On this day | October 16th

On this day: October 16th

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456 Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.

690 Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.

912 Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba.

955 King Otto I Battle on the Raxa a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

1311 The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.

1384 Jadwiga of Poland is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.

1590 Prince Carlo Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.

1736 Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.

1780 American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.

1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.

1793 French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.

1793 War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.

1805 War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon Battle of Ulm the Austrian army at Ulm.

1813 The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig.

1817 Italian explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, uncovered the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings.

1817 Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.

1834 Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London Burning of Parliament.

1836 Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers Battle of Vegkop a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.

1841 Queen's University at Kingston is founded in the Province of Canada.

1843 William Rowan Hamilton invents Quaternion, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.

1846 William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.

1847 The novel ''Jane Eyre'' is published in London.

1859 John Brown John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

1869 The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".

1869 Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.

1875 Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.

1882 The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad opens for business.

1905 The Partition of Bengal (1905) in India takes place.

1909 William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

1916 Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

1919 Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.

1923 Walt Disney and his brother, Roy O. Disney, found the ''Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio'', today known as The Walt Disney Company.

1934 Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.

1939 World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.

1940 Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

1943 Holocaust in Italy: Raid on the Roman Ghetto.

1946 Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal Nuremberg executions.

1947 The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.

1949 The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.

1951 The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.

1953 Cuba revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).

1964 China detonates its Project 596.

1964 Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.

1968 Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.

1968 Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.

1968 Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1970 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.

1973 Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1975 Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor.

1975 Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.

1975 The Australian Coalition sparks a 1975 Australian constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.

1978 Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is October 1978 papal conclave to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.

1984 Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1991 George Hennard Luby's shooting in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.

1995 The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.

1995 The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.

1996 Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores disaster at Estadio Mateo Flores # The October 16 disaster in Guatemala City.

1998 Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London on a murder extradition warrant.

1999 The magnitude 7.1 1999 Hector Mine earthquake strikes Southern California

2002 The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.

2013 Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.

2017 Hurricane Ophelia (2017) strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.

1351 Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)

1396 William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450)

1430 James II of Scotland (d. 1460)

1483 Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1542)

1535 Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (d. 1585)

1588 Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (d. 1657)

1605 Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (d. 1677)

1620 Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (d. 1694)

1678 Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714)

1679 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech viol player and composer (d. 1745)

1710 András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1790)

1714 Giovanni Arduino (geologist), Italian geologist and academic (d. 1795)

1726 Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and educator (d. 1801)

1729 Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768)

1752 Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (d. 1827)

1754 Morgan Lewis (governor), American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York (d. 1844)

1758 Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)

1762 Paul Hamilton (politician), American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1816)

1789 William Burton (governor), American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (d. 1866)

1795 William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author (d. 1876)

1802 Isaac Murphy, American educator and politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882)

1803 Robert Stephenson, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1859)

1804 Benjamin Russell (artist), American painter and educator (d. 1885)

1806 William P. Fessenden, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1869)

1815 Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (d. 1905)

1818 William Forster (Australian politician), Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1882)

1819 Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (d. 1886)

1831 Lucy Stanton (abolitionist), American activist (d. 1910)

1832 Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (d. 1896)

1840 Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)

1841 Itō Hirobumi, Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909)

1847 Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911)

1852 Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913)

1854 Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938)

1854 Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (d. 1900)

1855 Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Ministry of Defense (Azerbaijan) (d. 1931)

1861 J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927)

1861 Richard Sears (tennis), American tennis player (d. 1943)

1863 Austen Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1937)

1867 Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (d. 1963)

1869 Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author (d. 1930)

1872 Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore (d. 1942)

1876 Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913)

1881 William R. Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1955)

1884 Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)

1886 David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)

1888 Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1953)

1888 Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling (d. 1979)

1890 Michael Collins (Irish leader), Irish general and politician, 2nd Minister for Finance (Ireland) (d. 1922)

1890 Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902)

1890 Paul Strand, American photographer and director (d. 1975)

1897 Louis de Cazenave, French soldier (d. 2008)

1898 William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1980)

1900 Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979)

1900 Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (d. 1988)

1900 Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)

1903 Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist (d. 2003)

1903 Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)

1904 Björn Berglund, Swedish actor (d. 1968)

1905 Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (d. 1990)

1906 León Klimovsky, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)

1907 Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic (d. 1973)

1908 Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (d. 2006)

1908 Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)

