Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
From 1976 
 1976  Nick Swardson, American actor and comedian
 1978  Nicky Byrne, Irish singer (Westlife)
 1979  Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
 1979  Brandon Routh, American actor
 1979  Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor
 1979  DJ Rashad, American DJ and musician (d. 2014)
 1979  Alex Greenwald, American musician, actor and record producer
 1980  Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
 1981  Darius Miles, American basketball player
 1982  Antonio Mendonca, Angolan footballer
 1982  Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
 1983  Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
 1983  Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
 1983  Spencer Grammer, American actress
 1983  Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
 1983  Zeng Jinyan, Chinese blogger and human rights activist
 1984  Djamel Mesbah, French-Algerian footballer
 1986  Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
 1987  Samantha Murray, English tennis player
 1990  Marcus Willis, English tennis player
 1992  Tyler James Williams, American actor and singer
1993  Lauren Davis, American tennis player
 1993  Scotty McCreery, American singer
 1994  Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
 1996  Bella Hadid, American model
 2008  Bo, dog of Barack Obama
Up to 1900 
 1047 – Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
 1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
 1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
 1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
 1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
 1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist (b. 1523)
 1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
 1581 - Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1526)
 1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
 1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
 1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
 1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
 1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
 1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
 1808 - John Claiborne, American politician (b. 1777)
 1831 – John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
 1841 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect and painter (b. 1781)
1857 - Josef Ressel, Austrian inventor (b. 1793)
 1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
 1897 - Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
 1900 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
1901  2000 
 1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
 1934 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
 1934 – Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
 1937 - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868)
 1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
 1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
 1950 - George Hainsworth, NHL goaltender (b. 1895)
 1953 - Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
 1955 – Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1875)
 1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
 1958 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
 1961 – Werner Jaeger, German mathematician (b. 1888)
 1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
 1967 – Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
 1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (b. 1897)
 1967 - Andre Maurois, French writer (b. 1885)
1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
 1974 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
 1976 - Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
 1976 - Bob Moose, American baseball player (b. 1947)
 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian musician (b. 1929)
 1985 - Emilio Garrastazu Medici, President of Brazil (b. 1905)
 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
 1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
 1987 – William P. Murphy, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
 1988 - Felix Wankel, German engineer (b. 1902)
 1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and writer (b. 1940)
 1991 - Dagmar Lange (Maria Lang), Swedish writer (b. 1914)
 1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
 1995 - Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
 1996 – Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
 2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
From 2001 
 2001 – Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
 2002 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (b. 1956)
 2005 - Louis Nye, American actor (b. 1913)
 2006 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
 2008 - Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
 2009 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (b. 1934)
 2010 – Maurice Allais, French economist (b. 1911)
 2012 - Paddy Roy Bates, British founder of the Sealand micronation (b. 1921)
 2013 - Chopper Read, Australian crime figure and author (b. 1954)
 2013 - Wilfried Martens, former Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
 2014 - Peter A. Peyser, American politician (b. 1921)
 2014 - Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (b. 1957)
 2015 - Ravindra Jain, Indian composer (b. 1944)
 2015 - Tony Rafty, Australian caricaturist (b. 1915)
 2015 - Du Runsheng, Chinese politician (b. 1913)
 2015 - Jerry Parr, American secret service agent (b. 1930)
 2015 - Geoffrey Howe, British politician (b. 1926)
2016 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish movie director (b. 1926)
 2017 - Manuel Busto, French cyclist (b. 1932)
 2017 - Allan Chumak, Russian faith healer (b. 1935)
 2017 - Rafe Mair, Canadian lawyer, political commentator, journalist and politician (b. 1931)
 2017 - Jean Rochefort, French actor (b. 1930)
 2017 - Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter, printmaker and sculptor (b. 1925)
 2017 - Michel Diefenbacher, French politician (b. 1947)
 2017 - Hessie, Cuban textile artist (b. 1936)
 2018 - Warner Saunders, American news anchor (b. 1935)
 2018 - Thomas A. Steitz, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (b. 1940)
 2018 - Carolyn Warner, American politician (b. 1930)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Uganda)
 Leif Erikson Day
 Hangul Day (South Korea)

October 09
Up to 1800 
 3761 BC – The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
 336 – Pope Marcus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
 1428 - Start of the English siege of Orléans in the Hundred Years' War.
