World History of October 7

1950 Birth

"Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of Tanzania"

🌍 Historical Events

1403
Venetian-Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon.
1477
Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
1513
War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice.
1571
The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat.
1691
The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1763
King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
1777
American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat British forces under general John Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, compelling Burgoyne's eventual surrender.
1780
American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina, often regarded as the turning point in the war's Southern theater.
1800
French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent.
1826
The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828
Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force.
1840
Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1864
American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
1868
Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1870
Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
1879
Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1912
The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1913
Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line.
1916
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919
KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1924
Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
1929
Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1940
World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1944
World War II: The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz was an uprising of prisoners (especially the Sonderkommando) at the Auschwitz concentration camp, they burnt down Crematorium IV.
1949
The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
1950
Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
1958
The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
1958
The U.S. crewed space-flight project is renamed to Project Mercury.
1959
The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
1961
A Douglas Dakota IV operated by Derby Aviation (later renamed to British Midland International) crashes in Canigou, France, killing 34 people.
1963
President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1963
Buddhist crisis: Amid worsening relations, outspoken South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu arrives in the US for a speaking tour, continuing a flurry of attacks on the Kennedy administration.
1977
The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.
1978
Aeroflot Flight 1080 crashes after takeoff from Koltsovo International Airport, killing 38.
1979
Swissair Flight 316 crashes at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, killing 14.
1985
The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
1985
Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
1987
Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
1988
A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
1991
Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of the Banski Dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.
1993
The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1996
Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
2000
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
2001
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history.
2002
The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.
2004
Three bombs explode at Taba and Nuweiba in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, killing 34.
2008
Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into Earth's atmosphere.
2008
Qantas Flight 72 experiences an in-flight upset near Learmonth, Victoria, Australia, injuring 112.
2016
In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to over 800.
2022
Ten people are killed and eight are injured in an explosion at petrol station in Creeslough, Ireland.
2022
Ales Bialiatski, along with two organisations, Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties, are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2023
Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an attack into Israel, which results in the deaths of around 1,200, mostly civilians, and the taking of 251 hostages, including civilians and soldiers. The attack initiated the Gaza war and the larger Middle Eastern crisis.
3761 BC
The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar.

🐣 Notable Births

14 BC
Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman politician (died 23 AD)
1301
Grand Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (died 1339)
1409
Elizabeth of Luxembourg (died 1442)
1471
Frederick I of Denmark (died 1533)
1474
Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (died 1536)
1482
Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (died 1553)
1573
William Laud, English archbishop and academic (died 1645)
1576
John Marston, English poet and playwright (died 1634)
1586
Isaac Massa, Dutch diplomat (died 1643)
1589
Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (died 1631)
1591
Pierre Le Muet, French architect (died 1669)
1597
Captain John Underhill, English settler and soldier (died 1672)
1635
Roger de Piles, French painter (died 1709)
1713
Granville Elliott, English general (died 1759)
1728
Caesar Rodney, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (died 1784)
1744
Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (died 1819)
1746
William Billings, American composer and educator (died 1800)
