October 17
Day of the year
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October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 75 days remain until the end of the year.
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Events
Pre-1600
- 690 â Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.[1]
- 1091 â London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
- 1346 â The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
- 1448 â An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
- 1456 â The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
- 1534 â Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
- 1558 â Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
1601â1900
- 1604 â Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
- 1610 â French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
- 1660 â The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 1662 â Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
- 1713 â Great Northern War: Russia defeats Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne.[2]
- 1771 â Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
- 1777 â American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
- 1781 â American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1797 â Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria, ending the War of the First Coalition.[3]
- 1800 â War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
- 1806 â Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
- 1811 â The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence.[4]
- 1814 â Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
- 1850 â Riots start, which lead to a massacre in Aleppo.[5]
- 1860 â First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
- 1861 â Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
1901âpresent
- 1907 â Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
- 1912 â Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
- 1919 â Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I[6]
- 1931 â Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
- 1933 â Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
- 1940 â The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
- 1941 â World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
- 1943 â The Burma Railway (BurmaâThailand Railway) is completed.
- 1943 â Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
- 1945 â A large demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
- 1952 â Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.[7]
- 1956 â The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
- 1961 â Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
- 1961 â The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.[8][9][10][11]
- 1965 â The 1964â65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
- 1966 â The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
- 1969 â The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.[12]
- 1970 â FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
- 1973 â OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
- 1977 â The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
- 1979 â Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1979 â The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education.
- 1980 â As part of the Holy SeeâUnited Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
- 1988 â Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at RomeâFiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.[13]
- 1989 â The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.
- 1989 â The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
- 1991 â Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.[14][15][16]
- 1992 â Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- 1994 â Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
- 2000 â The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
- 2001 â Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by Hamdi Quran, a member of the PFLP, thus becoming the highest-ranking Israeli to be killed by a Palestinian.
- 2004 â A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of the East Tower of the Parque Central Urban Complex in Caracas, Venezuela.[17]
- 2017 â Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.[18][19]
- 2018 â The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
- 2018 â A mass shooting and bombing at Kerch Polytechnic College in Crimea kills 21 people including the attacker and injures 70 others.[20]
- 2019 â Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.[21]
- 2019 â The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.[22]
- 2023 â An explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza kills hundreds of Palestinians during the Gaza war.[23]
Births
Pre-1600
- 503 â Lý Nam Äế, first emperor of Vietnam (died 548)
- 1253 â Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (died 1303)
- 1493 â Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (died 1560)
- 1500 â Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (died 1591)
- 1538 â Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (died 1559)[24]
- 1577 â Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (died 1621)
- 1577 â Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (died 1642)
- 1582 â Johann Gerhard, German theologian and academic (died 1637)
- 1587 â Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (died 1620)
1601â1900
- 1623 â Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (died 1687)
- 1629 â Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (died 1646)
- 1688 â Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer (died 1726)
- 1711 â Jupiter Hammon, American poet (died 1806)
- 1719 â Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic (died 1792)
- 1720 â Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer (died 1795)[25]
- 1725 â John Wilkes, English journalist and politician (died 1797)
- 1729 â Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic (died 1817)
- 1735 â Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist (died 1803)
- 1759 â Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter (died 1814)
- 1760 â Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (died 1825)
- 1768 â Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (died 1838)
