On this day | October 15th

On this day: October 15th

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1066 Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.

1211 Battle of the Rhyndacus (1211): The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.

1529 The Siege of Vienna (1529) ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.

1582 Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.

1651 Qing Dynasty forces capture the Zhoushan Island. Zhu Yihai, resident of the island and List of emperors of the Ming dynasty # Southern Ming of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen.

1781 The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War with a Patriot victory. It occurred four days before the British surrender at Yorktown.

1783 The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

1793 Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.

1815 Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.

1864 American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri Battle of Glasgow, Missouri to Confederate forces.

1878 The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

1888 The From Hell letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.

1910 America (airship) is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.

1923 The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.

1928 The airship ''LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin'' completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.

1932 Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.

1939 The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.

1940 President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.

1944 World War II: Germany Operation Panzerfaust after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.

1951 Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.

1954 Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.

1956 FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.

1965 Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.

1966 The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

1970 During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.

1979 Supporters of the Malta Labour Party Black Monday (Malta) the ''Times of Malta'' building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.

1979 A 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.

1987 Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.

1987 A 1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.

1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.

1990 Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.

1991 The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

1991 The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.

1994 The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.

1997 The Cassini–Huygens launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

2001 NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within of Jupiter's moon Io.

2003 China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.

2006 The 6.7 2006 Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.

2007 Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 2007 New Zealand police raids.

2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the Black Monday (1987) in the Dow's history.

2013 The 7.2 2013 Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.

2016 One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

2018 13-year-old American girl, Kidnapping of Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.

99 BC (probable) Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (d. 55 BCE)

70 BC Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)

1265 Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (d. 1307)

1440 Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (d. 1483)

1471 Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (d. 1526)

1542 Akbar, Mughal emperor (d. 1605)

1561 Richard Field (theologian), English cathedral dean (d. 1616)

1564 Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1613)

1599 Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (d. 1664)

1608 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (d. 1647)

1622 Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (d. 1686)

1686 Allan Ramsay (poet), Scottish poet and playwright (d. 1758)

1701 Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (d. 1771)

1711 Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (d. 1741)

1762 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (d. 1820)

1767 Gabriel Richard, French-born American Catholic Church priest, missionary, educator, and politician (d. 1832)

1775 Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (d. 1838)

1784 Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, List of rulers of Algeria before independence (d. 1849)

1785 José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (d. 1821)

1789 William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (d. 1847)

1802 Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, List of heads of state of France # French Second Republic (1848–1852) in 1848 (d. 1857)

1814 Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (d. 1841)

1816 John Robertson (premier), English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1891)

1818 Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1869)

1825 Marie of Prussia (d. 1889)

1829 Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (d. 1907)

1833 John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (d. 1894)

1836 James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (d. 1902)

1840 Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (d. 1894)

1844 Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (d. 1900)

1858 John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (d. 1918)

1865 Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (d. 1925)

1872 Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (d. 1956)

1872 August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (d. 1921)

1874 Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1899)

1878 Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (d. 1966)

1879 Jane Darwell, American actress (d. 1967)

1881 P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (d. 1975)

1882 Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (d. 1941)

1884 Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (d. 1910)

1887 Frederick Fleet, English sailor (d. 1965)

1888 S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (d. 1939)

1890 Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer (d. 1935)

1893 Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)

1894 Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)

1897 Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1960)

1899 Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (d. 1986)

1900 Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1987)

1901 Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (d. 1952)

1905 C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (d. 1980)

1906 Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (d. 2004)

1906 Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded ''Newsday'' (d. 1963)

1906 Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1976)

1907 Varian Fry, American journalist and author (d. 1967)

1908 Herman Chittison, American pianist (d. 1967)

1908 John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (d. 2006)

1909 Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (d. 2002)

1909 Robert Trout, American journalist (d. 2000)

1910 Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 1990)

1912 Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist (d. 2007)

1913 Wolfgang Lüth, German commander (d. 1945)

1914 Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (d. 2007)

1916 Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1950)

1916 George Turner (writer), Australian author and critic (d. 1997)

1917 Jan Miner, American actress (d. 2004)

1917 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (d. 2007)

1917 Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (d. 2013)

1919 Malcolm Ross (balloonist), American captain, balloonist, and physicist (d. 1985)

1919 Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (d. 1995)

1920 Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2012)

1920 Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress (d. 1968)

1920 Peter Koch (wood scientist), American industrial engineer and wood scientist (d. 1998)

1920 Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (d. 1999)

1920 Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)

1921 Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (d. 2006)

1922 Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author (d. 2019)

1922 Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (d. 2013)

1923 Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (d. 1985)

1923 Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (d. 2010)

