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What happend on 7. October in History
In our data base we found 319 events happened on 7. October:
• 336: Pope Mark [category: Deaths]
• 1368: Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1338) [category: Deaths]
• 13_bc: Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman son of Tiberius (d. AD 23) [category: Births]
• 1471: Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533) [category: Births]
• 1477: Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year. [category: Events]
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• 1513: Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians. [category: Events]
• 1542: Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast. [category: Events]
• 1553: Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. c.1500) [category: Deaths]
• 1555: Louis of Praet, Belgian diplomat (b. 1488) [category: Deaths]
• 1571: The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet. [category: Events]
• 1573: William Laud, English archbishop (d. 1645) [category: Births]
• 1576: John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634) [category: Births]
• 1577: George Gascoigne, English poet (b. 1535) [category: Deaths]
• 1582: Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. [category: Events]
• 1589: Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (d. 1631) [category: Births]
• 1612: Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet and diplomat (b. 1538) [category: Deaths]
• 1620: Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish-Lithuanian military leader (b. 1547) [category: Deaths]
• 1637: Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587) [category: Deaths]
• 1651: Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (b. 1559) [category: Deaths]
• 1653: Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581) [category: Deaths]
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• 1691: The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued. [category: Events]
• 1713: Granville Elliott, English military officer (d. 1759) [category: Births]
• 1728: Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1784) [category: Births]
• 1744: Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819) [category: Births]
• 1746: William Billings, American composer (d. 1800) [category: Births]
• 1748: Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818) [category: Births]
• 1763: George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements. [category: Events]
• 1769: Solomon Sibley, American politician and jurist, 1st Mayor of Detroit (d. 1846) [category: Births]
• 1772: John Woolman, American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720) [category: Deaths]
• 1776: Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg. [category: Events]
• 1777: American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights. [category: Events]
• 1780: Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier (b. 1744) [category: Deaths]
• 1780: American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina. [category: Events]
• 1786: Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871) [category: Births]
• 1787: Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1792: George Mason, American politician (b. 1725) [category: Deaths]
• 1793: Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1796: Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710) [category: Deaths]
• 1800: French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août. [category: Events]
• 1826: The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S. [category: Events]
• 1828: Morea Expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison. [category: Events]
• 1832: Charles Crozat Converse, American lawyer and composer (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1835: Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1836: Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1840: Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands. [category: Events]
• 1841: Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1849: James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1849: Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1849: Death of Edgar Allan Poe [category: Events]
• 1862: Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia [category: Events]
• 1864: American Civil War: Bahia Incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality. [category: Events]
• 1866: Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1868: Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date. [category: Events]
• 1870: Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1870: Uncle Dave Macon, American singer-songwriter, banjo player, and comedian (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1870: Franco-Prussian War – Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon. [category: Events]
• 1879: Joe Hill, American poet and activist (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1879: Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance. [category: Events]
• 1881: Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1884: Harold Geiger, American pilot (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1885: Claud Ashton Jones, American navy admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1885: Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1888: Henry A. Wallace, American politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1892: Dwain Esper, American director and producer (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1894: Del Lord, American director (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1894: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1895: Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1896: Emma Darwin, English wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808) [category: Deaths]
• 1897: Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1898: Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1900: Heinrich Himmler, German nazi official (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1903: Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Isabella Bird, English explorer and historian (b. 1831) [category: Deaths]
• 1905: Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1906: Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1909: Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1909: Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1910: Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1911: Jo Jones, American drummer (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1911: Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1911: John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician, 85th President of Peru (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1912: The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction. [category: Events]
• 1913: Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and author (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1914: Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1914: Sarah Churchill, English actress (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1916: Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history. [category: Events]
• 1917: June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1919: Georges Duby, French historian (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1919: Zelman Cowen, Australian politician and academic, 19th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1919: Alfred Deakin, Australian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name. [category: Events]
