October 18

October 18 is the 291st (two hundred and ninety-first) day of the year—the 292nd (two hundred and ninety-second) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days left to end the year.

Events

• 456 (or 17 October): near Piacenza (now Italy), the soldiers of the Emperor Avito are defeated by the Roman-Iberian military Ricimero, who becomes the de facto leader of the Roman Empire of the West.
• 646: in Toledo, Spain, the 7th Council of Toledo is celebrated.
• 1009: In Jerusalem, the church of the Holy Sepulchre is destroyed by the caliph Al-Hákim bi-Amrillah.
• 1016: In the Battle of Assandun, the Danish king Canuto II the Great overcomes the English king Edmundo II Ironside, who must have divided his kingdom into life, and would be succeeded by Canuto after his death.
• 1210: In Rome, Pope Inocencio III excommunicates the German leader Oton IV.
• 1216: King John I dies in England. It happens to him, Henry III, 9 years old.
• 1356: In Switzerland, the city of Basel is destroyed by an earthquake.
• 1511: In Spain, Juana I de Trastámara (Juana la Loca) signs a Charter of Privileges.
• 1519: In Cholula, Mexico, the forces of the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés finished the Cholula Matanza, which had begun two days ago.
• 1540: the forces of the Spanish conqueror Hernando de Soto destroy the fortified city of Mabila in the current Alabama, USA, killing Tuskaloosa.
• 1561: In Japan the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is released, in which Takeda Shingen beats Uesugi Kenshin.
• 1685: In France, the Catholic king Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, which protected the Protestant French.
• 1748: The Treaty of Aachen is signed, ending the Austrian War of Succession.
• 1766: the ship San Juan Nepomuceno is launched in Guarnizo, Cantabria, Spain.
• 1775: In the United States, African American poet Phillis Wheatley is liberated from her state of slavery.
• 1809: In Tamames (Salamanca) a battle is waged in the framework of the Spanish Independence War.
• 1820: Portoviejo declares its independence from the Spanish Empire.
• 1851: in the United States, Herman Melville public for the first time Moby-Dick.
• 1860: The Second Opium War ends the Beijing Convention with the ratification of the Tientsin Treaty.
• 1867: The United States buys the territory of Alaska for 7.2 million dollars. This day is celebrated as the “Alaska Day”. Alaska – which followed up to this day the Julian calendar (like the rest of the Russian Empire) and was defamed 12 days with the rest of the world (which follows the Gregorian calendar) – since yesterday, October 6, it jumps 12 days and today considers it to be October 18.
• 1891: In Asunción (Paraguay), the Liberal Revolution took place against the abuses of President Juan Gualberto González's Government.
• 1898: The United States annexes the island of Puerto Rico.
• 1906: The island of Cuba is hit by a violent hurricane.
• 1908: Belgium annexes the Congo.
• 1912: the Balkan War begins.
• 1914: In Germany, the priest Joseph Kentenich founded the Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt.
• 1922: In London (England) the BBC is founded.
• 1924: Hurricane Ten, in category 5. It runs the poorest area in the country, the province of Pinar del Río, where it kills some 90 people. The meteorologist José Carlos Millás Hernández (1889-1965) described him as the most powerful hurricane in Cuba's history.
• 1929: In Canada, a law states that women are people.
• 1939: in Spain, the capital of Burgos is changed to Madrid.
• 1944: In Germany, Adolf Hitler ordered the establishment of the national militia.
• 1944: As part of its offensive against the troops of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union's army enters Czechoslovakia.
• 1944: the city of Havana (Cuba) is hit by a violent 14-hour hurricane, with winds above 200 km/h (a streak measured 262 km/h for a minute). Leave 300 dead. It is considered the storm of the century, even though the United States gives that name to the 1993 hurricane.
• 1945: In Spain, the Francoist police arrested the anti-franctor Cristino García Granda, who had fought on the republican side during the Spanish civil war and against the Germans in France, where he was considered a National Hero.
• 1945: the nuclear program of the Soviet Union obtains plans from the United States plutonium bomb thanks to Klaus Fuchs.
• 1945: in Venezuela, a group of soldiers led by Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud and Mario Vargas are carrying out a coup against the constitutional president Isaiah Medina Angarita, who will be dismissed.
