Events
996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
1179 – Phillip II is crowned King of France.
1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus royalists.
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
1604 – William Shakespeare s tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – William Shakespeare s romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
1683 – The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1755 – Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.
1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1800 – US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1802 – Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio to form a state constitutional convention.
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1861 – American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1876 – New Zealand s provincial government system is dissolved.
1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes s Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1896 – A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific.
1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous stupidity or treason speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.
1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
1937 – Stalinists executed by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan s Lutheran community (including three women).
1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed the match of the century in horse racing.
1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1942 – Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro. Australia joins the United Nations.
1946 – The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66.
1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses The Miracle of the Sun while at the Vatican.
1950 – Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
1951 – Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to Desert Rock atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation was not voluntary.
1952 – Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed Mike [M for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
1956 – Formation of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh with its capital as Hyderabad, formerly known as Nizam state.
1956 – Formation of Kerala state in India.
1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world s longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan s upper and lower peninsulas.
1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
1961 – 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America s film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1970 – A fire at a dance hall in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 144 young people.
1973 – Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1973 – The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu .
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1991 – Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
1993 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
2005 – First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in Canada.

Births
846 – Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (d. 879)
1339 – Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
1351 – Duke Leopold III of Austria (d. 1386)
1526 – Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of Sweden and duchess of Finland (d. 1583)
1530 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
1539 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
1549 – Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
1567 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
1578 – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1585 – Jan Brozek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
1607 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
1611 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
1629 – St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
1636 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
1643 – John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
1661 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
1704 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
1720 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
1727 – Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
1762 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)
1778 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1782 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)
1808 – John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
1847 – Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
1860 – Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
1862 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1941)
1871 – Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
1872 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (d. 1946)
1877 – Roger Quilter, British composer (d. 1953)
1878 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
1878 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
1880 – Sholom Asch, Polish-born American writer (d. 1957)
1880 – Grantland Rice, American sports writer (d. 1954)
1880 – Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)
1881 – Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
1886 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
1887 – L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
1889 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1982)
1892 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian-born chess player (d. 1946)
1898 – Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960)
1902 – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
1903 – Max Adrian, Irish actor (d. 1973)
1903 – Edward Carji Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
1905 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
1906 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
1911 – Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
1914 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006)
1920 – James Kilpatrick, American journalist
1920 – Ted Lowe, English former snooker commentator
1921 – John W. Peterson, American songwriter (d. 2006)
1923 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001)
1923 – Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
1924 – Jean-Luc Pépin, French Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1924 – Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey
1926 – Lou Donaldson, American jazz alto saxophonist
1928 – Emmaline Henry, American actress (d. 1979)
1929 – Betsy Palmer, American actress
1929 – Nicholas Mavroules, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (d. 2003)
1930 – A. R. Gurney, American playwright
1932 – John Clark, English-born actor/director
1932 – Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1934 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
1934 – Gillian Knight, English mezzo-soprano
1934 – William Mathias, British composer (d. 1992)
1935 – Gary Player, South African golfer
1935 – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
1936 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
1937 – Bill Anderson, American country music singer and songwriter
1939 – Barbara Bosson, American actress
1940 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
1940 – Barry Sadler, American singer (d. 1989)
1941 – Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
1942 – Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher
1942 – Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta
1942 – Marcia Wallace, American actress
1943 – Salvatore Adamo, popular singer
1943 – John McEnery, English actor
1943 – Jacques Attali, French economist
1944 – Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
1944 – Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager and commentator
1946 – Ric Grech, English rock bassist (Family, Ginger Baker s Air Force, Traffic) (d. 1990)
1946 – Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
1946 – Lynne Russell, ex-CNN news anchor
1947 – Jim Steinman, American songwriter
1948 – Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 – Michael D. Griffin, NASA chief administrator
1950 – Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1950 – Dan Peek, American guitarist (America)
1951 – Ronald Bell, American singer and saxophonist (Kool & the Gang)
1951 – Fabrice Luchini, French actor
1953 – Jan Davis, American astronaut
1955 – Beth Leavel, American musical theatre actress
1955 – Mike Mendoza, British radio personality
1957 – Lyle Lovett, American singer
1957 – Peter Ostrum, American actor
1957 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (d. 1988)
1958 – Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter
1958 – Jim Steinmeyer, Illusion creator
1958 – Rachel Ticotin, American actress
1960 – Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player
1961 – Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish writer and novelist
1961 – Calvin Johnson, American musician (Beat Happening, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System)
1961 – Kim Krizan, American screenwriter
1961 – Nicky Grist, WRC Co-Driver
1962 – Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 – Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian guitarist and keyboardist (a-ha)
1963 – Rick Allen, British drummer (Def Leppard)
1963 – Kenny Alphin, American guitarist (Big & Rich)
1963 – Monty Sopp, American professional wrestler
1963 – Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer
1964 – Daran Norris, American actor
1964 – Dana Plato, Americian actress (d. 1999)
1966 – Barbara Becker, German actress; ex-wife of Boris Becker
1966 – Willie D, American hip hop artist, famous for being a member of The Geto Boys
1966 – Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (d. 2002)
1967 – Sophie B. Hawkins, American musician
1967 – Tina Arena, Australian singer
1967 – Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
1968 – Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor
1969 – Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 – Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier
1972 – Jenny McCarthy, American Playmate of the Year and TV actress
1972 – Toni Collette, Australian actress
1972 – Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer
1973 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress and Miss World, 1994.
1973 – Assia, Algerian singer
1973 – Geoff Horsfield, English footballer
1974 – V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer
1975 – Bo Bice, American singer
1975 – Scott Skippy Chapman, American musician
1976 – Matt Chapman, American cartoonist and voice actor
1976 – Logan Marshall-Green, American actor
1978 – Manju Warrier, Indian actress
1978 – Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
1978 – Jessica Valenti, American feminist writer and blogger
1979 – Coco Crisp, American baseball player
1979 – Delgado, Angolan footballer
1979 – Milan Dudic, Serbian footballer
1979 – Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
1979 – Dave Hampton, Tahoe Outdoorsman
1982 – Michael Copon, American actor
1983 – Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
1983 – Josh Wicks, American soccer player
1983 – Jon Wilkin, English rugby league footballer
1984 – Natalia Tena, English actress
1985 – Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
1986 – Penn Badgley, American actor
1988 – Ross Montague, English football Player
1997 – Alex Wolff, American musician and actor

Deaths
921 – Richard, Duke of Burgundy
955 – Henry I, Duke of Bavaria
1296 – Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1391 – Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
1399 – John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1546 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter
1588 – Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
1596 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1642 – Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
1676 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
1678 – William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
1700 – Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
1814 – Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1888 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1894 – Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
1903 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
1907 – Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)
1942 – Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
1947 – Man o War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
1955 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
1962 – Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
1968 – George Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1888)
1972 – Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
1979 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
1982 – King Vidor, American film director (b. 1894)
1982 – James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)
1983 – Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (b. 1887)
1985 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)
1986 – Serge Garant, French-Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
1987 – René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
1993 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1993 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
1994 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
1999 – Theodore Alvin Hall, American atomic spy (b. 1925)
1999 – Jean Coutu, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
1999 – Walter Payton, American football player (b. 1954)
2000 – Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
2004 – Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
2004 – Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
2005 – Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (b. 1918)
2005 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2006 – William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
2006 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress (b. 1966)
2007 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
2007 – S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
2008 – Nathaniel Mayer, American soul musician (b. 1944)
2008 – Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)
2008 – Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (b. 1922)

Holidays and observances
Mexico- Day of the Dead celebrations begin.
Roman festivals – last day of the Ludi Victoriae Sullanae.
Catholicism – Holy Day of Obligation, All Saints Day. Holiday in Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta (for schools only), Mauritius, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.
Algeria – National day
Antigua and Barbuda – Independence Day (from Britain, 1981)
Ireland – Samhain the traditional first day of Winter
World Vegan Day
November 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Events
475 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.
1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
1587 – Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Mexican Empire.
1861 – American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army.
1863 – The Maori Wars resumes as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.
1864 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
1876 – A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Beersheba – last successful cavalry charge in history.
1918 – Banat Republic is founded
1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia.
1924 – World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
1936 – The Boy Scouts of the Philippines is formed.
1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Britain ends – the United Kingdom prevents a German invasion.
1941 – After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
1941 – A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, England kills 49
1943 – World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
1954 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.
1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
1961 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin s body is removed from Lenin s Tomb.
1963 – An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people during an ice skating show. The explosion also injures 400. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand was blamed.
1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam effective November 1.
1973 – Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard.
1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots soon break out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 Sikhs are killed.
1986 – The 5th congress of the Communist Party of Sweden is inaugurated. During the course of the congress the party name is changed to the Solidarity Party and the party ceases to be a communist party.
1994 – An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 68 passengers and crew.
1996 – A Fokker F100 operating as TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes into several houses in São Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground.
1997 – 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, is sentenced to life in prison.
1998 – Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.
1999 – Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
1999 – Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
2000 – A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and four crew members.
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50.
2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas formally indicts former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
2003 – A bankruptcy court approves MCI s reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.
2003 – Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir s 22 years in power.

