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Acontecimientos (54)

  1. 33Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation.
  2. 320Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
  3. 614King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defends the rights of the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.
  4. 629Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
  5. 1009The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
  6. 1016The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun.
  7. 1081The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
  8. 1166Michael the Syrian, one of the most important Syriac historians, is consecrated as Syriac Orthodox Patriarch at the Mor Bar Sauma Monastery.
  9. 1281Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon for usurping the crown of Sicily (a sentence renewed on 7 May and 18 November 1282).
  10. 1356Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
  11. 1377Andronikos IV Palaiologos and his young son John are crowned by patriarch Macarius of Constantinople.
  12. 1540Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
  13. 1561In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, resulting in a draw.
  14. 1565Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.
  15. 1597King Philip II of Spain sends his third and final armada against England, but it ends in failure due to storms. The remaining ships are captured or sunk by the English.
  16. 1599Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
  17. 1630Frendraught Castle in Scotland, the home of James Crichton of Frendraught, burns down.
  18. 1648Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization.
  19. 1748Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
  20. 1775African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
  21. 1775American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
  22. 1779American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
  23. 1851Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
  24. 1860The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
  25. 1867United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
  26. 1887Johannes Brahms conducts the premiere of his Double Concerto, composed for violinist Joseph Joachim and cellist Robert Hausmann.
  27. 1898The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
  28. 1900Count Bernhard von Bülow becomes chancellor of Germany.
  29. 1912First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
  30. 1912The Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire sign the treaty of Ouchy, by which the Italo-Turkish War is ended and the Ottomans loose Libya to Italy.
  31. 1914The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.
  32. 1921The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  33. 1922The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
  34. 1929The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
  35. 1944World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
  36. 1944World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
  37. 1945The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  38. 1945A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
  39. 1945Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte.
  40. 1954Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1, the first mass-produced transistor radio.
  41. 1963Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
  42. 1967The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
  43. 1977German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
  44. 1978Based on the world's first children's art museum, the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opens in Yerevan.
  45. 1979The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
  46. 1989The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the Jupiter-bound Galileo space probe.
  47. 1989A Ilyushin Il-76 of the Soviet Air Forces crashes into the Caspian Sea near Sumgait, killing 57.
  48. 1991The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
  49. 1992Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31.
  50. 1993Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-58 to perform life sciences research.
  51. 2003Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
  52. 2007Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
  53. 2019NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.
  54. 2019Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.

Nacimientos (258)

  1. 1127Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (died 1192)
  2. 1130Zhu Xi, Chinese philosopher (died 1200)
  3. 1405Pope Pius II (died 1464)
  4. 1444John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (died 1476)
  5. 1482Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1538)
  6. 1517Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (died 1570)
  7. 1523Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1596)
  8. 1536William Lambarde, English antiquarian and politician (died 1601)
  9. 1547Justus Lipsius, Belgian philologist and scholar (died 1606)
  10. 1553Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (died 1599)
  11. 1587Lady Mary Wroth, English poet (died 1651)
