October 9 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on October 9 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 17 Mehr 1405.

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Events (58)

768 (1258 years ago) Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
1238 (788 years ago) James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1410 (616 years ago) The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
1594 (432 years ago) Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
1604 (422 years ago) Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
1635 (391 years ago) Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
1701 (325 years ago) The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1708 (318 years ago) Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1740 (286 years ago) Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
1760 (266 years ago) Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
1779 (247 years ago) American Revolutionary War: A combined Franco-American assault on British defenses during the Siege of Savannah is repulsed with heavy casualties.
1790 (236 years ago) A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
1799 (227 years ago) HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 (222 years ago) Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 (220 years ago) Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
1812 (214 years ago) War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 (206 years ago) Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1825 (201 years ago) Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
1831 (195 years ago) Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.
1834 (192 years ago) Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
1847 (179 years ago) Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
1861 (165 years ago) American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.
1864 (162 years ago) American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia during Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign.
1873 (153 years ago) A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1874 (152 years ago) The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
1900 (126 years ago) The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
1911 (115 years ago) An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
1913 (113 years ago) The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
1918 (108 years ago) The Finnish Parliament elects Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as King of Finland, but he never accedes to the throne due to Germany's defeat in World War I.
1919 (107 years ago) The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
1934 (92 years ago) An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
1936 (90 years ago) Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
1937 (89 years ago) Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
1941 (85 years ago) A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 (84 years ago) Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
1950 (76 years ago) The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
1962 (64 years ago) Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1963 (63 years ago) In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
1966 (60 years ago) Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.
1967 (59 years ago) A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 (57 years ago) In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
1970 (56 years ago) The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1980 (46 years ago) Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
1981 (45 years ago) President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
1983 (43 years ago) South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
1984 (42 years ago) The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.
1986 (40 years ago) The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
1986 (40 years ago) Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.
1992 (34 years ago) The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York
1995 (31 years ago) An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
2006 (20 years ago) North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
2007 (19 years ago) The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008 financial crisis.
2009 (17 years ago) First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
2012 (14 years ago) Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
2016 (10 years ago) The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
2019 (7 years ago) Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.
2024 (2 years ago) Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.

Births (222)

1201 (825 years ago) Robert de Sorbon, French minister and theologian, founded the Collège de Sorbonne (died 1274)
1221 (805 years ago) Salimbene di Adam, Italian historian and scholar (died 1290)
1261 (765 years ago) Denis of Portugal,
1328 (698 years ago) Peter I of Cyprus,
1581 (445 years ago) Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (died 1638)
1586 (440 years ago) Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (died 1632)
1593 (433 years ago) Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (died 1674)
1609 (417 years ago) Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (died 1688)
1623 (403 years ago) Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (died 1688)
1704 (322 years ago) Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (died 1777)
1757 (269 years ago) Charles X of France,
1796 (230 years ago) Joseph Bonomi the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor (died 1878)
1823 (203 years ago) Mary Ann Shadd, American-Canadian abolitionist (died 1893)
1826 (200 years ago) Agathon Meurman, Finnish politician and journalist (died 1909)
1835 (191 years ago) Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (died 1921)
1837 (189 years ago) Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (died 1902)
