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Acontecimientos
- 2137 a. C.A solar eclipse occurs over China, one of the earliest recorded in human history, reportedly resulting in the executions of two astronomers who failed to predict it.
- 451The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted by the Council of Chalcedon, an ecumenical council.
- 794Japanese Emperor Kanmu relocates his empire's capital to Heian-kyō (now Kyoto).
- 906Abbasid general Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking 4,000–5,000 captives.
- 1303Election of pope Benedict XI following the death of pope Boniface VIII in the previous weeks.
- 1383The male line of the Portuguese House of Burgundy becomes extinct with the death of King Fernando, leaving only his daughter Beatrice. Rival claimants begin a period of civil war and disorder.
- 1721The Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.
- 1724J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul) in Leipzig on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, based on the communion hymn of the same name.
- 1730Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed in Russia.
- 1739The War of Jenkins' Ear begins with the first attack on La Guaira.
- 1746The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
- 1777American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
- 1790Northwest Indian War: Native American forces defeat the United States, ending the Harmar Campaign.
- 1797André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, from above Paris.
- 1836Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
- 1844The Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day becomes known as the Great Disappointment.
- 1859Spain declares war on Morocco.
- 1866A plebiscite ratifies the annexation of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred three days before on October 19.
- 1877The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
- 1879Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb; the bulb lasted 13 hours before burning out.
- 1883The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Charles Gounod's Faust.
- 1884The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
- 1895In Paris, an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling to the road below.
- 1907A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
- 1910Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
- 1923The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
- 1934In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill the notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
- 1936Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat is convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.
- 1941World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
- 1943World War II: In the second firestorm raid on Germany, the British Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
- 1946Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to relocate to the Soviet Union, along with their families and equipment.
- 1947The first Kashmir war begins after Pakistani forces invade Kashmir, allegedly to suppress a tribal rebellion.
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
- 1963A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
- 1964Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize.
- 1975The Soviet uncrewed space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
- 1981The US Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.
- 1983Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
- 1987John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered at the Houston Grand Opera.
- 1992Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-52 to deploy the LAGEOS-2 satellite and microgravity experiments.
- 1996Millon Air Flight 406 crashes after takeoff from Eloy Alfaro International Airport in Manta, Ecuador, killing 34 people.
- 1997Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero Palo, in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland during his prison escape.
- 1999Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
- 2005Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season until surpassed by the 2020 season.
- 2005Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashes in Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.
- 2006A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a national referendum.
- 2007A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos, with all except one dying in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and ten damaged.
- 2008India launches its first uncrewed lunar probe mission Chandrayaan-1.
- 2012Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping.
- 2013The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.
- 2014Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
- 2015Anton Lundin Pettersson attacks a school in Trollhättan, killing three people and injuring two others.
- 2019Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.
Nacimientos
- 955Qian Weijun, king of Wuyue (died 991)
- 1071William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (died 1126)
- 1197Juntoku, Japanese emperor (died 1242)
- 1511Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1553)
- 1587Joachim Jungius, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1657)
- 1592Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (died 1657)
- 1659Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician (died 1734)
- 1689John V, Portuguese king (died 1750)
- 1701Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress (died 1756)
- 1729Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor and botanist (died 1798)
- 1749Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch historian and bookseller (died 1816)
- 1778Javier de Burgos, Spanish jurist and politician (died 1848)
- 1781Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (died 1789)
- 1783Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Ottoman-French polymath and naturalist (died 1840)
- 1809Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and statesman, Texas Attorney General (died 1889)
- 1811Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1886)
- 1818Leconte de Lisle, French poet and author (died 1894)
- 1821Collis Potter Huntington, American businessman (died 1900)
- 1832August Labitzky, Czech composer and conductor (died 1903)
- 1843James Strachan-Davidson, English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author (died 1916)
- 1844Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager (died 1923)
- 1844Louis Riel, Canadian Métis scholar and politician (died 1885)
- 1847Koos de la Rey, South African Boer general (died 1914)
- 1850Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (died 1908)
- 1858Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1921)
- 1859Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (died 1949)
- 1865Borghild Holmsen, Norwegian pianist, composer and music critic (died 1938)
- 1865Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (died 1943)
- 1870Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)
- 1870Lord Alfred Douglas, English author and poet (died 1945)
- 1873Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (died 1950)
- 1873Rama Tirtha, Indian philosopher and educator (died 1906)
- 1875Théodore Monbeig, French Catholic missionary and botanist (died 1914)
- 1875David van Embden, Dutch economist and politician (died 1962)
- 1881Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
- 1881Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (died 1908)