Births
1291 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (d. 1361)
1345 – King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)
1391 – King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
1424 – King Wladislaus III of Poland (d. 1444)
1538 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (d. 1607)
1599 – Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680)
1620 – John Evelyn, English diarist (d. 1706)
1622 – Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694)
1632 – (baptism) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter (d. 1675)
1636 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1679)
1692 – Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765)
1705 – Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
1711 – Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (d. 1778)
1724 – Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)
1737 – James Lovell, American educator (d. 1789)
1795 – John Keats, British poet (d. 1821)
1815 – Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (d. 1897)
1825 – Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal (d. 1892)
1827 – Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895)
1831 – Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)
1835 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1835 – Krišjanis Barons, Latvian writer (d. 1923)
1838 – King Louis of Portugal (d. 1889)
1848 – Boston Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1851 – Lovisa of Sweden, queen of Denmark (d. 1926)
1860 – Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts (d. 1927)
1875 – Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (d. 1954)
1875 – Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950)
1879 – Sara Allgood, Irish actress (d. 1950)
1883 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (d. 1956)
1887 – Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, former Republic of China president (d. 1975)
1887 – Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1970)
1888 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (d. 1944)
1892 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (d. 1946)
1895 – Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (d. 1970)
1896 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (d. 1977)
1902 – Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1950)
1912 – Dale Evans, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1912 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (d. 2008)
1914 – Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (d. 1988)
1914 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (d. 1995)
1916 – Carl Johan Bernadotte, formerly Prince of Sweden
1917 – Thomas Hill, Canadian actor
1918 – Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)
1919 – Magnus Wenninger, American priest, author of Polyhedron models
1920 – Dick Francis, Welsh novelist
1920 – Joseph Gelineau French composer (d. 2008)
1920 – Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (d. 1957)
1920 – Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004)
1920 – Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)
1922 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)
1922 – Anatoli Papanov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
1922 – Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist (d. 2004)
1922 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
1925 – John Pople, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1926 – Jimmy Savile, English entertainer
1927 – Lee Grant, American actress
1928 – Cleo Moore, American actress (d. 1973)
1929 – Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (d. 2004)
1929 – Bud Spencer, Italian actor
1930 – Michael Collins, American astronaut
1931 – Dan Rather, American television journalist
1933 – Phil Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 – Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
1937 – Tom Paxton, American singer-songwriter
1939 – Ron Rifkin, American actor
1939 – Tom O Connor, British comedian
1939 – Alui Farka Touré, Malian musician (d. 2006)
1941 – Derek Bell, British racing driver
1941 – Dan Alderson, American scientist
1942 – Dave McNally, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1942 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor
1943 – Paul Frampton, English physicist
1943 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (d. 1970)
1944 – Kinky Friedman, American musician and novelist
1944 – Sally Kirkland, American actress
1945 – Brian Doyle-Murray, American comedian and actor
1945 – Russ Ballard, English rock singer/songwriter, guitarist (Argent)
1946 – Stephen Rea, Irish actor
1946 – Norman Lovett, British actor
1947 – Deidre Hall, American actress
1947 – Frank Shorter, American runner
1948 – Michael Kitchen, British actor
1949 – Bob Siebenberg, American drummer (Supertramp)
1950 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
1950 – Jozef Stolorz, Polish art painter
1950 – Jane Pauley, American news anchor
1950 – Zaha Hadid, British architect
1950 – Antonio Taguba, US Army Major General
1951 – Nick Saban, American college football coach
1951 – Dave Trembley, Major League Baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles)
1952 – Bernard Edwards, American bass guitarist (Chic) (d. 1996)
1953 – Michael J. Anderson, American actor
1953 – John Lucas II, American basketball player and coach
1954 – Ken Wahl, American actor
1956 – Anders Lago, Swedish Social Democratic politician
1957 – Robert Pollard, American rocker (Guided by Voices)
1957 – Brian Stokes Mitchell, American singer and actor
1958 – Jeannie Longo, French cyclist
1959 – Neal Stephenson, American author
1959 – Mats Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
1960 – Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rican delegate to Congress
1960 – Arnaud Desplechin, French film director
1960 – Mike Gallego, American baseball player
1960 – Reza Pahlavi, former crown prince of Iran
1961 – Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
1961 – Larry Mullen, Irish drummer (U2)
1961 – Alonzo Babers, American runner
1961 – Kate Campbell, American musician
1963 – Mikkey Dee, Swedish musician, drummer for Motörhead
1963 – Dunga, Brazilian footballer and manager
1963 – Johnny Marr, English guitarist and songwriter (The Smiths, Modest Mouse)
1963 – Fred McGriff, American baseball player
1963 – Dermot Mulroney, American actor
1963 – Rob Schneider, American actor
1964 – Colm Ó Cíosóig, Irish drummer (My Bloody Valentine, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions)
1964 – Marco van Basten, Dutch footballer and manager
1964 – Marty Wright, American professional wrestler
1964 – Darryl Worley, American country singer
1965 – Denis Irwin, Irish footballer
1965 – Annabella Lwin, British singer (Bow Wow Wow)
1965 – Rob Rackstraw, voice actor
1966 – Adam Horovitz (Adrock), American rapper (Beastie Boys)
1966 – Koji Kanemoto, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 – Joseph Boyden, Canadian novelist
1966 – Mike O Malley, American actor
1967 – Vanilla Ice, American rapper
1968 – Antonio Davis, American basketball player
1969 – David Coburn, American actor/voice actor
1970 – Nicky Wu, Taiwanese actor and martial arts expert
1970 – Linn Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1970 – Rogers Stevens, American guitarist (Blind Melon)
1970 – Mitch Harris, American guitarist (Napalm Death, among others)
1970 – Johnny Moeller, American blues guitarist
1970 – Steve Trachsel, American baseball player
1971 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (d. 2004)
1971 – Ian Walker, English footballer
1971 – Toby Anstis, British radio presenter
1972 – Shaun Bartlett, South African footballer
1972 – Matt Dawson, English rugby union footballer
1973 – Tim Byrdak, American baseball player
1973 – David Dellucci, American baseball player
1973 – Grigorios Georgatos, Greek footballer
1973 – Beverly Lynne, American erotic film actress
1974 – Muzzy Izzet, Turkish footballer
1974 – Natasja Saad, Danish hip hop and reggae artist (d. 2007)
1975 – Fabio Celestini, Swiss footballer
1976 – Guti, Spanish footballer
1976 – Piper Perabo, American actress
1977 – Sylviane Félix, French athlete
1977 – Séverine Ferrer, French singer
1978 – Emmanuel Izonritei, Nigerian boxer
1978 – Zachary Knighton, American actor
1978 – Martin Verkerk, Dutch tennis player
1979 – Saaphyri Windsor, American reality tv figure
1979 – Simão Sabrosa, Portuguese footballer
1979 – Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican footballer
1980 – Eddie Kaye Thomas, American actor,
1980 – Samaire Armstrong, American actress
1980 – Marcel Meeuwis, Dutch footballer
1980 – Alondra de la Parra, Mexican founder and artistic director of the New York-based Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas
1981 – Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer
1981 – Frank Iero, American musician (My Chemical Romance, Leathermouth, Pencey Prep; founder of Skeleton Crew (record label))
1981 – Selina (Jiaxuan) Ren, Taiwanese singer (S.H.E)
1981 – Jon Crocker, American songwriter
1981 – Lollie Alexi Devereaux, French actress & writer
1982 – Jordan Bannister, Australian rules footballer
1982 – Tomáš Plekanec, Czech ice hockey player
1982 – Gabriela Irimia, Romanian/British singer (The Cheeky Girls)
1982 – Monica Irimia, Romanian/British singer (The Cheeky Girls)
1982 – Justin Chatwin, Canadian actor
1983 – Katy French, Irish model (d. 2007)
1986 – Christie Hayes, Australian actress
1986 – Chris Alajajian, Australian racing driver
1986 – Brent Corrigan, American pornographic actor
1988 – Jack Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer
1988 – Sébastien Buemi, Swiss racing driver
1990 – Lil JJ, American comedian
1991 – Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
2000 – Willow Smith, American actress
2005 – Infanta Leonor of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and Letizia, Princess of Asturias

