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What happend on 21. October in History
In our data base we found 286 events happened on 21. October:
• 1096: People's Crusade: The Turkish army annihilates the People's Army of the West. [category: Events]
• 1097: First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch. [category: Events]
• 1125: Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian priest and historian (b. 1045) [category: Deaths]
• 1204: Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester [category: Deaths]
• 1209: Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. [category: Events]
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• 1221: Alix, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201) [category: Deaths]
• 1266: Birger Jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210) [category: Deaths]
• 1392: Nanboku-chō: Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu. [category: Events]
• 1422: Charles VI of France (b. 1368) [category: Deaths]
• 1449: George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1478) [category: Births]
• 1500: Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442) [category: Deaths]
• 1505: Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician (b. 1460) [category: Deaths]
• 1512: Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. [category: Events]
• 1520: Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan. [category: Events]
• 1520: João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins". [category: Events]
• 1527: Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (d. 1578) [category: Births]
• 1558: Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (b. 1484) [category: Deaths]
• 1581: Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641) [category: Births]
• 1600: Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557) [category: Deaths]
• 1600: Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century. [category: Events]
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• 1623: William Wade, English politician and diplomat (b. 1546) [category: Deaths]
• 1650: Jean Bart, French sailor and admiral (d. 1702) [category: Births]
• 1662: Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595) [category: Deaths]
• 1675: Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710) [category: Births]
• 1687: Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759) [category: Births]
• 1687: Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606) [category: Deaths]
• 1708: Guru Gobind Singh, Indian 10th Sikh gurus (b. 1666) [category: Deaths]
• 1712: James Steuart, English economist (d. 1780) [category: Births]
• 1725: Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801) [category: Births]
• 1757: Pierre Augereau, French general (d. 1816) [category: Births]
• 1762: Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch politician, 36th Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1818) [category: Births]
• 1765: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter (b. 1691) [category: Deaths]
• 1772: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and philosopher (d. 1834) [category: Births]
• 1774: First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America. [category: Events]
• 1775: Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (d. 1844) [category: Births]
• 1775: Peyton Randolph, American politician, 1st President of the Continental Congress (b. 1721) [category: Deaths]
• 1777: Samuel Foote, English actor and playwright (b. 1720) [category: Deaths]
• 1790: Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician (d. 1869) [category: Births]
• 1797: In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched. [category: Events]
• 1805: George Duff, Scottish navy officer (b.1764) [category: Deaths]
• 1805: Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English navy officer (b. 1758) [category: Deaths]
• 1805: John Cooke, English navy officer (b.1763) [category: Deaths]
• 1805: Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. [category: Events]
• 1816: The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia. [category: Events]
• 1821: Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752) [category: Deaths]
• 1824: Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement. [category: Events]
• 1833: Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (d. 1896) [category: Births]
• 1845: Will Carleton, American poet (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1847: Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1851: George Ulyett, English cricketer (d. 1898) [category: Births]
• 1854: Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War. [category: Events]
• 1861: American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff – Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting. [category: Events]
• 1867: Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma. [category: Events]
• 1872: Jacques Babinet, French physicist (b. 1794) [category: Deaths]
• 1873: Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807) [category: Deaths]
• 1884: Claire Waldoff, German singer (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1886: Eugene Burton Ely, American aviation pioneer (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1892: Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893. [category: Events]
• 1894: Edogawa Rampo, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1895: Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1895: The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade. [category: Events]
• 1896: James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844) [category: Deaths]
• 1898: Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1902: In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends. [category: Events]
• 1903: Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1907: Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy. [category: Events]
• 1911: Mary Blair, American illustrator and animator (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1912: Alfredo Pián, Argentine race car driver (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1912: Don Byas, American saxophonist (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1912: Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1912: During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces [category: Events]
• 1914: Martin Gardner, American author (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1917: Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, bandleader, and composer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1918: Milton Himmelfarb, American sociographer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1921: Malcolm Arnold, English composer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1921: Sena Jurinac, Bosnian soprano (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1921: George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers. [category: Events]
• 1921: President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south. [category: Events]
• 1922: Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman and philanthropist [category: Births]
• 1923: Samuel Khachikian, Iranian director, screenwriter and author (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1924: Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1924: Joyce Randolph, American actress [category: Births]
