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October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 70 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 451 – The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted by the Council of Chalcedon, an ecumenical council.[1]
  • 794Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heian-kyō (now Kyoto).[2]
  • 906Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking 4,000–5,000 captives.[3]
  • 1383 – The male line of the Portuguese House of Burgundy becomes extinct with the death of King Fernando, leaving only his daughter Beatrice. Rival claimants begin a period of civil war and disorder.[4]
  • 1575 – King Philip II of Spain founds Aguascalientes City in New Spain (now Mexico).[5]
  • 1633 – The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
  • 1707 – Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.
  • 1721Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.
  • 1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
  • 1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
  • 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
  • 1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
  • 1797André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
  • 1836Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
  • 1844 – Millerites, followers of Baptist preacher William Miller anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
  • 1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
  • 1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred three days before, on October 19.
  • 1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
  • 1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
  • 1878 – The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
  • 1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasts 13​12 hours before burning out).
  • 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
  • 1884 – The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
  • 1895 – In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
  • 1907 – A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
  • 1910Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
  • 1923 – The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
  • 1928Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
  • 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
  • 1941World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
  • 1943 – World War II: In the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
  • 1946Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post–World War II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
  • 1947 – The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
  • 1957Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
  • 1962Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
  • 1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
  • 1964Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.
  • 1964 – An all-party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which will become the new official flag of Canada.
  • 1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
  • 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
  • 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
  • 1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
  • 1976Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
  • 1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.
  • 1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
  • 1999Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
  • 2001Grand Theft Auto III is released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games, as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
  • 2005Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
  • 2005 – Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashes in Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.
  • 2006 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum.
  • 2007 – A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one die in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
  • 2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
  • 2013 – The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.
  • 2014 – Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
  • 2019Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.

Births[]