• 1946: The first Inter-American Baseball Series begins in Caracas. Cervecería Caracas, Sultanes de Monterrey de México, All Cubans de Cuba y Bushwicks de Brooklyn (United States), won the final round. This tournament that sought to bring together the best teams in the region was the precursor of the Caribbean Series.
• 1948: In Chile the government of Gabriel González Videla publishes in the Official Journal the Law of the Permanent Defense of Democracy which proscribes to the Communist Party.
• 1951: At the nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk, SSR of Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union detonated its third atomic bomb (the nineteenth of human history), Mariya (which the CIA baptized as Joe-3), of 42 kilotons at 380 metres. It's the first Soviet test with a bomb thrown from a plane.
• 1954: USA. U.S. Texas Instruments announces its first transistor.
• 1968: The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for making the greeting "black power" during the 1968 Olympic Games ceremony.
• 1968: at the Olympic Games in Mexico, Bob Beamon sets a new world record of 8.90 m in the leap of length. It will become the most lasting record of athleticism with 23 years of duration, and considered by Sports Illustrated as one of the top five moments of sport of the centuryXX..
• 1977: In Argentina the Teatro Argentino de La Plata is set on fire.
• 1977: In Ecuador, the Aztra massacre took place, which left more than one hundred fatalities after the police opened fire on the workers of a sugar mill who were on strike.
• 1989: in the German Democratic Republic, leader Erich Honecker resigns.
• 1989: The United States launches the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
• 1991: Azerbaijan is independent of the Soviet Union.
• 2001: launch of DigitalGlobe's QuickBird Remote Sensing Satellite.
• 2003: Take off the Soyuz TMA-3 mission with three crew members, including the Spanish Pedro Duque for the International Space Station.
• 2007: In Argentina the H Line (Subte de Buenos Aires) is opened.
• 2007: In Karachi (Pakistan), a terrorist group carried out an attack on the return of Benazir Bhutto after 8 years of exile: 139 dead (Terrorist Attack in Karachi).
• 2013: in Redmond (United States) the official version of Windows 8.1 and the Windows Server 2012 R2 Version
• 2013: Sega Launches Game to the Sonic Market Lost World
• 2017: In a rural area of Cushamen (Argentinian Patagonia) the body of the Argentinean artisan and anarchist activist Santiago Maldonado, died by drowning, and disappeared for 78 days.
• 2019: in Santiago (Chile) the mobilizations against the rise of public transport reach their peak, starting the social explosion, and the constituent process.

Births

• 1127: Go-Shirakawa, Japanese emperor (f. 1192).
• 1130: Zhu Xi, Chinese philosopher (f. 1200).
• 1405: Pius II, Pope of the Catholic Church (f. 1464).
• 1444: John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English noble (f. 1476).
• 1482: Philipp III, count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (f. 1538).
• 1517: Manuel da Nóbrega, a Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (f. 1570).
• 1523: Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Segismund I of Poland (f. 1596).
• 1536: William Lambarde, English antiquarian and political (f. 1601).
• 1547: Justus Lipsius, Belgian philologist and scholar (f. 1606).
• 1553: Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (f. 1599).
• 1587: Lady Mary Wroth, English poet (f. 1651).
• 1596: Edward Winslow, American pilgrim leader (f. 1655).
• 1616: Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist (f. 1654).
• 1630: Henry Powle, English politician (f. 1692).
• 1634: Luca Giordano, Italian painter and illustrator (f. 1705).
• 1653: Abraham van Riebeeck, a trader and a South African-Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Netherlands Eastern Indies (f. 1713).
• 1662: Matthew Henry, minister and Welsh scholar (f. 1714).
• 1663: Eugenio de Saboya, prince and Austrian statesman (f. 1736).
• 1668: Juan Jorge IV, Elector de Saxony (f. 1694).
• 1701: Charles le Beau, French historian and author (f. 1778).
• 1706: Baldassare Galuppi, Italian player and songwriter (f. 1785).
• 1741: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (f. 1803).
• 1765: Servando Teresa de Mier, Dominican friar and precursor of Mexico's Independence (f. 1827).
• 1777: Heinrich von Kleist, author and German poet (f. 1811).
• 1785: Thomas Love Peacock, author and English poet (f. 1866).
