On this day: October 18th
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AD 33 Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero Julius Caesar and Drusus Caesar, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation.
320 Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on ''The Great Astronomer'' (''Almagest'').
614 King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (''Edictum Chlotacharii''), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defends the rights of the Franks nobles while it Antisemitism from all civil employment in the Francia.
629 Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
1009 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1016 The Danes defeat the England in the Battle of Assandun.
1081 The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081).
1281 Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon for usurping the crown of Sicily (a sentence renewed on 7 May and 18 November 1282).
1356 1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1540 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
1561 In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, resulting in a draw.
1565 Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.
1597 King Philip II of Spain sends his 3rd Spanish Armada, but it ends in failure due to storms. The remaining ships are captured or sunk by the English.
1599 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
1630 Frendraught Castle in Scotland, the home of James Crichton of Frendraught, burns down.
1648 Boston shoemakers form the first American Trade union.
1748 Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1775 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
1775 American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
1779 American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
1797 Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
1851 Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' is first published as ''The Whale'' by Richard Bentley (publisher) of London.
1860 The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1867 United States Alaska Purchase Alaska after purchasing it from Russian Empire for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1898 The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
1900 Count Bernhard von Bülow becomes chancellor of Germany.
1912 First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
1914 The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.
1921 The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1922 The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1929 The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in ''Edwards v Canada (AG)'' when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1944 World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
1944 World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
1945 The Soviet Union's nuclear program receives plans for the United States Nuclear weapon from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945 A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages 1945 Venezuelan coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1945 Argentina military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Perón.
1954 Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1, the first mass-produced transistor radio.
1963 Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
1967 The Soviet Union probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1977 German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the Aircraft hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
1978 Based on the world's Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics # Children's Art Museum, the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opened in Yerevan.
1979 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
1989 The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the Jupiter-bound Galileo (spacecraft) space probe.
1991 The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31.
2003 Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 2007 Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
2019 NASA Astronaut Corps Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female Extravehicular activity when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.
2019 2019–2020 Chilean protests escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Santiago Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.
1127 Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1130 Zhu Xi, Chinese philosopher (d. 1200)
1405 Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
1444 John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1476)
1482 Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1538)
1517 Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1570)
1523 Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596)
1536 William Lambarde, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1601)
1547 Justus Lipsius, Belgian philologist and scholar (d. 1606)
1553 Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (d. 1599)
1587 Lady Mary Wroth, English poet (d. 1651)
1595 Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (d. 1655)
1616 Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist (d. 1654)
1630 Henry Powle, English politician (d. 1692)
1634 Luca Giordano, Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1705)
1653 Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Dutch merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
1662 Matthew Henry, Welsh minister and scholar (d. 1714)
1663 Prince Eugene of Savoy (d. 1736)
1668 John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
1701 Charles le Beau, French historian and author (d. 1778)
1706 Baldassare Galuppi, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1785)
1741 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
1770 Thomas Phillips, English artist (d. 1845)
1777 Heinrich von Kleist, German author and poet (d. 1811)
1785 Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (d. 1866)
1792 Lucas Alamán, Mexican politician and historian (d. 1853)
1804 Mongkut, Thai king (d. 1868)
1822 Midhat Pasha, Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th List of Ottoman Grand Viziers (d. 1883)
1831 Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888)
1836 Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)
1850 Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (d. 1935)
1854 Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1859 Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1941)
1862 Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (d. 1952)
1865 Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist and author (d. 1957)
1865 Logan Pearsall Smith, American-English author and critic (d. 1946)
1868 Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
1869 Johannes Linnankoski, Finnish author (d. 1913)
1870 D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1966)
1872 Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet and author (d. 1936)