1923 Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (d. 2013)

1923 Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (d. 2008)

1924 Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator (d. 2022)

1924 Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author (d. 2019)

1924 Warren Miller (director), American director and screenwriter (d. 2018)

1925 Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (d. 2012)

1925 Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (d. 2012)

1925 Tony Hart, English painter and television host (d. 2009)

1926 James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (d. 2010)

1926 Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet (d. 2012)

1926 Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (d. 1984)

1926 Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (d. 2005)

1926 Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)

1926 Karl Richter (conductor), German organist and conductor (d. 1981)

1927 B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)

1929 Will Insley, American painter and architect (d. 2011)

1930 FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (d. 2000)

1931 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (d. 2015)

1931 Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician

1932 Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer (d. 2020)

1933 Nicky Barnes, American drug lord (d. 2012)

1934 Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (d. 2016)

1934 N. Ramani, Indian flute player (d. 2015)

1935 Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1935 Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer

1935 Bobby Morrow, American sprinter (d. 2020)

1935 Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)

1936 Michel Aumont, French actor (d. 2019)

1936 Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman (d. 2019)

1937 Linda Lavin, American actress and singer

1938 Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1993)

1938 Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist (d. 1997)

1938 Brice Marden, American painter (d. 2023)

1938 Robert Ward (blues musician), American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2008)

1940 Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach

1940 Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

1941 Roy Masters (rugby league), Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author

1942 Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter

1942 Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral

1942 Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer

1943 Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer (d. 2018)

1944 Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania

1944 A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (d. 2005)

1944 Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment

1944 David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2022)

1945 Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer (d. 2015)

1945 Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal

1945 Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (d. 2024)

1945 Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster

1946 Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director

1946 Richard Carpenter (musician), American singer-songwriter and pianist

1946 Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer

1946 Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change

1947 Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress

1947 Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer

1948 Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d. 2016)

1948 Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist

1949 Laurie McBain, American author

1949 Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV

1950 Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (d. 2015)

1951 Peter Richardson (English director), English actor, director, and screenwriter

1951 Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player

1951 Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player

1953 Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier

1953 Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2024)

1953 Larry Miller (comedian), American actor and comedian

1953 Peter Phillips (conductor), English conductor and musicologist

1954 Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator

1954 Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria

1954 Jere Burns, American actor

1954 Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic

1955 Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player

1955 Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator

1955 Tanya Roberts, American actress (d. 2021)

1957 Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer

1957 Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer

1957 Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta

1958 Stephen Clarke (writer), English-French journalist and author

1959 Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author

1959 Alex Paterson, English keyboard player

1959 Sarah, Duchess of York

1959 Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter

1961 Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1963 Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager

1964 Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

1965 Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer (d. 2013)

