On This Day: October 23 - Historical Events, Births & Deaths

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2022 Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term of the paramount leader of China. ↗
2022 Myanmar Air Force airstrikes a concert in Hpakant Township, Kachin state killing at least 80 people, including senior Kachin Independence Organisation officials, in the Hpakant massacre. ↗
2020 Second Libyan Civil War: The Second Libyan Civil War comes to an end as all parties to the 5+5 Joint Libyan Military Commission agree to a ceasefire. ↗
2017 War against the Islamic State: Philippine defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana declares the end of the Siege of Marawi. ↗
2015 The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages. ↗
2011 A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands. ↗
2011 The Libyan National Transitional Council deems the Libyan Civil War over. ↗
2007 A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform. ↗
2007 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-120, with Pamela Melroy becoming the second female space shuttle commander. ↗
2004 A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated. ↗
2002 Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage. ↗
2001 Apple Computer releases the iPod. ↗
1998 Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum. ↗
1995 Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena. ↗
1993 The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. ↗
1991 Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. ↗
1989 The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic. ↗
1989 Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine, the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then. ↗
1989 An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314. ↗
1983 Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French Army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops. ↗
1982 A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured. ↗
1978 Aeroflot Flight 6515 crashes off Syvash, killing all 26 people aboard. ↗
1972 Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months. ↗
1970 Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas. ↗
1965 Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me. ↗
1959 Aeroflot Flight 200 crashes while attempting to land at Vnukovo International Airport, killing 28. ↗
1958 Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued. ↗
1958 Belgian artist Peyo's comic characters, the Smurfs, make their debut in Spirou magazine. ↗
1956 Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the Hungarian Revolution. ↗
1955 Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam. ↗
1955 The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite with West Germany instead of France. ↗
1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodger's minor league team, the Montreal Royals, breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier. ↗
1944 World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins. ↗
1942 World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign. ↗
1942 All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a U.S. Army Air Force bomber near Palm Springs, California. ↗
1942 World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal. ↗
1941 The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories. ↗
1940 Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War. ↗
1927 The Imatra Cinema is destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people die in the fire and almost 30 are injured. ↗
1924 Second Zhili–Fengtian War: Warlord Feng Yuxiang, with the covert support of the Empire of Japan, stages a coup in Beijing against his erstwhile superiors in the Zhili clique, crippling their nearly victorious war effort against the Fengtian clique and forcing them to withdraw from northern China. ↗
1923 German October: Due to a miscommunication with the party leadership, a militant section of the Communist Party of Germany launches an insurrection in Hamburg. ↗
1912 First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. ↗
1911 The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight. ↗
1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe. ↗
1868 Meiji Restoration: Having taken the shogunate's seat of power at Edo and declared it his new capital as Tokyo, Mutsuhito proclaims the start of the new Meiji era. ↗
