October 10

Events

• 680 - The Battle of Karbala was fought.
• 732 - Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
• 1471 - Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
• 1575 - Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
• 1580 - Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.
• 1631 - Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.
• 1760 - In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
• 1780 - The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
• 1814 - War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.
• 1845 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School opens with 50 students.
• 1846 - Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
• 1868 - The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
• 1871 - Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
• 1903 - The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
• 1911 - The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
• 1913 - U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
• 1918 - RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.
• 1920 - The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
• 1928 - Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
• 1933 - A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
• 1935 - In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
• 1938 - Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
• 1945 - The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.
• 1954 - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.
• 1957 - U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
• 1957 - The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
• 1963 - France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
• 1963 - The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
• 1964 - The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
• 1966 - The Beach Boys release one of their biggest singles, ranked the 6th greatest song by Rolling Stone, "Good Vibrations".
• 1967 - The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
• 1970 - Fiji becomes independent.
• 1970 - Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec's vice-premier is kidnapped by members of the FLQ.
• 1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
• 1975 - Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
• 1980 - The 7.1 El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
• 1980 - The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
• 1985 - US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
• 1986 - A 5.7 San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
• 1997 - Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
• 1998 - A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
• 2007 - Team Fortress 2 is released by Valve Corporation
• 2009 - Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.
• 2010 - The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
• 2015 - Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 102 and injure 400.
• 2018 - Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

  Births

• AD 19 - Tiberius Gemellus, Roman son of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla
• 786 - Saga, emperor of Japan
• 867 - Li Siyuan, Chinese emperor
• 1332 - King Charles II of Navarre
• 1344 - Mary of Waltham, duchess of Brittany
• 1355 - Zhu Biao, Chinese prince
• 1421 - John Paston, English politician
• 1486 - Charles III, Duke of Savoy
• 1554 - Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg and Lord of Rheda
• 1560 - Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian
• 1567 - Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain
• 1584 - Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
• 1599 - Étienne Moulinié, French composer and director
• 1629 - Richard Towneley, English mathematician and astronomer
• 1646 - Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, French noblewoman
• 1656 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter and academic
• 1669 - Johann Nicolaus Bach, German organist and composer
• 1678 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician, Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland
• 1684 - Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter
• 1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor and illustrator
• 1731 - Henry Cavendish, French-English chemist, physicist, and philosopher
• 1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher
• 1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American judge and politician
• 1810 - Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania
• 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer and philanthropist
• 1819 - Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian and author
• 1825 - Paul Kruger, South African soldier and politician, 5th President of the South African Republic
• 1828 - Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• 1830 - Isabella II of Spain
• 1834 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright
• 1837 - Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel
• 1842 - Emily Dobson, Australian philanthropist
• 1858 - Maurice Prendergast, American painter and academic
• 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1864 - T. Frank Appleby, American businessman and politician
• 1870 - Louise Mack, Australian journalist, author, and poet
• 1872 - Dionysios Kasdaglis, Egyptian-Greek tennis player
• 1877 - William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors
• 1884 - Nikolai Klyuev, Russian poet and author
• 1884 - Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter
• 1885 - Walter Anderson, Belarusian-German ethnologist and academic
• 1885 - Jean Peyrière, French actor
• 1889 - Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and forger
• 1895 - Alfred Neuland, Estonian weightlifter
• 1895 - Fridolf Rhudin, Swedish actor
• 1895 - Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal
• 1898 - Lilly Daché, French-American fashion designer
• 1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress
• 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter
• 1902 - K. Shivaram Karanth, Indian journalist, author, and activist
• 1903 - Prince Charles, Count of Flanders
• 1903 - Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter
• 1903 - Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and academic
• 1905 - Aksella Luts, Estonian actress, screenwriter, dancer, and choreographer
• 1906 - Paul Creston, American composer and educator
• 1906 - Fei Mu, Chinese director and screenwriter
• 1906 - R. K. Narayan, Indian author
• 1908 - Johnny Green, American conductor and composer
• 1908 - Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan author and poet
• 1909 - Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director
• 1910 - Julius Shulman, American photographer and environmentalist
• 1911 - Clare Hollingworth, English journalist and author
• 1912 - Ram Vilas Sharma, Indian poet and critic
• 1913 - Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player and businessman
• 1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1915 - Harry Edison, American trumpet player and composer
• 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer
• 1919 - Willard Estey, Canadian academic and jurist
• 1919 - Gerry Gomez, Trinidadian cricketer, manager, and umpire
• 1919 - Kim Ki-young, South Korean director, screenwriter, producer, and editor
• 1919 - William Kruskal, American mathematician and statistician
• 1919 - Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1920 - Gail Halvorsen, American air force pilot known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber."
