the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
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
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)
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)
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)
2020 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist (Van Halen) (b. 1955)
Armed Forces Day (Egypt)
German-American Day
Teacher's Day (Sri Lanka)
October 06
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.
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.
2001  In baseball, Barry Bonds overtakes Mark McGwire's single-season home run record, hitting his 71st and 72nd home runs of the season respectively.
2004  At 27.25 degrees Celsius, Germany records its warmest October 5th in 125 years.
2011  Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple Inc., dies aged 56, leading to widespread reaction on social media.
2014  Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi suffers serious injuries in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, leading to his death in July 2015.
2017  Allegations of sexual harassment against the film producer Harvey Weinstein are published, starting the #MeToo movement.
2018  Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1338  Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1390)
1520  Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
1640  Françoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan, mistress to King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
1658  Mary of Modena, Queen of England (d. 1718)
1703  Jonathan Edwards, American theologian (d. 1758)
1712  Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
1713  Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d. 1784)
1717  Marie Anne de Mailly, mistress to Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
1743  Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian opera composer (d. 1818)
1781  Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1789  William Scoresby, British sailor and explorer (d. 1857)
1829  Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
1844  Francis William van Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
1848  Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
1850  Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (d. 1910)
1858  Helen Churchill Candee, American author and journalist (d. 1929)
1861  Ismael Montes, President of Bolivia (d. 1933)
1862  Wilhelm Solf, German politician and diplomat (d. 1936)
1864  Louis Lumière, French cinema pioneer (d. 1948)
1878  Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
1879  Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist (d. 1970)
1881  Robert Stangland, American athlete (d. 1953)
1882  Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
1882  Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1982)
1885  Ida Rubinstein, Russian dancer, actress and choreographer (d. 1960)
1887  Max Ackermann, German painter (d. 1975)
1887  René Cassin, French jurist (d. 1976)
1888  Mary Fuller, American actress and comedienne (d. 1973)
1889  Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan novelist (d. 1936)
1892  Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
1894  Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
1895  Walter Bedell Smith, American general (d. 1961)
1898  Nachum Gutman, Moldovan-Israeli painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
1899  Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1963)
1901  John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
1902  Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
1905  John Hoyt, American actor (d. 1991)
1908  Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1911  Brian O'Nolan, Irish writer (d. 1966)
1914  Zhang Zhen, Chinese general (d. 2015)
1916  Stetson Kennedy, American writer (d. 2011)
1919  Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
1920  Meliton Kantaria, Soviet-Georgian soldier, raised Soviet Flag on the Reichstag (d. 1993)
1921  Pham Duy, Vietnamese singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1922  José Froilán González, Argentine racing driver (d. 2013)
1922  Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (d. 1985)
1923  Albert Gudmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (d. 1994)
1923  Glynis Johns, British actress
1923  Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat (d. 2012)
1924  Bill Dana, American actor
1924  Frederic Morton, Austrian-American writer (d. 2015)
1924  Javid Iqbal, Pakistani judge (d. 2015)
1925  Walter Dale Miller, American politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2015)
1927  Bruce Millan, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
1929  Robert F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930  Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
1930  Reinhard Selten, German economist (d. 2016)
1931  Derek Grierson, Scottish footballer (d. 2011)
1932  Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (d. 2019)
1932  Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and writer
1933  Diane Cilento, Australian actress (d. 2011)
1936  Václav Havel, Czech playwright and former President of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia (d. 2011)
1937  Barry Switzer, American football coach
