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October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 83 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 768Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
  • 1238James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
  • 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
  • 1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
  • 1594 – Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
  • 1604Supernova 1604 is sighted, the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
  • 1635Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
  • 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
  • 1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
  • 1740 – Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
  • 1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
  • 1790 – A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
  • 1799HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
  • 1804Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
  • 1806 – Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
  • 1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
  • 1820Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
  • 1824Slavery in Latin America: Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
  • 1825Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
  • 1831Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.
  • 1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
  • 1847Slavery in the British and French Caribbean: Slavery is abolished in Saint Barthélemy.
  • 1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sevastopol begins.
  • 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
  • 1864 – American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.
  • 1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
  • 1874 – The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
  • 1900 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
  • 1907Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • 1911 – An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
  • 1913 – The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
  • 1914 – World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
  • 1918 – The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland.
  • 1919 – The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
  • 1934 – An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
  • 1936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
  • 1937Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
  • 1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
  • 1942 – Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
  • 1950 – The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
  • 1962Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
  • 1962 – A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
  • 1963 – In Italy, a large landslide a causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
  • 1966 – Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre.
  • 1967 – A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
  • 1969 – In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
  • 1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
  • 1980Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
  • 1981 – President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
  • 1983 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
  • 1986The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
  • 1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
  • 2003Mission: Space opens to the public in Walt Disney World.
  • 2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
  • 2009 – First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
  • 2012 – Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
  • 2016 – The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
  • 2019 – Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.

Births[]

