October 1st

October 1 is the 274th (two hundred and seventy-fourth) day of the year—the 275th (two hundred and seventy-fifth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days left to end the year.

Events

• 331 B.C.: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the battle of Gaugamela, 27 km northeast of Mosul (Irak), and marks the end of the Persian Empire.
• 63: in Crimea (Russia), between the sea of Azov and the Black Sea 45°12′N 36°36′E / 45.2, 36.6, 20 km deep there is an earthquake of 6.4 degrees on the Richter scale. See Earthquakes prior to the 20th century.
• 911: In Constantinople during the siege of the city, theotokos build the Church of Saint Mary of Blanquerna.
• 959: In England, Edgar the Pacific becomes king.
• 976: In Cordoba, Spain, the Al-Hákam II caliph dies and his son Hisham is proclaimed as a successor, with only eight or nine years of age, beginning a period of serious succession crisis in Al-Ándalus.
• 1189: In San Juan de Acre, Gerard de Ridefort, a teacher of the Templars since 1184, he died in the siege of that city.
• 1500: On the island of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus together with his brothers Bartolomé and Diego are imprisoned by Francisco de Bobadilla, emissary of the Catholic Kings and sent to Spain because of the slanders launched against him.
• 1777: At the Palacio de la Granja (Spain) a treaty of limits is signed in America between Spain and Portugal.
• 1787: In Kinburn, in the estuary of the River Dniéper, in front of Ochakiv (in southern Ukraine), the Russians defeat the Turks in the battle of Kinburn.
• 1791: In France, the legislative assembly is for the first time.
• 1792: in Catalonia (Spain) the first number of Diario de Barcelona.
• 1800: in the United States, Spain yields the state of Louisiana to France through Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.
• 1811: the first boat to climb the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
• 1812: in Montevideo (Uruguay) Argentine forces begin the site against the Spanish.
• 1813: in Bolivia, about 140 km northwest of Potosí, the Spanish troops beat the revolutionaries of several South American countries (leadered by Argentine lawyer Manuel Belgrano) in the battle of Vilcapugio.
• 1814: In Chile the battle known as Rancagua's Disaster begins. Spanish troops, sent to Chile by the viceroy of Peru to submit to the independentists, enter Santiago and will remain in the country until the arrival of the Argentinean José de San Martín, in 1817.
• 1823: in Spain, King Fernando VII restores the Spanish Inquisition.
• 1827: the city of Yerevan (capital of Armenia) is invaded by the Russian army under the orders of Ivan Paskévich. It thus ends a millennium of Muslim domination.
• 1843: The News of the World newspaper begins to be published in London.
• 1847: In Germany, inventor and industrial Ernst Werner von Siemens founded Siemens & Halske.
• 1860: in Volturno, Italy, Garibaldi defeats the troops of Francisco II of the Two Sicilies, decisive action for the fate of the two Sicilies.
• 1862: the Pueblo Ceballos was founded and later in 1884 it would be called Rivera (Rivera is one of the 19 Departments of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay)
• 1869: In the Austro-Hungarian Empire the first postcard of history is issued with printed franking.
• 1880: In the United States, Thomas Edison founded the world's first electric company.
• 1887: The British Empire conquers Balochistan.
• 1889: In Japan Nagoya was founded.
• 1890: In Washington, Congress declares Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.
• 1891: The University of Stanford opens its doors in the United States.
• 1898: Tsar Nikolay II drives Jews out of most Russian cities.
• 1901: in Madrid (Spain) the General Society of Authors and Editors is constituted.
• 1905: In Prague, the young carpenter František Pavlík died in a demonstration, inspiring a piano composition by Leoš Janáček.
