October 16

Events

• 456 - Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
• 690 - Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
• 912 - Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the 8th Emir of Córdoba.
• 955 - King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
• 1311 - The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
• 1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
• 1590 - Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
• 1736 - Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
• 1780 - American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
• 1780 - The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
• 1793 - French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
• 1793 - War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
• 1805 - War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.
• 1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig.
• 1817 – Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
• 1834 - Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
• 1836 - Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.
• 1841 - Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.
• 1843 - William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.
• 1846 - William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.
• 1847 - The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.
• 1859 - John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
• 1869 - The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
• 1869 - Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
• 1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• 1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
• 1905 - The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• 1906 - The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
• 1909 - William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
• 1916 - Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
• 1919 - Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
• 1923 - The Walt Disney Company is founded.
• 1934 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
• 1939 - World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
• 1940 - Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
• 1943 - Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
• 1946 - Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
• 1947 - The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
• 1949 - The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
• 1950 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published.
• 1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• 1962 - Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles.
• 1964 - China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
• 1968 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
• 1968 - Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• 1968 - Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1970 - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
• 1973 - Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1975 - Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, Portuguese Timor.
• 1975 - Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
• 1975 - The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.
• 1978 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
• 1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1991 - George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
• 1995 - The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attended.
• 1995 - The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.
• 1996 - Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
• 1998 - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
• 2002 - The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.
• 2013 - Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
• 2017 - Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.