- 1779 â Louis Charles, French prince of the blood (died 1808)
- 1779 â José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argentine statesman and priest (died approx. 1820)
- 1780 â Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (died 1850)
- 1781 â Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist (died 1833)
- 1784 â Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay (died 1854)
- 1785 â Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist (died 1816)
- 1792 â John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (died 1826)
- 1797 â Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (died 1841)
- 1803 â Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (died 1876)
- 1810 â Adolphe-Félix Cals, French painter (died 1880)
- 1811 â Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor and educator (died 1876)
- 1813 â Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (died 1837)
- 1814 â Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (died 1888)
- 1817 â Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (died 1898)
- 1821 â Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (died 1882)
- 1828 â Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (died 1890)
- 1833 â José E. DÃas, Paraguayan general (died 1867)
- 1835 â Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (died 1894)
- 1835 â Paul Haenlein, German mechanical engineer (died 1905)
- 1840 â André Gill, French caricaturist (died 1885)
- 1844 â Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (died 1929)
- 1845 â John J. Gardner, American politician (died 1921)
- 1853 â Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (died 1920)
- 1859 â Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator (died 1935)
- 1860 â Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary (died 1927)
- 1864 â Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (died 1943)
- 1865 â James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1950)
- 1867 â Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martà (died 1956)
- 1869 â Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale, Hindustani classical vocalist [26][27]
- 1871 â Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (died 1929)
- 1876 â Hippolyte Aucouturier, French road cyclist (died 1944)
- 1878 â Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (died 1953)
- 1880 â Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector (died 1977)
- 1881 â Maria DulÄba, Polish actress (died 1959)
- 1882 â Haritina Korotkevich, Russian war heroine (died 1904)[28]
- 1883 â Alexander Neill, Scottish educator (died 1973)
- 1883 â Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (died 1966)
- 1886 â Spring Byington, American actress (died 1971)
- 1889 â Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese author (died 1988)
- 1890 â Roy Kilner, English cricketer (died 1928)
- 1892 â Theodor Eicke, German SS general (died 1943)
- 1892 â Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator (died 1983)
- 1893 â Raffaele Bendandi, Italian clockmaker and seismologist (died 1979)
- 1894 â Prince René, Italian Prince of Denmark (died 1962)
- 1894 â Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (died 1968)
- 1895 â Miguel YdÃgoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958â1963) (died 1982)
- 1895 â Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (died 1958)
- 1896 â Roman Petrovich, Russian prince (died 1978)
- 1898 â Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (died 1998)[29]
- 1898 â Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (died 1991)
- 1898 â Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (died 1971)
- 1900 â C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (died 1932)
- 1900 â Jean Arthur, American actress (died 1991)
- 1900 â Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (died 1968)
1901âpresent
- 1901 â Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator (died 1973)[30]
- 1902 â Irene Ryan, American actress (died 1973)
- 1903 â Andrei Grechko, Soviet general (died 1976)
- 1903 â Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (died 1940)[31]
- 1905 â Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (died 1996)
- 1906 â Paul Derringer, American baseball player (died 1987)
- 1906 â Andrey Tikhonov, Soviet mathematician (died 1993)
- 1907 â John Marley, American actor (died 1984)
- 1908 â Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (died 2007)
- 1908 â Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (died 1988)
- 1908 â Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player (died 1980)
- 1908 â Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1969)
- 1909 â Cozy Cole, American drummer (died 1981)
- 1909 â Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (died 1962)
- 1909 â JoaquÃn Satrústegui, Spanish lawyer and politician (died 1992)
- 1910 â Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (died 1995)[32]
- 1910 â Ester Wier, American author (died 2000)
- 1912 â Pope John Paul I (died 1978)[33]
- 1912 â Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (died 2001)
- 1912 â Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1982)
- 1913 â Robert Lowery, American actor (died 1971)
- 1913 â Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (died 2006)
- 1913 â Faik Türün, Turkish general (died 2003)
- 1914 â Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (died 1996)
- 1915 â Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2005)[33]
- 1916 â José López Rega, Argentinean politician (died 1989)
- 1917 â Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (died 2013)
- 1917 â Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (died 1999)
- 1917 â Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer (died 2022)
- 1917 â Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (died 1989)[34]
- 1917 â Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (died 2014)
- 1917 â Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (died 1991)
- 1917 â Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor (died 2000)
- 1918 â Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (died 1987)[33]
- 1918 â Luis Alberto Solari, Uruguayan artist (died 1993)
- 1918 â Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (died 2014)
