October 9
Events
768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264– The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under muslim occupation since 711.
1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1760 – Seven Year's War: Russian ****** occupy Berlin.
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 – ****** Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American ****** capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 – Capo d'Istria is assassinated.
1835 – The Royal College, Colombo in Sri Lanka is established with the name Hillstreet Academy.
1837 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate ****** at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps ****** withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th ******ry Regiment.
1945 – Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are ****ed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1983 – Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast ****s 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the ******'s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax ******.
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2009 – Barack Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Births
1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. c. 1290)
1261 – King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
1328 – King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
1585 – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
1586 – Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
1704 – Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
1757 – King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
1871 – George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
1871 – Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar. (d. 1922)
1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
1873 – Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
1888 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)
1892 – Ivo Andrić, Serbian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1892 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1893 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)
1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
1902 – Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1907 – Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1907 – Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
1908 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1909 – Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
1918 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
1919 – Jason Wingreen, American actor
1920 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
1921 – Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
1922 – Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997)
1922 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor
1925 – Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
1926 – Danièle Delorme, French actress
1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
1931 – Tony Booth, British actor and ****** of Cherie Blair
1933 – Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1933 – Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957)
1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal ******
1937 – Brian Blessed, English actor
1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
1940 – John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
1940 – Joe Pepitone, American baseball player
1941 – Trent Lott, American politician
1941 – Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN
1941 – Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
1941 – Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (d. 2008)
1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist
1943 – Douglas Kirby, Research scientist
1944 – John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
1944 – Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle)
1945 – Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1946 – Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey
1947 – France Gall, French singer
1947 – William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
1947 – Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
1948 – Jackson Browne, American musician
1950 – Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1950 – Brian Downing, former baseball player
1950 – Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock guitarist
1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
1953 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor
1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor
1954 – James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)
1954 – Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician
1954 – John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
1955 – Linwood Boomer, Canadian writer
1957 – Don Garber, American sports commissioner
1958 – Michael Pare, American actor
1958 – Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
1958 – Mike Singletary, former American football player
1960 – Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
1961 – Julian Bailey, British racing driver
1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
1964 – John Ralston, Canadian actor
1965 – Jimbo Fisher, Offensive Coordinator for Florida State
1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
1966 – David Cameron, British politician
1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian professional tennis player
1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1969 – P.J. Harvey, English musician
1970 – Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
1970 – Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
1970 – Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994)
1970 – Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
1970 – Jason Butler Harner, American actor
1971 – Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
1971 – Jason Jones, American filmmaker and humanitarian
1971 – Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
1972 – Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
1973 – Terry Balsamo, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1973 – Steve Burns, American actor and musician
1973 – Erin Daniels, American actress
1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 – Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
1974 – Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
1975 – Sean Lennon, American musician & *** of ex-Beatle John Lennon
1975 – Rale Micic, Serbian musician
1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor
1977 – Brian Roberts, American baseball player
1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player
1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Brandon Routh, American actor
1979 – Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
1979 – Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
1980 – Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer
1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player
1982 – António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
1982 – Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
1983 – Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1984 – Ghetto, British musician
1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1987 – Bill Walker, American basketball player
1992 – Tyler James Williams, American actor
1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
Deaths
1047 – Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1390 – King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1581 – Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (b. 1526)
1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
1808 – John Claiborne, U.S. politician (b. 1777)
1831 – John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
1934 – Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
1937 – Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1868)
1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1950 – George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
1953 – Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
1955 – Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875)
1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 – Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
1967 – Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1967 – André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
1968 – Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)
1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
1974 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
1987 – William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
1988 – Felix Wankel German inventor of the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
1996 – Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
1999 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 – Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2001 – Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (b. 1931)
2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2002 – Aileen Wournos, American serial ****er sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2005 – Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 – Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
2006 – Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
2007 – Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
2008 – Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
Holidays and observances
RC Saints – Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia.
South Korea – Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet.
Uganda – Independence Day (from Britain, 1962)
Leif Erikson Day – in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America
Ecuador – Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil)
Romania – Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
French Republican Calendar – Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Events
768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264– The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under muslim occupation since 711.