 1477 - Opening of Uppsala University in Sweden.
 1492 – Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
 1506 – Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna.
 1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
 1520 – First public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain.
 1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast.
 1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain, Venice, and Papal States) destroys Turkish fleet.
 1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
 1637 – Prince Frederick Henry of Orange occupies Breda.
 1690 – English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.
1702 – English/Dutch troops under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough occupy Roermond.
 1714 – Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
 1737 – 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India).
 1756 - Flooding on the Elbe near what is now Germany's North Sea coast kills 600 people.
 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.
 1765 – Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY.
 1769 – English explorer, Captain Cook, reaches New Zealand. Abel Tasman had been the first European to land there over a century earlier.
 1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the Battle of Second Saratoga and the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1801  1900 
 1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
 1816 – The first double-decked steamboat, the "Washington," arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 1826 – Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins operations.
 1828 – The city of Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
 1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
 1864 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Darbytown Road, the Confederate forces' attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is stopped.
 1864 – American Civil War: Capture of the CSS Florida — Union warship captures the USS Wachusett — Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
 1865 – The Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica.
 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; student enrollment is 412, the most at any American university to that date.
 1870 – Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
 1882 – Baseball: First World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0.
 1886 – Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
 1900 – The term "orienteering" is first used for an event.
1901  1950 
 1904 – Baseball: New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12).
 1907 – France's Henry Farman flies 30 m in a double decker plane.
 1908 – Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
 1908 – Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact.
 1910 – Absinthe is banned in Switzerland.
 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football.
 1918 - The Governing Council in Warsaw declares Poland to be an independent state.
 1919 – KLM of the Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
 1919 – First London-Amsterdam airline service (Britain Aerial Transport and KLM).
 1922 – Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria.
 1922 – First radio link, WNJ (Newark, New Jersey) and WGY (Schenectady) link for World Series.
1924 – Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms.
 1928 – Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned negus of Abyssinia by Empress Zauditu.
 1928 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0).
 1929 – Ramsay MacDonald is the first British premier to address the U.S. Congress.
 1931 – First infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York.
 1933 - Air France, the national airline of France, is created after the merger of five smaller airlines.
 1938 – Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
 1940 – Germany invades Romania.
 1941 – German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R.
 1941 – John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia
 1942 – the McCollum memo conspires to bring the United States to war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
 1942 – U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations.
 1942 – Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St. Mark," premieres in New York City.
 1942 – Salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad.
1943 – Japan executes 100 American civilian prisoners on Wake Island.
 1944 – Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.
 1944 – Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums.
 1944 – Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel is ordered to return to Berlin.
 1944 – Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen.
 1949 – German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
 1949 – One of the earliest television shows, "Ford Theater" debuts
 1950 – United States forces cross the 38th parallel in the Korean War.
 1950 - Missionaries of Charity is founded by Mother Teresa.
1951  2000 
 1951 – Malayan Emergency: Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
 1951 – David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government.
 1957 – Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" debuts.
 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.
 1958 – U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.
 1958 – Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court.
 1959 – Far side of the Moon seen for first time, compliments of U.S.S.R.'s Luna 3.
 1960 – Second Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy in the second of four scheduled debates.
 1960 - Nigeria joins the UN.
 1962 – U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
 1963 – John F. Kennedy signs ratification for the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
 1963 – Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and the Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
1968 – Hollywood adopts the movie ratings system.
 1970 – Richard Nixon announces a new five-point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War.
 1971 - Oman joins the UN.
 1976 - Hua Guofeng becomes Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
 1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
 1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
 1984 – NFL running back Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown's rushing record.
 1985 – The "Achille Lauro" is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
 1985 – The Mameyes disaster occurs in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
 1996 – The Fox News Channel, an American cable news network, is launched.
 2000 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg abdicates in favour of his son, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
 2000 – Germany wins 1-0 against England in the last game at the Old Wembley Stadium.
From 2001 
 2001 – Start of United States war in Afghanistan with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
 2002 – Maher Arar is deported by the US government to Syria, where he is tortured and held without charge for a year before being returned home to Canada.
 2003 – California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
 2004 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
 2005 - Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency win the Nobel Peace Prize.
 2006 – Sport: The first Lusophone Games, for Portuguese-speaking countries begin in Macao.