• 1907: In New York the taximeter service begins.
• 1908: The Ford T model, created by Henry Ford, is on the market in the United States.
• 1910: In Los Angeles, a bomb destroys the building Los Angeles TimesKilling 21 people.
• 1912: In Paraguay the Club Cerro Porteño is founded.
• 1914: In Arras, France, at the beginning of the First World War, the French army beats the German army in the battle of Arrás.
• 1914: In Mexico City, the meetings of the Revolutionary Board convened by Venustiano Carranza begin.
• 1918: In Syria, in the context of World War I, the Arab forces—under the command of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)—capture Damascus.
• 1920: in Basra (Irak), Percy Cox lands to assume his responsibilities as High Commissioner of Iraq.
• 1928: The Soviet Union introduces the Five Year Plan.
• 1931: In Spain, the Constitution of the Second Republic recognizes universal suffrage by granting the right to vote to women.
• 1931: Between New York and New Jersey the George Washington Bridge is inaugurated.
• 1936: in Burgos, Spain, Francisco Franco is appointed head of State by the national side.
• 1938: Germany begins the annexation of the Sudets during the Sudet Crisis.
• 1941: opening of the concentration camp of Majdanek (Aleman: Konzentrationslager Lublin), later extermination camp, in occupied Poland.
• 1942: the American ship USS Grouper torpedoes and sinks the ship Lisbon Maru without knowing he was carrying British prisoners from Hong Kong.
• 1942: first flight of the Bell XP-59 "Airacomet".
• 1943: In Italy, allied forces invade Naples.
• 1944: Soviet troops enter Yugoslavia.
• 1945: in Argentina, the first "Police of State" in the world (created by Bernardino Rivadavia Minister of Government of Buenos Aires on December 24, 1821) for its territorial representation in all provinces and by virtue of its federal interference it changes its denomination to "Federal Police Argentina".
• 1946: In the Nuremberg Judgment (which began on November 20, 1945), the leaders of Nazism are sentenced to death and three to life imprisonment.
• 1947: F-86 Sabre hunting plane flies for the first time.
• 1949: Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China.
• 1954: The war of liberation against the French imperialists begins in Algeria.
• 1958: The NASA space agency is inaugurated in the United States.
• 1960: Nigeria is independent of the British Empire.
• 1961: Cameroon of the East and West join in forming the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
• 1961: 101 meters underground, in the U3aa area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 13:30 (local time) United States detonates its Boomer atomic bomb of 0.1 kt. It is the 199 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1961: In the United States, the CTV Television Network channel begins its daily broadcasts.
• 1963: in Honduras, democratic president Ramón Villeda Morales is defeated by a military coup led by Oswaldo López Arellano.
• 1964: between Tokyo and Osaka the Shinkansen train is inaugurated.
• 1965: In Indonesia General Suharto carried out a coup.
• 1966: In Wemme, Oregon, the West Coast Airlines Flight 956 is crashed. It's the first tragedy of a DC-9.
• 1969: The Concorde first breaks the sound barrier.
• 1969: in the U3hk3 area of the Nevada atomic test site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:30 (local time) United States detonates three atomic bombs in three holes different to 118 meters underground: Seaweed-1, Seaweed-2 and Seaweed-3, of less than 20 kt each. It is the 638, 639 and 640 of the 1129 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1971: in Orlando (Florida) opens its Walt Disney World doors.
• 1971: The first computed axial tomography (CTBT) is performed to diagnose a patient.
• 1975: in Spain, an attack on 4 police officers is the first action of the GRAPO.
• 1975: The Seychelles Islands are independent of the British Empire.
