On this day | October 6th

On this day: October 6th

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105 BC Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic

69 BC Third Mithridatic War: The Roman army of the late Republic of the Roman Republic Battle of Tigranocerta.

AD 23 Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a Lulin.

AD 404 Byzantine Empire Empress Aelia Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.

618 Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi (Sui dynasty) at the Battle of Yanshi.

1539 Spain's De Soto Expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.

1600 ''Euridice (Peri)'', the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque.

1683 Immigrant families found Germantown, Philadelphia in the first major immigration of German Americans.

1762 Seven Years' War: The British Battle of Manila (1762) from Spain and occupy it.

1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.

1789 French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

1810 A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland.

1849 The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.

1854 In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.

1884 The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.

1898 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

1903 The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

1908 The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1910 Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.

1915 World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Kingdom of Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Kingdom of Serbia under command of August von Mackensen .

1915 World War I: Allies of World War I forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.

1920 Ukrainian War of Independence: The Starobilsk agreement is signed by representatives of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Makhnovshchina.

1923 The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.

1927 Opening of ''The Jazz Singer'', the first prominent "talkie" movie.

1939 World War II: The Battle of Kock (1939) is the final combat of the Invasion of Poland in Poland.

1942 World War II: American troops Actions along the Matanikau east of the Matanikau River during the Guadalcanal campaign.

1943 World War II: Thirteen civilians are Burnings of Kali Sykia by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Axis occupation of Greece.

1944 World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Soviet Union enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.

1973 Egypt and Syria launch coordinated Operation Badr (1973) against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.

1976 Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.

1976 Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

1976 Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries in the 6 October 1976 massacre; afterwards, the Seni Pramoj government is toppled in a military coup led by Sangad Chaloryu.

1977 The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is Assassination of Anwar Sadat by Islamic extremists.

1981 NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off from Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, killing all 17 people on board.

1985 Police constable Murder of Keith Blakelock as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.

1987 Fiji becomes a republic.

1990 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses (spacecraft) space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.

1995 The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.

2007 Jason Lewis (adventurer) completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.

2010 Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

2018 The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, ending a Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination.

2022 Annie Ernaux is 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature the Nobel Prize in Literature.

649 Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ (d. around 696)

1289 Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)

1459 Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)

1510 John Caius, English physician and academic, co-founded the Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (d. 1573)

1510 Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (d. 1555)

1552 Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and missionary (d. 1610)

1555 Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (d. 1604)

1565 Marie de Gournay, French writer (d. 1645)

1573 Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (d. 1624)

1576 Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (d. 1612)

1591 Settimia Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1638)

1610 Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general (d. 1690)

1626 Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (d. 1684)

1716 George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1771)

1729 Sarah Crosby, English preacher, the first female Methodism preacher (d. 1804)

1732 John Broadwood, Scottish businessman, co-founded John Broadwood and Sons (d. 1812)

1738 Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1738–1789) (d. 1789)

1742 Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (d. 1755)

1744 James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (d. 1813)

1767 Henri Christophe, Grenadian-Haitian king (d. 1820)

1769 Isaac Brock, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1812)

1773 John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (d. 1835)

1773 Louis Philippe I of France (d. 1850)

1801 Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (d. 1888)

1803 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879)

1820 James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh (d. 1892)

1820 Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano and actress (d. 1887)

1831 Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1916)

1838 Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian soldier, poet, and author (d. 1910)

1846 George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (d. 1914)

1862 Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (d. 1927)

1866 Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (d. 1932)

1874 Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)

1876 Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Minister of Justice (Canada) (d. 1941)

1882 Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1937)

1886 Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)

1887 Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (d. 1965)

1888 Roland Garros (aviator), French soldier and pilot (d. 1918)

1891 Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (d. 1946)

1893 Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1956)

1895 Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (d. 1981)

1896 David Howard (director), American film director (d. 1941)

1897 Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic (d. 1991)

1900 Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist (d. 1991)

1900 Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934)

1900 Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)

1901 Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic (d. 1990)

1903 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1995)

1905 Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter (d. 1998)

1906 Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)

1906 Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (d. 1946)

1908 Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)

1908 Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1989)

1910 Barbara Castle, English journalist and politician, First Secretary of State (d. 2002)

1910 Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer (d. 1974)

1912 Perkins Bass, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)

1913 Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter and photographer (d. 1985)

1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (d. 2002)

1914 Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright (d. 2002)

1915 Carolyn Goodman (psychologist), American psychologist and activist (d. 2007)

1915 Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (d. 1983)