Deaths
1147 – Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (b. c.1090)
1214 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1162)
1448 – John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390)
1517 – Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
1641 – Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer (b. 1597)
1659 – John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602)
1723 – Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
1732 – Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (b. 1666)
1733 – Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
1744 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
1765 – Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721)
1768 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
1860 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
1879 – Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
1879 – Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)
1883 – Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj (b. 1824)
1884 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
1913 – William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
1916 – Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah s Witnesses (b. 1852)
1918 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
1920 – Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
1925 – Max Linder, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883)
1926 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
1929 – António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
1939 – Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (b. 1884)
1952 – U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
1959 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
1972 – Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1975 – SD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1906)
1983 – George Halas, American football player, coach, and team owner (b. 1895)
1984 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
1984 – Eduardo de Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1985 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
1985 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
1985 – Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1918)
1986 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1896)
1987 – Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (b. 1904)
1988 – John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and director (b. 1902)
1988 – Alfred Pellan, Québécois painter (b. 1906)
1991 – Joseph Papp, American theatrical producer (b. 1921)
1991 – Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1993 – Federico Fellini, Italian director (b. 1920)
1993 – River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)
1995 – Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
1996 – Marcel Carné, French film director (b. 1906)
1998 – Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
1999 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
2000 – Watanabe Kazuki Japanese musician (Raphael) (b. 1981)
2000 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2001 – Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970)
2002 – Lionel Poilâne, French baker and entrepreneur (b. 1945)
2002 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, former president of Greece (b. 1903)
2002 – Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
2003 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908)
2003 – Richard Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919)
2005 – Mary Wimbush, English actress (b. 1924)
2005 – John Beatz Holohan, American drummer (Bayside) (b. 1974)
2005 – Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)
2006 – Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916)
2007 – Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union footballer (b. 1951)

Holidays and observances
Halloween
Cornwall, United Kingdom – Allantide
Slovenia and Protestant Church– Reformation Day
Roman Catholic Saints – October 31 is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
St. Arnulf
St. Bega
St. Quentin
St. Urban
St. Wolfgang
Orthodox Church
Abaidas
Celts – Samhain
Neopaganism – Samhain in the northern hemisphere, Beltane in the southern hemisphere (or on November 1)

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Events
637 – Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge.
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1340 – Battle of Rio Salado.
1470 – Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
1485 – Henry VII of England is crowned.
1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans were in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
1502 – Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time.
1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864 – Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at Last Chance Gulch.
1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain s first television transmitter.
1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses The Miracle of the Sun while at the Vatican.
1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield to reduce fallout over the Soviet Union.
1961 – Because of violations of Lenin s precepts, it is decreed that Joseph Stalin s body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin s tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
1972 – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
1973 – The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain s acting head of state, taking over for the country s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969 s Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
1988 – Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for U.S. $13.1 billion.
1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
1995 – Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
2000 – The last Multics machine is shut down.
2002 – British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom.
2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

Births
1218 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
1513 – Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
1624 – Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
1735 – John Adams, President of the United States (d. 1826)
1751 – Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
1762 – André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
1799 – Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)
1844 – Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
1847 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
1873 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
1882 – William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
1882 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
1886 – Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
1887 – Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
1893 – Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
1894 – Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
1897 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
1898 – Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
1900 – Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)
1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963)
1908 – Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
1914 – Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
1914 – Anna Wing, English actress
1915 – Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
1916 – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1917 – Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
1917 – Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
1917 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
1922 – Jane White, American actress and singer
1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
1927 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1930 – Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
1930 – Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
1931 – Vince Callahan, American politician
1932 – Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
1932 – Barun De, Indian historian
1934 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
1935 – Michael Winner, British film director
1935 – Jim Perry, American baseball player
1935 – Robert Caro, American biographer
1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
1937 – Claude Lelouch, French film director
1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1939 – Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
1939 – Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
1940 – Ed Lauter, American actor
1941 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1941 – Otis Williams, American singer
1943 – Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor
1946 – Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia)
1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
1948 – Rusty Goffe, British actor
1951 – Harry Hamlin, American actor
1953 – Charles Martin Smith, American actor
1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress
1957 – Kevin Pollak, American actor
1957 – Andy Archer, Scottish dramatist
1958 – Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
1958 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
1958 – Ramona d Viola, American cyclist
1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
1961 – Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
1962 – Courtney Walsh, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
1963 – Michael Beach, American actor
1963 – Kristina Wagner, American actress
1964 – Howard Lederer, American poker player
1964 – Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi Writer & Journalist
1966 – Scott Innes, American voice actor
1967 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Gavin Rossdale, English musician
1968 – Jack Plotnick, American actor
1969 – Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
1970 – Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
1970 – Tory Belleci, American TV Mythbuster
1970 – Nia Long, American actress
1970 – Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
1970 – Ben Bailey, American host of the game show Cash Cab
1971 – Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
1971 – Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch hockey-international
1973 – Adam Edge Copeland, Canadian wrestler
1973 – Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
1973 – Michael Oakes, English footballer
1975 – Ian D Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent
1975 – Maria Thayer, American actress
1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
1976 – Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player
1977 – Jason Adelman, American actor
1977 – Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international
1978 – Martin Dossett, American football player
1978 – Amanda Swafford, American model
1979 – Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
1979 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
1980 – Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
1980 – Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model
1981 – Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
1981 – Ian Snell, American baseball player
1982 – Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
1982 – Manny Parra, American baseball player
1983 – Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
1983 – Trent Edwards, American Football Player
1984 – Eva Marcille, American model and actress
1984 – Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
1987 – Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress
1989 – Nastia Liukin, American gymnast
1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor

Deaths
1459 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
1522 – Jean Mouton, French composer
1553 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1611 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
1626 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
1632 – Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
1654 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
1680 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
1685 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1816 – Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
1842 – Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
1853 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
1883 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
1893 – John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1894 – Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1899 – William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
1912 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
1915 – Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1917 – Talbot Mercer Papineau (b. 1883)
1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
1957 – Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
1963 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (b. 1908)
1966 – Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
1968 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
1968 – Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
1968 – Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
1969 – Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1979 – Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
1979 – Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
1985 – Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
1987 – Joseph Campbell, Comparative Mythologist and Writer (b. 1904)
1988 – T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
1993 – Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
1997 – Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
2002 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2004 – Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
2005 – Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
2005 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
2006 – Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
2007 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
2007 – Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
2007 – Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (b. 1965)
2007 – John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)
2008 – Pedro Pompilio Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)

Holidays and observances
Calendar of Saints – October 30th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
Alonso Rodríguez
St. Artemas
St. Herbert
St. Marcellus the Centurion
St. Saturninus
Serapion of Antioch
United States – Mischief Night in some areas (known as Devil s Night in Michigan)
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions in post-Soviet states

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Events
437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius
969 – Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
1268 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
1422 – Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
1467 – Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1658 – Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1665 – Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga.
1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (?) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1787 – Mozart s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
1863 – Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1881 – Judge (U.S. magazine) is first published.
1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1913 – Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German revolution.
1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1921 – Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA.
1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1922 – The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of 29 or Black Tuesday, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1941 – Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the Great Action.
1942 – Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany s persecution of Jews.
1944 – Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
1945 – Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1948 – Safsaf massacre
1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 – Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1957 – Israel s prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel s parliament, the Knesset.
1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1961 – Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the Republic of Tanzania.
1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is Murph the surf) from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1967 – London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
1967 – Montreal s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966).
1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base s Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1983 – Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, The Netherlands.
1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
1988 – Pakistan s General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as Governor of Sindh, following the efforts by President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated.
1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
1998 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
1998 – The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden claims 63 lives and injures 200.
1999 – A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2004 – In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
2005 – 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
2007 – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is elected the first woman President of Argentina.
2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines. Creating the world s largest airline, and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.

