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Day of the year
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October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 77 days remain until the end of the year.
| October 15 in recent years |
| 2025 (Wednesday) |
| 2024 (Tuesday) |
| 2023 (Sunday) |
| 2022 (Saturday) |
| 2021 (Friday) |
| 2020 (Thursday) |
| 2019 (Tuesday) |
| 2018 (Monday) |
| 2017 (Sunday) |
| 2016 (Saturday) |
Events
Pre-1600
- 1066 â Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ãtheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.[1]
- 1211 â Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.[2]
- 1529 â The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
- 1582 â Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
1601â1900
- 1651 â Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen.[3]
- 1781 â The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War with a Patriot victory.[4] It occurred four days before the British surrender at Yorktown.
- 1783 â The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.[5]
- 1793 â Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.[6]
- 1815 â Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.[7]
- 1864 â American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
- 1888 â The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
1901âpresent
- 1910 â Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
- 1923 â The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
- 1928 â The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
- 1932 â Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
- 1939 â The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
- 1940 â President LluÃs Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
- 1944 â World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.[8]
- 1951 â Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
- 1954 â Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
- 1956 â FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
- 1965 â Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
- 1966 â The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
- 1970 â During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.[9]
- 1979 â Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
- 1979 â A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.[10]
- 1987 â Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.[11]
- 1987 â A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.[12]
- 1989 â Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
- 1990 â Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
- 1991 â The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
- 1991 â The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.[13]
- 1994 â The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.[14]
- 1997 â The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
- 2001 â NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
- 2003 â China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
- 2006 â The 6.7 Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
- 2007 â Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
- 2008 â The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
- 2013 â The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
- 2016 â One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
- 2018 â 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.[15]
Births
Pre-1600
- 70 BC â Virgil, Roman poet (died 19 BC)[16]
- 1265 â Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (died 1307)
- 1440 â Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (died 1483)
- 1471 â Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (died 1526)
- 1542 â Akbar, Mughal emperor (died 1605)
- 1561 â Richard Field, English cathedral dean (died 1616)
- 1564 â Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1613)
- 1599 â Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (died 1664)
1601â1900
- 1608 â Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)
- 1622 â Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (died 1686)
- 1686 â Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (died 1758)
- 1701 â Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (died 1771)
- 1711 â Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen of Sardinia (died 1741)
- 1762 â Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (died 1820)
- 1765 â Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet, English politician and peer (died 1840)[17]
- 1767 â Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (died 1832)
- 1775 â Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (died 1838)[18]
- 1784 â Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria (died 1849)
- 1785 â José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (died 1821)
- 1789 â William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (died 1847)
- 1802 â Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, head of state of France in 1848 (died 1857)[19]
- 1814 â Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (died 1841)
- 1816 â John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (died 1891)
- 1818 â Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (died 1869)
- 1825 â Marie of Prussia, Queen of Bavaria (died 1889)
- 1829 â Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (died 1907)
- 1833 â John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (died 1894)
- 1836 â James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (died 1902)
- 1840 â Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (died 1894)
- 1844 â Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (died 1900)
- 1858 â John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (died 1918)
- 1865 â Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (died 1925)
- 1872 â Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (died 1956)
- 1872 â August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (died 1921)
- 1874 â Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1899)
- 1878 â Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (died 1966)
- 1879 â Jane Darwell, American actress (died 1967)
- 1881 â P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (died 1975)
- 1882 â Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (died 1941)
- 1884 â Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (died 1910)
- 1887 â Frederick Fleet, English sailor and lookout on the Titanic (died 1965)[20]
- 1888 â S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (died 1939)
- 1890 â Ãlvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer (died 1935)
