October 6 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on October 6 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 14 Mehr 1405.

Occasions on this day in 2026

national
Veterinary Day
cultural
Tehran Day
countries
German-American Day

This day in the calendar

Famous people born on October 6

Events (46)

105 BC Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic
69 BC Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdues Armenia.
23 (2003 years ago) Rebels decapitate Wang Mang, only Emperor of the Xin Dynasty, after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.
404 (1622 years ago) Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.
618 (1408 years ago) Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi.
1539 (487 years ago) Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.
1600 (426 years ago) Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
1683 (343 years ago) Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
1762 (264 years ago) Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.
1777 (249 years ago) American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
1789 (237 years ago) French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
1810 (216 years ago) A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
1849 (177 years ago) The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1854 (172 years ago) In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1884 (142 years ago) The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
1898 (128 years ago) Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
1903 (123 years ago) The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908 (118 years ago) The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1910 (116 years ago) Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.
1920 (106 years ago) Ukrainian War of Independence: The Starobilsk agreement is signed by representatives of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Makhnovshchina.
1923 (103 years ago) The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
1927 (99 years ago) Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
1934 (92 years ago) Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
1973 (53 years ago) Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
1976 (50 years ago) Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
1976 (50 years ago) Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
1976 (50 years ago) Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries in the Thammasat University massacre; afterwards, the Seni Pramoj government is toppled in a military coup led by Sangad Chaloryu.
1977 (49 years ago) The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1979 (47 years ago) Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981 (45 years ago) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
1981 (45 years ago) NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off from Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, killing all 17 people on board.
1985 (41 years ago) Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1987 (39 years ago) Fiji becomes a republic.
1990 (36 years ago) Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.
1995 (31 years ago) The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
2007 (19 years ago) Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
2010 (16 years ago) Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
2018 (8 years ago) The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process.
2022 (4 years ago) Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2025 (a year ago) The 2025 Alberta teachers' strike begins, leaving approximately 51,000 teachers off-work, impacting about 730,000 Albertan students.

Births (235)