1915 Alice Timander, Swedish dentist and actress (d. 2007)

1916 Chiang Wei-kuo, Japanese-Chinese general (d. 1997)

1917 Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (d. 1977)

1918 Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)

1918 André Pilette, French-Belgian race car driver (d. 1993)

1919 Tommy Lawton, English footballer and coach (d. 1996)

1920 John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, English lawyer and judge (d. 2005)

1921 Evgenii Landis, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1997)

1921 Joseph Lowery, American minister and activist (d. 2020)

1921 Giovanni Michelotti, Italian automotive designer (d. 1980)

1922 Joe Frazier (baseball), American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)

1922 Teala Loring, American actress (d. 2007)

1923 Robert Kuok, Malaysian Chinese business magnate and investor

1923 Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (d. 2015)

1925 Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (d. 2005)

1927 Bill King, American sportscaster (d. 2005)

1928 Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (d. 2015)

1928 Barbara Werle, American actress and singer (d. 2013)

1929 George Mattos, American pole vaulter (d. 2012)

1930 Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (d. 2000)

1930 Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2015)

1931 Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)

1931 Eileen Derbyshire, English actress

1931 Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 2018)

1933 Prince Mukarram Jah, 8th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 2023)

1934 Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (d. 2015)

1935 Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2018)

1936 Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator, and activist (d. 2013)

1938 Serge Nubret, Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor (d. 2011)

1939 Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic

1939 Jack Cullen, American baseball player

1939 Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic

1939 Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist and academic

1939 John J. LaFalce, American captain, lawyer, and politician

1940 Jan Keizer (referee), Dutch footballer and referee

1941 Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (d. 1987)

1942 Dan Christensen, American painter (d. 2007)

1942 Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer

1942 Fred Travalena, American comedian and actor (d. 2009)

1943 Richard Caborn, English engineer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics

1943 Peter Dowding, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Western Australia

1943 Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter

1943 Cees Veerman (musician), Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)

1944 Merzak Allouache, Algerian director and screenwriter

1944 Patrick Cordingley, English general

1944 Boris Mikhailov (ice hockey), Russian ice hockey player and coach

1944 Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1977)

1945 Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)

1946 Lloyd Doggett, American lawyer and politician

1946 Tony Greig, South African-English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2012)

1946 John Monie, Australian rugby league player and coach

1946 Eddie Villanueva, Filipino evangelist and politician, founded the ZOE Broadcasting Network

1946 Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (d. 2017)

1947 Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2019)

1947 Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver

1947 Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 2020)

1948 Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician

1948 Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer (d. 2018)

1949 Lonnie Johnson (inventor), American inventor

1949 Penny Junor, English journalist and author

1949 Thomas McClary (musician), American R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist

1949 Leslie Moonves, American businessman

1949 Nicolas Peyrac, French singer-songwriter and photographer

1950 David Brin, American physicist and author

1951 Kevin Cronin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1951 Clive Rees, Singaporean-Welsh rugby player and educator

1951 Sutherland Brothers, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player

1951 Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)

1952 Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and author

1953 Rein Rannap, Estonian pianist and composer

1954 Bill Buford, American author and journalist

1954 David Hidalgo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1955 Tony Dungy, American football player and coach

1956 Sadiq al-Ahmar, Yemeni politician (d. 2023)

1956 Kathleen Webb, American author and illustrator

1957 Bruce Grobbelaar, Zimbabwean footballer and coach

1958 Sergei Mylnikov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2017)

1959 Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (d. 2012)

1959 Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player

1959 Brian Higgins, American politician

1959 Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler

1960 Richard Jobson (television presenter), Scottish singer, songwriter director and producer.

1961 Miyuki Matsuda, Japanese actress

1961 Paul Sansome, English footballer

1961 Ben Summerskill, English businessman and journalist

1962 David Baker (biochemist), American biologist and academic

1962 Rich Yett, American baseball player

1963 Sven Andersson (footballer, born 1963), Swedish footballer and coach

1963 Elisabeth Shue, American actress

1964 Ricky Berry, American basketball player (d. 1989)

1964 Mark Field, German-English lawyer and politician

1964 Tom Jager, American swimmer and coach

1964 Miltos Manetas, Greek painter

1964 Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice and Public Security

1964 Matthew Sweet, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1965 Jürgen Kohler, German footballer and manager