• 1922 - Merv Pregulman, American football player, businessman, and philanthropist
• 1923 - Louis Gottlieb, American singer and bass player
• 1923 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor and game show host
• 1923 - Murray Walker, English journalist and sportscaster
• 1924 - James Clavell, Australian-American director, producer, screenwriter, and author
• 1924 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French actress, ballerina, and choreographer
• 1924 - Ed Wood, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter
• 1926 - Oscar Brown, American singer-songwriter, playwright, and actor
• 1926 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor
• 1927 - Dana Elcar, American actor and director
• 1927 - Jon Locke, American actor
• 1927 - Thomas Wilson, American-Scottish composer and educator
• 1928 - Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano
• 1928 - Sheila Walsh, English author
• 1929 - Ayten Alpman, Turkish singer
• 1929 - Herb Levinson, American actor
• 1929 - Bernard Mayes, English-American journalist and academic
• 1930 - Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver
• 1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 - Harry Smith, English footballer
• 1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and businessman
• 1935 - Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah
• 1935 - André Bureau, Canadian lawyer and businessman
• 1935 - Judith Chalmers, English television host and actress
• 1936 - Gerhard Ertl, German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 - Bruce Devlin, Australian golfer and sportscaster
• 1937 - Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania
• 1938 - Oleg Gordievsky, Russian intelligence officer and author
• 1938 - Daidō Moriyama, Japanese photographer
• 1938 - Lily Tuck, American novelist and short story writer
• 1938 - Leroy Hood, American biologist and academic
• 1939 - Joe Pitts, American captain and politician
• 1940 - Winston Churchill, English journalist and politician
• 1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1941 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist
• 1942 - Janis Hansen, American singer and author
• 1942 - Radu Vasile, Romanian historian and politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania
• 1943 - Frederick Barthelme, American novelist and short story writer
• 1945 - Christopher Hill, English bishop
• 1945 - Vanburn Holder, Barbadian cricketer
• 1945 - Headman Shabalala, South African bass singer
• 1946 - Charles Dance, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese lawyer and politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan
• 1946 - Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 - Anne Mather, English author and screenwriter
• 1946 - John Prine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 - Raymond Tallis, English physician, philosopher, author, and academic
• 1946 - Chris Tarrant, English radio and television host
• 1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1946 - Willard White, Jamaican-English actor and singer
• 1947 - Gary Beach, American actor and singer
• 1947 - Giant Haystacks, English wrestler
• 1947 - Ojārs Arvīds Feldbergs, Latvian sculptor
• 1948 - Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough, English academic and businesswoman
• 1948 - Cyril Neville, American R&B percussionist and singer
• 1948 - Séverine, French singer and actress
• 1949 - Warren Burt, American-Australian composer
• 1949 - Lance Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
• 1949 - Wang Wanxing, Chinese activist
• 1950 - Charlie George, English footballer
• 1950 - Nora Roberts, American author
• 1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian general and politician, 16th Minister for Fijian Affairs
• 1951 - Kevin McFoy Dunn, American guitarist, songwriter and producer
• 1952 - Dela Smith, English educator
• 1953 - Fiona Rae, Scottish painter
• 1953 - Midge Ure, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1953 - Aleksander Veingold, Estonian chess player and coach
• 1953 - Gus Williams, American basketball player
• 1954 - Rekha, Indian actress
• 1954 - David Lee Roth, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1954 - Fernando Santos, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1956 - Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress and producer
• 1956 - David Hempleman-Adams, English businessman and adventurer
• 1956 - Taur Matan Ruak, East Timorese politician, 3rd President of East Timor
• 1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 - Michael Cobley, English-Scottish author
• 1959 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer-songwriter
• 1959 - Bill Rammell, English academic and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
• 1959 - Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor and producer
• 1959 - Arif Peçenek, Turkish football player and manager
• 1960 - Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 - Eric Martin, American singer-songwriter