1911 Otto von Bülow, German commander (d. 2006)

1912 Clifford Hansen, American rancher and politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (d. 2009)

1918 Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1990)

1918 Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)

1918 Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer (d. 2008)

1919 Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author (d. 2003)

1920 Paddy Finucane, Irish fighter pilot and flying ace (d. 1942)

1921 Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)

1921 Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer (d. 2003)

1921 MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)

1922 Max Bygraves, English-Australian actor and singer (d. 2012)

1922 Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist (d. 2001)

1923 Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965)

1923 Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (d. 1980)

1923 Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010)

1924 Gerard Parkes, Irish-Canadian actor (d. 2014)

1925 Daniel J. Evans, American politician, 16th Governor of Washington (d. 2024)

1925 Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer (d. 2022)

1926 Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO

1926 Ed Valigursky, American illustrator (d. 2009)

1927 Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 2015)

1928 Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)

1928 Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (d. 2016)

1929 Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress

1930 John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest (d. 2021)

1930 Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress (d. 2023)

1931 Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)

1931 Valery Klimov (violinist), Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 2022)

1931 Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress

1931 P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach (d. 2013)

1932 John Grant (British politician), English journalist and politician (d. 2000)

1932 Henry Lewis (musician), American bassist and conductor (d. 1996)

1932 Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013)

1933 Nobuyo Ōyama, Japanese voice actress

1934 Peter Ashdown, English race car driver

1936 Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2022)

1936 Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (d. 1994)

1936 Mladen Koščak, Croatian footballer (d. 1997)

1936 Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th List of Chief Justices of Japan (d. 2015)

1937 Emile Ford, Saint Lucia-born British singer. First Black British musician to sell over one million copies of a single (d. 2016)

1938 Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (d. 1999)

1938 Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988)

1940 Barry Corbin, American actor and producer

1940 Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)

1940 Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2009)

1941 Mel Counts, American basketball player

1941 Tim McCarver, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2023)

1941 Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician

1943 Fred Turner (musician), Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player

1944 Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager

1944 Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist

1945 Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host

1945 Roger Hawkins (drummer), American session drummer (d. 2021)

1945 Paul Monette, American author and poet (d. 1995)

1946 Geoff Barnett (footballer), English footballer (d. 2021)

1946 Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer (d. 2023)

1947 Nicholas Day (actor), English actor

1947 Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach

1947 Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1947 David Zucker (filmmaker), American director, producer, and screenwriter

1948 Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer

1948 Bruce Fleisher, American golfer (d. 2021)

1948 Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician

1948 Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach

1950 Angry Grandpa, American internet personality (d. 2017)

1950 Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (d. 2015)

1952 Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician

1952 Cordell Mosson, American bass player (d. 2013)

1952 Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2019)

1952 Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician

1953 Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

1953 Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager

1953 K. S. Kugathasan, Sri Lankan politician

1953 Brinsley Forde, British singer and actor

1954 Lorenzo Carcaterra, American author and blogger

1954 Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

1954 Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player

1954 Corinna Harfouch, German actress

1955 Kieran Doherty (hunger striker), Irish Republican hunger striker and politician (d. 1981)

1955 Ellen Dolan, American actress

1956 Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor

1956 John Chavis (American football), American football player and coach

1956 Meg Rosoff, American-English author

1956 Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (d. 1992)

1957 Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator

1958 Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager

1958 Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter

1959 Kevin Brennan (politician), Welsh journalist and politician

1959 Brian Harper, American baseball player

1959 Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

1959 Philip Maini, Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford

1959 Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician

1959 Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster

1959 Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer

1959 John Whittingdale, English politician

1960 Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2015)

1960 Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1961 Chris Doleman, American football player (d. 2020)

1961 Marc Levy, French author

1961 Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998)

1961 Randy Vasquez, American actor, director, and producer

1962 Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (d. 2010)

1962 Flea (musician), Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor

1962 Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer (d. 2017)

1962 Nico Lazaridis, German footballer

1962 Tamara McKinney, American skier

1963 Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1963 Timothy Leighton, English physicist and academic

1964 Shawn Little, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)

1964 James Thompson (author), American-Finnish author (d. 2014)

1965 Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator

1965 German Titov (ice hockey), Russian ice hockey player and coach

1965 Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster

1966 Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist

1966 Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director

1967 Michael Laffy, Australian footballer

1967 Davina McCall, English television host and actress

1968 Randall Batinkoff, American actor and producer

1968 Mark Lee (Singaporean actor), Singaporean actor and singer

1968 Francesco Libetta, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor

1968 Todd Stashwick, American actor and writer

1968 Elsa Zylberstein, French actress

1969 Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer (d. 2018)

