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October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 62 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 637Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
  • 758Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
  • 1137Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later.
  • 1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia.
  • 1340Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
  • 1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned, beginning the Tudor reign.
  • 1657Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.
  • 1806War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.
  • 1817Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
  • 1831Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
  • 1843Fuerte Bulnes, the first Chilean settlement in the strait of Magellan, is founded.
  • 1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
  • 1864 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
  • 1888 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
  • 1905Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
  • 1918World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
  • 1918 – World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments
  • 1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
  • 1925John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
  • 1938Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
  • 1941President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
  • 1941 – Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
  • 1942World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
  • 1944 – Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
  • 1945Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.
  • 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
  • 1948 – A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.[1]
  • 1953President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
  • 1956Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
  • 1959Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.[2]
  • 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
  • 1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
  • 1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
  • 1974The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.
  • 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
  • 1980El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
  • 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
  • 1985Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
  • 1991The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.[3]
  • 1993The Troubles: Loyalists carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland, killing six Catholics and two Protestants.
  • 1995Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
  • 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
  • 2014Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
  • 2015 – Sixty-four people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest.

Births[]

  • 39 BCJulia the Elder, Roman daughter of Augustus (d. 14)
  • 1218Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (d. 1234)
  • 1327Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)
  • 1447Lucas Watzenrode, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d. 1512)
  • 1492Anne d'Alençon, French noblewoman (d. 1562)
  • 1513Jacques Amyot, French bishop and translator (d. 1593)
  • 1558Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (d. 1652)
  • 1624Paul Pellisson, French historian and author (d. 1693)
  • 1632Christopher Wren, English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d. 1723)
  • 1660Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1731)
  • 1668Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (d. 1705)
  • 1712Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (d. 1770)
  • 1728Mary Hayley, English businesswoman (d. 1808)
  • 1735John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
  • 1751Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-English poet, playwright, and politician, Treasurer of the Navy (d. 1816)
  • 1762André Chénier, Turkish-French poet and playwright (d. 1794)
  • 1786Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian captain and author (d. 1871)
  • 1799Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (d. 1885)
  • 1839Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (d. 1899)
  • 1857Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d. 1904)
  • 1861Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (d. 1929)
  • 1868António Cabreira, Portuguese polygraph (d. 1953)[4]
  • 1871Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
  • 1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher (d. 1945)
  • 1873Francisco I. Madero, Mexican businessman and politician, 33rd President of Mexico (d. 1913)
  • 1877Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, Prime Minister of Latvia (d. 1941)
  • 1878Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (d. 1929)[5]
  • 1881Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
  • 1882Oldřich Duras, Czech chess player and composer (d. 1957)
  • 1882 – William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (d. 1959)
  • 1882 – Günther von Kluge, Polish-German field marshal (d. 1944)
  • 1885Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (d. 1972)
  • 1886Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1958)
  • 1887Sukumar Ray, Indian-Bangladeshi author, poet, and playwright (d. 1923)
  • 1888Louis Menges, American soccer player, soldier, and politician (d. 1969)
  • 1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek footballer and high jumper (d. 1913)
  • 1893Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder (d. 1972)
  • 1893 – Roland Freisler, German soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 1945)
  • 1894Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (d. 1977)
  • 1894 – Peter Warlock, English composer and critic (d. 1930)
  • 1895Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
