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October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 69 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

1601–1900

1901–present

  • 1906Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe.
  • 1911 – The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight.
  • 1912First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
  • 1923 – German October: Due to a miscommunication with the party leadership, a militant section of the Communist Party of Germany launches an insurrection in Hamburg.
  • 1924 – Second Zhili–Fengtian War: Warlord Feng Yuxiang, with the covert support of the Empire of Japan, stages a coup in Beijing against his erstwhile superiors in the Zhili clique, crippling their nearly victorious war effort against the Fengtian clique and forcing them to withdraw from northern China.
  • 1927 – The Imatra Cinema is destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people die in the fire and almost 30 are injured.
  • 1940Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War.
  • 1941The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories.
  • 1942World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
  • 1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a U.S. Army Air Force bomber near Palm Springs, California.
  • 1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal.
  • 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
  • 1955 – Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.
  • 1955 – The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite with West Germany instead of France.
  • 1956 – Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the Hungarian Revolution.
  • 1958 – Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued.
  • 1958 – Belgian artist Peyo's comic characters, the Smurfs, make their debut in Spirou magazine.
  • 1965Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me.
  • 1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
  • 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
  • 1982 – A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured.
  • 1983Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French Army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
  • 1989 – The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
  • 1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine, the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.
  • 1989 – An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314.
  • 1991 – Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
  • 1993The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
  • 1998Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum.
  • 2001Apple Computer releases the iPod.
  • 2002 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
  • 2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
  • 2007 – A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform.
  • 2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
  • 2011 – The Libyan National Transitional Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
  • 2015 – The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.
  • 2017 – War against the Islamic State: Philippine defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana declares the end of the Siege of Marawi.
  • 2020 – Second Libyan Civil War: The Second Libyan Civil War comes to an end as all parties to the 5+5 Joint Libyan Military Commission agree to a ceasefire.
  • 2022Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term of the paramount leader of China.
  • 2022 – Myanmar Air Force airstrikes a concert in Hpakant Township, Kachin state killing at least 80 people, including senior Kachin Independence Organisation officials, in the Hpakant massacre.

Births

Pre-1600

  • 1006 – Wen Yanbo, Chinese grand chancellor (d. 1097)
  • 1255 – Ferdinand de la Cerda, Spanish noble (d. 1275)
  • 1491 (estimated) – Ignatius of Loyola, Catholic priest (d. 1556)
  • 1516 – Charlotte of Valois, French princess (d. 1524)

1601–1900

  • 1634Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish queen (d. 1715)
  • 1654 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, Austrian composer (d. 1712)
  • 1698 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect, designed the École Militaire (d. 1782)
  • 1705Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
  • 1713 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist, poet, and educator (d. 1778)
  • 1762 – Samuel Morey, American engineer (d. 1843)
  • 1766 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (d. 1847)
  • 1790 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American minister, lexicographer, and educator (d. 1860)
  • 1796 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss statistician and politician (d. 1857)
  • 1801Albert Lortzing, German singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1851)
  • 1805John Russell Bartlett, American linguist and historian (d. 1886)
  • 1813Ludwig Leichhardt, German-Australian explorer (d. 1848)
  • 1815 – João Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotejipe, Brazilian politician (d. 1889)
  • 1817Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer and author (d. 1875)
  • 1822 – Gustav Spörer, German astronomer (d. 1895)
  • 1832 – Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg, Finnish priest and father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first President of Finland (d. 1873)
  • 1835Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
  • 1837 – Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist (d. 1902)
  • 1844Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
  • 1844 – Robert Bridges, English poet and playwright (d. 1930)
  • 1857Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
  • 1863 – Mirko Breyer, Croatian writer, bibliographer, antiquarian, and one of the notable alleged and false victims of the Stara Gradiška concentration camp (d. 1946)
  • 1865 – Neltje Blanchan, American historian and author (d. 1918)
  • 1869John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
  • 1870 – Francis Kelley, Canadian-American bishop (d. 1948)
  • 1873William D. Coolidge, American physicist and engineer (d. 1975)
  • 1874 – Charles Kilpatrick, American runner and educator (d. 1921)
  • 1875Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist and academic (d. 1946)
  • 1876Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, Reich Ministry of Justice (d. 1970)
  • 1880 – Dominikus Böhm, German architect (d. 1955)
  • 1880 – Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress and singer (d. 1959)
  • 1883Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (d. 1962)
  • 1885 – Lawren Harris, Canadian painter and educator (d. 1970)
  • 1888 – Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1961)
  • 1892Speckled Red, American blues/boogie-woogie piano player and singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
  • 1894 – Rube Bressler, American baseball player (d. 1966)
  • 1894 – Emma Vyssotsky, American astronomer and academic (d. 1975)
  • 1896 – Hilario Abellana, Filipino politician (d. 1945)
  • 1896 – Lilyan Tashman, American actress (d. 1934)
  • 1897 – John Baker, English air marshal (d. 1978)
  • 1897 – Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, Spanish writer (d. 1975)
  • 1899Bernt Balchen, Norwegian aviator (d. 1973)
  • 1900Douglas Jardine, Indian-English cricketer and lawyer (d. 1958)