  • 1201Robert de Sorbon, French minister and theologian, founded the Collège de Sorbonne (d. 1274)
  • 1221Salimbene di Adam, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1290)
  • 1261Denis of Portugal (d. 1325)
  • 1328Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
  • 1581Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (d. 1638)
  • 1586Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (d. 1632)
  • 1593Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (d. 1674)
  • 1609Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (d. 1688)
  • 1623Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (d. 1688)
  • 1704Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
  • 1757Charles X of France (d. 1836)
  • 1796Joseph Bonomi the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor (d. 1878)
  • 1835Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (d. 1921)
  • 1837Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (d. 1902)
  • 1840Simeon Solomon, English painter (d. 1905)
  • 1845Carl Gustav Thulin, Swedish shipowner (d. 1918)
  • 1850Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (d. 1930)
  • 1852Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
  • 1858Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935)
  • 1859Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (d. 1935)
  • 1863Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (d. 1930)
  • 1864Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (d. 1927)
  • 1871Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (d. 1940)
  • 1873Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1944)
  • 1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
  • 1873 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (d. 1939)
  • 1874Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter (d. 1947)
  • 1877Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (d. 1928)
  • 1879Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
  • 1880Charlie Faust, American baseball player (d. 1915)
  • 1883Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress (d. 1956)
  • 1886Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (d. 1980)
  • 1888Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (d. 1938)
  • 1888 – Irving Cummings, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1959)
  • 1890Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (d. 1944)
  • 1892Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
  • 1893Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (d. 1945)
  • 1897M. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras State (d. 1987)
  • 1898Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright (d. 1987)
  • 1898 – Joe Sewell, American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1990)
  • 1899Bruce Catton, American historian and author (d. 1978)
  • 1900Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented the bendy straw (d. 1982)
  • 1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (d. 1976)
  • 1900 – Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1990)
  • 1901Alice Lee Jemison, Seneca political activist and journalist (d. 1964)
  • 1902Freddie Young, English cinematographer (d. 1998)
  • 1903Walter O'Malley, American lawyer and businessman (d. 1979)
  • 1906J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (d. 1985)
  • 1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (d. 2001)
  • 1907Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 2001)
  • 1907 – Jacques Tati, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1982)
  • 1907 – Horst Wessel, German SA officer (d. 1930)
  • 1908Harry Hooton, Australian poet and critic (d. 1961)
  • 1908 – Werner von Haeften, German lieutenant (d. 1944)
  • 1908 – Lee Wiley, American singer (d. 1975)
  • 1909Donald Coggan, English archbishop (d. 2000)
  • 1911Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
  • 1914Edward Andrews, American actor (d. 1985)
  • 1915Clifford M. Hardin, American academic and politician, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010)
  • 1915 – Belva Plain, American author (d. 2010)
  • 1918E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (d. 2007)
  • 1918 – Charles Read, Australian air marshal (d. 2014)
  • 1918 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2013)
  • 1920Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author and educator (d. 1976)
  • 1920 – Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (d. 2013)
  • 1920 – Jason Wingreen, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
  • 1921Michel Boisrond, French director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
  • 1921 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014)
  • 1922Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (d. 1997)
  • 1922 – Philip "Fyvush" Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)
  • 1922 – Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (d. 2010)
  • 1923Donald Sinden, English actor (d. 2014)
  • 1924Immanuvel Devendrar, Indian soldier (d. 1957)
  • 1924 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (d. 2012)[1]
  • 1926Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (d. 2015)
  • 1927John Margetson, English scholar and diplomat, British Ambassador to the Netherlands
  • 1928Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer and educator (d. 2016)
  • 1930Hank Lauricella, American football player, lieutenant, and politician (d. 2014)
  • 1931Tony Booth, English actor (d. 2017)
  • 1931 – Homer Smith, American football player and coach (d. 2011)
  • 1932Robert McBain, English actor and photographer (d. 2004)
  • 1933Peter Mansfield, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
  • 1933 – Bill Tidy, English soldier and cartoonist
  • 1934Jill Ker Conway, Australian historian and author (d. 2018)
  • 1934 – Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
  • 1935Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
  • 1935 – Don McCullin, English photographer and journalist
  • 1936Brian Blessed, English actor
  • 1936 – Mick Young, Australian politician (d. 1996)
  • 1938Heinz Fischer, Austrian academic and politician, 11th President of Austria
  • 1938 – John Sutherland, English journalist, author, and academic
  • 1939Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect and academic
  • 1939 – John Pilger, Australian-English journalist, director, and producer
  • 1939 – Stephen Sedley, English lawyer and judge
  • 1939 – O. V. Wright, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1980)
  • 1940Gordon J. Humphrey, American soldier, pilot, and politician
  • 1940 – John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1980)
  • 1940 – Joe Pepitone, American baseball player and coach
  • 1941Brian Lamb, American broadcaster, founded C-SPAN
  • 1941 – Trent Lott, American lawyer and politician
  • 1941 – Omali Yeshitela, political activist and founder of the Uhuru Movement
  • 1942Michael Palmer, American physician and author (d. 2013)
  • 1943Douglas Kirby, American psychologist and author (d. 2012)
  • 1943 – Jimmy Montgomery, English footballer and coach
  • 1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist
  • 1944Rita Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy, English academic and politician