  • 1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
  • 1896Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
  • 1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1985)
  • 1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and educator (d. 1928)
  • 1896 – Harry Randall Truman, American soldier (d. 1980)
  • 1896 – Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (d. 1985)
  • 1897Agustín Lara, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1970)
  • 1898Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989)
  • 1900Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
  • 1905Johnny Miles, English-Canadian runner (d. 2003)
  • 1906Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966)
  • 1906 – Hermann Fegelein, German general (d. 1945)
  • 1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator (d. 1970)
  • 1907Sol Tax, American anthropologist and academic (d. 1995)
  • 1908Patsy Montana, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
  • 1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (d. 1963)
  • 1908 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (d. 1967)
  • 1908 – Dmitry Ustinov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1984)
  • 1909Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (d. 1966)
  • 1910Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian-Monegasque organist and composer (d. 1994)
  • 1911Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
  • 1914Richard E. Holz, American minister and composer (d. 1986)
  • 1914 – Leabua Jonathan, Basotho lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (d. 1987)
  • 1914 – Anna Wing, English actress (d. 2013)
  • 1915Fred W. Friendly, American journalist and producer (d. 1998)
  • 1915 – Jane Randolph, American-Swiss actress and singer (d. 2009)
  • 1916Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
  • 1917Bobby Bragan, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2010)
  • 1917 – Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (d. 1994)
  • 1917 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (d. 1994)
  • 1917 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
  • 1920 – Christy Ring, Irish sportsman (d. 1979)
  • 1921Valli Lember-Bogatkina (d. 2016)[6]
  • 1922Jane White, American actress and singer (d. 2011)
  • 1924John P. Craven, American soldier and engineer (d. 2015)
  • 1923Gloria Oden, American poet and academic (d. 2011)
  • 1925Tommy Ridgley, American singer and bandleader (d. 1999)
  • 1926Jacques Swaters, Belgian race car driver and manager (d. 2010)
  • 1927Joe Adcock, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
  • 1928Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
  • 1928 – Peter Wales, English cricketer (d. 2018)
  • 1929Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (d. 2012)
  • 1929 – Jean Chapman, English author
  • 1930Néstor Almendros, Spanish-American director and cinematographer (d. 1992)
  • 1930 – Christopher Foster, English economist and academic
  • 1930 – Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1956)
  • 1930 – Don Meineke, American basketball player (d. 2013)
  • 1931Vince Callahan, American lieutenant and politician (d. 2014)
  • 1931 – David M. Wilson, Manx archaeologist, historian, and curator
  • 1932Barun De, Indian historian and author (d. 2013)
  • 1932 – Louis Malle, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
  • 1933Col Campbell, New Zealand gardener and television host (d. 2012)
  • 1934Keith Barnes, Welsh-Australian rugby player and coach
  • 1934 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch flute player and conductor (d. 2014)
  • 1935Robert Caro, American journalist and author
  • 1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian-Swiss author (d. 2011)
  • 1935 – Jim Perry, American baseball player
  • 1935 – Michael Winner, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
  • 1936Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast and trainer (d. 2005)
  • 1936 – Dick Vermeil, American football player and coach
  • 1937Claude Lelouch, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1937 – Brian Price, Welsh rugby player
  • 1938Morris Lurie, Australian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 2014)
  • 1939 – Harvey Goldstein, English statistician and academic
  • 1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1939 – Eddie Holland, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1939 – Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and model
  • 1941Marcel Berlins, French-English lawyer, journalist, and academic
  • 1941 – Aleksandr Dulichenko, Russian-Estonian linguist and academic
  • 1941 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1941 – Otis Williams, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1941 – Bob Wilson, English footballer and sportscaster
  • 1942Sven-David Sandström, Swedish composer and historian
  • 1943Paul Claes, Belgian poet and translator
  • 1943 – Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
  • 1943 – David Triesman, Baron Triesman, English union leader and politician
  • 1944Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi businessman and politician (d. 2015)
  • 1945Henry Winkler, American actor, comedian, director, and producer
  • 1946Robert L. Gibson, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
  • 1946 – Andrea Mitchell, American journalist
  • 1946 – Anthony Shorrocks, English economist, author, and academic
  • 1946 – Chris Slade, Welsh drummer
  • 1947Glenn Andreotta, American soldier (d. 1968)
  • 1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, American singer-songwriter and bass player
  • 1947 – Herschel Weingrod, American screenwriter and producer
  • 1948Richard Alston, English dancer and choreographer
  • 1948 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor and screenwriter
  • 1949Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (d. 1996)
  • 1950Tim Sheens, Australian rugby league player and coach
  • 1951Tony Bettenhausen, Jr., American race car driver and businessman (d. 2000)
  • 1951 – Trilok Gurtu, Indian drummer and songwriter
  • 1951 – Harry Hamlin, American actor