1873 Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
1875 Len Braund, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1955)
1878 James Truslow Adams, American historian and author (d. 1949)
1880 Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist (d. 1940)
1881 Max Gerson, German-born American physician (d. 1959)
1882 Väinö Kivisalo, Finnish politician (d. 1953)
1882 Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist (d. 1917)
1887 Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (d. 1946)
1888 Paul Vermoyal, French actor (d. 1925)
1893 Sidney Holland, New Zealand lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1961)
1893 George Ohsawa, Japanese philosopher and academic (d. 1966)
1894 H. L. Davis, American author and poet (d. 1960)
1894 Tibor Déry, Hungarian author and translator (d. 1977)
1897 Isabel Briggs Myers, American theorist and author (d. 1980)
1898 Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
1902 Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
1902 Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)
1903 Lina Radke, German runner and coach (d. 1983)
1904 Aarne Juutilainen, Finnish army captain (d. 1976)
1904 A. J. Liebling, American journalist and author (d. 1963)
1904 Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981)
1905 Jan Gies, Dutch activist (d. 1993)
1905 Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993)
1906 James Brooks (painter), American painter and educator (d. 1992)
1909 Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2004)
1914 Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
1915 Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
1918 Molly Geertsema, Dutch lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1991)
1918 Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 178th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2017)
1918 Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1999)
1919 Ric Nordman, Canadian captain and politician (d. 1996)
1919 Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)
1919 Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
1919 Camilla Williams, American soprano and educator (d. 2012)
1920 Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Minister for Culture (Greece) (d. 1994)
1921 Jerry Cooke (photographer), Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 2005)
1921 Jesse Helms, American journalist and politician (d. 2008)
1921 Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)
1923 Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
1924 Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2014)
1925 Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (d. 2011)
1926 Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
1926 Klaus Kinski, German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1927 Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1927 George C. Scott, American actor and director (d. 1999)
1928 Maurice El Mediouni, Algerian pianist and composer (d. 2024)
1928 Keith Jackson, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2018)
1928 Dick Taverne, English lawyer and politician
1929 Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua
1929 Hillard Elkins, American producer and manager (d. 2010)
1929 Kees Fens, Dutch author and critic (d. 2008)
1929 Frank Stanmore (rugby league), Australian rugby league player (d. 2005)
1930 Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, Scottish politician
1930 Esther Hautzig, Lithuanian-American author (d. 2009)
1931 Chris Albertson, Icelandic-American historian, journalist, and producer (d. 2019)
1931 Roger Climpson, English-Australian journalist
1931 Ien Dales, Dutch civil servant and politician, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Netherlands) (d. 1994)
1932 Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian musicologist and politician
1933 Forrest Gregg, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
1933 Irwin M. Jacobs, American electrical engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur
1933 Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1968)
1934 Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (d. 1970)
1935 Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
1936 Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d. 2019)
1938 Robert Dove, American lawyer and politician (d. 2021)
1938 Dawn Wells, American model and actress, Miss Nevada (d. 2020)
1939 Flavio Cotti, Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2020)
1939 Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1939 Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1939 Paddy Reilly, Irish folk singer and guitarist
1939 Jan Erik Vold, Norwegian poet, author, and translator
1940 Talitha Getty, actress and model of Dutch extraction (d. 1971)
1940 Cynthia Weil, American songwriter (d. 2023)
1941 Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, English businessman (d. 2019)
1941 Martha Burk, American psychologist and author
1942 Gianfranco Ravasi, Italian cardinal and scholar
1943 Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1943 Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish police officer and politician, List of Ministers for Ecclesiastical Affairs of Denmark
1945 Huell Howser, American television host and actor (d. 2013)
1945 Chris Shays, American politician
1946 James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1946 Frank Beamer, American football player and coach
1946 Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Welsh academic and politician
1946 Howard Shore, Canadian composer, conductor, and producer
1947 Paul Chuckle, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1947 Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
1947 John Johnson (basketball, born 1947), American basketball player (d. 2016)
1947 Joe Morton, American actor
1947 Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1997)
1947 Gary Sullivan (rugby league), Australian rugby league player
1948 Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
1948 Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 2018)
1949 Joe Egan (musician), Scottish singer-songwriter
1949 George Hendrick, American baseball player and coach
1949 Gary Richrath, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2015)
1950 Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright and author (d. 2006)
1951 Mike Antonovich (ice hockey), American ice hockey player and coach
1951 Pam Dawber, American actress and producer
1951 Terry McMillan, American author and screenwriter
1951 David Normington, English civil servant and politician
1951 Nic Potter, English bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
1952 Roy Dias, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
1952 Paul Geroski, American-English economist and academic (d. 2005)
1952 Chuck Lorre, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1952 Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer and photographer
1952 Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese soldier and author
