October 14 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on October 14 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 22 Mehr 1405.

Occasions on this day in 2026

religious
Svetitskhovloba (Day of the Living Pillar Cathedral)
cultural
Shah Cheragh Day
international
World Standards Day

This day in the calendar

Famous people born on October 14

Events (66)

1066 (960 years ago) The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.
1322 (704 years ago) Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1586 (440 years ago) Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1656 (370 years ago) The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.
1758 (268 years ago) Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.
1773 (253 years ago) The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1774 (252 years ago) American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.
1791 (235 years ago) The revolutionary group the United Irishmen is formed in Belfast, Ireland leading to the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
1805 (221 years ago) War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm.
1806 (220 years ago) War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
1808 (218 years ago) The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1809 (217 years ago) The Treaty of Schönbrunn is signed, ending the War of the Fifth Coalition, the final successful war in Napoleon Bonaparte's military career.
1843 (183 years ago) Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy.
1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
1884 (142 years ago) George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1888 (138 years ago) Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
1898 (128 years ago) The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
1908 (118 years ago) The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.
1910 (116 years ago) English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
1912 (114 years ago) Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
1913 (113 years ago) Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
1920 (106 years ago) Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.
1923 (103 years ago) After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial.
1930 (96 years ago) The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.
1933 (93 years ago) Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The German submarine U-69 (1940) sinks the Canadian passenger ferry SS Caribou approximately 20 nautical miles southwest of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
1947 (79 years ago) Flying the Bell X-1 over Muroc Army Air Field in California, Captain Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in level flight, reaching Mach 1.05.
1949 (77 years ago) The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
1952 (74 years ago) Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1956 (70 years ago) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1957 (69 years ago) The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.
1957 (69 years ago) At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
1962 (64 years ago) The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
1964 (62 years ago) Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
1964 (62 years ago) The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.
1966 (60 years ago) The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
1966 (60 years ago) The Dutch Cals cabinet fell after Norbert Schmelzer, the leader of the government party, filed a successful motion against the budget, in what later became known as the Night of Schmelzer.
1968 (58 years ago) Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
1968 (58 years ago) The 6.5 Mw Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
1968 (58 years ago) Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1973 (53 years ago) In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1975 (51 years ago) An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.
1979 (47 years ago) The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
1980 (46 years ago) The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il as his successor.
1981 (45 years ago) Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1982 (44 years ago) U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.
1991 (35 years ago) Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 (32 years ago) Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
1998 (28 years ago) Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 (23 years ago) The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
2004 (22 years ago) MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board.
2004 (22 years ago) Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.
2012 (14 years ago) Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.
2014 (12 years ago) A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
2014 (12 years ago) The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.
2015 (11 years ago) A suicide bomb attack in Tonsa, Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
2017 (9 years ago) An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonated a massive truck bomb at the Zobe junction in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing 587 people, injuring 316 others, and leaving more than 500 missing.
2021 (5 years ago) About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike.
2023 (3 years ago) Australians vote to reject a constitutional amendment that would have established an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
2025 (a year ago) A coup d'état successfully overthrows Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina.