649 (1377 years ago) Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ,
1289 (737 years ago) Wenceslaus III of Bohemia,
1459 (567 years ago) Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (died 1507)
1510 (516 years ago) John Caius, English physician and academic, co-founded the Gonville and Caius College (died 1573)
1510 (516 years ago) Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (died 1555)
1552 (474 years ago) Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and missionary (died 1610)
1555 (471 years ago) Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (died 1604)
1565 (461 years ago) Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645)
1573 (453 years ago) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (died 1624)
1576 (450 years ago) Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (died 1612)
1591 (435 years ago) Settimia Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter (died 1638)
1610 (416 years ago) Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general (died 1690)
1626 (400 years ago) Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (died 1684)
1716 (310 years ago) George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1771)
1729 (297 years ago) Sarah Crosby, English preacher, the first female Methodist preacher (died 1804)
1732 (294 years ago) John Broadwood, Scottish businessman, co-founded John Broadwood and Sons (died 1812)
1738 (288 years ago) Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria,
1742 (284 years ago) Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (died 1785)
1744 (282 years ago) James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (died 1813)
1767 (259 years ago) Henri Christophe, Grenadian-Haitian king (died 1820)
1769 (257 years ago) Isaac Brock, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (died 1812)
1773 (253 years ago) John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (died 1835)
1773 (253 years ago) Louis Philippe I of France,
1801 (225 years ago) Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (died 1888)
1803 (223 years ago) Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879)
1820 (206 years ago) James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh (died 1892)
1820 (206 years ago) Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano and actress (died 1887)
1831 (195 years ago) Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1916)
1838 (188 years ago) Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian soldier, poet, and author (died 1910)
1846 (180 years ago) George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (died 1914)
1862 (164 years ago) Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (died 1927)
1866 (160 years ago) Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (died 1932)
1874 (152 years ago) Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (died 1950)
1876 (150 years ago) Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice (died 1941)
1882 (144 years ago) Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (died 1937)
1886 (140 years ago) Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (died 1960)
1887 (139 years ago) Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (died 1965)
1888 (138 years ago) Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (died 1918)
1891 (135 years ago) Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (died 1946)
1893 (133 years ago) Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (died 1956)
1895 (131 years ago) Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (died 1981)
1896 (130 years ago) David Howard, American film director (died 1941)
1897 (129 years ago) Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic (died 1991)
1900 (126 years ago) Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist (died 1991)
1900 (126 years ago) Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (died 1934)
1900 (126 years ago) Stan Nichols, English cricketer (died 1961)
1901 (125 years ago) Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic (died 1990)
1903 (123 years ago) Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
1905 (121 years ago) Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter (died 1998)
1906 (120 years ago) Janet Gaynor, American actress (died 1984)
1906 (120 years ago) Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (died 1946)
1908 (118 years ago) Carole Lombard, American actress (died 1942)
1908 (118 years ago) Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1989)
1910 (116 years ago) Barbara Castle, English journalist and politician, First Secretary of State (died 2002)
1910 (116 years ago) Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer (died 1974)
1912 (114 years ago) Perkins Bass, American lawyer and politician (died 2011)
1913 (113 years ago) Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter and photographer (died 1985)
1914 (112 years ago) Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (died 2002)
1914 (112 years ago) Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright (died 2002)
1915 (111 years ago) Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and activist (died 2007)
1915 (111 years ago) Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (died 1983)
1915 (111 years ago) Alice Timander, Swedish dentist and actress (died 2007)
1916 (110 years ago) Chiang Wei-kuo, Japanese-Chinese general (died 1997)
1916 (110 years ago) Otto Djaya, Indonesian painter (died 2002)
1917 (109 years ago) Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (died 1977)
1918 (108 years ago) Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (died 2010)
1918 (108 years ago) André Pilette, French-Belgian race car driver (died 1993)
1919 (107 years ago) Tommy Lawton, English footballer and coach (died 1996)
1920 (106 years ago) John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, English lawyer and judge (died 2005)