  • 1944 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 2002)
  • 1944 – Nona Hendryx, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
  • 1945Taiguara, Uruguayan-Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
  • 1945 – Amjad Ali Khan, Indian classical Sarod player
  • 1947John Doubleday, English sculptor and painter
  • 1947 – France Gall, French singer (d. 2018)
  • 1947 – William E. McAnulty Jr., American lawyer and judge (d. 2007)
  • 1947 – Tony Zappone, American photographer and journalist
  • 1948Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1948 – John Gray, English cricketer and rugby player
  • 1949Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2016)
  • 1949 – Mark Hopkinson, American mass murderer (d. 1992)
  • 1950Brian Downing, American baseball player
  • 1950 – Yoshiyuki Konishi, Japanese fashion designer
  • 1950 – Reichi Nakaido, Japanese singer and guitarist
  • 1950 – Jody Williams, American academic and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1952Simon Drew, English illustrator
  • 1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English television host and manager
  • 1952 – John Rose, English businessman
  • 1952 – Dennis Stratton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1953Sally Burgess, South African-English soprano and educator
  • 1953 – Hank Pfister, American tennis player
  • 1953 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor and producer
  • 1954Scott Bakula, American actor
  • 1954 – James Fearnley, English musician
  • 1954 – John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
  • 1954 – Rubén Magnano, Argentine-Italian professional basketball coach
  • 1955Linwood Boomer, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1955 – Steve Ovett, English runner and sportscaster
  • 1955 – Peter Saville, English graphic designer and art director
  • 1957Don Garber, American businessman
  • 1957 – Ini Kamoze, Jamaican singer-songwriter
  • 1958Al Jourgensen, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1958 – Alan Nunnelee, American lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
  • 1958 – Mike Singletary, American football player and coach
  • 1959Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2015)
  • 1960Kenny Garrett, American saxophonist and composer
  • 1961Julian Bailey, English race car driver and sportscaster
  • 1961 – Kurt Neumann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1961 – Ellen Wheeler, American actress, director, and producer
  • 1962Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer and manager
  • 1962 – Paul Radisich, New Zealand race car driver
  • 1962 – Hugh Robertson, English soldier and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
  • 1962 – Ōnokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna
  • 1963Andy Platt, English rugby league player
  • 1964Guillermo del Toro, Mexican-American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1965Jimbo Fisher, American football player and coach
  • 1966David Cameron, English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • 1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher, founded Plaza Magazine
  • 1967Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player
  • 1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (d. 2005)
  • 1967 – Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
  • 1968Anbumani Ramadoss, Indian politician
  • 1969Guto Bebb, Welsh businessman and politician
  • 1969 – Darren Britt, Australian rugby league player
  • 1969 – Simon Fairweather, Australian archer
  • 1969 – PJ Harvey, English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer
  • 1969 – Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater and coach
  • 1969 – Giles Martin, English songwriter and producer
  • 1969 – Steve McQueen, English director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1970Kenny Anderson, American basketball player and coach
  • 1970 – Steve Jablonsky, American composer
  • 1970 – Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer and architect
  • 1971Wayne Bartrim, Australian rugby league player and coach
  • 1973Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
  • 1974Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi
  • 1975Haylie Ecker, Australian violinist
  • 1975 – Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
  • 1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
  • 1976William Alexander, American author and educator
  • 1976 – Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer and coach
  • 1976 – Özlem Türköne, Turkish journalist and politician
  • 1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor and comedian
  • 1977Emanuele Belardi, Italian footballer
  • 1977 – Brian Roberts, American baseball player
  • 1978Nicky Byrne, Irish singer-songwriter
  • 1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player and coach
  • 1979Vernon Fox, American football player and coach
  • 1979 – Alex Greenwald, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
  • 1979 – Todd Kelly, Australian race car driver
  • 1979 – Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1979 – Brandon Routh, American model and actor
  • 1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
  • 1980Lucy Akello, Ugandan social worker and politician
  • 1980 – Filip Bobek, Polish actor
  • 1980 – Pāvels Doroševs, Latvian football goalkeeper
  • 1980 – Kert Kütt, Estonian footballer
  • 1980 – Amir Nussbaum, Israeli footballer
  • 1980 – Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer
  • 1980 – Sarah Lovell, Australian politician
  • 1980 – Fábio Pinto, Brazilian footballer
  • 1980 – Thami Tsolekile, South African cricketer
  • 1980 – Warren Waugh, English footballer
  • 1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
  • 1981Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
  • 1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player
  • 1983Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
  • 1983 – Farhaan Behardien, South African cricketer
  • 1983 – Jang Mi-ran, South Korean weightlifter
  • 1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian race car driver
  • 1985David Plummer, American swimmer
  • 1986Derek Holland, American baseball player
  • 1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
  • 1986 – Stephane Zubar, French footballer
  • 1987Samantha Murray, English tennis player
  • 1987 – Bill Walker, American basketball player
  • 1988David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player
  • 1989Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player
  • 1990Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer
  • 1991Tyson Frizell, Australian-Welsh rugby league player
  • 1992Tyler James Williams, American actor and rapper
  • 1993Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player
  • 1993 – Lauren Davis, American tennis player
  • 1993 – Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player
  • 1993 – Scotty McCreery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1993 – Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster
  • 1996Bella Hadid, American model
  • 2001Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer[2]

