October 7

## Events 
### Up to 1800 
* 3761 BC &ndash; The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
* 336 &ndash; Pope Marcus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
* 1428 &ndash; Start of the English siege of Orléans in the Hundred Years' War.
* 1477 &ndash; Opening of Uppsala University in Sweden.
* 1492 &ndash; Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
* 1506 &ndash; Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna.
* 1513 &ndash; Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
* 1520 &ndash; First public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain.
* 1542 &ndash; Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast.
* 1571 &ndash; The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain, Venice, and Papal States) destroys Turkish fleet.
* 1582 &ndash; Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
* 1637 &ndash; Prince Frederick Henry of Orange occupies Breda.
* 1690 &ndash; English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.
* 1702 &ndash; English/Dutch troops under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough occupy Roermond.
* 1714 &ndash; Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
* 1737 &ndash; 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India).
* 1756 &ndash; Flooding on the Elbe near what is now Germany's North Sea coast kills 600 people.
* 1763 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY.
* 1769 &ndash; English explorer, Captain Cook, reaches New Zealand. Abel Tasman had been the first European to land there over a century earlier.
* 1776 &ndash; Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
* 1777 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the Battle of Second Saratoga and the Battle of Bemis Heights.
* 1780 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1806 &ndash; Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
* 1816 &ndash; The first double-decked steamboat, the "Washington," arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
* 1826 &ndash; Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins operations.
* 1828 &ndash; The city of Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
* 1840 &ndash; Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
* 1864 &ndash; 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 &ndash; American Civil War: Capture of the CSS *Florida* — Union warship captures the USS *Wachusett* — Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
* 1865 &ndash; The Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica.
* 1868 &ndash; Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; student enrollment is 412, the most at any American university to that date.
* 1870 &ndash; Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon.
* 1879 &ndash; Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
* 1882 &ndash; Baseball: First World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2–0.
* 1886 &ndash; Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
* 1900 &ndash; The term "orienteering" is first used for an event.

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1904 &ndash; Baseball: New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12).
* 1907 &ndash; France's Henry Farman flies 30 m in a double decker plane.
* 1908 &ndash; Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
* 1908 &ndash; Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact.
* 1910 &ndash; Absinthe is banned in Switzerland.
* 1912 &ndash; The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
* 1916 &ndash; Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football.
* 1918 &ndash; The Governing Council in Warsaw declares Poland to be an independent state.
* 1919 &ndash; KLM of the Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
* 1919 &ndash; First London-Amsterdam airline service (Britain Aerial Transport and KLM).
* 1922 &ndash; Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria.
* 1922 &ndash; First radio link, WNJ (Newark, New Jersey) and WGY (Schenectady) link for World Series.
* 1924 &ndash; Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms.
* 1928 &ndash; Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned negus of Abyssinia by Empress Zauditu.
* 1928 &ndash; Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0).
* 1929 &ndash; Ramsay MacDonald is the first British premier to address the U.S. Congress.
* 1931 &ndash; First infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York.
* 1933 &ndash; Air France, the national airline of France, is created after the merger of five smaller airlines.
* 1938 &ndash; Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
* 1940 &ndash; Germany invades Romania.
* 1941 &ndash; German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R.
* 1941 &ndash; John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia
* 1942 &ndash; the McCollum memo conspires to bring the United States to war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
* 1942 &ndash; U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations.
* 1942 &ndash; Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St. Mark," premieres in New York City.
* 1942 &ndash; Salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad.
* 1943 &ndash; Japan executes 100 American civilian prisoners on Wake Island.
* 1944 &ndash; Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.
* 1944 &ndash; Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums.
* 1944 &ndash; Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel is ordered to return to Berlin.
* 1944 &ndash; Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen.
* 1949 &ndash; German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
* 1949 &ndash; One of the earliest television shows, "Ford Theater" debuts
* 1950 &ndash; United States forces cross the 38th parallel in the Korean War.
* 1950 &ndash; Missionaries of Charity is founded by Mother Teresa.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1951 &ndash; Malayan Emergency: Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
* 1951 &ndash; David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government.
* 1957 &ndash; Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" debuts.
* 1958 &ndash; 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 &ndash; U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.
* 1958 &ndash; Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court.
* 1959 &ndash; Far side of the Moon seen for first time, compliments of U.S.S.R.'s Luna 3.
* 1960 &ndash; Second Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy in the second of four scheduled debates.
* 1960 &ndash; Nigeria joins the UN.
* 1962 &ndash; U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
* 1963 &ndash; John F. Kennedy signs ratification for the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
* 1963 &ndash; Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and the Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
* 1968 &ndash; Hollywood adopts the movie ratings system.
* 1970 &ndash; Richard Nixon announces a new five-point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War.
* 1971 &ndash; Oman joins the UN.
* 1976 &ndash; Hua Guofeng becomes Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
* 1977 &ndash; The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
* 1982 &ndash; *Cats* opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
* 1984 &ndash; NFL running back Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown's rushing record.
* 1985 &ndash; The "Achille Lauro" is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
* 1985 &ndash; The Mameyes disaster occurs in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
* 1996 &ndash; The Fox News Channel, an American cable news network, is launched.
* 2000 &ndash; Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg abdicates in favour of his son, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
* 2000 &ndash; Germany wins 1–0 against England in the last game at the Old Wembley Stadium.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Start of United States war in Afghanistan with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
* 2002 &ndash; 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 &ndash; California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
* 2004 &ndash; King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
* 2005 &ndash; Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency win the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 2006 &ndash; Sport: The first Lusophone Games, for Portuguese-speaking countries begin in Macao.
* 2006 &ndash; Palau's capital is moved from Koror to Ngerulmud in the state of Melekeok.
* 2006 &ndash; Russian journalist and writer Anna Politkovskaya is murdered.
* 2011 &ndash; The Nobel Peace Prize is shared between Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakel Karman of Yemen.
* 2012 &ndash; Hugo Chávez is re-elected President of Venezuela against Henrique Capriles. Chavez dies less than five months later, on March 5, 2013.
* 2014 &ndash; Lunar Eclipse: A "Blood Moon", or red-appearing Moon, is seen in most of the world except Europe and Africa.
* 2016 &ndash; President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 2019 &ndash; Saturn overtakes Jupiter as the planet in the Solar System with the most known Moons (82, compared to Jupiter's 79).
* 2019 &ndash; Eight people are injured in a lorry-ramming attack in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany.
* 2023 &ndash; Hamas leads an invasion of Israel, starting the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