Births
1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1656 (O.S.) – Edmond Halley, English astronomer (d. 1742)
1682 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
1690 – Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
1704 – John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
1740 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
1815 – Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1815 – Ludovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856)
1822 – Mieczyslaw Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
1827 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
1855 – Paul Bruchési, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939)
1861 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1875 – Marie of Edinburgh, queen of Romania (d. 1938)
1877 – Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (d. 1973)
1877 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966)
1879 – Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941)
1879 – Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1969)
1880 – Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (d. 1960)
1882 – Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
1891 – Fanny Brice, American singer (d. 1951)
1897 – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)
1899 – Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (d. 1972)
1906 – Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer (d. 1972)
1907 – Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (d. 1998)
1910 – Alfred Ayer, British philosopher (d. 1989)
1915 – William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005)
1917 – Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
1918 – Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007)
1920 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
1920 – Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic
1921 – Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1922 – Neal Hefti, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
1923 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
1923 – Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete
1925 – Dominick Dunne, American author
1925 – Robert Hardy, English actor
1926 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
1930 – Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
1930 – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1930 – Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
1930 – Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
1931 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor
1935 – Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director
1936 – Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
1938 – Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist
1938 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
1940 – Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
1940 – Connie Mack, U.S. Senator from Florida
1940 – José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Catholic bishop
1942 – Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)
1943 – Don Simpson, American film producer (d. 1996)
1944 – Denny Laine, English musician (Moody Blues, Ginger Baker s Air Force, Wings)
1944 – Otto Wiesheu, German minister
1944 – Claude Brochu, Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos)
1946 – Peter Green, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1946 – Lynn Carey, American actress and singer (Mama Lion)
1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
1947 – Helen Coonan, Australian politician
1948 – Kate Jackson, American actress
1949 – James Williamson, American guitarist
1949 – Paul Orndorff, American professional wrestler
1950 – Abdullah Gul, Turkish President
1951 – Dirk Kempthorne, American politician
1953 – Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (d. 2007)
1955 – Roger O Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1955 – Boy Abunda, Filipino journalist and television personality
1956 – Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican boxer
1957 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor, Best known as the voice of Homer Simpson
1958 – David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker
1958 – Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter
1959 – Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 – Finola Hughes, British actress
1961 – Randy Jackson, American musician
1961 – Joel Otto, National Hockey League player
1962 – Einar Örn Benediktsson, Icelandic musician (The Sugarcubes)
1964 – Yasmin Le Bon, British model
1964 – Eddie McGuire, Australian television presenter
1967 – Joely Fisher, American actress
1967 – Beth Chapman, Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter
1967 – Rufus Sewell, English actor
1968 – Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater
1968 – Tsunku, Japanese music producer
1969 – Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer
1969 – Eleni Menegaki, Greek TV presenter
1970 – Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer
1970 – Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer
1971 – Winona Ryder, American actress
1971 – Daniel J. Bernstein, American professor
1971 – Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
1972 – Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur
1972 – Gabrielle Union, American actress
1972 – Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress
1973 – Robert Pirès, French footballer
1973 – Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
1975 – Kelly Lin, Chinese actress
1976 – Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer
1976 – Milena Govich, American actress
1976 – Mohsen Emadi, Iranian poet
1977 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
1978 – Travis Henry, American football player
1979 – Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan politician
1980 – Ben Foster, American actor
1980 – B.J. Sams, American football player
1981 – Amanda Beard, American swimmer
1981 – Jonathan Brown, Australian Australian rules footballer
1981 – Reema Sen, Indian actress
1982 – Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress
1982 – Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1983 – Maurice Clarett, American football player
1983 – Dana Eveland, American baseball player
1983 – Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
1983 – Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish racing driver
1984 – Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Severino Jefferson, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer
1990 – Carlson Young, American actress

Deaths
1038 – Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 – Boleslaw III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 – Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1590 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (b. 1522)
1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554)
1650 – David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 – James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1783 – Jean le Rond d Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
1829 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (b. 1751)
1877 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
1905 – Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1911 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
1919 – A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1932 – Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)
1933 – Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
1933 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (b. 1853)
1939 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1941 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1949 – G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1950 – King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
1953 – William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 – Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
1957 – Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1958 – Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
1963 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
1971 – Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
1971 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1981 – Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)
1986 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1987 – Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913)
1995 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1997 – Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1998 – Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
1999 – Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
2002 – Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2003 – Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
2003 – Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921)
2004 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
2004 – Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
2004 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
2006 – Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
2008 – Mike Baker, American singer Shadow Gallery (b. 1963)

Holidays and observances
R.C. Saints – October 29th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem
St. Abraham of Rostov
Douai Martyrs
St. Maximillian
St. Gaetano Errico
Anglican Church – James Hannington
Turkey – Republic Day (1923)
Coronation Day of Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia

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Events
306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
312 – Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor.
1061 – Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II
1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
1531 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad s control.
1538 – The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
1628 – The Siege of La Rochelle, which had been lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
1664 – The Duke of York and Albany s Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
1834 – The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
1864 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1891 – The Mino-Owari Earthquake, the largest earthquake in Japan s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
1893 – Tchaikovsky s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its premiere performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer s death.
1918 – World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
1918 – New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe) is established.
1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
1922 – March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
1936 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
1940 – World War II: Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece s entry into World War II. It is celebrated in Greece as Okhi Day (???=No) Day.
1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
1954 – The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands is re-founded as a federal monarchy.
1959 – The Buffalo Bills oficially enter the American Football League. They would later become a present day National Football League team as part of the AFL-NFL Merger.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
1965 – Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III s 760 year-old declaration.
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
1971 – Britain launches its first (and as of 2007, only) satellite, Prospero, into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket.
1982 – Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) wins elections, leading to first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and makes peace overtures to the United States; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1986 – The centenary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated in New York Harbor.
1998 – An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
2006 – Funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.

Births
1510 – Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)
1585 – Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop (d. 1638)
1667 – Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740)
1691 – Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)
1697 – Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)
1767 – Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1852)
1793 – Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1837 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan s last shogun (d. 1913)
1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
1846 – Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935)
1864 – Adolfo Camarillo, prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher (d. 1958)
1875 – Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
1877 – Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
1879 – Channing H. Cox, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
1881 – Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (d. 1969)
1881 – Vin Coutie, Australian footballer
1884 – William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (d. 1967)
1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
1889 – Juliette Béliveau, Quebec comedian (d. 1975)
1891 – Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (d. 1920)
1892 – Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954)
1896 – Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
1897 – Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
1901 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (d. 1979)
1902 – Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (d. 1986)
1903 – Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
1907 – John Harold Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987)
1908 – Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (d. 1995)
1909 – Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (d. 1992)
1912 – Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (d. 2005)
1914 – Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d. 1995)
1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1914 – Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)
1917 – Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
1922 – Gershon Kingsley, German composer
1922 – Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
1922 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003)
1924 – Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (d. 1996)
1925 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006)
1926 – Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
1927 – Dame Cleo Laine, British singer
1928 – Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
1929 – Joan Plowright, British actress
1929 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988)
1929 – John Hollander, American poet
1930 – Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports impresario (F1)
1932 – Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
1932 – Spyros Kyprianou, a President of Cyprus
1933 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
1935 – Alan Clarke, British film director
1936 – Charlie Daniels, American musician
1936 – Carl Davis, American-born musical conductor and composer
1937 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
1938 – David Dimbleby, English television commentator
1938 – Anne Perry, English-born novelist
1939 – Jane Alexander, American actress
1939 – Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslav gymnast
1940 – Susan Harris, American television writer and producer
1941 – John Hallam, Irish actor (d. 2006)
1941 – Hank Marvin, English guitarist
1941 – Curtis Lee, American singer
1942 – Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
1943 – Conny Froboess, German singer
1943 – Charo López, Spanish actress
1944 – Dennis Franz, American actor
1944 – Anton Schlecker, German billionaire
1944 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986)
1945 – Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (d. 2006)
1945 – Wayne Fontana, British singer (The Mindbenders)
1946 – Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach
1946 – John Hewson, Australian politician
1948 – Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1949 – Bruce Jenner, American athlete
1949 – Tracy Reed, American actress
1950 – Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
1950 – Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
1952 – Annie Potts, American actress
1953 – Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman and hockey executive
1955 – Bill Gates, American software executive
1956 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
1956 – Dave Wyndorf, American singer (Monster Magnet)
1957 – Stephen Morris, British musician (Joy Division and New Order)
1960 – Landon Curt Noll, Astronomer, Cryptographer and Mathematician: youngest to hold the world record for the largest known prime 3 times
1958 – William Reid, Scottish musician (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
1962 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
1962 – Scotty Nguyen, professional poker player
1962 – Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer
1963 – Lauren Holly, American actress
1963 – James Miller, the Fan Man (d. 2002)
1963 – Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer
1965 – Jami Gertz, American actress
1965 – Luigi Miraglia, Italian Latinist
1966 – Steve Atwater, American football player
1966 – Andy Richter, American comedian and actor
1966 – Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician
1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress
1967 – John Romero, American video game designer
1967 – Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
1967 – Kevin Macdonald, Scottish film director
1968 – Marc Lièvremont, French rugby union footballer and coach
1969 – Ben Harper, American musician
1969 – Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
1972 – Terrell Davis, American football player
1972 – Brad Paisley, American musician
1973 – Alvin Burke, Jr., American professional wrestler
1974 – Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican actor
1974 – Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer
1974 – Braden Looper, American baseball player
1974 – Dejan Stefanovic, Serbian footballer
1974 – Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and beauty queen
1976 – Karl Tremblay, Canadian singer (Les Cowboys Fringants)
1976 – Keiron Cunningham, Welsh rugby league player
1978 – Marta Etura, Spanish actress
1978 – Justin Guarini, American singer
1979 – Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer (The Rasmus)
1979 – Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
1980 – Alan Smith, English footballer
1980 – Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
1980 – Kanzi, American literate bonobo
1980 – Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
1981 – Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
1981 – Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
1982 – Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
1982 – Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer
1982 – Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
1983 – Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
1984 – Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
1984 – Amanda Paige, American model
1994 – Naelee Rae, American actress
1996 – Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress

