer (d. 2021)
1948 –
Hema Malini , Indian actress, director, producer, and politician
1948 –
Leo Mazzone , American baseball player and coach
1950 –
Angry Grandpa , American internet personality (d. 2017)
1950 –
Károly Horváth , Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (d. 2015)
1952 –
Christopher Cox , American lawyer and politician
1952 –
Cordell Mosson , American bass player (d. 2013)
1952 –
Crazy Mohan , Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2019)
1952 –
Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton , English politician
1953 –
Tony Carey , American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1953 –
Paulo Roberto Falcão , Brazilian footballer and manager
1954 –
Lorenzo Carcaterra , American author and blogger
1954 –
Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean , Scottish politician,
Secretary of State for Scotland
1954 –
Serafino Ghizzoni , Italian rugby player
1954 –
Corinna Harfouch , German actress
1955 –
Kieran Doherty ,
Irish Republican hunger striker and politician (d. 1981)
[32]
1955 –
Ellen Dolan , American actress
1956 –
Marin Alsop , American violinist and conductor
1956 –
John Chavis , American football player and coach
1956 –
Meg Rosoff , American-English author
1956 –
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah , Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (d. 1992)
1957 –
Priidu Beier , Estonian poet and educator
1958 –
Roy McDonough , English footballer and manager
1958 –
Tim Robbins , American actor, director, and screenwriter
[29]
1959 –
Kevin Brennan , Welsh journalist and politician
1959 –
Brian Harper , American baseball player
1959 –
Gary Kemp , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
[29]
1959 –
Philip Maini , Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford
1959 –
Tessa Munt , English lawyer and politician
1959 –
Jamie Salmon , English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1959 –
Erkki-Sven Tüür , Estonian flute player and composer
1959 –
John Whittingdale , English politician
1960 –
Guy LeBlanc , Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2015)
1960 –
Bob Mould , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[29]
1961 –
Chris Doleman , American football player (d. 2020)
[33]
1961 –
Marc Levy , French author
1961 –
Scott O'Hara , American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998)
1961 –
Randy Vasquez , American actor, director, and producer
[29]
1962 –
Manute Bol , Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (d. 2010)
1962 –
Flea , Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor
[29]
1962 –
Dmitri Hvorostovsky , Russian opera singer (d. 2017)
[34]
1962 –
Nico Lazaridis , German footballer
1962 –
Tamara McKinney , American skier
1963 –
Brendan Kibble , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 –
Timothy Leighton , English physicist and academic
1964 –
Shawn Little , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1964 –
James Thompson , American-Finnish author (d. 2014)
1965 –
Kang Kyung-ok , South Korean illustrator
1965 –
German Titov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
[35]
1965 –
Tom Tolbert , American basketball player and sportscaster
1966 –
Olof Lundh , Swedish journalist
1966 –
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn , American voice actress, singer, and director
1967 –
Michael Laffy , Australian footballer
1967 –
Davina McCall , English television host and actress
1968 –
Randall Batinkoff , American actor and producer
1968 –
Mark Lee , Singaporean actor and singer
1968 –
Francesco Libetta , Italian pianist, composer, and conductor
1968 –
Todd Stashwick , American actor and writer
1968 –
Elsa Zylberstein , French actress
1969 –
Roy Hargrove , American trumpet player and composer (d. 2018)
1969 –
Takao Omori , Japanese wrestler
1969 –
Terri J. Vaughn , American actress and producer
[29]
1969 –
Wendy Wilson , American singer-songwriter
[29]
1970 –
Kazuyuki Fujita , Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1970 –
Mehmet Scholl , German footballer and manager
1971 –
Frank Cuesta , Spanish television presenter
1971 –
Chad Gray , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[29]
1971 –
Paul Sparks , American actor
[29]
1972 –
Adrianne Frost , American comedian, actress, and author
1972 –
Darius Kasparaitis , Lithuanian-American ice hockey player and coach
1972 –
Kordell Stewart , American football player and radio host
1973 –
Justin Credible , American wrestler
1973 –
David Unsworth , English footballer and manager
1974 –
Aurela Gaçe , Albanian singer
1974 –
Paul Kariya , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 –
Ernesto Noel Aquino , Honduran footballer
1975 –
Brynjar Gunnarsson , Icelandic footballer
1975 –
Jacques Kallis , South African cricketer
1975 –
Kellie Martin , American actress, director, and producer
[29]
1977 –
John Mayer , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[29]
1980 –
Sue Bird , Israeli-American basketball player
[36]
1980 –
Jeremy Jackson , American actor and singer
[29]
1980 –
Caterina Scorsone , Canadian-American actress
[29]
1980 –
Timana Tahu , Australian rugby league player
1981 –
Brea Grant , American actress and writer
[37]
1981 –
Martin Halle , Danish footballer
1981 –
Boyd Melson , American boxer
1981 –
Anthony Reyes , American baseball player
1982 –
Alan Anderson , American basketball player
[38]
1982 –
Frédéric Michalak , French rugby player
1982 –
Cristian Riveros , Paraguayan footballer
1982 –
Prithviraj Sukumaran , Indian actor, singer, and producer
1983 –
Philipp Kohlschreiber , German tennis player
1983 –
Loreen , Swedish singer
[39]
1983 –
Kenny Omega , Canadian wrestler
