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What happend on 20. October in History
In our data base we found 316 events happened on 20. October:
• 460: Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine wife of Theodosius II (b. 401) [category: Deaths]
• 1139: Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108) [category: Deaths]
• 1463: Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512) [category: Births]
• 1496: Claude, Duke of Guise, French general (d. 1550) [category: Births]
• 1548: The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. [category: Events]
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• 1570: João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496) [category: Deaths]
• 1572: Relief of Goes, Cristóbal de Mondragón with 3000 soldiers of the Spanish Tercios, release the siege of the city. [category: Events]
• 1616: Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680) [category: Births]
• 1620: Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691) [category: Births]
• 1631: Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550) [category: Deaths]
• 1632: Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d. 1723) [category: Births]
• 1640: John Ball, English clergyman (b. 1585) [category: Deaths]
• 1652: Antonio Coello, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1611) [category: Deaths]
• 1656: Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746) [category: Births]
• 1660: Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician (d. 1723) [category: Births]
• 1677: Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (d. 1766) [category: Births]
• 1700: Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (d. 1761) [category: Births]
• 1711: Timothy Ruggles, American military leader and politician (d. 1795) [category: Births]
• 1713: Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652) [category: Deaths]
• 1719: Gottfried Achenwall, German economist and jurist (d. 1772) [category: Births]
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• 1720: Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy. [category: Events]
• 1740: Isabelle de Charrière, Dutch author and poet (d. 1805) [category: Births]
• 1740: Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685) [category: Deaths]
• 1740: Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins. [category: Events]
• 1759: Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician (d. 1815) [category: Births]
• 1780: Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon (d. 1825) [category: Births]
• 1781: Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy. [category: Events]
• 1784: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865) [category: Births]
• 1785: George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1801: Melchior Berri, Swiss architect (d. 1854) [category: Births]
• 1803: The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. [category: Events]
• 1808: Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1818: The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length. [category: Events]
• 1819: Báb, Iranian founder of Bábism (d. 1850) [category: Births]
• 1819: Karol Mikuli, Armenian-Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1897) [category: Births]
• 1822: Thomas Hughes, English author (d. 1896) [category: Births]
• 1827: Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. [category: Events]
• 1832: Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1842: Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815) [category: Deaths]
• 1854: Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891) [category: Births]
• 1858: John Burns, English politician (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1859: John Dewey, American philosopher and psychologist (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1864: James F. Hinkle, American politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1865: Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1870: Michael William Balfe, Irish composer (b. 1808) [category: Deaths]
• 1873: Nellie McClung, Canadian politician and activist (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1873: Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules. [category: Events]
• 1874: Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1876: Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1882: Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1882: Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1883: Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific. [category: Events]
• 1887: Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Japanese founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1890: Richard Francis Burton, English geographer and explorer (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1893: Charley Chase, American actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1894: Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1895: Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1897: Yi Un, Korean husband of Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1900: Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1900: Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1904: Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1904: Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1904: Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries. [category: Events]
• 1905: Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1905: Frederic Dannay, American author (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1907: Arlene Francis, American actress and talk show host (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1907: Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Carla Laemmle, American actress [category: Births]
• 1909: Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1910: Bob Sheppard, American sports announcer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1910: David B. Hill, American politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1913: Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1913: J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-American director and producer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1913: William Clark, American archer [category: Deaths]
• 1914: Fayard Nicholas, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1917: Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1918: Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1919: Tracy Hall, American chemist (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1921: Hans Warren, Dutch poet and author (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1922: Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1922: John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1923: Robert Craft, American conductor [category: Births]
• 1925: Art Buchwald, American columnist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1925: Roger Hanin, French actor and director [category: Births]
• 1925: Tom Dowd, American record producer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1926: Eugene V. Debs, American politician (b. 1855) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1927: Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and columnist [category: Births]