Deaths
312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c.278)
1225 – Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
1312 – Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1412 – Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
1520 – Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1627 – Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)
1639 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1646 – William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1661 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
1676 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
1704 – John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
1708 – Prince George of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)
1716 – Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
1740 – Empress Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
1763 – Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
1768 – Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
1792 – John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
1800 – Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1818 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1857 – Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1877 – Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
1900 – Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer, music critic and teacher (b. 1850)
1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1939 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
1952 – Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
1965 – Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1969 – Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920)
1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1973 – Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
1975 – Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1986 – John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
1987 – André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
1997 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
1998 – Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
2000 – Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
2000 – Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969)
2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2001 – Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
2002 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
2002 – Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
2004 – Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
2005 – Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
2005 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
2005 – Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
2005 – Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2005 – Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2005 – Ljuba Tadic, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
2006 – Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
2006 – Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
2007 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances
Czech Republic – Independence Day (from Austria-Hungary, 1918)
Slovakia – Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State (independence from Austria-Hungary, 1918)
Greece – Okhi (No) Day (marking the refusal of Greece to submit to Italy and the Axis Powers, 1940)
Gifu Prefecture, Japan – Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day
October 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Christian feast days
Lord of Miracles – Peruvian catholic festivity
Abdias of Babylon
Abgar V of Edessa
St. Eadsin
St. Fidelis of Como
Saint Faro
Saint Godwin
Saint Job of Pochayiv
Saint Jude (a.k.a Saint Thaddaeus or of James)
St. Simon the Zealot (erroneously a.k.a. the Canaanite)

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Events
312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
710 – Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
939 – Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1524 – Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
1806 – The French Army enters Berlin.
1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
1916 – Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country s annexation to the South African Union.
1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
1948 – Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
1953 – British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
1954 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
1961 – NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1962 – Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as A Time for Choosing.
1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1973 – The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
1981 – The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as Big Bang.
1990 – Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic s first president.
1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States Don t ask, don t tell military policy.
1994 – The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
1995 – Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
1995 – Former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activates its circuit breakers twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.
1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
2005 – Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.

Births
1156 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
1401 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
1466 – Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
1728 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
1744 – Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
1760 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
1811 – Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
1811 – Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
1814 – Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
1838 – John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
1854 – Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys Brigade (d. 1914)
1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
1865 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
1873 – Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
1885 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
1894 – Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
1896 – Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
1904 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
1906 – Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
1910 – Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
1911 – Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
1915 – Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
1917 – Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress
1920 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
1922 – Michel Galabru, French actor
1922 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
1924 – Ruby Dee, American actress
1925 – Albert Medwin, American inventor
1925 – Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State (1993–1997)
1926 – H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter
1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General
1931 – Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
1932 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
1933 – Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
1934 – Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
1937 – Lara Parker, American actress
1939 – John Cleese, British actor and writer
1940 – John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
1941 – Dick Trickle, American auto racer
1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer
1943 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor
1945 – Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
1945 – John Kane, actor/writer
1946 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
1946 – Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
1949 – Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
1949 – Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American writer
1951 – K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
1951 – Nancy Jacobs, American politician
1951 – Éric Morena, French singer
1952 – Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
1953 – Peter Firth, British actor
1953 – Robert Picardo, American actor
1954 – Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
1955 – Debra Bowen, American politician
1956 – Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
1956 – Veronica Hart, American porn actress
1957 – Jeff East, American actor
1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
1958 – Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
1960 – Tom Nieto, American baseball player
1963 – Marla Maples, American actress and model
1963 – Farin Urlaub, German singer and guitarrist (Die Ärzte)
1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger
1967 – Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
1968 – Vinny Samways, English footballer
1970 – Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
1971 – Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
1971 – Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
1972 – Lee Clark, English footballer
1972 – Elissa (singer), Lebanese singer
1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
1972 – Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
1972 – Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete
1973 – Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1975 – Zadie Smith, British novelist
1977 – Jirí Jarosík, Czech footballer
1977 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
1980 – Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
1980 – Cassia Riley, American model
1981 – Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
1981 – Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
1982 – Patrick Fugit, American actor
1982 – Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
1982 – Keri Hilson, American singer, songwriter
1983 – Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
1983 – Martin Prado, Major League baseball player (Atlanta Braves)
1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
1984 – Brady Quinn, American football player
1984 – Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
1984 – Bam Doyne, American Basketball player
1986 – Matty Pattison, English footballer
1987 – Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
1987 – Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (Disputed)
1987 – Victor Genev, Bulgarian Football Player
1989 – Erik Kloeker, American juggler.

Deaths
939 – King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
1271 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
1331 – Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
1430 – Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
1439 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
1449 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
1573 – Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
1605 – Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (b. 1542)
1617 – Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1789 – John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1917 – Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
1935 – E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
1942 – Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
1949 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
1949 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
1962 – Rudolf Anderson, United States Air Force pilot and officer (b. 1927)
1968 – Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
1975 – Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
1977 – James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
1980 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
1980 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
1990 – Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
1990 – Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
1991- George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
1992 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
1996 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
1996 – Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
2000 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2002 – Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
2003 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
2004 – Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 – Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)

Holidays and observances
Turkmenistan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Independence Day (from Britain, 1979)
R.C. saints – October 27th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
Abban of Magheranoidhe
Abban of New Ross
St. Elesbaan
St. Frumentius, the saint who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia.

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The Federalist Papers published in New York City; President Theodore Roosevelt i...

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Events
306 – Martyrdom of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
740 – An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and many deaths.
1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
1689 – General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1776 – Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1825 – The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
1859 – The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
1860 – Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
1861 – The Pony Express officially ceased operations.
1863 – The Football Association is formed.
1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
1905 – Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
1912 – First Balkan War: The capital city of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, is unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany.
1917 – World War I:Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
1918 – Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.
1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, was sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.
1943 – World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends.
1947 – The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
1948 – Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
1951 – Boxer Joe Louis comes out of retirement to fight Rocky Marciano. However, Marciano would win the fight in eight rounds.
1954 – Trieste return to Italy.
1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
1955 – Ngô Ðình Di?m declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
1959 – The world sees the far side of the Moon for the first time.
1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1965 – The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs).
1977 – The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
1978 – Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
1984 – Baby Fae receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
1992 – The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
1992 – The London Ambulance Service was thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Despatch, system which failed.
1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
1995 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
1999 – Britain s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain s upper chamber of Parliament.
2000 – Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï. Bret Hart retires.
2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.

