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What happend on 16. October in History
In our data base we found 357 events happened on 16. October:
• 456: Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire. [category: Events]
• 1333: Antipope Nicholas V (b. 1260) [category: Deaths]
• 1355: Louis, King of Sicily (b. 1337) [category: Deaths]
• 1384: Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman. [category: Events]
• 1396: William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450) [category: Births]
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• 1430: James II of Scotland (d. 1460) [category: Births]
• 1483: Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542) [category: Births]
• 1535: Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585) [category: Births]
• 1553: Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472) [category: Deaths]
• 1555: Hugh Latimer, English bishop (b. 1487) [category: Deaths]
• 1555: Nicholas Ridley, English bishop (b. 1500) [category: Deaths]
• 1590: Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples. [category: Events]
• 1591: Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535) [category: Deaths]
• 1594: William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532) [category: Deaths]
• 1620: Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (d. 1694) [category: Births]
• 1621: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562) [category: Deaths]
• 1628: François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555) [category: Deaths]
• 1649: Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621) [category: Deaths]
• 1655: Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b. 1591) [category: Deaths]
• 1679: Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech composer (d. 1745) [category: Births]
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• 1679: Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier and politician (b. 1621) [category: Deaths]
• 1680: Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1609) [category: Deaths]
• 1710: Andreas Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian general (d. 1790) [category: Births]
• 1714: Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795) [category: Births]
• 1726: Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801) [category: Births]
• 1729: Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768) [category: Births]
• 1730: Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, founded Detroit (b. 1658) [category: Deaths]
• 1750: Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687) [category: Deaths]
• 1751: Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1805) [category: Births]
• 1752: Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827) [category: Births]
• 1754: Morgan Lewis, American politician, 3rd Governor of New York (d. 1844) [category: Births]
• 1755: Gerard Majella, Italian saint (b. 1725) [category: Deaths]
• 1758: Noah Webster, American lexicographer and author (d. 1843) [category: Births]
• 1762: Paul Hamilton, American politician, 42nd Governor of South Carolina (d. 1816) [category: Births]
• 1774: Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750) [category: Deaths]
• 1780: Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War. [category: Events]
• 1781: Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English navy officer (b. 1705) [category: Deaths]
• 1781: George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown. [category: Events]
• 1789: William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (d. 1866) [category: Births]
• 1791: Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739) [category: Deaths]
• 1793: John Hunter, Scottish doctor and philosopher (b. 1728) [category: Deaths]
• 1793: Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France (b. 1755) [category: Deaths]
• 1793: Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. [category: Events]
• 1793: The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory. [category: Events]
• 1795: William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876) [category: Births]
• 1796: Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726) [category: Deaths]
• 1802: Isaac Murphy, American politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1804: Benjamin Russell, American painter (d. 1885) [category: Births]
• 1806: William P. Fessenden, American politician (d. 1869) [category: Births]
• 1810: Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian religious leader, founder of Breslov Hasidic movement (b. 1772) [category: Deaths]
• 1813: The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig. [category: Events]
• 1815: Francis Lubbock, American politician, 9th Governor of Texas (d. 1905) [category: Births]
• 1819: Austin F. Pike, American politician (d. 1886) [category: Births]
• 1822: Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian dancer (b. 1724) [category: Deaths]
• 1834: Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground. [category: Events]
• 1840: Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900) [category: Births]
• 1841: Itō Hirobumi, Japanese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909) [category: Births]
• 1841: Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. [category: Events]
• 1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. [category: Events]
• 1846: William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. [category: Events]
• 1854: Karl Kautsky, Czech-German theoretician (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1854: Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1900) [category: Births]
• 1855: Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1859: John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1861: J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1863: Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1865: Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781) [category: Deaths]
• 1869: Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women. [category: Events]
• 1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". [category: Events]
• 1872: Walter Buckmaster, English polo player (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1875: Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. [category: Events]
• 1876: Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1877: Théodore Barrière, French playwright (b. 1823) [category: Deaths]
• 1881: William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1882: The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business. [category: Events]
• 1883: Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1884: Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1885: Alfred Braunschweiger, German diver (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1886: David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1888: Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1888: Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1888: John Wentworth, American politician, 21st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815) [category: Deaths]
• 1890: Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902) [category: Births]
• 1890: Michael Collins, Irish politician (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1890: Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1897: Louis de Cazenave, French soldier and super-centenarian (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1898: William O. Douglas, American jurist (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1900: Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1900: Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1900: Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1903: Cecile de Brunhoff, French author (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1905: Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1905: The Partition of Bengal in India takes place. [category: Events]
• 1906: León Klimovsky, Argentine director (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1906: The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer. [category: Events]