1984 –
François Pervis , French track cyclist
1984 –
Rachel Reilly , American talk show host and actress
1985 –
Jay Beagle , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 –
Alexis Hornbuckle , American basketball player
[40]
1985 –
Verena Sailer , German sprinter
1985 –
Casey Stoner , Australian motorcycle racer
1985 –
Peter Wallace , Australian rugby league player
1986 –
Nicky Adams , English-Welsh footballer
1986 –
Derk Boerrigter , Dutch footballer
1986 –
Inna , Romanian singer
[41]
1988 –
Zoltán Stieber , Hungarian footballer
1989 –
Dan Biggar , Welsh rugby player
1991 –
Jonathan Schoop , Curaçaoan baseball player
[42]
1991 –
Shardul Thakur , Indian cricketer
[43]
1992 –
Kostas Fortounis , Greek footballer
1992 –
Viktorija Golubic , Swiss tennis player
[44]
1992 –
Bryce Harper , American baseball player
1992 –
Stuart Lightbody , Irish badminton player
[45]
1993 –
Jovit Baldivino , Filipino singer and actor (d. 2022)
[46]
1993 –
Caroline Garcia , French tennis player
1994 –
Adam Elliott , Australian rugby league player
1994 –
Halimah Nakaayi , Ugandan middle-distance runner
[47]
1997 –
Charles Leclerc , Monégasque
Formula One driver
1997 –
Naomi Osaka , Japanese tennis player
[36]
1997 –
Aliou Dieng , Malian footballer
[48]
1999 –
Aaron Nesmith , American basketball player
[49]
Deaths
Pre-1600
385 –
Fú Jiān , Chinese emperor (b. 337)
786 –
Lullus , archbishop of Mainz (b. 710)
976 –
Al-Hakam II , Umayyad caliph (b. 915)
1027 –
Fujiwara no Kenshi , Japanese empress (b. 994)
1130 –
Pedro González de Lara , Castilian magnate
1284 –
Shams al-Din Juvayni , Persian statesman,
vizier and
minister of finance of the
Ilkhanate
1323 –
Amadeus V , count of Savoy (b. 1249)
1333 –
Nicholas V , antipope of Rome (b. 1260)
1438 –
Anne of Gloucester , English noblewoman (b. 1383)
1355 –
Louis the Child , king of Sicily (b. 1338)
1523 –
Luca Signorelli , Italian painter (b. c.1450)
1553 –
Lucas Cranach the Elder , German painter and engraver (b. 1472)
1555 –
Hugh Latimer , English bishop and saint (b. 1487)
1555 –
Nicholas Ridley , English bishop and martyr (b. 1500)
1591 –
Gregory XIV , pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1535)
[50]
1594 –
William Allen , English cardinal (b. 1532)
1601–1900
1621 –
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , Dutch organist and composer (b. 1562)
1628 –
François de Malherbe , French poet and critic (b. 1555)
[51]
1637 –
Johann Rudolf Stadler , Swiss clock-maker (b. 1605)
[52]
1649 –
Isaac van Ostade , Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1621)
1655 –
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo , Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b. 1591)
1660 –
John Cook , English politician,
Solicitor General for England and Wales (b. 1608)
1679 –
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery , Irish-English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
1680 –
Raimondo Montecuccoli , Italian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1609)
1730 –
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac , French-American explorer and politician, 3rd
French Governor of Louisiana (b. 1658)
1730 –
Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha , Greek politician, 139th
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1666)
1750 –
Sylvius Leopold Weiss , German lute player and composer (b. 1687)
1755 –
Gerard Majella , Italian saint (b. 1725)
1774 –
Robert Fergusson , Scottish poet (b. 1750)
1791 –
Grigory Potemkin , Russian general and politician (b. 1739)
1793 –
Marie Antoinette , Austrian-born queen consort of
Louis XVI of France (b. 1755)
[53]
1793 –
John Hunter , Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728)
1796 –
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726)
1799 –
Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist (b. 1760)
1810 –
Nachman of Breslov , Ukrainian religious leader, founded the
Breslov Hasidic group (b. 1772)
1822 –
Eva Marie Veigel , Austrian-English dancer (b. 1724)
1877 –
Théodore Barrière , French playwright (b. 1823)
1888 –
John Wentworth , American journalist and politician, 19th
Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1901–present
1904 –
Haritina Korotkevich , Russian heroine (b. 1882)
[54]
1908 –
Joseph Leycester Lyne , English monk (b. 1837)
1909 –
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski , German poet and playwright (b. 1856)
1913 –
Ralph Rose , American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885)
1936 –
Effie Adelaide Rowlands , British writer (b. 1859)
1937 –
Jean de Brunhoff , French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
1946 –
Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
Hans Frank , German lawyer, politician and war criminal (b. 1900)
Wilhelm Frick , German lawyer and politician,
German Minister of the Interior (b. 1877)
Alfred Jodl , German general (b. 1890)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner , Austrian
SS officer (b. 1903)
Wilhelm Keitel , German field marshal (b. 1882)
Alfred Rosenberg , Estonian architect and politician (b. 1893)
Fritz Sauckel , German sailor and politician (b. 1894)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart , Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th
Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
Julius Streicher , German journalist and politician (b. 1887)
Joachim von Ribbentrop , German lieutenant and politician,
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany (b. 1893)
1947 –
Anna B. Eckstein , German peace activist (b. 1868)
[55]
1951 –
Liaquat Ali Khan , Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1895)
1956 –