- 1893 â Carol II of Romania, King of Romania (died 1953)
- 1894 â Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1965)
- 1897 â Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1960)
- 1899 â Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (died 1986)
- 1900 â Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (died 1987)
1901âpresent
- 1901 â Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (died 1952)
- 1905 â C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (died 1980)
- 1906 â Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (died 2004)
- 1906 â Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday (died 1963)
- 1906 â Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)
- 1907 â Varian Fry, American journalist and author (died 1967)
- 1908 â Herman Chittison, American pianist (died 1967)
- 1908 â John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (died 2006)
- 1909 â Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (died 2002)
- 1909 â Robert Trout, American journalist (died 2000)
- 1910 â Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1990)
- 1912 â Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist (died 2007)
- 1913 â Wolfgang Lüth, German U-boat captain (died 1945)[21]
- 1914 â Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (died 2007)
- 1916 â Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1950)
- 1916 â George Turner, Australian author and critic (died 1997)
- 1917 â Jan Miner, American actress (died 2004)
- 1917 â Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (died 2007)
- 1917 â Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (died 2013)
- 1919 â Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist (died 1985)
- 1919 â Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (died 1995)
- 1920 â Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor (died 2012)
- 1920 â Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress (died 1968)
- 1920 â Peter Koch, American industrial engineer and wood scientist (died 1998)[22]
- 1920 â Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (died 1999)[23]
- 1920 â Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
- 1921 â Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (died 2006)
- 1922 â Agustina Bessa-LuÃs, Portuguese author (died 2019)
- 1922 â Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (died 1969)[24]
- 1922 â Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (died 2013)
- 1923 â Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (died 1985)
- 1923 â Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (died 2010)
- 1923 â Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (died 2013)
- 1923 â Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (died 2008)
- 1924 â Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator (died 2022)
- 1924 â Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author (died 2019)[23]
- 1924 â Warren Miller, American director and screenwriter (died 2018)
- 1925 â Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (died 2012)
- 1925 â Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (died 2012)
- 1925 â Tony Hart, English painter and television host (died 2009)
- 1926 â James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (died 2010)
- 1926 â AgustÃn GarcÃa Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet (died 2012)
- 1926 â Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (died 1984)
- 1926 â Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)
- 1926 â Jean Peters, American actress (died 2000)
- 1926 â Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (died 1981)
- 1927 â B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)
- 1929 â Will Insley, American painter and architect (died 2011)
- 1930 â FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (died 2000)
- 1930 â Ned McWherter, American politician, 46th Governor of Tennessee (died 2011)[25]
- 1931 â A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (died 2015)[26]
- 1931 â Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician
- 1932 â Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer (died 2020)
- 1933 â Nicky Barnes, American drug lord (died 2012)
- 1934 â Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (died 2016)
- 1934 â N. Ramani, Indian flute player (died 2015)
- 1935 â Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[27]
- 1935 â Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer (died 2025)
- 1935 â Bobby Morrow, American sprinter (died 2020)
- 1935 â Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)
- 1936 â Michel Aumont, French actor (died 2019)
- 1936 â Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman (died 2019)
- 1937 â Linda Lavin, American actress and singer[27] (died 2024)[28]
- 1938 â Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1993)
- 1938 â Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist (died 1997)[29]
- 1938 â Brice Marden, American painter (died 2023)
- 1938 â Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)
- 1940 â Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
- 1940 â Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 â Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
- 1942 â Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter
- 1942 â Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral
- 1942 â Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer[30]
- 1943 â Stanley Fischer, American and Israeli economist (died 2025)[31]
- 1943 â Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer (died 2018)[23]
- 1944 â Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania
- 1944 â A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (died 2005)
- 1944 â Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
- 1944 â David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)[23]
- 1945 â Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer (died 2015)
- 1945 â Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal
- 1945 â Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (died 2024)
- 1945 â Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster[23]
- 1946 â Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director[27]
- 1946 â Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist[27]
- 1946 â Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer
- 1946 â Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change
- 1947 â Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
- 1947 â Jaroslav Erno Å edivý, Czech drummer
- 1948 â Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2016)
- 1948 â Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1949 â Laurie McBain, American author