• 1926: Leonard Rossiter, English comedian and actor (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1927: Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1928: Whitey Ford, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1929: Fritz Hollaus, Austrian footballer (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1929: Ursula K. Le Guin, American author [category: Births]
• 1930: Ivan Silayev, Soviet-Russian politician, 12th Premier of the Soviet Union [category: Births]
• 1931: Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1931: Vivian Pickles, English actress [category: Births]
• 1931: Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'état attempt. [category: Events]
• 1935: Derek Bell, Irish pianist, and songwriter (The Chieftains) (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1937: Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, Russian spiritual leader (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1938: Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1938: Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Frances FitzGerald, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1940: Geoff Boycott, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1940: Manfred Mann, South African-English keyboard player (Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, and Manfred Mann Chapter Three) [category: Births]
• 1940: Marita Petersen, Faroese politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1940: William G. Conley, American politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Steve Cropper, American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor (Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys, and The Blues Brothers) [category: Births]
• 1942: Allan Grice, Australian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1942: Elvin Bishop, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1942: Judith Sheindlin, American judge and television host [category: Births]
• 1942: Lou Lamoriello, American businessman [category: Births]
• 1943: Tariq Ali, Pakistani author and historian [category: Births]
• 1944: Alois Kayser, German-French missionary (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies. [category: Events]
• 1944: World War II: The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began. [category: Events]
• 1945: Everett McGill, American actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1946: Jim Hill, American football player and sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1946: Lee Loughnane, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (Chicago) [category: Births]
• 1946: Lux Interior, American singer-songwriter (The Cramps) (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1947: Mary Pipher, American psychologist and author [category: Births]
• 1948: Allen Vigneron, American archbishop [category: Births]
• 1948: Shaye J. D. Cohen, American historian and academic [category: Births]
• 1948: Tom Everett, American actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel [category: Births]
• 1949: Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1949: Mike Keenan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach [category: Births]
• 1950: Ronald McNair, American astronaut (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1950: Korean War: heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade and the North Korean 239th Regiment during the Battle of Yongju. [category: Events]
• 1951: Dmitry Gayev, Russian civil servant (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1952: Allen Hoey, American poet and author [category: Births]
• 1952: Brent Mydland, German-American keyboard player (Grateful Dead, Bobby and the Midnites, and Silver) (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1952: Patti Davis, American actress and author [category: Births]
• 1952: Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1952: Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Charlotte Caffey, American guitarist and songwriter (The Go-Go's and The Graces) [category: Births]
• 1953: Eric Faulkner, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bay City Rollers) [category: Births]
• 1953: Keith Green, American singer-songwriter and minister (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1953: Marc Johnson, American bassist, composer, and bandleader [category: Births]
• 1953: Peter Mandelson, English politician [category: Births]
• 1954: Brian Tobin, Canadian politician, 6th Premier of Newfoundland [category: Births]
• 1955: Dick DeVos, American businessman [category: Births]
• 1955: Fred Hersch, American pianist [category: Births]
• 1955: Rich Mullins, American singer-songwriter (A Ragamuffin Band) (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1956: Carrie Fisher, American actress, screenwriter, and author [category: Births]
• 1956: Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau Uprising, and essentially ending the British military campaign. [category: Events]
• 1957: Julian Cope, English singer-songwriter and author (The Teardrop Explodes, Crucial Three, Black Sheep, Brain Donor, and Queen Elizabeth) [category: Births]
• 1957: Steve Lukather, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Toto) [category: Births]
• 1957: Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1958: Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, Russian-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1959: Andy Picheta, English director, producer, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1959: George Bell, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Kevin Sheedy, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1959: Rose McDowall, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Strawberry Switchblade, Spell, and Current 93) [category: Births]
• 1959: Tony Ganios, American actor [category: Births]
• 1959: In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public. [category: Events]
• 1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA. [category: Events]
• 1962: David Campese, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1963: Józef Franczak, Polish soldier (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Jon Carin, American singer-songwriter and musician (Pink Floyd, The Who, and Industry) [category: Births]
• 1965: Hisashi Imai, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (BUCK-TICK, Schaft, and Schwein) [category: Births]
• 1965: Horace Hogan, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1965: Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1965: Bill Black, American bass player (The Blue Moon Boys) (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun. [category: Events]
• 1966: Arne Sandstø, Norwegian footballer [category: Births]
• 1966: Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren. [category: Events]
• 1967: Paul Ince, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. [category: Events]
• 1968: Alexandros Alexandris, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1968: Kerstin Andreae, German politician [category: Births]
• 1968: Melora Walters, American actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Michael Hancock, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1969: Mo Lewis, American football player [category: Births]
• 1969: Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini prince [category: Births]
• 1969: Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power. [category: Events]
• 1970: Louis Koo, Hong Kong actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Conor O'Shea, Irish rugby player [category: Births]
• 1971: Damien Martyn, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1971: Hal Duncan, Scottish author [category: Births]