- 1882Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator (died 1953)
- 1882N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (died 1945)
- 1885Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor and actor (died 1969)
- 1886Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (died 1970)
- 1887John Reed, American journalist and poet (died 1920)
- 1893Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1985)
- 1893Luis Otero, Spanish footballer (died 1955)
- 1894Mei Lanfang, Chinese actor and singer (died 1961)
- 1895Johnny Morrison, professional baseball player (died 1966)
- 1896Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (died 1988)
- 1896José Leitão de Barros, Portuguese film director and playwright (died 1967)
- 1897Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (died 1958)
- 1898Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet and philologist (died 1990)
- 1899Salarrué, Salvadoran writer and painter (died 1975)
- 1903George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
- 1903Curly Howard, American comedian and vaudevillian (died 1952)
- 1904Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer (died 1965)
- 1904Saúl Calandra, Argentine football player (died 1973)
- 1904Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and radio engineer (died 1950)
- 1905Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer (died 1969)
- 1906Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator (died 1970)
- 1906Aurelio Baldor, Cuban mathematician and lawyer (died 1978)
- 1907Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (died 1967)
- 1907Günther Treptow, German tenor (died 1981)
- 1908John Gould, American journalist and author (died 2003)
- 1908José Escobar Saliente, Spanish cartoonist (died 1994)
- 1913Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist (died 1954)
- 1913Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (died 1997)
- 1913Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (died 2002)
- 1915Yitzhak Shamir, Belarusian-Israeli civil servant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (died 2012)
- 1917Joan Fontaine, English-American actress (died 2013)
- 1918Lou Klein, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1976)
- 1919Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
- 1920Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (died 1996)
- 1921Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1981)
- 1921Aleksandr Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (died 1986)
- 1921Harald Nugiseks, Estonian sergeant (died 2014)
- 1923Bert Trautmann, German footballer and coach (died 2013)
- 1925Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (died 2012)
- 1925Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author, and hula expert (died 2014)
- 1925Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)
- 1925Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (died 2008)
- 1927Allan Hendrickse, South African minister and politician (died 2005)
- 1928Clare Fischer, American pianist, composer and arranger (died 2012)
- 1928Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)
- 1929Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett, English director and producer (died 2015)
- 1929Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (died 1990)
- 1930Estela de Carlotto, Argentine human rights activist
- 1930José Guardiola, Spanish singer (died 2012)
- 1931Ann Rule, American police officer and author (died 2015)
- 1933Carlos Alberto Sacheri, Argentine philosopher and martyr (died 1974)
- 1933Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer and manager (died 2007)
- 1934Donald McIntyre, New Zealand opera singer
- 1936John Blashford-Snell, English soldier, author, and explorer
- 1936Peter Cook, English architect and academic
- 1936Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (died 2014)
- 1936Bobby Seale, American political activist and author, co-founder of the Black Panther Party
- 1937Alan Ladd Jr., American film producer and executive (died 2022)
- 1937José Larralde, Argentine singer-songwriter
- 1937Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (died 1982)
- 1938K. Indrapala, Sri Lankan historian and academic
- 1938Derek Jacobi, English actor
- 1938Christopher Lloyd, American actor, comedian and producer
- 1938César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2024)
- 1939Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician, 2nd President of Mozambique
- 1939George Cohen, English footballer (died 2022)
- 1939Tony Roberts, American actor and singer (died 2025)
- 1941Charles Keating, English-American actor (died 2014)
- 1942Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1966)
- 1942Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (died 2013)
- 1942Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican wrestler (died 2019)
- 1943Allen Coage, American-Canadian wrestler and coach (died 2007)
- 1943Catherine E. Coulson, American actress (died 2015)
- 1943Jan de Bont, Dutch director, producer, and cinematographer
- 1943Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer
- 1943Seif Sharif Hamad, Zanzibari politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Zanzibar (died 2021)
- 1945Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and game show host
- 1945Sheila Sherwood, English long jumper
- 1945Michael Stoute, Barbadian-English horse trainer
- 1945Leslie West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
- 1946Claude Charron, Canadian educator and politician
- 1946Godfrey Chitalu, Zambian footballer (died 1993)
- 1946Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author
- 1946Elizabeth Connell, South African mezzo-soprano (died 2012)
- 1946Kelvin MacKenzie, English journalist
- 1946Jaime Nebot, Ecuadorian politician
- 1947Raymond Bachand, Canadian lawyer and politician
- 1947Haley Barbour, American lawyer and politician, 62nd Governor of Mississippi
- 1947Adam Gondvi, Indian poet (died 2011)
- 1948Mike Hendrick, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 2021)
- 1948Debbie Macomber, American author
- 1949Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 1990)
- 1949Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Employment (died 2015)
- 1949Manfred Trojahn, German flute player, composer, and conductor
- 1949Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
- 1950Donald Ramotar, Guyanese politician, 8th President of Guyana
- 1952Julie Dash, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1952Jeff Goldblum, American actor and producer
- 1953René Arce Islas, Mexican politician
- 1954Graham Joyce, English author and educator (died 2014)
- 1955John Adam, Australian rugby league player
- 1956Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
- 1956Alejandro Kuropatwa, Argentine photographer (died 2003)
- 1957Henry Lauterbach, German jumper
- 1957Daniel Melingo, Argentine musician
- 1958Bobby Blotzer, American drummer
- 1959Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (died 2005)
- 1959Marc Shaiman, American composer and songwriter
- 1960Darryl Jenifer, American bass player
- 1960Brewster Kahle, American digital librarian, computer engineer, and internet entrepreneur
- 1960Cris Kirkwood, American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1961Barbara Potter, American tennis player
- 1962Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian
- 1963Brian Boitano, American figure skater
- 1964TobyMac, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1964Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (died 1993)
- 1964Amit Shah, Indian politician, Minister of Home Affairs (since 2019).