1938  Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of US Senator John Kerry and part of the family that owns the Heinz ketchup company
1941  Eduardo Duhalde, former President of Argentina
1943  Michael Morpurgo, English writer
1944  Cesare Nosiglia, Italian archbishop
1944  Nils Malmros, Danish movie director and screenwriter
1946  Thomson Allan, Scottish footballer
1946  Robin Lane Fox, English historian and author
1947  Michèle Pierre-Louis, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
1947  Brian Johnson, English singer-songwriter (AC/DC)
1948  Drew Jarvie, Scottish footballer
1948  Tawl Ross, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
1949  Peter Ackroyd, English author
1949  Klaus Ludwig, German racing driver
1950  Jeff Conaway, American actor (d. 2011)
1950  Eddie Clarke, English guitarist
1951  Bob Geldof, Irish musician and humanitarian activist
1951  Karen Allen, American actress
1951  Willie Donachie, Scottish footballer
1952  Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tajikistan
1952  Vladimir Nevzorov, Russian judoka
1954  Jimmy Hartwig, German footballer and actor
1955  Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
1955  Caroline Loeb, French actress and singer
1955  Angela Molina, Spanish actress
1957  Lee Thompson, English singer-songwriter and saxophonist
1957  Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1958  Antonio Di Gennaro, Italian footballer
1958  André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
1958  Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
1960  David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player
1960  Daniel Baldwin, American actor
1960  Careca, Brazilian footballer
1962  Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
1962  Michael Andretti, American racing driver
1963  Laura Davies, British golfer
1963  Michael Hadschieff, Austrian speed skater
1963  Charlotte Link, German author
1963  Nick Robinson, English journalist
1964  Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
1965  Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
1966  Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian athlete
1967  Guy Pearce, Australian actor
1967  Rex Chapman, American basketball player and sportscaster
1970  Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Scottish politician
1971  Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine footballer
1972  Grant Hill, American basketball player
1974  Alex Walkinshaw, English actor
1975  Kate Winslet, English actress
1975  Parminder Nagra, English actress
1975  Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
1975  Monica Rial, American voice actress
1976  Song Seung-heon, South Korean actor and singer
1976  Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
1976  Royston Ten, Singaporean director, producer and screenwriter
1977  Konstantin Zyryanov, Russian footballer
1977  Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic artist
1978  James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
1979  Vince Grella, Australian footballer
1979  Joe Lipari, American writer, comedian and moviemaker
1980  Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1980  James Toseland, British motorcycle racer
1981  Zhang Yining, Chinese table tennis player
1981  Joel Lindpere, Estonian footballer
1982  Brandi Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress
1983  Florian Mayer, German tennis player
1983  Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
1983  Nicky Hilton, American heiress of the Hilton Hotel chain
1984  Zlatko Dedic, Slovenian footballer
1984  Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
1984  Clint Jones, American ski jumper
1985  Nicola Roberts, British singer (Girls Aloud)
1987  Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
1987  Park So Yeon, South Korean singer
1987  Hadleigh Parkes, New Zealand-Welsh rugby union player
1988  Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter (Monrose)
1988  Sam Warburton, Welsh rugby player
1989  Asmirandah, Indonesian actress, singer, writer and model
1991  Arthur Pic, French racing driver
1992  Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver
1992  Mercedes Lambre, Argentine actress and singer
578  Justin II, Byantine Emperor (b. 520)
877  Charles the Bald
1056  Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1112  Sigebert of Gembloux, French monk, historian and author (b. 1030)
1214  King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285  King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1606  Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1763  King Augustus III of Poland (b. 1696)
1777  Johann Andreas Segner, Slovakian-German mathematician, physicist and physician (b. 1704)
1791  Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1805  Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general (b. 1738)
1813  Tecumseh, Native American leader (b. 1768)
1837  Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)
1853  Mahlon Dickerson, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1770)
1855  Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer
1861  Kinsley S. Bingham, Governor of Michigan (b. 1808)
1880  Jacques Offenbach, French composer (b. 1819)
1913  Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1918  Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
1927  Sam Warner, American movie producer (b. 1887)