1840 (186 years ago) Simeon Solomon, English painter (died 1905)
1845 (181 years ago) Carl Gustav Thulin, Swedish shipowner (died 1918)
1850 (176 years ago) Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (died 1930)
1852 (174 years ago) Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
1858 (168 years ago) Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (died 1935)
1859 (167 years ago) Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (died 1935)
1863 (163 years ago) Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (died 1930)
1864 (162 years ago) Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (died 1927)
1871 (155 years ago) Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (died 1940)
1873 (153 years ago) Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (died 1944)
1873 (153 years ago) Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (died 1916)
1873 (153 years ago) Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (died 1939)
1874 (152 years ago) Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter (died 1947)
1877 (149 years ago) Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (died 1928)
1879 (147 years ago) Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
1880 (146 years ago) Charlie Faust, American baseball player (died 1915)
1883 (143 years ago) Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress (died 1956)
1886 (140 years ago) Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (died 1980)
1888 (138 years ago) Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (died 1938)
1888 (138 years ago) Irving Cummings, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1959)
1890 (136 years ago) Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (died 1944)
1892 (134 years ago) Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
1893 (133 years ago) Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (died 1945)
1895 (131 years ago) Eugene Bullard, American pilot (died 1961)
1897 (129 years ago) M. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras State (died 1987)
1898 (128 years ago) Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright (died 1987)
1898 (128 years ago) Joe Sewell, American baseball player (died 1990)
1899 (127 years ago) Bruce Catton, American historian and author (died 1978)
1900 (126 years ago) Joseph Friedman, American inventor (died 1982)
1900 (126 years ago) Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (died 1976)
1900 (126 years ago) Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (died 1990)
1901 (125 years ago) Alice Lee Jemison, Seneca political activist and journalist (died 1964)
1902 (124 years ago) Freddie Young, English cinematographer (died 1998)
1903 (123 years ago) Walter O'Malley, American lawyer and businessman (died 1979)
1906 (120 years ago) J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (died 1985)
1906 (120 years ago) Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (died 2001)
1907 (119 years ago) Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (died 2001)
1907 (119 years ago) Jacques Tati, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1982)
1907 (119 years ago) Horst Wessel, German SA officer (died 1930)
1908 (118 years ago) Harry Hooton, Australian poet and critic (died 1961)
1908 (118 years ago) Werner von Haeften, German lieutenant (died 1944)
1909 (117 years ago) Donald Coggan, English archbishop (died 2000)
1911 (115 years ago) Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (died 2006)
1914 (112 years ago) Edward Andrews, American actor (died 1985)
1915 (111 years ago) Clifford M. Hardin, American academic and politician, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (died 2010)
1915 (111 years ago) Belva Plain, American author (died 2010)
1918 (108 years ago) E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (died 2007)
1918 (108 years ago) Charles Read, Australian air marshal (died 2014)
1918 (108 years ago) Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2013)
1920 (106 years ago) Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author and educator (died 1976)
1920 (106 years ago) Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (died 2013)
1920 (106 years ago) Jason Wingreen, American actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
1921 (105 years ago) Michel Boisrond, French director and screenwriter (died 2002)
1921 (105 years ago) Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (died 2014)
1922 (104 years ago) Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (died 1997)
1922 (104 years ago) Fyvush Finkel, American actor (died 2016)
1922 (104 years ago) Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (died 2010)
1923 (103 years ago) Donald Sinden, English actor (died 2014)
1924 (102 years ago) Immanuvel Devendrar, Indian soldier (died 1957)
1924 (102 years ago) Arnie Risen, American basketball player (died 2012)
1926 (100 years ago) Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (died 2015)
1927 (99 years ago) John Margetson, English scholar and diplomat, British Ambassador to the Netherlands (died 2020)
1928 (98 years ago) Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer and educator (died 2016)
1931 (95 years ago) Tony Booth, English actor (died 2017)
1933 (93 years ago) Peter Mansfield, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
1933 (93 years ago) Melvin Sokolsky, American fashion photographer (died 2022)
1933 (93 years ago) Bill Tidy, English soldier and cartoonist (died 2023)
1934 (92 years ago) Jill Ker Conway, Australian historian and author (died 2018)
1934 (92 years ago) Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer (died 2026)
1935 (91 years ago) Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
1935 (91 years ago) Don McCullin, English photographer and journalist
1936 (90 years ago) Brian Blessed, English actor
1936 (90 years ago) Mick Young, Australian politician (died 1996)
1938 (88 years ago) Heinz Fischer, Austrian academic and politician, 11th President of Austria