Jules Rimet , French businessman (b. 1873)
1957 –
John Anthony Sydney Ritson , English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
1958 –
Robert Redfield , American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
1959 –
Minor Hall , American drummer (b. 1897)
1959 –
George Marshall , American general and politician, 3rd
United States Secretary of Defense ,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
1962 –
Gaston Bachelard , French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
1964 –
Patsy Callighen , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)
1966 –
George O'Hara , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)
1968 –
Ellis Kinder , American baseball player (b. 1914)
1971 –
Robin Boyd , Australian architect and educator, designed the
Domain Park Flats (b. 1919)
1972 –
Nick Begich , American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
1972 –
Hale Boggs , American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
1972 –
Leo G. Carroll , English-American actor (b. 1886)
1973 –
Gene Krupa , American drummer, composer, and actor (b. 1909)
1975 –
Vittorio Gui , Italian conductor and composer (b. 1885)
1978 –
Dan Dailey , American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1913)
1979 –
Johan Borgen , Norwegian author and critic (b. 1903)
1981 –
Moshe Dayan , Israeli general and politician, 5th
Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
1981 –
Eugene Eisenmann , Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist (b. 1906)
1982 –
Mario Del Monaco , Italian tenor (b. 1915)
1983 –
Jakov Gotovac , Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1895)
1986 –
Arthur Grumiaux , Belgian violinist and pianist (b. 1921)
1989 –
Walter Farley , American author and educator (b. 1915)
1989 –
Scott O'Dell , American journalist and author (b. 1898)
1989 –
Cornel Wilde , American actor (b. 1912)
1990 –
Art Blakey , American drummer and bandleader (b. 1919)
1990 –
Jorge Bolet , Cuban-American pianist and educator (b. 1914)
1992 –
Shirley Booth , American actress and singer (b. 1898)
1996 –
Jason Bernard , American actor (b. 1938)
1996 –
Eric Malpass , English author (b. 1910)
1997 –
Audra Lindley , American actress (b. 1918)
1997 –
James A. Michener , American author and philanthropist (b. 1907)
1998 –
Jon Postel , American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
1999 –
Jean Shepherd , American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2000 –
Mel Carnahan , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st
Governor of Missouri (b. 1934)
2000 –
Rick Jason , American actor (b. 1923)
2001 –
Etta Jones , American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
2003 –
Avni Arbaş , Turkish painter (b. 1919)
2003 –
Stu Hart , Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)
2003 –
László Papp , Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
2004 –
Pierre Salinger , American journalist and politician, 11th
White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
2006 –
John Victor Murra , Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916)
2006 –
Valentín Paniagua , Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st
President of Peru (b. 1936)
2007 –
Deborah Kerr , Scottish actress (b. 1921)
2007 –
Toše Proeski , Macedonian singer-songwriter (b. 1981)
2008 –
Dagmar Normet , Estonian author and translator (b. 1921)
2010 –
Eyedea , American rapper and producer (b. 1981)
2010 –
Barbara Billingsley , American actress (b. 1915)
[56]
2011 –
Dan Wheldon , English race car driver (b. 1978)
2012 –
Frank Moore Cross , American scholar and academic (b. 1921)
2012 –
John A. Durkin , American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
2012 –
Mario Gallegos, Jr. , American firefighter and politician (b. 1950)
2012 –
Bódog Török , Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1923)
2012 –
Eddie Yost , American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
2013 –
Govind Purushottam Deshpande , Indian playwright and academic (b. 1938)
2013 –
George Hourmouziadis , Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1932)
2013 –
Ed Lauter , American actor (b. 1938)
[57]
2013 –
Laurel Martyn , Australian ballerina and choreographer (b. 1916)
2013 –
Robert B. Rheault , American colonel (b. 1925)
2013 –
Saggy Tahir , Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
2014 –
Ioannis Charalambopoulos , Greek colonel and politician,
Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
2014 –
Allen Forte , American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926)
2014 –
Seppo Kuusela , Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934)
2014 –
John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough , English businessman (b. 1926)
2015 –
Richard J. Cardamone , American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
2015 –
James W. Fowler , American psychologist and academic (b. 1940)
2015 –
William James , Australian general and physician (b. 1930)
2015 –
Vera Williams , American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2015 –
Memduh Ün , Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2016 –
Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb , Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921)
2017 –
Daphne Caruana Galizia , Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964)
2017 –
Roy Dotrice , British actor (b. 1923)
2017 –
John Dunsworth , Canadian actor (b. 1946)
2017 –
Sean Hughes , British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965)
[58]
2023 –
Martti Ahtisaari , former
President of Finland and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1937)
[59]
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