• 1971: Jade Jagger, French-English model and jewellery Designer [category: Births]
• 1971: Nick Oliveri, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Mondo Generator, Kyuss, and Queens of the Stone Age) [category: Births]
• 1971: Paul Telfer, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Thomas Ulsrud, Norwegian curler [category: Births]
• 1971: A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. [category: Events]
• 1972: Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian academic and scholar [category: Births]
• 1972: Felicity Andersen, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Masakazu Morita, Japanese voice actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Matthew Friedberger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Fiery Furnaces) [category: Births]
• 1973: Charlie Lowell, American pianist and songwriter (Jars of Clay) [category: Births]
• 1973: Lera Auerbach, Russian composer [category: Births]
• 1973: Nasif Estéfano, Argentine race car driver (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. [category: Events]
• 1973: John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8. [category: Events]
• 1974: Costel Busuioc, Romanian tenor [category: Births]
• 1975: Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Toby Hall, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Charles Reidpath, American runner (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Andrew Scott, Irish actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Jeremy Miller, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Josh Ritter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1976: Lavinia Miloşovici, Romanian gymnast [category: Births]
• 1976: Mélanie Turgeon, Canadian skier [category: Births]
• 1977: The European Patent Institute is founded. [category: Events]
• 1978: Henrik Klingenberg, Finnish singer and keyboard player (Sonata Arctica) [category: Births]
• 1978: Joey Harrington, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Will Estes, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. [category: Events]
• 1979: Gabe Gross, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Khalil Greene, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs. [category: Events]
• 1980: Brian Pittman, American bass player (Relient K and Inhale Exhale) [category: Births]
• 1980: Kim Kardashian, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Martin Castrogiovanni, Argentine-Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1981: Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: James White, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Lee Chong Wei, Malaysian badminton player [category: Births]
• 1982: Matt Dallas, American actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Ray Ventrone, American football player [category: Births]
• 1982: Tim Wildsmith, American singer-songwriter and pianist [category: Births]
• 1983: Andy Marté, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Charlotte Sullivan, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Ninet Tayeb, Israeli singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Shelden Williams, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Zack Greinke, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. [category: Events]
• 1984: Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, Canadian speed skater [category: Births]
• 1984: Kenny Cooper, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1984: Kieran Richardson, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Marvin Mitchell, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Tom Brandstater, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: François Truffaut, French director (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Dan White, American politician, assassin of George Moscone and Harvey Milk (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Almen Abdi, Swiss footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Chibuzor Chilaka, Nigerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Christopher Uckermann, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (RBD) [category: Births]
• 1986: Natalee Holloway, American missing person (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1986: Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and jurist, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991). [category: Events]
• 1987: Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses. [category: Events]
• 1989: May'n, Japanese singer [category: Births]
• 1989: Jean Image, Hungarian-French animator (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player [category: Births]
• 1990: Dany Chamoun, Lebanese politician (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Lorenc Antoni, Albanian composer (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Bernard Tomic, Australian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1992: Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Sam Zolotow, American journalist (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: DeAndre Brackensick, American singer [category: Births]
• 1994: In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses. [category: Events]
• 1994: North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections. [category: Events]
• 1995: Shannon Magrane, American singer [category: Births]
• 1995: Jesús Blasco, Spanish writer and illustrator (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blind Melon) (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Georgios Zoitakis, Greek general (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Francis W. Sargent, American politician, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Lars Bo, Danish writer and illustrator (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Heatmiser) (b. 1969) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Luis A. Ferré, Puerto Rican engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz. [category: Events]
• 2006: Sandy West, American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Runaways) (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Paul Fox, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Ruts) (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: A. Ayyappan, Indian poet (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Alf Khumalo, South African photographer (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: George McGovern, American historian and politician (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Harvie Andre, Canadian politician (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Mike Morris, English journalist (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ted Kazanoff, American actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Yash Chopra, Indian director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• _: Apple Day (United Kingdom) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hilarion [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Day of the Nacho (Mexico and USA) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: John of Bridlington [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Leticia [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Nurses' Day (Thailand) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Overseas Chinese Day (Republic of China) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Trafalgar Day (the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th century) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Ursula [category: Holidays and observances]