 2006 – Palau's capital is moved from Koror to Ngerulmud in the state of Melekeok.
 2006 – Russian journalist and writer Anna Politkovskaya is murdered.
 2011 – The Nobel Peace Prize is shared between Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakel Karman of Yemen.
2012 - Hugo Chávez is re-elected President of Venezuela against Henrique Capriles. Chavez dies less than five months later, on March 5, 2013.
 2014 - Lunar Eclipse: A "Blood Moon", or red-appearing Moon, is seen in most of the world except Europe and Africa.
 2016 - President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 2019 - Saturn overtakes Jupiter as the planet in the Solar System with the most known Moons (82, compared to Jupiter's 79).
 2019 - Eight people are injured in a lorry-ramming attack in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany.
Births

Up to 1850 
 13 BC  Drusus Julius Caesar, adoptive son of Roman Emperor Tiberius (d. 23)
 1471  King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
 1573  William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
 1576  John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634)
 1589  Maria Magdalena of Austria (d. 1631)
 1728  Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1784)
 1744  Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
 1746  William Billings, American composer (d. 1800)
 1748  King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
 1769  Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
 1798  Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French violinmaker, businessman and inventor (d. 1875)
 1822  Rudolf Leuckert, German zoologist (d. 1898)
 1835  Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
 1836  Henri Elzear Taschereau, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1911)
 1841  King Nicholas of Montenegro (d. 1921)
 1846  Wladimir Köppen, German scientist (d. 1940)
 1849  James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
1851  1900 
 1857  George P. McLean, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1932)
 1866  Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
 1870  Uncle Dave Macon, American banjo player, singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1952)
 1873  Alfred Ander, Swedish criminal, last person to be executed in Sweden (d. 1910)
 1877  Thomas Archibald Sprague, Scottish botanist (d. 1958)
 1881  Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
 1884  Harold Geiger, US Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
 1885  Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 1962)
 1888  Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
 1889  Robert Z. Leonard, American movie director, actor, producer and screenwriter (d. 1968)
 1892  Dwain Esper, American director and producer (d. 1982)
 1894  Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
 1897  Elijah Muhammad, American Muslim leader (d. 1975)
 1897  Charles Chauvel, Australian screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1959)
1898  Alfred Wallenstein, American cellist and conductor (d. 1983)
 1900  Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1901  1925 
 1901  Souvanna Phouma, Prime Minister of Laos (d. 1984)
 1904  Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer (d. 1968)
 1905  Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
 1909  Anni Blomqvist, Finnish writer (d. 1990)
 1909  Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1995)
 1909  Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
 1911  Vaughn Monroe, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1973)
 1912  Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
 1913  Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist (d. 2003)
 1914  Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
 1914  Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974)
 1914  Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
 1915  Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (d. 2001)
 1917  June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
 1918  Harry V. Jaffa, American historian (d. 2015)
 1919  Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011)
 1920  Georg Leber, German politician (d. 2012)
1921  Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (d. 2004)
 1922  William Zinsser, American writer, editor, literary critic and teacher (d. 2015)
1926  1950 
 1926  Marcello Abbado, Italian composer and pianist
 1927  Ronald David Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (d. 1989)
 1927  Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009)
 1928  Sanne Ledermann, friend of Anne Frank (d. 1943)
 1928  Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
 1928  Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (d. 2013)
 1929  Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist (d. 2014)
 1929  Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer
 1931  Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2021)
 1932  Joannes Gijsen, Dutch-born former Catholic bishop of Reykjavik (d. 2013)
 1934  Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright and academic (d. 2014)
 1934  Ulrike Meinhof, German left-wing militant and Red Army Faction member (d. 1976)
 1935  Thomas Keneally, Australian writer
 1936  Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
 1937  Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
 1937  Christopher Booker, English journalist and author
1938  Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer, actor and poet (d. 1992)
 1938  Ann Jones, English tennis player
 1939  Clive James, Australian TV presenter and writer
 1939  Harry Kroto, English chemist (d. 2016)
 1939  John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
 1939  Enrique Pinti, Argentine actor, comedian, theatre director and writer
 1942  Joy Behar, American talk show host and actress
 1943  José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
 1943  Oliver North, American former military officer and politician
 1944  Donald Tsang, former Chief Executive of Hong Kong