1930  Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British Secretary of State for Air (b. 1876)
1933  Renée Adoree, French actress (b. 1898)
1936  J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist, from complications following neglected tuberculosis (b. 1898)
1938  Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic and saint (b. 1905)
1940  Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
1941  Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1856)
1943  Leon Roppolo, jazz musician (b. 1902)
1957  José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
1969  Walter Hagen, champion golfer
1976  Lars Onsager, Norwegian physical chemist (b. 1903)
1976  Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
1983  Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware (b. 1907)
1983  Humberto Mauro, Brazilian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
1986  Hal B. Wallis, movie producer
1986  James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (b. 1919)
1992  Eddie Kendricks, singer (b. 1939)
1995  Linda Gary, voice actor (b. 1944)
1996  Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1926)
2002  Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2003  Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927)
2003  Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers ice hockey player (b. 1978)
2004  Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004  Maurice Wilkins, DNA pioneer (b. 1916)
2007  Walter Kempowski, German writer (b. 1929)
2007  Justin Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran (b. 1898)
2009  Giselher Klebe, German composer (b. 1925)
2009  Israel Gelfand, Soviet-born American mathematician (b. 1913)
2010  Bernard Clavel, French writer (b. 1923)
2011  Bert Jansch, Scottish musician (b. 1943)
2011  Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur and innovator, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. (b. 1955)
2011  Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
2012  Claude Pinoteau, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2013  Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor and movie director (b. 1922)
2014  Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (b. 1917)
2014  Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (b. 1959)
2014  Anna Przybylska, Polish actress (b. 1978)
2014  Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian actor, director, artist and dancer (b. 1930)
2014  Anna Maria Gherardi, Italian actress (b. 1939)
2014  Misty Upham, American actress (b. 1982)
2015  Henning Mankell, Swedish writer (b. 1948)
2015  Jos Vandeloo, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1925)
2015  Grace Lee Boggs, American writer and activist (b. 1915)
2015  Chantal Akerman, Belgian movie director and artist (b. 1950)
2015  Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (b. 1938)
2016  Georges Balandier, French sociologist, ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1920)
2016  Michal Kovac, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
2016  Josh Samman, American mixed martial artist (b. 1988)
2017  Toon Geurts, Dutch sprint canoeist (b. 1932)
2017  Eberhard van der Laan, Dutch politician (b. 1955)
2017  Giorgio Pressburger, Hungarian-Italian writer (b. 1937)
2017  Anne Wiazemsky, French actress and novelist (b. 1947)
2017  Sylke Tempel, German journalist and novelist (b. 1963)
2018  Jimmy Duquennoy, Belgian cyclist (b. 1995)
2018  Ray Galton, English screenwriter (b. 1930)
2018  Ivar Odnes, Norwegian politician (b. 1963)
2018  Víctor Pey, Spanish-Chilean engineer and political activist (b. 1915)
2019  Andy Etcheburren, American baseball player (b. 1943)
2019  Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor (b. 1963)
2019  David Greaves, English snooker player (b. 1946)
2019  Henry Keizer, Dutch politician and businessman (b. 1960)
2019  Blaine Lindgren, American sprinter (b. 1939)
2019  Margaret Lyons, Canadian radio executive (b. 1923)
2019  Philippe Vandevelde, Belgian comic writer (b. 1957)
Republic Day (Portugal)
International Teachers' Day (UNESCO)
Teachers' Day (Pakistan, Russia)
Armed Forces Day (Indonesia)
Constitution Day (Vanuatu)
Stara Zagora (Bulgaria)
October 05
2333 BC  Famous date of the establishment of the Kingdom of Chosun (Korea).
52 BC  Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
42 BC  First Battle of Philippi: The Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
Even though Brutus defeats Octavian, Antony defeats Cassius.
382  Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
1283  Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by drawing and quartering.
1574  The Siege of Leiden lifted by the Watergeuzen – foundation of the first Dutch university.
1683  The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan.
1712  The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1739  The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
1762  Catherine II of Russia is crowned.
1778  Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
1789  George Washington names the first Thanksgiving Day.
1835  The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.
1849  American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious (a terribly confused state of mind) in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances.