- 1965Sumito Estévez, Venezuelan chef
- 1965Valeria Golino, Italian actress
- 1965John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1965A. L. Kennedy, Scottish comedian, journalist, and author
- 1965Otis Smith, American football player and coach
- 1965Piotr Wiwczarek, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1966Yuri Arbachakov, Russian-Japanese boxer
- 1966Maelo Ruiz, New York City-born Puerto Rican Salsa romántica singer
- 1967Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor
- 1967Oona King, Baroness King of Bow, British business executive and politician
- 1967Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (died 1994)
- 1967Carlos Mencia, Honduran-American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1967Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1968Stephanie Cutter, American lawyer and political consultant
- 1968Shelby Lynne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1968Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968Shaggy, Jamaican singer-songwriter and DJ
- 1969Julio Borges, Venezuelan politician
- 1969Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
- 1969Spike Jonze, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1969Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer-songwriter
- 1969Coque Malla, Spanish musician and actor
- 1970Winston Bogarde, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1970Javier Milei, Argentine politician and economist, President of Argentina
- 1971Amanda Coetzer, South African tennis player
- 1971Kornél Dávid, Hungarian basketball player
- 1971José Manuel Martínez, Spanish runner
- 1971Jennifer Lee, American filmmaker
- 1972Saffron Burrows, English-American actress
- 1973D'Lo Brown, American wrestler
- 1973Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1973Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
- 1973Mark van der Zijden, Dutch swimmer
- 1974Tim Kinsella, American singer-songwriter
- 1974Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1975Martín Cardetti, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1975Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
- 1975Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
- 1976Luke Adams, Australian race walker
- 1978Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (died 2007)
- 1978Owais Shah, Pakistani-English cricketer
- 1979Jannero Pargo, American basketball player and coach
- 1980Niall Breslin, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and footballer
- 1980Luke O'Donnell, Australian rugby league player
- 1981Michael Fishman, American actor and producer
- 1982Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
- 1982Heath Miller, American football player
- 1982Darren O'Day, American baseball player
- 1982Mark Renshaw, Australian cyclist
- 1983Byul, South Korean singer
- 1983Plan B, British singer and actor
- 1984Aleks Marić, Australian basketball player
- 1984Antti Pihlström, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1986Chancellor, South Korean-American musician
- 1986Kyle Gallner, American actor
- 1986Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player
- 1986Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer
- 1987Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian runner
- 1987Donny Montell, Lithuanian singer-songwriter
- 1987Park Ha-sun, South Korean actress
- 1988Sarah Barrow, English diver
- 1988Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress
- 1988Corey Hawkins, American actor
- 1989JPEGMafia, American rapper and singer
- 1989Muhammad Wilkerson, American football player
- 1990Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
- 1990David Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 199221 Savage, British-American rapper
- 1992Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
- 1993Charalambos Lykogiannis, Greek footballer
- 1994Corbin Burnes, American baseball player
- 1996B.I, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and producer
- 1996Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Norwegian ski runner
- 1997Jan Köstering, German politician
- 1998Roddy Ricch, American rapper
- 1999Geraldo Perdomo, Dominican baseball player
- 2000Baby Keem, American rapper and record producer
- 2001Brian Branch, American football player
- 2001Jo Yu-ri, South Korean singer and actress
Fallecimientos
- 726Itzamnaaj K'awiil, a Maya ruler of Dos Pilas
- 741Charles Martel, Frankish political and military leader (born 688)
- 842Abo, Japanese prince (born 792)
- 1383Ferdinand I of Portugal, Portuguese king (born 1345)
- 1493James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton, Scottish earl (born 1426)
- 1565Jean Grolier de Servières, French book collector (born 1479)
- 1604Domingo Báñez, Spanish theologian (born 1528)
- 1626Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyō (born 1561)
- 1708Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian and academic (born 1636)
- 1751William IV, Prince of Orange (born 1711)
- 1792Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (born 1725)
- 1853Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan revolutionary general and politician, President of Uruguay (born 1784)
- 1859Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (born 1784)
- 1883George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1856)
- 1883Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish British novelist and soldier (born 1818)
- 1885Lewis Majendie, English politician (born 1835)
- 1891Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (born 1846)