1921 (105 years ago) Evgenii Landis, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1997)
1921 (105 years ago) Joseph Lowery, American minister and activist (died 2020)
1921 (105 years ago) Giovanni Michelotti, Italian automotive designer (died 1980)
1922 (104 years ago) Joe Frazier, American baseball player and manager (died 2011)
1922 (104 years ago) Teala Loring, American actress (died 2007)
1923 (103 years ago) Robert Kuok, Malaysian Chinese business magnate and investor
1923 (103 years ago) Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (died 2015)
1925 (101 years ago) Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (died 2005)
1927 (99 years ago) Bill King, American sportscaster (died 2005)
1928 (98 years ago) Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (died 2015)
1928 (98 years ago) Barbara Werle, American actress and singer (died 2013)
1929 (97 years ago) George Mattos, American pole vaulter (died 2012)
1930 (96 years ago) Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (died 2000)
1930 (96 years ago) Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 2015)
1931 (95 years ago) Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (died 2004)
1931 (95 years ago) Eileen Derbyshire, English actress
1931 (95 years ago) Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
1933 (93 years ago) Prince Mukarram Jah, 8th Nizam of Hyderabad (died 2023)
1934 (92 years ago) Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (died 2015)
1935 (91 years ago) Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler and trainer (died 2018)
1936 (90 years ago) Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator, and activist (died 2013)
1938 (88 years ago) Serge Nubret, Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor (died 2011)
1939 (87 years ago) Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic
1939 (87 years ago) Jack Cullen, American baseball player
1939 (87 years ago) Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic
1939 (87 years ago) Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist and academic
1939 (87 years ago) John J. LaFalce, American captain, lawyer, and politician
1940 (86 years ago) Jan Keizer, Dutch footballer and referee
1941 (85 years ago) Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (died 1987)
1942 (84 years ago) Dan Christensen, American painter (died 2007)
1942 (84 years ago) Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer
1942 (84 years ago) Fred Travalena, American comedian and actor (died 2009)
1943 (83 years ago) Richard Caborn, English engineer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
1943 (83 years ago) Peter Dowding, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Western Australia
1943 (83 years ago) Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
1943 (83 years ago) Cees Veerman, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)
1944 (82 years ago) Merzak Allouache, Algerian director and screenwriter
1944 (82 years ago) Patrick Cordingley, English general
1944 (82 years ago) Boris Mikhailov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
1944 (82 years ago) Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (died 1977)
1945 (81 years ago) Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)
1946 (80 years ago) Lloyd Doggett, American lawyer and politician
1946 (80 years ago) Tony Greig, South African-English cricketer and sportscaster (died 2012)
1946 (80 years ago) John Monie, Australian rugby league player and coach
1946 (80 years ago) Eddie Villanueva, Filipino evangelist and politician, founded the ZOE Broadcasting Network
1946 (80 years ago) Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (died 2017)
1947 (79 years ago) Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor (died 2019)
1947 (79 years ago) Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver
1947 (79 years ago) Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter (died 2020)
1948 (78 years ago) Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician
1948 (78 years ago) Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer (died 2018)
1949 (77 years ago) Lonnie Johnson, American inventor
1949 (77 years ago) Penny Junor, English journalist and author
1949 (77 years ago) Thomas McClary, American R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 (77 years ago) Leslie Moonves, American businessman
1949 (77 years ago) Nicolas Peyrac, French singer-songwriter and photographer
1950 (76 years ago) David Brin, American physicist and author
1951 (75 years ago) Kevin Cronin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1951 (75 years ago) Clive Rees, Singaporean-Welsh rugby player and educator
1951 (75 years ago) Gavin Sutherland, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player
1951 (75 years ago) Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (died 1985)
1952 (74 years ago) Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and author
1953 (73 years ago) Rein Rannap, Estonian pianist and composer
1954 (72 years ago) Bill Buford, American author and journalist
1954 (72 years ago) David Hidalgo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 (71 years ago) Tony Dungy, American football player and coach
1956 (70 years ago) Sadiq al-Ahmar, Yemeni politician (died 2023)
1956 (70 years ago) Kathleen Webb, American author and illustrator
1957 (69 years ago) Bruce Grobbelaar, Zimbabwean footballer and coach
1958 (68 years ago) Sergei Mylnikov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 2017)
1959 (67 years ago) Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (died 2012)
1959 (67 years ago) Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player
1959 (67 years ago) Brian Higgins, American politician
1959 (67 years ago) Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler
1960 (66 years ago) Richard Jobson, Scottish singer, songwriter director and producer.
1961 (65 years ago) Miyuki Matsuda, Japanese actress