Births (224)

1257 (769 years ago) Przemysł II of Poland,
1404 (622 years ago) Marie of Anjou,
1425 (601 years ago) Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (died 1499)
1465 (561 years ago) Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (died 1547)
1493 (533 years ago) Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyō (died 1568)
1542 (484 years ago) Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (died 1602)
1563 (463 years ago) Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (died 1611)
1569 (457 years ago) Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (died 1625)
1609 (417 years ago) Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (died 1689)
1630 (396 years ago) Sophia of Hanover,
1633 (393 years ago) James II of England,
1639 (387 years ago) Simon van der Stel, Dutch commander and politician, 1st Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (died 1712)
1643 (383 years ago) Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor (died 1712)
1644 (382 years ago) William Penn, English businessman who founded Pennsylvania (died 1718)
1687 (339 years ago) Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and academic (died 1768)
1712 (314 years ago) George Grenville, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1770)
1726 (300 years ago) Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (died 1813)
1733 (293 years ago) François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (died 1798)
1784 (242 years ago) Ferdinand VII of Spain,
1791 (235 years ago) Friedrich Parrot, Baltic German naturalist (died 1841)
1801 (225 years ago) Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope (died 1883)
1806 (220 years ago) Preston King, American lawyer and politician (died 1865)
1824 (202 years ago) Adolphe Monticelli, French painter (died 1886)
1840 (186 years ago) Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (died 1868)
1842 (184 years ago) Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (died 1927)
1844 (182 years ago) John See, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of New South Wales (died 1907)
1845 (181 years ago) Laura Askew Haygood, American educator and missionary (died 1900)
1848 (178 years ago) Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker and philanthropist (died 1924)
1853 (173 years ago) John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (died 1924)
1861 (165 years ago) Julia A. Ames, American journalist, editor, and reformer (died 1891)
1867 (159 years ago) Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (died 1902)
1869 (157 years ago) Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (died 1939)
1871 (155 years ago) Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher (died 1942)
1872 (154 years ago) Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (died 1910)
1882 (144 years ago) Éamon de Valera, American-Irish rebel and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (died 1975)
1882 (144 years ago) Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 1959)
1888 (138 years ago) Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1923)
1888 (138 years ago) Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (died 1947)
1890 (136 years ago) Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (died 1969)
1892 (134 years ago) Sumner Welles, American politician and diplomat, 11th Under Secretary of State (died 1961)
1893 (133 years ago) Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (died 1974)
1893 (133 years ago) Lillian Gish, American actress (died 1993)
1894 (132 years ago) E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (died 1962)
1894 (132 years ago) Victoria Drummond, British marine engineer (died 1978)
1894 (132 years ago) Sail Mohamed, Algerian anarchist and Spanish Civil War veteran (died 1953)
1897 (129 years ago) Alicja Dorabialska, Polish chemist (died 1975)
1898 (128 years ago) Thomas William Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1950)
1900 (126 years ago) W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (died 1993)
1902 (124 years ago) Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (died 1963)
1904 (122 years ago) Christian Pineau, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1995)
1904 (122 years ago) Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1978)
1906 (120 years ago) Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (died 1949)
1906 (120 years ago) Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (died 1975)
1907 (119 years ago) Allan Jones, American actor and singer (died 1992)
1909 (117 years ago) Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (died 2000)
1909 (117 years ago) Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer (died 1997)
1909 (117 years ago) Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver (died 1938)
1910 (116 years ago) John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)
1911 (115 years ago) Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)
1914 (112 years ago) Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (died 2004)
1914 (112 years ago) Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
1914 (112 years ago) Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic (died 1985)
1915 (111 years ago) Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (died 2016)