  Births

• 1351 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan
• 1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral
• 1430 - James II of Scotland
• 1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat
• 1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai
• 1588 - Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian
• 1605 - Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer
• 1620 - Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor
• 1678 - Anna Waser, Swiss painter
• 1679 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech viol player and composer
• 1710 - András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal
• 1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist and academic
• 1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and educator
• 1729 - Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer
• 1752 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic
• 1754 - Morgan Lewis, American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York
• 1758 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer
• 1762 - Paul Hamilton, American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy
• 1789 - William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware
• 1795 - William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author
• 1802 - Isaac Murphy, American educator and politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas
• 1803 - Robert Stephenson, English railway and civil engineer
• 1804 - Benjamin Russell, American painter and educator
• 1806 - William P. Fessenden, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1815 - Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas
• 1818 - William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales
• 1819 - Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician
• 1831 - Lucy Stanton, American activist
• 1832 - Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist
• 1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan
• 1841 - Itō Hirobumi, Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan
• 1844 - Ismail Qemali, Albanian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Albania
• 1847 - Maria Pia of Savoy
• 1852 - Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein
• 1854 - Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian
• 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet
• 1855 - Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense
• 1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar
• 1861 - Richard Sears, American tennis player
• 1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1867 - Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa
• 1869 - Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author
• 1872 - Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore
• 1876 - Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player
• 1881 - William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player
• 1884 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor
• 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel
• 1888 - Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1888 - Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling
• 1890 - Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance
• 1890 - Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint
• 1890 - Paul Strand, American photographer and director
• 1897 - Louis de Cazenave, French soldier
• 1898 - William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist
• 1900 - Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator
• 1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet
• 1900 - Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager
• 1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist
• 1903 - Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1904 - Björn Berglund, Swedish actor
• 1905 - Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager
• 1906 - León Klimovsky, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1907 - Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic
• 1908 - Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator
• 1908 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania
• 1911 - Otto von Bülow, German commander
• 1912 - Clifford Hansen, American rancher and politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming
• 1918 - Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic
• 1918 - Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic
• 1918 - Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer
• 1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author
• 1921 - Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach
• 1921 - Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer
• 1921 - MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder
• 1922 - Max Bygraves, English-Australian actor and singer
• 1922 - Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist
• 1923 - Linda Darnell, American actress
• 1923 - Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer
• 1923 - Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster
• 1924 - Gerard Parkes, Irish-Canadian actor
• 1925 - Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer
• 1926 - Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO
• 1927 - Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 - Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian
• 1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
• 1929 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• 1930 - John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest
• 1930 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
• 1931 - Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician
• 1931 - Valery Klimov, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator
• 1931 - Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress
• 1931 - P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach
• 1932 - John Grant, English journalist and politician
• 1932 - Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor
• 1932 - Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician
• 1933 - Nobuyo Ōyama, Japanese voice actress
• 1934 - Peter Ashdown, English race car driver
• 1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter
• 1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer
• 1936 - Mladen Koščak, Croatian footballer
• 1936 - Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of Japan
• 1938 - Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician
• 1938 - Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress
• 1940 - Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
• 1940 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach
• 1940 - Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist
• 1941 - Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer
• 1941 - Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician
• 1943 - Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1944 - Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
• 1945 - Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host
• 1945 - Roger Hawkins, American session drummer
• 1945 - Paul Monette, American author and poet
• 1946 - Geoff Barnett, English footballer
• 1946 - Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer
• 1947 - Nicholas Day, English actor
• 1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach
• 1947 - Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 - David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1948 - Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer
• 1948 - Bruce Fleisher, American golfer
• 1948 - Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician
• 1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach
• 1950 - Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer
• 1950 - Angry Grandpa, American internet personality
• 1952 - Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician
• 1952 - Cordell Mosson, American bass player
• 1952 - Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright
• 1952 - Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician
• 1953 - Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1954 - Lorenzo Carcaterra, American author and blogger
• 1954 - Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1954 - Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player
• 1954 - Corinna Harfouch, German actress
• 1955 - Ellen Dolan, American actress
• 1956 - Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor
• 1956 - John Chavis, American football player and coach
• 1956 - Meg Rosoff, American-English author
• 1956 - Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright
• 1957 - Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator
• 1958 - Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager
• 1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 - Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician
• 1959 - Brian Harper, American baseball player
• 1959 - Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1959 - Philip Maini, Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford
• 1959 - Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician
• 1959 - Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
• 1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer
• 1959 - John Whittingdale, English politician
• 1960 - Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter
• 1960 - Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1961 - Marc Levy, French author
• 1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor, director, and producer
• 1961 - Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher
• 1962 - Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor
• 1962 - Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist
• 1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer
• 1962 - Nico Lazaridis, German footballer
• 1962 - Tamara McKinney, American skier
• 1963 - Gilberto Duavit Jr., Filipino businessman
• 1963 - Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 - Timothy Leighton, English physicist and academic
• 1964 - Shawn Little, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1964 - James Thompson, American-Finnish author
• 1965 - Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator
• 1965 - Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1966 - Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist
• 1966 - Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director
• 1967 - Michael Laffy, Australian footballer
• 1967 - Davina McCall, English television host and actress
• 1968 - Randall Batinkoff, American actor and producer
• 1968 - Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and singer
• 1968 - Francesco Libetta, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1968 - Todd Stashwick, American actor and writer
• 1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
• 1969 - Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer
• 1969 - Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler
• 1969 - Terri J. Vaughn, American actress and producer
• 1969 - Wendy Wilson, American singer-songwriter
• 1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer and manager
• 1971 - Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 - Paul Sparks, American actor
• 1971 - Frank Cuesta, Spanish television presenter
• 1972 - Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author
• 1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, Lithuanian-Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 - Kordell Stewart, American football player and radio host
• 1973 - Justin Credible, American wrestler
• 1973 - David Unsworth, English footballer and manager
• 1974 - Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer
• 1974 - Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer
• 1975 - Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1975 - Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
• 1975 - Kellie Martin, American actress, director, and producer
• 1977 - John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, rapper, guitarist, and producer
• 1980 - Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player
• 1980 - Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player
• 1981 - Brea Grant, American actress and writer
• 1981 - Martin Halle, Danish footballer
• 1981 - Boyd Melson, American boxer
• 1981 - Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
• 1982 - Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
• 1982 - Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
• 1982 - Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer
• 1983 - Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
• 1983 - Kenny Omega, Canadian wrestler
• 1984 - François Pervis, French track cyclist
• 1984 - Rachel Reilly, American talk show host and actress
• 1985 - Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 - Verena Sailer, German sprinter
• 1985 - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1985 - Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 - Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer
• 1986 - Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer
• 1988 - Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
• 1989 - Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player
• 1992 - Bryce Harper, American baseball player
• 1992 - Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer
• 1992 - Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player
• 1993 - Caroline Garcia, French tennis player
• 1994 - Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 - Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver
• 1997 - Naomi Osaka, Haitian-Japanese tennis player