  • 1951 – Poncho Sanchez, American singer and conga player
  • 1953Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American lawyer and politician
  • 1953 – Charles Martin Smith, American actor, director, and screenwriter
  • 1954Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer
  • 1954 – T. Graham Brown, American country singer-songwriter
  • 1954 – Jeannie Kendall, American country singer-songwriter
  • 1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-English photographer
  • 1955Heidi Heitkamp, American lawyer and politician, 28th Attorney General of North Dakota
  • 1956Juliet Stevenson, English actress
  • 1957Shlomo Mintz, Israeli violinist and conductor
  • 1957 – Kevin Pollak, American actor, game show host, and producer
  • 1958Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (d. 2014)
  • 1958 – Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
  • 1958 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor and singer
  • 1958 – Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist and photographer
  • 1959Vincent Lagaf', French actor, singer, and game show host
  • 1960Charnele Brown, American actress and singer
  • 1960 – Grayson Hugh, American singer-songwriter
  • 1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
  • 1961Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
  • 1961 – Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
  • 1961 – Larry Wilmore, American comedian and television host
  • 1962 – Stefan Kuntz, German footballer and manager
  • 1962Danny Tartabull, Puerto Rican baseball player
  • 1962 – Courtney Walsh, Jamaican cricketer
  • 1963Michael Beach, American actor and producer
  • 1963 – Rebecca Heineman, American video game designer and programmer
  • 1963 – Andrew Solomon, American-English journalist and author
  • 1963 – Mike Veletta, Australian cricketer and coach
  • 1963 – Kristina Wagner, American actress
  • 1964Adnan Al Talyani, Emirati footballer
  • 1964 – Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi journalist and author
  • 1964 – Howard Lederer, American poker player
  • 1965Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
  • 1967Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1967 – Leonidas Kavakos, Greek violinist and conductor
  • 1968Emmanuelle Claret, French biathlete (d. 2013)
  • 1968 – Jack Plotnick, American actor, director, and producer
  • 1968 – Ken Stringfellow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1969Stanislav Gross, Czech lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015)
  • 1969 – Snow, Canadian rapper and reggae singer-songwriter
  • 1969 – Vangelis Vourtzoumis, Greek basketball player
  • 1970Ben Bailey, American comedian and game show host
  • 1970 – Tory Belleci, American visual effects designer and television presenter
  • 1970 – Christine Bersola-Babao, Filipino journalist and actress
  • 1970 – Nia Long, American actress
  • 1970 – Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
  • 1971Fredi Bobic, Slovenian-German footballer and manager
  • 1971 – Tzanis Stavrakopoulos, Greek basketball player
  • 1971 – Peter New, Canadian actor, voice actor and screenwriters
  • 1971 – Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch field hockey player
  • 1972Jessica Hynes, English actress, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1973Michael Buettner, Australian rugby league player and official
  • 1973 – Silvia Corzo, Colombian lawyer and journalist
  • 1973 – Edge, Canadian wrestler and actor
  • 1973 – Michael Oakes, English footballer and manager
  • 1973 – Raci Şaşmaz, Turkish actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1975Ian D'Sa, English-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1975 – Marco Scutaro, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 1976Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
  • 1976 – Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer and manager
  • 1976 – Maurice Taylor, American basketball player
  • 1978Martin Dossett, American football player
  • 1978 – Stephanie Izard, American chef
  • 1978 – Matthew Morrison, American singer-songwriter and actor
  • 1978 – Dan Poulter, English physician and politician
  • 1978 – Derren Witcombe, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer
  • 1979Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
  • 1980Choi Hong-man, South Korean wrestler and mixed martial artist
  • 1980 – Kareem Rush, American basketball player
  • 1980 – Rich Alvarez, Filipino-Japanese basketball player
  • 1981Joshua Jay, American magician and author
  • 1981 – Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean model and actress
  • 1981 – Ayaka Kimura, Japanese singer and actress
  • 1981 – Ian Snell, American baseball player
  • 1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman
  • 1982Stalley, American rapper
  • 1982 – Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
  • 1982 – Manny Parra, American baseball player
  • 1983Trent Edwards, American football player
  • 1983 – Iain Hume, Scottish-Canadian footballer
  • 1983 – Maor Melikson, Israeli footballer
  • 1984Eva Marcille, American model and actress
  • 1984 – Gedo, Egyptian footballer
  • 1984 – David Mooney, Irish footballer
  • 1984 – Isaac Ross, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1984 – Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1985Ragnar Klavan, Estonian footballer
  • 1986Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
  • 1986 – Keisuke Sohma, Japanese actor
  • 1987Ali Riley, New Zealand footballer
  • 1987 – Danielle Fong, Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder and Chief Scientist of LightSail Energy
  • 1988Janel Parrish, American actress and singer
  • 1989Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer
  • 1989 – Nastia Liukin, Russian-American gymnast and actress
  • 1990Suwaibou Sanneh, Gambian sprinter
  • 1992Matt Parcell, Australian rugby league player
  • 1992 – Camila Silva, Chilean tennis player
  • 1993Marcus Mariota, American football player
  • 1994Mia Eklund, Finnish tennis player
  • 1996Devin Booker, American basketball player

