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Acontecimientos
- 312Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
- 437Valentinian 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.
- 1268Conradin, the last Hohenstaufen king, is executed at Naples.
- 1281The Mamluk Sultanate defeats the Ilkhanate in the second battle of Homs.
- 1390First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
- 1467Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
- 1611Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
- 1621The London Pageant of 1621 celebrates the inauguration of Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor).
- 1658Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
- 1665Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
- 1675Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
- 1792Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
- 1863Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
- 1863American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet in one of the few night battles of the war, protecting the Union's recently opened supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1888The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
- 1914World War I : the Ottoman Empire enters the war on the side of the Central Powers.
- 1918World War I: the German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
- 1923Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1929Black Tuesday: The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and eventually contributing to the Great Depression.
- 1941The 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".
- 1944World War II: The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
- 1944World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
- 1948Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
- 1953BCPA Flight 304, a DC-6, crashes near San Francisco.
- 1955The sinks after probably striking a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol, with a loss of more than 600 sailers.
- 1956Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
- 1957Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into the Knesset.
- 1960An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
- 1964The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania.
- 1964Biggest jewel heist in American history when Murph the Surf and gang burgle the American Museum of Natural History stealing the Star of India and other gems.
- 1967Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- 1969The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
- 1972The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
- 1980Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in a crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida, leading to the cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
- 1985Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
- 1986British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
- 1991The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
- 1994Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 1998In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
- 1998Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time.
- 1998ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with live coverage of the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
- 1998Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
- 1998The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures over 200.
- 1999A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
- 2002A fire destroys a luxurious department store in Ho Chi Minh City, where 1,500 people are shopping. More than 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for in the deadliest peacetime disaster in Vietnam.
- 2004The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
- 2005Bombings in Delhi, India kill 67 and injure over 200 people.
- 2006ADC Airlines Flight 053 crashes after takeoff from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria killing 96 people and injuring nine.
- 2008Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
- 2008A pair of deadly earthquakes hits Baluchistan, Pakistan, killing 215.
- 2012Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing hundreds, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
- 2014A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.
- 2015China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.
- 2018Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board. This is the first of two crashes that will lead to the plane being grounded worldwide.
- 2020Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is suspended from the Labour Party following his response to findings from the EHRC on the issue of antisemitism within the party.
- 2022At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea.
- 2022At least 100 people are killed and over 300 are injured by a double car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Nacimientos
- 1463Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (died 1512)
- 1497Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Italian cardinal (died 1549)
- 1504Shin Saimdang, South Korean painter and poet (died 1551)
- 1507Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (died 1582)
- 1550Laura Guidiccioni, Italian noblewoman and poet (died 1597/9)
- 1562George Abbot, English archbishop and academic (died 1633)
- 1682Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian, explorer, and author (died 1761)
- 1690Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1754)
- 1704John Byng, English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (died 1757)
- 1711Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have doctorate in science (died 1778)
- 1740James Boswell, Scottish lawyer and author (died 1795)
- 1808Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (died 1873)
- 1812Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (died 1907)
- 1815Dan Emmett, American composer (died 1904)
- 1822Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Russian-Polish cardinal (died 1902)
- 1831James Boucaut, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of South Australia (died 1916)
- 1832Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (died 1869)
- 1837Harriet Powers, American folk artist and quilter (died 1910)