1901–present

  • 1902 – Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, Austrian engineer (d. 1982)
  • 1902 – Luther Evans, American political scientist and politician (d. 1981)
  • 1904 – Harvey Penick, American golfer and coach (d. 1995)
  • 1905Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
  • 1905 – Yen Chia-kan, Chinese lawyer and politician, President of the Republic of China (d. 1993)
  • 1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
  • 1908 – František Douda, Czech shot putter (d. 1990)
  • 1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
  • 1909Zellig Harris, American linguist and methodologist (d. 1992)
  • 1910Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator (d. 1993)
  • 1910 – Hayden Rorke, American actor (d. 1987)
  • 1911 – Jack Keller, American hurdler (d. 1978)
  • 1915 – Simo Puupponen, Finnish writer (d. 1967)
  • 1918 – Augusta Dabney, American actress (d. 2008)
  • 1918 – James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
  • 1918 – Paul Rudolph, American architect and academic, designed the Lippo Centre (d. 1997)
  • 1919 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist and academic (d. 1992)
  • 1920 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (d. 1998)
  • 1920 – Bob Montana, American illustrator (d. 1975)
  • 1920 – Gianni Rodari, Italian writer (d. 1980)
  • 1920 – Vern Stephens, American baseball player (d. 1968)
  • 1922Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (d. 2018)
  • 1922 – Coleen Gray, American actress (d. 2015)
  • 1923Aslam Farrukhi, Indian-Pakistani linguist, author, and scholar (d. 2016)
  • 1923 – Ned Rorem, American composer and author (d. 2022)
  • 1923 – Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
  • 1924 – Arthur Brittenden, English journalist (d. 2015)
  • 1925Johnny Carson, American comedian and talk show host (d. 2005)
  • 1925 – Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer and theorist (d. 1994)
  • 1925 – Fred Shero, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1990)
  • 1927Sonny Criss, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
  • 1927 – Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player and coach (d. 2013)
  • 1927 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish-English historian and philosopher (d. 2009)
  • 1929Luis Alarcón, Chilean actor (d. 2023)
  • 1929 – Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (d. 2006)
  • 1930 – Unto Mononen, Finnish musician (d. 1968)
  • 1931Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician (d. 2017)
  • 1931 – William P. Clark, Jr., American judge and politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2013)
  • 1931 – Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984)
  • 1931 – Johnny Kitagawa, Japanese businessman, and talent manager (d. 2019)
  • 1932 – Vasily Belov, Russian novelist, poet and playwright (d. 2012)
  • 1933Carol Fran, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2021)
  • 1933 – Carlos Lemos Simmonds, sixth Vice President of Columbia (d. 2003)
  • 1934 – Caitro Soto, Afro-Peruvian musician (d. 2004)
  • 1935JacSue Kehoe, American neuroscientist (d. 2019)
  • 1935 – Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Puerto Rican-American golfer
  • 1936 – Charles Goodhart, English economist and academic
  • 1936 – Philip Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1937 – Johnny Carroll, American rockabilly musician (d. 1995)
  • 1937 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian captain (d. 1971)
  • 1937 – Deven Verma, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
  • 1938Alan G`ilzean, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2018)
  • 1939 – Charlie Foxx, American R&B/soul singer and guitarist (d. 1998)