 1944  Pete van Wieren, American sportscaster (d. 2014)
 1945  Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter
 1946  Bernard Lavilliers, French singer-songwriter and actor
 1946  Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
 1950  Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician, 4th President of Tanzania
1951  1975 
 1951  David J. Halberstam, American sportscaster
 1951  John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
 1952  Mary Badham, American actress
 1952  Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
 1953  Ronald Worm, German footballer
 1953  Tico Torres, American musician (Bon Jovi)
 1953  Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (d. 2014)
 1954  Christian Bourquin, French politician (d. 2014)
 1955  Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
 1955  Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
 1956  Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
 1957  Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
 1959  Simon Cowell, English media personality
 1959  Lourdes Flores Nano, Peruvian politician
 1960  Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
 1964  Sam Brown, American singer
 1964  Dan Savage, American LGBT activist, journalist and television producer
 1966  Marco Beltrami, American movie score composer
 1966  Sherman Alexie, American author, humourist and screenwriter
 1967  Toni Braxton, American soul music singer
1968  Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead
 1968  Pippa Funnell, British equestrian
 1969  Francesco Buzzurro, Italian guitarist
 1969  Karen L. Nyberg, American engineer and astronaut
 1970  Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
 1971  Ismael Urzaiz, Spanish footballer
 1971  Michelle Mone, Scottish businesswoman
 1972  Loek van Wely, Dutch chess player
 1972  Ben Younger, American screenwriter
 1973  Dida, Brazilian footballer
 1973  Grigol Mgalobishvili, 7th Prime Minister of Georgia
 1974  Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
 1975  Tim Minchin, Australian comedian
From 1976 
 1976  Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
 1976  Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer
 1976  Taylor Hicks, American singer
 1978  Alesha Dixon, English singer
 1978  Jake Humphrey, English sports television presenter
 1978  Omar Benson Miller, American actor
 1979  Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
 1979  Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
 1979  Simona Amanar, Romanian gymnast
 1980  Jean-Marc Gaillard, French cross-country skier
 1982  Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
 1982  Jermain Defoe, English footballer
 1982  Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
 1983  Aaron Parks, American jazz musician
 1984  Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
 1984  Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer
 1985  Evan Longoria, American baseball player
 1986  Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
 1986  Kaitlyn, American wrestler and model
 1986  Bree Olson, American pornographic actress
 1987  Sam Querrey, American tennis player
 1987  Cian Healy, Irish rugby union player
 1987  Lauren Mayberry, Scottish singer (Chvrches)
1988  Diego Costa, Brazilian-Spanish footballer
 1988  Holland Roden, American actress
 1990  Ayla Kell, American actress
 1991  Nicole Jung, American-Korean singer
 1991  Lay, Chinese-Korean entertainer
 1996  Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer and songwriter
 1997  Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
 2001  Princess Senate Seeiso, Princess of Lesotho
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 336  Pope Mark
 929  Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)
 1368  Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1338)
 1577  George Gascoigne, English soldier, courtier and poet (b. 1535)
 1612  Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat (b. 1538)
 1637  Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
 1653  Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
 1708  Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
 1787  Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the American Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
 1796  Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
 1849  Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
 1857  Louis McLane, United States Secretary of State (b. 1786)
 1870  Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1834)
 1894  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
 1896  Emma Wedgwood, British naturalist (b. 1808)
1901  2000 
 1903  Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
 1906  Honoré Beaugrand, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
 1919  Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
 1925  Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
 1926  Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856)
 1943  Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
 1943  Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
 1943  Archibald Warden, English tennis player (b. 1869)
 1951  Anton Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1874)
 1956  Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
 1959  Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
 1967  Norman Angell, British politician (b. 1872)
 1991  Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
 1992  Tevfik Esenc, last speaker of the Ubykh language (b. 1904)
 1993  Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
 1994  Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (b. 1911)
From 2001 
 2002  Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
 2004  Kenneth Bigley, English engineer (b. 1942)
 2006  Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and writer (b. 1958)
 2007  Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
 2008  Peter Copley, British actor (b. 1915)
 2008  George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)
 2009  Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