• 1792: Lucas Alamán, politician and Mexican historian (f. 1853).
• 1804: Mongkut, Thai king (f. 1868).
• 1805: Mariano Ospina Rodríguez, was a politician, journalist, educator, entrepreneur and Colombian lawyer. (f. 1885).
• 1818: Francis Dutton, a German-Australian politician, 7th South Australian Prime Minister (f. 1877).
• 1822: Midhat Pasha, Ottoman official and politician, 238.o Grand Visir of the Ottoman Empire (f. 1883).
• 1824: Juan Valera, a Spanish writer (f. 1905).
• 1831: Frederick III, German emperor (f. 1888).
• 1836: Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (f. 1911).
• 1841: Lucas Mallada, Spanish geologist (f. 1921).
• 1850: Basil Hall Chamberlain, historian, author and English-Swiss scholar (f. 1935).
• 1854: Billy Murdoch, Australian cricket player (f. 1911).
• 1859: Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize in Laureate Literature (f. 1941).
• 1862: Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (f. 1952).
• 1865: Arie de Jong, linguist and Dutch author (f. 1957).
• 1865: Logan Pearsall Smith, author and American-English critic (f. 1946).
• 1868: Ernst Didring, Swedish author (f. 1931).
• 1872: Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet and author (f. 1936).
• 1873: Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (f. 1951).
• 1874: Christine Murrell, PhD in English Medicine, first female member of the Central Council of British Medical Association (f. 1933).
• 1875: Len Braund, English cricket player, coach and referee (f. 1955).
• 1878: James Truslow Adams, American historian and author (f. 1949).
• 1878: Miguel Llobet, Spanish composer (f. 1938).
• 1880: Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist and theorist (f. 1940).
• 1881: Max Gerson, an American doctor born in Germany (f. 1959).
• 1882: Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist (f. 1917).
• 1887: Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and political (f. 1946).
• 1888: Paul Vermoyal, French actor (f. 1925).
• 1893: Sidney Holland, lieutenant and politician of New Zealand, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (f. 1961).
• 1893: George Ohsawa, Japanese philosopher and scholar (f. 1966).
• 1894: H. L. Davis, American author and poet (f. 1960).
• 1894: Tibor Déry, author and Hungarian translator (f. 1977).
• 1897: Isabel Briggs Myers, American theorist and author (f. 1980).
• 1898: Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (f. 1981).
• 1900: Sarah Bavly, Dutch-Israeli nutritionist, author and educator (f. 1993).
• 1900: Evelyn Berckman, an American author, known for her novels of detective and Gothic terror (f. 1978).
• 1902: Miriam Hopkins, American actress (f. 1972).
• 1902: Pascual Jordan, a German physicist and theorist (f. 1980).
• 1903: Lina Radke, German rider and coach (f. 1983).
• 1904: UNA. J. Liebling, American journalist and author (f. 1963).
• 1904: Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli academic and academic (f. 1981).
• 1905: Jan Gies, a Dutch activist (f. 1993).
• 1905: Félix Houphouët-Boigny, leader and trade union politician, Ivory Coast President (f. 1993).
• 1906: James Brooks, American painter and educator (f. 1992).
• 1909: Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist (f. 2004).
• 1914: Raymond Lambert, Swiss alpinist (f. 1997).
• 1915: Victor Sen Yung, American actor (f. 1980).
• 1918: Molly Geertsema, Dutch lawyer and policy, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (f. 1991).
• 1918: Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 178° Prime Minister of Greece (f. 2017).
• 1918: Bobby Troup, singer, composer, pianist and American actor (f. 1999).
• 1919: Ric Nordman, captain and Canadian politician (f. 1996).
• 1919: Anita O'Day, American singer (f. 2006).
• 1919: Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic and political, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (f. 2000).
• 1919: Camilla Williams, American soprano and educator (f. 2012).
• 1920: Melina Mercouri, actress, singer and Greek politics, 9th Minister of Culture of Greece (f. 1994).
• 1921: Jerry Cooke, photographer and Ukrainian-American journalist (f. 2005).
• 1921: Jesse Helms, American journalist and politician (f. 2008).
• 1921: Beatrice Helen Worsley, a Mexican-Canadian scientist and academic (f. 1972).