1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Westport is the last significant engagement west of the Mississippi River, ending in a Union victory. ↗
1856 Second Opium War: Dissatisfied with imperial commissioner Ye Mingchen's reparations for the alleged slighting of a British-owned vessel and at Consul Harry Parkes's urging, British Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour launches an assault on the Barrier Forts outside Canton in the first military engagement of the Second Opium War. ↗
1850 The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts. ↗
1812 General Claude François de Malet begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon, claiming that the Emperor died in the Russian campaign. ↗
1798 The forces of Ali Pasha of Janina defeat the French and capture the town of Preveza in the Battle of Nicopolis. ↗
1707 The First Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain convenes. ↗
1666 The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the Fujita scale or T8 on the TORRO scale, strikes the county of Lincolnshire, with winds of more than 213 miles per hour (343 km/h). ↗
1642 The Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the English Civil War. ↗
1641 Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, so as to force concessions. ↗
1295 The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris. ↗
1157 The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the Danish Civil War. ↗
1086 Spanish Reconquista: At the Battle of Sagrajas, the Almoravids defeat the Castilians, but are unable to take advantage of their victory. ↗
502 The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius. ↗
425 Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six. ↗
42 BCE Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat an army under Brutus in the second part of the Battle of Philippi, with Brutus committing suicide and ending the civil war. ↗
4004 BCE James Ussher's purported creation date of the world according to the Bible. ↗

2002 Ningning, Chinese singer ↗
1999 Yui Kobayashi, Japanese idol ↗
1998 Amandla Stenberg, American actress ↗
1998 Jordan Goodwin, American basketball player ↗
1997 Nick Bosa, American football player ↗
1997 Élie Okobo, French basketball player ↗
1997 Jaydn Su'A, New Zealand rugby league player ↗
1997 Minnie, Thai singer ↗
1995 Ireland Baldwin, American model ↗
1994 Margaret Qualley, American actress ↗
1993 Josh Ruffels, English footballer ↗
1991 Emil Forsberg, Swedish footballer ↗
1991 Princess Mako of Akishino, member of the Japanese Imperial Family ↗
1991 Jorge Taufua, Australian rugby league player ↗
1989 Viktor Agardius, Swedish footballer ↗
1989 Alain Baroja, Venezuelan footballer ↗
1989 Zach Brown, American football player ↗
1989 Jonita Gandhi, Indo-Canadian singer ↗
1989 Anisya Kirdyapkina, Russian race walker ↗
1989 Andriy Yarmolenko, Ukrainian footballer ↗
1988 Jordan Crawford, American basketball player ↗
1988 Aleksandr Salugin, Russian footballer ↗
1988 Carolin Schiewe, German footballer ↗
1987 Carmella, American wrestler ↗
1987 Robin Copeland, Irish rugby player ↗
1987 Félix Doubront, Venezuelan baseball player ↗
1987 Faye, Swedish singer-songwriter ↗
1987 Kyle Gibson, American baseball player ↗
1987 Seo In-guk, South Korean singer and actor ↗
1987 Miyuu Sawai, Japanese model and actress ↗
1987 Naomi Watanabe, Japanese actress ↗
1986 Emilia Clarke, English actress ↗
1986 Briana Evigan, American actress and dancer ↗
1986 Inbar Lavi, Israeli actress ↗
1986 Jovanka Radičević, Montenegrin handball player ↗
1986 Jake Robinson, English footballer ↗
1986 Jessica Stroup, American actress ↗
1985 Mohammed Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer ↗
1985 Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian ↗
1985 Miguel, American singer-songwriter and producer ↗
1985 Chris Neal, English footballer ↗
1985 Luca Spinetti, Italian footballer ↗
1985 Panagiotis Vouis, Greek footballer ↗
1984 Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model ↗
1984 Jeffrey Hoogervorst, Dutch footballer ↗
1984 Simone Masini, Italian footballer ↗
1984 Meghan McCain, American journalist, author, and television personality ↗
1984 Michael Sim, Australian golfer ↗
1984 Keiren Westwood, English footballer ↗
1983 Filippos Darlas, Greek footballer ↗
1983 Valentin Demyanenko, Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani canoeist ↗