1969 Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler

1969 Terri J. Vaughn, American actress and producer

1969 Wendy Wilson, American singer-songwriter

1970 Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist

1970 Mehmet Scholl, German footballer and manager

1971 Frank Cuesta, Spanish television presenter

1971 Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1971 Paul Sparks, American actor

1972 Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author

1972 Darius Kasparaitis, Lithuanian-American ice hockey player and coach

1972 Kordell Stewart, American football player and radio host

1973 Justin Credible, American wrestler

1973 David Unsworth, English footballer and manager

1974 Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer

1974 Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player

1975 Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer

1975 Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer

1975 Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer

1975 Kellie Martin, American actress, director, and producer

1977 John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1977 Björn Yttling, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, producer and member of Peter, Bjorn and John

1980 Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player

1980 Jeremy Jackson, American actor and singer

1980 Caterina Scorsone, Canadian-American actress

1980 Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player

1981 Brea Grant, American actress and writer

1981 Martin Halle, Danish footballer

1981 Boyd Melson, American boxer

1981 Anthony Reyes, American baseball player

1982 Alan Anderson (basketball), American basketball player

1982 Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player

1982 Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer

1982 Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer

1983 Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player

1983 Loreen, Swedish singer

1983 Kenny Omega, Canadian wrestler

1984 François Pervis, French track cyclist

1984 Rachel Reilly, American talk show host and actress

1985 Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player

1985 Alexis Hornbuckle, American basketball player

1985 Verena Sailer, German sprinter

1985 Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer

1985 Peter Wallace (rugby league), Australian rugby league player

1986 Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer

1986 Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer

1986 Inna, Romanian singer

1988 Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

1989 Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player

1991 Jonathan Schoop, Curaçaoan baseball player

1991 Shardul Thakur, Indian cricketer

1992 Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer

1992 Viktorija Golubic, Swiss tennis player

1992 Bryce Harper, American baseball player

1992 Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player

1993 Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (d. 2022)

1993 Caroline Garcia, French tennis player

1994 Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player

1994 Halimah Nakaayi, Ugandan middle-distance runner

1997 Charles Leclerc (racing driver), Monégasque Formula One driver

1997 Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player

1997 Aliou Dieng, Malian footballer

1999 Aaron Nesmith, American basketball player

385 Fu Jian (337–385), Chinese emperor (b. 337)

786 Lullus, archbishop of Mainz (b. 710)

976 Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (b. 915)

1027 Fujiwara no Kenshi (Sanjō), Japanese empress (b. 994)

1130 Pedro González de Lara, Castilian magnate

1284 Shams al-Din Juvayni, Persian statesman, vizier and minister of finance of the Ilkhanate

1323 Amadeus V, Count of Savoy, count of Savoy (b. 1249)

1333 Antipope Nicholas V, antipope of Rome (b. 1260)

1438 Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman (b. 1383)

1355 Louis, King of Sicily, king of Sicily (b. 1338)

1523 Luca Signorelli, Italian painter (b. c.1450)

1553 Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and engraver (b. 1472)

1555 Hugh Latimer, English bishop and saint (b. 1487)

1555 Nicholas Ridley (martyr), English bishop and martyr (b. 1500)

1591 Pope Gregory XIV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1535)

1594 William Allen (cardinal), English cardinal (b. 1532)

1621 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1562)

1628 François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)

1637 Johann Rudolf Stadler, Swiss clock-maker (b. 1605)

1649 Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1621)

1655 Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b. 1591)

1660 John Cook (regicide), English politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (b. 1608)

1679 Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Irish-English soldier and politician (b. 1621)

1680 Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1609)

1730 Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, 3rd List of colonial governors of Louisiana (b. 1658)

1730 Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Greek politician, 139th List of Ottoman Grand Viziers (b. 1666)

1750 Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (b. 1687)

1755 Gerard Majella, Italian saint (b. 1725)

1774 Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750)

1791 Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (b. 1739)

1793 Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI of France (b. 1755)

1793 John Hunter (surgeon), Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728)

1796 Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726)

1799 Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist (b. 1760)