 2010  Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
 2011  Ramiz Alia, last Communist leader of Albania, and President (b. 1925)
 2012  Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974)
 2013  Ovadia Yosef, Israeli Chief Rabbi (b. 1920)
 2013  Patrice Chéreau, French director, movie maker, actor and producer (b. 1944)
 2014  Siegfried Lenz, German writer (b. 1926)
 2014  Iva Withers, Canadian-American theatre actress and singer (b. 1917)
 2014  Nika Kiladze, Georgian footballer (b. 1988)
 2014  Zilpha Keatley Snyder, American writer (b. 1927)
 2014  Cigar, American racehorse (b. 1990)
2015  Dominique Dropsy, French footballer (b. 1951)
 2015  Elena Lucena, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
 2015  Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
 2015  W. R. Mitchell, British writer (b. 1928)
 2015  Jurelang Zedkaia, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)
 2016  Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austro-Hungarian-born British photographer and cinematographer (b. 1912)
 2017  Konstantin Sarsania, Russian footballer (b. 1968)
 2017  Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, Russian philologist (b. 1929)
 2017  Jim Landis, American baseball player (b. 1934)
 2017  Washington SyCip, Filipino-American World War II veteran (b. 1921) 
 2017  Kazys Almenas, Lithuanian physicist, engineer and publisher (b. 1935)
 2017  Ole Krarup, Danish politician (b. 1935)
 2018  Peggy McCay, American actress (b. 1927)
 2018  Oleg Pavlov, Russian novelist (b. 1970)
 2018  Celeste Yarnall, American actress (b. 1944)
 2019  Pepe Oneto, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
Observances 
 Teacher's Day (Laos)
 National Day of East Germany (1949 to 1989)

October 07
Up to 1900 
 105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus.
 69 BC - Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
 23 - Rebels kill and behead Xin Dynasty Emperor Wang Mang in China.
 404 - Byzantine Empress Eudoxia ends her seventh pregnancy in a miscarriage. She bleeds to death shortly after.
 891 – Formosus becomes Pope.
 1539 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital city of Anhaica, present-day Tallahassee, Florida.
 1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
 1600 – Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence.
 1683 - German immigrant families found Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1762 - Seven Years' War: End of the Battle of Manila between British and Spanish forces, resulting in British occupation of the city until the end of the war.
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: General Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of the Continental Army defenses on the Hudson River in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
 1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI of France returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by Parisian woman on the previous day.
 1849 - Execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian War of Independence.
 1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead begins shortly after midnight, killing 53 people.
 1860 - The Introduction of the so-called Section 377 of the British Indian penal code (Law) was enacted in British India respectively.
 1871 - The Introduction of the so-called Criminal Tribes Act was enacted in British India respectively.
 1876 - The American Library Association is founded.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
 1889 – Thomas Edison shows his first movie.
 1889 – Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtschneller make the first ascent of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa in what is now Tanzania.
1901  2000 
 1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
 1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 1910 - Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time.
 1921 – International PEN is founded in London.
 1923 - The Great Powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
 1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
 1939 - World War II: The German invasion of Poland is completed.
 1942 - World War II: The United States Marine Corps begins the October Matanikau Action on Guadalcanal, present-day Solomon Islands, against the Imperial Japanese Army.
 1955 – A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people.
 1966 – LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
 1973 – The Yom Kippur War begins, as Egypt and Syria launch an attack on Israel.
 1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to sabotage, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.
1976 – New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
 1978 – Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married. Incidentally, this is also the day that their single "Summer Night City" hits No.1 in Sweden.
 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits the White House.
 1981 – President of Egypt Anwar Sadat is assassinated, while inspecting a military parade.
 1985 - Police Constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
 1987 – Fiji becomes a Republic.
 1991 - The Social Democratic Party under Anibal Cavaco Silva wins the Portuguese parliamentary election.
 1993 - Michael Jordan surprisingly announces his retirement from basketball.
1995 – 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
 1998 – Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he died on October 12).
 1999 - Filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy begins in New Zealand.
 2000 – Slobodan Milosevic resigns as President of Yugoslavia.
 2000 - Argentine Vice President Carlos Alvarez resigns.
From 2001 
 2002 – French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
 2006 - Fredrik Reinfeldt becomes Prime Minister of Sweden after being elected on September 17.
 2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered round-the-world journey.
 2008 - Then-Prime Minister of Iceland Geir Haarde announces that his country is close to becoming bankrupt.