1983 Goldie Harvey, Nigerian singer-songwriter (died 2013) ↗
1982 Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer ↗
1982 Kristjan Kangur, Estonian basketball player ↗
1982 Aleksandar Luković, Serbian footballer ↗
1982 Rickey Paulding, American basketball player ↗
1982 Rodolfo, Brazilian footballer ↗
1981 Daniela Alvarado, Venezuelan actress ↗
1981 Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver ↗
1981 Leticia Dolera, Spanish actress ↗
1981 Ben Francisco, American baseball player ↗
1981 Lee Ki-woo, South Korean actor ↗
1981 Mirel Rădoi, Romanian footballer ↗
1980 Mate Bilić, Croatian footballer ↗
1980 Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player ↗
1979 Ramón Castro, Venezuelan baseball player ↗
1979 Simon Davies, Welsh footballer ↗
1979 Lynn Greer, American basketball player ↗
1979 Prabhas, Telugu film actor ↗
1979 Jorge Solís, Mexican boxer ↗
1979 Bud Smith, American baseball player ↗
1978 Jimmy Bullard, English footballer ↗
1978 Steve Harmison, English cricketer and sportscaster ↗
1978 John Lackey, American baseball player ↗
1978 Archie Thompson, New Zealand-Australian footballer ↗
1977 Brad Haddin, Australian cricketer ↗
1977 Alex Tudor, English cricketer and coach ↗
1976 Cat Deeley, English model, actress, and television host ↗
1976 Sergio Diduch, Argentine footballer ↗
1976 Ryan Reynolds, Canadian-American actor and producer ↗
1975 Michelle Beadle, American sportscaster ↗
1975 Odalys García, Cuban actress ↗
1975 Phillip Gillespie, Australian cricket umpire ↗
1975 Jessicka, American singer-songwriter ↗
1975 Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer ↗
1975 Keith Van Horn, American basketball player ↗
1975 Manuela Velasco, Spanish actress ↗
1974 Aravind Adiga – Indian journalist and author ↗
1974 Beatrice Faumuina, New Zealand discus thrower ↗
1974 Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer ↗
1974 Christine Yoshikawa, Canadian pianist ↗
1973 Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer ↗
1972 Tiffeny Milbrett, American soccer player ↗
1972 Dominika Paleta, Polish-Mexican actress ↗
1972 Eduardo Paret, Cuban baseball player ↗
1972 Bryan Pratt, American lawyer and politician ↗
1972 Jasmin St. Claire, Virgin Islander-American actress ↗
1972 Jimmy Wayne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1971 Carlo Forlivesi, Italian-Japanese composer and scholar ↗
1971 Chris Horner, American cyclist ↗
1970 Matthew Barzun, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ↗
1970 Grant Imahara, American television presenter and engineer (died 2020) ↗
1970 Kenji Nomura, Japanese voice actor ↗
1970 Zoe Wiseman, American model and photographer ↗
1969 Dolly Buster, Czech film producer and director, actress and author ↗
1969 Trudi Canavan, Australian author and illustrator ↗
1969 Bill O'Brien, American football player and coach ↗
1969 Brooke Theiss, American actress ↗
1967 Dale Crover, American musician ↗
1967 Omar Linares, Cuban baseball player ↗
1967 Jaime Yzaga, Peruvian tennis player ↗
1966 Alex Zanardi, Italian racing driver and cyclist ↗
1965 Augusten Burroughs, American author and screenwriter ↗
1965 Al Leiter, American baseball player and sportscaster ↗
1964 Eddy Cue, American computer scientist and businessman ↗
1964 Robert Trujillo, American bass player and songwriter ↗
1963 Gordon Korman, Canadian-American author ↗
1963 Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (died 2012) ↗
1961 Laurie Halse Anderson, American author ↗
1961 Vinicio Gómez, Guatemalan politician (died 2008) ↗
1961 Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer and sportscaster ↗
1960 Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Swiss-French keyboard player, songwriter, and producer ↗
1960 Katoucha Niane, French model and actress (died 2008) ↗
1960 Randy Pausch, American author and academic (died 2008) ↗
1960 Wayne Rainey, American motorcycle racer ↗
1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic, American comedy musician, writer, and actor ↗
1959 Sam Raimi, American director, screenwriter and producer ↗
1958 Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, author, and academic ↗
1958 Rose Nabinger, German singer ↗
1958 Frank Schaffer, German sprinter ↗
1957 Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda ↗
1957 Graham Rix, English footballer and coach ↗