  • 1939 – C. V. Vigneswaran, Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st Chief Minister of the Northern Province
  • 1940 – Ellie Greenwich, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2009)
  • 1940 – Jane Holzer, American model, actress, producer, and art collector
  • 1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor (d. 2022)
  • 1941René Metge, French rally driver
  • 1941 – Colin Milburn, English cricketer (d. 1990)
  • 1941 – Igor Smirnov, Moldovan engineer and politician, 1st President of Transnistria
  • 1942Michael Crichton, American author, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
  • 1942 – Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet, critic, and academic
  • 1942 – Bernd Erdmann, German footballer and manager
  • 1942 – Anita Roddick, English businesswoman and activist, founded The Body Shop (d. 2007)
  • 1943 – Alida Chelli, Italian actress and singer (d. 2012)
  • 1944 – Mike Harding, English singer-songwriter and comedian
  • 1945Maggi Hambling, English sculptor and painter
  • 1945 – Kim Larsen, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)
  • 1945 – Graça Machel, Mozambican politician and humanitarian
  • 1945 – Ernie Watts, American saxophonist
  • 1945 – Maury Yeston, American composer, lyricist, and music theorist
  • 1946 – Graeme Barker, English archaeologist and academic
  • 1946 – Alicia Borinsky, Argentine writer
  • 1946 – Mel Martínez, American lawyer and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • 1946 – Miklós Németh, Hungarian javelin thrower
  • 1947 – Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, co-founder of the Palestinian movement Hamas (d. 2004)
  • 1947 – Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (d. 1989)
  • 1947 – Greg Ridley, English bass player (d. 2003)
  • 1948Hermann Hauser, Austrian-English businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti Research Laboratory
  • 1948 – Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British businessman, arts patron and television personality
  • 1948 – Brian Ross, American journalist
  • 1948 – Jordi Sabatés, Spanish musician
  • 1949 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian soldier and politician
  • 1949 – Oscar Martínez, Argentine theater actor
  • 1949 – Nick Tosches, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 2019)
  • 1949 – Würzel, English singer and guitarist (d. 2011)
  • 1950 – Maths O. Sundqvist, Swedish businessman (d. 2012)
  • 1951Ángel de Andrés López, Spanish actor (d. 2016)
  • 1951 – Charly García, Argentine singer-songwriter and keyboard player
  • 1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, Kosovan academic and politician, 2nd President of Kosovo
  • 1951 – David Wills, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1952 – Pierre Moerlen, French drummer (d. 2005)
  • 1952 – Ken Tipton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1953Taner Akçam, Turkish sociologist and historian
  • 1953 – Joaquín Lavín, Chilean politician and economist
  • 1953 – Pauline Black, English singer, actress and author
  • 1954Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1956 – Adam Nawałka, Polish football player and manager
  • 1956 – Darrell Pace, American archer
  • 1956 – Dianne Reeves, American singer
  • 1956 – Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
  • 1957Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda
  • 1957 – Martin Luther King III, American activist
  • 1957 – Graham Rix, English footballer and coach
  • 1958Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, author, and academic
  • 1958 – Rose Nabinger, German singer
  • 1958 – Frank Schaffer, German sprinter