1748
Charles XIII of Sweden (died 1818)
1769
Solomon Sibley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 1st Mayor of Detroit (died 1846)
1786
Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1871)
1798
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (died 1875)
1799
Mills Darden, one of the largest men ever in human history (died 1857)
1819
Ann Eliza Smith, American author and patriot (died 1905)
1821
Richard H. Anderson, American general (died 1879)
1832
Charles Crozat Converse, American lawyer and composer (died 1918)
1835
Felix Draeseke, German composer and educator (died 1913)
1836
Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian scholar and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1911)
1841
Nicholas I of Montenegro (died 1921)
1849
James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (died 1916)
1860
Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (died 1936)
1866
Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 1942)
1870
Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian (died 1952)
1876
Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (died 1934)
1879
Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet (died 1915)
1881
Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general (died 1918)
1884
Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1927)
1885
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
1885
Claud Ashton Jones, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1948)
1887
Jack Russell, English cricketer and coach (died 1961)
1888
Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (died 1965)
1888
Edna Meade Colson, American educator and activist (died 1985)
1889
Robert Z. Leonard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1968)
1892
Dwain Esper, American director and producer (died 1982)
1893
Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (died 1979)
1895
Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (died 1980)
1896
Paulino Alcántara, Spanish Filipino football player and manager (died 1964)
1897
Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (died 1975)
1897
Thakin Mya, Burmese lawyer and politician (died 1947)
1900
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi politician, head of the SS and senior official responsible for the Holocaust (died 1945)
1901
Frank Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (died 1977)
1904
Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer and coach (died 1968)
1904
Chuck Klein, American baseball player (died 1958)
1905
Andy Devine, American actor (died 1977)
1907
Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (died 1985)
1909
Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (died 1990)
1909
Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist and educator (died 1995)
1909
Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (died 1983)
1910
Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American art collector and philanthropist (died 1986)
1911
Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader (died 1973)
1912
Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 85th President of Peru (died 2002)
1912
Peter Walker, English race car driver (died 1984)
1913
Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and author (died 1987)
1913
Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist, guitarist, and composer (died 1949)
1914
Begum Akhtar, Indian actress (died 1974)
1914
Sarah Churchill, English actress (died 1982)
1914
Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (died 1992)
1914
Herman Keiser, American golfer (died 2003)
1917
June Allyson, American actress (died 2006)
1918
Harry V. Jaffa, American historian, philosopher, and academic (died 2015)
1919
Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (died 2006)
1919
Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and politician, 19th Governor-General of Australia (died 2011)
1919
Georges Duby, French historian and author (died 1996)
1920
Georg Leber, German soldier and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence (died 2012)
1920
Jack Rowley, English footballer and manager (died 1998)
1921
Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (died 2004)
1922
Grady Hatton, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2013)
1922
William Zinsser, American journalist and critic (died 2015)
1923
Irma Grese, German SS officer (died 1945)
1923
Břetislav Pojar, Czech animator and director (died 2012)
1923
Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (died 2002)
1926
Alex Groza, American basketball player (died 1995)
1927
Al Martino, American singer and actor (died 2009)
1927
R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (died 1989)
1927
Demetrio González, Spanish-Mexican film actor and singer (died 2015)
1928
José Messias, Brazilian composer, singer, writer, host and critic (died 2015)
1928
Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (died 2013)
1928
Lorna Wing, English autism researcher (died 2014)
1929
Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation (died 2021)
1929
Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author (died 2017)
1929
Robert Westall, English journalist and author (died 1993)
1930
Curtis Crider, American race car driver (died 2012)
1931
Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball player and coach (died 2004)
1931
Tommy Lewis, American football player and coach (died 2014)
1931
R. Sivagurunathan, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and academic (died 2003)
1931
Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
1932
Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (died 2013)
1933