1957 Martin Luther King III, American human rights activist, philanthropist and advocate ↗
1956 Adam Nawałka, Polish football player and manager ↗
1956 Darrell Pace, American archer ↗
1956 Dianne Reeves, American singer ↗
1956 Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ↗
1955 Toshio Hosokawa, Japanese composer ↗
1954 Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
1953 Taner Akçam, Turkish sociologist and historian ↗
1953 Joaquín Lavín, Chilean politician and economist ↗
1953 Pauline Black, English singer, actress and author ↗
1952 Pierre Moerlen, French drummer (died 2005) ↗
1952 Ken Tipton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
1951 Ángel de Andrés López, Spanish actor (died 2016) ↗
1951 Charly García, Argentine singer-songwriter and keyboard player ↗
1951 Fatmir Sejdiu, Kosovan academic and politician, 2nd President of Kosovo ↗
1951 David Wills, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1950 Maths O. Sundqvist, Swedish businessman (died 2012) ↗
1949 Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian soldier and politician ↗
1949 Oscar Martínez, Argentine theater actor ↗
1949 Nick Tosches, American journalist, author, and poet (died 2019) ↗
1949 Würzel, English singer and guitarist (died 2011) ↗
1948 Hermann Hauser, Austrian-English businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti Research Laboratory ↗
1948 Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British businessman, arts patron and television personality (died 2021) ↗
1948 Brian Ross, American journalist ↗
1948 Jordi Sabatés, Spanish musician (died 2022) ↗
1947 Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, co-founder of the Palestinian movement Hamas (died 2004) ↗
1947 Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (died 1989) ↗
1947 Greg Ridley, English bass player (died 2003) ↗
1946 Graeme Barker, English archaeologist and academic ↗
1946 Alicia Borinsky, Argentine writer ↗
1946 Mel Martínez, American lawyer and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ↗
1946 Miklós Németh, Hungarian javelin thrower ↗
1945 Maggi Hambling, English sculptor and painter ↗
1945 Kim Larsen, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018) ↗
1945 Graça Machel, Mozambican politician and humanitarian ↗
1945 Ernie Watts, American saxophonist ↗
1945 Maury Yeston, American composer, lyricist, and music theorist ↗
1944 Mike Harding, English singer-songwriter and comedian ↗
1943 Alida Chelli, Italian actress and singer (died 2012) ↗
1942 Douglas Dunn, Scottish poet, critic, and academic ↗
1942 Bernd Erdmann, German footballer and manager ↗
1942 Anita Roddick, English businesswoman and activist, founded The Body Shop (died 2007) ↗
1942 Michael Crichton, American author and screenwriter (died 2008) ↗
1941 René Metge, French rally driver (died 2024) ↗
1941 Colin Milburn, English cricketer (died 1990) ↗
1941 Igor Smirnov, Moldovan engineer and politician, 1st President of Transnistria ↗
1940 Ellie Greenwich, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2009) ↗
1940 Jane Holzer, American model, actress, producer, and art collector ↗
1940 Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor (died 2022) ↗
1939 Charlie Foxx, American R&B/soul singer and guitarist (died 1998) ↗
1939 C. V. Vigneswaran, Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st Chief Minister of the Northern Province ↗
1938 Alan G'ilzean, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2018) ↗
1937 Johnny Carroll, American rockabilly musician (died 1995) ↗
1937 Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian captain (died 1971) ↗
1937 Deven Verma, Indian actor, director, and producer (died 2014) ↗
1936 Charles Goodhart, English economist and academic ↗
1936 Philip Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
1935 JacSue Kehoe, American neuroscientist (died 2019) ↗
1934 Caitro Soto, Afro-Peruvian musician (died 2004) ↗
1933 Carol Fran, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2021) ↗
1933 Carlos Lemos Simmonds, sixth Vice President of Columbia (died 2003) ↗
1932 Vasily Belov, Russian novelist, poet and playwright (died 2012) ↗
1931 Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician (died 2017) ↗
1931 William P. Clark, Jr., American judge and politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor (died 2013) ↗
1931 Diana Dors, English actress (died 1984) ↗
1931 Johnny Kitagawa, Japanese businessman, and talent manager (died 2019) ↗
