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What happend on 22. October in History
In our data base we found 292 events happened on 22. October:
• 362: The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. [category: Events]
• 741: Charles Martel, Frankish military leader and politician (b. 686) [category: Deaths]
• 794: Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto). [category: Events]
• 1071: William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 1126) [category: Births]
• 1197: Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242) [category: Births]
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• 1383: Ferdinand I of Portugal (b. 1345) [category: Deaths]
• 1383: The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder. [category: Events]
• 1511: Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553) [category: Births]
• 1558: Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (d. 1651) [category: Births]
• 1565: Jean Grolier de Servières, French book collector (b. 1479) [category: Deaths]
• 1575: Foundation of Aguascalientes. [category: Events]
• 1592: Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657) [category: Births]
• 1625: Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyo (b. 1561) [category: Deaths]
• 1633: Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company. [category: Events]
• 1659: Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician (d. 1734) [category: Births]
• 1674: Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621) [category: Deaths]
• 1689: John V of Portugal (d. 1750) [category: Births]
• 1701: Maria Amalia of Austria (d. 1756) [category: Births]
• 1707: Cloudesley Shovell, English navy admiral (b.1650) [category: Deaths]
• 1707: Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown. [category: Events]
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• 1708: Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636) [category: Deaths]
• 1729: Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798) [category: Births]
• 1730: Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed. [category: Events]
• 1734: Daniel Boone, American explorer and hunter (d. 1820) [category: Births]
• 1746: The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter. [category: Events]
• 1749: Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch bookseller (d. 1816) [category: Births]
• 1751: William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1755: Elisha Williams, American minister and jurist (b. 1694) [category: Deaths]
• 1777: American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank. [category: Events]
• 1784: Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska. [category: Events]
• 1790: Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War. [category: Events]
• 1792: Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725) [category: Deaths]
• 1797: One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump. [category: Events]
• 1809: Volney Howard, American lawyer, politician, and jurist (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1811: Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886) [category: Births]
• 1818: Leconte de Lisle, French poet (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1821: Collis Potter Huntington, American businessman (d. 1900) [category: Births]
• 1836: Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas. [category: Events]
• 1844: Louis Riel, Canadian politician (d. 1885) [category: Births]
• 1844: Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1844: The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment. [category: Events]
• 1847: Sahle Selassie, Ethiopian son of Wossen Seged (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
• 1853: Juan Antonio Lavalleja, 19th Century Uruguayan military and political figure (b. 1784) [category: Deaths]
• 1856: Dominique Gardères, French horse rider [category: Births]
• 1858: Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1859: Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784) [category: Deaths]
• 1859: Spain declares war on Morocco. [category: Events]
• 1865: Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1866: A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19. [category: Events]
• 1870: Alfred Douglas, English partner (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1870: Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1873: Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1875: David van Embden, Dutch politician (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1875: First telegraphic connection in Argentina. [category: Events]
• 1877: The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. [category: Events]
• 1878: The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton. [category: Events]
• 1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). [category: Events]
• 1881: Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1881: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1882: Edmund Dulac, French illustrator (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1882: Géza Kiss, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1883: Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American author (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust. [category: Events]
• 1886: Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1887: John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1891: Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1891: Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera singer (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1895: In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below. [category: Events]
• 1896: Charles Glen King, American biochemist (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1900: Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1903: Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1903: George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1904: Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1905: Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1906: Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1906: Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1907: Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression. [category: Events]
• 1908: John Gould, American columnist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1910: Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London. [category: Events]
• 1912: Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1912: George N. Leighton, American judge [category: Births]
• 1913: Bao Dai, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1913: Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss politician, President of Switzerland (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1913: Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1913: Tamara Desni, German-English actress (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1914: Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: Joan Fontaine, Japanese-American actress [category: Births]
• 1917: Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1918: Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Doris Lessing, Iranian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1919: Kathleen Ankers, American set designer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1920: Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1921: Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1921: Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and poet (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1922: Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1923: Bert Trautmann, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1923: The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic. [category: Events]
• 1924: Toastmasters International is founded. [category: Events]
• 1925: Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1925: Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1926: J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death. [category: Events]
• 1927: Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1927: Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity [category: Events]
• 1928: Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian director [category: Births]
• 1928: Andrew Fisher, Australian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. [category: Events]
• 1929: Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1929: Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1933: Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1934: Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1934: Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. [category: Events]
• 1935: Ann Rule, American author [category: Births]
• 1935: Edward Carson, Baron Carson, Irish politician (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Komitas Vardapet, Armenian composer (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Bobby Seale, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party [category: Births]
• 1936: John Blashford-Snell, English army officer, explorer, and author [category: Births]
• 1937: Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1938: Christopher Lloyd, American actor [category: Births]
• 1938: Derek Jacobi, English actor [category: Births]
• 1938: Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1939: George Cohen, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1939: Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French author and poet [category: Births]
• 1939: Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician, 2nd President of Mozambique [category: Births]
• 1939: Susumu Kurobe, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1939: Tony Roberts, American actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Guy Môquet, French militant (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer. [category: Events]
• 1942: Annette Funicello, American actress [category: Births]