• 1908: Enver Hoxha, Albanian politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1908: Joseph Leycester Lyne, English preacher (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Clifford Hansen, American politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1913: Ralph Rose, American track and field athlete (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1914: Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1916: George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1916: In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1917: Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1918: Louis Althusser, French philosopher (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1919: Kathleen Winsor, American author (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1921: MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1922: Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1922: Max Bygraves, English actor and singer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1923: Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1923: Bill McLaren, Scottish sportscaster (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1923: Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1923: The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. [category: Events]
• 1925: Angela Lansbury, English-American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1926: Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO [category: Births]
• 1927: Günter Grass, German author, poet, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1928: Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress [category: Births]
• 1928: Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1929: Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress [category: Births]
• 1930: Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress [category: Births]
• 1931: Charles Colson, American lawyer and author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1931: Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1931: Valery Klimov, Russian violinist [category: Births]
• 1932: Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1932: John Grant, English politician (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1934: Peter Ashdown, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1934: Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman. [category: Events]
• 1936: Akira Machida, Japanese judge [category: Births]
• 1936: Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1936: Peter Bowles, English actor [category: Births]
• 1937: Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1938: Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1939: Joe Dolan, Irish singer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1939: World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe. [category: Events]
• 1940: Barry Corbin, American actor [category: Births]
• 1940: Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1940: Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1940: Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established. [category: Events]
• 1941: Tim McCarver, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1943: Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player (Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Brave Belt) [category: Births]
• 1944: Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1944: Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon. [category: Events]
• 1945: The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada. [category: Events]
• 1946: Suzanne Somers, American actress [category: Births]
• 1946: Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Fritz Sauckel, German politician (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Hans Frank, German lawyer (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Wilhelm Frick, German nazi official (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial. [category: Events]
• 1947: Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, Bobby and the Midnites, Kingfish, RatDog, Furthur, and The Dead) [category: Births]
• 1947: David Zucker, American director [category: Births]
• 1947: Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player [category: Births]
• 1948: Hema Malini, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1948: Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1949: Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War. [category: Events]
• 1949: The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established. [category: Events]
• 1951: Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi. [category: Events]
• 1952: Christopher Cox, American politician [category: Births]
• 1952: Cordell Mosson, American bass player (Parliament and Funkadelic) [category: Births]
• 1952: Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1952: Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and poet (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Al Sobotka, American sports manager [category: Births]
• 1953: Fred Ridgeway, Irish actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1953: Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1953: Tony Carey, American keyboard player (Rainbow, Planet P Project, and Over the Rainbow) [category: Births]
• 1954: Corinna Harfouch, German actress [category: Births]
• 1954: Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1954: Stephen Mellor, American actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Ellen Dolan, American actress [category: Births]
• 1956: John Chavis, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1956: Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1956: Jules Rimet, French football administrator, 3rd President of FIFA (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer [category: Births]
• 1958: Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1959: Brian Harper, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer [category: Births]
• 1959: Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Spandau Ballet) [category: Births]
• 1959: Marc Collins-Rector, American businessman, founded Digital Entertainment Network [category: Births]
• 1959: George Marshall, American military officer and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Hüsker Dü and Sugar) [category: Births]
• 1961: Marc Levy, French author [category: Births]
• 1961: Randy Vasquez, American actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer [category: Births]
• 1962: Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor (Red Hot Chili Peppers, What Is This?, Atoms for Peace, and Fear) [category: Births]
• 1962: Ken Chinn, Canadian singer-songwriter (SNFU and Slaveco.) [category: Births]
• 1962: Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1962: Nico Lazaridis, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1962: Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the USSR begins when US President John F. Kennedy is shown photographs of missile sites in Cuba. [category: Events]
• 1963: Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bam Balams, Navahodads, and Vampire Lovers) [category: Births]
• 1964: Shawn Little, Canadian politician (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1964: Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established. [category: Events]
• 1964: The People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon. [category: Events]
• 1965: Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean author [category: Births]
• 1965: Steve Lamacq, English radio host [category: Births]
• 1965: Tom Tolbert, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1966: George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Davina McCall, English television host [category: Births]
• 1968: Elsa Zylberstein, French actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and director [category: Births]
• 1968: Randall Batinkoff, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country. [category: Events]
• 1968: United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. [category: Events]
• 1969: Danny Hesp, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player [category: Births]
• 1969: Takao Ōmori, Japanese wrestler [category: Births]