  • 1959Nancy Grace, American lawyer and journalist
  • 1959 – Sam Raimi, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1959 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor
  • 1960 – Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Swiss-French keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
  • 1960 – Katoucha Niane, French model and actress (d. 2008)
  • 1960 – Randy Pausch, American author and academic (d. 2008)
  • 1960 – Wayne Rainey, American motorcycle racer
  • 1961Laurie Halse Anderson, American author
  • 1961 – Vinicio Gómez, Guatemalan politician (d. 2008)
  • 1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer and sportscaster
  • 1962Doug Flutie, American football player and sportscaster
  • 1963Gordon Korman, Canadian-American author
  • 1963 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (d. 2012)
  • 1964 – Eddy Cue, American computer scientist and businessman
  • 1964 – Robert Trujillo, American bass player and songwriter
  • 1965 – Augusten Burroughs, American author and screenwriter
  • 1965 – Al Leiter, American baseball player and sportscaster
  • 1966Alex Zanardi, Italian racing driver and cyclist
  • 1967Dale Crover, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
  • 1967 – Walt Flanagan, American actor and illustrator
  • 1967 – Omar Linares, Cuban baseball player
  • 1967 – Jaime Yzaga, Peruvian tennis player
  • 1969 – Dolly Buster, Czech film producer and director, actress and author
  • 1969 – Trudi Canavan, Australian author and illustrator
  • 1969 – Sanjay Gupta, American neurosurgeon, television personality, and writer
  • 1969 – Jon Huertas, American actor
  • 1969 – Bill O'Brien, American football player and coach
  • 1969 – Brooke Theiss, American actress
  • 1970 – Matthew Barzun, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • 1970 – Grant Imahara, American television presenter and engineer (d. 2020)
  • 1970 – Kenji Nomura, Japanese voice actor
  • 1970 – Zoe Wiseman, American model and photographer
  • 1971 – Carlo Forlivesi, Italian-Japanese composer and scholar
  • 1971 – Chris Horner, American cyclist
  • 1972Kate del Castillo, Mexican actress
  • 1972 – Tiffeny Milbrett, American soccer player
  • 1972 – Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress
  • 1972 – Eduardo Paret, Cuban baseball player
  • 1972 – Bryan Pratt, American lawyer and politician
  • 1972 – Jasmin St. Claire, Virgin Islander-American actress
  • 1972 – Jimmy Wayne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1973 – Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer
  • 1974Aravind Adiga, Indian journalist and author
  • 1974 – Beatrice Faumuina, New Zealand discus thrower
  • 1974 – Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer
  • 1974 – Christine Yoshikawa, Canadian pianist
  • 1975Michelle Beadle, American sportscaster
  • 1975 – Odalys García, Cuban actress
  • 1975 – Phillip Gillespie, Australian cricket umpire
  • 1975 – Jessicka, American singer-songwriter
  • 1975 – Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer
  • 1975 – Keith Van Horn, American basketball player
  • 1975 – Manuela Velasco, Spanish actress
  • 1976Cat Deeley, English model, actress, and television host
  • 1976 – Sergio Diduch, Argentine footballer
  • 1976 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian-American actor and producer
  • 1977Brad Haddin, Australian cricketer
  • 1977 – Alex Tudor, English cricketer and coach
  • 1978Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
  • 1978 – Steve Harmison, English cricketer and sportscaster
  • 1978 – John Lackey, American baseball player
  • 1978 – Archie Thompson, New Zealand-Australian footballer
