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Acontecimientos (43)

  1. 961Al-Hakam II becomes caliph of Cordoba upon the death of his father Abd al-Rahman III.
  2. 1066Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.
  3. 1211Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
  4. 1529The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
  5. 1582Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
  6. 1651Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen.
  7. 1781The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War with a Patriot victory. It occurred four days before the British surrender at Yorktown.
  8. 1783The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
  9. 1793Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.
  10. 1815Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
  11. 1864American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
  12. 1888The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
  13. 1910Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  14. 1923The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
  15. 1928The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  16. 1932Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
  17. 1939The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
  18. 1940President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
  19. 1944World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
  20. 1951Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
  21. 1954Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
  22. 1956FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
  23. 1965Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
  24. 1966The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
  25. 1970During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.
  26. 1979Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
  27. 1979A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.
  28. 1987Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
  29. 1987A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.
  30. 1989Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
  31. 1990Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
  32. 1991The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
  33. 1991The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
  34. 1994The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
  35. 1997The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
  36. 2001NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within of Jupiter's moon Io.
  37. 2003China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
  38. 2006The 6.7 Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
  39. 2007Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
  40. 2008The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
  41. 2013The 7.2 Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
  42. 2016One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
  43. 201813-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.

Nacimientos (239)

  1. 70 a. C.Virgil, Roman poet (died 19 BC)
  2. 1265Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (died 1307)
  3. 1440Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (died 1483)
  4. 1471Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (died 1526) las demás fuentes: 15 oct 1470
  5. 1542Akbar, Mughal emperor (died 1605)
  6. 1561Richard Field, English cathedral dean (died 1616)
  7. 1564Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1613)
  8. 1599Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (died 1664)
  9. 1608Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)
  10. 1622Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (died 1686)
  11. 1686Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (died 1758)
  12. 1701Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (died 1771)
  13. 1711Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen of Sardinia (died 1741)
  14. 1762Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (died 1820)
  15. 1765Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet, English politician and peer (died 1840)
  16. 1767Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (died 1832)
  17. 1775Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (died 1838)
  18. 1784Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria (died 1849)
  19. 1785José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (died 1821)
  20. 1789William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (died 1847)
  21. 1802Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, head of state of France in 1848 (died 1857)
  22. 1814Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (died 1841)
  23. 1816John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (died 1891)
  24. 1818Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (died 1869)
  25. 1825Marie of Prussia, Queen of Bavaria (died 1889)
  26. 1829Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (died 1907)
  27. 1833John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (died 1894)
  28. 1836James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (died 1902)
  29. 1840Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (died 1894)
  30. 1844Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (died 1900)
  31. 1858John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (died 1918)
  32. 1865Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (died 1925)
  33. 1872Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (died 1956)
  34. 1872August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (died 1921)
  35. 1874Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1899)
  36. 1878Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (died 1966)
  37. 1879Jane Darwell, American actress (died 1967)
  38. 1881P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (died 1975)
  39. 1882Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (died 1941) las demás fuentes: 15 oct 1875
  40. 1884Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (died 1910)
  41. 1887Frederick Fleet, English sailor and lookout on the Titanic (died 1965)
  42. 1888S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (died 1939)
  43. 1890Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer (died 1935)
  44. 1893Carol II of Romania, King of Romania (died 1953) juliano y gregoriano
  45. 1894Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1965)