• 1975: in Manila (Philippines) Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing fight.
• 1978: Tuvalu is independent of the United Kingdom.
• 1978: The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded in Upper Volta.
• 1979: The United States returns to Panama sovereignty over the Panama Canal.
• 1981: 472 m underground, in the U12p.03 Area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 11:00 (local time) United States detonates its 38 kt Paliza atomic bomb. It is the 964 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1982: In the Federal Republic of Germany, the demochristian Helmut Kohl succeeds the social democrat Helmut Schmidt.
• 1982: Sony launches its first compact disc reader (CDP-101).
• 1983: the countries of the Andean Pact approve the plan of Peru for Bolivia to achieve an exit to the sea using Peruvian ports.
• 1985: In Tunisia, Israeli air forces attack PLO headquarters. 50 people die and 100 are injured in this air strike.
• 1987: Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, after a coup d'etat, proclaims himself president of Fiyi, who will be expelled from the British Community of Nations 15 days later.
• 1988: In Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev is unanimously elected head of the Soviet State.
• 1989: Denmark is the first country to recognize same-sex unions.
• 1990: In Chile, the news begins 24 HoursOn TVN.
• 1991: In Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, the leaders of 12 Soviet republics agree to constitute an economic community of sovereign States, with the reservation of Latvia.
• 1992: In the United States, the Senate approves START I (Treaty for Strategic Arms Reduction).
• 1992: in the United States, the company Turner Broadcasting estrena Cartoon Network.
• 1993: launches its MTV Latin American transmissions.
• 1994: Palaos is independent of the United States.
• 1994: In a branch of the Order of the Solar Temple in Morin Heights (near Quebec, Canada), Emmanuel Dutoit, a three-month-old son of a sect member, is murdered. The baby was stabbed repeatedly with a wooden stake by order of the French rosacruz Joseph di Mambro (1924-1994), who claimed that the baby was the Antichrist described in the New Testamentwho had been born within his group to prevent Di Mambro from succeeding in his spiritual journey.
• 1996: The UN Security Council definitively lifts the sanctions on Yugoslavia imposed in 1992 and 1993 due to the war in Bosnia.
• 1996: In Washington, D.C., the interview of Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat, with Bill Clinton as mediator, devalued by the absence of Hosni Mubarak.
• 1998: Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member of the Russian Federation Security Council.
• 2003: Page 4chan is created.
• 2004: In Doha, the Asian Olympic Council approves the anti-doping regulations to be applied to the Asian Games and any other Asian sporting event.
• 2005: in Bali, a bomb kills 19 people.
• 2005: in El Salvador the Volcano of Santa Ana erupted.
• 2015: in the municipality of Santa Catarina Pinula, 6 km east of La Aurora airport (in the south of Guatemala City), at 22:00 an alud crushes 125 houses, leaving about 100 dead and 600 disappeared. (Tragedia of The Cambray II).
• 2016: in Spain, Pedro Sánchez resigns as secretary general of the PSOE.
• 2016: The International Monetary Fund officially recognizes the Chinese yuan as a reserve currency, including it in the Giro Special Rights Basket (DEGs).
• 2017: In Catalonia, an independence referendum is held, considered illegal after being suspended by the Constitutional Court.
• 2017: in a concert in Las Vegas, United States of America, a shooting occurs, leaving a balance of 59 dead and 851 wounded. This is the largest massacre in the country since the attacks of 11 September 2001.
• 2018: The Hague International Court of Justice fails in favor of Chile in the maritime demand by Bolivia in the dispute for the departure to the sea of the second country.