• 1931: Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1931: Richard Caliguiri, American politician, 54th Mayor of Pittsburgh (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1932: Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1932: William Christopher, American actor [category: Births]
• 1934: Bill Chase, American trumpet player (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1934: Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1934: Empress Michiko of Japan [category: Births]
• 1935: Barrie Chase, American actress and dancer [category: Births]
• 1935: Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1935: Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: The Long March ends. [category: Events]
• 1936: Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1937: Wanda Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1938: Emidio Greco, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1938: Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1939: Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus. [category: Events]
• 1940: Kathy Kirby, English singer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1940: Robert Pinsky, American poet [category: Births]
• 1940: Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre. [category: Events]
• 1942: Bart Zoet, Dutch cyclist (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1942: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1942: Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1943: Dunja Vejzović, Croatian soprano [category: Births]
• 1943: The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it. [category: Events]
• 1944: David Mancuso, American party planner, created The Loft [category: Births]
• 1944: Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan physicist and philosopher [category: Births]
• 1944: General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War. [category: Events]
• 1944: Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130. [category: Events]
• 1944: The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia [category: Events]
• 1946: Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1946: Lewis Grizzard, American comedian and author (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1946: Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1946: Richard Loncraine, English director [category: Births]
• 1947: Gilbert Bougnol, French fencer (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years. [category: Events]
• 1947: United States of America and Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1948: Melih Gökçek, Turkish politician, 27th Mayor of Ankara [category: Births]
• 1948: Piet Hein Donner, Dutch politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter and musician (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch, and Traveling Wilburys) [category: Births]
• 1950: Henry L. Stimson, American statesman, lawyer and politician (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Al Greenwood, American keyboard player (Foreigner) [category: Births]
• 1951: Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1951: Ken Ham, Australian evangelist [category: Births]
• 1951: Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Patrick Hall, English politician [category: Births]
• 1951: The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma [category: Events]
• 1952: Melanie Mayron, American actress [category: Births]
• 1952: Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya. [category: Events]
• 1953: Bill Nunn, American actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Keith Hernandez, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1953: Richard McWilliam, American businessman, co-founded the Upper Deck Company (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1953: Werner Baumbach, German pilot (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Steve Orich, American composer [category: Births]
• 1955: Aaron Pryor, American boxer [category: Births]
• 1955: David Profumo, English author [category: Births]
• 1955: Robert ten Brink, Dutch television host [category: Births]
• 1955: Thomas Newman, American composer and conductor [category: Births]
• 1956: Danny Boyle, English director [category: Births]
• 1957: Chris Cowdrey, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1957: Hilda Solis, American politician, 25th United States Secretary of Labor [category: Births]
• 1957: Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1957: Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Dave Finlay, Irish wrestler [category: Births]
• 1958: Dave Krieg, American football player [category: Births]
• 1958: Ivo Pogorelić, Croatian pianist [category: Births]
• 1958: Lynn Flewelling, American author [category: Births]
• 1958: Mark King, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Level 42 and Re-Flex) [category: Births]
• 1958: Scott Hall, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1958: Valerie Faris, American director [category: Births]
• 1958: Viggo Mortensen, American actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Mark Little, Australian actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1960: Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1960: Lepa Brena, Yugoslav singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1961: Ian Rush, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1961: Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress [category: Births]
• 1961: The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf class submarine. [category: Events]
• 1962: Dave Wong, Hong Kong-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1962: David M. Evans, American director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1962: China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, beginning the Sino-Indian War. [category: Events]
• 1963: Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut [category: Births]
• 1963: Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1963: Stan Valckx, Dutch footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1964: Kamala Harris, American lawyer, 32nd Attorney General of California [category: Births]
• 1964: Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Jil Caplan, French singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1965: Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1965: Norman Blake, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, and Jonny) [category: Births]
• 1965: William Zabka, American actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Allan Donald, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1966: Fred Coury, American drummer (Cinderella and London) [category: Births]
• 1966: Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist, founded Slackware [category: Births]
• 1966: Stefan Raab, German comedian and television host [category: Births]
• 1967: Elizabeth Carling, English actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1967: Luck Mervil, Haitian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Susan Tully, English actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Bud Flanagan, English singer (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. [category: Events]