- 1919 â Isaak Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian theoretical physicist and academic (died 2021)
- 1919 â Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (died 2014)
- 1919 â Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (died 2005)
- 1920 â Montgomery Clift, American actor (died 1966)
- 1920 â Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (died 2010)
- 1920 â Zully Moreno, Argentine actress (died 1999)
- 1921 â Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (died 2012)
- 1921 â Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (died 2001)[35]
- 1921 â George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (died 1996)
- 1921 â Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (died 2007)
- 1922 â Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 2001)
- 1922 â Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (died 2012)
- 1923 â Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (died 2004)
- 1923 â Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (died 2001)
- 1924 â Don Coryell, American football player and coach (died 2010)[33]
- 1924 â Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (died 2012)
- 1924 â Giacomo Mari, Italian footballer (died 1991)
- 1924 â Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone (died 2019)
- 1925 â Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (died 2010)
- 1926 â Julie Adams, American actress (died 2019)[36]
- 1926 â Beverly Garland, American actress (died 2008)
- 1926 â Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (died 2011)
- 1928 â Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and minister (died 2007)
- 1928 â Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan politician (died 2017)
- 1929 â Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager (died 2016)
- 1930 â Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer (died 2003)
- 1930 â Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (died 2003)[33]
- 1931 â José Alencar, Brazilian businessman and politician (died 2011)
- 1932 â Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (died 1994)
- 1931 â Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and playwright (died 2012)
- 1931 â Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer (died 2008)
- 1933 â William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut (died 2024)[33]
- 1933 â The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (died 1985)
- 1934 â Alan Garner, English author and playwright
- 1934 â Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (died 2005)
- 1934 â Rico Rodriguez, Jamaican trombonist (died 2015)
- 1935 â Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (died 2014)
- 1935 â Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival
- 1935 â Carlos Pairetti, Argentine racing driver (died 2022)
- 1936 â Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (died 2013)
- 1936 â Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic
- 1936 â Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (died 1993)
- 1936 â Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (died 2018)
- 1937 â José MarÃa Ãlvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician
- 1937 â Aida Navarro, Venezuelan mezzo-soprano
- 1937 â Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (died 2011)
- 1937 â Paxton Whitehead, English actor (died 2023)
- 1938 â António Calvário, Portuguese singer and artist
- 1938 â Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (died 2007)[33]
- 1938 â Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (died 2019)
- 1939 â Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic (died 2015)
- 1940 â Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor
- 1940 â Jim Smith, English footballer and manager (died 2019)
- 1940 â Peter Stringfellow, English businessman (died 2018)
- 1941 â Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
- 1941 â Paul Ellison, American musician
- 1941 â Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist (died 2022)[33]
- 1942 â Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2017)
- 1942 â Gary Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist[37]
- 1943 â Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist (died 2015)
- 1944 â Ãngel Cristo, Spanish circus performer (died 2010)
- 1946 â Ronni Chasen, American publicist (died 2010)
- 1946 â Michael Hossack, American drummer (died 2012)
- 1946 â Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez, Mexican actor and comedian
- 1946 â Akira Kushida, Japanese vocalist
- 1946 â Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager
- 1946 â Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian
- 1946 â Julio Miranda, Argentine politician (died 2021)
- 1946 â Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic
- 1946 â Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician (died 2018)
- 1946 â José Perramón, Spanish handball player
- 1946 â Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician
- 1946 â Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter[33]
- 1946 â Rüdiger Wittig, German geobotanist and ecologist
- 1947 â Omar Azziman, adviser to the King of Morocco
- 1947 â Gene Green, American lawyer and politician
- 1947 â Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director[37]
- 1947 â Robert Post, American educator and academic
- 1948 â Osvaldo Castro, Chilean footballer
- 1948 â Robert Jordan, American soldier and author (died 2007)
- 1948 â Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (died 2018)[33]
- 1948 â George Wendt, American actor and comedian (died 2025)[38]
- 1949 â Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados (died 2020)
- 1949 â Bill Hudson, American musician and actor[37]
- 1950 â Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
- 1950 â Sandra Reemer, Indo-Dutch singer (died 2017)
- 1950 â Howard Rollins, American actor (died 1996)
- 1951 â Dirk Beheydt, Belgian footballer
- 1951 â Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater
- 1951 â Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
- 1951 â Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
- 1953 â Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader
- 1953 â Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer
- 1954 â Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