  12. 1595Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (died 1655)
  13. 1616Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist (died 1654)
  14. 1630Henry Powle, English politician (died 1692)
  15. 1634Luca Giordano, Italian painter and illustrator (died 1705)
  16. 1653Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Dutch merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1713)
  17. 1662Matthew Henry, Welsh minister and scholar (died 1714)
  18. 1663Prince Eugene of Savoy (died 1736)
  19. 1668John George IV, Elector of Saxony (died 1694)
  20. 1701Charles le Beau, French historian and author (died 1778)
  21. 1706Baldassare Galuppi, Italian harpsichord player and composer (died 1785)
  22. 1741Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (died 1803)
  23. 1770Thomas Phillips, English artist (died 1845)
  24. 1777Heinrich von Kleist, German author and poet (died 1811)
  25. 1785Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (died 1866)
  26. 1792Lucas Alamán, Mexican politician and historian (died 1853)
  27. 1804Mongkut, Thai king (died 1868)
  28. 1818Charles Edward Mudie, English book publisher, founder of Mudie's Lending Library(died 1890)
  29. 1822Midhat Pasha, Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (died 1883)
  30. 1831Frederick III, German Emperor (died 1888)
  31. 1831Robert Potter, author and minister (died 1908)
  32. 1836Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (died 1911)
  33. 1844Harvey Washington Wiley, American chemist, leader in the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act (died 1930)
  34. 1850Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (died 1935)
  35. 1854Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (died 1911)
  36. 1854Charles Scribner II, American magazine and book publisher (died 1930)
  37. 1859Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
  38. 1862Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (died 1952)
  39. 1865Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist and author (died 1957)
  40. 1865Logan Pearsall Smith, American-English author and critic (died 1946)
  41. 1868Ernst Didring, Swedish author (died 1931)
  42. 1869Johannes Linnankoski, Finnish author (died 1913)
  43. 1870D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar (died 1966)
  44. 1872Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet and author (died 1936)
  45. 1873Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1951)
  46. 1875Len Braund, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 1955)
  47. 1878James Truslow Adams, American historian and author (died 1949)
  48. 1880Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist (died 1940)
  49. 1881Max Gerson, German-born American physician (died 1959)
  50. 1882Väinö Kivisalo, Finnish politician (died 1953)
  51. 1882Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist (died 1917)
  52. 1887Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (died 1946)
  53. 1888Paul Vermoyal, French actor (died 1925)
  54. 1893Sidney Holland, New Zealand lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1961)
  55. 1893George Ohsawa, Japanese philosopher and academic (died 1966)
  56. 1894H. L. Davis, American author and poet (died 1960)
  57. 1894Tibor Déry, Hungarian author and translator (died 1977)
  58. 1897Isabel Briggs Myers, American theorist and author (died 1980)
  59. 1898Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (died 1981)
  60. 1902Miriam Hopkins, American actress (died 1972)
  61. 1902Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (died 1980)
  62. 1903Lina Radke, German runner and coach (died 1983)
  63. 1904Aarne Juutilainen, Finnish army captain (died 1976)
  64. 1904A. J. Liebling, American journalist and author (died 1963)
  65. 1904Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (died 1981)
  66. 1905Jan Gies, Dutch activist (died 1993)
  67. 1905Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 1993)
  68. 1906James Brooks, American painter and educator (died 1992)
  69. 1909Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist (died 2004)
  70. 1914Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (died 1997)
  71. 1915Victor Sen Yung, American actor (died 1980)
  72. 1918Molly Geertsema, Dutch lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1991)
  73. 1918Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 178th Prime Minister of Greece (died 2017)
  74. 1918Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 1999)
  75. 1919Ric Nordman, Canadian captain and politician (died 1996)
  76. 1919Anita O'Day, American singer (died 2006)
  77. 1919Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2000)
  78. 1919Camilla Williams, American soprano and educator (died 2012)
  79. 1920Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (died 1994)
  80. 1921Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (died 2005)
  81. 1921Jesse Helms, American journalist and politician (died 2008)
  82. 1921Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (died 1972)
  83. 1923Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)
  84. 1924Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2014)