  • 955Qian Weijun, king of Wuyue (d. 991)
  • 1071William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 1126)[6]
  • 1197Juntoku, Japanese emperor (d. 1242)
  • 1511Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)[7]
  • 1559Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (d. 1651).
  • 1587Joachim Jungius, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1657).
  • 1592Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (d. 1657)
  • 1659Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician (d. 1734)
  • 1689John V, Portuguese king (d. 1750)
  • 1701Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1756)
  • 1729Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor and botanist (d. 1798)
  • 1761Antoine Barnave, French politician and orator (d. 1793).
  • 1749Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch historian and bookseller (d. 1816)
  • 1778Javier de Burgos, Spanish jurist and politician (d. 1848)
  • 1781Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (d. 1789).
  • 1783Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Ottoman-French polymath and naturalist (d. 1840).
  • 1809Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Texas Attorney General (d. 1889)
  • 1811Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)[8]
  • 1818Leconte de Lisle, French poet and author (d. 1894)[9]
  • 1821Collis Potter Huntington, American businessman (d. 1900)
  • 1832August Labitzky, Czech composer and conductor (d. 1903)
  • 1844Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager (d. 1923)
  • 1844 – Louis Riel, Canadian scholar and politician (d. 1885)
  • 1847Koos de la Rey, South African general (d. 1914)
  • 1850Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)
  • 1858Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1921)[10]
  • 1859Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (d. 1949).
  • 1865Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1943)[11]
  • 1870Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
  • 1870 – Lord Alfred Douglas, English author and poet (d. 1945)
  • 1873Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
  • 1873 – Rama Tirtha, Indian philosopher and educator (d. 1906)
  • 1875David van Embden, Dutch economist and politician (d. 1962)
  • 1878Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1967)
  • 1881Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
  • 1881 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (d. 1908)
  • 1882Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator (d. 1953)
  • 1882 – N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (d. 1945)
  • 1885Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor and actor (d. 1969)
  • 1886Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (d. 1970)
  • 1887John Reed, American journalist and poet (d. 1920)
  • 1893Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)
  • 1893 – Luis Otero, Spanish footballer (d. 1955).
  • 1894Mei Lanfang, Chinese actor and singer (d. 1961)
  • 1895Johnny Morrison, professional baseball player (d. 1966)
  • 1896Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (d. 1988)
  • 1896 – José Leitão de Barros, Portuguese film director and playwright (d. 1967).
  • 1897Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (d. 1958)
  • 1898Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet and philologist (d. 1990).
  • 1899Salarrué, Salvadoran writer and painter (d. 1975).
  • 1900Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927)
  • 1903George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
  • 1903 – Curly Howard, American comedian and vaudevillian (d. 1952)
  • 1904Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1965)
  • 1904 – Saúl Calandra, Argentine football player (d. 1973).
  • 1904 – Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and radio engineer (d. 1950).
  • 1905Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer (d. 1969)
  • 1906Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator (d. 1970)
  • 1906 – Aurelio Baldor, Cuban mathematician and lawyer (d. 1978).
  • 1907Günther Treptow, German tenor (d. 1981).
  • 1908John Gould, American journalist and author (d. 2003).
  • 1908 – José Escobar Saliente, Spanish cartoonist (d. 1994).
  • 1913Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1954)
  • 1913 – Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997)
  • 1913 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2002)
  • 1915Yitzhak Shamir, Belarusian-Israeli civil servant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2012)[12]
  • 1917Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (d. 2013)
  • 1918Lou Klein, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1976)
  • 1919Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)[13]
  • 1920Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d. 1996)
  • 1921Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)[14]
  • 1921 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
  • 1921 – Harald Nugiseks, Estonian sergeant (d. 2014)
  • 1923Bert Trautmann, German footballer and manager (d. 2013)
  • 1925Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
  • 1925 – Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author, and hula expert (d. 2014)
  • 1925 – Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
  • 1925 – Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
  • 1927Allan Hendrickse, South African minister and politician (d. 2005)
  • 1928Clare Fischer, American pianist, composer and arranger (d. 2012)
  • 1928 – Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
  • 1929Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett, English director and producer (d. 2015)
  • 1929 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)
  • 1930Estela de Carlotto, Argentine human rights activist
  • 1930 – José Guardiola, Spanish singer (d. 2012)
  • 1931Ann Rule, American police officer and author (d. 2015)
  • 1933Carlos Alberto Sacheri, Argentine philosopher (d. 1974)
  • 1933 – Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 2007)
  • 1934Donald McIntyre, New Zealand opera singer
  • 1936John Blashford-Snell, English soldier, author, and explorer
  • 1936 – Peter Cook, English architect and academic
  • 1936 – Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (d. 2014)
  • 1937José Larralde, Argentine singer-songwriter
  • 1937 – Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (d. 1982)
  • 1938K. Indrapala, Sri Lankan historian and academic
  • 1938 – Derek Jacobi, English actor
  • 1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor, comedian and producer
  • 1939Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician, 2nd President of Mozambique
  • 1939 – George Cohen, English footballer
  • 1939 – Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French poet and critic (d. 2013)
  • 1939 – Tony Roberts, American actor and singer
  • 1941Ahmet Mete Işıkara, Turkish geophysicist and earthquake scientist (d. 2013)
  • 1941 – Charles Keating, English-American actor (d. 2014)
  • 1942Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
  • 1942 – Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
  • 1943Allen Coage, American-Canadian wrestler and coach (d. 2007)
  • 1943 – Catherine E. Coulson, American actress (d. 2015)
  • 1943 – Jan de Bont, Dutch director, producer, and cinematographer
  • 1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer
  • 1943 – Seif Sharif Hamad, Zanzibari politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Zanzibar
  • 1945Eddie Brigati, American singer-songwriter
  • 1945 – Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and game show host
  • 1945 – Buzz Potamkin, American director and producer, founded Buzzco Associates (d. 2012)
  • 1945 – Sheila Sherwood, English long jumper
  • 1945 – Michael Stoute, Barbadian-English horse trainer
  • 1945 – Leslie West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1946Claude Charron, Canadian educator and politician
  • 1946 – Godfrey Chitalu, Zambian footballer (d. 1993)
  • 1946 – Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author
  • 1946 – Elizabeth Connell, South African mezzo-soprano (d. 2012)
  • 1946 – Kelvin MacKenzie, English journalist
  • 1946 – Jaime Nebot, Ecuadorian politician
  • 1947Raymond Bachand, Canadian lawyer and politician
  • 1947 – Haley Barbour, American lawyer and politician, 62nd Governor of Mississippi
  • 1948Mike Hendrick, English cricketer, coach, and umpire
  • 1948 – Pierre Lartigue, French rally driver
  • 1948 – Debbie Macomber, American author
  • 1949Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1990)
  • 1949 – Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Employment (d. 2015)
  • 1949 – Manfred Trojahn, German flute player, composer, and conductor
  • 1949 – Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
  • 1950Donald Ramotar, Guyanese politician, 8th President of Guyana
  • 1952Julie Dash, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1952 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor and producer
  • 1953René Arce Islas, Mexican politician
  • 1954Graham Joyce, English author and educator (d. 2014)
  • 1956John Adam, Australian rugby league player
  • 1956 – Alejandro Kuropatwa, Argentine photographer (d. 2003)
  • 1957Henry Lauterbach, German jumper
  • 1957 – Daniel Melingo, Argentine musician
  • 1958Bobby Blotzer, American drummer
  • 1959Roberto Navarro, Argentine journalist
  • 1959 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (d. 2005)
  • 1959 – Marc Shaiman, American composer and songwriter
  • 1960Darryl Jenifer, American bass player
  • 1960 – Cris Kirkwood, American singer-songwriter and bass player
  • 1961Takaaki Ishibashi, Japanese comedian, singer, and actor
  • 1961 – Barbara Potter, American tennis player[15]
  • 1962Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian
  • 1963Brian Boitano, American figure skater
  • 1964Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
  • 1964 – TobyMac, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1965Valeria Golino, Italian actress
  • 1965 – John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1965 – A. L. Kennedy, Scottish comedian, journalist, and author
  • 1965 – Otis Smith, American football player and coach
  • 1965 – Piotr Wiwczarek, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1966Yuri Arbachakov, Russian-Japanese boxer
  • 1967Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor
  • 1967 – Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
  • 1967 – Oona King, Baroness King of Bow, English academic and politician
  • 1967 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (d. 1994)
  • 1967 – Carlos Mencia, Honduran-American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1967 – Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1968Stephanie Cutter, American lawyer and political consultant
  • 1968 – Jay Johnston, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1968 – Shelby Lynne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1968 – Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican singer-songwriter and DJ
  • 1969Julio Borges, Venezuelan politician
  • 1969 – Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
  • 1969 – Spike Jonze, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1969 – Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer-songwriter
  • 1969 – Coque Malla, Spanish musician and actor
  • 1970Winston Bogarde, Dutch footballer and manager
  • 1970 – Amy Redford, American actress, director, and producer
  • 1971Amanda Coetzer, South African tennis player
  • 1971 – Kornél Dávid, Hungarian basketball player
  • 1971 – José Manuel Martínez, Spanish runner
  • 1971 – Jennifer Lee, American screenwriter, director, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • 1972D'Lo Brown, American wrestler and accountant
  • 1972 – Saffron Burrows, English-American actress
  • 1972 – Víctor Saldaño, the only Argentine man sentenced to death in the US
  • 1973Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer and manager
  • 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
  • 1973 – Mark van der Zijden, Dutch swimmer
  • 1974Tim Kinsella, American singer-songwriter
  • 1974 – Jeff McInnis, American basketball player
  • 1974 – Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player
  • 1975Martín Cardetti, Argentinian footballer and manager
  • 1975 – Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
  • 1975 – Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
  • 1976Luke Adams, Australian race walker
  • 1976 – Laidback Luke, Dutch DJ
  • 1976 – Jon Foreman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1978Dion Glover, American basketball player and coach
  • 1978 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
  • 1978 – Owais Shah, Pakistani-English cricketer
  • 1979Doni, Brazilian footballer
  • 1980Niall Breslin, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and footballer
  • 1980 – Luke O'Donnell, Australian rugby league player
  • 1980 – Sonia Sui, Taiwanese model and actress
  • 1981Michael Fishman, American actor and producer
  • 1981 – Olivier Pla, French racing driver
  • 1982Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
  • 1982 – Tim Erfen, German footballer
  • 1982 – Heath Miller, American football player
  • 1982 – Mark Renshaw, Australian cyclist
  • 1983Byul, South Korean singer
  • 1983 – Anton Müller, German footballer
  • 1983 – Plan B, British singer and actor
  • 1984Horacio Agulla, Argentine rugby player
  • 1984 – Aleks Marić, Australian basketball player
  • 1985Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan musician
  • 1985 – Hadise, Belgian-Turkish singer-songwriter and dancer
  • 1985 – Zac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
  • 1986Kenji Ebisawa, Japanese actor
  • 1986 – Kara Lang, Canadian footballer
  • 1986 – Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer
  • 1986 – Akihiro Sato, Japanese footballer
  • 1987Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian runner
  • 1987 – Donny Montell, Lithuanian singer-songwriter
  • 1987 – Park Ha-sun, South Korean actress
  • 1987 – Reen Yu, Taiwanese actress
  • 1988Sarah Barrow, English diver[16]
  • 1988 – Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress
  • 1988 – Elena Muhhina, Estonian figure skater
  • 1988 – Aykut Demir, Turkish footballer
  • 1990Nicolás Francella, Argentine actor
  • 1990 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
  • 1992Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
  • 1993Charalambos Lykogiannis, Greek footballer
  • 1995Saidy Janko, Swiss footballer
  • 1996B.I, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
  • 1996 – Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Norwegian ski runner[17]