1952 Allen Ripley, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1952 Jerry Royster, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1954 Nick Houghton, English general
1954 Arliss Howard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1954 Bob Weinstein, American film executive
1955 Jean-Pierre Hautier, Belgian journalist and television host (d. 2012)
1955 Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1955 Timmy Mallett, English radio and television host
1955 Stu Mead, American painter and illustrator
1955 David Twohy, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 Rita Verdonk, Dutch journalist and politician, Ministry of Security and Justice (Netherlands)
1955 Denis Watson, Zimbabwean golfer
1955 Mark Welland, English physicist and academic
1956 Craig Bartlett, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1956 Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player and coach
1956 Jim Talent, American lawyer and politician
1957 Jon Lindstrom, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1957 Catherine Ringer, French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1958 Thomas Hearns, American boxer
1958 Megumi Ishii, Japanese actress and politician
1958 Letitia James, American lawyer, activist and politician
1958 Kjell Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1959 Kirby Chambliss, American pilot
1959 Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran politician, former President of El Salvador
1959 Milcho Manchevski, Macedonian-American director and screenwriter
1959 John Nord, American wrestler
1960 Erin Moran, American actress (d. 2017)
1960 Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter
1961 Wynton Marsalis, American trumpet player, composer, and educator
1961 Rick Moody, American author and composer
1961 Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer
1962 Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist
1962 Vincent Spano, American actor, director, and producer
1963 Sigvart Dagsland, Norwegian singer, pianist and composer
1964 Dan Lilker, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1964 Charles Stross, English journalist, author, and programmer
1965 Zakir Naik, Indian Islamic preacher; founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)
1965 Curtis Stigers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 Dave Price, American journalist and game show host
1967 Eric Stuart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
1968 Rhod Gilbert, Welsh comedian
1968 Stuart Law, Australian cricketer and coach
1968 Michael Stich, German tennis player and sportscaster
1969 Volker Neumüller, German talent manager
1969 Nelson Vivas, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
1970 Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player and coach
1970 Mike Starink, Dutch television host and actor
1971 Nick O'Hern, Australian golfer
1972 Mika Ninagawa, Japanese photographer and director
1972 Alex Tagliani, Canadian race car driver
1973 Stephen Allan, Australian golfer
1973 James Foley (journalist), American photographer and journalist (d. 2014)
1973 Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
1973 Rachel Nichols (journalist), American journalist and sportscaster
1973 Sarah Winckless, English rower
1974 Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer and sportscaster
1974 Peter Svensson, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
1974 Amish Tripathi, Indian author
1974 Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
1975 Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player and manager
1975 Josh Sawyer, American video game designer
1977 Flavia Colgan, Brazilian-American journalist
1977 Kunal Kapoor (actor, born 1977), Indian actor
1977 Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand-American soccer player and coach
1977 David Vuillemin, French motorcycle racer
1978 Mike Tindall, English rugby player
1978 Kenji Wu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
1979 Jaroslav Drobný (footballer), Czech footballer
1979 Ne-Yo, American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor
1979 Damon Scott, British entertainer
1980 Birsen Yavuz, Turkish sprinter and hurdler
1981 Nathan Hauritz, Australian cricketer
1981 Tina Hergold, Slovenian tennis player
1981 Greg Warren (American football), American football player
1982 Thierry Amiel, French singer-songwriter
1982 Michael Dingsdag, Dutch footballer
1982 Simon Gotch, American wrestler
1982 Mark Sampson, Welsh footballer and manager
1983 Dante (footballer), Brazilian footballer
1984 Robert Harting, German discus thrower
1984 Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model
1984 Esperanza Spalding, American singer-songwriter and bassist
1984 Lindsey Vonn, American skier
1984 Milo Yiannopoulos, British journalist and public speaker
1985 Yoenis Céspedes, Cuban baseball player
1985 Andrew Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1986 Wilma Elles, German actress and fashion designer
1987 Zac Efron, American actor and singer
1987 Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
1988 Tessa Schram, Dutch director and actress
1989 Laci Green, American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist
1989 Joy Lauren, American actress, director, and producer
1989 Riisa Naka, Japanese model and actress
1990 Drew Crawford, American basketball player
1990 Brittney Griner, American basketball player
1990 Bristol Palin, American public speaker and reality television personality
1991 Roly Bonevacia, Dutch footballer
1991 Tyler Posey, American actor and musician
1991 Toby Regbo, English actor
1992 John John Florence, American surfer
1992 Barry Keoghan, Irish actor
1993 Ivan Cavaleiro, Portuguese footballer
1994 Enhō Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler
1994 Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian race car driver
1996 Terance Mann, American basketball player
AD 31 Sejanus, Roman politician (b. 20 BC)
325 Emperor Ming of Jin (b. 299)
AD 707 Pope John VII (b. 650)
815 Abu'l-Saraya, Zaydi rebel leader
1035 Sancho III of Pamplona (b. 992)
1081 Nikephoros Palaiologos, Byzantine general
1101 Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (b. 1053)
1141 Leopold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108)
1214 John de Gray, bishop of Norwich
1366 Petrus Torkilsson, Archbishop of Uppsala
1382 James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justices (Ireland) (b. 1331)
1417 Pope Gregory XII (b. 1326)
1442 John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz (b. 1400)
1480 Uhwudong, Korean dancer and poet (b. 1440)
1503 Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
1508 Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, Lord High Admiral of Scotland
1511 Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
1526 Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1541 Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489)
1545 John Taverner, English organist and composer (b. 1490)
1558 Mary of Hungary (governor of the Netherlands) (b. 1505)
1561 Yamamoto Kansuke (general), Japanese samurai (b. 1501)