• 1923: Jessie Mae Hemphill, singer, songwriter and American guitarist (f. 2008).
• 1924: Buddy MacMaster, Canadian and violinist singer and composer (f. 2014).
• 1925: Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1.o President of Albania (f. 2011).
• 1926: Chuck Berry, American singer, composer and guitarist (f. 2017).
• 1926: Klaus Kinski, German-American actor, director and screenwriter (f. 1991).
• 1927: Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (f. 2013).
• 1927: George C. Scott, American actor and director (f. 1999).
• 1928: Keith Jackson, American sports commentator and actor (f. 2018).
• 1928: Maurice El Mediouni, pianist and Algerian composer.
• 1928: Dick Taverne, English lawyer and politician.
• 1929: Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan editorial and policy, President of Nicaragua.
• 1929: Hillard Elkins, American producer and manager (f. 2010).
• 1929: Kees Fens, author and Dutch critic (f. 2008).
• 1930: Flora Fraser, 21.a Lady Saltoun, Scottish politician.
• 1930: Esther Hautzig, Lithuanian-American author (f. 2009).
• 1930: Frank Carlucci, American politician (f. 2018).
• 1931: Chris Albertson, historian, journalist and American Icelandic producer.
• 1931: Roger Climpson, Australian-English journalist.
• 1931: Ien Dales, Dutch official and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (f. 1994).
• 1932: Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian musicologist and politician.
• 1933: Forrest Gregg, player and football coach.
• 1933: Irwin F. Jacobs, American electric engineer, businessman and entrepreneur.
• 1933: Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian racer (f. 1968).
• 1934: Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (f. 1970).
• 1934; Sergio de Bustamante, Mexican singer and actor (f. 2014).
• 1935: Peter Boyle, American actor (f. 2006).
• 1936: Jaime Lucas Ortega and Alamino, Cuban cardinal (f. 2019).
• 1938: Ronnie Bright, U.S. singer of R strangerB and doo-wop (f. 2015).
• 1938: Dawn Wells, American actress (f. 2020).
• 1938: Robert Dove, American lawyer and politician.
• 1939: Flavio Cotti, Swiss politician, president of Switzerland in 1991 and 1998 (f. 2020).
• 1939: Lee Harvey Oswald, American murderer of John F. Kennedy (f. 1963).
• 1939: Jan Erik Vold, Norwegian poet, author and translator.
• 1940: Cynthia Weil, American composer.
• 1940: Talitha Getty, actress and model of Dutch extraction (f. 1971).
• 1941: Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, English businessman.
• 1941: Martha Burk, American psychologist and author.
• 1942: Gianfranco Ravasi, Italian cardinal and scholar.
• 1942: Juan Tamariz, Spanish illusionist.
• 1943: Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer and composer (f. 2014).
• 1943: Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish police and politician, Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs of Denmark.
• 1945: Huell Howser, American TV host and actor (f. 2013).
• 1945: Chris Shays, American politician.
• 1946: James Robert Baker, American author and writer (f. 1997).
• 1946: Frank Beamer, football player and coach.
• 1946: Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Welsh scholar and politician.
• 1946: Howard Shore, Canadian composer, director and producer.
• 1946: Adolfo Chuiman, Peruvian actor.
• 1947: Paul Chuckle, comedian, actor and English scriptwriter.
• 1947: Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam.
• 1947: Laura Nyro, American singer and composer and pianist (f. 1997).
• 1947: Gary Sullivan, Australian rugby league player.
• 1947: Luc Jouret, leader of Belgian religious worship in Switzerland (f. 1994).
• 1948: Hans Köchler, philosopher, author and Austrian academic.
• 1948: Ntozake Shange, author, poet and American playwright (f. 2018).
• 1949: Joe Egan, Scottish singer and composer.
• 1949: George Hendrick, American baseball player and coach.
• 1949: Gary Richrath, American guitarist, composer and producer (f. 2015).
• 1949: Fanny Rubio, Spanish poet and academic.
• 1950: Om Puri, Indian actor (f. 2017).
• 1950: Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright and author (f. 2006).
• 1951: Mike Antonovich, American Ice hockey player and coach.
• 1951: Pam Dawber, American actress and producer.
• 1951: Terry McMillan, author and American writer.