Deaths[]

  • 680Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint
  • 892Al-Tirmidhi, Persian scholar and hadith compiler (b. 824)
  • 1047Pope Clement II
  • 1212Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (b. 1175)
  • 1253Robert Grosseteste, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1175)
  • 1273Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (b. 1227)
  • 1296Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)
  • 1390John I of Castile (b. 1358)
  • 1555Justus Jonas, German academic and reformer (b. 1493)
  • 1562Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1523)
  • 1569Vladimir of Staritsa (b. 1533)
  • 1581Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1526)
  • 1613Henry Constable, English poet (b. 1562)
  • 1619Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (b. 1561)
  • 1691William Sacheverell, English politician (b. 1638)
  • 1729Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (b. 1654)
  • 1793Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary and linguist (b. 1718)
  • 1797Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (b. 1720)
  • 1806Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731)
  • 1808John Claiborne, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
  • 1831Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
  • 1873George Ormerod, English historian and author (b. 1785)
  • 1897Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
  • 1900Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
  • 1911Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (b. 1849)[3]
  • 1924Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
  • 1934Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander the Unifier (b. 1888)
  • 1934Louis Barthou, French union leader and politician, 78th Prime Minister of France (b. 1862)
  • 1937Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868)
  • 1940Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)
  • 1941Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
  • 1943Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
  • 1945Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
  • 1946Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
  • 1947Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
  • 1950George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)
  • 1953James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
  • 1955Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
  • 1956Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
  • 1958Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
  • 1959Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and biologist (b. 1892)
  • 1962Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (b. 1885)
  • 1967Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (b. 1928)
  • 1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
  • 1967 – André Maurois, French soldier and author (b. 1885)
  • 1967 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (b. 1883)
  • 1969Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928)
  • 1972Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
  • 1974Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (b. 1908)
  • 1975Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910)
  • 1976Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
  • 1978Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
  • 1982Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (b. 1893)
  • 1985Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905)
  • 1987Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1903)
  • 1987 – William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
  • 1988Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
  • 1989Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1921)
  • 1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
  • 1995Alec Douglas-Home, British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
  • 1996Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (b. 1913)
  • 1999Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (b. 1923)
  • 1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (b. 1914)
  • 2000David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
  • 2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
  • 2001Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1927)
  • 2002Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (b. 1931)
  • 2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • 2003Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (b. 1926)
  • 2003 – Carl Fontana, American jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
  • 2004Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1930)
  • 2005Louis Nye, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 2006Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (b. 1933)
  • 2006 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (b. 1978)
  • 2006 – Kanshi Ram, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
  • 2007Enrico Banducci, American businessman, founded hungry i (b. 1922)
  • 2007 – Carol Bruce, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
  • 2009Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author and educator (b. 1934)
  • 2009 – John Daido Loori, American Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher (b. 1931)
  • 2009 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (b. 1934)
  • 2010Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
  • 2011Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989)
  • 2012Sammi Kane Kraft, American actress (b. 1992)
  • 2012 – Kenny Rollins, American basketball player (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Harris Savides, American cinematographer (b. 1957)
  • 2013Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (b. 1933)
  • 2013 – Srihari, Indian actor
  • 2013 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
  • 2013 – Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (b. 1925)
  • 2014Boris Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (b. 1929)
  • 2014 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (b. 1957)
  • 2014 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (b. 1925)
  • 2014 – Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (b. 1921)
  • 2014 – Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (b. 1936)
  • 2015Ray Duncan, American businessman (b. 1930)
  • 2015 – Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1926)
  • 2015 – Ravindra Jain, Indian composer and director (b. 1944)
  • 2016Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (b. 1926)
  • 2017Jean Rochefort, French actor[4] (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Abraham
    • Denis
    • Dionysius the Areopagite
    • Ghislain
    • Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias
    • Blessed John Henry Newman
    • John Leonardi
    • Luis Beltran
    • Robert Grosseteste (Church of England)
    • Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church (USA))
    • October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Fire Prevention Day (Canada, United States)
  • Hangul Day (South Korea)
  • Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962. (Uganda)
  • Independence of Guayaquil from Spain in 1820 (Ecuador)
  • Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland and Norway)
  • National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania)
  • National Nanotechnology Day (United States)
  • Takayama Autumn Festival (Takayama, Japan)
  • World Post Day

References[]

  1. "Arnie Risen". The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  2. "Kyla Leibel". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  3. Krass, Peter (April 29, 2004). Blood and Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel. Wiley. p. 210. ISBN 9780471273929. Jack Daniel welcomed the end on October 9, 1911
  4. "French acting legend Jean Rochefort has died". The Independent. 9 October 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-10-09.

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