1939 (87 years ago) Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect and academic (died 2025)
1939 (87 years ago) John Pilger, Australian-English journalist, director, and producer (died 2023)
1940 (86 years ago) John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1980)
1941 (85 years ago) Brian Lamb, American broadcaster, founded C-SPAN
1941 (85 years ago) Trent Lott, American lawyer and politician
1941 (85 years ago) Omali Yeshitela, political activist and founder of the Uhuru Movement
1943 (83 years ago) Douglas Kirby, American psychologist and author (died 2012)
1943 (83 years ago) Mike Peters, American cartoonist
1944 (82 years ago) Rita Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy, English academic and politician
1944 (82 years ago) John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 2002)
1944 (82 years ago) Nona Hendryx, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1945 (81 years ago) Amjad Ali Khan, Indian classical Sarod player
1945 (81 years ago) Taiguara, Uruguayan-Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 1996)
1947 (79 years ago) France Gall, French singer (died 2018)
1948 (78 years ago) Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 (77 years ago) Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (died 2016)
1950 (76 years ago) Yoshiyuki Konishi, Japanese fashion designer
1950 (76 years ago) Reichi Nakaido, Japanese singer and guitarist
1950 (76 years ago) Jody Williams, American academic and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1951 (75 years ago) Robert Wuhl, American actor, comedian, and writer
1952 (74 years ago) Sharon Osbourne, English television host and manager
1952 (74 years ago) Dennis Stratton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 (73 years ago) Sally Burgess, South African-English soprano and educator
1953 (73 years ago) Hank Pfister, American tennis player
1953 (73 years ago) Tony Shalhoub, American actor and producer
1954 (72 years ago) Scott Bakula, American actor
1954 (72 years ago) James Fearnley, English musician
1954 (72 years ago) Rubén Magnano, Argentine-Italian basketball coach
1954 (72 years ago) John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
1955 (71 years ago) Linwood Boomer, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1955 (71 years ago) Steve Ovett, English runner and sportscaster
1957 (69 years ago) Ini Kamoze, Jamaican singer-songwriter
1958 (68 years ago) Al Jourgensen, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and producer
1958 (68 years ago) Michael Paré, American actor
1958 (68 years ago) Mike Singletary, American football player and coach
1959 (67 years ago) Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (died 2015)
1960 (66 years ago) Kenny Garrett, American saxophonist and composer
1961 (65 years ago) Julian Bailey, English racing driver and sportscaster
1961 (65 years ago) Kurt Neumann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 (64 years ago) Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer and manager
1962 (64 years ago) Paul Radisich, New Zealand racing driver
1962 (64 years ago) Ōnokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna
1963 (63 years ago) Andy Platt, English rugby league player
1964 (62 years ago) Guillermo del Toro, Mexican-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 (62 years ago) Martín Jaite, Argentine tennis player
1966 (60 years ago) David Cameron, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1966 (60 years ago) Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher, founded Plaza Magazine
1967 (59 years ago) Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player
1967 (59 years ago) Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (died 2005)
1967 (59 years ago) Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
1968 (58 years ago) Guto Bebb, Welsh businessman and politician
1968 (58 years ago) Anbumani Ramadoss, Indian politician
1969 (57 years ago) Darren Britt, Australian rugby league player
1969 (57 years ago) Simon Fairweather, Australian archer
1969 (57 years ago) PJ Harvey, English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer
1969 (57 years ago) Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater and coach
1969 (57 years ago) Giles Martin, English songwriter and producer
1969 (57 years ago) Steve McQueen, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1970 (56 years ago) Kenny Anderson, American basketball player and coach
1970 (56 years ago) Steve Jablonsky, American composer
1970 (56 years ago) Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer and architect
1971 (55 years ago) Wayne Bartrim, Australian rugby league player and coach
1971 (55 years ago) Sian Evans, Welsh singer
1972 (54 years ago) Anabela Sousa Rodrigues, Portuguese politician and psychologist
1973 (53 years ago) Steve Burns, American actor, television host and musician
1973 (53 years ago) Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1974 (52 years ago) Keith Booth, American basketball player and coach
1974 (52 years ago) Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi
1975 (51 years ago) Haylie Ecker, Australian violinist
1975 (51 years ago) Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1975 (51 years ago) Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
1976 (50 years ago) William Alexander, American author and educator
1976 (50 years ago) Stephen Neal, American football player
1976 (50 years ago) Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer and coach
1976 (50 years ago) Özlem Türköne, Turkish journalist and politician
1976 (50 years ago) Nick Swardson, American actor and comedian
1977 (49 years ago) Emanuele Belardi, Italian footballer
1977 (49 years ago) Brian Roberts, American baseball player
1978 (48 years ago) Nicky Byrne, Irish singer-songwriter
1978 (48 years ago) Juan Dixon, American basketball player and coach
1979 (47 years ago) Vernon Fox, American football player and coach
1979 (47 years ago) Alex Greenwald, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1979 (47 years ago) Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