 2017 - The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Births
Up to 1900 
 210 BC - Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Pharaoh of Egypt (d. 181 BC)
 1289 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
 1459 – Martin Behaim, navigator, geographer (d. c. 1507)
 1510 – Rowland Taylor, pastor, martyr (d. 1555)
 1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
 1591 - Settimia Caccini, Italian composer and singer (d. 1638)
 1738 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
 1742 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet (d. 1786)
 1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
 1767 – Henri Christophe, King of Haiti (d. 1820)
 1768 - Samuel C. Crafts, Governor of Vermont (d. 1853)
 1769 – Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, British commander during the War of 1812 (d. 1812)
 1773 - John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist (d. 1835)
 1773 – King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
 1783 - François Magendie, French physician (d. 1855)
 1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
 1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1808 – King Frederick VII of Denmark (d. 1863)
 1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (d. 1887)
 1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
 1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
 1842 - Felice Cavallotti, Italian politician (d. 1898)
 1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
 1849 - Basil Zaharoff, Greek weapons dealer (d. 1936)
 1862 - Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (d. 1927)
 1866 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (d. 1932)
 1868 – George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post (d. 1937)
 1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
 1874 - Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
 1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d. 1937)
 1886 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
 1886 - Georges Vantongerloo, Belgian painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1965)
 1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
 1887 - Maria Jeritza, Austrian soprano (d. 1982)
1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
 1889 - Zalman Shazar, President of Israel (d. 1974)
 1890 - Jan Grijseels, Dutch runner (d. 1961)
 1891 - David Sholtz, Governor of Florida (d. 1953)
 1891 - Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet (d. 1946)
 1892 - Jackie Saunders, American silent movie actress (d. 1954)
 1893 - Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist (d. 1956)
 1898 - Mitchell Leisen, American director, producer and costume designer (d. 1972)
 1900 - Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934)
1901  1950 
 1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (d. 1995)
 1905 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
 1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
 1907 - Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican composer (d. 1990)
 1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
 1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
 1910 – Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (d. 2002)
 1913 - Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss artist and writer (d. 1985)
 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition (d. 2002)
 1916 - Chiang Wei-kuo, Chinese general (d. 1997)
 1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
 1921 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
 1923 - Yasar Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 2015)
 1925 - Lyuben Berov, 43rd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2006)
 1927 - Emmanuel III Delly, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2014)
 1928 - Barbara Werle, American actress (d. 2013)
1929 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (d. 2010)
 1929 - Einar H. Ingman, Jr., American soldier (d. 2015)
 1930 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
 1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer (d. 2015)
 1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
 1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American physicist (d. 2018)
 1934 - Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist (d. 2015)
 1935 - Ernesto Laclau, Argentine philosopher and political theorist (d. 2014)
 1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American professional wrestler
 1937 – Mario Capecchi, Italian-American molecular geneticist
 1939 - Melvyn Bragg, British broadcaster
 1940 - Jan Keizer, Dutch football referee
 1940 - Ellen Travolta, American actress
 1941 - Winston Ntshona, South African playwright and actor (d. 2018)
 1941 - Paul Popham, American soldier and activist (d. 1987)
 1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
 1943 - Ottavio Bianchi, Italian footballer
 1943 - Cees Veerman, Dutch musician (d. 2014)
1944 - Boris Mikhailov, Soviet ice hockey player
 1945 - Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
 1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
 1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born English cricketer (d. 2012)
 1947 - Patxi Andion, Spanish singer-songwriter
 1947 - Klaus Dibiasi, diver
 1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
 1948 - Glenn Branca, American composer and guitarist
 1949 - Jim Gilmore, American politician, former Governor of West Virginia
 1949 - Bobby Farrell, Aruban-born performer (d. 2010)
 1949 - Leslie Moonves, American businessman (CBS Corporation)
 1950 – David Brin, American science fiction writer
1951  1975 
 1951 – Kevin Cronin, American musician
 1951 – Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver (d. 1985)
 1951 - Clive Rees, Welsh rugby player
 1953 - Claas Bruinsma, Dutch drugs dealer (d. 1991)
 1960 - Richard Jobson, Scottish singer and musician
 1960 - Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium
 1961 - Ben Summerskill, English businessman, Chief Executive of the LGBT rights charity Stonewall