- 1955 â Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
- 1955 â Mike Bratz, American basketball player
- 1956 â Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1956 â Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut[33]
- 1956 â Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina
- 1956 â Ken Morrow, American ice hockey player and executive[39]
- 1956 â Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author
- 1957 â Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek folk singer
- 1957 â Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player (died 2002)
- 1957 â Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer
- 1957 â Antonio Galdo, Italian journalist
- 1957 â Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster (died 2025)
- 1957 â Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist
- 1957 â Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor
- 1958 â Howard Alden, American guitarist
- 1958 â Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter[37]
- 1958 â Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress (died 1977)
- 1958 â Craig Murray, British diplomat
- 1959 â Mustafa Aberchán, Spanish politician
- 1959 â Ron Drummond, American author and scholar
- 1959 â Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (died 2016)
- 1959 â Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1959 â Eugenio Hernández Flores, Mexican politician
- 1959 â Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (died 2021)[33]
- 1959 â Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
- 1959 â Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic
- 1960 â Guy Henry, English actor
- 1960 â Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer
- 1960 â Bernie Nolan, Irish singer (died 2013)
- 1960 â Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic
- 1961 â David Means, American short story writer
- 1962 â Glenn Braggs, American baseball player
- 1962 â Jay Humphries, American basketball player
- 1962 â Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor[37]
- 1963 â Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
- 1963 â Toby Young, English journalist and academic
- 1964 â Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician
- 1964 â Gregg Wallace, English television presenter
- 1965 â Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1965 â Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor
- 1966 â Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach
- 1966 â Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager
- 1966 â Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and novelist[37]
- 1966 â Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and sportscaster
- 1967 â René Dif, Danish musician[37]
- 1967 â Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer
- 1967 â Simon Segars, English businessman
- 1967 â Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player
- 1968 â Alejandra Ãvalos, Mexican artist
- 1968 â Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1968 â Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor[37]
- 1968 â David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1969 â Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster[33]
- 1969 â Jesús Ãngel GarcÃa, Spanish racewalker[40]
- 1969 â Wood Harris, American actor[37]
- 1969 â Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor[37]
- 1969 â Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1970 â Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
- 1970 â John Mabry, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1970 â J. C. MacKenzie, Canadian actor
- 1971 â Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter and dancer[37]
- 1971 â Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1971 â Martin Heinrich, American politician
- 1971 â Derrick Plourde, American drummer (died 2005)
- 1971 â Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1972 â Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor[37]
- 1972 â Sharon Leal, American actress[37]
- 1972 â Musashi, Japanese karateka and kickboxer
- 1972 â Tarkan, German-Turkish singer
- 1973 â Rubén Garcés, Panamanian basketball player
- 1973 â Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach
- 1973 â Bhagwant Mann, Indian Politician [41]
- 1974 â Ariel Levy, American journalist and author
- 1974 â Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
- 1974 â Obdulio Ãvila Mayo, Mexican politician
- 1974 â Bárbara Paz, Brazilian actress
- 1974 â Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player
- 1974 â John Rocker, American baseball player
- 1974 â DarÃo Sala, Argentine footballer
- 1974 â Gabriel Silberstein, Chilean tennis player
- 1974 â Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer
- 1975 â Jericó Abramo Masso, Mexican politician
- 1975 â Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 â Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer
- 1976 â Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
- 1976 â Seth Etherton, American baseball player
- 1976 â Carlos Loret de Mola, Mexican journalist
- 1976 â Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and coach
- 1977 â Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer[42]
- 1977 â Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer
- 1977 â Bryan Bertino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1977 â Walter Calderón, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1977 â Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician
- 1977 â Ryan McGinley, American photographer
- 1977 â André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager
- 1978 â Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player and coach
- 1978 â Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
- 1978 â Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress
- 1978 â Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician
- 1979 â Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist
- 1979 â Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist (died 2022)
- 1979 â Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
- 1979 â Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
- 1980 â Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
- 1980 â Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