  85. 1925Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (died 2011)
  86. 1926Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)
  87. 1926Klaus Kinski, German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1991)
  88. 1927Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (died 2013)
  89. 1927George C. Scott, American actor and director (died 1999)
  90. 1928Maurice El Mediouni, Algerian pianist and composer (died 2024)
  91. 1928Keith Jackson, American sportscaster and actor (died 2018)
  92. 1928Dick Taverne, English lawyer and politician (died 2025)
  93. 1929Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua (died 2025)
  94. 1929Hillard Elkins, American producer and manager (died 2010)
  95. 1929Kees Fens, Dutch author and critic (died 2008)
  96. 1929Frank Stanmore, Australian rugby league player (died 2005)
  97. 1930Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, Scottish politician (died 2024)
  98. 1930Esther Hautzig, Lithuanian-American author (died 2009)
  99. 1931Chris Albertson, Icelandic-American historian, journalist, and producer (died 2019)
  100. 1931Ien Dales, Dutch civil servant and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (died 1994)
  101. 1932Roger Climpson, English-Australian journalist (died 2025)
  102. 1932Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian musicologist and politician
  103. 1933Forrest Gregg, American football player and coach (died 2019)
  104. 1933Irwin M. Jacobs, American electrical engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur
  105. 1933Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (died 1968)
  106. 1934Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (died 1970)
  107. 1935Peter Boyle, American actor (died 2006)
  108. 1936Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (died 2019)
  109. 1938Robert Dove, American lawyer and politician (died 2021)
  110. 1938Dawn Wells, American model and actress, Miss Nevada 1959 (died 2020)
  111. 1939Flavio Cotti, Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd President of the Swiss Confederation (died 2020)
  112. 1939Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2026)
  113. 1939Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (died 1963)
  114. 1939Paddy Reilly, Irish folk singer and guitarist
  115. 1939Jan Erik Vold, Norwegian poet, author, and translator
  116. 1940Talitha Getty, actress and model of Dutch extraction (died 1971)
  117. 1940Cynthia Weil, American songwriter (died 2023)
  118. 1941Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, English businessman (died 2019)
  119. 1941Martha Burk, American psychologist and author
  120. 1942Gianfranco Ravasi, Italian cardinal and scholar
  121. 1943Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2014)
  122. 1943Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
  123. 1945Huell Howser, American television host and actor (died 2013)
  124. 1945Chris Shays, American politician
  125. 1946James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (died 1997)
  126. 1946Frank Beamer, American football player and coach
  127. 1946Joe Egan, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2024)
  128. 1946Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Welsh academic and politician (died 2025)
  129. 1946Howard Shore, Canadian composer, conductor, and producer
  130. 1947Paul Chuckle, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
  131. 1947Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
  132. 1947John Johnson, American basketball player (died 2016)
  133. 1947Joe Morton, American actor
  134. 1947Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1997)
  135. 1947Gary Sullivan, Australian rugby league player
  136. 1948Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
  137. 1948Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright (died 2018)
  138. 1949George Hendrick, American baseball player and coach
  139. 1949Gary Richrath, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2015)
  140. 1950Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright and author (died 2006)
  141. 1951Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and coach
  142. 1951Pam Dawber, American actress and producer
  143. 1951Terry McMillan, American author and screenwriter
  144. 1951David Normington, English civil servant and politician
  145. 1951Nic Potter, English bass player and songwriter (died 2013)
  146. 1952Roy Dias, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
  147. 1952Paul Geroski, American-English economist and academic (died 2005)
  148. 1952Chuck Lorre, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  149. 1952Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer and photographer
  150. 1952Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese soldier and author
  151. 1952Allen Ripley, American baseball player (died 2014)
  152. 1952Jerry Royster, American baseball player, coach, and manager
  153. 1954Nick Houghton, English general
  154. 1954Arliss Howard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  155. 1954Bob Weinstein, American film executive
  156. 1955Jean-Pierre Hautier, Belgian journalist and television host (died 2012)
  157. 1955Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