Births

• 86 a. C.: Salustio, Roman historian (f. 34 B.C.).
• 208: Alexander Severo, Roman emperor (f. 235).
• 1207: Henry III, aristocrat and English king between 1216 and 1272 (f. 1272).
• 1348: Elizabeth of France, French aristocrat (f. 1372).
• 1541: El Greco, Greek painter (f. 1614).
• 1627: Galeazzo Marescotti, Italian cardinal (f. 1726).
• 1685: Charles VI of Germany, Roman-Germanic emperor (f. 1740).
• 1756: Francisco Santpons, doctor and Spanish inventor (f. 1821).
• 1760: William Thomas Beckford, British writer and politician (f. 1844).
• 1771: Pierre Baillot, violinist and French composer (f. 1842).
• 1780: Göran Wahlenberg, Swedish botanist (f. 1851).
• 1791: Sergéi Aksákov, Russian writer (f. 1859).
• 1796: José María Espinosa, was a Procer of Independence, a Colombian painter and chronicler. (f. 1883).
• 1800: Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish botanist (f. 1861).
• 1825: Luis Martos and Potestad, a Spanish military and political conservative (f. 1892).
• 1842: Charles Cros, French poet and inventor (f. 1888).
• 1844: Carlos Fuero, Mexican military and political (f. 1892).
• 1847: Annie Besant, writer, educator and British journalist (f. 1933).
• 1855: José Benlliure, a Spanish painter (f. 1937).
• 1865: Paul Dukas, French composer (f. 1935).
• 1867: Fernand Pelloutier, anarchist and French trade unionist (f. 1901).
• 1878: Othmar Spann, a Austrian philosopher and economist (f. 1950).
• 1880: Bruno Neira González, Mexican military and political (f. 1945).
• 1881: William E. Boeing, engineer and pioneer of American aviation (f. 1956).
• 1884: Vicente Risco, Spanish politician and intellectual (f. 1963).
• 1889: Minta Durfee, American actress (f. 1975).
• 1890: César Barja, Spanish literary critic (f. 1952).
• 1890: Stanley Holloway, British actor (f. 1982).
• 1892: Emilio Pettoruti, Argentine painter (f. 1971).
• 1893: Marianne Brandt, German sculptor (f. 1983).
• 1893: Yip Man, Master of Martial Arts (f. 1972).
• 1896: Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistani Prime Minister (f. 1951).
• 1896: Ted Healy, American actor (f. 1937).
• 1899: Ernest Haycox, American writer (f. 1950).
• 1903: Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist (f. 1989).
• 1904: Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-British physicist (f. 1979).
• 1904: A. K. Gopalan, Indian Communist leader (f. 1977).
• 1905: Alfons Goppel, a German politician (f. 1991).
• 1909: Maurice Bardèche, French fascist (f. 1998).
• 1909: Miquel Batllori, Spanish historian (f. 2003).
• 1910: Fritz Köberle, Austrian physicist (f. 1983).
• 1910: Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (f. 1934).
• 1912: Tulio Jacovella, journalist, book editor and Argentine writer (f. 1994).
• 1912: Kathleen Ollerenshaw, British mathematics and politics (f. 2014).
• 1913: Helio Gracie, Brazilian fighter (f. 2009).
• 1914: Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and writer (f. 2004).
• 1915: Jerome Bruner, an American psychologist (f. 2016).
• 1917: Rene de Rooy, a Surinamese writer (f. 1974).
• 1918: Raimundo Blanco, Spanish footballer (f. 1984).
• 1920: Walter Matthau, American actor (f. 2000).
• 1921: James Whitmore, American actor (f. 2009).
• 1922:
  • Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957.
  • Ernane Galvêas, Brazilian economist (f. 2022).
• 1923: Yuki Nambá, an Argentine actress (f. 2006).
• 1923: Julio Mario Santo Domingo, entrepreneur and industrial Panamanian (f. 2011).