• 1920: Georg Leber, German politician (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1920: Jack Rowley, English footballer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1921: Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1922: Grady Hatton, American baseball player, coach, and manager [category: Births]
• 1922: William Zinsser, American journalist and critic [category: Births]
• 1923: Břetislav Pojar, Czech animator and director (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1923: Irma Grese, German SS officer (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1923: Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1923: Michel Joseph Kuehn, French bishop (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1924: Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time. [category: Events]
• 1925: Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1926: Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1927: R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1928: Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1929: Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation [category: Births]
• 1929: Robert Westall, English journalist and author (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1929: Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. [category: Events]
• 1930: Curtis Crider, American race car driver (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1931: Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball player and coach (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1931: Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1931: Eugen Schmidt, Danish tug of war competitor (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop [category: Births]
• 1933: Harold Dunaway, American race car driver (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1933: Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines. [category: Events]
• 1934: Amiri Baraka, American poet, actor, and activist [category: Births]
• 1934: Ulrike Meinhof, German journalist and activist (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1935: Thomas Keneally, Australian author [category: Births]
• 1936: Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor [category: Births]
• 1936: Michael Hurll, English television producer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1937: Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer, actor, and poet (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1939: Bill Snyder, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1939: Clive James, Australian television host and author [category: Births]
• 1939: Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1939: John Hopcroft, American computer scientist and author [category: Births]
• 1939: Harvey Williams Cushing, American surgeon (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Bruce Vento, American politician (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1940: World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States. [category: Events]
• 1942: Joy Behar, American talk show host and actress [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. [category: Events]
• 1943: José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player [category: Births]
• 1943: Oliver North, American military officer, author, and television host [category: Births]
• 1943: Archibald Warden, English tennis player (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Donald Tsang, Chinese politician, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong [category: Births]
• 1944: Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1944: Helmut Lent, German pilot (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria. [category: Events]
• 1945: Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter and director (10cc, Hotlegs, Godley & Creme, Doctor Father, and The Magic Lanterns) [category: Births]
• 1946: Bernard Lavilliers, French singer-songwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Catharine MacKinnon, American lawyer, activist, and author [category: Births]
• 1946: Pengiran Anak Saleha, Bruneian wife of Hassanal Bolkiah [category: Births]
• 1947: Chris Bambridge, Australian football referee [category: Births]
• 1948: Diane Ackerman, American poet and author [category: Births]
• 1948: Stephen Rucker, American composer [category: Births]
• 1949: Dave Hope, American bass player (Kansas) [category: Births]
• 1949: Kieran Kane, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The O'Kanes) [category: Births]
• 1949: The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed. [category: Events]
• 1950: Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician, 4th President of Tanzania [category: Births]
• 1951: David J. Halberstam, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1951: John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1952: Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1952: Mary Badham, American actress [category: Births]
• 1952: Vladimir Putin, Russian politician, 4th President of Russia [category: Births]
• 1953: Tico Torres, American drummer (Bon Jovi) [category: Births]
• 1954: Kenneth Atchley, American composer [category: Births]
• 1955: Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author [category: Births]
• 1955: Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist (Silk Road Project) [category: Births]
• 1955: American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. [category: Events]
• 1956: Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1956: Clarence Birdseye, American businessman (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Jayne Torvill, English figure skater [category: Births]
• 1957: Michael W. Smith, American singer-songwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1958: President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959. [category: Events]
• 1958: The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. [category: Events]
• 1959: Dylan Baker, American actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Jean-Marc Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Lourdes Flores, Peruvian lawyer and politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Simon Cowell, English businessman and producer, created The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent [category: Births]
• 1959: Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. [category: Events]
• 1960: Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Boøwy) [category: Births]
• 1960: Viktor Lazlo, French-Belgian singer [category: Births]
• 1960: Nigeria joins the United Nations. [category: Events]
• 1961: Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor (Uncanny X-Men) [category: Births]
• 1961: Matthew Roloff, American farmer and author [category: Births]
• 1961: Tony Sparano, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1962: Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician, 35th Mayor of Calgary [category: Births]
• 1962: William Johnson, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1963: John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. [category: Events]
• 1964: Dan Savage, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1964: Paul Stewart, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1964: Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1965: Genji Hashimoto, Japanese race car driver [category: Births]
• 1966: Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1966: Marco Beltrami, Italian-American composer [category: Births]