• 1951: David Normington, an English official and politician.
• 1951: Nic Potter, bassist and English composer (f. 2013).
• 1952: Roy Dias, cricket player and Sri Lanka coach.
• 1952: Paul Geroski, American-English economist and academic (f. 2005).
• 1952: Chuck Lorre, director, producer and American screenwriter.
• 1952: Patrick Morrow, mountaineer and Canadian photographer.
• 1952: Billono Ninh, soldier and Vietnamese author.
• 1952: Allen Ripley, American baseball player (f. 2014).
• 1952: Jerry Royster, American baseball player, coach and manager.
• 1953: Vickie Winans, American gospel music singer and songwriter and musical producer.
• 1954: Nick Houghton, General English.
• 1954: Arliss Howard, actor, director, producer and American screenwriter.
• 1955: Jean-Pierre Hautier, Belgian journalist and television presenter (f. 2012).
• 1955: Timmy Mallett, English radio and television presenter.
• 1955: Stu Mead, American painter and illustrator.
• 1955: David Twohy, director, producer and American screenwriter.
• 1955: Rita Verdonk, Dutch journalist and politics, Minister of Dutch Justice.
• 1955: Mark Welland, English physicist and academic.
• 1956: Craig Bartlett, American animator, producer and screenwriter.
• 1956: Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player and coach.
• 1956: Jim Talent, American lawyer and politician.
• 1957: Jon Lindstrom, actor, director, producer and American screenwriter.
• 1957: Catherine Ringer, singer, composer, dancer and French actress.
• 1958: Thomas Hearns, American boxer.
• 1958: Kjell Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach.
• 1959: Kirby Chambliss, American pilot.
• 1959: Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran politician, president of El Salvador.
• 1959: Milcho Manchevski, Macedonian-American director and screenwriter.
• 1959: John Nord, American fighter.
• 1960: Erin Moran, American actress (f. 2017).
• 1960: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor and producer and screenwriter.
• 1961: Wynton Marsalis, trumpetist, composer and American educator.
• 1961: Rick Moody, American author and composer.
• 1961: Gladstone Small, beard-English cricket player.
• 1962: Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist.
• 1962: Vincent Spano, American actor, director and producer.
• 1963: Sigvart Dagsland, singer, pianist and Norwegian composer.
• 1964: Dan Lilker, American singer and composer and bassist.
• 1964: Charles Stross, English journalist, author and programmer.
• 1964 Lourdes Robles, singer and actress Puertorriqueña
• 1965: Curtis Stigers, American singer, composer and guitarist.
• 1965: Zakir Naik, Indian Islamic preacher.
• 1966: Dave Price, American journalist and host of games.
• 1967: Eric Stuart, American singer, composer and guitarist.
• 1968: Rhod Gilbert, welsh comedian.
• 1968: Stuart Law, cricket player and Australian coach.
• 1968: Michael Stich, tennis player and German sports commentator.
• 1969: Alvaro Henríquez, Chilean musician.
• 1969: Volker Neumüller, German talent manager.
• 1969: Nelson Vivas, Argentine soccer player and coach.
• 1970: Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player and coach.
• 1970: Mike Starink, Dutch TV host and actor.
• 1971: Nick O'Hern, Australian golfer.
• 1972: Mika Ninagawa, Japanese photographer and director.
• 1972: Alex Tagliani, a Canadian racer.
• 1973: Stephen Allan, Australian golfer
• 1973: James Foley, American photographer and journalist (f. 2014).
• 1973: Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer.
• 1973: Rachel Nichols, American sports reporter and commentator.
• 1973: Sarah Winckless, English remero.
• 1974: Robbie Savage, footballer and sports commentator Welsh.
• 1974: Peter Svensson, Swedish guitarist and composer.
• 1974: Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer.
• 1974: Amish Tripathi, Indian author.
• 1975: Alex Cora, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, sports commentator and manager.
• 1975: Josh Sawyer, American video game designer.
• 1977: Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand-American soccer player and coach.
• 1977: David Vuillemin, French motorcycle pilot.
• 1977: Jyothika, Indian actress.
• 1978:
  • Mike Tindall, English rugby player.
  • Kenji Wu, Taiwanese singer and composer.
  • Jake Farrow, Norwegian actor and screenwriter.