Births
1427 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
1473 – Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
1491 – Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
1609 – William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
1673 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian prince, linguist, and scholar (d. 1723)
1684 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
1685 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
1694 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
1757 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
1759 – Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
1768 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
1794 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
1795 – Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (d. 1872)
1797 – Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (d. 1865)
1800 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
1802 – King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1803 – Joseph Hansom, English architect and inventor (d. 1882)
1842 – Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1849 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
1854 – C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
1865 – Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
1869 – Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
1871 – Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (d. 1941)
1873 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
1874 – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, socialite and philanthropist (d. 1948)
1874 – Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
1880 – Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
1883 – Napoleon Hill, American Writer and Philosopher (Think and Grow Rich)(d. 1970)
1883 – Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
1888 – Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934)
1899 – Judy Johnson Hall of Fame baseball player in the Negro Leagues (d. 1989)
1902 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (d. 1994)
1905 – George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal (d. 1989)
1906 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967)
1911 – Sid Gilman, American football player (d. 2003)
1911 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
1911 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
1912 – Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
1913 – Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1991)
1914 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
1915 – Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
1916 – François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
1919 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
1921 – George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968)
1925 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch author (d. 2007)
1928 – Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artists
1929 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
1934 – Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia)
1936 – Shelley Morrison, American actress
1941 – Charlie Landsborough, Singer/Songwriter
1942 – Bob Hoskins, British actor
1945 – Pat Conroy, American writer
1945 – Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author
1946 – Pat Sajak, American game show host
1946 – Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress
1946 – Keith Hopwood, British musician (Herman s Hermits)
1947 – Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator
1947 – Jaclyn Smith, American actress
1947 – Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
1947 – Ian Ashley, British racing driver
1948 – Toby Harrah, American Major League Baseball player
1949 – Steve Rogers, Major League Baseball pitcher
1949 – Antonio Carpio, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1949 – Kevin Sullivan, American professional wrestler
1951 – Bootsy Collins, American musician (P Funk)
1951 – Julian Schnabel, American filmmaker
1952 – Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate
1953 – Rosa Monckton, notable charity fundraiser
1953 – Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52 s)
1954 – Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer
1956 – Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman
1956 – Rita Wilson, American actress
1957 – Bob Golic, American football player
1959 – Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
1959 – François Chau, Cambodian actor
1959 – Paul Farmer, American Anthropologist
1959 – Brian Bovell, British actor
1960 – June Brigman, American comic book artist
1961 – Dylan McDermott, American actor
1961 – Gerald Malloy, American politician
1962 – Cary Elwes, British actor
1963 – Natalie Merchant, American singer
1963 – Ted Demme, American film and television director (d. 2002)
1964 – Thomas Cavanagh, Canadian actor
1965 – Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer
1965 – Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer.
1966 – Jane Hajduk, American actress
1966 – Steve Valentine, British actor
1966 – Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
1966 – Masaharu Iwata, Japanese composer
1967 – Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
1968 – Lisa Ryder, American actress
1970 – Dian Bachar, American actor
1971 – Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor
1973 – Seth MacFarlane, American animator
1973 – Taka Michinoku , Japanese professional wrestler
1974 – LISA, Japanese musician
1974 – Raveena Tandon, Indian actress
1976 – Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
1977 – Jon Heder, American actor
1977 – Bakar Ibor, Comorian footballer
1978 – Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer
1978 – Mark Barry, English musician (BBMak)
1978 – CM Punk, American professional wrestler
1978 – Eva Kaili, Greek TV presenter and politician
1979 – Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (d. 2002)
1980 – Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
1981 – Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
1981 – Sam Brown, American comedian
1982 – Adam Carroll, British racing driver
1983 – Dmitri Sychev, Russian football player
1983 – Francisco Liriano, Major League Baseball pitcher
1983 – Luke Watson, South African rugby player
1984 – Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
1984 – Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
1984 – Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
1984 – Amanda Overmyer, American Singer, American Idol (season 7)
1985 – Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
1985 – Monta Ellis, American basketball player
1985 – Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress

Deaths
899 – Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849)
1235 – King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
1440 – Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
1633 – Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1671 – Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 – William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1679 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1717 – Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1751 – Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1764 – William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 – Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 – John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1864 – Bloody Bill Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 – John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1890 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
1896 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1909 – Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1841)
1930 – Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 – Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1937 – Józef Dowbór-Musnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian children s writer (b. 1904)
1943 – Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 – William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 – Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1945 – Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1947 – Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 – Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1956 – Walter Gieseking, French pianist (b. 1895)
1957 – Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
1957 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
1962 – Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902)
1965 – Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 – Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1971 – Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 – Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (b. 1889)
1978 – Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (b. 1904)
1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
1984 – Gus Mancuso, baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 – Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 – Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1993 – Oro, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1971)
1994 – Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929)
1995 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
1995 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (b. 1909)
1997 – Joe Cinque, Australian civil engineer murdered by Anu Singh (b. 1978)
1999 – Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2002 – Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2002 – Movsar Barayev, Chechen terrorist (b. 1979)
2004 – Bobby Avila, Mexican-American Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
2005 – Keith Parkinson, American fantasy artist (b. 1958)
2005 – George Swindin, English football player manager (b. 1914)
2006 – Tillman Franks, American songwriter (b. 1920)
2006 – Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2007 – Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2007 – Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007 – Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
2007 – Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
2008 – Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
2008 – Delmar Watson, American child actor (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances
Roman festivals – first day of Ludi Victoriae Sullanae (until 1 November)
October 26th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Saints:
St. Albinus
St. Alfred the Great
St. Cedd
St. Cuthbert of Canterbury
St. Demetrius (aka St. Dimitrios) of Thessaloniki
St. Fulk (Roman Catholic only)
St. Quadragesimus
Austria – National Day: Anniversary of the Declaration of Neutrality (1955)
Nauru – Angam Day

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Events
1147 – The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1315 – Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle.
1415 – The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the Western Australian coast.
1747 – British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
1760 – George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1813 – War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
1828 – The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
1854 – The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange was created.
1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1917 – Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party s hopes of re-election.
1935 – Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
1936 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1938 – The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as a degenerated musical system… turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people, warning that it leads down a primrose path to hell.
1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
1944 – The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard O Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship s own torpedo.
1944 – The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation.
1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.
1945 – The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan s surrender to the Allies.
1962 – Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba
1970 – The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley was found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare.
1971 – The United Nations seated the People s Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations)
1972 – The Washington Post reports that White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was the fifth person to control a secret cash fund designed to finance illegal political sabotage and espionage during the 1972 presidential election campaign (see also Watergate scandal).
1977 – Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
1983 – Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup d état.
1991 – History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People s Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
1992 – Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
1993 – Jean Chrétien becomes Prime Minister of Canada with a massive majority for his Liberal Party in a general election in which the governing Progressive Conservatives, led by Kim Campbell, lost 149 of 151 seats in the parliament.
1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1997 – After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
2004 – Fidel Castro, Cuba s President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.
2007 – The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ 380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia.

Births
1102 – William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)
1330 – Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
1510 – Renée of France, french princess (d. 1574)
1683 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
1759 – Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
1759 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, British politician (d. 1834)
1767 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
1772 – Geraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813)
1782 – Levi Lincoln, Jr., 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
1802 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
1806 – Max Stirner, German philosopher (d. 1856)
1811 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1825 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
1838 – Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
1856 – Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
1864 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
1864 – John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
1867 – Józef Dowbór-Musnicki, Polish general (d. 1937)
1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
1886 – Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
1888 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (d. 1957)
1888 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
1889 – Abel Gance, French film director (d. 1981)
1889 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
1891 – Father Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest and pro-Fascist radio broadcaster (d. 1979)
1895 – Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
1902 – Henry Steele Commager, American historian (d. 1998)
1902 – Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
1903 – Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
1903 – Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
1908 – Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)
1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
1912 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian and singer (d. 1996)
1913 – Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
1914 – John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
1915 – Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
1917 – Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive
1921 – King Michael I of Romania
1923 – Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
1924 – Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
1926 – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter
1926 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
1927 – Barbara Cook, American singer and actress
1927 – Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay
1928 – Marion Ross, American actress
1928 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
1931 – Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
1931 – Annie Girardot, French actress
1932 – Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
1933 – Eugene Porky Lee, American child actor (d. 2005)
1935 – Russell Schweickart, astronaut
1936 – Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian
1939 – Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and producer (d. 2005)
1940 – Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
1941 – Helen Reddy, Australian singer
1941 – Anne Tyler, American novelist
1944 – Jon Anderson, English singer (Yes)
1944 – James Carville, American political stategist and commentator
1945 – Peter Ledger, Austrailian artist (d. 1994)
1947 – Glenn Tipton, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
1948 – Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
1948 – Daniel Mark Epstein, American poet and biographer
1948 – Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
1948 – Dan Issel, American basketball player
1949 – Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 – Chris Norman, English singer
1951 – Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television)
1952 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1954 – Mike Eruzione, American hockey player
1955 – Robin Eubanks, American jazz trombonist
1955 – Glynis Barber, English actress
1955 – Matthias Jabs, German guitarist (Scorpions)
1957 – Nancy Cartwright, American actress
1958 – Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer
1958 – Phil Daniels, English actor
1961 – Ward Burton, American auto racer
1961 – Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 – Nick Hancock, British television presenter
1962 – Darlene Vogel, American actress
1963 – Tracy Nelson, American actress
1964 – Michael Boatman, American actor
1964 – Nicole, German singer
1964 – Kevin Michael Richardson, American actor
1965 – Þorsteinn Bachmann, Icelandic actor
1965 – 2 Cold Scorpio, American professional wrestler
1966 – Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Perry Satullo, American professional wrestler
1969 – Josef Beranek, Czech ice hockey player
1969 – Nika Futterman, American voice actress
1969 – Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer
1970 – J.A. Adande, American sports columnist
1970 – Peter Aerts, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist
1970 – Adam Goldberg, American actor
1970 – Adam Pascal, American actor
1970 – Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 – Simon Charlton, English footballer
1971 – Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
1971 – Midori Goto, Japanese violinist
1971 – Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
1971 – Neil Fallon, Lead singer of Clutch (band)
1972 – Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor
1974 – Lee Byung-Kyu, South Korean baseball player
1975 – Ryan Clement, former XFL quarterback
1975 – Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian musician
1976 – Steve Jones, Irish footballer
1977 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer
1978 – Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
1979 – Milena Roucka, Canadian former model current professional wrestler of Czech and Costa Rican descent.
1979 – Rob Hulse, English footballer
1979 – Sarah Thompson, American actress
1979 – Tony Torcato, American baseball player
1980 – Mehcad Brooks, American actor and former model
1981 – Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
1981 – Josh Henderson, American actor and singer
1981 – Jerome Isaac Jones, American singer
1981 – Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist (Hinder)
1982 – Jerome Carter, American football player
1982 – Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
1983 – Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
1983 – Tim McGarigle, NFL player
1984 – Danny .S., English record producer
1984 – Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
1984 – Katy Perry, American singer
1985 – Ciara Harris, American singer
1985 – Kara Lynn Joyce, American swimmer and olympian
1986 – DJ Webstar, American disc jockey
1986 – Eddie Gaven, American footballer
1987 – Darron Gibson, Irish football player
1987 – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast and Olympic medallist
1988 – Shane Edwards, Australian rules footballer
1995 – Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
2001 – Princess Elisabeth of Belgium