• 1966: Sherman Alexie, American author, poet, and director [category: Births]
• 1966: Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Ellen ten Damme, Dutch actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1967: Luke Haines, English singer-songwriter, musician, and author (The Auteurs, The Servants, and Black Box Recorder) [category: Births]
• 1967: Toni Braxton, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (The Braxtons) [category: Births]
• 1967: Norman Angell, English journalist and politician and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Radiohead and Atoms for Peace) [category: Births]
• 1969: Benny Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1969: Bobbie Brown, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Malia Hosaka, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1969: Maria Whittaker, English model [category: Births]
• 1969: Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Nicole Ari Parker, American actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Daniel Boucher, Canadian singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Oman joins the United Nations. [category: Events]
• 1972: Ben Younger, American screenwriter and director [category: Births]
• 1972: Loek van Wely, Dutch chess player [category: Births]
• 1973: Dida, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Priest Holmes, American football player [category: Births]
• 1973: Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Alexander Polinsky, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1974: Allison Munn, American actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer (Wizex and Anders Engbergs) [category: Births]
• 1975: Damian Kulash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (OK Go) [category: Births]
• 1975: Jamie Hector, American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Kaspars Znotiņš, Latvian actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Rhino, American wrestler and actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Tim Minchin, English-Australian comedian, actor, and singer [category: Births]
• 1976: Charles Woodson, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer [category: Births]
• 1976: Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Taylor Hicks, American singer-songwriter and actor (Little Memphis Blues Orchestra) [category: Births]
• 1976: Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China. [category: Events]
• 1977: Brandon Quinn, American actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress [category: Births]
• 1977: The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution. [category: Events]
• 1978: Alesha Dixon, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Mis-Teeq) [category: Births]
• 1978: Jake Humphrey, English journalist [category: Births]
• 1978: Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1979: Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast [category: Births]
• 1979: Tang Wei, Chinese actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Edison Chen, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Tim Cresswell, Hong Kong footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Jermain Defoe, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Li Yundi, Chinese pianist [category: Births]
• 1982: Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Robby Ginepri, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1983: Archie Bland, English journalist [category: Births]
• 1983: Flying Lotus, American music producer, founded Brainfeeder [category: Births]
• 1983: Scottie Upshall, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1984: Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer [category: Births]
• 1984: Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Toma Ikuta, Japanese actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Evan Longoria, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1985: The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization. [category: Events]
• 1985: The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history. [category: Events]
• 1986: Bree Olson, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Chase Daniel, American football player [category: Births]
• 1986: Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Kaitlyn, American wrestler and model [category: Births]
• 1986: Lee Nguyen, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1987: Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Sam Querrey, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1988: Diego da Silva Costa, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Ayla Kell, American actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Sebastián Coates, Uruguayan footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Nicole Jung, American-South Korean singer and actress (Kara) [category: Births]
• 1991: Zhang Yixing, Chinese singer (Exo) [category: Births]
• 1991: Darren Millane, Australian footballer (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Harry W. Brown, American pilot (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb. [category: Events]
• 1992: Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Tevfik Esenç, Turkish last speaker of Ubykh language (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage. [category: Events]
• 1994: Niels Kaj Jerne, English-Danish immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Slade Pearce, American actor [category: Births]
• 1995: Ernest Ingenito, American murderer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese Dutch politician, playwright, and poet (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. [category: Events]
• 2001: Princess Senate Seeiso of Lesotho [category: Births]
• 2001: Christopher Adams, English wrestler (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. [category: Events]
• 2002: Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Wally George, American talk show host (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Kenneth Bigley, English engineer (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Tony Lanfranchi, British racing driver (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish cyclist (b. 1985) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Leslie Hardman, Welsh rabbi (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Milka Planinc, Yugoslav politician, 7th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: T Lavitz, American keyboardist, composer, and producer (Dixie Dregs, Jazz Is Dead, and Widespread Panic) (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ivo Michiels, Belgian author (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Mersad Berber, Bosnian painter (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Roman Danylak, Canadian-Ukrainian bishop (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Wiley Reed, American-Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 3761_bc: The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar). [category: Events]
• 929: Charles the Simple, French king (b. 879) [category: Deaths]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Justina of Padua (former) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Osgyth [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Our Lady of the Rosary [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Mark [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Sergius and Bacchus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The first day of Nagasaki Kunchi (Nagasaki) [category: Holidays and observances]