1961 (65 years ago) Paul Sansome, English footballer
1961 (65 years ago) Ben Summerskill, English businessman and journalist
1962 (64 years ago) David Baker, American biologist and academic
1962 (64 years ago) Rich Yett, American baseball player
1963 (63 years ago) Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer and coach
1963 (63 years ago) Elisabeth Shue, American actress
1964 (62 years ago) Ricky Berry, American basketball player (died 1989)
1964 (62 years ago) Mark Field, German-English lawyer and politician
1964 (62 years ago) Tom Jager, American swimmer and coach
1964 (62 years ago) Miltos Manetas, Greek painter
1964 (62 years ago) Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Justice
1964 (62 years ago) Matthew Sweet, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1965 (61 years ago) Jürgen Kohler, German footballer and manager
1965 (61 years ago) Peg O'Connor, American philosopher and academic
1965 (61 years ago) Steve Scalise, American lawyer and politician
1965 (61 years ago) Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1965 (61 years ago) John McWhorter, American academic and linguist
1966 (60 years ago) Melania Mazzucco, Italian author
1966 (60 years ago) Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
1966 (60 years ago) Niall Quinn, Irish footballer and manager
1966 (60 years ago) Tommy Stinson, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1967 (59 years ago) Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer
1967 (59 years ago) Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder
1967 (59 years ago) Steven Woolfe, English barrister and politician
1968 (58 years ago) Bjarne Goldbæk, Danish footballer and sportscaster
1968 (58 years ago) Bob May, American golfer
1969 (57 years ago) Byron Black, Zimbabwean golfer
1969 (57 years ago) Muhammad V of Kelantan, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1970 (56 years ago) Amy Jo Johnson, American actress
1970 (56 years ago) Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress and producer
1970 (56 years ago) Darren Oliver, American baseball player
1971 (55 years ago) Emily Mortimer, English actress
1972 (54 years ago) Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
1973 (53 years ago) Jeff B. Davis, American comedian, actor, and singer
1973 (53 years ago) Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1973 (53 years ago) Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player and sportscaster
1974 (52 years ago) Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer and manager
1974 (52 years ago) Kenny Jönsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1974 (52 years ago) Seema Kennedy, British politician
1974 (52 years ago) Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1974 (52 years ago) Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese shooter
1975 (51 years ago) Reon King, Guyanese cricketer
1976 (50 years ago) Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 (50 years ago) Brett Gelman, American actor and comedian
1977 (49 years ago) Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 (49 years ago) Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer and singer
1977 (49 years ago) Wes Ramsey, American actor
1978 (48 years ago) Ricky Hatton, English boxer and promoter (died 2025)
1978 (48 years ago) Liu Yang, Chinese astronaut
1979 (47 years ago) David Di Tommaso, French footballer (died 2005)
1979 (47 years ago) Mohamed Kallon, Sierra Leonean footballer and manager
1979 (47 years ago) Richard Seymour, American football player
1980 (46 years ago) Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
1981 (45 years ago) Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Levon Aronian, Armenian chess grandmaster
1982 (44 years ago) Will Butler, American musician and composer
1982 (44 years ago) Paul Smith, English boxer
1983 (43 years ago) Renata Voráčová, Czech tennis player
1984 (42 years ago) Morné Morkel, South African cricketer
1985 (41 years ago) Mitchell Cole, English footballer (died 2012)
1985 (41 years ago) Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
1985 (41 years ago) Sandra Góngora, Mexican ten-pin bowler
1985 (41 years ago) Tarmo Kink, Estonian footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1986 (40 years ago) Olivia Thirlby, American actress
1987 (39 years ago) Akuila Uate, Fijian-Australian rugby league player
1989 (37 years ago) Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (died 2014)
1989 (37 years ago) Tyler Ennis, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 (37 years ago) Pizzi, Portuguese footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Scarlett Byrne, English actress
1990 (36 years ago) Marcus Johansson, Swedish ice hockey player
1990 (36 years ago) Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 (36 years ago) Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1992 (34 years ago) Josh Archibald, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1992 (34 years ago) Taylor Paris, Canadian rugby player
1993 (33 years ago) Adam Gemili, English sprinter
1993 (33 years ago) Jourdan Miller, American fashion model
1993 (33 years ago) Nail Yakupov, Russian ice hockey player
1994 (32 years ago) Jake Guentzel, American ice hockey player
1994 (32 years ago) Lee Joo-heon, South Korean rapper and songwriter
1996 (30 years ago) Kevin Diks, Indonesian footballer
1997 (29 years ago) Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer
1999 (27 years ago) Trevor Lawrence, American football player
2000 (26 years ago) Jazz Jennings, American internet personality
2000 (26 years ago) Kyle Pitts, American football player
2000 (26 years ago) Addison Rae, American social media personality, dancer, and singer
2001 (25 years ago) Hitomi Honda, Japanese singer based in South Korea
2002 (24 years ago) Jonathan Kuminga, Congolese basketball player
2004 (22 years ago) Bronny James, American basketball player
2004 (22 years ago) Hanni, Australian singer