1863  Thanksgiving Day declared as the last Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
1866  American passenger steamer Evening Star sinks in hurricane-force winds, 180 nautical miles off Tybee Island, Georgia, US, killing 148 people.
1884  In Denmark, Christiansborg Castle is destroyed by fire.
1904  The Nama War begins as Namibian independence activist Hendrik Witbooi declares war on the colonial power, Germany.
1918  Boris III of Bulgaria becomes King.
1919  Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Hispanic American baseball player in the World Series.
1929  The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
1932  Iraq gets its independence.
1935  Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).
1942  First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany.
The rocket flew 147 kilometres wide and got to a height of 84.5 kilometres and was the first man-made object reaching space.
1949  WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.
1950  Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against Communist China, begins.
1951  New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League pennant, with Bobby Thomson's three-run homer called "The Shot Heard 'Round the World".
1952  The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
1955  The Mickey Mouse Club is first shown on the American Broadcasting Company.
1957  Willy Brandt, future-German Chancellor, is elected as Governing Mayor of West Berlin, after the death of Otto Suhr.
1960  The Andy Griffith Show starts.
1961  The Dick Van Dyke Show is first shown on CBS-TV.
1962  At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 takes off with Astronaut Wally Schirra on it for a nine-hour flight.
1963  A violent coup in Honduras starts two decades of military rule.
1964  Underdog debuts on CBS.
1965  Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration and Naturalization Service Act of 1965 into law, making immigration rules easier for people coming to the United States.
1969  Berlin's television tower opens.
1974  Peru is struck by an earthquake, killing 83 people.
1981  The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.
1982  Changtse mountain in Tibet is climbed for the first time, by Dutch climber Johan Taks.
1985  The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its first flight.
1990  German reunification: East Germany ends, after merging with the Federal Republic of Germany and joining the European Economic Community.
1993  Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 2000 Somalis are killed.
US forces withdraw from Somalia soon after.
1995  O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
1997  The first cloned rodent, a mouse named Cumulina, is born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
2004  The Montreal Expos play their last Major League Baseball game before the franchise is moved to Washington, D.C..
2005  The EU starts entry negotiations with Turkey and Croatia.
2010  In Delhi, India, the 2010 Commonwealth Games begin.
2011  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is given to Bruce Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman.
Unknown to the Nobel Committee, Steinman had died three days earlier and becomes only the third-ever posthumous (after death) Nobel laureate in history, as of the announcement date.
2011  Helle Thorning-Schmidt becomes Prime Minister of Denmark.
2013  A boat travelling from North Africa, carrying migrants from the East African countries of Eritrea and Somalia, catches fire and sinks off the Italian Mediterranean Sea island of Lampedusa, killing 134 people, with many more feared dead.
2013  The Gambia withdraws from the Commonwealth, through a decision made by its President, Yahya Jammeh.
2015  At least 42 people are killed in an airstrike on a hospital, operated by Médecins Sans Frontières, in the Kunduz region of Afghanistan.
2017  Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss win the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of gravitational waves.