1930 Unto Mononen, Finnish musician (died 1968) ↗
1929 Luis Alarcón, Chilean actor (died 2023) ↗
1929 Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (died 2006) ↗
1927 Sonny Criss, American saxophonist and composer (died 1977) ↗
1927 Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player and coach (died 2013) ↗
1927 Leszek Kołakowski, Polish-English historian and philosopher (died 2009) ↗
1925 Johnny Carson, American television host (died 2005) ↗
1925 Fred Shero, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (died 1990) ↗
1924 Arthur Brittenden, English journalist (died 2015) ↗
1923 Aslam Farrukhi, Indian-Pakistani linguist, author, and scholar (died 2016) ↗
1923 Ned Rorem, American composer and author (died 2022) ↗
1923 Frank Sutton, American actor (died 1974) ↗
1922 Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (died 2018) ↗
1922 Coleen Gray, American actress (died 2015) ↗
1920 Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (died 1998) ↗
1920 Bob Montana, American illustrator (died 1975) ↗
1920 Gianni Rodari, Italian writer (died 1980) ↗
1920 Vern Stephens, American baseball player (died 1968) ↗
1919 Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist and academic (died 1992) ↗
1918 Augusta Dabney, American actress (died 2008) ↗
1918 James Daly, American actor (died 1978) ↗
1918 Paul Rudolph, American architect and academic, designed the Lippo Centre (died 1997) ↗
1915 Simo Puupponen, Finnish writer (died 1967) ↗
1911 Jack Keller, American hurdler (died 1978) ↗
1910 Richard Mortensen, Danish painter and educator (died 1993) ↗
1910 Hayden Rorke, American actor (died 1987) ↗
1909 Zellig Harris, American linguist and methodologist (died 1992) ↗
1908 František Douda, Czech shot putter (died 1990) ↗
1908 Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990) ↗
1905 Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983) ↗
1905 Yen Chia-kan, Chinese lawyer and politician, President of the Republic of China (died 1993) ↗
1905 Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (died 2003) ↗
1904 Harvey Penick, American golfer and coach (died 1995) ↗
1902 Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, Austrian engineer (died 1982) ↗
1902 Luther Evans, American political scientist and politician (died 1981) ↗
1900 Douglas Jardine, Indian-English cricketer and lawyer (died 1958) ↗
1899 Bernt Balchen, Norwegian aviator (died 1973) ↗
1897 John Baker, English air marshal (died 1978) ↗
1897 Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, Spanish writer (died 1975) ↗
1896 Hilario Abellana, Filipino politician (died 1945) ↗
1896 Lilyan Tashman, American actress (died 1934) ↗
1894 Rube Bressler, American baseball player (died 1966) ↗
1894 Emma Vyssotsky, American astronomer and academic (died 1975) ↗
1892 Speckled Red, American blues/boogie-woogie piano player and singer-songwriter (died 1973) ↗
1888 Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 1961) ↗
1885 Lawren Harris, Canadian painter and educator (died 1970) ↗
1883 Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (died 1962) ↗
1880 Dominikus Böhm, German architect (died 1955) ↗
1880 Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress and singer (died 1959) ↗
1878 Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1967) ↗
1876 Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, Reich Ministry of Justice (died 1970) ↗
1875 Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist and academic (died 1946) ↗
1874 Charles Kilpatrick, American runner and educator (died 1921) ↗
1873 William D. Coolidge, American physicist and engineer (died 1975) ↗
1870 Francis Kelley, Canadian-American bishop (died 1948) ↗
1869 John Heisman, American football player and coach (died 1936) ↗
1865 Neltje Blanchan, American historian and author (died 1918) ↗
1863 Mirko Breyer, Croatian writer, bibliographer, antiquarian, and one of the notable alleged and false victims of the Stara Gradiška concentration camp (died 1946) ↗
1857 Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (died 1899) ↗
1844 Robert Bridges, English poet and playwright (died 1930) ↗
1837 Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist (died 1902) ↗
1835 Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (died 1914) ↗
