October 6

October 6th is the 279th (two hundred and seventy-ninth) day of the year—the 280th (two hundred and eightieth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days left to end the year.

Events

• 105 B.C.: The worst military disaster in the history of Rome happens: the battle of Arausio, in which two armies of the Republic are defeated by chisms and teutons. There were casualties above 100,000 men (12 legions, auxiliary troops, etc.).
• 69 B.C.: Third Mytrident War; again the excellent Roman strategist and tactical Lúculo defeats Tigranes the Great of the Kingdom of Armenia in the battle of Artaxata.
• 23: In the Chinese Empire, a group of rebels decapitate the usurper Wang Mang after two days of looting in the capital Chang'an. Han Dynasty is re-established, but the Empire continues in chaos for two more years.

Currency with the effigy of the Byzantine Empress Elia Eudoxia.

• 404: In Constantinople (Eastern Roman Empire), the Empress Elia Eudoxia—the wife of the Emperor Arcadia— died from an infection due to her seventh pregnancy, ending in abortion.
• 1406: On the Italian peninsula, the Republic of Pisa is absorbed by Florence.
• 1536: In Vilvoorde (in the Belgian region of Flanders, under the power of the Spanish) the Catholic Inquisition hangs the English Protestant translator William Tyndale, who had first translated the Bible He published thousands of copies in Germany and clandestinely introduced them in England.
• 1539: In the current Tallahassee (Florida State), the Spanish conqueror Hernando de Soto and his army enter into force in the city of Anhaica, the capital of the apalaches tribe, of 30,000 inhabitants.
• 1582: in Spain, Italy, Poland and Portugal, this day is skipped – between Thursday, October 4, 1582 and Friday, October 15 – due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar.
• 1600: in Florence (Italy) the work is released EuridiceJacopo Peri, the oldest opera known. This work indicates the beginning of the Baroque period in music.
• 1683: In the colony of Pennsylvania (United States), German immigrant families founded Germantown (“German Village”, currently a district of the city of Philadelphia); this was the largest German immigration in that country.
• 1723: In Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.
• 1750: In France, Denis Diderot writes the Prospectum, project on which the subsequent Encyclopedia.
• 1760: In the village of Sancti Spíritus the lobby opens, which will function as the first school in the village.
• 1762: In the Philippines—in the framework of the Seven Years War—the battle of Manila between Great Britain and Spain ends, the result of which is the British occupation of Manila during the rest of the war.
• 1789: In the framework of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI returned to Paris from Versailles after confronting the Parisian women the day before.
• 1810: In the village of Oruro (Bolivia), the uprising of 6 October is drawn up by Dr. Tomás Barrón against the Spanish domain.
• 1833: In Spain, infant Carlos María Isidro de Borbón is crowned as Carlos V of Spain, a date considered to be the beginning of the First Carlist War.
• 1849: execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian independence war.
• 1852: in Spain is created by Royal Order the Body of Telegraphs.
• 1854: In the northeast of England, a fire begins at midnight in Newcastle. At 3:10, a huge explosion transmits the fire to the neighboring population of Gateshead.
• 1856: In Masaya (Nicaragua), the San Jacinto battalion enters, under the command of Colonel José Dolores Estrada Vado, less than a month after having defeated the American filibusters in the battle of San Jacinto on 14 September.
• 1866: In the United States the first car is going.
• 1889: American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first film.
• 1891: in New York, United States, first published Simple Verses of Cuban writer and revolutionary José Martí.
• 1903: In Canberra the Supreme Court of Australia begins its functions.
• 1908: the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1910: In Greece, Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister for the first time.
• 1920: in Riga, the representatives of Russia and Poland sign peace, which moves the Polish border with Russia east.
• 1923: the victorious forces of World War I withdraw from Istanbul.
• 1927: New York is projected The jazz singerThe first sound movie.
• 1928: In the People's Republic of China, Chiang Kai-Shek is the new president.
• 1934: in Barcelona, Spain, Lluís Companys proclaims the Catalan State, within a non-existent Spanish Federal Republic, following the 1934 revolution.
• 1936: Decree 9 issued by Francisco Franco creates the War Secretariat in the rebel zone of Spain.
• 1939: End of the German invasion of Poland with surrender of the Polesian Army after the battle of Kock.
• 1940: the Florencio Sola Stadium, of the Banfield Athletic Club, is inaugurated.
• 1942 in the framework of the Second World War, the October offensive of Matanikau in Guadalcanal begins with the attack of American marines on the Japanese imperial army along the Matanikau River.
• 1943: Vela Labella naval battle between the American and Japanese marines.
• 1944: the beginning of the battle of Debrecen between the forces of the Axis and the Soviet Union.
• 1944: In the framework of World War II, the German city of Stralsund is bombed by 447 B-17 bombers, generating a thousand dead.