1965 Peg O'Connor, American philosopher and academic

1965 Steve Scalise, American lawyer and politician

1965 Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

1965 John McWhorter, American academic and linguist

1966 Melania Mazzucco, Italian author

1966 Jacqueline Obradors, American actress

1966 Niall Quinn, Irish footballer and manager

1966 Tommy Stinson, American singer-songwriter and bass player

1967 Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer

1967 Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder

1967 Steven Woolfe, English barrister and politician

1968 Bjarne Goldbæk, Danish footballer and sportscaster

1968 Bob May (golfer), American golfer

1969 Byron Black, Zimbabwean golfer

1969 Muhammad V of Kelantan, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia

1970 Amy Jo Johnson, American actress

1970 Maria Kannegaard, Danish-Norwegian pianist and composer

1970 Shauna MacDonald (Canadian actress), Canadian actress and producer

1970 Darren Oliver, American baseball player

1971 Phil Bennett (racing driver), English race car driver

1971 Takis Gonias, Greek footballer and manager

1971 Emily Mortimer, English actress

1971 Alan Stubbs, English footballer, coach, and manager

1972 Daniel Cavanagh, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1972 Anders Iwers, Swedish bass player

1972 Jarrod Moseley, Australian golfer

1972 Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer

1972 Ryu Si-won, South Korean actor and singer

1972 Ko So-young, South Korean model and actress

1973 Jeff B. Davis, American comedian, actor, and singer

1973 Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor

1973 Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer and manager

1973 Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player and sportscaster

1974 Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer and manager

1974 Kenny Jönsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

1974 Seema Kennedy, British politician

1974 Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1974 Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese shooter

1975 Reon King, Guyanese cricketer

1976 Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player

1976 Brett Gelman, American actor and comedian

1976 Magdalena Kučerová, Czech-German tennis player

1976 Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer and coach

1977 Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player

1977 Melinda Doolittle, American singer-songwriter

1977 Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer and singer

1977 Jamie Laurie, American singer-songwriter

1977 Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer and manager

1977 Wes Ramsey, American actor

1978 Carolina Gynning, Swedish model, actress, and singer

1978 Ricky Hatton, English boxer and promoter

1978 Liu Yang (astronaut), Chinese astronaut

1979 David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)

1979 Mohamed Kallon, Sierra Leonean footballer and manager

1979 Richard Seymour, American football player

1979 Pascal van Assendelft, Dutch sprinter

1980 Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (d. 2013)

1980 Wes Durston, English cricketer

1980 Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer

1981 Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer

1981 José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer

1982 Levon Aronian, Armenian chess grandmaster

1982 Latonia Blackman, Barbadian netball player

1982 Will Butler, American musician and composer

1982 Fábio Júnior dos Santos, Brazilian footballer

1982 Hideki Mutoh, Japanese race car driver

1982 Paul Smith (boxer), English boxer

1983 Renata Voráčová, Czech tennis player

1984 Morné Morkel, South African cricketer

1984 Joanna Pacitti, American singer-songwriter

1985 Mitchell Cole, English footballer (d. 2012)

1985 Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player

1985 Sandra Góngora, Mexican ten-pin bowler

1985 Tarmo Kink, Estonian footballer

1986 Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1986 Olivia Thirlby, American actress

1987 Joe Lewis (footballer, born 1987), English footballer

1987 Akuila Uate, Fijian-Australian rugby league player

1988 Trey Edward Shults, American film director

1989 Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)

1989 Tyler Ennis (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player

1989 Pizzi (Portuguese footballer), Portuguese footballer

1990 Quincy Acy, American basketball player and coach

1990 Scarlett Byrne, English actress

1990 Jordan Hamilton (basketball), American basketball player

1990 Marcus Johansson (ice hockey, born 1990), Swedish ice hockey player

1990 Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player

1990 Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress

1991 Roshon Fegan, American actor, rapper, and dancer

1992 Josh Archibald, Canadian-American ice hockey player

1992 Taylor Paris, Canadian rugby player

1993 Adam Gemili, English sprinter

1993 Jourdan Miller, American fashion model

1993 Joe Rafferty, English-Irish footballer

1993 Nail Yakupov, Russian ice hockey player

1994 Jake Guentzel, American ice hockey player

1994 Lee Joo-heon, South Korean rapper and songwriter

1997 Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer

1999 Niko Kari, Finnish race car driver

1999 Trevor Lawrence, American football player

2000 Jazz Jennings, American internet personality

2000 Kyle Pitts, American football player

2000 Addison Rae, American social media personality, dancer, and singer

2002 Jonathan Kuminga, Congolese basketball player

2004 Bronny James, American basketball player

AD 23 Wang Mang, emperor of the Xin Dynasty

AD 404 Aelia Eudoxia, Byzantine empress

836 Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general

869 Ermentrude of Orléans, Frankish queen (b. 823)

877 Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 823)