## Births 
### Up to 1850 
* 13 BC &ndash; Drusus Julius Caesar, adoptive son of Roman Emperor Tiberius (d. 23)
* 1471 &ndash; King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
* 1573 &ndash; William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
* 1576 &ndash; John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634)
* 1589 &ndash; Maria Magdalena of Austria (d. 1631)
* 1728 &ndash; Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1784)
* 1744 &ndash; Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
* 1746 &ndash; William Billings, American composer (d. 1800)
* 1748 &ndash; King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
* 1769 &ndash; Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
* 1798 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French violinmaker, businessman and inventor (d. 1875)
* 1822 &ndash; Rudolf Leuckert, German zoologist (d. 1898)
* 1835 &ndash; Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
* 1836 &ndash; Henri Elzear Taschereau, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1911)
* 1841 &ndash; King Nicholas of Montenegro (d. 1921)
* 1846 &ndash; Wladimir Köppen, German scientist (d. 1940)
* 1849 &ndash; James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)

### 1851 &ndash; 1900 
* 1857 &ndash; George P. McLean, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1932)
* 1866 &ndash; Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
* 1870 &ndash; Uncle Dave Macon, American banjo player, singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1952)
* 1873 &ndash; Alfred Ander, Swedish criminal, last person to be executed in Sweden (d. 1910)
* 1877 &ndash; Thomas Archibald Sprague, Scottish botanist (d. 1958)
* 1881 &ndash; Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
* 1884 &ndash; Harold Geiger, US Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
* 1885 &ndash; Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 1962)
* 1888 &ndash; Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
* 1889 &ndash; Robert Z. Leonard, American movie director, actor, producer and screenwriter (d. 1968)
* 1892 &ndash; Dwain Esper, American director and producer (d. 1982)
* 1894 &ndash; Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
* 1897 &ndash; Elijah Muhammad, American Muslim leader (d. 1975)
* 1897 &ndash; Charles Chauvel, Australian screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1959)
* 1898 &ndash; Alfred Wallenstein, American cellist and conductor (d. 1983)
* 1900 &ndash; Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d. 1945)

### 1901 &ndash; 1925 
* 1901 &ndash; Souvanna Phouma, Prime Minister of Laos (d. 1984)
* 1904 &ndash; Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer (d. 1968)
* 1905 &ndash; Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
* 1909 &ndash; Anni Blomqvist, Finnish writer (d. 1990)
* 1909 &ndash; Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1995)
* 1909 &ndash; Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
* 1911 &ndash; Vaughn Monroe, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1973)
* 1912 &ndash; Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
* 1913 &ndash; Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist (d. 2003)
* 1914 &ndash; Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
* 1914 &ndash; Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974)
* 1914 &ndash; Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
* 1915 &ndash; Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (d. 2001)
* 1917 &ndash; June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
* 1918 &ndash; Harry V. Jaffa, American historian (d. 2015)
* 1919 &ndash; Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011)
* 1920 &ndash; Georg Leber, German politician (d. 2012)
* 1921 &ndash; Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (d. 2004)
* 1922 &ndash; William Zinsser, American writer, editor, literary critic and teacher (d. 2015)