• 1942: Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bobby Fuller Four) (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1943: Allen Coage, American wrestler (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1943: Catherine Deneuve, French actress [category: Births]
• 1943: Jan de Bont, Dutch director [category: Births]
• 1943: Robert Long, Dutch singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1943: Seif Sharif Hamad, Zanzibari politician [category: Births]
• 1943: World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless. [category: Events]
• 1945: Buzz Potamkin, American television producer, founded Buzzco Associates (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1945: Leslie West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mountain, The Vagrants, and West, Bruce and Laing) [category: Births]
• 1945: Sheila Sherwood, English long jumper [category: Births]
• 1945: Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Claude Charron, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1946: Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author [category: Births]
• 1946: Eddie Brigati, American singer-songwriter (The Rascals) [category: Births]
• 1946: Kelvin MacKenzie, English journalist and businessman [category: Births]
• 1946: Richard McGonagle, American actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place. [category: Events]
• 1947: Apostolos Kontos, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1947: Haley Barbour, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi [category: Births]
• 1947: Raymond Bachand, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1948: Debbie Macomber, American author [category: Births]
• 1948: Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford [category: Births]
• 1949: Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1949: Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church) (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1949: Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1952: Jeff Goldblum, American actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Ernst Rüdin, Swiss nazi physician (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Frank DiPino, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1956: Hannah Mitchell, English activist (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam. [category: Events]
• 1959: Arto Salminen, Finnish author (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1959: Marc Shaiman, American composer [category: Births]
• 1960: Cris Kirkwood, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Meat Puppets) [category: Births]
• 1960: Darryl Jenifer, American bass player (Bad Brains) [category: Births]
• 1961: Robert Torti, American actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1962: Hüseyin Kenan Aydın, German politician [category: Births]
• 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation. [category: Events]
• 1963: Brian Boitano, American figure skater [category: Births]
• 1963: A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board. [category: Events]
• 1964: Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1964: TobyMac, American singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1964: Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada. [category: Events]
• 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor. [category: Events]
• 1965: John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1965: Otis Smith, American football player [category: Births]
• 1965: Piotr Wiwczarek, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Vader) [category: Births]
• 1966: Valeria Golino, Italian actress [category: Births]
• 1966: The Soviet Union launches Luna 12. [category: Events]
• 1966: The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go). [category: Events]
• 1967: Carlos Mencia, Honduran-American comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer [category: Births]
• 1967: Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1967: Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor [category: Births]
• 1967: Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1968: Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1968: Shaggy, Jamaican singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1968: Shelby Lynne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1968: Stephanie Cutter, American political consultant [category: Births]
• 1968: Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1968: Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times. [category: Events]
• 1969: Helmut Lotti, Belgian tenor [category: Births]
• 1969: Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Spike Jonze, American director and producer [category: Births]
• 1969: Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Amy Redford, American actress, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1970: Winston Bogarde, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Kornel David, Hungarian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1972: D'Lo Brown, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1972: Saffron Burrows, English Actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. [category: Events]
• 1973: Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Mark van der Zijden, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1973: Pau Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Jeff McInnis, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1974: Tim Kinsella, American singer-songwriter (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Owls, Make Believe, and Everyoned) [category: Births]
• 1975: Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Martín Cardetti, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus. [category: Events]
• 1976: Helen Svedin, Swedish model [category: Births]
• 1976: Jon Foreman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Switchfoot and Fiction Family) [category: Births]
• 1976: Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada. [category: Events]
• 1977: Dan Chan, American magician [category: Births]
• 1978: Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1978: Dion Glover, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Owais Shah, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1978: John Riley, English poet (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Doni, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Luke O'Donnell, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1981: Michael Fishman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Olivier Pla, French race car driver [category: Births]
• 1981: The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August. [category: Events]
• 1982: Heath Miller, American football player [category: Births]
• 1982: Mark Renshaw, Australian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1982: Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Tim Erfen, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Anton Müller, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Plan B, English rapper, producer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons. [category: Events]
• 1984: Aleks Marić, Australian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Zac Hanson, American drummer (Hanson) [category: Births]
• 1985: Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Kara Lang, Canadian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Matt Evans, Filipino actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Sofia Vassilieva, American actress [category: Births]
• 1992: Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Innes Ireland, Scottish race car driver (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Kingsley Amis, English author and poet (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Eric Ambler, English author (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity. [category: Events]
• 2001: Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Géraldine Apponyi de Nagyappony, Austrian wife of Zog of Albania (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Arman, French-American painter (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Franky Gee, Cuban-American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms. [category: Events]
• 2006: Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama. [category: Events]
• 2007: Ève Curie, French journalist and pianist (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged. [category: Events]
• 2008: India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. [category: Events]
• 2009: Don Lane, American-Australian actor, singer, and talk show host (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Russell Means, American actor and activist (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Salvatore Merlino, American mobster (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Shubha Phutela, Indian model and actress (b. 1991) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Wilson Whineray, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• _: Aaron the Illustrious (Syriac Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Abercius of Hieropolis [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Bertharius [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Donatus of Fiesole [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Labour Day can fall, while October 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in October (New Zealand) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Make a Difference Day can fall, while October 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Saturday in October (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Fechner Day, celebrated by Psychophysicists [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Stuttering Awareness Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: John Paul II [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mary Salome [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Nunilo and Alodia [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]