• 1948: In Asjabad (Turkmenistan, in the former Soviet Union) there is an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 in the Richter scale that leaves a balance of 110 000 (according to the 1988 report) and 178 000 victims (according to the 2007 report).
• 1956: in Spain, Francisco Franco inaugurates Pueblonuevo del Guadiana, whose construction had begun in 1948 as a result of the Badajoz Plan.
• 1958: in Cuba – in the framework of the Cuban Revolution – the commanders Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto Che Guevara cross the Trocha de Jucaro.
• 1959: in the stadium of Cerro (Havana) the small world series of baseballs between Cuba and the United States ends with the victory of the Cuban team Sugar Kings before the American Minneapolis. Majors Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos, Juan Almeida, American journalist Waldo Frank and other colleagues attended the meeting. Fidel says that “More than the present victory, this is a symbol for the future of what sports in Cuba will be.”
• 1961: in New York (United States), Cuba denounces to the Organization of American States (OAS) the U.S. plan to provoke the rupture of diplomatic relations of the Latin American governments with the island.
• 1962: on the Johnston atoll (in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), at 5:03 local time, the United States detonates its 11.3 kiloton Bumping atomic bomb, at 3050 meters high (let down from an airplane). It is the 263 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1071:Argentina. The ERP (Montoneros) commits an explosive attack in the federal court of Santa Fe
• 1973: Syria and Egypt attack Israel. The Yom Kippur war begins.
• 1975: in Rome, Italy, at 20:20, a group of Italian fascist mercenaries paid by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet ascribes to the exiled democratic exvice president of Chile, Bernardo Leighton (1909-1995), leaving him with serious wounds; his wife Anita Fresno (1915-2011) will be paraplegic.
• 1976: In Barbados, Cuban anti-Castro terrorists based in Miami, with the support of the U.S. CIA, attack with bombs against a Cubana de Aviación flight, which falls on the beach (apenas despigados), causing the death of all the occupants (73 persons), including members of the National Team of Egrima, who had achieved all the gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Championship in Caracas (Venezuela).
• 1976: In China, the new Prime Minister Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Four Band—Jiang Qing (the widow of Mao Zedong), Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen—. This ends the Cultural Revolution.
• 1976: in Bangkok, Thailand, students at the University of Thammasat have a day of protest against the return of the Thanom dictator. A coalition of right-wing paramilitaries and government forces murder more than 100 students (Masacre of Thammasat University).
• 1976: 201 meters underground, in the U2ef area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:30 (local time), the United States detonates its Gouda atomic bomb of 0.6 kilotons. It is the 872 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1977: in Alicante, Spain, a group of fascists attack militants and supporters of the Communist Party, killing one of them.
• 1977: the first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29 plane makes its baptism flight.
• 1978: in Iran, the Sah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi gives power to the military.
• 1979: Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 1981: In Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat is killed in a military parade.
• 1983: In Spain, the Congress of Deputies approved the bill of partial decriminalization of abortion.
• 1987: Fiyi becomes a republic.
• 1990: The United States launches Ulysses probe in order to study the Sun.
• 1992: Sweden launches the observation satellite of boreal auroras, Freja.
• 1994: In Zaragoza, Spain, the Auditorium of Zaragoza was opened, considered the best of that country for its acoustic characteristics.
• 1995: it is discovered that 51 Pegasi is the second star—after the Sun—that has an extrasolar planet orbiting around.
• 1996: In Valladolid, Spain, there is a fire of Seven discotheque, with four deaths.
• 1999: In Nicosia (Cyprus), the GSP Stadium (Gymnastic Association of All Chipriots) was opened.
• 1999: The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women is adopted.
• 2000: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Carlos Chacho Álvarez (1948-) resigns due to the anti-popular policies of President Fernando de la Rúa, which continues the neoliberal model of the menemato (1989-1999), which will lead to the 2001 crisis in Argentina.
• 2000: President Slobodan Milošević resigns in Yugoslavia.
• 2002: Pope John Paul II canonize Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (founder of Opus Dei).
• 2007: In London (United Kingdom), the British Jason Lewis completes the first circumnavigation of the balloon made exclusively with human force (without motors or sails: he used ground bikes and a pedal boat at sea). He had left on 12 July 1994, and travelled 74,842 km.
• 2010: Instagram is launched.
• 2012: House of Hardcore, Tommy Dreamer's wrestling company is inaugurated in the United States.
• 2022: In La Plata, Argentina, there is a confrontation between Gimnasia and Esgrima fans and the police. The result was more than 100 injured, hundreds affected by tear gas, one dead, the closed stadium and a judicial investigation.