1810 Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian religious leader, founded the Breslov (Hasidic group) (b. 1772)

1822 Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer (b. 1724)

1877 Théodore Barrière, French playwright (b. 1823)

1888 John Wentworth (Illinois politician), American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)

1904 Haritina Korotkevich, Russian heroine (b. 1882)

1908 Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (b. 1837)

1909 Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (b. 1856)

1913 Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885)

1936 Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)

1937 Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)

1946 Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:

- Hans Frank, German lawyer, politician and war criminal (b. 1900)

- Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, List of German interior ministers (b. 1877)

- Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890)

- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)

- Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b. 1882)

- Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician (b. 1893)

- Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (b. 1894)

- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th List of Chancellors of Austria (b. 1892)

- Julius Streicher, German journalist and politician (b. 1887)

- Joachim von Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany) (b. 1893)

1947 Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)

1951 Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1895)

1956 Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)

1957 John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)

1958 Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)

1959 Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)

1959 George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1880)

1962 Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)

1964 Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)

1966 George O'Hara (actor), American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)

1968 Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b. 1914)

1971 Robin Boyd (architect), Australian architect and educator, designed the Domain Park Flats (b. 1919)

1972 Nick Begich, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)

1972 Hale Boggs, American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)

1972 Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (b. 1886)

1973 Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and actor (b. 1909)

1975 Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1885)

1978 Dan Dailey, American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1913)

1979 Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (b. 1903)

1981 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (b. 1915)

1981 Eugene Eisenmann, Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist (b. 1906)

1982 Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)

1983 Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1895)

1986 Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (b. 1921)

1989 Walter Farley, American author and educator (b. 1915)

1989 Scott O'Dell, American journalist and author (b. 1898)

1989 Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1912)

1990 Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1919)

1990 Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist and educator (b. 1914)

1992 Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (b. 1898)

1996 Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)

1996 Eric Malpass, English author (b. 1910)

1997 Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)

1997 James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist (b. 1907)

1998 Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)

1999 Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1921)

2000 Mel Carnahan, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (b. 1934)

2000 Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923)

2001 Etta Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)

2003 Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter (b. 1919)

2003 Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)

2003 László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)

2004 Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)

2006 John Victor Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916)

2006 Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (b. 1936)

2007 Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)

2007 Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer-songwriter (b. 1981)

2008 Dagmar Normet, Estonian author and translator (b. 1921)

2010 Eyedea, American rapper and producer (b. 1981)

2010 Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)

2011 Dan Wheldon, English race car driver (b. 1978)

2012 Frank Moore Cross, American scholar and academic (b. 1921)

2012 John A. Durkin, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)

2012 Mario Gallegos, Jr., American firefighter and politician (b. 1950)

2012 Bódog Török, Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1923)

2012 Eddie Yost, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)

2013 Govind Purushottam Deshpande, Indian playwright and academic (b. 1938)

2013 George Hourmouziadis, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1932)

2013 Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)

2013 Laurel Martyn, Australian ballerina and choreographer (b. 1916)

2013 Robert B. Rheault, American colonel (b. 1925)

2013 Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)

2014 Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)

2014 Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926)

2014 Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934)

2014 John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (b. 1926)

2015 Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)

2015 James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic (b. 1940)

2015 William James (Australian general), Australian general and physician (b. 1930)

2015 Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (b. 1927)

2015 Memduh Ün, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)

2016 Calvin Gotlieb, Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921)

2017 Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964)

2017 Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923)

2017 John Dunsworth, Canadian actor (b. 1946)

2017 Sean Hughes (comedian), British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965)

2023 Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1937)

Air Force Day (Bulgaria)

Boss's Day (United States)

Christian feast day:

- Balderic, Abbot of Montfaucon

- Bercharius of Hautvillers

- Bertrand of Comminges

- Colmán of Kilroot

- Eliphius

- Fortunatus of Casei

- Saint Gall

- Gerard Majella

- Hedwig of Silesia

- Hugh Latimer (Anglicanism)

- Junian of Saint-Junien

- Marguerite Marie Alacoque

- Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

- Nicholas Ridley (martyr) (Anglicanism)

- Silvanus of Ahun

- Beatification Thevarparampil Kunjachan (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church / Catholic Church)

- Pope Victor III

- October 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Pope John Paul II Day (Poland)

Death anniversary of Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistan)

Teachers' Day (Chile)

World Food Day (International observance)

Bu-Ma Democratic Protests Commemoration Day (South Korea)