• 1960 - Russell Slade, English football manager
• 1960 - Paul Thiebaud, American art dealer
• 1960 - Simon Townshend, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1961 - Scott Hoffman, American drummer
• 1961 - Henrik Jørgensen, Danish runner
• 1961 - Martin Kemp, English singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1962 - Thomas Rusch, German photographer
• 1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
• 1963 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1963 - Daniel Pearl, American-Israeli journalist
• 1963 - Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian skier
• 1964 - Sarah Lancashire, English actress and director
• 1964 - Crystal Waters, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
• 1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
• 1965 - Chris Penn, American actor
• 1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American-English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer and manager
• 1966 - Bai Ling, Chinese-American model and actress
• 1966 - Derrick McKey, American basketball player
• 1967 - Michael Giacchino, American composer
• 1967 - Jonathan Littell, American-French author and humanitarian
• 1967 - Mike Malinin, American drummer and producer
• 1967 - Gavin Newsom, American businessman and politician, 40th and current Governor of California
• 1967 - Jacek Zieliński, Polish footballer and coach
• 1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch cyclist
• 1968 - Feridun Düzağaç, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1968 - Chris Ofili, British painter
• 1968 - Marinos Ouzounidis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1969 - Manu Bennett, New Zealand-Australian actor
• 1969 - Francis Escudero, Filipino lawyer and politician
• 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player
• 1969 - Shawn Jamison, American basketball player and coach
• 1969 - Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
• 1969 - Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish journalist and author
• 1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
• 1970 - Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German sled racer
• 1970 - Matthew Pinsent, English rower and sportscaster
• 1971 - Graham Alexander, English-Scottish footballer and manager
• 1971 - Ian Bennett, English footballer
• 1971 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
• 1972 - Jun Lana, Filipino director, producer, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1972 - Dean Roland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
• 1973 - Mario Lopez, American actor, television personality, and producer
• 1973 - Scott Morriss, English bass player and songwriter
• 1973 - Zach Thornton, American soccer player and coach
• 1974 - Asi Cohen, Israeli actor and screenwriter
• 1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
• 1974 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car driver and actor
• 1974 - Lucy Powell, English politician
• 1974 - Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Ihsahn, Norwegian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1975 - Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer and manager
• 1975 - Plácido Polanco, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-American skateboarder
• 1976 - Pat Burrell, American baseball player
• 1976 - Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 - Scott Dobie, English footballer
• 1978 - Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American model and actress
• 1978 - Naomi Levari, Israeli film producer and director
• 1979 - Kangta, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1979 - Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
• 1979 - Mýa, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress
• 1979 - Joel Przybilla, American basketball player
• 1979 - Hitomi Satō, Japanese actress
• 1980 - Blaž Emeršič, Slovenian ice hockey player
• 1980 - Casey FitzSimmons, American football player
• 1980 - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer-songwriter
• 1981 - Una Foden, Irish singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1981 - Gavin Shuker, English lawyer and politician
• 1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1982 - Amon Buchanan, Australian footballer
• 1982 - David Cal, Spanish sprint canoeist
• 1982 - Dan Stevens, English actor
• 1983 - Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1983 - Nikos Spyropoulos, Greek footballer
• 1983 - Tolga Zengin, Turkish footballer
• 1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
• 1984 - Jean-Baptiste Grange, French skier
• 1984 - Lzzy Hale, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress and singer
• 1984 - Paul Posluszny, American football player
• 1984 - Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player
• 1985 - Dominique Cornu, Belgian cyclist
• 1985 - Bronson Harrison, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1985 - Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1985 - Sandra Záhlavová, Czech tennis player