• 1969: Terri J. Vaughn, American actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Wendy Wilson, American singer (Wilson Phillips) [category: Births]
• 1970: Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1970: Mehmet Scholl, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act. [category: Events]
• 1971: Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mudvayne and Hellyeah) [category: Births]
• 1971: Robin Boyd, Australian architect (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author [category: Births]
• 1972: Darius Kasparaitis, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: Kordell Stewart, American football player [category: Births]
• 1972: Tomas Lindberg, Swedish singer-songwriter (At the Gates, Lock Up, Disfear, The Great Deceiver, Grotesque, The Crown, Skitsystem, and Liers in Wait) [category: Births]
• 1972: Hale Boggs, American politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Nick Begich, American politician (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: David Unsworth, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Justin Credible, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1973: María Eugenia Larraín, Chilean model [category: Births]
• 1973: Gene Krupa, American drummer and composer (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [category: Events]
• 1974: Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer [category: Births]
• 1974: Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1974: Chembai, Indian singer (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1975: Kellie Martin, American actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox. [category: Events]
• 1975: The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. [category: Events]
• 1975: The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops. [category: Events]
• 1976: Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (John Mayer Trio) [category: Births]
• 1978: Ethan Luck, American guitarist and drummer (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, and Relient K) [category: Births]
• 1978: Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave. [category: Events]
• 1978: Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. [category: Events]
• 1979: Erin Brown, American actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Jeremy Jackson, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1980: Sue Bird, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Timana Tahu, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1981: Ali B, Dutch rapper [category: Births]
• 1981: Anthony Reyes, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Gregory Sedoc, Dutch hurdler [category: Births]
• 1981: Martin Halle, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Eugene Eisenmann, Panamanian-American ornithologist (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player [category: Births]
• 1982: Pippa Black, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Loreen, Swedish singer [category: Births]
• 1983: Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player [category: Births]
• 1983: Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Kelso, American race horse (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Melissa Lauren, French porn actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Rachel Reilly, American reality constant on Big Brother [category: Births]
• 1984: Shayne Ward, English singer [category: Births]
• 1984: Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [category: Events]
• 1984: The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history. [category: Events]
• 1985: Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer [category: Births]
• 1985: Verena Sailer, German sprinter [category: Births]
• 1986: Craig Pickering, English sprinter [category: Births]
• 1986: Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Inna, Romanian singer-songwriter and dancer [category: Births]
• 1986: Nicky Adams, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders. [category: Events]
• 1988: Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Amina Satō, Japanese singer (AKB48) [category: Births]
• 1990: Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, Icelandic singer [category: Births]
• 1990: Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: John and Edward Grimes (twins), Irish singers [category: Births]
• 1991: Ole Beich, Danish bass player (Guns n Roses and L.A. Guns) (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria. [category: Events]
• 1992: Bryce Harper, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1992: Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters. [category: Events]
• 1995: The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C. [category: Events]
• 1995: The Skye Bridge is opened. [category: Events]
• 1996: Eric Malpass, English author (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City. [category: Events]
• 1997: Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: James A. Michener, American author (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Jon Postel, American computer scientist (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges. [category: Events]
• 1999: Jean Shepherd, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Mel Carnahan, American politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. [category: Events]
• 2003: Princess Kritika of Nepal [category: Births]
• 2003: Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Pierre Salinger, American politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: David Reilly, American singer-songwriter (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Elmer Dresslar, Jr., American voice actor and singer (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Eugene Gordon Lee, American actor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Ursula Howells, English actress (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: John Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Ross Davidson, Scottish actor (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Tommy Johnson, American tuba player (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Hawaii Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport. [category: Events]
• 2007: Barbara West, English survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Eyedea, American rapper and producer (Eyedea & Abilities and Face Candy) (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Dan Wheldon, English race car driver (b. 1978) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Aleksandr Koshkyn, Russian boxer (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bódog Török, Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Eddie Yost, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: James Conte, American politician (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John A. Durkin, American politician (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Mario Gallegos, Jr., American politician (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered. [category: Events]
• _: Ada Lovelace Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Air Force Day (Bulgaria) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Boss's Day (United States and Canada) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Day of Pope John Paul II (Poland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Death anniversary of Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Fortunatus of Casei [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Gall [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Gerard Majella [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hedwig of Andechs [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Marguerite Marie Alacoque [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Marie-Marguerite d'Youville [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: October 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Silvanus of Ahun [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Teacher's Day (Chile) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Food Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]