Harold Dunaway, American race car driver and pilot (died 2012)
1934
Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (died 2014)
1934
Ulrike Meinhof, German left-wing militant, co-founder of the Red Army Faction, journalist (died 1976)
1934
Willie Naulls, American basketball player (died 2018)
1934
Julian Thompson, English general and historian
1935
Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist
1936
Michael Hurll, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
1937
Christopher Booker, English journalist and author (died 2019)
1937
Chet Powers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1994)
1937
Maria Szyszkowska, Polish academic and politician
1938
Yvonne Brewster, Jamaican actress and theatre director
1938
Ann Jones, English tennis player and sportscaster
1939
John Hopcroft, American computer scientist and author
1939
Clive James, Australian television host, author, and critic (died 2019)
1939
Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
1939
Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cardinal (died 2021)
1939
Bill Snyder, American football player and coach
1942
Joy Behar, American talk show host, comedian and television personality
1943
José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player and coach
1943
Oliver North, American colonel, journalist, and author
1944
Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1979)
1944
Donald Tsang, Chinese civil servant and politician, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1945
Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter and director
1945
David Wallace, Scottish physicist and academic
1946
John Brass, Australian rugby player and coach
1946
Catharine MacKinnon, American lawyer, activist, and author
1947
Chris Bambridge, Australian footballer and referee
1947
Jill Larson, American actress
1948
Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
1948
John F. B. Mitchell, English climatologist and author
1948
Stephen Rucker, American composer
1949
Dave Hope, American bass player and priest
1950
Dick Jauron, American football player and coach (died 2025)
1950
Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of Tanzania
1951
Enki Bilal, French comic book creator, comics artist and film director
1951
John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1952
Mary Badham, American actress
1952
Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia
1952
Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2002)
1952
Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
1953
Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (died 2014)
1953
Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor
1953
Tico Torres, American drummer
1955
Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author
1955
Bill Henson, Australian photographer
1955
Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator
1956
Steve Bainbridge, English rugby player
1956
Mike Shipley, Australian-English sound engineer and producer (died 2013)
1956
Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957
Joey Marquez, Filipino basketball player, actor, and politician
1957
Michael W. Smith, American singer-songwriter and actor
1957
Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
1959
Dylan Baker, American actor
1959
Simon Cowell, English businessman and record producer
1959
Lourdes Flores, Peruvian lawyer and politician
1959
Jean-Marc Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician
1959
Brazo de Oro, Mexican wrestler (died 2017)
1960
Kevin Boyle, American historian and author
1961
Brian Mannix, Australian singer-songwriter
1961
Tony Sparano, American football player and coach (died 2018)
1962
Dave Bronconnier, Canadian businessman and politician, 35th Mayor of Calgary
1962
Micky Flanagan, English comedian
1962
William Johnson, German-English cricketer
1964
Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer
1964
Dan Savage, American LGBT rights activist, journalist and television producer
1964
Paul Stewart, English footballer
1965
Genji Hashimoto, Japanese race car driver
1965
Kumiko Watanabe, Japanese voice actress
1966
Sherman Alexie, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker
1966
Marco Beltrami, Italian-American composer and conductor
1966
Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (died 2012)
1967
Michelle Alexander, American law professor, author and activist
1967
Peter Baker, English golfer
1967
Toni Braxton, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1967
María Corina Machado, Venezuelan Nobel Prize Laureate
1968
Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969
Bobbie Brown, American model and actress
1969
Malia Hosaka, American wrestler
1970
Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
1971
Daniel Boucher, Canadian singer and actor
1972
Marlou Aquino, Filipino basketball player
1972
Ben Younger, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1973
Dida, Brazilian footballer
1973
Priest Holmes, American football player
1973
Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer and manager
1973
Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Georgian politician and diplomat, 7th Prime Minister of Georgia
1974
Rune Glifberg, Danish skateboarder
1974
Allison Munn, American actress
1974
Ruslan Nigmatullin, Russian footballer
1974
Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
1975
Giorgos Karadimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975
Damian Kulash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975
Tim Minchin, English-Australian comedian, actor, and singer
1975
Rhyno, American wrestler
1976
Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
1976
Taylor Hicks, American singer-songwriter
1976
Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976
Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer and manager
1976
Charles Woodson, American football player
1977
Antoine Revoy, French comics writer and illustrator
1978
Alison Balsom, English trumpet player and educator
1978
Alesha Dixon, English singer-songwriter and dancer
1978
Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
1978
Omar Benson Miller, American actor
1979
Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
1979
Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979
Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1982
Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982
Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982
Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1982
Jake McLaughlin, American actor
1982
Lockett Pundt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982
Li Yundi, Chinese pianist
1983
Archie Bland, English journalist and author
1983
Dwayne Bravo, Trinidadian cricketer
1983
Flying Lotus, American rapper, DJ, and producer
1983
Scottie Upshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1984
Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1984
Toma Ikuta, Japanese actor and singer
1984
Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer
1984
Zachary Wyatt, American soldier and politician
1985
Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986
Chase Daniel, American football player
1986
Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
1986
Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1986
Bree Olson, American actress, model, and former pornographic actress
1986
A. J. Price, American basketball player
1986
Holland Roden, American actress
1986
Amy Satterthwaite, New Zealand cricketer
1986
Amber Stevens West, American actress
1987
Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
1987
Alex Cobb, American baseball player
1987
Aiden English, American wrestler
1987
Damion James, American basketball player
1987
Sam Querrey, American tennis player
1988
Diego da Silva Costa, Brazilian footballer
1989
Trent Merrin, Australian rugby league player
1990
Sebastián Coates, Uruguayan footballer
1991
Oscar Fantenberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1991
Mike Foltynewicz, American baseball player
1991
Nicole Jung, American singer
1991
Lay Zhang, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor
1992
Mookie Betts, American baseball player
1993
Nic Stauskas, Canadian basketball player
1995
Lyndon Dykes, Australian professional footballer
1995
Mathias Dyngeland, Norwegian footballer
1995
Lloyd Jones, English professional footballer
1995
Bram van Vlerken, Dutch professional football player
1996
Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer-songwriter
1996
Choi Jeong, South Korean Go player
1996
Guglielmo Vicario, Italian footballer
1997
Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
1997
Nicole Maines, American actress, writer, and activist
1998
Trent Alexander-Arnold, English footballer
1998
Ryan Trahan, American YouTuber
1999
Ferdi Kadıoğlu, Turkish footballer
2001
Princess Senate Seeiso, Princess of Lesotho
2002
Joaquín Panichelli, Argentine footballer

🕯️ Notable Deaths

336
Mark, pope of the Catholic Church
858
Montoku, Japanese emperor (born 826)
929
Charles the Simple, French king (born 879)
950
Li, Chinese empress consort
951
Shi Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (born 919)
951
Xiao, Chinese Khitan empress dowager
951
Zhen, Chinese Khitan empress consort
988
Qian Chu, king of Wuyue (born 929)
1242
Juntoku, Japanese emperor (born 1197)
1259
Ezzelino III da Romano, Italian ruler
1363
Eleanor de Bohun, English noblewoman (born 1304)
1368
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Belgian-English politician (born 1338)
1461
Jean Poton de Xaintrailles, follower of Joan of Arc (born c. 1390)
1468
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Italian nobleman (born 1417)
1553
Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (born 1500)
1571
Sufi Ali Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Ottoman Governor of Egypt
1571
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Danish queen consort of Christian III of Denmark (born 1511)
1577
George Gascoigne, English soldier, courtier, and poet (born 1535)
1612
Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, playwright, and diplomat (born 1538)
1620
Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish-Lithuanian commander (born 1547)
1637
Victor Amadeus I, duke of Savoy (born 1587)
1651
Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (born 1559)
1653
Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (born 1581)
1708
Guru Gobind Singh, Indian 10th Sikh guru (born 1666)
1747
Giulia Lama, Italian painter (born 1681)
1772
John Woolman, American preacher and abolitionist (born 1720)
1787
Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (born 1711)
1792
George Mason, American lawyer and politician (born 1725)
1793
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, President of the Board of Trade (born 1718)
1796
Thomas Reid, Scottish mathematician and philosopher (born 1710)
1849
Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (born 1809)
1884
Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (born 1829)
1894
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (born 1809)
1903
Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (born 1832)
1904
Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (born 1831)
1906
Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (born 1848)
1911
John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (born 1835)
1919
Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1856)
1925
Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (born 1880)
1926
Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (born 1856)
1933
Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (born 1861)
1939
Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (born 1869)
1943
Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (born 1880)
1944
Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (born 1918)
1950
Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (born 1876)
1951
Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (born 1874)
1956
Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (born 1886)
1959
Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (born 1921)
1963
Oking Jaya Atmaja, Indonesian military officer (born 1918)
1966
Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (born 1890)
1967
Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)
1969
Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (born 1888)
1970
Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (born 1906)
1983
George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor, science popularizer, and skeptic (born 1927)
1985
Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1904)
1990
Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (born 1893)
1990
Chiara Badano, Italian beatified (born1971)
1990
Grim Natwick, American animator (born 1890)
1991
Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (born 1921)
1991
Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (born 1905)
1991
Darren Millane, Australian footballer (born 1965)
1992
Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (born 1930)
1992
Babu Karam Singh Bal, Indian businessman and politician (born1927)
1993
Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor (born 1910)
1994
Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
1995
Ivan Hutchinson, Australian film critic and author (born 1928)
1995
Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (born 1906)
1996
Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese-Dutch author, playwright, and politician (born 1903)
1998
Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (born 1952)
2001
Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (born 1913)
2001
Herblock, American cartoonist and author (born 1909)
2001
Christopher Adams, English-American wrestler and trainer (born 1955)
2002
Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)
2003
Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1932)
2003
Arthur Berger, American composer and educator (born 1912)
2004
Miki Matsubara, Japanese composer, lyricist, and singer (born 1959)
2004
Tony Lanfranchi, English race car driver (born 1935)
2005
Charles Rocket, American actor and comedian (born 1949)
2006
Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish cyclist (born 1985)
2006
Anna Politkovskaya, American-Russian journalist and activist (born 1958)
2007
Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (born 1975)
2007
George E. Sangmeister, American lawyer and politician (born 1931)
2009
Irving Penn, American photographer (born 1917)
2010
T Lavitz, American keyboard player, composer, and producer (born 1956)
2010
Milka Planinc, Croatian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1924)
2011
Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (born 1925)
2011
Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (born 1926)
2012
Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (born 1926)
2012
Ivo Michiels, Belgian-French author and poet (born 1923)
2012
Wiley Reed, American-Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1944)
2013
Mick Buckley, English footballer (born 1953)
2013
Terry Burnham, American actress (born 1949)
2013
Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)
2013
David E. Jeremiah, American admiral (born 1934)
2013
Leandro Mendoza, Filipino police officer and politician, 36th Executive Secretary of the Philippines (born 1946)
2013
Joe Rogers, American lawyer and politician, 45th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado (born 1964)
2014
Nika Kiladze, Georgian footballer (born 1988)
2014
Siegfried Lenz, Polish-German author and playwright (born 1926)
2014
Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (born 1917)
2015
Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (born 1927)
2015
Hossein Hamadani, Iranian general (born 1951)
2015
Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (born 1950)
2016
Ross Higgins, Australian actor, comedian (born 1930)
2020
Mario Molina, Mexican chemist (born 1943)
2022
Arun Bali, Indian actor (born 1942)
2023
Israelis murdered or fell in the line of duty during the October 7 attacks Lior Asulin, Israeli footballer (born 1980) Jayar Davidov, Israeli police officer (born 1979) Asaf Hamami Israeli soldier who served as commander of the Southern Brigade (born 1982) Hayim Katsman, American-Israeli peace activist (born 1991) Ofir Libstein, Israeli politician (born 1973) Roi Levy, Israel Defense Forces officer (born 1979) Shani Louk, Israeli-German tattoo artist (born 2001) Omer Neutra, Israeli soldier (born 2001) Izhar Peled, retired Israeli police officer (born 1961) Aner Shapira, an off-duty Israeli soldier who has been credited with saving the lives of at least 7 people (born 2001) Vivian Silver, Canadian-Israeli peace activist (born 1949) Yonatan Steinberg, Israel Defense Forces officer (born 1980) Yahav Winner, Israeli filmmaker (born 1986)
2023
Terence Davies, English filmmaker
2024
Cissy Houston, American singer (born 1933)
2024
Arie L. Kopelman, American businessman (born 1938)
2024
Zaw Myint Maung, Burmese politician, physician and former political prisoner (born 1951)
2024
Lore Segal, American novelist (born 1928)