1979 (47 years ago) Lecrae, American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor
1979 (47 years ago) Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor, producer, and screenwriter
1979 (47 years ago) Brandon Routh, American model and actor
1979 (47 years ago) Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1980 (46 years ago) Lucy Akello, Ugandan social worker and politician
1980 (46 years ago) Filip Bobek, Polish actor
1980 (46 years ago) Sarah Lovell, Australian politician
1980 (46 years ago) Thami Tsolekile, South African cricketer
1980 (46 years ago) Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 (45 years ago) Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
1981 (45 years ago) Darius Miles, American basketball player
1983 (43 years ago) Farhaan Behardien, South African cricketer
1983 (43 years ago) Trevor Daley, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 (43 years ago) Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1983 (43 years ago) Spencer Grammer, American actress
1983 (43 years ago) Jang Mi-ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983 (43 years ago) Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1984 (42 years ago) Marie Kondo, Japanese author and television presenter
1985 (41 years ago) David Plummer, American swimmer
1986 (40 years ago) Derek Holland, American baseball player
1986 (40 years ago) Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1986 (40 years ago) David Phelps, American baseball player
1986 (40 years ago) Jan Christian Vestre, Norwegian businessman and politician
1986 (40 years ago) Stephane Zubar, French footballer
1987 (39 years ago) Craig Brackins, American basketball player
1987 (39 years ago) Samantha Murray Sharan, British tennis player
1987 (39 years ago) Henry Walker, American basketball player
1988 (38 years ago) Starling Marte, Dominican baseball player
1988 (38 years ago) David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player
1989 (37 years ago) Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player
1990 (36 years ago) Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Jake Lamb, American baseball player
1992 (34 years ago) Jerian Grant, American basketball player
1992 (34 years ago) Sam Mewis, American soccer player
1992 (34 years ago) Tyler James Williams, American actor
1993 (33 years ago) Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player
1993 (33 years ago) Lauren Davis, American tennis player
1993 (33 years ago) Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player
1993 (33 years ago) George Kittle, American football player
1993 (33 years ago) Scotty McCreery, American singer and songwriter
1993 (33 years ago) Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster
1994 (32 years ago) Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
1996 (30 years ago) Jacob Batalon, Filipino-American actor
1996 (30 years ago) Bella Hadid, American model
1997 (29 years ago) Jharrel Jerome, American actor
1997 (29 years ago) Megan Moroney, American singer-songwriter.
2000 (26 years ago) Penei Sewell, American football player
2001 (25 years ago) Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer
2002 (24 years ago) Ben Shelton, American tennis player

Deaths (111)

680 (1346 years ago) Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint
892 (1134 years ago) Al-Tirmidhi, Persian scholar and hadith compiler (born 824)
1047 (979 years ago) Pope Clement II,
1212 (814 years ago) Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (born 1175)
1253 (773 years ago) Robert Grosseteste, English bishop and philosopher (born 1175)
1273 (753 years ago) Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (born 1227)
1296 (730 years ago) Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (born 1269)
1390 (636 years ago) John I of Castile,
1555 (471 years ago) Justus Jonas, German academic and reformer (born 1493)
1562 (464 years ago) Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (born 1523)
1569 (457 years ago) Vladimir of Staritsa,
1581 (445 years ago) Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (born 1526)
1613 (413 years ago) Henry Constable, English poet (born 1562)
1619 (407 years ago) Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (born 1561)
1691 (335 years ago) William Sacheverell, English politician (born 1638)
1729 (297 years ago) Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (born 1654)
1793 (233 years ago) Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary and linguist (born 1718)
1797 (229 years ago) Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (born 1720)
1806 (220 years ago) Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (born 1731)
1808 (218 years ago) John Claiborne, American lawyer and politician (born 1777)
1831 (195 years ago) Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (born 1776)
1873 (153 years ago) George Ormerod, English historian and author (born 1785)
1897 (129 years ago) Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1818)
1900 (126 years ago) Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1843)
1906 (120 years ago) Henriette Wulfsberg, Norwegian school owner and writer (born 1843)
1911 (115 years ago) Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (born 1849)
1924 (102 years ago) Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and critic (born 1873)
1926 (100 years ago) Evald Relander, Finnish teacher, agronomist and banker (born 1856)
1934 (92 years ago) Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander the Unifier (born 1888)
1934 (92 years ago) Louis Barthou, French union leader and politician, 78th Prime Minister of France (born 1862)
1937 (89 years ago) Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1868)
1940 (86 years ago) Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (born 1865)
1941 (85 years ago) Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (born 1900)
1943 (83 years ago) Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