85 BC  Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman senator (d. 42 BC)
1458  Saint Casimir, Polish prince (d. 1484)
1610  Gabriel Lalemant, French-Canadian missionary (d. 1649)
1713  Antoine Dauvergne, French composer and violinist (d. 1797)
1716  Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
1720  Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
1722  Johann Heinrich Tischbein, German painter (d. 1789)
1784  Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, German explorer of Kamchatka, Russia (d. 1863)
1789  Henry Pottinger, Irish-British soldier and colonial officer (d. 1856)
1792  Francisco Morazán, Central American political leader and statesman (d. 1842)
1797  Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
1800  George Bancroft, American politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891)
1804  Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism or Kardecism (d. 1869)
1804  Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician and diplomat (d. 1878)
1806  Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
1828  Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
1837  Nicolás Avellaneda, President of Argentina (d. 1885)
1844  Patrick Manson, Scottish physician (d. 1922)
1848  Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
1853  Stephan G. Stephansson, Western Icelandic farmer and poet (d. 1927)
1854  Hermann von Struve, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1920)
1858  Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
1862  Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
1862  Andrew J. Montague, Governor of Virginia (d. 1937)
1868  Francisco Vidal y Barraquer, Spanish cardinal (d. 1943)
1869  Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1942)
1873  Emily Post, American etiquette advisor (d. 1960)
1873  Ivan Shmelyov, Russian writer (d. 1950)
1875  Dr. Atl, Mexican painter and writer (d. 1964)
1877  William L. Harding, Governor of Iowa (d. 1934)
1879  Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor (d. 1938)
1885  Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
1886  Alain-Fournier, French novelist (d. 1914)
1889  Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist, writer and pacifist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
1890  Emilio Portes Gil, 41st President of Mexico (d. 1978)
1893  King Carol III of Romania (d. 1953)
1894  Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
1894  Walter Warlimont, German general (d. 1976)
1895  Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
1895  Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
1896  Gerardo Diego, Spanish writer and poet (d. 1987)
1897  Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
1898  Leo McCarey, American movie director (d. 1969)
1899  Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)
1900  Thomas Wolfe, American writer (d. 1938)
1904  Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist (d. 1989)
1905  Fuller Warren, 30th Governor of Florida (d. 1973)
1905  Tekin Ariburun, Turkish politician (d. 1993)
1916  James Herriot, British veterinarian and writer (d. 1995)
1916  Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware (d. 2011)
1919  Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
1919  James M. Buchanan, American economist (d. 2013)
1920  Philippa Foot, British philosopher (d. 2010)
1923  Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
1924  Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
1925  George Wein, American pianist and producer
1925  Gore Vidal, American writer (d. 2012)
1927  Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian artist (d. 2013)
1928  Sonny Ramphal, 2nd Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations
1931  Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goaltender
1933  Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
1934  Jerry Apodaca, former Governor of New Mexico
1934  Miguel-Angel Cardenas, Colombian painter and photographer (d. 2015)
1935  Charles Duke, American general, pilot and astronaut
1936  Viktor Kanevskyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2018)
1936  Steve Reich, American composer
1938  Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
1938  Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru
1940  Sheila Fearn, British actress
1941  Chubby Checker, American popular musician
1941  Andrea de Adamich, Italian racing driver and sportscaster
1942  Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer (d. 2016)
1944  Bob Riley, American politician, former Governor of Alabama
1944  Roy Horn, German-born entertainer (Siegfried & Roy) (d. 2020)
1944  Harry Hood, Scottish footballer (d. 2019)
1944  Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
1946  P. P. Arnold, American soul singer
1947  John Perry Barlow, American musician (d. 2018)
1947  Hopeton Lewis, Jamaican musician (d. 2014)
1947  Fred DeLuca, American businessman (d. 2015)
1949  J. P. Dutta, Indian director
1949  Lindsey Buckingham, American musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1950  Pamela Hensley, actress
1950  John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (d. 1988)
1951  Keb' Mo', American blues singer
1951  Dave Winfield, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1953  Bever-Leigh Banfield, American actress
1954  Dennis Eckersley, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1954  Al Sharpton, American minister, politician and activist
1954  Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (d. 1990)