  • 1979 – Ramón Castro, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 1979 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
  • 1979 – Lynn Greer, American basketball player
  • 1979 – Prabhas, Telugu film actor
  • 1979 – Jorge Solís, Mexican boxer
  • 1979 – Bud Smith, American baseball player
  • 1980 – Mate Bilić, Croatian footballer
  • 1980 – Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
  • 1981Daniela Alvarado, Venezuelan actress
  • 1981 – Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver
  • 1981 – Leticia Dolera, Spanish actress
  • 1981 – Ben Francisco, American baseball player
  • 1981 – Lee Ki-woo, South Korean actor
  • 1981 – Jackie Long, American actor and producer
  • 1981 – Mirel Rădoi, Romanian footballer
  • 1981 – Huo Siyan, Chinese actress
  • 1982 – Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer
  • 1982 – Kristjan Kangur, Estonian basketball player
  • 1982 – Aleksandar Luković, Serbian footballer
  • 1982 – Rickey Paulding, American basketball player
  • 1982 – Rodolfo, Brazilian footballer
  • 1983 – Filippos Darlas, Greek footballer
  • 1983 – Valentin Demyanenko, Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani canoeist
  • 1983 – Goldie Harvey, Nigerian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
  • 1984 – Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
  • 1984 – Jeffrey Hoogervorst, Dutch footballer
  • 1984 – Simone Masini, Italian footballer
  • 1984 – Meghan McCain, American journalist, author, and television personality
  • 1984 – Michael Sim, Australian golfer
  • 1984 – Keiren Westwood, English footballer
  • 1985 – Mohammed Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
  • 1985 – Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
  • 1985 – Miguel, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1985 – Chris Neal, English footballer
  • 1985 – Luca Spinetti, Italian footballer
  • 1985 – Panagiotis Vouis, Greek footballer
  • 1986Emilia Clarke, English actress
  • 1986 – Briana Evigan, American actress and dancer
  • 1986 – Inbar Lavi, Israeli actress
  • 1986 – Jovanka Radičević, Montenegrin handball player
  • 1986 – Jake Robinson, English footballer
  • 1986 – Jessica Stroup, American actress
  • 1987 – Carmella, American wrestler
  • 1987 – Robin Copeland, Irish rugby player
  • 1987 – Félix Doubront, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 1987 – Faye, Swedish singer-songwriter
  • 1987 – Kyle Gibson, American baseball player
  • 1987 – Seo In-guk, South Korean singer and actor
  • 1987 – Miyuu Sawai, Japanese model and actress
  • 1987 – Naomi Watanabe, Japanese actress
  • 1988Jordan Crawford, American basketball player
  • 1988 – Aleksandr Salugin, Russian footballer
  • 1988 – Carolin Schiewe, German footballer
  • 1989 – Viktor Agardius, Swedish footballer
  • 1989 – Alain Baroja, Venezuelan footballer
  • 1989 – Zach Brown, American football player
  • 1989 – Jonita Gandhi, Indo-Canadian singer
  • 1989 – Anisya Kirdyapkina, Russian race walker
  • 1989 – Andriy Yarmolenko, Ukrainian footballer
  • 1990 – Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1991Emil Forsberg, Swedish footballer
  • 1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
  • 1991 – Jorge Taufua, Australian rugby league player
  • 1993 – Josh Ruffels, English footballer
  • 1993 – Taylor Spreitler, American actress
  • 1994Margaret Qualley, American actress
  • 1995 – Ireland Baldwin, American model
  • 1997 – Nick Bosa, American football player
  • 1997 – Élie Okobo, French basketball player
  • 1997 – Jaydn Su'A, New Zealand rugby league player
  • 1998Amandla Stenberg, American actress
  • 1999 – Yui Kobayashi, Japanese idol
  • 2002 – Shin Eun-soo, South Korean actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