- 1855Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (died 1939)
- 1855Paul-Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic (died 1941)
- 1861Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (died 1904)
- 1866Antonio Luna, Filipino general and politician (died 1899)
- 1866Carl Gustav Witt, German astronomer (died 1946)
- 1875Marie of Romania (died 1938)
- 1877Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film producer (died 1966)
- 1877Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (died 1973)
- 1879Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and politician (died 1941)
- 1879Franz von Papen, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969)
- 1880Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (died 1960)
- 1881John DeWitt, American football player and hammer thrower (died 1930)
- 1882Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (died 1944)
- 1883Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water polo player (died 1966)
- 1891Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (died 1951)
- 1897Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
- 1897Billy Walker, English footballer (died 1964)
- 1898Alan Barker, English soldier (died 1984)
- 1899Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor (died 1972)
- 1901Émilienne Morin, French activist (died 1991)
- 1905Henry Green, English author (died 1973)
- 1906Fredric Brown, American author (died 1972)
- 1907Edwige Feuillère, French actress (died 1998)
- 1910A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author (died 1989)
- 1913Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (died 2014)
- 1914Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (died 2012)
- 1915William Berenberg, American physician and academic (died 2005)
- 1918Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)
- 1918Diana Serra Cary, American actress and author (died 2020)
- 1920Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)
- 1920Václav Neumann, Czech violinist and conductor (died 1995)
- 1921Baselios Thoma Didymos I, Indian metropolitan (died 2014)
- 1921Baku Mahadeva, Sri Lankan civil servant and academic (died 2013)
- 1921Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (died 2003)
- 1922Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer (died 2008)
- 1923Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (died 2015)
- 1923Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch runner, hurdler, and long jumper (died 2015)
- 1924Bernard Middleton, British restoration bookbinder (died 2019)
- 1925Dominick Dunne, American journalist and author (died 2009)
- 1925Robert Hardy, English actor (died 2017)
- 1925Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (died 2012)
- 1925Klaus Roth, British mathematician (died 2015)
- 1925Zoot Sims, American saxophonist and composer (died 1985)
- 1926Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish engineer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Turkey (died 2011)
- 1926Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor and actor (died 2015)
- 1927Frank Sedgman, Australian tennis player
- 1929Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (died 2015)
- 1930Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (died 2006)
- 1930Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor and painter (died 2002)
- 1930Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer and dancer
- 1930Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (died 1992)
- 1932Dick Garmaker, American basketball player (died 2020)
- 1932Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and politician
- 1933William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (died 2013)
- 1935David Allen, English cricketer (died 2014)
- 1935Eddie Hopkinson, English footballer (died 2004)
- 1935Michael Jayston, English actor (died 2024)
- 1935Isao Takahata, Japanese director (died 2018)
- 1937Sonny Osborne, American bluegrass singer and banjo player (died 2021)
- 1938Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1938Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938Peter Stampfel, American fiddle player, violinist, and singer-songwriter
- 1940Connie Mack III, American lawyer and politician
- 1940Jack Shepherd, English actor, director, and playwright (died 2025)
- 1940Galen Weston, English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded George Weston Limited (died 2021)
- 1941George Davies, English fashion designer
- 1941Paul Tyler, Baron Tyler, English politician
- 1942Lee Clayton, American rock/country musician and songwriter (died 2023)
- 1942Bob Ross, American painter and television host (died 1995)
- 1943Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 1996)
- 1944Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman
- 1944Mehmet Haberal, Turkish surgeon and academic
- 1944Denny Laine, English singer-songwriter and musician (died 2023)
- 1944Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch musician and songwriter
- 1945Mick Gallagher, English keyboard player and songwriter
- 1945Ron Maag, American businessman and politician
- 1945Melba Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1945Gerrit Ybema, Dutch civil servant and politician (died 2012)
- 1946Peter Green, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
- 1947Helen Coonan, Australian lawyer and politician, 52nd Australian Minister for Communications
- 1947Richard Dreyfuss, American actor and activist
- 1948Frans de Waal, Dutch-American ethologist, author, and academic (died 2024)
- 1948Kate Jackson, American actress, director, and producer
- 1949Kieron Baker, English footballer
- 1949Raphael Carl Lee, American surgeon and academic
- 1949Paul Orndorff, American football player and wrestler (died 2021)
- 1949David Paton, Scottish guitarist
- 1949James Williamson, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1950Abdullah Gül, Turkish academic and politician, 11th President of Turkey
- 1951Dirk Kempthorne, American businessman and politician, 49th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2026)
- 1951Tiff Needell, English race car driver and television host
- 1952Marcia Fudge, American lawyer and politician
- 1953Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1955Kevin DuBrow, American heavy metal singer-songwriter (died 2007)