1916 (110 years ago) C. Everett Koop, American admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General (died 2013)
1918 (108 years ago) Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician (died 1991)
1918 (108 years ago) Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain (died 2015)
1921 (105 years ago) José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (died 2009)
1923 (103 years ago) Joel Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (died 2014)
1926 (100 years ago) Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor (died 1985)
1927 (99 years ago) Roger Moore, English actor and producer (died 2017)
1928 (98 years ago) Joyce Bryant, American actress and singer (died 2022)
1928 (98 years ago) Frank E. Resnik, American chemist and businessman (died 1995)
1928 (98 years ago) Gary Graffman, American concert pianist (died 2025)
1929 (97 years ago) Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer and wrestler (died 2007)
1930 (96 years ago) Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist (died 2020)
1930 (96 years ago) Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (died 1997)
1930 (96 years ago) Alan Williams, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (died 2014)
1936 (90 years ago) Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer and manager (died 2017)
1936 (90 years ago) Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (died 2014)
1938 (88 years ago) John Dean, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel
1938 (88 years ago) Shula Marks, South African historian and academic
1938 (88 years ago) Melba Montgomery, American country music singer (died 2025)
1938 (88 years ago) Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran
1939 (87 years ago) Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation
1940 (86 years ago) Perrie Mans, South African snooker player (died 2023)
1940 (86 years ago) Cliff Richard, Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor
1940 (86 years ago) J. C. Snead, American golfer
1941 (85 years ago) Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach
1941 (85 years ago) Eddie Keher, Irish sportsman
1941 (85 years ago) Laurie Lawrence, Australian rugby player and coach
1941 (85 years ago) Art Shamsky, American baseball player and manager
1941 (85 years ago) Roger Taylor, English tennis player
1942 (84 years ago) Bob Hiller, English rugby player
1942 (84 years ago) Evelio Javier, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 1986)
1942 (84 years ago) Péter Nádas, Hungarian author and playwright
1942 (84 years ago) Suzzanna, Indonesian actress (died 2008)
1943 (83 years ago) Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran
1944 (82 years ago) Udo Kier, German-American actor and director (died 2025)
1945 (81 years ago) Daan Jippes, Dutch author and illustrator
1945 (81 years ago) Lesley Joseph, English actress
1946 (80 years ago) François Bozizé, Gabonese general and politician, President of the Central African Republic
1946 (80 years ago) Joey de Leon, Filipino comedian, actor and television host
1946 (80 years ago) Justin Hayward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 (80 years ago) Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2022)
1946 (80 years ago) Craig Venter, American biologist, geneticist, and academic (died 2026)
1947 (79 years ago) Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-American wrestler (died 2018)
1948 (78 years ago) Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer
1948 (78 years ago) Norman Ornstein, American political scientist and scholar
1949 (77 years ago) Damian Lau, Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
1949 (77 years ago) Katha Pollitt, American poet and author
1949 (77 years ago) Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player and referee
1950 (76 years ago) Joey Travolta, American actor, director, and producer
1951 (75 years ago) Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist
1952 (74 years ago) Harry Anderson, American actor and screenwriter (died 2018)
1952 (74 years ago) Nikolai Andrianov, Russian gymnast and coach (died 2011)
1952 (74 years ago) Rick Aviles, American comedian and actor (died 1995)
1953 (73 years ago) Greg Evigan, American actor
1953 (73 years ago) Kazumi Watanabe, Japanese guitarist and composer
1954 (72 years ago) Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic
1955 (71 years ago) Iwona Blazwick, English curator and critic
1955 (71 years ago) Arleen Sorkin, American actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2023)
1956 (70 years ago) Chris Bangle, American automotive designer
1956 (70 years ago) Ümit Besen, Turkish singer-songwriter
1956 (70 years ago) Beth Daniel, American golfer
1956 (70 years ago) Jennell Jaquays, American game designer (died 2024)
1957 (69 years ago) Michel Després, Canadian lawyer and politician
1957 (69 years ago) Gen Nakatani, Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th Japanese Minister of Defense
1958 (68 years ago) Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer
1959 (67 years ago) Alexei Kasatonov, Russian ice hockey player
1959 (67 years ago) A. J. Pero, American drummer (died 2015)
1960 (66 years ago) Steve Cram, English runner and coach
1960 (66 years ago) Zbigniew Kruszyński, Polish footballer and coach