Deaths[]

  • 726Itzamnaaj K'awiil, a Maya ruler of Dos Pilas
  • 741Charles Martel, Frankish king (b. 688)
  • 842Abo, Japanese prince (b. 792)
  • 1383Ferdinand I of Portugal (b. 1345)
  • 1455Johannes Brassart, Flemish composer
  • 1493James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
  • 1521Edward Poynings, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (b. 1459)
  • 1565Jean Grolier de Servières, French book collector (b. 1479)
  • 1604Domingo Báñez, Spanish theologian (b. 1528)
  • 1625Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyō (b. 1561)
  • 1708Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian and academic (b. 1636)
  • 1751William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)[18]
  • 1761Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1702)
  • 1755Elisha Williams, American minister, academic, and jurist (b. 1694)
  • 1792Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
  • 1847Sahle Selassie, Ethiopian ruler (b. 1795)
  • 1853Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1784)
  • 1859Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
  • 1883George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1856)
  • 1883 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American soldier and author (b. 1818)
  • 1885Lewis Majendie, English politician (b. 1835)
  • 1891Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (b. 1846)
  • 1902Herman Adolfovich Trautschold, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1817)
  • 1906Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
  • 1914Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866)
  • 1917Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (b. 1863)
  • 1917 – Charles Pardey Lukis, founder of the Indian Journal of Medical Research and later Director-General of the Indian Medical Service (b. 1857)
  • 1927Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (b. 1876)
  • 1928Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
  • 1934Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
  • 1935Edward Carson, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1854)
  • 1935 – Ettore Marchiafava, Italian physician (b. 1847)
  • 1941Guy Môquet, French militant (b. 1924)
  • 1952Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (b. 1874)
  • 1954Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian author and poet (b. 1899)
  • 1956Hannah Mitchell, English activist (b. 1872)
  • 1959George Bouzianis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1885)
  • 1959 – Joseph Cahill, Australian politician, 29th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1891)
  • 1965Muriel George, English singer and actress (b. 1883)
  • 1969Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
  • 1972James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet, writer, theologian, and social commentator. (b. 1926)
  • 1973Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
  • 1979Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (b. 1887)
  • 1979 – Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and author (b. 1914)
  • 1982Richard Hugo, American poet (b. 1923)
  • 1985Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano and educator (b. 1894)
  • 1986Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer (b. 1947)
  • 1986 – Thorgeir Stubø, Norwegian guitarist and composer (b. 1943)
  • 1986 – Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (b. 1897)
  • 1986 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
  • 1987Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919)
  • 1988Cynthia Freeman, American author (b. 1915)
  • 1989Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915)
  • 1989 – Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim (b. 1978)
  • 1990Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1918)
  • 1991Hachiro Kasuga, Japanese singer and actor (b. 1924)
  • 1992Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908)
  • 1992 – Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
  • 1993Innes Ireland, English racing driver and engineer (b. 1930)
  • 1995Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, critic (b. 1922)
  • 1995 – Mary Wickes, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
  • 1997Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
  • 1998Eric Ambler, English author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1909)
  • 2001Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1922)
  • 2002Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)
  • 2002 – Geraldine of Albania (b. 1915)
  • 2005Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
  • 2005 – Tony Adams, Irish-American actor and producer (b. 1953)
  • 2006Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor (b. 1922)
  • 2007Ève Curie, French pianist and journalist (b. 1904)
  • 2009Don Lane, American-Australian actor, singer, and talk show host (b. 1933)
  • 2009 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (b. 1926)
  • 2010Eio Sakata, Japanese Go player (b. 1920)
  • 2011Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1930)
  • 2012Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Mike Morris, English talk show host (b. 1946)
  • 2012 – Gabrielle Roth, American dancer, singer, and author (b. 1941)
  • 2013Marylou Dawes, Canadian pianist and educator (b. 1933)
  • 2013 – Lajos Für, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (b. 1930)
  • 2013 – William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
  • 2013 – James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot (b. 1925)
  • 2014George Francis, English footballer and soldier (b. 1934)
  • 2014 – John-Roger Hinkins, American religious leader and author (b. 1934)
  • 2014 – Ashok Kumar, Indian director and cinematographer (b. 1941)
  • 2014 – John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (b. 1922)
  • 2015Willem Aantjes, Dutch civil servant and politician (b. 1923)
  • 2015 – Çetin Altan, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1927)
  • 2015 – Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (b. 1926)
  • 2015 – Arnold Klein, American dermatologist and author (b. 1945)
  • 2015 – Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (b. 1975)
  • 2016Steve Dillon, British comic book artist (b. 1962)
  • 2016 – Sheri S. Tepper, American writer (b. 1929)
  • 2017George Young, British-Australian musician, songwriter and record producer (b. 1946)
  • 2017 – Paul Weitz, American astronaut (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Aaron the Illustrious (Syriac Orthodox Church)
    • Abercius of Hieropolis
    • Bertharius
    • Cordula
    • Donatus of Fiesole
    • Marcus of Jerusalem
    • Mary Salome
    • Mellonius of Rouen
    • Nunilo and Alodia
    • Pope John Paul II
    • Theodoret of Antioch
    • October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Earliest day on which Labour Day can fall, while October 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in October (New Zealand)
  • Fechner Day (International observance)
  • International Stuttering Awareness Day
  • Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan)
  • National Santri Day (Indonesia)
  • Wombat Day (Australia)

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Bibliography[]

  • Template:The History of al-Tabari

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