 1963 - Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer
 1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
 1964 - Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician
 1964 - Mark Field, English politician
 1966 - Fito Cabrales, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer
 1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
 1967 - Attila Ambrus, Hungarian bank robber and ice hockey player
 1967 - Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer
 1967 - Svend Carlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder
 1967 - Steven Woolfe, English politician
 1969 - Muhammad V of Kelantan, former Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
 1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
1970 - Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress
 1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
 1972 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
 1972 - Dominic Andres, Swiss curler
 1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
 1973 - Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
 1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
 1974 - Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer and screenwriter
 1975 - Peter Pellegrini, Slovakian politician, Prime minister of Slovakia
From 1976 
 1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer
 1977 - Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
 1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
 1978 – Ricky Hatton, British boxer
 1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
 1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
 1982 – Levon Aronian, Armenian chess player
 1982 - William Butler, American musician (Arcade Fire)
 1982 - Michael Frater, Jamaican sprinter
 1984 - Valerie Adams, New Zealand shot putter
 1984 - Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
 1985 - Mitchell Cole, English footballer (d. 2012)
 1985 - Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
 1986 - Olivia Thirlby, American actress
 1986 - Mohammed Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
 1988 - Stephen Darby, English footballer
 1988 - Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
 1989 - Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
 1989 - Sophia Thomalla, German actress, presenter and model
 1990 - Scarlett Byrne, English actress
1990 - Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer, dancer and rapper
 1990 - Jynx Maze, American pornographic actress
 1990 - Jordan Hamilton, American basketball player
 1991 - Roshon Fegan, American actor
 1993 - Adam Gemili, English athlete
 1996 - Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
 1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
 2000 - Jazz Jennings, American YouTuber, television personality and LGBT activist
 2002 - Cleopatra Stratan, Moldovan singer
Up to 1900 
 23 - Wang Mang, Chinese Xin Dynasty Emperor
 404 - Aelia Eudoxia, Roman Empress
 877 - Charles the Bald, Roman Emperor (b. 823)
 1014 - Samuil of Bulgaria (b. 958)
 1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German-Italian monk and saint (b. 1037)
 1413 - Dawit I of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
 1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
 1641 - Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
 1644 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, consort of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
 1660 - Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)
 1661 - Guru Har Rai, 7th Sikh Guru (b. 1630)
 1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
 1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (b. 1684)
 1777 - Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French author (b. 1699)
 1819 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
 1829 - Pierre Debigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
 1849 - Ludwig Batthyany, Hungarian Prime Minister (b. 1807)
 1863 - Frances Trollope, English writer (b. 1779)
1873 – Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
 1883 - Duc Duc, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1852)
 1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
 1891 - Charles I of Württemberg (b. 1823)
 1892 – Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate (b. 1809)
1901  2000 
 1912 – Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman (b. 1829)
 1940 - Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois (b. 1878)
 1945 - Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
 1946 - Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1885)
 1951 – Otto Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
 1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
 1953 - Vera Mukhina, Russian sculptor (b. 1889)
 1956 - Samuel R. McKelvie, Governor of Nebraska (b. 1881)
 1962 – Tod Browning, American movie director (b. 1880)
 1973 - François Cevert, French racing driver (b. 1944)
 1974 - Luther H. Hodges, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1898)
 1976 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
 1979 - Elizabeth Bishop, American writer (b. 1911)
 1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
 1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
 1981 – Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1918)
1983 – Terence Cardinal Cooke, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (b. 1921)
 1984 - George Gaylord Simpson, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1902)
 1985 – Nelson Riddle, bandleader (b. 1921)
 1988 – Larry Walters, who used 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet in 1982, suicide (b. 1949)
 1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
 1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
 1993 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1905)
 1995 - Benoit Chamoux, French climber (b. 1961)
 1999 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (b. 1920)
 2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
From 2001 
 2002 – Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