  46. 1897Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1960)
  47. 1899Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (died 1986)
  48. 1900Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (died 1987)
  49. 1901Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (died 1952)
  50. 1905C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (died 1980)
  51. 1906Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (died 2004)
  52. 1906Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday (died 1963)
  53. 1906Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)
  54. 1907Varian Fry, American journalist and author (died 1967)
  55. 1908Herman Chittison, American pianist (died 1967)
  56. 1908John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (died 2006)
  57. 1909Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (died 2002)
  58. 1909Robert Trout, American journalist (died 2000)
  59. 1910Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1990)
  60. 1912Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist (died 2007)
  61. 1913Wolfgang Lüth, German U-boat captain (died 1945)
  62. 1914Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (died 2007)
  63. 1916Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1950)
  64. 1916George Turner, Australian author and critic (died 1997)
  65. 1917Jan Miner, American actress (died 2004)
  66. 1917Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (died 2007)
  67. 1917Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (died 2013)
  68. 1919Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist (died 1985)
  69. 1919Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (died 1995)
  70. 1920Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor (died 2012)
  71. 1920Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress (died 1968)
  72. 1920Peter Koch, American industrial engineer and wood scientist (died 1998)
  73. 1920Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (died 1999)
  74. 1920Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
  75. 1921Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (died 2006)
  76. 1922Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author (died 2019)
  77. 1922Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (died 1969) las demás fuentes: 17 feb 1922
  78. 1922Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (died 2013)
  79. 1923Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (died 1985)
  80. 1923Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (died 2010)
  81. 1923Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (died 2013)
  82. 1923Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (died 2008)
  83. 1924Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator (died 2022)
  84. 1924Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author (died 2019)
  85. 1924Warren Miller, American director and screenwriter (died 2018)
  86. 1925Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (died 2012)
  87. 1925Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (died 2012)
  88. 1925Tony Hart, English painter and television host (died 2009)
  89. 1926James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (died 2010)
  90. 1926Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet (died 2012)
  91. 1926Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (died 1984)
  92. 1926Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)
  93. 1926Jean Peters, American actress (died 2000)
  94. 1926Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (died 1981)
  95. 1927B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)
  96. 1929Hubert Dreyfus, American philosopher best known for his critiques of AI (died 2017)
  97. 1929Will Insley, American painter and architect (died 2011)
  98. 1930FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (died 2000)
  99. 1930Ned McWherter, American politician, 46th Governor of Tennessee (died 2011)
  100. 1931A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (died 2015)
  101. 1931Freddy Cole, American jazz singer and pianist (died 2020)
  102. 1931Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician
  103. 1932Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer (died 2020)
  104. 1933Nicky Barnes, American drug lord (died 2012)
  105. 1934Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (died 2016)
  106. 1934N. Ramani, Indian flute player (died 2015)
  107. 1935Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  108. 1935Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer (died 2025)
  109. 1935Bobby Morrow, American sprinter (died 2020)
  110. 1935Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)
  111. 1936Michel Aumont, French actor (died 2019)
  112. 1936Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman (died 2019)
  113. 1937Linda Lavin, American actress and singer (died 2024)
  114. 1938Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1993)
  115. 1938Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist (died 1997)
  116. 1938Brice Marden, American painter (died 2023)
  117. 1938Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)
  118. 1940Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
  119. 1940Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
  120. 1941Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
  121. 1942Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter
  122. 1942Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral
  123. 1942Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer las demás fuentes: 15 oct 1941
  124. 1943Stanley Fischer, American and Israeli economist (died 2025)
  125. 1943Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer (died 2018)
  126. 1944Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania
  127. 1944A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (died 2005)
  128. 1944Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
  129. 1944David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
  130. 1945Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer (died 2015)
  131. 1945Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal
  132. 1945Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (died 2024)
  133. 1945Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster
  134. 1946Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director
  135. 1946Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
  136. 1946Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer
  137. 1946Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change
  138. 1947Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
  139. 1947Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer
  140. 1948Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2016)
  141. 1948Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
  142. 1949Laurie McBain, American author
  143. 1949Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV
  144. 1950Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (died 2015)
  145. 1951Peter Richardson, English actor, director, and screenwriter
  146. 1951Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player
  147. 1951Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player
  148. 1953Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier
  149. 1953Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
  150. 1953Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
  151. 1953Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist
  152. 1954Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator
  153. 1954Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria
  154. 1954Jere Burns, American actor
  155. 1954Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic
  156. 1955Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player
  157. 1955Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator
  158. 1955Tanya Roberts, American actress (died 2021) las demás fuentes: 15 oct 1949
  159. 1957Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer
  160. 1957Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer
  161. 1957Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta
  162. 1958Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
  163. 1959Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author
  164. 1959Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
  165. 1959Sarah Ferguson
  166. 1959Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
  167. 1961Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  168. 1963Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
  169. 1964Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
  170. 1965Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer (died 2013)
  171. 1966Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter
  172. 1966Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager
  173. 1966Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer
  174. 1966Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer
  175. 1966Dave Stead, English drummer
  176. 1967Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
  177. 1967Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter
  178. 1968Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager
  179. 1968Vanessa Marcil, American actress
  180. 1968Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player
  181. 1968Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician
  182. 1969Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer
  183. 1969Dominic West, English actor and director
  184. 1970Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
  185. 1970Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier
  186. 1971Andy Cole, English footballer and coach
  187. 1971Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator
  188. 1972Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach
  189. 1972Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager
  190. 1973Aleksandr Filimonov, Russian footballer
  191. 1974Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress
  192. 1975Chukwudi Iwuji, Nigerian-British actor
  193. 1976Elisa Aguilar, Spanish basketball player
  194. 1977Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver
  195. 1977Erin McKeown, American indie rock-folk musician and singer-songwriter
  196. 1977David Trezeguet, French footballer
  197. 1977Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
  198. 1978Wes Moore, American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland
  199. 1978Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler
  200. 1979Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer
  201. 1979Paul Robinson, English footballer
  202. 1979Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress
  203. 1979Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer
  204. 1980Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
  205. 1981Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer
  206. 1981Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
  207. 1982Charline Labonté, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender (Canadian team)
  208. 1983Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer
  209. 1983Bruno Senna, Brazilian race car driver
  210. 1984Izale McLeod, English footballer
  211. 1984Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter
  212. 1985Arron Afflalo, American basketball player
  213. 1986Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter
  214. 1986Carlo Janka, Swiss skier
  215. 1986Nolito, Spanish footballer
  216. 1987Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver
  217. 1988Dominique Jones, American basketball player
  218. 1988Mesut Özil, German footballer
  219. 1989Blaine Gabbert, American football player
  220. 1989Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer
  221. 1990Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
  222. 1991Brock Nelson, American ice hockey player
  223. 1992Ncuti Gatwa, Rwandan-Scottish actor
  224. 1992Teoscar Hernández, Dominican baseball player
  225. 1992Vincent Martella, American actor
  226. 1993Richaun Holmes, American basketball player
  227. 1993Roh Tae-hyun, South Korean singer and dancer
  228. 1994Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper
  229. 1994Babar Azam, Pakistani cricket player
  230. 1995Jack Flaherty, American baseball player
  231. 1995Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player
  232. 1996Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer
  233. 1996Grace Van Dien, American actress
  234. 1996Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer
  235. 1998Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, Indonesian activist and politician
  236. 1999Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer
  237. 1999Ben Woodburn, Welsh footballer
  238. 2000Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender fecha discutida
  239. 2005Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark

Fallecimientos (98)

  1. 55 a. C.Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (born 98 BC)
  2. 412Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
  3. 892Al-Mu'tamid, Abbasid caliph
  4. 898Lambert of Italy (born 880)
  5. 912Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (born 844)
  6. 925Rhazes, Persian polymath (born 864)
  7. 961Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba
  8. 1002Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (born 946)
  9. 1080Rudolf of Rheinfelden (born 1025)
  10. 1173Petronilla of Aragon (born 1135)
  11. 1240Razia Sultana, sultan of Delhi (born 1205)
  12. 1243Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint (born 1174)
  13. 1326Walter Stapledon, bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England, and his brother Sir Richard Stapledon, judge and politician.
  14. 1385Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
  15. 1389Pope Urban VI (born 1318)
  16. 1404Marie Valois, French princess (born 1344)
  17. 1496Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (born 1443)
  18. 1564Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (born 1514)
  19. 1674Robert Herrick, English poet (born 1591)
  20. 1684Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (born 1626)
  21. 1690Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (born 1622)
  22. 1715Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (born 1675)
  23. 1788Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (born 1735) juliano y gregoriano
  24. 1810Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (born 1755)
  25. 1811Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (born 1735)
  26. 1817Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (born 1746)
  27. 1819Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (born 1744)
  28. 1820Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (born 1771)
  29. 1837Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (born 1760)
  30. 1838Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (born 1802)
  31. 1891Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (born 1837)
  32. 1900Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (born 1850)
  33. 1910Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (born 1886)
  34. 1917Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (born 1876)
  35. 1918Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (born 1838)
  36. 1925Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (born 1848?)
  37. 1930Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (born 1866)
  38. 1934Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (born 1860)
  39. 1940Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (born 1882)
  40. 1945Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France, convicted Vichy collaborator (born 1883)
  41. 1946Hermann Göring, German general and Nazi politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (born 1893)
  42. 1948Edythe Chapman, American actress (born 1863)
  43. 1955Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (born 1914)
  44. 1958Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (born 1907)
  45. 1958Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (born 1908)
  46. 1959Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (born 1909)
  47. 1959Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1880)
  48. 1960Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (born 1890)
  49. 1961Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (born 1896)
  50. 1963Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (born 1908)
  51. 1964Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (born 1891)
  52. 1965Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (born 1891)
  53. 1966Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (born 1876)
  54. 1968Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (born 1909)
  55. 1976Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)
  56. 1978W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (born 1918)
  57. 1978Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (born 1899)
  58. 1980Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1900)
  59. 1980Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (born 1896)
  60. 1983Pat O'Brien, American actor (born 1899)
  61. 1987Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (born 1949)
  62. 1987Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (born 1908)
  63. 1988Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (born 1892)
  64. 1989Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (born 1935)
  65. 1990Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (born 1932)
  66. 1993Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (born 1913)
  67. 1994Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (born 1934)
  68. 1995Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1967)
  69. 1995Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (born 1976)
  70. 1999Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (born 1917)
  71. 2000Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
  72. 2000Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (born 1924)
  73. 2001Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (born 1901)
  74. 2003Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (born 1919) las demás fuentes: 14 oct 2003
  75. 2004Per Højholt, Danish poet (born 1928)
  76. 2005Jason Collier, American basketball player (born 1977)
  77. 2005Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (born 1945)
  78. 2007Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (born 1933)
  79. 2008Edie Adams, American actress and singer (born 1927)
  80. 2008Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (born 1914)
  81. 2008Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (born 1922)
  82. 2009Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (born 1939)
  83. 2010Richard C. Miller, American photographer (born 1912)
  84. 2010Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (born 1926)
  85. 2010Johnny Sheffield, American actor (born 1931)
  86. 2011Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (born 1920)
  87. 2012Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1920)
  88. 2012Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (born 1933)
  89. 2012Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (born 1953)
  90. 2012Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1922)
  91. 2013Donald Bailey, American drummer (born 1933)
  92. 2014Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (born 1931)
  93. 2017Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (born 1950)
  94. 2017Deng Ken, Chinese politician, younger brother of former Paramount leader of China Deng Xiaoping (born 1911)
  95. 2018Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (born 1953)
  96. 2021David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (born 1952)
  97. 2024Mike Jackson, English general (born 1944)
  98. 2025Jim Bolger, New Zealand businessman and politician, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1935)

Celebraciones (5)

  1. Breast Health Day (Europe)
  2. National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
  3. Shwmae Su'mae Day (Wales)
  4. White Cane Safety Day
  5. World Students' Day

Santoral (5)

  1. Gundisalvus of Lagos
  2. Magdalene of Nagasaki
  3. Teresa of Ávila
  4. Thecla of Kitzingen
  5. October 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)