1961 (65 years ago) Isaac Mizrahi, American fashion designer
1962 (64 years ago) Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
1962 (64 years ago) Trevor Goddard, English-American actor (died 2003)
1962 (64 years ago) Chris Thomas King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1962 (64 years ago) Shahar Perkiss, Israeli tennis player
1963 (63 years ago) Lori Petty, American actress
1964 (62 years ago) Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager
1965 (61 years ago) Steve Coogan, English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1965 (61 years ago) Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower and politician
1965 (61 years ago) Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian flute player and composer
1965 (61 years ago) Karyn White, American singer-songwriter
1967 (59 years ago) Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1967 (59 years ago) Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1967 (59 years ago) Werner Daehn, German actor
1967 (59 years ago) Jason Plato, British racing driver
1967 (59 years ago) Stephen A. Smith, American sports television personality
1968 (58 years ago) Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist and songwriter
1968 (58 years ago) Johnny Goudie, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1968 (58 years ago) Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer and journalist
1968 (58 years ago) Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player and coach (died 2012)
1969 (57 years ago) P. J. Brown, American basketball player
1969 (57 years ago) Viktor Onopko, Russian footballer and manager
1969 (57 years ago) David Strickland, American actor (died 1999)
1970 (56 years ago) Martin Barbarič, Czech footballer and coach (died 2013)
1970 (56 years ago) Jim Jackson, American basketball player and sportscaster
1970 (56 years ago) Meelis Lindmaa, Estonian footballer
1970 (56 years ago) Hiromi Nagasaku, Japanese actress and singer
1970 (56 years ago) Jon Seda, American actor
1970 (56 years ago) Vasko Vassilev, Bulgarian violinist
1970 (56 years ago) Pär Zetterberg, Swedish footballer
1971 (55 years ago) Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer and manager (died 2025)
1971 (55 years ago) Robert Jaworski Jr., Filipino basketball player and politician
1972 (54 years ago) Erika deLone, American tennis player
1972 (54 years ago) Julian O'Neill, Australian rugby league player
1973 (53 years ago) Thom Brooks, American-British political philosopher and legal scholar
1973 (53 years ago) George Floyd, American police brutality victim (died 2020)
1973 (53 years ago) Lasha Zhvania, Georgian businessman and politician
1974 (52 years ago) Jessica Drake, American porn actress and director
1974 (52 years ago) Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter
1974 (52 years ago) Tümer Metin, Turkish footballer
1974 (52 years ago) Viktor Röthlin, Swiss runner
1974 (52 years ago) Samuel, Brazilian footballer
1975 (51 years ago) Michael Duberry, English footballer
1975 (51 years ago) Floyd Landis, American cyclist
1975 (51 years ago) Shaznay Lewis, English singer and songwriter
1975 (51 years ago) Carlos Spencer, New Zealand rugby player
1976 (50 years ago) Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricketer
1976 (50 years ago) Daniel Tjärnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
1977 (49 years ago) Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer
1977 (49 years ago) Barry Ditewig, Dutch footballer
1977 (49 years ago) Kelly Schumacher, American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player
1978 (48 years ago) Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist and songwriter, and politician
1978 (48 years ago) Paul Hunter, English snooker player (died 2006)
1978 (48 years ago) Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player
1978 (48 years ago) Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
1978 (48 years ago) Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1979 (47 years ago) Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress
1979 (47 years ago) Liina-Grete Lilender, Estonian figure skater and coach
1980 (46 years ago) Paúl Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 (46 years ago) Amjad Khan, Danish-English cricketer
1980 (46 years ago) Scott Kooistra, American football player
1980 (46 years ago) Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
1980 (46 years ago) Terrence McGee, American football player
1980 (46 years ago) Ben Whishaw, English actor
1981 (45 years ago) Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer
1982 (44 years ago) Ryan Hall, American runner
1982 (44 years ago) Carlos Mármol, Dominican baseball player
1982 (44 years ago) Matt Roth, American football player
1983 (43 years ago) Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
1983 (43 years ago) Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
1984 (42 years ago) LaRon Landry, American football player
1984 (42 years ago) Alex Scott, English footballer
1985 (41 years ago) Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
1985 (41 years ago) Alanna Nihell, Irish boxer
1985 (41 years ago) Ivan Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament
1986 (40 years ago) Tom Craddock, English footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Wesley Matthews, American basketball player
1986 (40 years ago) Skyler Shaye, American actress
1987 (39 years ago) Jay Pharoah, American actor and comedian
1988 (38 years ago) Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer
1988 (38 years ago) Max Thieriot, American actor
1989 (37 years ago) Arca, Venezuelan musician
1990 (36 years ago) Jordan Clark, English cricketer
1992 (34 years ago) Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
1993 (33 years ago) Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer
1993 (33 years ago) Charlie Kirk, American media personality and political activist (died 2025)
1994 (32 years ago) Joe Burgess, English rugby league player
1994 (32 years ago) Jaelen Feeney, Australian rugby league player
1994 (32 years ago) Jared Goff, American football player
1998 (28 years ago) Ariela Barer, American actress
1999 (27 years ago) Quinn Hughes, American ice hockey player
2001 (25 years ago) Rowan Blanchard, American actress

Deaths (119)

530 (1496 years ago) Antipope Dioscorus,
841 (1185 years ago) Shi Yuanzhong, Chinese governor
869 (1157 years ago) Pang Xun, Chinese rebel leader
962 (1064 years ago) Gerloc, Frankish noblewoman
996 (1030 years ago) Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid caliph (born 955)
1066 (960 years ago) Battle of Hastings:,
1066 (960 years ago) Battle of Hastings:,
1066 (960 years ago) Battle of Hastings:,
1077 (949 years ago) Andronikos Doukas, Byzantine courtier (born 1022)
1092 (934 years ago) Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (born 1018)
1184 (842 years ago) Yusuf I, Almohad caliph (born 1135)
1213 (813 years ago) Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, English sheriff and Chief Justiciar
1217 (809 years ago) Isabella, English noblewoman and wife of John of England (born c. 1173)
1240 (786 years ago) Razia Sultana, female sultan of Delhi (born c. 1205)
1256 (770 years ago) Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (born 1239)
1318 (708 years ago) Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (born 1275)
1366 (660 years ago) Ibn Nubata, Arab poet (born 1287)
1416 (610 years ago) Henry the Mild, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1536 (490 years ago) Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (born 1503)
1552 (474 years ago) Oswald Myconius, Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1488)
1565 (461 years ago) Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (born 1521)
1568 (458 years ago) Jacques Arcadelt, Dutch singer and composer (born 1507)
1610 (416 years ago) Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (born 1540)
1618 (408 years ago) Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton, English nobleman (bornc. 1570)
1619 (407 years ago) Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (born 1562)
1631 (395 years ago) Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (born 1557)
1637 (389 years ago) Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (born 1552)
1669 (357 years ago) Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (born 1623)
1703 (323 years ago) Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop and poet (born 1634)
1711 (315 years ago) Tewoflos, Ethiopian emperor (born 1708)
1758 (268 years ago) James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (born 1696)
1831 (195 years ago) Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (born 1761)
1911 (115 years ago) John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (born 1833)
1923 (103 years ago) Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (born 1848)
1929 (97 years ago) Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (born 1844)
1930 (96 years ago) Samuel van Houten, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (born 1837)
1942 (84 years ago) Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (born 1902)
1943 (83 years ago) Sobibór uprising:,
1943 (83 years ago) Sobibór uprising:,
1943 (83 years ago) Sobibór uprising:,
1944 (82 years ago) Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (born 1891)
1953 (73 years ago) Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (born 1877)
1953 (73 years ago) Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (born 1894)
1958 (68 years ago) Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (born 1882)
1958 (68 years ago) Nikolay Zabolotsky, Russian-Soviet poet and translator (born 1903)
1959 (67 years ago) Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (born 1907)
1959 (67 years ago) Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (born 1909)
1960 (66 years ago) Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (born 1880)
1961 (65 years ago) Paul Ramadier, French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (born 1888)
1961 (65 years ago) Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (born 1876)
1965 (61 years ago) William Hogenson, American sprinter (born 1884)
1965 (61 years ago) Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (born 1914)
1966 (60 years ago) George Carstairs, Australian rugby league player (born 1900)
1966 (60 years ago) Arthur Folwell, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (born 1904)
1967 (59 years ago) Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (born 1902)