- 1949 â Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV
- 1950 â Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (died 2015)
- 1951 â Peter Richardson, English actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1951 â Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player
- 1951 â Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player
- 1953 â Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier[32]
- 1953 â Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)[33]
- 1953 â Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
- 1953 â Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist
- 1954 â Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator
- 1954 â Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria
- 1954 â Jere Burns, American actor[27]
- 1954 â Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic
- 1955 â Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player
- 1955 â Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator
- 1955 â Tanya Roberts, American actress (died 2021)[23]
- 1957 â Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer
- 1957 â Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer
- 1957 â Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta
- 1958 â Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
- 1959 â Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author[27]
- 1959 â Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
- 1959 â Sarah Ferguson[23]
- 1959 â Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1961 â Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1963 â Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1964 â Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1965 â Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer (died 2013)
- 1966 â Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter[27]
- 1966 â Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager
- 1966 â Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer
- 1966 â Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer
- 1966 â Dave Stead, English drummer
- 1967 â Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
- 1967 â Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter
- 1968 â Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager
- 1968 â Vanessa Marcil, American actress[27]
- 1968 â Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player
- 1968 â Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician
- 1969 â VÃtor BaÃa, Portuguese footballer
- 1969 â Dominic West, English actor and director[27]
- 1970 â Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor[27]
- 1970 â Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier
- 1971 â Andy Cole, English footballer and coach
- 1971 â Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator
- 1972 â Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach
- 1972 â Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager
- 1973 â Aleksandr Filimonov, Russian footballer
- 1974 â Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress
- 1976 â Elisa Aguilar, Spanish basketball player[34]
- 1975 â Chukwudi Iwuji, Nigerian-British actor[35]
- 1977 â Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver
- 1977 â David Trezeguet, French footballer[36]
- 1977 â Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1978 â Wes Moore, American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland[37]
- 1978 â Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler
- 1979 â Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer
- 1979 â Paul Robinson, English footballer
- 1979 â Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress[27]
- 1979 â MÄris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer
- 1980 â Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
- 1981 â Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer[27]
- 1981 â Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
- 1983 â Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer
- 1983 â Bruno Senna, Brazilian ex-F1 Driver[38]
- 1984 â Izale McLeod, English footballer
- 1984 â Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter[39]
- 1985 â Arron Afflalo, American basketball player
- 1986 â Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter
- 1986 â Carlo Janka, Swiss skier[40]
- 1986 â Nolito, Spanish footballer[41]
- 1987 â Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver
- 1988 â Dominique Jones, American basketball player[42]
- 1988 â Mesut Ãzil, German footballer
- 1989 â Blaine Gabbert, American football player[43]
- 1989 â Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer
- 1990 â Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
- 1991 â Brock Nelson, American ice hockey player[44]
- 1992 â Ncuti Gatwa, Rwandan-Scottish actor[23]
- 1992 â Teoscar Hernández, Dominican baseball player[45]
- 1992 â Vincent Martella, American actor[27]
- 1993 â Richaun Holmes, American basketball player[46]
- 1993 â Roh Tae-hyun, South Korean singer and dancer[47]
- 1994 â Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper[48]
- 1994 â Babar Azam, Pakistani cricket player[49]
- 1995 â Jack Flaherty, American baseball player[50]
- 1995 â Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player[51]
- 1996 â Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer
- 1996 â Grace Van Dien, American actress[52]
- 1996 â Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer
- 1998 â Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, Indonesian activist and politician[53]
- 1999 â Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer[27]
- 1999 â Ben Woodburn, Welsh footballer[54]
- 2000 â Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender[55]
- 2005 â Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark[56]
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 55 BC â Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (born 98 BC)[57]
- 412 â Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
- 892 â Al-Mu'tamid, Abbasid caliph
- 898 â Lambert of Italy (born 880)
- 912 â Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (born 844)
- 925 â Rhazes, Persian polymath (born 864)
- 961 â Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba
- 1002 â Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (born 946)
- 1080 â Rudolf of Rheinfelden (born 1025)
- 1173 â Petronilla of Aragon (born 1135)
- 1240 â Razia Sultana, sultan of Delhi (born 1205)[58]
- 1243 â Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint (born 1174)[59]
- 1326 â Walter Stapledon, bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England, and his brother Sir Richard Stapledon, judge and politician.