  Deaths

• 385 - Fú Jiān, Chinese emperor
• 786 - Lullus, archbishop of Mainz
• 976 - Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph
• 1027 - Fujiwara no Kenshi, Japanese empress
• 1130 - Pedro González de Lara, Castilian magnate
• 1284 - Shams al-Din Juvayni, Persian statesman, vizier and minister of finance of the Ilkhanate
• 1323 - Amadeus V, count of Savoy
• 1333 - Nicholas V, antipope of Rome
• 1438 - Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman
• 1355 - Louis the Child, king of Sicily
• 1523 - Luca Signorelli, Italian painter
• 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and engraver
• 1555 - Hugh Latimer, English bishop and saint
• 1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English bishop and martyr
• 1591 - Gregory XIV, pope of the Catholic Church
• 1594 - William Allen, English cardinal
• 1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer
• 1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic
• 1637 - Johann Rudolf Stadler, Swiss clock-maker
• 1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter and illustrator
• 1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist
• 1660 - John Cook, English politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales
• 1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Irish-English soldier and politician
• 1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian field marshal
• 1730 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, 3rd French Governor of Louisiana
• 1730 - Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Greek politician, 139th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• 1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer
• 1755 - Gerard Majella, Italian saint
• 1774 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet
• 1791 - Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician
• 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI of France
• 1793 - John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher
• 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia
• 1799 - Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist
• 1810 - Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian religious leader, founded the Breslov Hasidic group
• 1822 - Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer
• 1877 - Théodore Barrière, French playwright
• 1888 - John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago
• 1904 - Haritina Korotkevich, Russian heroine
• 1908 - Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk
• 1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright
• 1913 - Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower
• 1936 - Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer
• 1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright
• 1946 - Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• *Hans Frank, German lawyer, politician and war criminal
• *Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior
• *Alfred Jodl, German general
• *Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer
• *Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal
• *Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician
• *Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician
• *Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor of Austria
• *Julius Streicher, German journalist and politician
• *Joachim von Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany
• 1947 - Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist
• 1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1956 - Jules Rimet, French businessman
• 1957 - John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator
• 1958 - Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico
• 1959 - Minor Hall, American drummer
• 1959 - George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher
• 1964 - Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 - George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter
• 1968 - Ellis Kinder, American baseball player
• 1971 - Robin Boyd, Australian architect and educator, designed the Domain Park Flats
• 1972 - Nick Begich, American lawyer and politician
• 1972 - Hale Boggs, American lawyer and politician
• 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor
• 1973 - Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and actor
• 1975 - Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer
• 1978 - Dan Dailey, American actor, singer, dancer, and director
• 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic
• 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel
• 1981 - Eugene Eisenmann, Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist
• 1982 - Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor
• 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor
• 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist
• 1989 - Walter Farley, American author and educator
• 1989 - Scott O'Dell, American journalist and author
• 1989 - Cornel Wilde, American actor
• 1990 - Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader
• 1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist and educator
• 1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress and singer
• 1996 - Jason Bernard, American actor
• 1996 - Eric Malpass, English author
• 1997 - Audra Lindley, American actress
• 1997 - James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist
• 1998 - Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic
• 1999 - Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter
• 2000 - Mel Carnahan, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri
• 2000 - Rick Jason, American actor
• 2001 - Etta Jones, American singer-songwriter
• 2003 - Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter
• 2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer
• 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer
• 2004 - Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary
• 2006 - John Victor Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic
• 2006 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru
• 2007 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress
• 2007 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer-songwriter
• 2008 - Dagmar Normet, Estonian author and translator
• 2010 - Eyedea, American rapper and producer
• 2010 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress
• 2011 - Dan Wheldon, English race car driver
• 2012 - Frank Moore Cross, American scholar and academic
• 2012 - John A. Durkin, American lawyer and politician
• 2012 - Mario Gallegos, Jr., American firefighter and politician
• 2012 - Bódog Török, Hungarian handball player and coach
• 2012 - Eddie Yost, American baseball player and coach
• 2013 - Govind Purushottam Deshpande, Indian playwright and academic
• 2013 - George Hourmouziadis, Greek archaeologist and academic
• 2013 - Ed Lauter, American actor
• 2013 - Laurel Martyn, Australian ballerina and choreographer
• 2013 - Robert B. Rheault, American colonel
• 2013 - Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician
• 2014 - Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece
• 2014 - Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist
• 2014 - Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach
• 2014 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman
• 2015 - Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge
• 2015 - James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic
• 2015 - William James, Australian general and physician
• 2015 - Vera Williams, American author and illustrator
• 2015 - Memduh Ün, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter
• 2016 - Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, Canadian professor and computer scientist
• 2017 - Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger
• 2017 - Roy Dotrice, British actor
• 2017 - John Dunsworth, Canadian actor
• 2017 - Sean Hughes, British-born Irish stand-up comedian

  Science Fiction - Space

• 1997 - Lost in Space, the United States is gearing up to colonize space. The Jupiter 2, a futuristic saucer-shaped spacecraft, stands on its launch pad undergoing final preparations. Its mission is to take a single family on a Ninety Eight year journey to an Earthlike planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri.

  Holidays and observances

• Air Force Day
• Boss's Day
• Christian feast day:
• * Balderic of Monfaucon
• * Bercharius
• * Bertrand of Comminges
• * Colmán of Kilroot
• * Eliphius
• * Fortunatus of Casei
• * Gall
• * Gerard Majella
• * Hedwig of Silesia
• * Hugh Latimer
• * Junian
• * Marguerite Marie Alacoque
• * Marie-Marguerite d'Youville
• * Nicholas Ridley
• * Silvanus of Ahun
• * Blessed Thevarparampil Kunjachan
• * Pope Victor III
• * October 16
• Pope John Paul II Day
• Death anniversary of Liaquat Ali Khan
• Teachers' Day
• World Anaesthesia Day
• World Food Day