1966 Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager

1966 Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer

1966 Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer

1966 Dave Stead, English drummer

1967 Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter

1967 Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina

1967 Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter

1968 Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager

1968 Vanessa Marcil, American actress

1968 Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player

1968 Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician

1969 Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer

1969 Dominic West, English actor and director

1970 Eric Benét, American musician

1970 Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

1970 Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier

1971 Joey Abs, American wrestler

1971 Andy Cole, English footballer and coach

1971 Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator

1972 Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach

1972 Matt Keeslar, American actor

1972 Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager

1973 Aleksandr Filimonov, Russian footballer

1973 Maria Hjorth, Swedish golfer

1974 Ömer Çatkıç, Turkish footballer

1974 Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress

1975 Alessandro Doga, Italian footballer

1975 Glen Little, English footballer and manager

1976 Elisa Aguilar, Spanish basketball player

1976 Christian Allen, American video game designer

1976 Manuel Dallan, Italian rugby player

1977 Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver

1977 David Trezeguet, French footballer

1977 Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer

1978 Devon Gummersall, American actor, director, and screenwriter

1978 Wes Moore, American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland

1978 Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler

1979 Blue Adams, American football player and coach

1979 Bohemia (rapper), Pakistani-American rapper and producer

1979 Jekaterina Golovatenko, Estonian figure skater

1979 Paul Robinson (footballer, born 1979), English footballer

1979 Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress

1979 Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer

1980 Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist

1980 Brandon Jay McLaren, Canadian actor

1981 Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer

1981 Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player

1983 Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer

1984 Izale McLeod, English footballer

1984 Johan Voskamp, Dutch footballer

1984 Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter

1985 Arron Afflalo, American basketball player

1985 Walter Alberto López, Uruguayan footballer

1985 Marcos Martínez, Spanish racing driver

1986 Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter

1986 Carlo Janka, Swiss skier

1986 Nolito, Spanish footballer

1987 Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver

1988 Dominique Jones, American basketball player

1988 Lassy Mbouity, Congolese writer and politician

1988 Mesut Özil, German footballer

1989 Blaine Gabbert, American football player

1989 Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer

1989 Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer

1990 Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

1991 Brock Nelson, American ice hockey player

1991 Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper

1992 Ncuti Gatwa, Rwandan-Scottish actor

1992 Teoscar Hernández, Dominican baseball player

1992 Vincent Martella, American actor

1993 Richaun Holmes, American basketball player

1994 Babar Azam, Pakistani cricket player

1995 Jack Flaherty, American baseball player

1995 Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player

1996 Charly Musonda (footballer, born 1996), Belgian footballer

1996 Grace Van Dien, American actress

1996 Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer

1998 Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, Indonesian activist and politician

1999 Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer

2000 Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender

2005 Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark

412 Theophilus I of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria

892 Al-Mu'tamid, Muslim caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate

898 Lambert of Italy (b. 880)

912 Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (b. 844)

925 Rhazes, Persian polymath (b. 864)

961 Abd-ar-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba

1002 Henry I, Duke of Burgundy, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)

1080 Rudolf of Rheinfelden (b. 1025)

1173 Petronilla of Aragon (b. 1135)

1240 Razia Sultana, sultan of Delhi (b. 1205)

1243 Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint (b. 1174)

1326 Walter Stapledon, bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England, and his brother Sir Richard Stapledon, judge and politician.

1385 Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow

1389 Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)

1404 Marie of Valois (1344-1404), French princess (b. 1344)

1496 Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)

1564 Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (b. 1514)

1674 Robert Herrick (poet), English poet (b. 1591)

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

1690 Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (b. 1622)

1715 Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)

1788 Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)

1810 Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (b. 1755)

1811 Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (b. 1735)

1817 Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746)

1819 Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, Saint Petersburg Governorate (b. 1744)

1820 Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)

1837 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, List of Ministers of Justice of Imperial Russia (b. 1760)

1838 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (b. 1802)

1891 Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (b. 1837)

1900 Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (b. 1850)

1910 Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (b. 1886)

1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)

1918 Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (b. 1838)

1925 Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1848?)

1930 Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)

1934 Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (b. 1860)

1940 Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (b. 1882)

1945 Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)

1946 Hermann Göring, German general and politician (b. 1893)

1948 Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)

1955 Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)

1958 Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)

1958 Elizabeth Alexander (scientist), British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)

1959 Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)

1959 Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)

1960 Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (b. 1890)

1961 Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)

1963 Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)

1964 Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)

1965 Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)

1966 Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)

1968 Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)

1976 Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)

1978 W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)

1978 Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (b. 1899)

1980 Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)

1980 Apostolos Nikolaidis (athlete), Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)

1983 Pat O'Brien (actor), American actor (b. 1899)

1987 Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)

1987 Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (b. 1908)

1988 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (b. 1892)

1989 Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (b. 1935)

1990 Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (b. 1932)

1993 Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1913)

1994 Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (b. 1934)

1995 Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967)

1995 Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (b. 1976)

1999 Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (b. 1917)

2000 Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1912)

2000 Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (b. 1924)

2001 Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (b. 1901)

2003 Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1919)

2004 Per Højholt, Danish poet (b. 1928)

2005 Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)

2005 Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (b. 1945)

2007 Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1933)

2008 Edie Adams, American actress and singer (b. 1927)

2008 Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (b. 1914)

2008 Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (b. 1922)

2009 Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (b. 1939)

2010 Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912)

2010 Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (b. 1926)

2010 Johnny Sheffield, American actor (b. 1931)

2011 Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (b. 1920)

2012 Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (France) (b. 1920)

2012 Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (b. 1933)

2012 Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (b. 1953)

2012 Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1922)

2012 Pat Ward (politician), American lawyer and politician (b. 1957)

2013 Donald Bailey (musician), American drummer (b. 1933)

2013 Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1947)

2013 Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1937)

2013 Gloria Lynne, American singer (b. 1931)

2013 Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)

2013 Hans Riegel, German businessman (b. 1923)

2014 Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931)

2014 Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929)

2014 Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)

2014 Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)

2015 Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971)

2015 Nate Huffman, American basketball player (b. 1975)

2015 Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (b. 1921)

2015 Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934)

2015 Tyrone Young, American football player (b. 1960)

2017 Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (b. 1950)

2018 Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (b. 1953)

2021 David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (UK Parliament constituency) (b. 1952)

Breast Health Day (Europe)

Christian feast day:

- Bruno of Querfurt

- Cúan of Ahascragh

- Teresa of Ávila

- Thecla of Kitzingen

- October 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (United States)

Shwmae Sumae Day (Wales)