October 16
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
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.
1999 – The magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake strikes Southern California[20]
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)[21]
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)[22]
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)[23]
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)[24]
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 [25]
1925 – Angela Lansbury , English-American actress, singer, and producer (d. 2022)[26] [27]
1926 – Charles Dolan , American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO
1926 – Ed Valigursky , American illustrator (d. 2009)[28]
1927 – Günter Grass , German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1928 – Mary Daly , American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)[29]
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[30]
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[31]
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[30]
1944 – Kaizer Motaung , South African footballer and manager
1944 – Elizabeth Loftus , American psychologist[32]
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)[30]
1947 – Nicholas Day , English actor
1947 – Terry Griffiths , Welsh snooker player and coach
1947 – Bob Weir , American singer-songwriter and guitarist[30]
1947 – David Zucker , American director, producer, and screenwriter[30]
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)[33]
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[30]
1959 – Kevin Brennan , Welsh journalist and politician
1959 – Brian Harper , American baseball player
1959 – Gary Kemp , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor[30]
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[30]
1961 – Chris Doleman , American football player (d. 2020)[34]
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[30]
1962 – Manute Bol , Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (d. 2010)
1962 – Flea , Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor[30]
1962 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky , Russian opera singer (d. 2017)[35]
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[36]
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[30]
1969 – Wendy Wilson , American singer-songwriter[30]
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[30]
1971 – Paul Sparks , American actor[30]
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[30]
1977 – John Mayer , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[30]
1980 – Sue Bird , Israeli-American basketball player[37]
1980 – Jeremy Jackson , American actor and singer[30]
1980 – Caterina Scorsone , Canadian-American actress[30]
1980 – Timana Tahu , Australian rugby league player
1981 – Brea Grant , American actress and writer[38]
1981 – Martin Halle , Danish footballer
1981 – Boyd Melson , American boxer
1981 – Anthony Reyes , American baseball player
1982 – Alan Anderson , American basketball player[39]
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[40]
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[41]
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[42]
1988 – Zoltán Stieber , Hungarian footballer
1989 – Dan Biggar , Welsh rugby player
1991 – Jonathan Schoop , Curaçaoan baseball player[43]
1991 – Shardul Thakur , Indian cricketer[44]
1992 – Kostas Fortounis , Greek footballer
1992 – Viktorija Golubic , Swiss tennis player[45]
1992 – Bryce Harper , American baseball player
1992 – Stuart Lightbody , Irish badminton player[46]
1993 – Jovit Baldivino , Filipino singer and actor (d. 2022)[47]
1993 – Caroline Garcia , French tennis player
1994 – Adam Elliott , Australian rugby league player
1994 – Halimah Nakaayi , Ugandan middle-distance runner[48]
1997 – Charles Leclerc , Monégasque Formula One driver
1997 – Naomi Osaka , Japanese tennis player[37]
1997 – Aliou Dieng , Malian footballer[49]
1999 – Aaron Nesmith , American basketball player[50]
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)[51]
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)[52]
1637 – Johann Rudolf Stadler , Swiss clock-maker (b. 1605)[53]
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)[54]
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)[55]
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)[56]
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)[57]
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)[58]
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)[59]
2023 – Martti Ahtisaari , former President of Finland and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1937)[60]
Holidays and observances
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