  158. 1955Timmy Mallett, English radio and television host
  159. 1955Stu Mead, American painter and illustrator
  160. 1955David Twohy, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  161. 1955Rita Verdonk, Dutch journalist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
  162. 1955Denis Watson, Zimbabwean golfer
  163. 1955Mark Welland, English physicist and academic
  164. 1956Craig Bartlett, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
  165. 1956Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player and coach
  166. 1956Jim Talent, American lawyer and politician
  167. 1957Jon Lindstrom, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  168. 1957Catherine Ringer, French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
  169. 1958Thomas Hearns, American boxer
  170. 1958Megumi Ishii, Japanese actress and politician
  171. 1958Letitia James, American lawyer, activist and politician
  172. 1958Kjell Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
  173. 1959Kirby Chambliss, American pilot
  174. 1959Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran politician, former president of El Salvador (died 2025)
  175. 1959Milcho Manchevski, Macedonian-American director and screenwriter
  176. 1959John Nord, American wrestler
  177. 1960Erin Moran, American actress (died 2017)
  178. 1960Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter
  179. 1961Wynton Marsalis, American trumpet player, composer, and educator
  180. 1961Rick Moody, American author and composer
  181. 1961Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer
  182. 1962Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist
  183. 1962Vincent Spano, American actor, director, and producer
  184. 1963Sigvart Dagsland, Norwegian singer, pianist and composer
  185. 1964Dan Lilker, American singer-songwriter and bass player
  186. 1964Charles Stross, English journalist, author, and programmer
  187. 1965Zakir Naik, Indian Islamic preacher; founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)
  188. 1965Curtis Stigers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  189. 1966Dave Price, American journalist and game show host
  190. 1967Eric Stuart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
  191. 1968Rhod Gilbert, Welsh comedian
  192. 1968Stuart Law, Australian cricketer and coach
  193. 1968Michael Stich, German tennis player and sportscaster
  194. 1969Volker Neumüller, German talent manager
  195. 1969Nelson Vivas, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
  196. 1970Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player and coach
  197. 1970Mike Starink, Dutch television host and actor
  198. 1971Nick O'Hern, Australian golfer
  199. 1972Mika Ninagawa, Japanese photographer and director
  200. 1972Alex Tagliani, Canadian race car driver
  201. 1973Stephen Allan, Australian golfer
  202. 1973James Foley, American photographer and journalist (died 2014)
  203. 1973Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
  204. 1973Rachel Nichols, American journalist and sportscaster
  205. 1973Sarah Winckless, English rower
  206. 1974Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer and sportscaster
  207. 1974Peter Svensson, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
  208. 1974Amish Tripathi, Indian author
  209. 1974Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
  210. 1975Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player and manager
  211. 1975Josh Sawyer, American video game designer
  212. 1977Flavia Colgan, Brazilian-American journalist
  213. 1977Kunal Kapoor, Indian actor
  214. 1977Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand-American soccer player and coach
  215. 1977David Vuillemin, French motorcycle racer
  216. 1978Mike Tindall, English rugby player
  217. 1978Kenji Wu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
  218. 1979Jaroslav Drobný, Czech footballer
  219. 1979Ne-Yo, American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor
  220. 1979Damon Scott, British entertainer
  221. 1980Birsen Yavuz, Turkish sprinter and hurdler
  222. 1981Nathan Hauritz, Australian cricketer
  223. 1981Tina Hergold, Slovenian tennis player
  224. 1981Greg Warren, American football player
  225. 1982Thierry Amiel, French singer-songwriter
  226. 1982Michael Dingsdag, Dutch footballer
  227. 1982Simon Gotch, American wrestler
  228. 1982Mark Sampson, Welsh footballer and manager
  229. 1983Dante, Brazilian footballer
  230. 1984Robert Harting, German discus thrower
  231. 1984Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model
  232. 1984Esperanza Spalding, American singer-songwriter and bassist
  233. 1984Lindsey Vonn, American skier
  234. 1984Milo Yiannopoulos, British journalist and public speaker
  235. 1985Yoenis Céspedes, Cuban baseball player
  236. 1985Andrew Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  237. 1986Wilma Elles, German actress and fashion designer
  238. 1987Zac Efron, American actor and singer
  239. 1987Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
  240. 1988Tessa Schram, Dutch director and actress
  241. 1989Laci Green, American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist
  242. 1989Joy Lauren, American actress, director, and producer