• 1969: Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper [category: Births]
• 1969: Laurie Daley, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1970: Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1970: Michelle Malkin, American blogger and author [category: Births]
• 1970: Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1970: Sander Boschker, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state. [category: Events]
• 1971: Dannii Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Eddie Jones, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Kamiel Maase, Dutch runner [category: Births]
• 1971: Matt Norman, Australian director and producer [category: Births]
• 1971: Snoop Dogg, American rapper, producer, and actor (Tha Eastsidaz and 213) [category: Births]
• 1971: The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses. [category: Events]
• 1972: Brian Schatz, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii [category: Births]
• 1972: Pie Geelen, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1972: Will Greenwood, England rugby player [category: Births]
• 1972: Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Saturday Night Massacre: President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork. [category: Events]
• 1973: The Sydney Opera House opens. [category: Events]
• 1976: Nicola Legrottaglie, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Nikolaos Bacharidis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive. [category: Events]
• 1977: Leila Josefowicz, Canadian-American violinist [category: Births]
• 1977: Matt Jansen, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Samuel Witwer, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1977: Cassie Gaines, American singer (The Honkettes) (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Detroit (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Paul Wilson, Scottish bass player and songwriter (Snow Patrol and Terra Diablo) [category: Births]
• 1978: Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1978: Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: John Krasinski, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1979: Paul Ifill, Barbadian footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player [category: Births]
• 1980: Gary Jarman, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Cribs) [category: Births]
• 1980: Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Niall Matter, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Willis McGahee, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, NY, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground. [category: Events]
• 1982: Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer [category: Births]
• 1982: Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Kristian Bak Nielsen, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. [category: Events]
• 1983: Flavio Cipolla, Italian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1983: Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1983: Peter Dudley, English actor (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Andrew Trimble, Irish rugby player [category: Births]
• 1984: Florent Sinama Pongolle, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Alphonso Smith, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Dominic McGuire, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1985: James Sutton, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1985: Jennifer Freeman, American actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Wanlop Saechio, Thai footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Raphael Hackl, German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1987: Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Candice Swanepoel, South African model [category: Births]
• 1988: Ma Long, Chinese table tennis player [category: Births]
• 1988: Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume and Tanpopo) [category: Births]
• 1988: Sheila Scott, English pilot (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Colin Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1989: Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people. [category: Events]
• 1991: The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage. [category: Events]
• 1992: Kristian Ipsen, American diver [category: Births]
• 1992: Ksenia Semenova, Russian gymnast [category: Births]
• 1992: Mattia De Sciglio, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Morgan Featherstone, Australian model [category: Births]
• 1994: Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Zhenwei Wang, Chinese actor and martial artist [category: Births]
• 1995: Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Jack Lynch, Irish politician (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Endon Mahmood, Malaysian wife of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Eva Švankmajerová, Czech painter and poet (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Paul Raven, English bass player (Killing Joke, Prong, Ministry, Society 1, Godflesh, and Zilch) (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Gene Hickerson, American football player (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Bob Guccione, American publisher, founded Penthouse magazine (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, Libyan minister of defence (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Mutassim Gaddafi, Libyan army officer (b. 1977) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Tone Pavček, Slovenian poet (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Libyan civil war: National Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter. [category: Events]
• 2012: Daniel Enele Kwanairara, Solomon Islands politician (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jaouad Akaddar, Moroccan footballer (b. 1984) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Oli Ahad, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Paul Kurtz, American academic (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Przemysław Gintrowski, Polish poet and composer (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Raymond Watson, American businessman (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• _: Acca of Hexham [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Andrew of Crete [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Artemius [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Birth of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Caprasius of Agen [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Irene of Tomar [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: John Cantius (Extraordinary Form, celebrated by Traditionalist Catholic) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Kenyatta Day (Kenya) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: October 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Revolution Day, one of the two Patriotic Days (Guatemala) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Spirit Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Osteoporosis Day [category: Holidays and observances]