October 27 in History
Historical events, births and deaths on October 27 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 5 Aban 1405.
Occasions on this day in 2026
- international
- countries
Famous people born on October 27
- Theodore Roosevelt 1858
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 1945
- Sylvia Plath 1932
- Niccolò Paganini 1782
- Roberto Benigni 1952
- Francis Fukuyama 1952
- John Cleese 1939
- Dylan Thomas 1914
- Nawal El Saadawi 1931
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson 1844
- K. R. Narayanan 1920
- Stephan El Shaarawy 1992
Events (49)
- 312 (1714 years ago) Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
- 1275 (751 years ago) Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1524 (502 years ago) French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1553 (473 years ago) Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1644 (382 years ago) Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1674 (352 years ago) The French garrison in Grave surrenders the town to a Dutch army after a difficult siege.
- 1682 (344 years ago) Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- 1726 (300 years ago) J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, one of few works he called a cantata.
- 1775 (251 years ago) King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
- 1795 (231 years ago) The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
- 1806 (220 years ago) The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
- 1810 (216 years ago) United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
- 1838 (188 years ago) Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
- 1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: Union forces led by General William F. Smith defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Brown's Ferry, opening up a supply line to the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1870 (156 years ago) Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
- 1907 (119 years ago) Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when gendarmes opened fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
- 1913 (113 years ago) A rail workers' strike in Chile escalates into a general strike, organized by the Regional Workers' Federation of Chile.
- 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
- 1916 (110 years ago) Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
- 1919 (107 years ago) The Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Oleksandrivsk.
- 1922 (104 years ago) A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
- 1924 (102 years ago) The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1930 (96 years ago) Ratifications are exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
- 1936 (90 years ago) Abdication Crisis: Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 1948 (78 years ago) A deadly smog event begins in Donora, Pennsylvania, eventually killing 20 and sickening thousands.
- 1954 (72 years ago) Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1958 (68 years ago) Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
- 1961 (65 years ago) NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
- 1962 (64 years ago) Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
- 1962 (64 years ago) By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
- 1964 (62 years ago) Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
- 1971 (55 years ago) The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1979 (47 years ago) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1980 (46 years ago) The Chun Doo-hwan government forcibly arrests and investigates monks and personnel of the Jogye Order.
- 1981 (45 years ago) Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1986 (40 years ago) The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
- 1988 (38 years ago) Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 (34 years ago) United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
- 1993 (33 years ago) Widerøe Flight 744 crashes in Overhalla Municipality, Norway, killing six people.
- 1994 (32 years ago) Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- 1997 (29 years ago) The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- 1999 (27 years ago) Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
- 2014 (12 years ago) Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
- 2017 (9 years ago) Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
- 2018 (8 years ago) A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing eleven and injuring six, including four police officers.
- 2018 (8 years ago) Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England.
- 2019 (7 years ago) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.
Births (243)
- 892 (1134 years ago) Emperor Ai of Tang, Chinese emperor (died 908)
- 921 (1105 years ago) Chai Rong, Chinese emperor (died 959)
- 1156 (870 years ago) Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (died 1222)
- 1335 (691 years ago) Taejo of Joseon,
- 1401 (625 years ago) Catherine of Valois, Queen consort of England (died 1437)
- 1561 (465 years ago) Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (died 1621)
- 1572 (454 years ago) Marie Elisabeth of France, French princess (died 1578)
- 1615 (411 years ago) Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, (died 1691)
- 1661 (365 years ago) Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (died 1728)
- 1703 (323 years ago) Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (died 1771)
- 1744 (282 years ago) Mary Moser, English painter and academic (died 1819)
- 1760 (266 years ago) August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (died 1831)
- 1765 (261 years ago) Nancy Storace, English soprano (died 1817)
- 1782 (244 years ago) Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1840)
- 1806 (220 years ago) Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician, 101st Mayor of San Antonio (died 1890)
- 1811 (215 years ago) Stevens T. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (died 1843)
- 1811 (215 years ago) Isaac Singer, American actor and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (died 1875)
- 1814 (212 years ago) Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician, 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City (died 1891)
- 1838 (188 years ago) John Davis Long, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1915)
- 1842 (184 years ago) Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1928)
- 1844 (182 years ago) Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