  243. 1989Riisa Naka, Japanese model and actress
  244. 1990Drew Crawford, American basketball player
  245. 1990Brittney Griner, American basketball player
  246. 1990Bristol Palin, American public speaker and reality television personality
  247. 1991Roly Bonevacia, Dutch footballer
  248. 1991Tyler Posey, American actor and musician
  249. 1991Toby Regbo, English actor
  250. 1991Zohran Mamdani, American politician, mayor of New York City
  251. 1992John John Florence, American surfer
  252. 1992Barry Keoghan, Irish actor
  253. 1993Ivan Cavaleiro, Portuguese footballer
  254. 1994Enhō Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler
  255. 1994Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian race car driver
  256. 1996Terance Mann, American basketball player
  257. 1998Janalynn Castelino, Italian-Indian singer-songwriter
  258. 2000Sophie Thatcher, American actress

Fallecimientos (127)

  1. 31Lucius Aelius Sejanus, Roman politician (born 20 BC)
  2. 325Emperor Ming of Jin (born 299)
  3. 707Pope John VII (born 650)
  4. 815Abu'l-Saraya, Zaydi rebel leader
  5. 1035Sancho III of Pamplona (born 992)
  6. 1081Nikephoros Palaiologos, Byzantine general
  7. 1101Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (born 1053)
  8. 1141Leopold, Duke of Bavaria (born 1108)
  9. 1214John de Gray, bishop of Norwich
  10. 1366Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
  11. 1382James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (born 1331)
  12. 1417Pope Gregory XII (born 1326)
  13. 1442Infante João of Portugal (born 1400)
  14. 1480Uhwudong, Korean dancer and poet (born 1440)
  15. 1503Pope Pius III (born 1439)
  16. 1508Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, Lord High Admiral of Scotland
  17. 1511Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (born 1447)
  18. 1526Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (born 1475)
  19. 1541Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489)
  20. 1545John Taverner, English organist and composer (born 1490)
  21. 1558Mary of Hungary (born 1505)
  22. 1561Yamamoto Kansuke, Japanese samurai (born 1501)
  23. 1564Johannes Acronius Frisius, Dutch physician and mathematician (born 1520)
  24. 1570Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (born 1517)
  25. 1604Igram van Achelen, Dutch lawyer and politician (born 1528)
  26. 1646Isaac Jogues, French priest, missionary, and martyr (born 1607)
  27. 1667Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (born 1603)
  28. 1678Jacob Jordaens, Belgian painter illustrator (born 1593)
  29. 1739António José da Silva, Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (born 1705)
  30. 1744Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (born 1660)
  31. 1770John Manners, Marquess of Granby, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (born 1721)
  32. 1775Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (born 1715)
  33. 1817Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French pianist and composer (born 1763)
  34. 1865Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)
  35. 1871Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (born 1791)
  36. 1876Francis Preston Blair, American journalist (born 1791)
  37. 1886Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (born 1796)
  38. 1889Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (born 1808)
  39. 1892William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (born 1808)
  40. 1893Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (born 1818)
  41. 1908Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (born 1840)
  42. 1911Alfred Binet, French psychologist and author (born 1857)
  43. 1921Ludwig III of Bavaria (born 1845)
  44. 1931Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1847)
  45. 1931Lesser Ury, German painter (born 1861)
  46. 1934Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
  47. 1935Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (born 1882)
  48. 1941Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (born 1860)
  49. 1942Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (born 1862)
  50. 1943Pere Areny, Andorran convicted murderer, last person executed by Andorra (born 1913)
  51. 1947Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (born 1890)
  52. 1948Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (born 1881)
  53. 1956Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (born 1869)
  54. 1959Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (born 1903)
  55. 1961Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (born 1892)
  56. 1962Iván Petrovich, Serbian-German actor and singer (born 1894)
  57. 1965Henry Travers, Irish-American actor (born 1874)
  58. 1966Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (born 1878)
  59. 1966S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (born 1867)
  60. 1969Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1899)
  61. 1973Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (born 1886)
  62. 1973Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (born 1913)
  63. 1973Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (born 1899)
  64. 1975K. C. Douglas, American rural blues singer (born 1913)