- 1980 â Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1980 â Angel Parker, American actress
- 1980 â Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver
- 1980 â Justin Shenkarow, American actor
- 1981 â Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer
- 1981 â Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1981 â Holly Holm, American mixed martial artist[33]
- 1981 â Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
- 1981 â Ben Rothwell, American mixed-martial artist
- 1982 â Rubén RamÃrez, Argentine footballer
- 1982 â Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
- 1982 â Marion Rolland, French skier
- 1983 â Michelle Ang, New Zealand actress
- 1983 â Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
- 1983 â Felicity Jones, English actress[37]
- 1983 â Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
- 1983 â Riki Miura, Japanese actor
- 1983 â Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
- 1983 â Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
- 1983 â Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
- 1983 â Vitali TeleÅ¡, Estonian footballer
- 1984 â Sami Lepistö, Finnish ice hockey player[43]
- 1984 â Chris Lowell, American actor[37]
- 1984 â Giovanni Marchese, Italian footballer
- 1984 â Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator
- 1984 â Luke Rockhold, American mixed martial artist
- 1984 â Anja Eline Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader
- 1984 â Gottfrid Svartholm, Swedish computer specialist
- 1984 â Jared Tallent, Australian race walker
- 1985 â Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1985 â Max Irons, English-Irish actor[33]
- 1985 â Collins John, Dutch footballer
- 1985 â Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer
- 1986 â Alexandre Bonnet, French footballer
- 1986 â Antoni Bou, Spanish motorcyclist
- 1986 â Aija Brumermane, Latvian basketball player
- 1986 â Constant Djakpa, Ivorian footballer
- 1986 â Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater
- 1986 â Nicolás Richotti, Argentine basketball player
- 1987 â Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer
- 1987 â JarosÅaw Fojut, Polish footballer
- 1987 â Elliot Grandin, French footballer
- 1987 â Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer
- 1988 â Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player
- 1988 â Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model
- 1988 â Marina Salas, Spanish actress
- 1989 â Débora GarcÃa, Spanish footballer
- 1989 â Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer
- 1989 â Sophie Luck, Australian actress
- 1989 â Charles Oliveira, Brazilian mixed martial artist[44]
- 1989 â David Timor, Spanish footballer
- 1990 â Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
- 1990 â Maica GarcÃa Godoy, Spanish water polo player
- 1990 â Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
- 1990 â Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
- 1990 â Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
- 1991 â Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
- 1992 â Jacob Artist, American actor, singer, and dancer[33]
- 1992 â Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
- 1992 â Anthony Gill, American basketball player[45]
- 1992 â Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
- 1993 â Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
- 1993 â Vincent Poirier, French basketball player[46]
- 1995 â Jamal Adams, American football player[47]
- 1995 â Ha-seong Kim, South Korean baseball player[48]
- 1996 â Jake DeBrusk, Canadian ice hockey player[49]
- 1997 â Robert Williams III, American basketball player[50]
- 2001 â Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer
- 2002 â Matthew Knies, American professional ice hockey player[51]
- 2002 â Lily, Australian-South Korean singer[52]
Deaths
Pre-1600
- AD 33 â Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (born 14 BC)
- 532 â Pope Boniface II
- 866 â Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (born 836)
- 1271 â Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
- 1277 â Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (born c. 1254)
- 1346 â John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
- 1346 â Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
- 1456 â Nicolas Grenon, French composer (born 1375)
- 1485 â John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
- 1528 â Hernando Alonso, Spanish conquistador, first Jew executed in the New World[53]
- 1552 â Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (born 1498)
- 1575 â Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (born 1511)
- 1586 â Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (born 1554)
- 1587 â Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1541)
1601â1900
- 1616 â John Pitts, English priest and scholar (born 1560)
- 1660 â Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (born 1601)
- 1673 â Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (born 1630)
- 1690 â Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (born 1647)
- 1696 â Geoffrey Shakerley (1619â1696), English politician (born 1619)[54]
- 1757 â René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (born 1683)
- 1776 â Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (born 1681)
- 1780 â William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (born 1705)
- 1781 â Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (born 1705)[55]
- 1786 â Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1723)
- 1806 â Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (born 1758)
- 1836 â Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (born 1782)
- 1837 â Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (born 1778)
- 1849 â Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (born 1810)
- 1868 â Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (born 1775)
- 1887 â Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (born 1824)
- 1889 â Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1828)
- 1893 â Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (born 1808)
1901âpresent
- 1910 â Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (born 1819)
- 1918 â Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (born 1886)