• 1986 - Ezequiel Garay, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 - Lucy Griffiths, English actress
• 1986 - Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
• 1986 - Andrew McCutchen, American baseball player
• 1986 - Ellen Andrea Wang, Norwegian bassist and composer
• 1987 - Rodjun Cruz, Filipino actor and dancer
• 1987 - Ryan Mathews, American football player
• 1987 - Colin Slade, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 - Junior Madozein, Central African basketball player
• 1988 - Luis Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
• 1988 - Shaun Fensom, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 - Brown Ideye, Nigerian footballer
• 1988 - Rose McIver, New Zealand actress
• 1988 - Emmanuel Nwachi, Nigerian footballer
• 1988 - Toby Smith, Australian-New Zealand rugby player
• 1989 - Emer Kenny, English actress and screenwriter
• 1989 - Aimee Teegarden, American actress and producer
• 1990 - Geno Smith, American football player
• 1990 – Rakul Preet Singh, Indian actress
• 1991 - Michael Carter-Williams, American basketball player
• 1991 - Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1991 - Lali Espósito, Argentinian actress and singer
• 1991 - Manuel Giandonato, Italian footballer
• 1991 - Mariana Pajón, Colombian cyclist
• 1991 - Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss footballer
• 1993 - Jayden Stockley, English footballer
• 1994 - Tereza Smitková, Czech tennis player
• 1995 - Brenko Lee, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 - Courtland Sutton, American football player
• 1996 - Roni Allén, Finnish ice hockey player

  Deaths

• AD 19 - Germanicus, Roman general
• 644 - Paulinus of York, English bishop and missionary
• 680 - Abbas ibn Ali, son of Imam Ali
• 680 - Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn, son of Al-Husayn
• 680 - Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn, son of Al-Husayn
• 680 - Habib ibn Madhahir
• 680 - Husayn ibn Ali, third Shia Imam and grandson of Muhammad
• 827 - Pope Valentine
• 937 - Wang Lingmou, chancellor of Wu
• 1213 - Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine
• 1308 - Patrick Dunbar, 8th Earl of Dunbar
• 1359 - Hugh IV of Cyprus
• 1503 - Peter II, Duke of Bourbon
• 1581 - Bayinnaung, Burmese king
• 1659 - Abel Tasman, Dutch merchant and explorer
• 1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet
• 1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French author and poet
• 1708 - David Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer
• 1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist and academic
• 1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor
• 1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
• 1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, French politician, Governor of New France
• 1747 - John Potter, English archbishop and academic
• 1759 - Granville Elliott, English general
• 1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian
• 1800 - Gabriel Prosser, American rebel leader
• 1806 - Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
• 1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet
• 1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher and academic
• 1857 - George Washington Parke Custis, American author and playwright
• 1872 - William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State
• 1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian author, poet, and playwright
• 1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist and meteorologist
• 1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player and manager
• 1901 - Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 1913 - Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer and businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch
• 1913 - Katsura Tarō, Japanese general and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1914 - Carol I of Romania
• 1918 - Henry Dobson, Australian politician, 17th Premier of Tasmania
• 1922 - Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek physician and author
• 1927 - August Kitzberg, Estonian author and playwright
• 1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer
• 1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist and academic
• 1935 - Gustave Loiseau, French painter
• 1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer
• 1948 - Ted Horn, American race car driver
• 1949 - Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese engineer, businessman, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company
• 1953 - Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand general, lawyer, and judge
• 1957 - Karl Genzken, German physician
• 1962 - Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian-Polish architect
• 1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer and coach
• 1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and educator
• 1966 - Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player
• 1966 - Louise Thuliez, French school teacher, resistance fighter during World War I and World War II and author