Jimmy Carter

• 1924: U.S. military and political Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States between 1977 and 1981, the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
• 1924: William Rehnquist, American lawyer and judge (f. 2005).
• 1927: Kazuya Sakai, an Argentine painter of Japanese origin (f. 2001).
• 1927: Tom Bosley, American actor (f. 2010).
• 1928: Laurence Harvey, a British actor of Lithuanian origin (f. 1973).
• 1928: George Peppard, American actor (f. 1994).
• 1928: Willy Mairesse, a Belgian racer (f. 1969).
• 1928: Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician.
• 1929: Ernesto Grillo, Argentine footballer (f. 1998).
• 1930: Richard Harris, Irish actor (f. 2002).
• 1930: Philippe Noiret, French actor (f. 2006).
• 1931: Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer (f. 2021).
• 1932: Albert Collins, American guitarist (f. 1993).
• 1933: Pozzi Escot, American composer and musical theory of Peruvian origin.
• 1934: Emilio Botín, Spanish banker (f. 2014).
• 1935: Julie Andrews, British actress.
• 1935: Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (f. 1978).
• 1936: Duncan Edwards, British footballer (f. 1958).
• 1936: Jorge «Cuque» Sclavo, writer, humorist, journalist and Uruguayan publicist (f. 2013).
• 1936: Stella Stevens, American actress and model.
• 1936: Edward Villela, American dancer and choreographer.
• 1940: Julio César Benítez, Uruguayan footballer (f. 1968).
• 1942: Jean-Pierre Jabouille, a French motorist.
• 1942: Günter Wallraff, a German journalist and writer.
• 1943: Jean-Jacques Annaud, French filmmaker.
• 1943: Jerry Martini, American saxophoneist, from the Sly " Family Stone band.
• 1945: Haris Silajdžić, Bosnian politician and academic.
• 1945: Rod Carew, Panamanian baseball player.
• 1945: Donny Hathaway, American soul singer (f. 1979).
• 1945: Ram Nath Kovind, Indian politician.
• 1947: Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, Spanish politician.
• 1947: Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
• 1947: Stephen Collins, American actor.
• 1947: Remigio Hermoso, baseball player, coach and Venezuelan politician.
• 1947: Mariska Veres, a Dutch singer from the Shocking Blue band (f. 2006).
• 1947: Andrés do Barro, Spanish singer (f. 1989).
• 1948: Cub Koda, American singer, Brownsville Station (f. 2000).
• 1949: Gerónimo Saccardi, Argentine footballer (f. 2002).
• 1949: Isaac Bonewits, American writer (f. 2010).
• 1949: André Rieu, a Dutch violinist and composer.
• 1950: Randy Quaid, American actor.
• 1950: Marco Tullio Giordana, Italian filmmaker
• 1953: Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete (f. 2011).
• 1953: Franklin Virgüez, Venezuelan actor on television and film
• 1953: Klaus Wowereit, German politician, mayor of Berlin.
• 1953: Jesús Zambrano Grijalva, Mexican politician.
• 1954: Ricardo Solari, Chilean engineer.
• 1955: Manuel Vicente, Argentine actor.
• 1956: Marcos Alonso Peña, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 1956: Andrus Ansip, politician and prime minister Estonian.
• 1956: Theresa May, politics and first British minister.
• 1958: Zeta Bosio, Argentine bassist, of the Soda Stereo band.
• 1959: Nito Artaza, actor, humorist and politician.
• 1959: Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer.
• 1960: Máxima Apaza, politician and indigenous Bolivian activist.
• 1961: Rico Constantino, American fighter.
• 1962: Juana Molina, singer and Argentine comic actress.
• 1962: Iñaki Munita, Spanish battery, of the band Angels of Hell.
• 1963: Mark McGwire, American baseball player.
• 1963: Jean-Denis Délétraz, Swiss racing driver.
• 1964: Max Matsuura, Japanese musical producer.
• 1965: Cindy Margolis, American model.
• 1965: Ted King, American actor.
• 1966: George Weah, Liberian footballer and politician.
• 1966: Cuco Ziganda (José Ángel Ziganda), Spanish footballer.
• 1966: Nina, Spanish actress and singer.
• 1969: Zach Galifianakis, Greek American actor and comedian.
• 1969: Ori Kaplan, an Israeli jazz musician.
• 1969: Marcus Stephen, former president of Nauru.
• 1971: Sonia Monroy, Spanish singer and dancer.
• 1974: Keith Duffy, Irish singer and actor, from the Boyzone band.
• 1974: Nach (Ignacio Fornés Olmo), Spanish rapper.
• 1975: Bimba Bosé, Spanish singer and designer (f. 2017).
• 1975: Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress.
• 1975: Víctor Garcia, Mexican singer and actor.
• 1975: Zoltán Sebescen, German footballer.
• 1976: Ümit Karan, Turkish footballer.
• 1976: Dora Venter, Hungarian porn actress.
• 1977: Claudia Palacios, journalist and Colombian presenter.
• 1978: Leticia Cline, American model.
• 1979: Gilberto Martínez, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1981: Junior Baptist, Brazilian footballer.
• 1981: Silvio Dulcich, Argentine footballer.
• 1983: Juan Cominges, Peruvian footballer.
• 1983: Mirko Vučinić, footballer Montenegrin.
• 1984: Leandro Gioda, Argentine soccer player.
• 1984: Mónica Spear, Venezuelan actress and model, ex Miss Venezuela (f. 2014).
• 1985: Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian athlete.