### 1926 &ndash; 1950 
* 1926 &ndash; Marcello Abbado, Italian composer and pianist
* 1927 &ndash; Ronald David Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (d. 1989)
* 1927 &ndash; Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009)
* 1928 &ndash; Sanne Ledermann, friend of Anne Frank (d. 1943)
* 1928 &ndash; Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
* 1928 &ndash; Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (d. 2013)
* 1929 &ndash; Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist (d. 2014)
* 1929 &ndash; Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer
* 1931 &ndash; Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2021)
* 1932 &ndash; Joannes Gijsen, Dutch-born former Catholic bishop of Reykjavik (d. 2013)
* 1934 &ndash; Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright and academic (d. 2014)
* 1934 &ndash; Ulrike Meinhof, German left-wing militant and Red Army Faction member (d. 1976)
* 1935 &ndash; Thomas Keneally, Australian writer
* 1936 &ndash; Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
* 1937 &ndash; Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
* 1937 &ndash; Christopher Booker, English journalist and author
* 1938 &ndash; Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer, actor and poet (d. 1992)
* 1938 &ndash; Ann Jones, English tennis player
* 1939 &ndash; Clive James, Australian TV presenter and writer
* 1939 &ndash; Harry Kroto, English chemist (d. 2016)
* 1939 &ndash; John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
* 1939 &ndash; Enrique Pinti, Argentine actor, comedian, theatre director and writer
* 1942 &ndash; Joy Behar, American talk show host and actress
* 1943 &ndash; José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
* 1943 &ndash; Oliver North, American former military officer and politician
* 1944 &ndash; Donald Tsang, former Chief Executive of Hong Kong
* 1944 &ndash; Pete van Wieren, American sportscaster (d. 2014)
* 1945 &ndash; Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter
* 1946 &ndash; Bernard Lavilliers, French singer-songwriter and actor
* 1946 &ndash; Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
* 1950 &ndash; Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician, 4th President of Tanzania

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; David J. Halberstam, American sportscaster
* 1951 &ndash; John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
* 1952 &ndash; Mary Badham, American actress
* 1952 &ndash; Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
* 1953 &ndash; Ronald Worm, German footballer
* 1953 &ndash; Tico Torres, American musician (Bon Jovi)
* 1953 &ndash; Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (d. 2014)
* 1954 &ndash; Christian Bourquin, French politician (d. 2014)
* 1955 &ndash; Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
* 1955 &ndash; Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
* 1956 &ndash; Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1957 &ndash; Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
* 1959 &ndash; Simon Cowell, English media personality
* 1959 &ndash; Lourdes Flores Nano, Peruvian politician
* 1960 &ndash; Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
* 1964 &ndash; Sam Brown, American singer
* 1964 &ndash; Dan Savage, American LGBT activist, journalist and television producer
* 1966 &ndash; Marco Beltrami, American movie score composer
* 1966 &ndash; Sherman Alexie, American author, humourist and screenwriter
* 1967 &ndash; Toni Braxton, American soul music singer
* 1968 &ndash; Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead
* 1968 &ndash; Pippa Funnell, British equestrian
* 1969 &ndash; Francesco Buzzurro, Italian guitarist
* 1969 &ndash; Karen L. Nyberg, American engineer and astronaut
* 1970 &ndash; Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
* 1971 &ndash; Ismael Urzaiz, Spanish footballer
* 1971 &ndash; Michelle Mone, Scottish businesswoman
* 1972 &ndash; Loek van Wely, Dutch chess player
* 1972 &ndash; Ben Younger, American screenwriter
* 1973 &ndash; Dida, Brazilian footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Grigol Mgalobishvili, 7th Prime Minister of Georgia
* 1974 &ndash; Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
* 1975 &ndash; Tim Minchin, Australian comedian