• 1970 - Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, 105th Prime Minister of France
• 1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian and scholar
• 1973 - Ludwig von Mises, Ukrainian-American economist and sociologist
• 1974 - Werner Heyking, Danish actor
• 1976 - Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress
• 1976 - Mirsada Mirjana Bajraktarević, Bosnian singer-songwriter
• 1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese-English actor
• 1978 - Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader
• 1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician
• 1979 - Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author
• 1979 - Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor
• 1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist
• 1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor
• 1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian actor
• 1985 - Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic
• 1987 - Behice Boran, Turkish Marxist politician, author and sociologist
• 1990 - Tom Murton, American penologist and activist
• 1990 - Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and academic
• 1991 - Nickolaus Hirschl, Austrian wrestler, discus thrower, and shot putter
• 1997 - Michael J. S. Dewar, Indian-born American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model
• 1998 - Clark Clifford, American captain, lawyer, and politician 9th United States Secretary of Defense
• 1998 - Marvin Gay, Sr., American minister
• 1998 - Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler and manager
• 2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
• 2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxer and trainer
• 2001 - Vasily Mishin, Russian engineer
• 2003 - Eila Hiltunen, Finnish sculptor
• 2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist
• 2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player
• 2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist
• 2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer and cartographer
• 2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand author and playwright
• 2005 - Wayne C. Booth, American educator and critic
• 2005 - Milton Obote, Ugandan politician, 2nd President of Uganda
• 2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist and academic
• 2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 2008 - Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman
• 2009 - Stephen Gately, Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 2010 - Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter and preacher
• 2010 - Joan Sutherland, Australian-Swiss soprano and actress
• 2011 - Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter
• 2012 - Sam Gibbons, American captain and politician
• 2012 - Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor
• 2012 - Piotr Lenartowicz, Polish philosopher and educator
• 2012 - Basil L. Plumley, American sergeant
• 2012 - Mark Poster, American philosopher and educator
• 2012 - Kyaw Zaw, Burmese commander and politician
• 2013 - Scott Carpenter, American commander, pilot, and astronaut
• 2013 - Jay Conrad Levinson, American author and educator
• 2013 - Sohei Miyashita, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense
• 2013 - Cal Smith, American singer and guitarist
• 2014 - Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
• 2014 - Damiana Eugenio, Filipino author and academic
• 2014 - Valeri Karpov, Russian ice hockey player
• 2014 - Lari Ketner, American football and basketball player
• 2014 - Pavel Landovský, Czech actor, director, and playwright
• 2014 - Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian journalist, historian, and author
• 2015 - Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, Nigerian politician, Governor of Bayelsa State
• 2015 - Hilla Becher, German photographer and educator
• 2015 - Manorama Indian actress
• 2015 - Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2015 - Steve Mackay, American saxophonist and composer
• 2015 - Sybil Stockdale, American activist, co-founded the National League of Families
• 2016 - Donn Fendler, American author and speaker

  Holidays and observances

• Arbor Day
• Army Day
• Capital Liberation Day
• Christian feast day:
• *Blessed Angela Truszkowska
• *Cerbonius
• *Daniel Comboni
• *Eulampius and Eulampia
• *Gereon and companions
• *Blessed María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray
• *Paulinus of York
• *Pinytus
• *Tanca
• *Vida Dutton Scudder
• *Viktor of Xanten
• *October 10
• Double Ten Day, celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that led to founding of the Republic of China in 1912
• Fiji Day, celebrates the independence of Fiji from United Kingdom in 1970
• Finnish Literature Day
• Independence Day, commemorates the proclamation of Cuba's independence from Spain and the beginning of the Ten Years' War in 1868.
• Party Foundation Day
• World Day Against the Death Penalty
• World Mental Health Day