997 Minamoto no Mitsunaka, Japanese samurai (b. 912)

1014 Samuel of Bulgaria, tsar of the Bulgarian Empire

1019 Frederick of Luxembourg, count of Moselgau (b. 965)

1145 Baldwin (archbishop of Pisa), archbishop of Pisa

1090 Adalbero of Würzburg, bishop of Würzburg

1101 Bruno of Cologne, German monk, founded the Carthusian

1173 Engelbert III, Margrave of Istria, margrave of Istria

1349 Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1312)

1398 Jeong Dojeon, Korean prime minister (b. 1342)

1413 Dawit I, ruler (Emperor) of Ethiopia (b. 1382)

1536 William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494)

1553 Şehzade Mustafa, Ottoman prince (b. 1515)

1559 William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (b. 1487)

1640 Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (b. 1588)

1641 Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer

1644 Elisabeth of France (1602–1644), queen of Spain and Portugal (b. 1602)

1660 Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)

1661 Guru Har Rai, Indian 7th Sikh gurus (b. 1630)

1688 Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1652)

1762 Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1684)

1819 Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)

1829 Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)

1836 Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)

1873 Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)

1883 Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)

1891 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)

1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)

1912 Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1829)

1923 Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th List of Ottoman Grand Viziers (b. 1853)

1942 Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)

1945 Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)

1947 Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)

1951 Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)

1951 Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1884)

1959 Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)

1962 Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)

1968 Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)

1969 Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)

1969 Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)

1972 Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)

1973 Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)

1973 François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)

1973 Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)

1973 Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)

1973 Margaret Wilson (novelist), American missionary and author (b. 1882)

1974 Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)

1976 Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (b. 1900)

1978 Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1935)

1979 Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (b. 1911)

1980 Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (b. 1922)

1980 Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)

1981 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1918)

1983 Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)

1985 Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)

1986 Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)

1989 Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)

1990 Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (b. 1919)

1991 Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)

1992 Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)

1992 Bill O'Reilly (cricketer), Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1905)

1993 Nejat Eczacıbaşı, Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczacıbaşı (b. 1913)

1993 Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)

1995 Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (b. 1961)

1997 Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1914)

1998 Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)

1999 Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)

1999 Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1937)

2000 Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (b. 1920)

2001 Arne Harris, American director and producer (b. 1934)

2002 Prince Claus of the Netherlands (b. 1926)

2006 Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (b. 1930)

2006 Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1940)

2006 Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)

2006 Wilson Tucker (writer), American author and critic (b. 1914)

2007 Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1921)

2007 Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian scholar, jurist, and politician (b. 1931)

2008 Peter Cox (politician), Australian public servant and politician (b. 1925)

2009 Douglas Campbell (actor), Scottish-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)

2010 Rhys Isaac, South-African-Australian historian and author (b. 1937)

2010 Antonie Kamerling, Dutch television and film actor, and musician (b. 1966)

2011 Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (b. 1932)

2012 Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)

2012 Anthony John Cooke, English organist and composer (b. 1931)

2012 Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1977)

2012 Albert, Margrave of Meissen (1934–2012) (b. 1943)

2012 Joseph Meyer (Wyoming politician), American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (b. 1941)

2012 B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (b. 1927)

2012 J. J. C. Smart, English-Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1920)

2013 Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)

2013 Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1936)

2013 Paul Rogers (actor), English actor (b. 1917)

2013 Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1921)

2014 Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (b. 1929)

2014 Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (b. 1944)

2014 Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (b. 1944)

2014 Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)

2014 Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1976)

2014 Feridun Buğeker, Turkish football player (b. 1933)

2015 Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st List of heads of state of Hungary (b. 1922)

2015 Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (b. 1926)

2015 Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1923)

2017 Ralphie May, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1972)

2017 David Marks (architect), British architect, designer of the London Eye (b. 1952)

2018 Scott Wilson (actor), American actor (b. 1942)

2018 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (b. 1933)

2019 Ginger Baker, English drummer (b. 1939)

2019 Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (b. 1936)

2019 Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (b. 1931)

2020 Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1955)

2020 Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)

Christian feast day:

- Beatification Marie Rose Durocher

- Blessed Juan de Palafox y Mendoza

- Bruno of Cologne

- Saint Faith

- Mary Frances of the Five Wounds

- Pardulphus

- Sagar of Laodicea

- October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

- William Tyndale (commemoration, Anglicanism), with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA))

World Space Week (October 4–10)

Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)

Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia)

German-American Day (United States)

Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad (Hungary)

Teachers' Day (Sri Lanka)

Yom Kippur War commemorations:

- Armed Forces Day (Egypt)

- Tishreen Liberation Day (Syria)