- 1385 â Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
- 1389 â Pope Urban VI (born 1318)
- 1404 â Marie Valois, French princess (born 1344)[60]
- 1496 â Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (born 1443)
- 1564 â Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (born 1514)
1601â1900
- 1674 â Robert Herrick, English poet (born 1591)[61]
- 1684 â Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (born 1626)
- 1690 â Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (born 1622)
- 1715 â Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (born 1675)
- 1788 â Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (born 1735)
- 1810 â Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (born 1755)
- 1811 â Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (born 1735)
- 1817 â Tadeusz KoÅciuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (born 1746)
- 1819 â Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (born 1744)
- 1820 â Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (born 1771)
- 1837 â Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (born 1760)
- 1838 â Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (born 1802)[62]
- 1891 â Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (born 1837)
- 1900 â ZdenÄk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (born 1850)
1901âpresent
- 1910 â Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (born 1886)[63]
- 1917 â Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (born 1876)
- 1918 â Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (born 1838)
- 1925 â Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (born 1848?)[64]
- 1930 â Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (born 1866)
- 1934 â Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (born 1860)
- 1940 â LluÃs Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (born 1882)
- 1945 â Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France, convicted Vichy collaborator (born 1883)[65]
- 1946 â Hermann Göring, German general and Nazi politician, convicted Nuremburg war criminal (born 1893)[66]
- 1948 â Edythe Chapman, American actress (born 1863)
- 1955 â Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (born 1914)[67]
- 1958 â Asaf Halet Ãelebi, Turkish poet and author (born 1907)
- 1958 â Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (born 1908)
- 1959 â Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (born 1909)
- 1959 â Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1880)
- 1960 â Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (born 1890)
- 1961 â Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (born 1896)
- 1963 â Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (born 1908)
- 1964 â Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (born 1891)
- 1965 â Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (born 1891)
- 1966 â Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (born 1876)
- 1968 â Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (born 1909)
- 1976 â Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)
- 1978 â W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (born 1918)
- 1978 â Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (born 1899)[68]
- 1980 â Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1900)
- 1980 â Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (born 1896)
- 1983 â Pat O'Brien, American actor (born 1899)
- 1987 â Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (born 1949)
- 1987 â Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (born 1908)
- 1988 â Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (born 1892)
- 1989 â Danilo KiÅ¡, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (born 1935)[69]
- 1990 â Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (born 1932)
- 1993 â Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (born 1913)
- 1994 â Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (born 1934)
- 1995 â Bengt à kerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1967)
- 1995 â Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (born 1976)[70]
- 1999 â Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (born 1917)
- 2000 â Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)[71]
- 2000 â Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (born 1924)
- 2001 â Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (born 1901)[72]
- 2003 â Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (born 1919)
- 2004 â Per Højholt, Danish poet (born 1928)[73]
- 2005 â Jason Collier, American basketball player (born 1977)
- 2005 â Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (born 1945)
- 2007 â Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (born 1933)
- 2008 â Edie Adams, American actress and singer (born 1927)
- 2008 â Fazıl Hüsnü DaÄlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (born 1914)
- 2008 â Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (born 1922)
- 2009 â Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (born 1939)
- 2010 â Richard C. Miller, American photographer (born 1912)
- 2010 â Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (born 1926)
- 2010 â Johnny Sheffield, American actor (born 1931)
- 2011 â Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (born 1920)[74]
- 2012 â Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1920)
- 2012 â Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (born 1933)
- 2012 â Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (born 1953)
- 2012 â Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1922)
- 2013 â Donald Bailey, American drummer (born 1933)
- 2014 â Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (born 1931)
- 2017 â Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (born 1950)
- 2018 â Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (born 1953)[75]
- 2021 â David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (born 1952)[76]
- 2024 â Mike Jackson, English general (born 1944)[77]
- 2025 â Jim Bolger, New Zealand businessman and politician, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1935)[78]
Holidays and observances
- Breast Health Day (Europe)
- Christian feast day:
- National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
- Shwmae Su'mae Day (Wales)[79]
- White Cane Safety Day[80]
- World Students' Day[81]