- 1854 (172 years ago) William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (died 1914)
- 1858 (168 years ago) Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (died 1935)
- 1858 (168 years ago) Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1936)
- 1858 (168 years ago) Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
- 1865 (161 years ago) Charles Spencelayh, English painter and academic (died 1958)
- 1868 (158 years ago) William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (died 1928)
- 1877 (149 years ago) Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (died 1949)
- 1877 (149 years ago) George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (died 1943)
- 1884 (142 years ago) Shirō Takasu, Japanese admiral (died 1944)
- 1885 (141 years ago) Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (died 1948)
- 1890 (136 years ago) Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (died 1974)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Agda Helin, Swedish actress (died 1984)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (died 1978)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Ye Shengtao, Chinese writer, educator, and politician (died 1988)
- 1904 (122 years ago) Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (died 1995)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Peter Blume, Belarusian-American painter and sculptor (died 1992)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Earle Cabell, American banker and politician, Mayor of Dallas (died 1975)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (died 2010)
- 1908 (118 years ago) Lee Krasner, American painter (died 1984)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1963)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, American chemical engineer (died 2000)
- 1911 (115 years ago) Leif Erickson, American actor (died 1986)
- 1913 (113 years ago) Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (died 2016)
- 1913 (113 years ago) Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (died 1971)
- 1914 (112 years ago) Ahmet Kireççi, Turkish wrestler (died 1979)
- 1914 (112 years ago) Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (died 1953)
- 1915 (111 years ago) Harry Saltzman, Canadian-French production manager and producer (died 1994)
- 1917 (109 years ago) Augustine Harris, English bishop (died 2007)
- 1917 (109 years ago) Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (died 1993)
- 1918 (108 years ago) Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician (died 2003)
- 1918 (108 years ago) Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (died 2005)
- 1920 (106 years ago) Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2018)
- 1920 (106 years ago) K. R. Narayanan, Indian lawyer and politician, 10th President of India (died 2005)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (died 1998)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Ruby Dee, American actress and poet (died 2014)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Michel Galabru, French actor and playwright (died 2016)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2014)
- 1923 (103 years ago) Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (died 1997)
- 1923 (103 years ago) Ned Wertimer, American actor (died 2013)
- 1924 (102 years ago) Bonnie Lou, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Warren Christopher, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (died 2011)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Jane Connell, American actress and singer (died 2013)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Paul Fox, English broadcaster (died 2024)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Monica Sims, English radio host and producer (died 2018)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (died 2010)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (died 1943)
- 1926 (100 years ago) H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (died 1993)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator (died 2010)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Dominick Argento, American composer and educator (died 2019)
- 1928 (98 years ago) Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
- 1929 (97 years ago) Myra Carter, American actress (died 2016)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Bill George, American football player (died 1982)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
- 1930 (96 years ago) Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (died 2017)
- 1930 (96 years ago) Barry Supple, English historian and academic
- 1931 (95 years ago) Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author (died 2021)
- 1931 (95 years ago) Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2012)
- 1932 (94 years ago) Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (died 2007)
- 1932 (94 years ago) Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2020)
- 1932 (94 years ago) Dolores Moore, American baseball player (died 2000)
- 1932 (94 years ago) Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1963)
- 1933 (93 years ago) Floyd Cramer, American singer and pianist (died 1997)
- 1933 (93 years ago) Ryō Hanmura, Japanese author (died 2002)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1935 (91 years ago) Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian journalist and cartoonist
- 1935 (91 years ago) Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American banjo player and educator (died 2017)
- 1936 (90 years ago) Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author (died 2021)
- 1937 (89 years ago) Alma Powell, American audiologist (died 2024)
- 1938 (88 years ago) Lara Parker, American actress and author (died 2023)
- 1939 (87 years ago) John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
- 1939 (87 years ago) Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (died 2007)
- 1939 (87 years ago) Dallas Frazier, American country music singer-songwriter (died 2022)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Arthur Blessitt, American Christian preacher (died 2025)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Julius Eastman, American composer (died 1990)
- 1940 (86 years ago) John Gotti, American mob boss (died 2002)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic
- 1941 (85 years ago) Dave Costa, American football player (died 2013)
- 1941 (85 years ago) Warren Ryan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1941 (85 years ago) Dick Trickle, American race car driver (died 2013)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter
- 1942 (84 years ago) Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician
- 1943 (83 years ago) Carmen Argenziano, American actor and producer (died 2019)
- 1943 (83 years ago) Jerry Rook, American basketball player and coach (died 2019)
- 1944 (82 years ago) J. A. Jance, American author and poet
- 1945 (81 years ago) Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist and composer
- 1945 (81 years ago) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35 and 39th President of Brazil
- 1945 (81 years ago) Carrie Snodgress, American actress (died 2004)
- 1946 (80 years ago) Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer
- 1946 (80 years ago) Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 2014)
- 1946 (80 years ago) Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Canadian actor, director, and producer (died 2022)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Terry A. Anderson, American journalist (died 2024)
- 1948 (78 years ago) Kevin Borich, New Zealand-Australian guitarist and songwriter
- 1949 (77 years ago) Garry Tallent, American bass player and record producer
- 1950 (76 years ago) Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic
- 1950 (76 years ago) Fran Lebowitz, American author
- 1950 (76 years ago) Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach
- 1950 (76 years ago) A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author
- 1951 (75 years ago) K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter
- 1951 (75 years ago) Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic
- 1951 (75 years ago) Nancy Jacobs, American politician
- 1951 (75 years ago) Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
- 1952 (74 years ago) Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1952 (74 years ago) Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author
- 1952 (74 years ago) Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer
- 1952 (74 years ago) Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer-songwriter (died 2011)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Peter Firth, English actor
- 1953 (73 years ago) Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1954 (72 years ago) Jan Duursema, American illustrator
- 1954 (72 years ago) Mike Kelley, American artist and musician (died 2012)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Chris Tavaré, English cricketer and biologist
- 1955 (71 years ago) Debra Bowen, American lawyer and politician, 31st Secretary of State of California
- 1956 (70 years ago) Patty Sheehan, American golfer
- 1956 (70 years ago) Babis Tsertos, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
- 1957 (69 years ago) Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager
- 1957 (69 years ago) Peter Marc Jacobson, American actor, director, and producer
- 1958 (68 years ago) Gordon Cowans, English footballer
- 1958 (68 years ago) David Hazeltine, American pianist and composer
- 1958 (68 years ago) Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter
- 1958 (68 years ago) Jonathan Shapiro, South African political cartoonist who uses the pseudonym Zapiro
- 1958 (68 years ago) Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (died 2009)
- 1958 (68 years ago) Donnell Thompson, American football player (died 2024)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach
- 1960 (66 years ago) Tom Nieto, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1963 (63 years ago) David Hall, Australian horse trainer
- 1963 (63 years ago) Marla Maples, American model and actress
- 1963 (63 years ago) Tom McKean, Scottish runner
- 1964 (62 years ago) Mary T. Meagher, American swimmer
- 1964 (62 years ago) Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
- 1964 (62 years ago) Ian Wells, English footballer (died 2013)
- 1965 (61 years ago) Mohan Kapoor, Indian television and film actor
- 1966 (60 years ago) Steve Almond, American author and educator
- 1966 (60 years ago) Kit Malthouse, English accountant and politician
- 1966 (60 years ago) Hege Nerland, Norwegian lawyer and politician (died 2007)
- 1966 (60 years ago) Masanobu Takashima, Japanese actor
- 1967 (59 years ago) Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer and pilot
- 1967 (59 years ago) Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer and manager
- 1967 (59 years ago) Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)
- 1968 (58 years ago) Alain Auderset, Swiss author and illustrator
- 1968 (58 years ago) Dileep, Indian actor and producer
- 1968 (58 years ago) Vinny Samways, English footballer and manager
- 1969 (57 years ago) Marek Napiórkowski, Polish jazz guitarist and composer
- 1969 (57 years ago) Michael Tarnat, German footballer
- 1970 (56 years ago) Karl Backman, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
- 1970 (56 years ago) Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer (died 1997)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer
- 1970 (56 years ago) Jonathan Stroud, English author
- 1970 (56 years ago) Ruslana Taran, Ukrainian sailor
- 1971 (55 years ago) Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer
- 1971 (55 years ago) Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
- 1971 (55 years ago) Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer and politician
- 1972 (54 years ago) Lee Clark, English footballer and manager
- 1972 (54 years ago) Elissa, Lebanese singer
- 1972 (54 years ago) Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 (54 years ago) Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner and coach
- 1972 (54 years ago) Brad Radke, American baseball player
- 1973 (53 years ago) Jason Johnson, American baseball player
- 1973 (53 years ago) Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
- 1975 (51 years ago) Predrag Drobnjak, Montenegrin basketball player
- 1975 (51 years ago) Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach
- 1975 (51 years ago) Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
- 1976 (50 years ago) Bobby Fish, American professional wrestler
- 1976 (50 years ago) Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author
- 1976 (50 years ago) Wilson Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 (49 years ago) Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer
- 1977 (49 years ago) Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
- 1977 (49 years ago) Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1978 (48 years ago) Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player and scout
- 1978 (48 years ago) Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist and skier