1956  Hart Bochner, Canadian actor, screenwriter and producer
1957  Robert Azevedo, Brazilian diplomat, 6th Director of the World Trade Organization
1958  Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer
1958  Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor
1959  Fred Couples, American golfer
1959  Greg Proops, American actor, stand-up comedian, voice artist and television host
1962  Tommy Lee, American rock musician
1964  Clive Owen, English actor
1965  Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
1969  Gwen Stefani, American singer, No Doubt frontwoman
1971  Kevin Richardson, American musician and singer (Backstreet Boys)
1972  Komla Dumor, Ghanaian journalist (d. 2014)
1973  Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
1973  Lena Headey, British actress
1975  India.
Arie, American singer
1976  Seann William Scott, American actor
1978  Christian Coulson, English actor
1978  Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
1978  Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
1978  Jake Shears, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
1978  Vienna Teng, American pianist and singer-songwriter
1979  Josh Klinghoffer, American musician (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
1979  Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer (The Script)
1980  Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (d. 2013)
1981  Florian Keller, German field hockey player
1981  Seth Gabel, American actor
1981  Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Swedish footballer
1981  Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
1983  Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer
1984  Ashlee Simpson, American actress and singer
1984  Bruno Gervais, Canadian ice hockey player
1985  Courtney Lee, American basketball player
1986  Jackson Martínez, Colombian footballer
1987  Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican model and actress
1987  Robert Grabarz, English high jumper
1987  Danny Willett, English golfer
1988  Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
1988  ASAP Rocky, American rapper
1990  Daria Shkurikhina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
1991  Aki Takajo, Japanese singer (AKB48)
1994  Charlie Wernham, English comedian and actor
1996  Adair Tishler, American actress and singer
1996  Kalechi Iheanacho, Nigerian footballer
1997  Juri Takahashi, Japanese idol and singer (AKB48)
1999  Aramis Knight, American actor
2004  Noah Schnapp, American actor
42 BC  Gaius Cassius Longinus
1078  Iziaslav I of Kiev (b. 1024)
1226  Saint Francis of Assisi (b. c. 1182)
1283  David ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, executed
1369  Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
1568  Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
1611  Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (b. 1584)
1629  Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
1838  Black Hawk, Sauk-American tribal leader (b. 1767)
1860  Rembrandt Peale, American painter (b. 1778)
1867  Elias Howe, American inventor (b. 1819)
1873  Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
1877  James Roosevelt Barley, American archbishop (b. 1814)
1881  Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
1890  Joseph Hergenröther German church historian (b. 1824)
1891  Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
1896  William Morris, British artist and designer (b. 1834)
1897  Saint Therese of Liseaux (b. 1873)
1929  Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1878)
1931  Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
1932  Max Wolf, German astronomer (b. 1863)
1936  John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
1939  Fay Templeton, American actress & singer in musical comedy (b. 1865)
1953  Arnold Bax, composer (b. 1883)
1959  Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1892)
1965  Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
1967  Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b. 1912)
1967  Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
1967  Pinto Colvig, American actor and animator (b. 1892)
1969  Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
1979  Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
1987  Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
1987  Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
1988  Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
1990  General Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force officer, candidate for Vice President of the United States (b. 1906)
1990  Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman, married into Monegasque royalty (b. 1960)
1994  Heinz Rühmann, German actor (b. 1920)
1997  Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician (b. 1908)
1998  Roddy McDowall, British actor (b. 1928)
1999  Akio Morita, Japanese co-founder of Sony (b. 1921)
2000  Benjamin Orr, bassist and part-time lead singer for The Cars (b. 1947)
2002  Bruce Paltrow, American television and movie producer (b. 1943)
2003  William Steig, American cartoonist and children's writer; creator of Shrek (b. 1907)
2004  Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
2005  Ronnie Barker, British actor and comedian (b. 1929)
2009  Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (b. 1921)