- 1956Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican-American boxer
- 1957Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice artist, comedian, singer and producer
- 1958Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter, sculptor, and illustrator
- 1958David Remnick, American journalist and author
- 1958Danny Vranes, American basketball player
- 1959Jesse Barfield, American baseball player and coach
- 1959Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1959Finola Hughes, English actress
- 1959John Magufuli, Tanzanian politician, 5th President of Tanzania (died 2021)
- 1960Michael Carter, American football player and athlete
- 1960Fabiola Gianotti, Italian physicist and academic
- 1960Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer
- 1961Randy Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
- 1961Joel Otto, American ice hockey player and coach
- 1962Einar Örn Benediktsson, Icelandic singer, trumpet player, and politician
- 1963Damian Chapa, American actor
- 1963Gerald Morris, American author
- 1964Yasmin Le Bon, English model
- 1964Eddie McGuire, Australian businessman and television host
- 1965Tyler Collins, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1965Andrew Ettingshausen, Australian rugby league player and television host
- 1965Michael Passons, American singer-songwriter
- 1966Mary Bucholtz, American linguist and academic
- 1967Beth Chapman, American reality television star (died 2019)
- 1967Thorsten Fink, German footballer and manager
- 1967Joely Fisher, American actress and director
- 1967Rufus Sewell, English actor
- 1968Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater and physician
- 1969David Farr, English director and playwright
- 1969Chris Verene, American photographer
- 1970Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1970Dan Ratushny, Canadian ice hockey player and coach and lawyer
- 1970Kaido Reivelt, Estonian physicist and academic
- 1970Toby Smith, English keyboardist and songwriter (died 2017)
- 1970Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer and sportscaster
- 1971Daniel J. Bernstein, American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic
- 1971Greg Blewett, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
- 1971Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
- 1971Winona Ryder, American actress and producer
- 1972Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress and producer
- 1972Takafumi Horie, Japanese businessman, founded Livedoor
- 1972Gabrielle Union, American actress and producer
- 1973Vonetta Flowers, American bobsledder, sprinter, and long jumper
- 1973Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973Robert Pires, French footballer
- 1974R. A. Dickey, American baseball player
- 1974Michael Vaughan, English cricketer and sportscaster
- 1974Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician
- 1975Baba Ali, Iranian-American comedian, games developer, businessman, and actor
- 1975Joy Osmanski, American actress
- 1976Stephen Craigan, Irish footballer and manager
- 1976Milena Govich, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1976Raghava Lawrence, Indian actor, director, and choreographer
- 1976Mark Sheehan, Irish guitarist (died 2023)
- 1977Jon Abrahams, American actor
- 1977Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
- 1978Travis Henry, American football player
- 1978Kelly Smith, English footballer
- 1979Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan lawyer and politician
- 1979Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor, director, and producer
- 1980Ben Foster, American actor
- 1980Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
- 1981Amanda Beard, American swimmer
- 1981Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer
- 1981Angelika dela Cruz, Filipino actress and singer
- 1982Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
- 1982Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syrian revolutionary and military leader, President of Syria
- 1983Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
- 1983Maurice Clarett, American football player
- 1983Freddy Eastwood, Welsh footballer
- 1983Jérémy Mathieu, French footballer
- 1983Nurcan Taylan, Turkish weightlifter
- 1984Chris Baio, American bass player
- 1984Lee Chung-ah, South Korean actress
- 1984Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985Cal Crutchlow, English motorcycle racer
- 1985Ximena Sariñana, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
- 1985Vijender Singh, Indian boxer
- 1986Italia Ricci, Canadian actress
- 1987Andy Dalton, American football player
- 1987Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater
- 1987Tove Lo, Swedish singer
- 1987Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer and actress
- 1988Janoris Jenkins, American football player
- 1989Irina Karamanos, Chilean anthropologist and political scientist, First Lady of Chile
- 1989Primož Roglič, Slovenian ski jumper and cyclist
- 1990Ender Inciarte, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1990Ben Proudfoot, Canadian filmmaker
- 1990Eric Saade, Swedish singer
- 1991Parris Goebel, New Zealand dancer and choreographer
- 1991Nikita Zaitsev, Russian ice hockey player
- 1992Evan Fournier, French basketball player
- 1992Colin Miller, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1993Ágnes Bukta, Hungarian tennis player
- 1993India Eisley, American actress
- 1994Danielle Hunter, American football player
- 1996Vince Dunn, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1996Mikko Rantanen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1996Astrid S, Norwegian singer and songwriter
- 1998Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver
Fallecimientos
- 1050Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury
- 1266Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (born 1204)
- 1268Conradin, King of Sicily (born 1252)
- 1268Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (born 1249)
- 1321Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (born 1253)
- 1339Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (born 1301)
- 1590Dirck Coornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (born 1522)
- 1618Walter Raleigh, English admiral, explorer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1554)