  • Valeri Falkov, Russian jurist and politician, serves as Minister of Science and Higher Education on 21 January 2020.
• 1979: Jaroslav Drobný, Czech footballer.
• 1979: Ne-Yo, singer, composer, record producer, dancer and American actor.
• 1980: Josh Gracin, American country music singer and member of United States Marine Corps.
• 1981: Greg Warren, football player.
• 1982: Thierry Amiel, French singer and composer.
• 1982: Mark Sampson, football player and manager.
• 1982: Simon Gotch, American fighter.
• 1983: Dante, Brazilian footballer.
• 1984: Robert Harting, German disc launcher.
• 1984: Freida Pinto, actress and Indian model.
• 1984: Esperanza Spalding, singer, composer and U.S. bassist.
• 1984: Lindsey Vonn, American skier.
• 1985: Yoenis Céspedes, Cuban baseball player.
• 1986: Wilma Elles, German fashion actress and designer.
• 1987: Zac Efron, American actor and singer.
• 1987: Beha Erichsen, Danish model.
• 1989: Riisa Naka, Japanese actress.
• 1990: Brittney Griner, American basketball player.
• 1990: Oscar Opazo, Chilean professional footballer.
• 1991: Tyler Posey, American actor and musician.
• 1992: Nil Moliner, musician, composer and Spanish singer.
• 1993: Ivan Cavaleiro, Portuguese professional footballer.
• 2010: Andréi Andréiev, Russian actor

Deaths

• 707: John VII, Roman Pope between 705 and 707 (n.?).
• 1035: Sancho III, king of Pamplona and count of Aragon (n. v. 992/996).
• 1066 or 1067: Muniadona de Castilla, queen consorte de Pamplona (n. 995)
• 1101: Hugo de Vermandois, aristocrat french, son of Enrique I (n. 1053).
• 1141: Leopoldo IV, Austrian king (n. v. 1108).
• 1216: John I, English king (n. 1166).
• 1403: Martin de Zalba, bishop of Pamplona (n. c. 1337).
• 1417: Gregory XII, Catholic Pope (n. c. 1326).
• 1503: Pius III, Catholic Pope in 1503 (n. 1439).
• 1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, a Spanish explorer (n. c. 1478).
• 1541: Margarita Tudor, Scottish queen (n. 1489).
• 1545: John Taverner, English composer (n. c. 1490).
• 1558: Mary of Hungary, aristocrat of Spain, daughter of Philip the Beautiful and Juana I of Castile (n. 1505).
• 1562: Pedro de Alcántara, a Spanish religious (n. 1499).
• 1564: Johannes Acronius Frisius, a German physicist and mathematician (n. 1520).
• 1570: Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit (n. 1517).
• 1604: Igram van Achelen, a Dutch politician (n. 1528).
• 1646: Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (n. 1607).
• 1667: Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (n. 1603).
• 1678: Jacob Jordaens, a Flemish Baroque painter (n. 1593).
• 1712: Lorenzo Antonio de Granda and Balbín, Spanish governor of Costa Rica (n. 1651).
• 1739: Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian playwright (n. 1705).
• 1744: Sarah Churchill, British aristocrat (n. 1660).
• 1775: Paul of the Cross, Italian religious, founder of the order of the Passionists (n. 1694).
• 1775: Christian August Crusius, German philosopher (n. 1715).
• 1783: Francisco Xavier de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (n. 1702).
• 1817: Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (n. 1763).
• 1830: Juan Sempere and Guarinos, politician, jurist, bibliographer and Spanish economist (n. 1754).
• 1832: Julián Sánchez, Spanish guerrilla and military (n. 1774).
• 1865: Henry Temple, British Prime Minister (n. 1784).
• 1866: Manuel Bulnes, Chilean military and political (n. 1799).
• 1866: Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (n. 1796).
• 1871: Charles Babbage, British mathematician, computer systems creator (n. 1791).
• 1886: Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physicist (n. 1796).
• 1889: Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (n. 1808).
• 1893: Charles Gounod, French composer (n. 1818).
• 1898: Juan Alonso Zayas, a Spanish army soldier (n. 1869).
• 1911: Alfred Binet, French psychologist (n. 1857).
• 1918: Koloman Moser, painter, artist and Austrian designer (n. 1868).