Deaths (117)

23 (2003 years ago) Wang Mang, emperor of the Xin Dynasty
404 (1622 years ago) Aelia Eudoxia, Byzantine empress
836 (1190 years ago) Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general
869 (1157 years ago) Ermentrude of Orléans, Frankish queen (born 823)
877 (1149 years ago) Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (born 823)
997 (1029 years ago) Minamoto no Mitsunaka, Japanese samurai (born 912)
1014 (1012 years ago) Samuel, tsar of the Bulgarian Empire
1019 (1007 years ago) Frederick of Luxembourg, count of Moselgau (born 965)
1090 (936 years ago) Adalbero, bishop of Würzburg
1101 (925 years ago) Bruno of Cologne, German monk, founded the Carthusian Order
1145 (881 years ago) Baldwin, archbishop of Pisa
1173 (853 years ago) Engelbert III, margrave of Istria
1349 (677 years ago) Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (born 1312)
1398 (628 years ago) Chŏng Tojŏn, Korean prime minister (born 1342)
1413 (613 years ago) Dawit I, ruler (Emperor) of Ethiopia (born 1382)
1536 (490 years ago) William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (born c. 1494)
1553 (473 years ago) Şehzade Mustafa, Ottoman prince (born 1515)
1559 (467 years ago) William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (born 1487)
1640 (386 years ago) Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (born 1588)
1641 (385 years ago) Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
1644 (382 years ago) Elisabeth of France, queen of Spain and Portugal (born 1602)
1660 (366 years ago) Paul Scarron, French poet and author (born 1610)
1661 (365 years ago) Guru Har Rai, Indian 7th Sikh guru (born 1630)
1688 (338 years ago) Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (born 1652)
1762 (264 years ago) Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1684)
1819 (207 years ago) Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (born 1751)
1829 (197 years ago) Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (born 1769)
1836 (190 years ago) Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (born 1770)
1873 (153 years ago) Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (born 1797)
1883 (143 years ago) Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (born 1852)
1891 (135 years ago) Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (born 1846)
1892 (134 years ago) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (born 1809)
1912 (114 years ago) Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1829)
1923 (103 years ago) Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1853)
1942 (84 years ago) Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (born 1884)
1945 (81 years ago) Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (born 1900)
1947 (79 years ago) Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (born 1887)
1951 (75 years ago) Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (born 1860)
1951 (75 years ago) Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
1959 (67 years ago) Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (born 1865)
1962 (64 years ago) Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (born 1880)
1968 (58 years ago) Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (born 1917)
1969 (57 years ago) Walter Hagen, American golfer (born 1892)
1969 (57 years ago) Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (born 1893)
1972 (54 years ago) Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)
1973 (53 years ago) Sidney Blackmer, American actor (born 1895)
1973 (53 years ago) François Cevert, French race car driver (born 1944)
1973 (53 years ago) Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (born 1894)
1973 (53 years ago) Dennis Price, English actor (born 1915)
1973 (53 years ago) Margaret Wilson, American missionary and author (born 1882)
1974 (52 years ago) Helmut Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (born 1948)
1976 (50 years ago) Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (born 1900)
1978 (48 years ago) Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (born 1935)
1979 (47 years ago) Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (born 1911)
1980 (46 years ago) Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (born 1922)
1980 (46 years ago) Jean Robic, French cyclist (born 1921)
1981 (45 years ago) Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
1983 (43 years ago) Terence Cooke, American cardinal (born 1921)
1985 (41 years ago) Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (born 1921)
1986 (40 years ago) Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1921)
1989 (37 years ago) Bette Davis, American actress (born 1908)
1990 (36 years ago) Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (born 1919)
1991 (35 years ago) Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1956)
1992 (34 years ago) Denholm Elliott, English actor (born 1922)
1992 (34 years ago) Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1905)
1993 (33 years ago) Nejat Eczacıbaşı, Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczacıbaşı (born 1913)
1993 (33 years ago) Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (born 1949)
1995 (31 years ago) Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (born 1961)
1997 (29 years ago) Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (born 1914)
1998 (28 years ago) Mark Belanger, American baseball player (born 1944)
1999 (27 years ago) Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (born 1920)
1999 (27 years ago) Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1937)
2000 (26 years ago) Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (born 1920)
2001 (25 years ago) Arne Harris, American director and producer (born 1934)
2002 (24 years ago) Prince Claus of the Netherlands,
2006 (20 years ago) Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (born 1930)
2006 (20 years ago) Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (born 1940)
2006 (20 years ago) Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (born 1911)
2006 (20 years ago) Wilson Tucker, American author and critic (born 1914)
2007 (19 years ago) Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1921)
2007 (19 years ago) Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian scholar, jurist, and politician (born 1931)
2008 (18 years ago) Peter Cox, Australian public servant and politician (born 1925)
2009 (17 years ago) Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1922)
2010 (16 years ago) Rhys Isaac, South-African-Australian historian and author (born 1937)
2010 (16 years ago) Antonie Kamerling, Dutch television and film actor, and musician (born 1966)
2011 (15 years ago) Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (born 1932)
2012 (14 years ago) Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (born 1929)
2012 (14 years ago) Anthony John Cooke, English organist and composer (born 1931)
2012 (14 years ago) Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1977)
2012 (14 years ago) Albert, Margrave of Meissen (born 1943)
2012 (14 years ago) Joseph Meyer, American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (born 1941)
2012 (14 years ago) B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (born 1927)
2012 (14 years ago) J. J. C. Smart, English-Australian philosopher and academic (born 1920)
2013 (13 years ago) Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1926)
2013 (13 years ago) Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (born 1936)
2013 (13 years ago) Paul Rogers, English actor (born 1917)
2013 (13 years ago) Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (born 1921)
2014 (12 years ago) Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (born 1929)
2014 (12 years ago) Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (born 1944)
2014 (12 years ago) Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (born 1944)
2014 (12 years ago) Marian Seldes, American actress (born 1928)
2014 (12 years ago) Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1976)
2014 (12 years ago) Feridun Buğeker, Turkish football player (born 1933)
2015 (11 years ago) Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (born 1922)
2015 (11 years ago) Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (born 1926)
2015 (11 years ago) Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (born 1923)
2017 (9 years ago) Ralphie May, American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1972)
2017 (9 years ago) David Marks, British architect, designer of the London Eye (born 1952)
2018 (8 years ago) Scott Wilson, American actor (born 1942)
2018 (8 years ago) Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (born 1933)
2019 (7 years ago) Ginger Baker, English drummer (born 1939)
2019 (7 years ago) Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (born 1936)
2019 (7 years ago) Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (born 1931)
2020 (6 years ago) Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1955)
2020 (6 years ago) Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
2024 (2 years ago) Dave Hobson, American politician (born 1936)
2024 (2 years ago) Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1951)