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
* 1976 &ndash; Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer
* 1976 &ndash; Taylor Hicks, American singer
* 1978 &ndash; Alesha Dixon, English singer
* 1978 &ndash; Jake Humphrey, English sports television presenter
* 1978 &ndash; Omar Benson Miller, American actor
* 1979 &ndash; Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
* 1979 &ndash; Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
* 1979 &ndash; Simona Amanar, Romanian gymnast
* 1980 &ndash; Jean-Marc Gaillard, French cross-country skier
* 1982 &ndash; Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Jermain Defoe, English footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
* 1983 &ndash; Aaron Parks, American jazz musician
* 1984 &ndash; Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
* 1984 &ndash; Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Evan Longoria, American baseball player
* 1986 &ndash; Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Kaitlyn, American wrestler and model
* 1986 &ndash; Bree Olson, American pornographic actress
* 1987 &ndash; Sam Querrey, American tennis player
* 1987 &ndash; Cian Healy, Irish rugby union player
* 1987 &ndash; Lauren Mayberry, Scottish singer (Chvrches)
* 1988 &ndash; Diego Costa, Brazilian-Spanish footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Holland Roden, American actress
* 1990 &ndash; Ayla Kell, American actress
* 1991 &ndash; Nicole Jung, American-Korean singer
* 1991 &ndash; Lay, Chinese-Korean entertainer
* 1996 &ndash; Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer and songwriter
* 1997 &ndash; Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
* 2001 &ndash; Princess Senate Seeiso, Princess of Lesotho

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 336 &ndash; Pope Mark
* 929 &ndash; Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)
* 1368 &ndash; Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1338)
* 1577 &ndash; George Gascoigne, English soldier, courtier and poet (b. 1535)
* 1612 &ndash; Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat (b. 1538)
* 1637 &ndash; Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
* 1653 &ndash; Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
* 1708 &ndash; Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
* 1787 &ndash; Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the American Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
* 1796 &ndash; Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
* 1849 &ndash; Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
* 1857 &ndash; Louis McLane, United States Secretary of State (b. 1786)
* 1870 &ndash; Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1834)
* 1894 &ndash; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
* 1896 &ndash; Emma Wedgwood, British naturalist (b. 1808)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1903 &ndash; Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
* 1906 &ndash; Honoré Beaugrand, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
* 1919 &ndash; Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
* 1925 &ndash; Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
* 1926 &ndash; Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856)
* 1943 &ndash; Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
* 1943 &ndash; Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
* 1943 &ndash; Archibald Warden, English tennis player (b. 1869)
* 1951 &ndash; Anton Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1874)
* 1956 &ndash; Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
* 1959 &ndash; Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
* 1967 &ndash; Norman Angell, British politician (b. 1872)
* 1991 &ndash; Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
* 1992 &ndash; Tevfik Esenc, last speaker of the Ubykh language (b. 1904)
* 1993 &ndash; Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
* 1994 &ndash; Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (b. 1911)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
* 2004 &ndash; Kenneth Bigley, English engineer (b. 1942)
* 2006 &ndash; Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and writer (b. 1958)
* 2007 &ndash; Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
* 2008 &ndash; Peter Copley, British actor (b. 1915)
* 2008 &ndash; George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)
* 2009 &ndash; Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
* 2010 &ndash; Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
* 2011 &ndash; Ramiz Alia, last Communist leader of Albania, and President (b. 1925)
* 2012 &ndash; Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974)
* 2013 &ndash; Ovadia Yosef, Israeli Chief Rabbi (b. 1920)
* 2013 &ndash; Patrice Chéreau, French director, movie maker, actor and producer (b. 1944)
* 2014 &ndash; Siegfried Lenz, German writer (b. 1926)
* 2014 &ndash; Iva Withers, Canadian-American theatre actress and singer (b. 1917)
* 2014 &ndash; Nika Kiladze, Georgian footballer (b. 1988)
* 2014 &ndash; Zilpha Keatley Snyder, American writer (b. 1927)
* 2014 &ndash; Cigar, American racehorse (b. 1990)
* 2015 &ndash; Dominique Dropsy, French footballer (b. 1951)
* 2015 &ndash; Elena Lucena, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
* 2015 &ndash; Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
* 2015 &ndash; W. R. Mitchell, British writer (b. 1928)
* 2015 &ndash; Jurelang Zedkaia, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)
* 2016 &ndash; Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austro-Hungarian-born British photographer and cinematographer (b. 1912)
* 2017 &ndash; Konstantin Sarsania, Russian footballer (b. 1968)
* 2017 &ndash; Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, Russian philologist (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Jim Landis, American baseball player (b. 1934)
* 2017 &ndash; Washington SyCip, Filipino-American World War II veteran (b. 1921) 
* 2017 &ndash; Kazys Almenas, Lithuanian physicist, engineer and publisher (b. 1935)
* 2017 &ndash; Ole Krarup, Danish politician (b. 1935)
* 2018 &ndash; Peggy McCay, American actress (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; Oleg Pavlov, Russian novelist (b. 1970)
* 2018 &ndash; Celeste Yarnall, American actress (b. 1944)
* 2019 &ndash; Pepe Oneto, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
* 2019 &ndash; Ella Vogelaar, Dutch politician (b. 1949)

## Observances 
* Teacher's Day (Laos)
* National Day of East Germany (1949 to 1989)