Brie Larson

• 1985: Isis King, American transgender model.
• 1986: Ricardo Vaz Té, Portuguese footballer.
• 1986: Daniela Katzenberger, model and star of German telereality.
• 1986: Sayaka Kanda, Seiyū and Japanese singer (f. 2021).
• 1987: Matthew Daddario, American actor
• 1988: Cariba Heine, South African actress.
• 1989: Brie Larson, actress, director, screenwriter, American singer and youtuber.
• 1989: Guido Falaschi, an Argentine motor racing pilot (f. 2011).
• 1990: Hazal Kaya, Turkish actress.
• 1991: Chiara Molina, Peruvian actress.
• 1992: Xander Bogaerts, Austrian baseball player.
• 1993: Pablo Gállego Lardiés, Spanish footballer.
• 1997: Jade Bird, British singer.
• 1997: Mattia Vitale, Italian footballer.
• 2001: Luna Blaise, American actress.
• 2006: Priah Ferguson, American actress.

Deaths

• 1040: Alan III, British aristocrat (n. 997).
• 1189: Gerard de Ridefort, aristocrat french, master of templars (n. 1140).
• 1310: Beatriz de Borgoña, aristocrat french (n. 1257).
• 1404: Bonifacio IX, Italian potato (n. 1356).
• 1499: Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (n. 1433).
• 1567: Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (n. 1508).
• 1570: Frans Floris, flamenco painter (n. 1520).
• 1574: Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen, Dutch painter (n. 1498).
• 1578: John of Austria, Spanish military (n. 1545).
• 1602: Hernando de Cabezón, Spanish composer (n. 1541).
• 1684: Pierre Corneille, French playwright (n. 1606).
• 1693: Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (n. 1619).
• 1704: Cornelis Dusart, a Dutch painter (n. 1660).
• 1708: John Blow, British composer (n. 1649).
• 1847: Rafael Esteve, Spanish engraver (n. 1772).
• 1852: Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (n. 1823).
• 1864: Juan José Flores, Venezuelan military, founder of the Republic of Ecuador (n. 1800).
• 1866: Juan Vicente González, a Venezuelan romantic writer (n. 1810).
• 1873: Edwin Landseer, British painter (n. 1802).
• 1901: Abdur Rahman Khan, amir Afghan (n. 1844).
• 1911: Wilhelm Dilthey, philosopher, psychologist and German historian (n. 1833).
• 1919: Charlete of Prussia, German princess and duchess of Saxony-Meiningen (n. 1860).
• 1929: Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (n. 1861).
• 1943: Ksenia Konstantinova, Soviet military physician and Heroin of the Soviet Union (n. 1925).
• 1947: Gregorio Martínez Sierra, Spanish writer (n. 1881).
• 1959: Enrico De Nicola, an Italian politician (n. 1877).
• 1964: Ernst Toch, Austrian musician (n. 1887).
• 1972: Louis Leakey, archaeologist and British paleontologist (n. 1903).
• 1974: Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (n. 1901).
• 1975: Al Jackson, U.S. drummer, from the band Booker T. " the M.G.'s (n. 1935).
• 1977: Victorio Blanco, Mexican actor (n. 1893).
• 1980: Mercedes Agurcia, Honduran playwright (n. 1903).
• 1985: E. B. White, American writer and essayist (n. 1899).
• 1988: Sacheverell Sitwell, British writer (n. 1897).
• 1989: Manuel Clouthier, Mexican politician and businessman (n. 1934).
• 1990: John S. Bell, American physicist (n. 1928).
• 1990: Curtis LeMay, American General (n. 1906).
• 1992: Petra Kelly, German pacifist (n. 1947).
• 1994: André Lwoff, a French doctor, a nobel medical prize in 1965 (n. 1902).
• 1994: Paul Lorenzen, a German philosopher (n. 1915).
• 1997: Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (n. 1923).
• 1999: Juan de Arespacochaga, engineer and Spanish politician (n. 1920).
• 2001: Silvio Fernández Melgarejo, Spanish rock musician (n. 1944).
• 2003: Antonio Truyol and Serra, Spanish jurist (n. 1913).
• 2004: Richard Avedon, American photographer (n. 1923).
• 2004: Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician, Buffalo Springfield band (n. 1946).
• 2006: Yoshihiro Yonezawa, Japanese manga critic, co-founder and president of the Comiket (n. 1953).
• 2007: Al Oerter, American athlete (n. 1936).
• 2007: Maguba Sirtlanova, Soviet aviator (n. 1912)
• 2009: Cintio Vitier, Cuban poet and novelist (n. 1921).
• 2010: José Ángel Ezcurra, journalist and Spanish editor (n. 1921).
• 2012: Octavio Getino, Argentine filmmaker (n. 1935).
• 2012: Eric Hobsbawm, British historian (n. 1917).
• 2012: Dirk Bach, German actor and presenter (n. 1961).
• 2013: Tom Clancy, American writer (n. 1947).
• 2013: Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (n. 1938).
• 2013: Israel Gutman, Israeli historian (n 1923).
• 2013: Juan José Linz, American polytologist (n. 1926).
• 2015: Hadi Norouzi, Iranian footballer (n. 1985).
• 2016: Fernando Silva Espinoza, a Nicaraguan doctor and writer (n. 1927).
• 2017: Stephen Craig Paddock, assassin, author of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting (n. 1953).
• 2018: Charles Aznavour, French composer and actor (n. 1924).
• 2018: Do Muoi, Vietnamese politician, Vietnam's prime minister between 1988 and 1991.
• 2019: Karel Gott, Czech singer (n. 1939).
• 2020: Derek Mahon, North Irish poet (n. 1941).