Births

• 649: Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk', Maya ruler (f. 698).
• 1289: Wenceslaus III, king Bohemian (f. 1306).
• 1459: Martin Behaim, German merchant and geographer (f. 1507).
• 1552: Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit missionary (f. 1610).
• 1610: Charles de Sainte-Maure, a French military and aristocrat (f. 1690).
• 1671: Francisca Josefa del Castillo, a Colombian religious and writer (f. 1742).
• 1738: Mary Anna of Austria, Austrian aristocrat (f. 1789).
• 1767: Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (f. 1820).
• 1773: Luis Felipe I, French king (f. 1850).
• 1801: Lazare Hippolyte Carnot, a French politician (f. 1888).
• 1803: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, a German physicist (f. 1879).
• 1803: Miguel García Cuesta, Spanish bishop (f. 1873).
• 1808: Frederick VII, king dynamarquis (f. 1863).
• 1820: Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (f. 1887).
• 1822: Manuel A. Alonso, a Puerto Rican writer (f. 1889).
• 1823: Silverio Franconetti, Spanish flamenco singer (f. 1889).
• 1831: Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (f. 1916).
• 1834: Alfred Naquet, doctor, chemist and French politician (f. 1916).
• 1835: Soledad Román de Núñez, wife of Colombian President Rafael Núñez (f. 1928).

George Westinghouse.

• 1846: George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (f. 1914).
• 1847: Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor (f. 1921).
• 1849: Basil Zaharoff, Greek magnate (f. 1936).
• 1862: Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (f. 1927).
• 1866: Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (f. 1932).
• 1866: Nina Bang, Danish policy (f. 1928).
• 1877: Pachín de Melás, a Spanish writer (f. 1937).
• 1882: Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (f. 1937).
• 1886: Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist (f. 1960).

Le Corbusier.

• 1887: Le Corbusier (Charles E. Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect and painter (f. 1965).
• 1887: Martín Luis Guzmán, Mexican writer (f. 1976).
• 1889: Manuel Suárez Castro, a Spanish politician (f. 1937).
• 1888: Roland Garrós, French aviator (f. 1918).
• 1891: Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (f. 1946).
• 1898: Mitchell Leisen, American filmmaker (f. 1972).
• 1900: Ethel Mannin, British writer (f. 1984).
• 1902: Alicio Garcitoral, Spanish writer and politician (f. 2003).
• 1903: Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, Irish physicist, 1951 nobel physics award (f. 1995).
• 1905: Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (f. 1998).
• 1906: Janet Gaynor, American actress (f. 1984).
• 1907: Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican singer-songwriter (f. 1990).
• 1907: Luis Edgardo Llosa González-Pavón, Peruvian navy and political (f. 1993).

Carole Lombard.

