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What happend on 14. October in History
In our data base we found 367 events happened on 14. October:
• 222: Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I. [category: Events]
• 1066: Harold Godwinson, English king (b. 1022) [category: Deaths]
• 1066: Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England. [category: Events]
• 1092: Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (b. 1018) [category: Deaths]
• 1256: Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239) [category: Deaths]
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• 1257: Przemysł II of Poland (d. 1296) [category: Births]
• 1318: Edward Bruce, Irish king (b. 1280) [category: Deaths]
• 1322: Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. [category: Events]
• 1404: Marie of Anjou (d. 1463) [category: Births]
• 1465: Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest [category: Events]
• 1493: Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568) [category: Births]
• 1542: Akbar, Mughal emperor (d. 1605) [category: Births]
• 1552: Oswald Myconius, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1488) [category: Deaths]
• 1563: Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (d. 1611) [category: Births]
• 1565: Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521) [category: Deaths]
• 1568: Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (b. 1507) [category: Deaths]
• 1582: Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. [category: Events]
• 1586: Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England. [category: Events]
• 1610: Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540) [category: Deaths]
• 1619: Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562) [category: Deaths]
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• 1630: Sophia of Hanover (d. 1714) [category: Births]
• 1633: James II of England (d. 1701) [category: Births]
• 1637: Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552) [category: Deaths]
• 1639: Simon van der Stel, Dutch commander and politician (d. 1712) [category: Births]
• 1641: Joachim Tielke German musical instruments maker (d. 1719) [category: Births]
• 1643: Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor (d. 1712) [category: Births]
• 1644: William Penn, English businessman, founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718) [category: Births]
• 1656: Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive. [category: Events]
• 1660: Thomas Harrison, English soldier (b. 1606) [category: Deaths]
• 1669: Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623) [category: Deaths]
• 1687: Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768) [category: Births]
• 1703: Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634) [category: Deaths]
• 1711: Tewoflos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1708) [category: Deaths]
• 1712: George Grenville, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770) [category: Births]
• 1726: Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English navy officer and politician (d. 1813) [category: Births]
• 1733: François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798) [category: Births]
• 1758: James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian soldier and field marshal (b. 1696) [category: Deaths]
• 1758: Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk. [category: Events]
• 1773: Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland. [category: Events]
• 1773: The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. [category: Events]
• 1784: Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833) [category: Births]
• 1790: Thursday October Christian I, English son of Fletcher Christian (d. 1831) [category: Births]
• 1792: Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714) [category: Deaths]
• 1801: Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883) [category: Births]
• 1805: Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria. [category: Events]
• 1806: Preston King, American politician (d. 1865) [category: Births]
• 1806: Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia. [category: Events]
• 1808: The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France. [category: Events]
• 1812: Work on London's Regent's Canal starts. [category: Events]
• 1831: Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761) [category: Deaths]
• 1840: Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (d. 1868) [category: Births]
• 1840: The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta. [category: Events]
• 1842: Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1843: The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes. [category: Events]
• 1848: Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker (d. 1924) [category: Births]
• 1853: Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (d. 1883) [category: Births]
• 1861: Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1863: American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station – Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of the Commonwealth of Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1869: Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1872: Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1873: Jules Rimet, French football administrator, 3rd President of FIFA (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1873: Ray Ewry, American jumper (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1880: Victorio, Mexican tribal chief (b. 1825) [category: Deaths]
• 1882: Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1882: Éamon de Valera, Irish politician, 3rd President of Ireland (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1882: University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan. [category: Events]
• 1884: Jimmy Conlin, American actor (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1884: The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. [category: Events]
• 1888: Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand author (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1888: Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. [category: Events]
• 1890: Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1892: Sumner Welles, American diplomat (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1893: Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1894: E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1898: Thomas William Holmes, Canadian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1898: The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106. [category: Events]
• 1902: Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1904: Christian Pineau, French resistance fighter (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1906: Hannah Arendt, German-American theorist and philosopher (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1906: Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1907: Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1908: Ruth Hale, American actress and playwright (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1908: The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date. [category: Events]
• 1909: Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1909: Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1910: John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1910: The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.. [category: Events]
• 1911: Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1911: John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. [category: Events]
• 1913: Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners. [category: Events]
• 1914: Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1914: Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1914: Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1915: Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian bishop [category: Births]
• 1916: C. Everett Koop, American surgeon and public health administrator, 13th United States Surgeon General [category: Births]
• 1918: Marcel Chaput, Canadian politician (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1920: Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland. [category: Events]
• 1921: José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1923: Marcellus Emants, Dutch author (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1924: Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1925: An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.) [category: Events]
• 1926: Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1926: Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1926: The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published. [category: Events]
• 1927: Roger Moore, English actor [category: Births]
• 1928: Frank E. Resnik, American businessman (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1929: Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1929: Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese politician, President of Zaire (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1930: Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist [category: Births]
• 1930: Samuel van Houten, Dutch politician (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: Nikhil Banerjee, Indian sitar player and composer (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1932: Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1932: Dyanne Thorne, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1932: Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1933: Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations. [category: Events]
• 1935: La Monte Young, American composer [category: Births]
• 1936: Hans Kraay, Dutch footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1938: Farah Pahlavi, Iranian wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi [category: Births]
• 1938: John Dean, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel [category: Births]
• 1938: Ron Lancaster, American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1938: The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. [category: Events]
• 1939: Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation [category: Births]
• 1939: Rocky Thompson, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1939: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland. [category: Events]
• 1940: Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor, director, and scriptwriter [category: Births]
• 1940: Cliff Richard, English singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1940: Perrie Mans, South African snooker player [category: Births]
• 1940: Balham subway station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain. [category: Events]
• 1941: Art Shamsky, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1941: Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1942: Evelio Javier, Filipino politician and civil servant (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1942: Péter Nádas, Hungarian author and playwright [category: Births]
• 1943: José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic). [category: Events]
• 1943: Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war. [category: Events]
• 1943: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany. [category: Events]
• 1944: Udo Kier, German actor [category: Births]
• 1944: Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government. [category: Events]
• 1945: Colin Hodgkinson, English bass player (Whitesnake and The Spencer Davis Group) [category: Births]
• 1945: Daan Jippes, Dutch cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1945: Lesley Joseph, English actress [category: Births]
• 1946: Al Oliver, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1946: Craig Venter, American biologist [category: Births]
• 1946: Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (Nazareth) [category: Births]
• 1946: François Bozizé, Gabonese politician, President of the Central African Republic [category: Births]
• 1946: Justin Hayward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moody Blues) [category: Births]
• 1947: Lukas Resetarits, Austrian actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1947: Norman Harris, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (MFSB) (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1947: Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight. [category: Events]
• 1948: David Ruprecht, American game show host and actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Engin Arık, Turkish physicist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1948: Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer (Boney M) [category: Births]
• 1949: Damian Lau, Hong Kong actor, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1949: Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1949: Katha Pollitt, American poet and author [category: Births]
• 1949: Katy Manning, English-Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China. [category: Events]
• 1949: Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government. [category: Events]
• 1950: Joey Travolta, American actor, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1951: Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist [category: Births]
• 1952: Harry Anderson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast [category: Births]
• 1952: Rick Aviles, American comedian and actor (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1952: Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952. [category: Events]
• 1953: Greg Evigan, American actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer [category: Births]
• 1953: Émile Sarrade, French rugby player (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Carole Malone, English journalist [category: Births]
• 1954: Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician [category: Births]
• 1956: Beth Daniel, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1956: Jennell Jaquays, American game designer and artist of table-top role-playing games (RPGs) and video games [category: Births]
• 1956: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism). [category: Events]
• 1957: Kenny Neal, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Downchild Blues Band) [category: Births]
• 1957: Michel Després, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1957: Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada. [category: Events]
• 1958: Aino-Maija Luukkonen, Finnish politician [category: Births]
• 1958: Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1958: Douglas Mawson, Australian explorer (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada. [category: Events]
• 1958: The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys. [category: Events]
• 1959: A. J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister) [category: Births]
• 1959: Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Steve Cram, English runner [category: Births]
• 1960: Zbigniew Kruszyński, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1960: Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1961: Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Paul Ramadier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Chris Thomas King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player [category: Births]
• 1962: Trevor Goddard, English actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba. [category: Events]
• 1963: Alessandro Safina, Italian tenor [category: Births]
• 1963: Lori Petty, American actress [category: Births]
• 1963: Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer (Sinawe) [category: Births]
• 1964: David Kaye, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Jim Rome, American talk show host [category: Births]
• 1964: Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1964: Olu Oguibe, Nigerian-American painter, author, and critic [category: Births]
• 1964: Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). [category: Events]
• 1965: Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian composer [category: Births]
• 1965: Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower [category: Births]
• 1965: Karyn White, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1965: Steve Coogan, English actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Mark Nyman, English Scrabble player [category: Births]
• 1966: The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system. [category: Events]
• 1967: Jason Plato, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1967: Pat Kelly, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Savanna Samson, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Stephen A. Smith, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1967: Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1967: Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California. [category: Events]
• 1968: Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1968: Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist (Sloan) [category: Births]
• 1968: Johnny Goudie, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Goudie) [category: Births]
• 1968: Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1968: An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads. [category: Events]