- 1650David Calderwood, Scottish historian and theologian (born 1575)
- 1666Edmund Calamy the Elder, English minister and activist (born 1600)
- 1666James Shirley, English dramatist (born 1596)
- 1783Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1717)
- 1804Sarah Crosby, English Methodist preacher (born 1729)
- 1829Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (born 1751)
- 1871Andrea Debono, Maltese trader and explorer (born 1821)
- 1877Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and KKK leader (born 1821)
- 1892William Harnett, American painter (born 1848)
- 1897Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (born 1839)
- 1900Fatima Cates, British Muslim convert and activist (born 1865)
- 1901Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (born 1873)
- 1905Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (born 1873)
- 1911Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (born 1847)
- 1916John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (born 1851)
- 1918Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (born 1873)
- 1919Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (born 1843)
- 1924Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (born 1849)
- 1932Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (born 1857)
- 1933Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (born 1863)
- 1933George Luks, American painter and illustrator (born 1867)
- 1933Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (born 1853)
- 1936Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (born 1874)
- 1939Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (born 1864)
- 1941Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (born 1897)
- 1942Edward S. Anthoine, American politician and lawyer (born 1882)
- 1949George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1872)
- 1949Thomas Slater Price, British chemist (born 1875)
- 1950Gustaf V of Sweden (born 1858)
- 1951Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (born 1864)
- 1953William Kapell, American pianist (born 1922)
- 1956Louis Rosier, French race car driver (born 1905)
- 1957Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American production manager and producer (born 1885)
- 1958Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1886)
- 1961Astrid Holm, Danish actress (born 1893)
- 1963Adolphe Menjou, American actor (born 1890)
- 1971Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)
- 1971Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
- 1975Edmund Hirst, British chemist (born 1898)
- 1977Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (born 1926)
- 1980Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1911)
- 1981Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1921)
- 1985Evgeny Lifshitz, Soviet physicist (born 1915)
- 1986Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (born 1913)
- 1987Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (born 1913)
- 1988Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (born 1903)
- 1993Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (born 1914)
- 1994Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (born 1918)
- 1995Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, screenwriter (born 1924)
- 1996Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (born 1908)
- 1997Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (born 1930)
- 1997Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1947)
- 1998Paul Misraki, Turkish-French pianist and composer (born 1908)
- 1999Greg, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1931)
- 2000Carlos Guastavino, Argentinian pianist and composer (born 1912)
- 2002Glenn McQueen, Canadian-American animator (born 1960)
- 2003Hal Clement, American pilot, author, and educator (born 1922)
- 2003Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor (born 1921)
- 2004Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (born 1901)
- 2004Admire Vega, Japanese thoroughbred horse (born 1966)
- 2004Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (born 1946)
- 2004Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, Premier of Dominica (born 1923)
- 2004Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (born 1916)
- 2005Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (born 1924)
- 2005Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (born 1903)
- 2008Mike Baker, American singer-songwriter (born 1963)
- 2011Jimmy Savile, English radio and television host (born 1926)
- 2012Letitia Baldrige, American etiquette expert and author (born 1926)
- 2012J. Bernlef, Dutch author, poet, and songwriter (born 1937)
- 2012Kenneth G. Ryder, American academic (born 1924)
- 2012Wallace L. W. Sargent, English-American astronomer and academic (born 1935)
- 2012Jack Vaughn, American boxer and diplomat (born 1920)
- 2013Jean Rénald Clérismé, Haitian priest and politician, Foreign Minister of Haiti (born 1937)
- 2013Sherman Halsey, American director and producer (born 1957)
- 2013John Spence, American soldier and engineer (born 1918)
- 2013Graham Stark, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
- 2014Roger Freeman, American lawyer and politician (born 1965)
- 2014Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1968)
- 2014H. Gary Morse, American businessman (born 1936)
- 2015Luther Burden, American basketball player and coach (born 1953)
- 2015Ernesto Herrera, Filipino businessman and politician (born 1942)
- 2015Boris Kristančič, Slovene basketball player and coach (born 1931)
- 2015Ranko Žeravica, Serbian basketball player and coach (born 1929)
- 2019John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (born 1942)
- 2020Angelika Amon, Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist (born 1967)
- 2021Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer (born 1945)
- 2023Hiroshi Morie, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (born 1968)
- 2024Teri Garr, American actress and comedian (born 1944)
Celebraciones
- Coronation Day (Cambodia)
- National Cat Day (United States)
- Republic Day (Turkey) or Cumhuriyet Bayramı
Santoral
- Abraham of Rostov
- Blessed Chiara Badano
- Colman mac Duagh
- Douai Martyrs
- Gaetano Errico
- James Hannington (Anglicanism)
- Michele Rua
- Narcissus of Jerusalem
- Theuderius
- October 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)