• 1908: Carole Lombard, American actress (f. 1942).
• 1908: Serguéi Sóbolev, Russian mathematician (f. 1989).
• 1914: Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer and ethnographer (f. 2002).
• 1916: Pablo Palazuelo, painter, engraver and Spanish sculptor (f. 2007).
• 1921: Cristián Hernández Larguía, director of Argentine choir and musician (f. 2016).
• 1921: Yevgeniy Landis, Soviet mathematician (f. 1997).
• 1923: Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer (f.2015).
• 1927: Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (f. 2019).
• 1927: Bill King, American sportsman (f. 2005).
• 1928: Amaro Flores Sienra, rematter, teacher, writer and Uruguayan journalist (f. 2002).
• 1930: Hafez al-Assad, Syrian military, president between 1970 and 2000 (f. 2000).
• 1930: David Stivel, writer, producer and filmmaker from Argentina (f. 1992).
• 1931: Nikolái Chernyj, Soviet astronomer (f. 2004).
• 1931: Riccardo Giacconi, astrophysicist Iolo-American, nobel prize of physics in 2002 (f. 2018).
• 1935: Vicente Cantatore, Argentine-Chinese football coach.
• 1935: Ernesto Laclau, an Argentine polytologist and philosopher (f. 2014).
• 1935: Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional fighter.
• 1936: Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator and activist (f. 2013).
• 1937: Walter Belvisi, Uruguayan architect.
• 1937: Mario Capecchi, Iolo-American molecular geneticist, nobel medical prize in 2007.
• 1937: Carlos Bracho, Mexican actor.
• 1941: Luis Bassat, Spanish publicist.
• 1942: Britt Ekland, Swedish actress.
• 1943: Michael Durrell, American actor.
• 1944: José Carlos Pace, Brazilian Formula 1 pilot.
• 1945: Wayne Brabender, American Spanish basketball player.
• 1946: Tony Greig, South African cricket player (f. 2012).
• 1947: Patxi Andion, Spanish singer and actor.
• 1948: Gerry Adams, a Northern Irish politician.
• 1948: Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer.
• 1949: Jorge Velosa, is a Colombian singer who acquired recognition for being the co-initiator of the musical genre known as carranga.
• 1949: Bobby Farrell, American DJ and singer, from the Boney M band (f. 2010).
• 1949: Leslie Moonves, American businessman.
• 1950: David Brin, American writer of science fiction.
• 1951: Manfred Winkelhock, German racing driver.
• 1951: Amalia García, Mexican politics.
• 1954: Bill Bruford, American writer and journalist.
• 1954: David Hidalgo, American musician, of the band Los Lobos.
• 1954: Manuela de Madre, Spanish politics.
• 1954: Carlos Pérez Soto, Chilean philosopher.
• 1955: Paco Ojeda, Spanish bullfighter.
• 1958: Marcelo Zlotogwiazda, Argentine journalist.
• 1960: Richard Jobson, writer, rock singer and Scottish filmmaker from The Skids.
• 1960: Yves Leterme, Belgian politician.
• 1963: Jsu García, American actor.
• 1963: Paola Papini, an Argentine actress.

Elisabeth Shue.

• 1963: Elisabeth Shue, American actress.
• 1964: Ricky Berry, American basketball player (f. 1989).
• 1964: Matthew Sweet, American composer and guitarist, of the band Community Trolls, Oh-OK and The Thorns.
• 1966: Niall Quinn, Irish footballer.

Fito Cabrales.

• 1966: Fito Cabrales, singer, guitarist and Spanish composer, of the band Fito & Fitipaldis.
• 1966: Paco González, Spanish journalist.
• 1966: Jacqueline Obradors, American actress.
• 1966: Niall Quinn, Irish footballer.
• 1967: Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer.
• 1967: Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman.
• 1967: Bruno Bichir, Mexican actor.
• 1968: Xavier Escaich, Spanish footballer.
• 1968: Bjarne Goldbæk, Danish footballer.
• 1969: Adrienne Armstrong, American businessman and designer, co-founder of Adeline Records.
• 1970: Amy Jo Johnson, American actress.
• 1970: Corinna May, German singer.
• 1970: Rawdna Carita Eira, Norwegian writer.
• 1971: Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress.
• 1971: Takis Gonias, Greek footballer.
• 1971: Shinji Kawada, Japanese seiyū.
• 1972: Daniel Cavanagh, singer and British guitarist, of the band Anathema.
• 1972: Julieta Ortega, an Argentine actress.
• 1972: Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer.
• 1973: Ioan Gruffudd, British actor.
• 1973: Rebecca Lobo, basketball player and U.S. editor.
• 1974: Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1974: Jeremy Sisto, American actor and screenwriter.
• 1976: Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1976: Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese singer and actress.
• 1977: Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer.
• 1977: Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer.
• 1977: Wes Ramsey, American actor.
• 1977: Luis Carlos Vélez, journalist and Colombian economist.
• 1978: Pamela David, an Argentine actress and model.
• 1978: Carolina Gynning, Swedish model and actress.
• 1978: Ricky Hatton, British boxer.
• 1978: Oriol Vila, Spanish actor.
• 1979: David Di Tommaso, French footballer (f. 2005).
• 1980: Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (f. 2013).
• 1980: Abdoulaye Méïté, Ivory footballer.
• 1981: Claudia Álvarez, Mexican actress.
• 1981: Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer.
• 1981: José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1982: Levon Aronian, Armenian chess.
• 1982: William Butler, American musician, of the Arcade Fire band.
• 1982: Michael Frater, a Jamaican athlete.
• 1982: Bronagh Waugh, Irish actress.
• 1982: Takuya Sugi, Japanese fighter.
• 1983: David Limberský, Czech footballer.
• 1985: Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player.
• 1986: Tereza Kerndlová, Czech singer.