Deaths[]

  • 526Paul of Edessa, Syriac Orthodox bishop of Edessa
  • 1137Sergius VII, Duke of Naples
  • 1282Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer
  • 1282 – Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (b. 1211)
  • 1459Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar and translator (b. 1380)[7]
  • 1466Johann Fust, German printer (b. c. 1400)
  • 1522Jean Mouton, French composer and educator (b. 1459)
  • 1553Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German politician (b. 1489)
  • 1602Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet and illustrator (b. 1528)
  • 1611Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
  • 1626Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
  • 1632Henri II de Montmorency, French admiral and politician (b. 1595)
  • 1654Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (b. 1633)
  • 1680Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
  • 1685Michel Le Tellier, French lawyer and politician, French Secretary of State for War (b. 1603)
  • 1690Hieronymus van Beverningh, Dutch diplomat and politician (b. 1614)
  • 1730Nedîm, Turkish poet (b. 1681)
  • 1757Osman III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1699)
  • 1757 – Edward Vernon, English admiral and politician (b. 1684)
  • 1809William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
  • 1816Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
  • 1842Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (b. 1784)
  • 1853Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
  • 1882William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1818)
  • 1883Dayananda Saraswati, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1824)
  • 1883 – Robert Volkmann, German pianist and composer (b. 1815)
  • 1893John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
  • 1894Honoré Mercier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
  • 1895James Patterson, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Victoria (b. 1833)
  • 1896Carol Benesch, Czech architect, designed Peleș Castle (b. 1822)
  • 1899William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1816)
  • 1905Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Queensland (b. 1843)
  • 1910Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
  • 1912Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean colonel (b. 1840)
  • 1912 – James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
  • 1915Charles Tupper, Canadian physician, lawyer, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
  • 1917Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
  • 1919Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (b. 1850)
  • 1923Bonar Law, Canadian-English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
  • 1933Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (b. 1869)
  • 1942Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and stockbroker, co-founder of Buckmaster & Moore (b. 1872)
  • 1943Max Reinhardt, Austrian-born American actor and director (b. 1873)
  • 1957Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (b. 1880)
  • 1961Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1874)[8]
  • 1963U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1908)
  • 1965Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (b. 1888)
  • 1966Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright (b. 1906)
  • 1968Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (b. 1899)
  • 1968 – Conrad Richter, American journalist and novelist (b. 1890)
  • 1968 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
  • 1973Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (b. 1894)
  • 1975Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
  • 1979Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, inventor of the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887)[9]
  • 1982Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian author and educator (b. 1907)
  • 1987Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (b. 1904)
  • 1988T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1911)
  • 1998 – Florence Nagle, English trainer and breeder of racehorses (b. 1894)
  • 1990V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1901)
  • 1992Joan Mitchell, American painter (b. 1925)
  • 1993Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (b. 1911)
  • 1996John Young, Scottish actor (b. 1916)
  • 1997Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
  • 1999Maigonis Valdmanis, Latvian basketball player (b. 1933)
  • 2000Steve Allen, American actor, television personality, game show panelist, and talk show host (b. 1921)
  • 2002Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
  • 2002 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and producer (b. 1965)
  • 2003Steve O'Rourke, English race car driver and manager (b. 1940)
  • 2004Phyllis Frost, Australian philanthropist, founded Keep Australia Beautiful (b. 1917)
  • 2004 – Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (b. 1924)
  • 2005Al López, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
  • 2005 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian politician (b. 1942)
  • 2006Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and author (b. 1926)
  • 2006 – Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright and scholar (b. 1914)
  • 2007Washoe, American chimpanzee (b. 1965)
  • 2007 – Robert Goulet, American actor and singer (b. 1933)
  • 2007 – Linda S. Stein, American businesswoman and manager (b. 1945)
  • 2007 – John Woodruff, American runner and colonel (b. 1915)
  • 2008Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
  • 2009Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1908)
  • 2010Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1927)
  • 2012Franck Biancheri, French politician (b. 1961)
  • 2012 – Samina Raja, Pakistani poet and educator (b. 1961)
  • 2012 – Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
  • 2013Bill Currie, American baseball player (b. 1928)
  • 2013 – Pete Haycock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
  • 2013 – Michael Palmer, American physician and author (b. 1942)
  • 2013 – Frank Wess, American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1922)
  • 2014Elijah Malok Aleng, Sudanese general and politician (b. 1937)
  • 2014 – Renée Asherson, English actress (b. 1915)
  • 2014 – Juan Flavier, Filipino physician and politician (b. 1935)
  • 2014 – Ida Elizabeth Osbourne, Australian actress and radio host (b. 1916)
  • 2014 – Bob Geigel, American wrestler and promoter (b. 1924)
  • 2014 – Thomas Menino, American businessman and politician, 53rd Mayor of Boston (b. 1942)
  • 2015Mel Daniels, American basketball player and coach (b. 1944)
  • 2015 – Al Molinaro, American actor (b. 1919)
  • 2015 – Sinan Şamil Sam, Turkish boxer (b. 1974)
  • 2015 – Norm Siebern, American baseball player and scout (b. 1933)
  • 2017Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (b. 1972)

Holidays and observances[]

  • Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
  • Christian feast day:
    • Ethelnoth (Egelnoth) the Good
    • Blessed Dominic Collins (Catholic, Ireland, Society of Jesus)
    • Gerard of Potenza
    • Blessed Maria Teresa of St. Joseph
    • John Wycliffe (Episcopal Church (USA))
    • Marcellus of Tangier
    • Saturninus of Cagliari
    • Serapion of Antioch
    • Talarican (Tarkin)
    • Theonistus
    • Zenobios and Zenobia
    • October 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former Soviet republics, except Ukraine)
  • Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community, India)

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