2009  Fatima El-Sharif, former Queen of Libya (b. 1911)
2010  Philippa Foot, British philosopher (b. 1920)
2013  Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (b. 1944)
2014  Jean-Jacques Marcel, French footballer (b. 1931)
2014  Peer Augustinski, German actor (b. 1940)
2014  Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian (b. 1963)
2014  Alan Henning, English aid worker (b. 1967)
2014  Ward Ruyslinck, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
2014  Kevin Metheny, American radio executive (b. 1954)
2015  Javid Iqbal, Pakistani judge (b. 1924)
2015  Denis Healey, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1917)
2017  Rodney Bickerstaffe, English trade unionist (b. 1945)
2017  Michel Jouvet, French oneirologist and neurobiologist (b. 1926)
2017  Chittani Ramachandra Hegde, Indian artist and dancer (b. 1933)
2017  Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Kurdish politician, President of Iraq (b. 1933)
2017  Ming Chang, Chinese-American naval officer (b. 1932)
2017  John Herrnstein, American baseball player (b. 1938)
2017  Isabella Karle, American scientist (b. 1921)
2017  Victorino Martín, Spanish cattle rancher (b. 1929)
2018  Elisabeth Andersen, Dutch actress (b. 1920)
2018  Julien Bogaert, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1924)
2018  Roger Gibbs, British financier (b. 1934)
2018  Joseph Kamaru, Kenyan musician and political activist (b. 1938)
2018  Leon M. Lederman, American physicist (b. 1922)
2018  Bent Lorentzen, Danish composer (b. 1935)
2018  Hollie Pihl, American judge (b. 1928)
2019  John Buchanan, Canadian politician, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1931)
2019  Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Portuguese politician, former Interim Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1941)
2019  Hu Yamei, Chinese physician and medical researcher (b. 1923)
2019  Ignacio Noguer Carmona, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
2019  Alberto Testa, Italian dancer and choreographer (b. 1922)
Unity Day (Germany), marking the German reunification of 1990.
Foundation Day (South Korea).
National Day (Iraq).
Soldiers' Day (Honduras).
331 BC  Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
959  Edgar the Peaceable becomes King of all England.
1553  Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1787  Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791  First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795  Belgium is conquered by France.
1800  Spain cedes Louisiana to France.
1811  The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans.
1814  Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to re-draw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte the previous Spring.
1827  Russo-Persian War: The Russian Army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829  The South African College is founded in Cape Town.
It will later split into the University of Cape Town and the South African Colleges.
1843  British tabloid newspaper, the News of the World, begins publication.
It ends publication in 2011 due to a major scandal.
1847  German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds the Siemens AG and Halske.
1869  The world's first postcards are issued in Austria.
1880  John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the US Marine Band.
1880  The first electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1884  Denmark's Politiken newspaper is founded.
1887  Balochistan, in present-day Pakistan, is conquered by the British Empire.
1889  The Japanese city of Nagoya is founded.
1890  The Yosemite National Park is established by the United States Congress.
1891  Stanford University opens in California.
1903  Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908  Ford puts a Model-T car on the market for the first time.
1910  A bomb destroys The Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21 people.
1928  The Soviet Union introduces its first Five-Year Plan.
1931  The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey to New York opens.
1931  Spain gives women the right to vote.
1936  Francisco Franco becomes head of the Nationalist Government of Spain.
1937  The Japanese city of Handa is founded in Aichi prefecture.
1938  Germany takes control of the Sudetenland in the present-day Czech Republic.
1939  World War II: Nazi forces enter Warsaw, Poland, after a one-month siege.
1943  World War II: Naples, Italy falls to the Allies.
1946  The Nuremberg Trials of leading Nazis conclude.
1946  Mensa International is founded in the UK.
1949  Mao Zedong and 300,000 others come to Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Sept.21 creation of the People's Republic of China; within a few months, this celebration becomes the basis for a new National Day.
1957  First appearance of In God We Trust on US paper currency.
1958  NASA is created to replace NACA.
1960  Nigeria becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1961  British and French Cameroon (independent since 1960) merge.
1962  First transmission of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1964  Tōkaidō Shinkansen is opened (Tokyo – Shin-Osaka).
1965  General Suharto rises to power in a coup in Indonesia.
Seven military officers are executed in the early hours of the morning.