1969 (57 years ago) Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (born 1914)
1969 (57 years ago) August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (born 1914)
1970 (56 years ago) Mavis Wheeler, English socialite and artist's model, also known for shooting her lover (born 1908)
1973 (53 years ago) Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (born 1897)
1973 (53 years ago) Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general and engineer (born 1929)
1976 (50 years ago) Edith Evans, English actress (born 1888)
1977 (49 years ago) Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1903)
1982 (44 years ago) Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1889)
1983 (43 years ago) Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (born 1887)
1984 (42 years ago) Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
1985 (41 years ago) Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (born 1916)
1986 (40 years ago) Keenan Wynn, American actor (born 1916)
1986 (40 years ago) Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (born 1902)
1990 (36 years ago) Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)
1997 (29 years ago) Harold Robbins, American author (born 1915)
1998 (28 years ago) Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (born 1917)
1998 (28 years ago) Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (born 1916)
1999 (27 years ago) Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (born 1922)
2000 (26 years ago) Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1909)
2000 (26 years ago) Tony Roper, American race car driver (born 1964)
2002 (24 years ago) Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (born 1911)
2003 (23 years ago) Patrick Dalzel-Job, English linguist, commander, and navigator (born 1913)
2004 (22 years ago) Ted Blakey, American historian, activist, and businessman (born 1925)
2006 (20 years ago) Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)
2006 (20 years ago) Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (born 1926)
2006 (20 years ago) Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (born 1937)
2008 (18 years ago) Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (born 1915)
2008 (18 years ago) Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (born 1926)
2009 (17 years ago) Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor and screenwriter (born 1938)
2009 (17 years ago) Collin Wilcox, American actress (born 1935)
2009 (17 years ago) Lou Albano, American professional wrestler (born 1933)
2010 (16 years ago) Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (born 1952)
2010 (16 years ago) Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (born 1924)
2011 (15 years ago) Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1948)
2011 (15 years ago) Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (born 1949)
2012 (14 years ago) John Clive, English actor and author (born 1933)
2012 (14 years ago) Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (born 1920)
2012 (14 years ago) James R. Grover Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1919)
2012 (14 years ago) Larry Sloan, American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (born 1922)
2012 (14 years ago) Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (born 1930)
2012 (14 years ago) Dody Weston Thompson, American photographer (born 1923)
2012 (14 years ago) Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (born 1927)
2013 (13 years ago) Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (born 1965)
2013 (13 years ago) Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and politician (born 1936)
2013 (13 years ago) Kōichi Iijima, Japanese author and poet (born 1930)
2013 (13 years ago) Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (born 1954)
2013 (13 years ago) Frank Moore, American painter and poet (born 1946)
2013 (13 years ago) Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (born 1940)
2014 (12 years ago) A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (born 1923)
2014 (12 years ago) Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (born 1933)
2014 (12 years ago) Elizabeth Peña, American actress (born 1959)
2015 (11 years ago) Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (born 1947)
2015 (11 years ago) Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (born 1933)
2015 (11 years ago) Margaret Keyes, American historian and academic (born 1918)
2015 (11 years ago) Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (born 1930)
2016 (10 years ago) Helen Kelly, New Zealand trade union leader (born 1964)
2019 (7 years ago) Harold Bloom, American literary critic (born 1930)
2019 (7 years ago) Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and model (born 1994)
2021 (5 years ago) Lee Wan-koo, South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea
2022 (4 years ago) Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (born 1950)
2024 (2 years ago) Thomas J. Donohue, American business executive (born 1938)
2024 (2 years ago) Tina Kaidanow, American diplomat and government official (born 1965)
2024 (2 years ago) Janet Nelson, British historian (born 1942)
2024 (2 years ago) Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and academic (born 1933)