  65. 1975Al Lettieri, American actor (born 1928)
  66. 1975Graham Haberfield, English actor (born 1941)
  67. 1976Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (born 1895)
  68. 1977Andreas Baader, German militant (born 1943)
  69. 1977Gudrun Ensslin, German militant leader, founded the Red Army Faction (born 1940)
  70. 1978Ramón Mercader, Spanish journalist, assassin of Leon Trotsky (born 1914)
  71. 1980Edwin Way Teale, American photographer and author (born 1899)
  72. 1982Dwain Esper, American director and producer (born 1892)
  73. 1982Pierre Mendès France, French lawyer and politician, 143rd Prime Minister of France (born 1907)
  74. 1982John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (born 1917)
  75. 1982Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 40th First Lady of the United States (born 1885)
  76. 1983Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (born 1897)
  77. 1983Willie Jones, American baseball player (born 1925)
  78. 1984Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (born 1899)
  79. 1987Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch director and screenwriter (born 1940)
  80. 2000Julie London, American singer and actress (born 1926)
  81. 2000Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (born 1925)
  82. 2003Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (born 1912)
  83. 2003Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish journalist, author, and critic (born 1939)
  84. 2005Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (born 1934)
  85. 2005Bill King, American sportscaster (born 1927)
  86. 2006Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (born 1929)
  87. 2006Anna Russell, English-Canadian singer and actress (born 1911)
  88. 2006Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (born 1934)
  89. 2007Alan Coren, English journalist and author (born 1938)
  90. 2007William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (born 1925)
  91. 2007Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (born 1915)
  92. 2007Lucky Dube, South African singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1964)
  93. 2008Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (born 1945)
  94. 2009Adriaan Kortlandt, Dutch ethologist and biologist (born 1918)
  95. 2009Nancy Spero, American painter and academic (born 1926)
  96. 2010Marion Brown, American saxophonist and musicologist (born 1931)
  97. 2010Billy Raimondi, American baseball player (born 1912)
  98. 2012Brain Damage, American wrestler (born 1977)
  99. 2012Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (born 1952)
  100. 2012Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (born 1925)
  101. 2012George Mattos, American pole vaulter (born 1929)
  102. 2012Albert Lee Ueltschi, American pilot and businessman, founded FlightSafety International (born 1917)
  103. 2012David S. Ware, American saxophonist and composer (born 1949)
  104. 2013Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1929)
  105. 2013Bum Phillips, American football player and coach (born 1923)
  106. 2013Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1926)
  107. 2013Bill Young, American sergeant and politician (born 1930)
  108. 2014Mariano Lebrón Saviñón, Dominican author and academic (born 1922)
  109. 2014Edward Regan, American academic and politician (born 1930)
  110. 2014Sidney Shapiro, American-Chinese author and translator (born 1915)
  111. 2015Robert Dickerson, Australian painter (born 1924)
  112. 2015Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author (born 1945)
  113. 2015Robert W. Farquhar, American engineer (born 1932)
  114. 2015Frank Watkins, American bass player (born 1968)
  115. 2015Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic (born 1930)
  116. 2017Marino Perani, Italian football player and manager (born 1939)
  117. 2018Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (born 1931)
  118. 2018Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 5th President of the Sudan (born 1934)
  119. 2019Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (born 1952)
  120. 2020René Felber, 81st President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1933)
  121. 2021Colin Powell, American military leader and statesman, 65th Secretary of State (born 1937)
  122. 2022Harvey Wollman, American politician, 26th Governor of South Dakota (born 1935)
  123. 2024Yehuda Bauer, Israeli historian of the Holocaust (born 1926)
  124. 2024Ginés González García, Argentine politician and physician (born 1945)
  125. 2025Sam Rivers, American bassist (born 1977)
  126. 2025Yang Chen-Ning, Chinese theoretical physicist (born 1922)
  127. 2025Lia Smith, American diver and transgender rights advocate.

Celebraciones (5)

  1. Alaska Day (Alaska, United States)
  2. Day of Restoration of Independence (Azerbaijan), celebrates the independence of Azerbaijan from the Soviet Union in 1991.
  3. Necktie Day (Croatia)
  4. Persons Day (Canada)
  5. World Menopause Day

Santoral (6)

  1. Asclepiades of Antioch
  2. Isaac Jogues
  3. Luke the Evangelist
  4. Monon
  5. Peter of Alcantara, can also be celebrated on October 19.
  6. October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)