1966  West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatalities and no survivors near Wemme, Oregon.
1968  Guyana moves towards independent broadcasting, when its government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service.
1969  After Tupolev Tu-144, Concorde becomes the second aircraft type to break the sound barrier.
1971  Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida.
1975  In the Thrilla in Manila, Muhammad Ali defends his world heavyweight boxing title against Joe Frazier.
1975  The Seychelles gain self government; The islands become independent on June 29, 1976.
1975  The Ellice Islands split from the Gilbert Islands (present-day Kiribati) and change their name to Tuvalu.
1977  Brazilian footballer Pele ends his playing career.
1978  Tuvalu becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1979  Pope John Paul II visits the United States.
1979  The United States hands over control of the Panama Canal to Panama, though the full transfer of control occurs at the end of 1999.
1982  Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany.
1985  Israel's Air Force bombs Palestinian Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia.
1988  Singles' Tennis: Steffi Graf wins the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, having already won all Grand Slam tournaments of the year, becoming the first, and so far only, winner of a 'Golden Slam' in tennis.
1989  Denmark introduces the world's first same-sex civil union, or Registered Partnership.
1991  Balkan War: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1992  The children's television channel Cartoon Network begins transmission.
1994  Palau becomes independent from a UN trusteeship administered by the US.
1995  An earthquake strikes Dinar, Turkey, killing 100 people.
2000  The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, end.
2001  Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38 people.
2005  Bali is devastated by a terrorist attack, in which 26 people are killed after bombs explode.
2009  The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2012  A ferry collision in Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures over 100.
2013  The United States Government temporarily shuts down after failing to agree on a budget.
2014  Jens Stoltenberg becomes Secretary-General of NATO.
2017  Same-sex marriages take place in Germany for the first time.
2017  A ban on face covering in public places enters into force in Austria.
2017  Catalonia holds a disputed referendum on whether or not to become independent from Spain.
2017  Las Vegas Strip shooting: Stephen Paddock carries out the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in recent US history in Las Vegas when he fires shots from two windows of his 32nd floor room on the Mandalay Bay Hotel onto a crowd in a country music festival, killing 59 people and wounding more than 500.
86 BC  Sallust, Roman historian (d. 35 BC)
208  Alexander Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 235)
1207  King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
1348  Isabella, Countess of Vertus, French princess (d. 1373)
1471  King Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
1507  Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
1540  Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
1541  El Greco, Greek-Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1614)
1577  Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar and saint (d. 1622)
1620  Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d. 1683)
1644  Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
1671  Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
1685  Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
1691  Arthur Onslow, English politician (d. 1768)
1724  Giovanni Battista Cirri, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1808)
1729  Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, German organist and composer (d. 1777)
1730  Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
1754  Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1801)
1760  William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
1771  Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (d. 1842)
1791  Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1859)
1794  Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (d. 1871)
1800  Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish botanist and Christian missionary to Lapland (d. 1861)
1808  Mary Anna Custis Lee, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1873)
1821  Benjamin T. Biggs, American politician and Governor of Delaware (d. 1893)
1832  Caroline Harrison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1892)
1835  Adam Politzer, Austro-Hungarian physician (d. 1920)
1842  Charles Clos, French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
1846  Nectarios de Aegina, Greek saint (d. 1920)
1847  Annie Besant, English-Indian activist and author (d. 1933)
1850  David R. Francis, American politician and diplomat, Governor of Missouri and Ambassador to Russia (d. 1927)
1865  Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
1872  Henry H. Blood, Governor of Utah (d. 1942)
1878  Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
1881  William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
1885  Louis Untermeyer, American writer (d. 1977)
1890  Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
1890  Alice Joyce, American actress (d. 1955)
1893  Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (d. 1972)
1894  Edgar Krahn, Estonian mathematician (d. 1961)
1896  Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
1896  Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1900  Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
1903  Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-born pianist (d. 1989)