Deaths
304 – Pope Marcellinus (martyred)
625 – Pope Boniface V
1047 – King Magnus I of Norway (b. 1024)
1154 – King Stephen of England (b. 1096)
1200 – Conrad of Wittelsbach, German Archbishop
1230 – Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1180)
1400 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
1415 – Killed in the Battle of Agincourt:
Charles d Albret, Count of Dreux and Constable of France
John I of Alençon (b. 1385)
Antoine, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384)
Frederick of Lorraine (b. 1371)
Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389)
Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (b. 1394)
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (b. 1373)
1492 – Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish Catholic bishop
1495 – King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
1514 – William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and statesman (b. 1431)
1555 – Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar (b. 1526)
1557 – William Cavendish, English politician (b. 1505)
1633 – Jean Titelouze, French organist
1647 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
1683 – William Scroggs, Lord Chief Justice of England
1733 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)
1757 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (b. 1672)
1760 – George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
1826 – Philippe Pinel, French psychiatrist (b. 1745)
1833 – Abbas Mirza, prince of Persia (b. 1789)
1852 – John C. Clark, American politician (b. 1793)
1889 – Émile Augier, French dramatist (b. 1820)
1895 – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (b. 1819)
1910 – Willie Anderson, Scottish-born golfer (b. 1878)
1920 – King Alexander I of Greece (b. 1893)
1921 – Bat Masterson, American journalist and lawman (b. 1853)
1938 – Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (b. 1892)
1945 – Robert Ley, Nazi German leader (b. 1890)
1953 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (b. 1867)
1955 – Sadako Sasaki atomic bomb victim (b. 1943)
1957 – Albert Anastasia, Italian-born gangster (b. 1902)
1957 – Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (b. 1878)
1960 – Harry Ferguson, farm equipment manufacturer (b. 1884)
1963 – Roger Désormière, French conductor (b. 1898)
1965 – Eduard Einstein, son of Albert Einstein (b. 1910)
1973 – Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
1973 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (b. 1932)
1976 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (b. 1903)
1980 – Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
1985 – Gary Holton, English actor (b. 1952)
1986 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (b. 1919)
1991 – Bill Graham, American rock promoter (b. 1931)
1992 – Roger Miller, American musician and composer (b. 1936)
1993 – Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer/songwriter (b. 1958)
1993 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
1994 – Kara Spears Hultgreen, American naval pilot (b. 1965)
1994 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
1995 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
1995 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-born actress (b. 1920)
1999 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
2002 – Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930)
2002 – Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (b. 1944)
2002 – René Thom, French mathematician (b. 1923)
2003 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Founder Swadhyay Movement (b. 1920)
2003 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1925)
2003 – Robert Strassburg, American composer (b. 1915)
2004 – John Peel, British disc jockey (b. 1939)
2005 – Wellington Mara, American football team owner (b. 1916)
2006 – Danny Rolling, American murderer (b. 1954) (executed)
2008 – Anne Pressly, American news anchor (b. 1982)

Holidays and observances
R.C. Saints feast days:
Saints Chrysanthus and Daria
Saints Crispin and Crispian
Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy
French Republican Calendar – Betterave (Beetroot) Day, fourth day in the Month of Brumaire
Grenada – Thanksgiving Day (commemorates Invasion of Grenada)
Kazakhstan – Republic Day
Taiwan – Retrocession Day (1945)
Virgin Islands – Thanksgiving Day
Romania – Day of the Romanian Army

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Events
69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
1147 – After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques, reconquered Lisbon.
1260 – The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years War.
1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years War.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world s first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1911 – Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
1917 – Battle of Caporetto starts on the Austro-Italian front of World War I
1917 – The day of the October revolution, The Red Revolution.
1926 – Harry Houdini s last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1929 – Black Thursday stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
1930 – A bloodless coup d état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as provisional president.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
1935 – Italy invades Ethiopia
1944 – World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1945 – Founding of the United Nations
1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1947 – Walt Disney testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union s Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony)
1973 – Yom Kippur War ends
1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
1980 – Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi was helped by Syrian officials.
1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian stay-behind clandestine paramilitary NATO army.
1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
2004 – 10 people, including 4 family members of Rick Hendrick, are killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway. The plane was owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports.
2006 – Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the motive clause, an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act.
2008 – Bloody Friday saw many of the world s stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

Births
51 – Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1378 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402)
1632 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
1710 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
1763 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
1788 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879)
1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer (d. 1885)
1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
1855 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
1857 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969)
1872 – Peter O Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957)
1875 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
1882 – Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (d. 1976)
1887 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
1887 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (d. 1969)
1891 – Rafael Molina-Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
1894 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987)
1896 – Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981)
1901 – Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
1904 – Moss Hart, American dramatist (d. 1961)
1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
1909 – Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
1911 – Sonny Terry, American blues musician (d. 1986)
1911 – Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993)
1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
1915 – Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1915 – Roger Milliken, American millionaire
1915 – Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988)
1919 – Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008)
1920 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
1923 – Denise Levertov, English-born poet (d. 1997)
1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player
1926 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (d. 2008)
1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor (d. 1992)
1927 – Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001)
1929 – George Crumb, American composer
1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004)
1929 – Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977)
1930 – J.P. Richardson, The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959)
1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian peace researcher
1930 – Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Norman Rush, American writer
1935 – Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and music professor
1936 – Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1937 – Santo Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
1941 – William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer
1943 – Bill Dundee, American professional wrestler
1944 – Viktor Prokopenko, Ukranian footballer and coach (d. 2007)
1945 – Anthony Christian, English artist
1945 – Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive
1946 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (d. 1993)
1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor
1948 – Paul and Barry Ryan, British composers-singers
1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American politician and activist
1949 – Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer
1950 – Steven Greenberg, American composer
1950 – Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
1954 – Brad Sherman, American politician
1954 – Thomas J. Mulcair, Quebec politician
1954 – Mike Rounds, American politician, current governor of South Dakota
1954 – Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician
1956 – Dale Maharidge, American author
1956 – Jeff Merkley, American politician
1957 – Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager
1957 – John Kassir, American actor and comedian
1957 – Walter Rehberg, Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer (b. 1900)
1959 – Anthony Waller, Lebanese film director
1960 – Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer
1960 – B.D. Wong, American actor
1960 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
1960 – Joachim Jo Winkelhock, German race car driver
1960 – Dennis Anderson, American monster truck driver (Grave Digger)
1961 – Mary Bono, American politician
1961 – Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
1962 – Dave Blaney, American race car driver
1962 – Jay Novacek, American football player
1963 – John Hendrie, Scottish footballer
1965 – Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek politician
1966 – Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
1967 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
1968 – Robert Wilonsky, American journalist
1969 – Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
1970 – Rob Leslie-Carter, British engineer and project manager
1971 – Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
1971 – Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
1972 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
1972 – Scott Peterson, American murderer
1972 – Pat Williams, American football player
1973 – Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
1973 – Madlib, American musician and rapper
1973 – Mike Matthews, American baseball player
1973 – Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
1973 – Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer
1974 – Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
1974 – Corey Dillon, American football player
1974 – Jamal Mayers, hockey player
1975 – Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
1976 – Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
1977 – Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
1978 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
1978 – Justin Lee Brannan, American musician
1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 – James Killian, American football player
1980 – Monica, American singer
1980 – Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
1980 – Zac Posen, American fashion designer
1980 – Casey Wilson, American comic actress (Saturday Night Live)
1981 – Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
1981 – Tila Tequila, American model
1982 – Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian racing driver
1982 – Macay McBride, American baseball player
1983 – Brian Vickers, American race car driver
1983 – Adrienne Bailon, American actress and singer
1984 – Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer
1984 – Felicia Chin, Singaporean actress
1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
1986 – Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper
1986 – John Ruddy, English footballer
1987 – Charlie White, American ice dancer
1987 – Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
1987 – Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
1989 – Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
1989 – Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress

Deaths
996 – King Hugh Capet of France (b. 938)
1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
1375 – King Valdemar IV of Denmark (b. c.1320)
1537 – Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508)
1572 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (b. c.1508)
1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
1669 – William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
1672 – John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
1708 – Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
1799 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
1821 – Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1852 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
1875 – Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer (b. 1817)
1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
1912 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
1915 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
1922 – George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1935 – Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)
1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
1944 – Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician and convicted traitor, by execution (b. 1887)
1948 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1964 – Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer, first winter ascent of the Eiger North Face (b. 1931)
1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (b. 1919)
1972 – Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
1975 – Zdzislaw Zygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888)
1985 – Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
1985 – Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer, second person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders (b. 1948)
1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
2002 – Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
2002 – Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2002 – Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
2003 – Rosie Nix Adams, Stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (b. 1958)
2004 – Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2004 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980)
2004 – James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)
2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2005 – Robert Sloman, writer (b. 1926)
2005 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2005 – Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
2006 – Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
2007 – Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
2007 – Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist (b. 1981)
2007 – Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
2008 – Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances
Independence Day in Zambia (1964)
United Nations Day (charter 1945)
Discordianism – Maladay
French Republican Calendar – Poire (Pear) Day, third day in the Month of Brumaire
Kilobyte Day – Worldwide

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Events
42 BC – Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Brutus s army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide.
425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1086 – At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.
1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
1641 – Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 – anniversary commemorated by Irish Protestants for over 200 years.
1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
1694 – American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec.
1707 – The first Parliament of Great Britain, i.e., the United Kingdom, meets.
1739 – War of Jenkins Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1812 – Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he was now the commandant of Paris. De Malet is executed on October 29.
1813 – The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
1855 – Kansas Free State forces set up a competing government under their Topeka, Kansas, constitution, which outlaws slavery in the United States territory.
1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Westport – Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City.
1867 – 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1915 – Woman s suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1929 – Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
1929 – The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
1930 – The first miniature golf tournament was completed in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1935 – Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard Lulu Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1941 – World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
1941 – Odessa Massacre: 19,000 Jews are shot or burned alive at Dalnik in Odessa, by Romanian and German troops. The next day, another 10,000 Jews are killed. Romanian Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolae Deleanu administered the executions.
1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein starts – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begin a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt, never to return.
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger (Thanks for the Memory, Love in Bloom, Blue Hawaii).
1942 – The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines; and also, the Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
1958 – The Springhill Mine Bump – An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series appear for the first time, in the story Le flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou
1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launch a new operation, seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations about the scandal.
1973 – A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
1983 – Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. Marines. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1989 – The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szurös, replacing the communist Hungarian People s Republic.
1989 – Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas killed 23 and injured 314.
1992 – Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.
1998 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a land for peace agreement.
2001 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.
2001 – Apple releases the iPod.
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.

Births
1503 – Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539)
1516 – Charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524)
1634 – Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1715)
1698 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (d. 1782)
1705 – Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
1715 – Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
1762 – Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
1766 – Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
1771 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
1790 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
1796 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)
1801 – Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
1805 – John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
1813 – Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
1815 – João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
1817 – Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
1844 – Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930)
1865 – Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918)
1869 – John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
1870 – Francis Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma (d. 1948)
1873 – William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
1875 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
1876 – Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
1880 – Una O Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
1885 – Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
1888 – Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1893 – Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
1894 – Rube Bressler, baseball player (d. 1966)
1896 – André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
1900 – Douglas Jardine, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1904 – Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1909 – Zellig Harris, American linguist (d. 1992)
1910 – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)
1918 – James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
1919 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (d. 1992)
1920 – Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
1922 – Coleen Gray, American actress
1923 – Aslam Farrukhi, Pakistani scholar and poet
1923 – Ned Rorem, American composer
1923 – Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
1925 – Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
1925 – Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994)
1925 – Fred Shero, Canadian hockey player and coach (d. 1990)
1928 – Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1985)
1928 – Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress (d. 1971)
1927 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher
1931 – Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
1931 – Diana Dors, British actress (d. 1984)
1931 – William P. Clark, United States Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan
1935 – Juan Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Puerto Rican golfer
1936 – Philip Kaufman, American film director
1940 – Ellie Greenwich, American singer
1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer
1940 – Baby Jane Holzer, American art collector, film producer and Andy Warhol superstar
1941 – Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician
1941 – Mel Winkler, American actor
1942 – Michael Crichton, American writer (d. 2008)
1942 – Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop (d. 2007)
1944 – Mike Harding, English singer and comedian
1945 – Kim Larsen, Danish singer
1946 – Mel Martinez, American politician
1948 – Hermann Hauser, Austrian-born entrepreneur
1948 – Brian Ross, American journalist
1948 – Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
1949 – Michael Wurzel Burston, British musician (Motörhead)
1949 – Nick Tosches, American writer
1951 – Charly García, Argentine singer
1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
1952 – Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist (d. 2005)
1954 – Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director
1956 – Dwight Yoakam, American singer
1958 – Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author
1959 – Nancy Grace, American former prosecutor
1959 – Sam Raimi, American film director
1959 – Weird Al Yankovic, American musical parodist
1960 – Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author (d. 2008)
1960 – Wayne Rainey, American motorcyclist
1961 – Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer
1961 – Don and Ron Harris, American professional wrestlers
1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
1962 – Doug Flutie, American football player
1964 – Robert Trujillo, American bassist (Metallica)
1965 – Augusten Burroughs, American writer
1965 – Al Leiter, American baseball player
1966 – Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver
1967 – Dale Crover, American musician (Melvins, The Men of Porn, Altamont)
1969 – Trudi Canavan, Australian writer
1970 – Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster
1971 – Christopher Horner, American cyclist
1974 – Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer
1974 – Eric Bass, American Bassist and Pianist (Shinedown)
1974 – Jasmin St. Claire, Former pornographic actress
1975 – Odalys García, Cuban actress
1975 – Jessicka, American artist
1975 – Keith Van Horn, American basketball player
1976 – Cat Deeley, English model and television personality
1976 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian
1978 – Steve Harmison, English cricketer
1978 – Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
1978 – Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
1979 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
1979 – Jorge Solís, Mexican professional boxer
1980 – Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver
1981 – Ben Francisco, American baseball player
1982 – Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer
1983 – Filipos Darlas, Greek footballer
1983 – Josh Strickland, American entertainer
1984 – Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
1985 – Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American writer and actress
1986 – Briana Evigan, American actress
1986 – Jake Robinson, English footballer
1986 – Jessica Stroup, American Actress
1987 – Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 – Nicolaj Agger, Danish football player
1990 – Stevie Brock, American singer
1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan

Deaths
42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
930 – Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
1456 – Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
1550 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1616 – Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1688 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
1730 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
1764 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1774 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
1869 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
1872 – Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
1885 – Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
1910 – Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
1915 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
1921 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840)
1939 – Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
1942 – Ralph Rainger, American composer (b. 1901)
1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1944 – Hana Brady, Holocaust victim (b. 1931)
1950 – Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
1953 – Adrien-Maurice-Victurnien-Mathieu, 8th duc de Noailles (b. 1869)
1957 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
1959 – Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1978 – Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator (b. 1909)
1983 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
1984 – James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (b. 1892)
1984 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
1989 – Armida, Mexican actress (b. 1911)
1990 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
1994 – Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
1996 – Bob Grim, American baseball player (b. 1930)
1997 – Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
1998 – Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
2000 – Rodney Anoa i aka Yokozuna, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 – Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928)
2001 – Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. 1917)
2002 – Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
2003 – Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
2003 – Soong May-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
2004 – Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
2005 – Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
2005 – William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
2005 – John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2006 – Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
2007 – John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur (b. 1965)
2007 – Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian-born Chinese businessman (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances
Chulalongkorn Memorial Day in Thailand
Day of the Revolution in Republic of Macedonia
Mole Day
National Day (revolution of 1956 and the proclamation of the Republic of Hungary in 1989) in Hungary
R.C. Saints – Saint Giovanni da Capistrano; Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius; Saint Anthony Mary Claret; Saint Ignatius of Constantinople
Astrology: First day of sun sign Scorpio in Western tropical astrology.
French Republican Calendar – Céleri (Celery) Day, second day in the Month of Brumaire

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