  • 42 BCMarcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman general and politician (b. 85 BC)
  • 877 – Ignatios of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch (b. 797)
  • 891 – Yazaman al-Khadim, Abbasid general and politician
  • 902 – Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir (b. 850)
  • 930 – Daigo, Japanese emperor (b. 885)
  • 945 – Hyejong of Goryeo, Korean king (b. 912)
  • 949Yōzei, Japanese emperor (b. 869)
  • 1134 – Abu al-Salt, Andalusian polymath
  • 1157 – Sweyn III, Danish king (b. c. 1125)
  • 1456 – John of Capistrano, Italian priest and saint (b. 1386)
  • 1550 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (b. 1480)
  • 1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)

1601–1900

1901–present

  • 1910Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
  • 1915W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
  • 1916 – Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
  • 1917 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
  • 1921John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
  • 1935Charles Demuth, American painter and educator (b. 1883)
  • 1939Zane Grey, American dentist and author (b. 1872)
  • 1942 – Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (b. 1901)
  • 1943 – Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
  • 1944Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
  • 1944 – Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931)
  • 1950Al Jolson, Lithuanian-American actor and singer (b. 1886)
  • 1953 – Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869)
  • 1959 – George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885)
  • 1959 – Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
  • 1964 – Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (b. 1886)
  • 1975 – Marjorie Maynard British artist and farmer (b. 1891)
  • 1978Maybelle Carter, American singer and autoharp player (Carter Family) (b. 1909)
  • 1980 – Tibor Rosenbaum, Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (b. 1923)
  • 1983 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
  • 1984Oskar Werner, Austrian-German actor (b. 1922)
  • 1986Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
  • 1988 – Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (b. 1929)
  • 1989 – Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
  • 1990Thomas Williams, American author and academic (b. 1926)
  • 1994 – Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 1996 – Bob Grim, American baseball player (b. 1930)
  • 1997 – Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
  • 1998 – Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
  • 1999 – Eric Reece, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1909)
  • 2000 – Yokozuna, American wrestler (b. 1966)
  • 2001 – Josh Kirby, English illustrator (b. 1928)
  • 2001 – Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and historian (b. 1917)
  • 2002Adolph Green, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1915)
  • 2003 – Tony Capstick, English actor and singer (b. 1944)
  • 2003 – Soong Mei-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek, 2nd First Lady of the Republic of China (b. 1898)
  • 2004 – Robert Merrill, American actor and singer (b. 1919)
  • 2004 – Bill Nicholson, English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1919)
  • 2005William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
  • 2005 – John Muth, American economist and academic (b. 1930)
  • 2005 – Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian wife of Olusegun Obasanjo, 10th First Lady of Nigeria (b. 1945)
  • 2006 – Lebo Mathosa, South African singer (Boom Shaka) (b. 1977)
  • 2007John Ilhan, Turkish-Australian businessman, founded Crazy John's (b. 1965)
  • 2007 – Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian-Chinese businessman (b. 1918)
  • 2008 – Kevin Finnegan, English boxer (b. 1948)
  • 2009 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian-American actor (b. 1913)
  • 2010 – Fran Crippen, American swimmer (b. 1984)
  • 2010 – Stanley Tanger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (b. 1923)
  • 2011Herbert A. Hauptman, American chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
  • 2011 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
  • 2012 – William Joel Blass, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Wilhelm Brasse, Polish photographer (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Roland de la Poype, French soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian author and poet (b. 1934)
  • 2012 – Michael Marra, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
  • 2013 – Wes Bialosuknia, American basketball player (b. 1945)
  • 2013 – Anthony Caro, English sculptor and academic (b. 1924)
  • 2013 – Niall Donohue, Irish hurler (b. 1990)
  • 2013 – Gypie Mayo, English guitarist and songwriter (Dr. Feelgood and The Yardbirds) (b. 1951)
  • 2013 – Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1920)
  • 2014 – Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1922)
  • 2014 – John Bramlett, American football player (b. 1941)
  • 2014 – Bernard Mayes, English-American journalist and academic (b. 1929)
  • 2014 – Joan Quigley, American astrologer and author (b. 1927)
  • 2014 – Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1931)
  • 2014 – Alvin Stardust, English singer and actor (b. 1942)
  • 2015 – Leon Bibb, American-Canadian singer (b. 1922)
  • 2015 – Roger De Clerck, Belgian businessman (b. 1924)
  • 2015 – Jim Roberts, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1940)
  • 2015 – Fred Sands, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art (b. 1938)
  • 2016Jack Chick, American cartoonist and publisher (b. 1924)
  • 2016 – Wim van der Voort, Dutch speed skater (b. 1923)
  • 2016 – Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
  • 2017Walter Lassally, German cinematographer (b. 1926)
  • 2018 – Todd Reid, Australian tennis player (b. 1984)
  • 2022 – Adriano Moreira, Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS – People's Party (b. 1922)
  • 2023 – Aira Samulin, Finnish entrepreneur and dance teacher (b. 1927)
  • 2023 – Bishan Singh Bedi, Indian cricketer (b. 1946)

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