- 1902Herman Adolfovich Trautschold, German geologist and paleontologist (born 1817)
- 1906Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839)
- 1914Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (born 1866)
- 1917Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (born 1863)
- 1917Charles Pardey Lukis, founder of the Indian Journal of Medical Research and later Director-General of the Indian Medical Service (born 1857)
- 1928Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1862)
- 1934Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (born 1904)
- 1935Edward Carson, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1854)
- 1935Ettore Marchiafava, Italian physician (born 1847)
- 1941Guy Môquet, French militant (born 1924)
- 1952Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (born 1874)
- 1954Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian author and poet (born 1899)
- 1956Hannah Mitchell, English activist (born 1872)
- 1959Joseph Cahill, Australian politician, 29th Premier of New South Wales (born 1891)
- 1965Muriel George, English singer and actress (born 1883)
- 1972James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet, writer, theologian, and social commentator. (born 1926)
- 1973Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (born 1876)
- 1979Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (born 1887)
- 1979Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and author (born 1914)
- 1982Richard Hugo, American poet of the Pacific Northwest (born 1923)
- 1985Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano and educator (born 1894)
- 1986Jane Dornacker, American musician, comedian, and reporter (born 1947)
- 1986Thorgeir Stubø, Norwegian guitarist and composer (born 1943)
- 1986Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (born 1897)
- 1986Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)
- 1987Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (born 1919)
- 1988Cynthia Freeman, American author (born 1915)
- 1989Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (born 1915)
- 1989Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim (born 1978)
- 1990Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1918)
- 1991Hachiro Kasuga, Japanese singer and actor (born 1924)
- 1992Red Barber, American sportscaster (born 1908)
- 1992Cleavon Little, American actor (born 1939)
- 1993Innes Ireland, English racing driver and engineer (born 1930)
- 1995Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, critic (born 1922)
- 1995Mary Wickes, American actress and singer (born 1910)
- 1996Evdokia Reshetnik, Ukrainian zoologist
- 1997Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (born 1905)
- 2001Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcycle racer and journalist (born 1922)
- 2002Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (born 1913)
- 2002Geraldine of Albania, Hungarian noblewoman and Queen of Albania (born 1915)
- 2005Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (born 1928)
- 2005Tony Adams, Irish-American actor and producer (born 1953)
- 2006Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor (born 1922)
- 2007Ève Curie, French pianist and journalist (born 1904)
- 2009Don Lane, American-Australian actor, singer, and talk show host (born 1933)
- 2009Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (born 1926)
- 2010Eio Sakata, Japanese Go player (born 1920)
- 2011Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabian prince (born 1930)
- 2012Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (born 1923)
- 2012Mike Morris, English talk show host (born 1946)
- 2012Gabrielle Roth, American dancer, singer, and author (born 1941)
- 2013Marylou Dawes, Canadian pianist and educator (born 1933)
- 2013Lajos Für, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (born 1930)
- 2013William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (born 1933)
- 2013James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot (born 1925)
- 2014George Francis, English footballer and soldier (born 1934)
- 2014John-Roger Hinkins, American religious leader and author (born 1934)
- 2014Ashok Kumar, Indian director and cinematographer (born 1941)
- 2014John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (born 1922)
- 2015Willem Aantjes, Dutch civil servant and politician (born 1923)
- 2015Çetin Altan, Turkish journalist and politician (born 1927)
- 2015Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (born 1926)
- 2015Arnold Klein, American dermatologist and author (born 1945)
- 2015Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (born 1975)
- 2016Steve Dillon, British comic book artist (born 1962)
- 2016Sheri S. Tepper, American writer (born 1929)
- 2017George Young, Australian musician, songwriter and record producer (born 1946)
- 2017Paul Weitz, American astronaut (born 1932)
- 2021Peter Scolari, American actor (born 1955)
- 2024Richard A. Cash, American global health researcher (born 1941)
- 2024Grizzly 399, American grizzly bear (born 1996)
- 2024Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian philosopher, theologian and priest (born 1928)
- 2024Lynda Obst, American film producer and author (born 1950)
- 2024Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1960)
Celebraciones
- International Stuttering Awareness Day
- Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan)
Santoral
- Abercius of Hieropolis
- Cordula of Cologne
- Donatus of Fiesole
- Marcus of Jerusalem
- Mellonius
- Nunilo and Alodia
- Pope John Paul II
- October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)