Olivia Thirlby.

• 1986: Olivia Thirlby, American actress.
• 1987: Egni Eckert, Paraguayan model.
• 1988: Austin Berry, American footballer.
• 1988: Kayky Brito, Brazilian actor.
• 1988: Maki Horikita, Japanese actress.
• 1989: Valeria Baroni, actress, singer, dancer and Argentine driver.
• 1989: Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (f. 2014).
• 1989: Pizzi, Portuguese footballer.
• 1990: Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress.
• 1990: Jynx Maze, American pornographic actress.
• 1991: Roshon Fegan, American actor.
• 1994: Joohoney, rapper, South Korean composer and producer, member of the group Monsta X.
• 1997: Justas Lasickas, Lithuanian footballer.
• 2000: Addison Rae, dancer and celebrity of the American Internet.

Deaths

• 23: Wang Mang, Chinese emperor (n. 45 B.C.).
• 404: Elia Eudoxia, Byzantine empress.
• 869: Ermentrudis of Orleans, French queen, wife of Carlos Calvo (n. 823).
• 877: Charles the Calvo, emperor of the Holy Roman German Empire and king of France (n. 823).

Samuel from Bulgaria.

• 1014: Samuel of Bulgaria, general and Bulgarian emperor (n. 958).
• 1101: Bruno de Cologne, founder of the Carthusians (n. 1030).
• 1214: Alfonso VIII of Castile, Spanish king (n. 1155).
• 1349: Joan II, queen navarra (n. 1311).
• 1542: Thomas Wyatt, British poet (n. 1503).
• 1553: Şehzade Mustafa, Ottoman prince, the firstborn son of Soliman the Magnificent (n. 1515).
• 1596: Florence de Mora, philanthropist and encomendera of Hispanic descent born in the current territory of Peru (n. 1536).
• 1644: Isabel de Borbón, queen consort of Spain, wife of Philip IV (n. 1602).
• 1660: Paul Scarron, French writer (n. 1610).
• 1762: Francesco Manfredini, violinist and Italian composer (n. 1684).
• 1769: Andrés Mayoral Alonso de Mella, Spanish bishop (n. 1685).
• 1819: Carlos Manuel IV, king sardo (n. 1751).
• 1836: Johannes Jelgerhuis, a Dutch painter (n. 1770).
• 1891: Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish political leader (n. 1846).
• 1892: Alfred Tennyson, British poet (n. 1809).
• 1912: Auguste Beernaert, Belgian jurist and politician, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909 (n. 1829).
• 1918: Manuel J. Calle, politician, journalist, writer and Ecuadorian historian (n. 1866).
• 1919: Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer (n. 1833).
• 1936: José Galán Hernández, Spanish writer; assassinated (n. 1893).
• 1936: Valère Bernard, poet, sculptor and French engraver (n. 1860).
• 1940: Michitarō Komatsubara, a Japanese military officer (n. 1885).
• 1940: Adolfo Lutz, Brazilian physician and scientist (n. 1855).
• 1951: Will Keith Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg Cereal Company (n. 1860).
• 1951: Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physiologist, nobel medical prize in 1922 (n. 1884).
• 1958: Klavdia Fomicheva, Soviet military aircraft (n. 1917)
• 1959: Bernard Berenson, American historian (n. 1865).
• 1962: Tod Browning, American filmmaker (n. 1880).
• 1973: Sidney Blackmer, American actor (n. 1895).
• 1973: François Cevert, a French motor vehicle pilot (n. 1944).
• 1974: Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian automotive pilot (n. 1948).
• 1975: Henry Calvin, actor, lyric singer and texan comedian, Sergeant Garcia The Fox (n. 1918).
• 1976: Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (n. 1900).
• 1979: Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (n. 1911).
• 1980: Hattie Jacques, British actress (n. 1922).
• 1980: Jean Robic, French cyclist (n. 1921).