1832 Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg, Finnish priest and father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first President of Finland (died 1873) ↗
1822 Gustav Spörer, German astronomer (died 1895) ↗
1817 Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer and author (died 1875) ↗
1815 João Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotejipe, Brazilian politician (died 1889) ↗
1813 Ludwig Leichhardt, German-Australian explorer (died 1848) ↗
1805 John Russell Bartlett, American linguist and historian (died 1886) ↗
1801 Albert Lortzing, German singer-songwriter and actor (died 1851) ↗
1796 Stefano Franscini, Swiss statistician and politician (died 1857) ↗
1790 Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American minister, lexicographer, and educator (died 1860) ↗
1766 Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (died 1847) ↗
1762 Samuel Morey, American engineer (died 1843) ↗
1713 Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist, poet, and educator (died 1778) ↗
1705 Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (died 1757) ↗
1698 Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect, designed the École Militaire (died 1782) ↗
1654 Johann Bernhard Staudt, Austrian composer (died 1712) ↗
1634 Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish queen (died 1715) ↗
1516 Charlotte of Valois, French princess (died 1524) ↗
1255 Ferdinand de la Cerda, Spanish noble (died 1275) ↗
1006 Wen Yanbo, Chinese grand chancellor (died 1097) ↗

2025 June Lockhart, American actress (b. 1925) ↗
2024 Geoff Capes, British shot putter and strongman (born 1949) ↗
2024 Gary Indiana, American writer, playwright and poet (born 1950) ↗
2024 Jack Jones, American singer and actor (born 1938) ↗
2023 Aira Samulin, Finnish entrepreneur and dance teacher (born 1927) ↗
2023 Bishan Singh Bedi, Indian cricketer (born 1946) ↗
2022 Adriano Moreira, Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS – People's Party (born 1922) ↗
2020 Jerry Jeff Walker, American singer-songwriter (born 1942) ↗
2018 Todd Reid, Australian tennis player (born 1984) ↗
2017 Walter Lassally, German cinematographer (born 1926) ↗
2016 Jack Chick, American cartoonist and publisher (born 1924) ↗
2016 Wim van der Voort, Dutch speed skater (born 1923) ↗
2016 Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter (born 1959) ↗
2015 Leon Bibb, American-Canadian singer (born 1922) ↗
2015 Roger De Clerck, Belgian businessman (born 1924) ↗
2015 Jim Roberts, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1940) ↗
2015 Fred Sands, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art (born 1938) ↗
2014 Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (born 1922) ↗
2014 John Bramlett, American football player (born 1941) ↗
2014 Bernard Mayes, English-American journalist and academic (born 1929) ↗
2014 Joan Quigley, American astrologer and author (born 1927) ↗
2014 Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (born 1931) ↗
2014 Alvin Stardust, English singer and actor (born 1942) ↗
2013 Wes Bialosuknia, American basketball player (born 1945) ↗
2013 Anthony Caro, English sculptor and academic (born 1924) ↗
2013 Niall Donohue, Irish hurler (born 1990) ↗
2013 Gypie Mayo, English guitarist and songwriter (Dr. Feelgood and The Yardbirds) (born 1951) ↗
2013 Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (born 1920) ↗
2012 William Joel Blass, American lawyer and politician (born 1917) ↗
2012 Wilhelm Brasse, Polish photographer (born 1917) ↗
2012 Roland de la Poype, French soldier and pilot (born 1920) ↗
2012 Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian author and poet (born 1934) ↗
2012 Michael Marra, Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1952) ↗
2011 Herbert A. Hauptman, American chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917) ↗
2011 Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1987) ↗
2010 Fran Crippen, American swimmer (born 1984) ↗
2010 Stanley Tanger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (born 1923) ↗
2009 Lou Jacobi, Canadian-American actor (born 1913) ↗
2008 Kevin Finnegan, English boxer (born 1948) ↗
2007 John Ilhan, Turkish-Australian businessman, founded Crazy John's (born 1965) ↗
2007 Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian-Chinese businessman (born 1918) ↗
2006 Lebo Mathosa, South African singer (Boom Shaka) (born 1977) ↗
2005 William Hootkins, American actor (born 1948) ↗