- 1979 (47 years ago) Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Japanese footballer
- 1980 (46 years ago) Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist
- 1980 (46 years ago) Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1980 (46 years ago) Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant artist and author
- 1981 (45 years ago) Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer and keyboard player
- 1981 (45 years ago) Sririta Jensen, Thai actress and model
- 1981 (45 years ago) Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
- 1981 (45 years ago) Kristi Richards, Canadian skier
- 1982 (44 years ago) Patrick Fugit, American actor and producer
- 1982 (44 years ago) Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
- 1983 (43 years ago) Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
- 1983 (43 years ago) Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1984 (42 years ago) Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
- 1984 (42 years ago) Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
- 1984 (42 years ago) Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
- 1984 (42 years ago) Brady Quinn, American football player
- 1984 (42 years ago) Emilie Ullerup, Danish-Canadian actress
- 1985 (41 years ago) Sirli Hanni, Estonian biathlete
- 1985 (41 years ago) Alex Soros, American investor and philanthropist
- 1986 (40 years ago) Chris Butler, American ice hockey player
- 1986 (40 years ago) Anna Cruz, Spanish basketball player
- 1986 (40 years ago) Christine Evangelista, American actress
- 1986 (40 years ago) Crystal Langhorne, American basketball player
- 1986 (40 years ago) Jon Niese, American baseball player
- 1986 (40 years ago) Matty Pattison, South African-English footballer
- 1986 (40 years ago) David Warner, Australian cricketer
- 1986 (40 years ago) Lou Williams, American basketball player
- 1987 (39 years ago) Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
- 1987 (39 years ago) Björn Barrefors, Swedish decathlete and heptathlete
- 1987 (39 years ago) Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
- 1987 (39 years ago) Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player
- 1988 (38 years ago) Brady Ellison, American archer
- 1988 (38 years ago) Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1988 (38 years ago) Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper
- 1988 (38 years ago) Evan Turner, American basketball player
- 1989 (37 years ago) Mark Barron, American football player
- 1990 (36 years ago) Alex Bentley, American-Belarusian basketball player
- 1990 (36 years ago) Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
- 1990 (36 years ago) Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer
- 1991 (35 years ago) Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer
- 1992 (34 years ago) Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
- 1992 (34 years ago) Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1992 (34 years ago) Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player
- 1992 (34 years ago) Daniel Sams, Australian cricketer
- 1993 (33 years ago) Troy Gentile, American actor
- 1993 (33 years ago) Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player
- 1994 (32 years ago) Rasmus Ristolainen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1995 (31 years ago) Leon Draisaitl, German ice hockey player
- 1996 (30 years ago) Rasmus Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1996 (30 years ago) Kim Woo-seok, South Korean singer and actor
- 1997 (29 years ago) Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
- 1997 (29 years ago) James TW, English singer-songwriter
- 1999 (27 years ago) Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress
Deaths (116)
- 939 (1087 years ago) Æthelstan, English king
- 1052 (974 years ago) Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir
- 1269 (757 years ago) Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (born c.1220)
- 1272 (754 years ago) Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (born 1213)
- 1277 (749 years ago) Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England
- 1303 (723 years ago) Beatrice of Castile, wife of King Afonso III of Portugal
- 1312 (714 years ago) John II, Duke of Brabant (born 1275)
- 1326 (700 years ago) Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (born 1262)
- 1327 (699 years ago) Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce
- 1329 (697 years ago) Mahaut, Countess of Artois (born 1268)
- 1331 (695 years ago) Abulfeda, Arab historian and geographer (born 1273)
- 1430 (596 years ago) Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (born 1350)
- 1439 (587 years ago) Albert II of Germany,
- 1441 (585 years ago) Margery Jourdemayne, executed for treasonable witchcraft
- 1449 (577 years ago) Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (born 1394)
- 1485 (541 years ago) Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch philosopher, poet and educator (born 1443)
- 1505 (521 years ago) Ivan III of Russia,
- 1513 (513 years ago) George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English nobleman
- 1553 (473 years ago) Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (born 1511)
- 1561 (465 years ago) Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (born 1510)
- 1573 (453 years ago) Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (born 1499)
- 1605 (421 years ago) Akbar, Mughal emperor (born 1542)
- 1613 (413 years ago) Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (born 1589)
- 1617 (409 years ago) Ralph Winwood, English lawyer and politician, English Secretary of State (born 1563)
- 1666 (360 years ago) Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (born 1640)
- 1670 (356 years ago) Vavasor Powell, Welsh minister (born 1617)
- 1674 (352 years ago) Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic minister and poet (born 1614)
- 1675 (351 years ago) Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (born 1602)
- 1789 (237 years ago) John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (born 1730)
- 1812 (214 years ago) Isaac Brock, British army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (born 1769)
- 1816 (210 years ago) Santō Kyōden, Japanese poet and painter (born 1761)
- 1880 (146 years ago) Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek soldier and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1822)
- 1917 (109 years ago) Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Warren Wood, American golfer and soldier (born 1887)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (born 1888)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (born 1857)