• 1968: Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds. [category: Events]
• 1968: The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A. [category: Events]
• 1968: Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. [category: Events]
• 1968: Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there. [category: Events]
• 1969: Christophe Agou, French photographer [category: Births]
• 1969: David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1969: P. J. Brown, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: UK introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971. [category: Events]
• 1970: Daniela Peštová, Czech model [category: Births]
• 1970: Jim Jackson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1970: Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Pär Zetterberg, Swedish football player [category: Births]
• 1971: Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician [category: Births]
• 1973: Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian engineer and general (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers. [category: Events]
• 1974: Jessica Drake, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Joseph Utsler, American rapper, producer, wrestler, and actor (Insane Clown Posse, Psychopathic Rydas, and Dark Lotus) [category: Births]
• 1974: Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter (Dixie Chicks) [category: Births]
• 1974: Samuel José da Silva Vieira, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Viktor Röthlin, Swiss runner [category: Births]
• 1975: Floyd Landis, American cyclist [category: Births]
• 1975: Michael Duberry, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Shaznay Lewis, English singer-songwriter and actress (All Saints) [category: Births]
• 1976: Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1976: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricketer [category: Births]
• 1976: Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Barry Ditewig, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Bianca Beauchamp, Canadian model [category: Births]
• 1977: Carl Johan Grimmark, Swedish guitarist (Narnia, Saviour Machine, Rob Rock, and Beautiful Sin) [category: Births]
• 1977: Jeffrey Garcia, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Joey Didulica, Croatian footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1977: Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (The Rhythm Boys) (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1978: Javon Walker, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist (Most Precious Blood and Indecision) [category: Births]
• 1978: Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1978: Ryan Church, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress [category: Births]
• 1979: The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people. [category: Events]
• 1980: Ben Whishaw, English actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Scott Kooistra, American football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Terrence McGee, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Boof Bonser, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1981: Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall[disambiguation needed] of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner. [category: Events]
• 1981: Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. [category: Events]
• 1982: Cosmin Curiman, Romanian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Matt Roth, American football player [category: Births]
• 1982: Ryan Hall, American runner [category: Births]
• 1982: U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. [category: Events]
• 1983: Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower [category: Births]
• 1983: Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player [category: Births]
• 1983: Vanessa Lane, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Johannes O., Dutch murderer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Willard Price, Canadian-American author and historian (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard. [category: Events]
• 1984: Baby Fae, American baby who received a baboon heart transplant (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1984: LaRon Landry, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Martin Ryle, English astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1985: Daniel Clark, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Sherlyn, Mexican actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Peter Alcorn, Irish drummer (Alestorm and For Ruin) [category: Births]
• 1986: Skyler Shaye, American actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Tom Craddock, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Mario Titone, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Max Thieriot, American actor [category: Births]
• 1988: Pia Toscano, American singer [category: Births]
• 1988: Will Atkinson, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Michael Carmine, American actor (b.1959) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Alexandra Krosney, American actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Raquel Diaz, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1990: Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Shona McGarty, English actress [category: Births]
• 1992: Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Savannah Outen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1994: The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords. [category: Events]
• 1997: Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. [category: Events]
• 1999: Daniel Roche, English Actor [category: Births]
• 1999: Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Art Coulter, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Tony Roper, American race car driver (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Youssif, Iraqi burn victim [category: Births]
• 2002: Norbert Schultze, German composer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and author (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins. This has become known as the Steve Bartman incident. [category: Events]
• 2004: Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek actor and singer (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Chun Wei Cheung, Dutch rower (b. 1972) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven) (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Jared Anderson, American bass player (Morbid Angel and Hate Eternal) (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Maurice Grosse, English paranormal investigator (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Nancy Lynn, American pilot (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams. [category: Events]
• 2007: Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Judy Crichton, American television producer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Richard Cooey, American murderer (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Collin Wilcox, American actress (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Lou Albano, American wrestler, manager, and actor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi, American son of Anwar al-Aulaqi (b. 1995) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Arlen Specter, American politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: James R. Grover, Jr., American politician (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John Clive, English actor and author (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Kyle Bennett, American bicycle motocross racer (b. 1979) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Marc Swayze, American writer and illustrator (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Odorico Leovigildo Sáiz Pérez, Spanish bishop (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Felix Baumgartner jumps from the stratosphere to try to break the record of the highest freefall jump, at an altitude of 39,068 meters (128,18 ft) [category: Events]
• _: Angadrisma [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Day of the Cathedral of Living Pillar (Georgian Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Fortunatus of Todi [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mother's Day (Belarus) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Education Day, formerly Teachers' Day (Poland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Nyerere Day (Tanzania) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Callistus I [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Standards Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]