1564 Johannes Acronius Frisius, Dutch physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1570 Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (b. 1517)
1604 Igram van Achelen, Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1528)
1646 Isaac Jogues, French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1607)
1667 Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1603)
1678 Jacob Jordaens, Belgian painter illustrator (b. 1593)
1739 António José da Silva, Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)
1744 Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
1770 John Manners, Marquess of Granby, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1721)
1775 Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1817 Étienne Méhul, French pianist and composer (b. 1763)
1865 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
1876 Francis Preston Blair, American journalist (b. 1791)
1886 Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
1889 Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)
1892 William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
1893 Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (b. 1818)
1908 Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)
1911 Alfred Binet, French psychologist and author (b. 1857)
1921 Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1931 Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1847)
1931 Lesser Ury, German painter (b. 1861)
1934 Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1852)
1935 Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
1941 Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
1942 Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
1947 Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
1948 Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1956 Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
1959 Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
1961 Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
1962 Iván Petrovich, Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)
1965 Henry Travers, Irish-American actor (b. 1874)
1966 Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)
1966 S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (United States) (b. 1867)
1969 Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1899)
1973 Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded ''The Little Review'' (b. 1886)
1973 Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (b. 1913)
1973 Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1899)
1975 K. C. Douglas, American rural blues singer (b. 1913)
1975 Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
1975 Graham Haberfield, English actor (b. 1941)
1976 Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (b. 1895)
1977 Andreas Baader, German militant (b. 1943)
1977 Gudrun Ensslin, German militant leader, founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1940)
1978 Ramón Mercader, Spanish journalist, assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
1980 Edwin Way Teale, American photographer and author (b. 1899)
1982 Dwain Esper, American director and producer (b. 1892)
1982 Pierre Mendès France, French lawyer and politician, 143rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
1982 John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1982 Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 40th List of First Ladies of the United States (b. 1885)
1983 Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (b. 1897)
1983 Willie Jones (third baseman), American baseball player (b. 1925)
1984 Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
1987 Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
2000 Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (b. 1925)
2003 Preston Smith (governor), American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2003 Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish journalist, author, and critic (b. 1939)
2005 Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
2005 Bill King, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
2006 Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
2006 Anna Russell, English-Canadian singer and actress (b. 1911)
2006 Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (b. 1934)
2007 Alan Coren, English journalist and author (b. 1938)
2007 William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
2007 Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (b. 1915)
2007 Lucky Dube, South African singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1964)
2008 Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (b. 1945)
2009 Adriaan Kortlandt, Dutch ethologist and biologist (b. 1918)
2009 Nancy Spero, American painter and academic (b. 1926)
2010 Marion Brown, American saxophonist and musicologist (b. 1931)
2010 Billy Raimondi, American baseball player (b. 1912)
2012 Brain Damage (wrestler), American wrestler (b. 1977)
2012 Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (b. 1952)
2012 Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
2012 George Mattos, American pole vaulter (b. 1929)
2012 Albert Lee Ueltschi, American pilot and businessman, founded FlightSafety International (b. 1917)
2012 David S. Ware, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
2013 Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1929)
2013 Bum Phillips, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
2013 Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
2013 Bill Young (Florida politician), American sergeant and politician (b. 1930)
2014 Mariano Lebrón Saviñón, Dominican author and academic (b. 1922)
2014 Edward Regan, American academic and politician (b. 1930)
2014 Sidney Shapiro, American-Chinese author and translator (b. 1915)
2015 Robert Dickerson, Australian painter (b. 1924)
2015 Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1945)
2015 Robert W. Farquhar, American engineer (b. 1932)
2015 Frank Watkins (musician), American bass player (b. 1968)
2015 Paul West (writer), English-American author, poet, and academic (b. 1930)
2017 Marino Perani, Italian football player and manager (b. 1939)
2018 Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (b. 1931)
2018 Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 5th President of the Sudan (b. 1934)
2019 Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
2020 René Felber, 81st President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1933)
2021 Colin Powell, American military leader and statesman, 65th United States Secretary of State (b. 1937)
2022 Harvey Wollman, American politician, 26th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1935)
Alaska Day (Alaska, United States)
Christian feast day:
- Asclepiades of Antioch
- Isaac Jogues
- Luke the Evangelist
- Peter of Alcantara, can also be celebrated on October 19.
- October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Restoration of Independence (Azerbaijan), celebrates the independence of Azerbaijan from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Necktie Day (Croatia)
Persons Day (Canada)
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