 2004 - Yogi Bhajan, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1929)
 2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentine movie director (b. 1940)
 2007 - Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1921)
 2011 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress (b. 1933)
 2012 - Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
 2014 - Igor Mitoraj, Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
 2014 - Bill Campbell, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
 2014 - Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)
 2014 - Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1976)
 2015 - Arpad Goncz, former President of Hungary (b. 1922)
 2015 - Kevin Corcoran, American actor (b. 1949)
 2015 - Billy Joe Royal, American singer (b. 1942)
 2015 - Christine Arnothy, French writer (b. 1930)
 2017 - Roberto Anzolin, Italian footballer (b. 1938)
 2017 - Terry Downes, British boxer and actor (b. 1936)
 2017 - Ralphie May, American comedian and actor (b. 1972)
2017 - Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, Cuban journalist and physician (b. 1969)
 2017 - Connie Hawkins, American basketball player (b. 1942)
 2017 - Toon Geurts, Dutch sprint canoeist (b. 1932)
 2018 - Eef Brouwers, Dutch journalist and spokesman (b. 1939)
 2018 - Montserrat Caballé, Spanish opera singer (b. 1933)
 2018 - Quentin Kenihan, American disability activist (b. 1975)
 2018 - Don Sandburg, American actor (b. 1930)
 2018 - Scott Wilson, American actor (b. 1942)
 2019 - Ginger Baker, English musician (Cream) (b. 1939)
 2019 - Yevgeny Bushmin, Russian politician (b. 1958)
 2019 - Vlasta Chramostová, Czech actress (b. 1926)
 2019 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player (b. 1933)
 2019 - Martin Lauer, German sprinter (b. 1937)
 2019 - Neale Lavis, Australian equestrian (b. 1930)
 2019 - Karen Pendleton, American actress (b. 1946)
 2019 - David Petel, Iraqi-Israeli politician (b. 1921)
 2019 - Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist leader (b. 1924)
 2019 - Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
Observances 
 Armed Forces Day (Egypt)
 German-American Day
 Teacher's Day (Sri Lanka)

October 06
Up to 1900 
 610  Coronation of Emperor Heraclius of the Byzantine Empire.
 1143  King Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a kingdom.
 1450  Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
 1502  Christopher Columbus names Costa Rica.
 1550  The city of Concepcion, Chile is founded.
 1582  This day does not exist in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, as the Gregorian calendar is introduced. In those countries, October 4 is followed by October 15.
 1665  The University of Kiel is founded.
 1762  British troops occupy Manila, Philippines.
 1789  French Revolution: Women in Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his intention to hold on to the system of feudalism.
 1793  French Revolution: Christianity is removed as the official state religion of France.
 1813  The Battle of Thames is fought in Canada, in which American forces defeat British ones.
 1857  The city of Anaheim, California is founded.
1864  Calcutta, India, is almost completely destroyed by a cyclone, killing 60,000 people.
 1869  In weather, the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy along the maritime provinces of Eastern Canada.
 1877  Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to US General Nelson A. Miles.
 1895  The first individual time trial for cyclists takes place in London.
1901  2000 
 1903  Samuel Griffith becomes the first Chief Justice of Australia.
 1905  Wilbur Wright pilots the Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stuck until 1908.
 1908  Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 1910  Portugal becomes a Republic.
 1914  World War I: First aerial combat resulting in a death, in international conflict.
 1915  Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
 1921  Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
 1933  In Germany, the Nazis take total control of the press.
 1938  In Germany, under Nazi rule, Jews' passports are declared illegal.
 1943  World War II: 98 American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
 1944  World War II: Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
 1944  Women in France are given the right to vote.
 1947  The first televised White House address is given by Harry S. Truman.
1948  A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes present-day Turkmenistan, killing over 100,000 people.
 1951  The first Mediterranean Games begin in Alexandria, Egypt.
 1955  Disneyland Hotel opens in Anaheim, California.
 1962  The first James Bond movie, Dr. No, is released.
 1962  Love Me Do, the Beatles' first single, is released in the United Kingdom.
 1968  Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland, considered to be the beginning of the Troubles.
 1969  Monty Python's Flying Circus is first shown on BBC One.
 1970  The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
 1970  In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, British trade commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the Front de liberation du Quebec, starting the October Crisis.
 1973  Signature of the European Patent Convention.
 1974  The Guildford pub bombings are carried out by the Provisional IRA, killing 4 British soldiers and 1 civilian.
 1984  Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
1986  Israel's secret nuclear weapons are revealed.
 1988  The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
 1989  Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 1991  An Indonesian military transport plane crashes after take-off from Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 137, including two on the ground. Only one on board survives.
 1992  Lennart Meri becomes President of Estonia.
 1999  The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
 2000  Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to the resignation of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.