2005 John Muth, American economist and academic (born 1930) ↗
2005 Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian wife of Olusegun Obasanjo, 10th First Lady of Nigeria (born 1945) ↗
2004 Robert Merrill, American actor and singer (born 1919) ↗
2004 Bill Nicholson, English footballer, coach, and manager (born 1919) ↗
2003 Tony Capstick, English actor and singer (born 1944) ↗
2003 Soong Mei-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek, 2nd First Lady of the Republic of China (born 1898) ↗
2002 Adolph Green, American playwright and songwriter (born 1915) ↗
2001 Josh Kirby, English illustrator (born 1928) ↗
2001 Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and historian (born 1917) ↗
2000 Yokozuna, American wrestler (born 1966) ↗
1999 Eric Reece, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Tasmania (born 1909) ↗
1998 Barnett Slepian, American physician (born 1946) ↗
1998 Eric Ambler, English author, screenwriter, and producer (born 1909) ↗
1997 Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1916) ↗
1996 Bob Grim, American baseball player (born 1930) ↗
1994 Robert Lansing, American actor (born 1928) ↗
1990 Thomas Williams, American author and academic (born 1926) ↗
1989 Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1911) ↗
1988 Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (born 1929) ↗
1986 Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893) ↗
1984 Oskar Werner, Austrian-German actor (born 1922) ↗
1983 Jessica Savitch, American journalist (born 1947) ↗
1980 Tibor Rosenbaum, Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (born 1923) ↗
1978 Maybelle Carter, American singer and autoharp player (Carter Family) (born 1909) ↗
1975 Marjorie Maynard British artist and farmer (born 1891) ↗
1969 Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (born 1922) ↗
1964 Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (born 1886) ↗
1959 George Bouzianis, Greek painter (born 1885) ↗
1959 Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (born 1871) ↗
1953 Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (born 1869) ↗
1950 Al Jolson, Lithuanian-American actor and singer (born 1886) ↗
1944 Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877) ↗
1944 Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (born 1931) ↗
1943 Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (born 1876) ↗
1942 Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (born 1901) ↗
1939 Zane Grey, American dentist and author (born 1872) ↗
1935 Charles Demuth, American painter and educator (born 1883) ↗
1921 John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (born 1840) ↗
1917 Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (born 1845) ↗
1916 Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (born 1889) ↗
1915 W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (born 1848) ↗
1910 Chulalongkorn, Thai king (born 1853) ↗
1893 Alexander of Battenberg (born 1857) ↗
1885 Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (born 1829) ↗
1872 Théophile Gautier – French journalist, author, and poet (born 1811) ↗
1869 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1799) ↗
1867 Ling Ma – German linguist and academic (born 1791) ↗
1852 Georg August Wallin, Finnish explorer, orientalist, and professor (born 1811) ↗
1774 Michel Benoist, French missionary and astronomer (born 1715) ↗
1764 Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French admiral (born 1683) ↗
1730 Anne Oldfield, English actress (born 1683) ↗
1688 Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (born 1610) ↗
1616 Leonhard Hutter, German theologian and academic (born 1563) ↗
1581 Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (born 1529) ↗
1550 Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (born 1480) ↗
1456 John of Capistrano, Italian priest and saint (born 1386) ↗
1157 Sweyn III, Danish king (born c. 1125) ↗
1134 Abu al-Salt, Andalusian polymath ↗
949 Yōzei, Japanese emperor (born 869) ↗
945 Hyejong of Goryeo, Korean king (born 912) ↗
930 Daigo, Japanese emperor (born 885) ↗
902 Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir (born 850) ↗
891 Yazaman al-Khadim, Abbasid general and politician ↗
877 Ignatios of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch (born 797) ↗
42 BCE Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman general and politician (born 85 BC) ↗