- 1930 (96 years ago) Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (born 1851)
- 1935 (91 years ago) Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (born 1897)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Helmuth Hübener, German activist (born 1925)
- 1944 (82 years ago) Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (born 1905)
- 1947 (79 years ago) William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1872)
- 1949 (77 years ago) Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (born 1916)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Thomas Wass, English cricketer (born 1873)
- 1957 (69 years ago) James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (born 1890)
- 1962 (64 years ago) Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (born 1927)
- 1962 (64 years ago) Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (born 1906)
- 1968 (58 years ago) Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (born 1878)
- 1974 (52 years ago) C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (born 1938)
- 1975 (51 years ago) Rex Stout, American detective novelist (born 1886)
- 1977 (49 years ago) James M. Cain, American journalist and author (born 1892)
- 1980 (46 years ago) Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1924)
- 1980 (46 years ago) John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
- 1982 (44 years ago) Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (born 1895)
- 1988 (38 years ago) Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (born 1914)
- 1990 (36 years ago) Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (born 1900)
- 1990 (36 years ago) Jacques Demy, French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)
- 1990 (36 years ago) Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author (born 1910)
- 1990 (36 years ago) Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)
- 1991 (35 years ago) George Barker, English author and poet (born 1913)
- 1992 (34 years ago) David Bohm, American-English physicist and philosopher (born 1917)
- 1992 (34 years ago) Allen R. Schindler, Jr. American sailor (born 1969)
- 1996 (30 years ago) Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1917)
- 1997 (29 years ago) Mahala Andrews, British vertebrae palaeontologist (born 1939)
- 1999 (27 years ago) Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (born 1927)
- 1999 (27 years ago) Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (born 1903)
- 2000 (26 years ago) Walter Berry, Austrian lyric bass-baritone (born 1929)
- 2001 (25 years ago) Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1925)
- 2002 (24 years ago) Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (born 1925)
- 2002 (24 years ago) Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (born 1922)
- 2003 (23 years ago) Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (born 1937)
- 2003 (23 years ago) Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (born 1949)
- 2004 (22 years ago) Lester Lanin, American bandleader (born 1907)
- 2004 (22 years ago) Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (born 1974)
- 2004 (22 years ago) Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (born 1942)
- 2005 (21 years ago) Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (born 1921)
- 2006 (20 years ago) Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (born 1940)
- 2006 (20 years ago) Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (born 1969)
- 2006 (20 years ago) Marlin McKeever, American football player (born 1940)
- 2006 (20 years ago) Joe Niekro, American baseball player (born 1944)
- 2006 (20 years ago) Brad Will, American journalist and activist (born 1970)
- 2007 (19 years ago) Moira Lister, South African actress (born 1923)
- 2008 (18 years ago) Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (born 1936)
- 2008 (18 years ago) Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (born 1923)
- 2008 (18 years ago) Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (born 1932)
- 2008 (18 years ago) Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (born 1925)
- 2009 (17 years ago) John David Carson, American actor (born 1952)
- 2009 (17 years ago) August Coppola, American author and academic (born 1934)
- 2009 (17 years ago) David Shepherd, English cricketer and umpire (born 1940)
- 2009 (17 years ago) Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1990)
- 2010 (16 years ago) Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (born 1950)
- 2011 (15 years ago) James Hillman, American psychologist and author (born 1926)
- 2011 (15 years ago) Robert Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded Marmon Group (born 1926)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian engineer and politician (born 1952)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Regina Dourado, Brazilian actress (born 1952)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (born 1926)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Rodney S. Quinn, American colonel, pilot, and politician, 44th Secretary of State of Maine (born 1923)
- 2012 (14 years ago) Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (born 1944)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Noel Davern, Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (born 1945)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1931)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1928)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1942)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1940)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (born 1954)
- 2014 (12 years ago) Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (born 1922)
- 2014 (12 years ago) Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (born 1968)
- 2014 (12 years ago) Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (born 1922)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Ayerdhal, French author (born 1959)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (born 1930)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer (born 1923)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (born 1933)
- 2016 (10 years ago) Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (born 1915)
- 2018 (8 years ago) Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman, chairman of Leicester City F.C. (born 1958)
- 2019 (7 years ago) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); suicide (born 1971)
- 2023 (3 years ago) Li Keqiang, premier of China (born 1955)
- 2025 (a year ago) Prunella Scales, English actress (born 1932)