- 1920 â Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican) died on Hunger Strike (born 1881)[56]
- 1928 â Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (born 1853)
- 1931 â Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (born 1884)
- 1937 â J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (born 1862)
- 1938 â Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (born 1854)
- 1948 â Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (born 1869)
- 1955 â Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (born 1873)
- 1956 â Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (born 1920)
- 1957 â Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (born 1884)[57]
- 1958 â Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (born 1896)
- 1958 â Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (born 1876)
- 1962 â Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (born 1882)[58]
- 1963 â Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (born 1865)
- 1965 â Bart King, American cricketer (born 1873)
- 1966 â Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (born 1883)
- 1966 â Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (born 1917)
- 1967 â Puyi, Chinese emperor (born 1906)
- 1970 â Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1921)
- 1970 â Vola Vale, American actress (born 1897)
- 1970 â Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (born 1890)
- 1972 â Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1914)
- 1972 â George, Crown Prince of Serbia (born 1887)
- 1973 â Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (born 1926)
- 1978 â George Clark, American race car driver (born 1890)
- 1978 â Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (born 1887)
- 1979 â S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (born 1904)
- 1979 â John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (born 1898)
- 1979 â Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (born 1909)
- 1981 â Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (born 1927)
- 1981 â Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (born 1895)
- 1981 â Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (born 1887)
- 1983 â Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (born 1905)
- 1987 â Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (born 1925)
- 1991 â Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (born 1919)
- 1992 â Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (born 1912)
- 1992 â Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)
- 1993 â Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1963)
- 1996 â Chris Acland, English musician and drummer of Lush (born 1966)
- 1997 â Larry Jennings, American magician and author (born 1933)
- 1998 â Joan Hickson, English actress (born 1906)
- 1998 â Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (born 1920)
- 1999 â Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (born 1915)
- 2000 â Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (born 1924)
- 2000 â Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (born 1964)
- 2001 â Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (born 1915)
- 2001 â Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (born 1922)
- 2001 â Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (born 1926)
- 2002 â Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (born 1935)
- 2004 â Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (born 1952)
- 2006 â Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (born 1924)
- 2006 â Christopher Glenn, American journalist (born 1938)
- 2007 â Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (born 1918)
- 2007 â Teresa Brewer, American singer (born 1931)
- 2007 â Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (born 1939)
- 2008 â Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (born 1955)
- 2008 â Levi Stubbs, American singer (born 1936)
- 2008 â Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (born 1923)
- 2009 â Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (born 1931)
- 2009 â Vic Mizzy, American composer (born 1916)
- 2011 â Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (born 1919)
- 2012 â Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (born 1951)
- 2012 â Ãmile Allais, French skier (born 1912)
- 2012 â Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (born 1930)
- 2012 â Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (born 1922)
- 2012 â KÅji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1936)
- 2013 â Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (born 1926)
- 2013 â Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (born 1944)
- 2013 â Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (born 1926)
- 2013 â Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (born 1928)
- 2013 â Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (born 1966)
- 2014 â Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (born 1937)
- 2014 â Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (born 1943)
- 2014 â Tom Shaw, American bishop (born 1945)
- 2014 â Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (born 1919)
- 2015 â Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (born 1926)
- 2015 â Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (born 1946)
- 2015 â Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (born 1949)
- 2015 â Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (born 1947)
- 2017 â Gord Downie, Canadian musician (born 1964)[59]
- 2019 â Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (born 1951)[60]
- 2024 â Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1931)[61]
- 2024 â Toshiyuki Nishida, Japanese actor (born 1947)[62]
- 2024 â Andrew Schally, Polish-American endocrinologist (born 1926)[63]
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day:
- Andrew of Crete
- Anstrudis
- Catervus
- Ethelred and Ethelberht
- Florentius of Orange
- François-Isidore Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
- Hosea
- Ignatius of Antioch
- John the Short (John Colobus)
- Marguerite Marie Alacoque (pre-1969 calendar, Visitadines)
- Nothhelm
- Rule of Andrew
- Richard Gwyn
- Victor of Capua
- October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty[64]
- Loyalty Day (Argentina)
- National Police Day (Thailand)
- National Heroes Day (Somaliland)[65]