• 1921: Louis III, German aristocrat (n. 1845).

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• 1931: Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor (n. 1847).
• 1932: Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (n. 1873).
• 1939: Celestí Boada, Spanish politician (n. 1902).
• 1942: Mikhail Nésterov, Russian painter (n. 1862).
• 1943: Benedictus Hubertus Danser, a Dutch botanist and taxonomy (n. 1891).
• 1948: Walther von Brauchitsch, German Marshal (n. 1881).
• 1955: José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (n. 1883).
• 1959: Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (n. 1898).
• 1960: Coriolano Alberini, an Argentine philosopher (n. 1886).
• 1965: Henry Travers, British actor (n. 1874). or
• 1966: Elizabeth Arden, Canadian entrepreneur (n. 1878).
• 1966: Rafael Sánchez Mazas, Spanish writer and politician (n. 1894).
• 1967: Luis López de Mesa, Colombian scientist and humanist (n. 1884).
• 1970: Lázaro Cárdenas, militar y ex-president of Mexico (n. 1895).
• 1973: Margaret Caroline Anderson, American editor (n. 1886).
• 1973: Leo Strauss, American philosopher (n. 1899).
• 1975: Al Lettieri, an American actor (n. 1928).
• 1976: Soong Ai-ling, the first Chinese to study in the United States (n. 1890).
• 1976: Count Ossie, drummer and Jamaican rastafari (n. 1926)
• 1976: Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian writer (n. 1895).
• 1977: Andreas Baader, German leader of the Red Army Fraction (n. 1943).
• 1979: Virgilio Piñera, Cuban writer (n. 1912).
• 1980: Filipp Stárikov, Soviet military (n. 1896)
• 1982: Dwain Esper, American filmmaker (n. 1892).
• 1982: Pierre Mendès France, a French politician (n. 1907).
• 1983: Diego Abad de Santillán, anarchist, writer and Spanish editor (n. 1897).
• 1984: Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (n. 1957).
• 1988: Frederick Ashton, Ecuadorian dancer and choreographer (n. 1904).
• 1990: Gato Pérez (Xavier Patricio Pérez), Spanish-Argentine singer (n. 1951).
• 1994: Conchita Montes, Spanish actress (n. 1914).
• 1995: Claudio Brook, Mexican actor (n. 1927).
• 1996: Luciano Durán Böger, Bolivian writer, poet and novelist (n.1904).
• 1997: Roberto Goizueta, President of The Coca-Cola Company (n. 1932).
• 2000: Julie London, American actress and singer (n. 1926).
• 2000: Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (n. 1925).
• 2001: Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (n. 1922).
• 2002: Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (n. 1932).
• 2003: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, a Spanish writer (n. 1939).
• 2004: Veerappan, Indian bandit (n. 1945).
• 2005: Johnny Haynes, British footballer (n. 1934).
• 2005: John Hollis, British actor (n. 1931).
• 2007: Lucky Dube, South African singer (n. 1964).
• 2008: Xie Jin, Chinese filmmaker (n. 1923).
• 2010: Marion Brown, American jazz saxophoneist (n. 1935).
• 2012: Marvin Lambert, professional fighter (n. 1977).
• 2014: Tom Foley, American politician (n. 1929).
• 2018: Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Sudanese politician and military, president of Sudan between 1985 and 1986 (n. 1934).
• 2020: Sid Hartman, American journalist (n. 1920).
• 2021: Colin Powell, U.S. military, diplomatic and political (n. 1937).
• 2021: Edit Gruberova, Slovak soprano (n. 1946).

Celebrations

• World Day of Menopause
• World Day of Protection of Nature
• European Day Against Human Trafficking
• AzerbaijanAzerbaijan:
  • Independence Day
• CanadaCanada:
  • Human Day
• ChileChile:
  • National Day of Revolution
  • National Day of Fruits and Vegetables
• CroatiaCroatia:
  • Corbata Day
• Dominican RepublicDominican Republic:
  • Sociologist's Day
• European Union
  • European Day against Trafficking in Persons

Catholic saints list

• San Amable de Riom
• San Asclepías de Antioquía
• St. Luke Evangelist
• San Monón de Nassogne
• Beato Fidel Fuedio Rodríguez