Celebrations

• International Day of Disease of Gaucher
• International Day of Older Persons
• International Coffee Day
• World Vegetarian Day
• Child Day (El Salvador, Guatemala and Sri Lanka)
• Argentina:
  • Day of the Sea and the Pesquera Rice
• AzerbaijanAzerbaijan:
  • Fiscal Day
• BoliviaBolivia:
• National Tree Day
• CameroonCameroon:
  • Unification Day
• ChileChile:
  • Recruitment Officer Day
• ChinaChina:
  • National Day of the People ' s Republic of China
• CyprusCyprus:
  • Independence Day
• South KoreaSouth Korea:
  • Armed Forces Day
• EcuadorEcuador:
  • Day of the Ecuadorian Corridor
• El SalvadorEl Salvador:
  • National Fisheries Day
• SpainSpain:
  • Official Day of the Most Beautiful People of Spain
  • Alcubilla de Nogales (Zamora): Feast in honor of St.
  • Lucena del Cid (Castellón): Fiesta en honor de San Hermolao
• IndonesiaIndonesia:
  • Pancasila Holiness Day
• Mexico Mexico:
  • Architect's Day
• NigeriaNigeria:
  • Independence Day
• PalaesPalaos:
  • Independence Day
• Peru Peru:
  • Cocoa and Chocolate Day
  • Journalist Day
• United KingdomUnited Kingdom:
  • Lincolnshire Day
• Russia Russia:
  • Land Forces Day
• Tuvalu:
  • Independence Day
• UzbekistanUzbekistan:
  • Master's Day
• Venezuela Venezuela:
• Cocoa Day

Catholic saints list

• Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus (f. 1897), virgin and doctor of the Church.
• Saint Piaton of Seclin (s. III), priest and martyr.
• Santos Verísimo, Máxima and Julia de Lisboa (s. III), martyrs.
• Saint Roman of Constantinople (f. 500), deacon.
• Saint Niceius of Tréveris (f. 561), bishop and confessor.
• San Bavón de Ghent (f. 651), monk.
• San Wasnulfo de Condé (s. VII), monk.
• San Geraldo Edwards and Blesseds Roberto Wilcox, Cristóbal Buxton and Roberto Widmerpool (f. 1588), martyrs.
• Beatos Rodolfo Crockett and Eduardo James (f. 1588), priests and martyrs.
• Blessed Juan Robinson (f. 1588), priest and martyr.
• Beatos Gaspar Hikojiro and Andrés Yoshida (f. 1617), martyrs.
• Blessed Luis María Monti (f. 1900), founder.
• Beata Florence Caerols Martínez (f. 1936), virgin and martyr.
• Blessed Alvaro Sanjuán Canet (f. 1936), priest and martyr.
• Blessed Antonio Rewera (f. 1942), priest and martyr.