1944 (82 years ago) Stefanina Moro, Italian partisan (born 1927)
1945 (81 years ago) Gottlieb Hering, German captain (born 1887)
1946 (80 years ago) Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (born 1877)
1947 (79 years ago) Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (born 1888)
1950 (76 years ago) George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (born 1895)
1953 (73 years ago) James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (born 1887)
1955 (71 years ago) Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (born 1875)
1956 (70 years ago) Marie Doro, American actress (born 1882)
1958 (68 years ago) Pope Pius XII,
1958 (68 years ago) John Boland, American politician (born 1884)
1959 (67 years ago) Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and biologist (born 1892)
1962 (64 years ago) Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (born 1885)
1967 (59 years ago) Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (born 1928)
1967 (59 years ago) Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
1967 (59 years ago) André Maurois, French soldier and author (born 1885)
1967 (59 years ago) Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (born 1883)
1969 (57 years ago) Don Hoak, American baseball player (born 1928)
1972 (54 years ago) Miriam Hopkins, American actress (born 1902)
1974 (52 years ago) Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (born 1908)
1975 (51 years ago) Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (born 1910)
1976 (50 years ago) Walter Warlimont, German general (born 1894)
1978 (48 years ago) Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1929)
1982 (44 years ago) Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (born 1893)
1985 (41 years ago) Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (born 1905)
1987 (39 years ago) Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1903)
1987 (39 years ago) William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
1988 (38 years ago) Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (born 1902)
1989 (37 years ago) Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (born 1921)
1989 (37 years ago) Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (born 1940)
1995 (31 years ago) Alec Douglas-Home, British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1903)
1996 (30 years ago) Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (born 1913)
1999 (27 years ago) Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (born 1923)
1999 (27 years ago) Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (born 1914)
2000 (26 years ago) David Dukes, American actor (born 1945)
2000 (26 years ago) Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1918)
2001 (25 years ago) Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (born 1927)
2002 (24 years ago) Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (born 1931)
2002 (24 years ago) Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924)
2003 (23 years ago) Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (born 1926)
2003 (23 years ago) Carl Fontana, American jazz trombonist (born 1928)
2004 (22 years ago) Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1930)
2005 (21 years ago) Louis Nye, American actor (born 1913)
2006 (20 years ago) Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (born 1933)
2006 (20 years ago) Paul Hunter, English snooker player (born 1978)
2006 (20 years ago) Kanshi Ram, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
2007 (19 years ago) Enrico Banducci, American businessman, founded hungry i (born 1922)
2007 (19 years ago) Carol Bruce, American actress and singer (born 1919)
2009 (17 years ago) Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author and educator (born 1934)
2009 (17 years ago) John Daido Loori, American Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher (born 1931)
2009 (17 years ago) Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (born 1934)
2010 (16 years ago) Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
2011 (15 years ago) Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (born 1989)
2012 (14 years ago) Sammi Kane Kraft, American actress (born 1992)
2012 (14 years ago) Kenny Rollins, American basketball player (born 1923)
2012 (14 years ago) Harris Savides, American cinematographer (born 1957)
2013 (13 years ago) Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (born 1933)
2013 (13 years ago) Srihari, Indian actor (born 1964)
2013 (13 years ago) Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1936)
2013 (13 years ago) Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (born 1925)
2014 (12 years ago) Boris Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (born 1929)
2014 (12 years ago) Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (born 1957)
2014 (12 years ago) Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (born 1925)
2014 (12 years ago) Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (born 1921)
2014 (12 years ago) Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (born 1936)
2015 (11 years ago) Ray Duncan, American businessman (born 1930)
2015 (11 years ago) Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1931)
2015 (11 years ago) Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1926)
2015 (11 years ago) Ravindra Jain, Indian composer and director (born 1944)
2016 (10 years ago) Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (born 1926)
2017 (9 years ago) Jean Rochefort, French actor (born 1930)
2024 (2 years ago) George Baldock, British-born Greek international footballer (born 1993)
2024 (2 years ago) Dieter Burdenski, German footballer (born 1950)
2024 (2 years ago) Lily Ebert, Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor (born 1923)
2024 (2 years ago) Lee Wei Ling, Singaporean neurologist (born 1955)
2024 (2 years ago) Clark R. Rasmussen, American politician (born 1934)
2024 (2 years ago) Leif Segerstam, Finnish conductor and composer (born 1944)
2024 (2 years ago) Ratan Tata, Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1937)