Anwar el-Sadat.

• 1981: Anwar Sadat, Egyptian politician, 3rd President, Nobel Peace Prize (n. 1918).
• 1983: Terence Cooke, American Cardinal (n. 1921).
• 1985: Nelson Riddle, American musician (n. 1921).
• 1988: Severiano Briseño, Mexican musician and composer (n. 1902).

Bette Davis.

• 1989: Bette Davis, American actress (n. 1908).
• 1991: Mané Bernardo, plastic artist, theatre director and Argentine puppeteer (n. 1913).
• 1992: Denholm Elliott, British actor (n. 1922).
• 1999: Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese actress and singer (n. 1920).
• 1999: Gorilla Monsoon, American fighter (n. 1937).
• 2000: Richard Farnsworth, American actor (n. 1920).
• 2002: Nicholas of Amsberg, German diplomat (n. 1926).
• 2004: Marvin Santiago, Puerto Rican singer and actor (n. 1947).
• 2006: Josep Fauli, journalist, writer and Spanish literary critic (n. 1932).
• 2006: Antoni Gutiérrez Díaz, Spanish politician (n. 1929).
• 2006: Eduardo Mignogna, filmmaker and Argentine writer (n. 1940).
• 2006: Wilson Tucker, American writer (n. 1914).
• 2007: José Gibert Clos, Spanish paleontologist (n. 1941).
• 2008: Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (n. 1985).
• 2009: Douglas Campbell, Canadian actor (n. 1922).
• 2010: Piet Wijn, Dutch hysterist (n. 1929).
• 2012: Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian politician, third president (n. 1929).
• 2012: Antonio Cisneros, Peruvian poet (n. 1942).
• 2012: León Londoño Tamayo, entrepreneur and leader of Colombian football (n. 1929).
• 2013: Paul Rogers, British actor (n. 1917).
• 2014: Igor Mitoraj, Polish sculptor (n. 1944).
• 2017: Connie Hawkins, American basketball player (n. 1942).
• 2018:
  • Scott Wilson, American actor (n. 1942).
  • Montserrat Caballé, Spanish singer (n. 1933).
• 2019: Ginger Baker, British musician (n. 1939).
• 2020: Eddie Van Halen, Dutch musician (n. 1955).

Celebrations

• Logistics Day
• International Day of Geodiversity
• Commemorations related to the Yom Kipur War:
  • EgyptEgypt: Armed Forces Day
  • SyriaSyria: Tishreen Liberation Day
• Slovakia Slovakia:
  • Dukla Pass Victims Day
• SpainSpain:
  • Garganta de los Montes (Madrid): Fiesta en honor de la Virgen de los Prados
  • La Cartuja de Monegros (Sariñena, Huesca): Fiesta en honor de Santa Fe
  • Oropesa de Mar (Castellón): Feast in honor of the Virgin of Patience
  • Rauric (Llorach, Tarragona): Festival in honour of Santa Fe
  • San Fulgencio (Alicante): Feast in honor of the Virgin of the Remedies
  • Zaldivia (Guipuzcoa): Festival in honor of Santa Fe
• United States:
  • German-American Day
• HungaryHungary:
  • Memorial Day of the Martyrs of Arad
• Sri LankaSri Lanka:
  • Master's Day
• Turkmenistan:
  • Day of Conmemoration and National Duel
• Venezuela Venezuela
• Politologist's Day

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