1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1760 – Seven Year's War: Russian ****** occupy Berlin.
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 – ****** Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American ****** capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 – Capo d'Istria is assassinated.
1835 – The Royal College, Colombo in Sri Lanka is established with the name Hillstreet Academy.
1837 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate ****** at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps ****** withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th ******ry Regiment.
1945 – Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are ****ed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1983 – Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast ****s 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the ******'s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax ******.
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2009 – Barack Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Births
1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. c. 1290)
1261 – King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
1328 – King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
1585 – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
1586 – Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
1704 – Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
1757 – King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
1871 – George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
1871 – Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar. (d. 1922)
1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
1873 – Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
1888 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)
1892 – Ivo Andrić, Serbian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1892 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1893 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)
1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
1902 – Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1907 – Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1907 – Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
1908 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1909 – Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
1918 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
1919 – Jason Wingreen, American actor
1920 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
1921 – Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
1922 – Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997)
1922 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor
1925 – Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
1926 – Danièle Delorme, French actress
1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
1931 – Tony Booth, British actor and ****** of Cherie Blair
1933 – Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1933 – Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957)
1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal ******
1937 – Brian Blessed, English actor
1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
1940 – John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
1940 – Joe Pepitone, American baseball player
1941 – Trent Lott, American politician
1941 – Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN
1941 – Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
1941 – Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (d. 2008)
1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist
1943 – Douglas Kirby, Research scientist
1944 – John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
1944 – Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle)
1945 – Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1946 – Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey
1947 – France Gall, French singer
1947 – William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
1947 – Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
1948 – Jackson Browne, American musician
1950 – Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1950 – Brian Downing, former baseball player
1950 – Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock guitarist
1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
1953 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor
1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor
1954 – James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)
1954 – Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician
1954 – John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
1955 – Linwood Boomer, Canadian writer
1957 – Don Garber, American sports commissioner
1958 – Michael Pare, American actor
1958 – Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
1958 – Mike Singletary, former American football player
1960 – Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
1961 – Julian Bailey, British racing driver
1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
1964 – John Ralston, Canadian actor
1965 – Jimbo Fisher, Offensive Coordinator for Florida State
1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
1966 – David Cameron, British politician
1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian professional tennis player
1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1969 – P.J. Harvey, English musician
1970 – Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
1970 – Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
1970 – Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994)
1970 – Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
1970 – Jason Butler Harner, American actor
1971 – Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
1971 – Jason Jones, American filmmaker and humanitarian
1971 – Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
1972 – Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
1973 – Terry Balsamo, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1973 – Steve Burns, American actor and musician
1973 – Erin Daniels, American actress
1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 – Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
1974 – Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
1975 – Sean Lennon, American musician & *** of ex-Beatle John Lennon
1975 – Rale Micic, Serbian musician
1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor
1977 – Brian Roberts, American baseball player
1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player
1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Brandon Routh, American actor
1979 – Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
1979 – Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
1980 – Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer
1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player
1982 – António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
1982 – Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
1983 – Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1984 – Ghetto, British musician
1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1987 – Bill Walker, American basketball player
1992 – Tyler James Williams, American actor
1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
Deaths
1047 – Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1390 – King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1581 – Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (b. 1526)
1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
1808 – John Claiborne, U.S. politician (b. 1777)
1831 – John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
1934 – Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
1937 – Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1868)
1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1950 – George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
1953 – Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
1955 – Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875)
1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 – Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
1967 – Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1967 – André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
1968 – Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)
1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
1974 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
1987 – William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
1988 – Felix Wankel German inventor of the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
1996 – Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
1999 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 – Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2001 – Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (b. 1931)
2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2002 – Aileen Wournos, American serial ****er sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2005 – Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 – Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
2006 – Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
2007 – Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
2008 – Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
Holidays and observances
RC Saints – Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia.
South Korea – Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet.
Uganda – Independence Day (from Britain, 1962)
Leif Erikson Day – in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America
Ecuador – Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil)
Romania – Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
French Republican Calendar – Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire