October 17

October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 75 days remain until the end of the year.

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Events

Pre-1600

  • 690 Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.[1]
  • 1091 London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
  • 1346 The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
  • 1448 An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
  • 1456 The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
  • 1534 Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
  • 1558 Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.

1601–1900

  • 1604 Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
  • 1610 French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
  • 1660 The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
  • 1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
  • 1713 Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne.[2]
  • 1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
  • 1777 American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
  • 1781 American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
  • 1800 War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
  • 1806 Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
  • 1811 The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence.[3]
  • 1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
  • 1860 First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
  • 1861 Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.

1901–present

  • 1907 Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
  • 1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • 1919 Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I[4]
  • 1931 Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
  • 1933 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
  • 1940 The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
  • 1941 World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
  • 1943 The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
  • 1943 Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
  • 1945 A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
  • 1952 Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.[5]
  • 1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
  • 1961 Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
  • 1961 The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.[6][7][8][9]
  • 1965 The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
  • 1966 The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
  • 1969 The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.[10]
  • 1970 FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
  • 1973 OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
  • 1977 The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
  • 1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • 1979 The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education.
  • 1980 As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
  • 1988 Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.[11]
  • 1989 The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.
  • 1989 The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
  • 1991 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.[12][13][14]
  • 1992 Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • 1994 Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
  • 2000 The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
  • 2001 Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
  • 2003 Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest high-rise.
  • 2017 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.[15][16]
  • 2018 The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
  • 2018 Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
  • 2019 Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.[17]
  • 2019 The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.[18]

Births

Pre-1600

  • 503 Lý Nam Đế, first emperor of Vietnam (d. 548)
  • 1253 Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303)
  • 1493 Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
  • 1500 Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591)
  • 1538 Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (d. 1559)[19]
  • 1577 Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
  • 1577 Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
  • 1582 Johann Gerhard, German theologian and academic (d. 1637)
  • 1587 Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (d. 1620)

1601–1900

  • 1623 Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1687)
  • 1629 Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1646)
  • 1688 Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer (d. 1726)
  • 1711 Jupiter Hammon, American poet (d. 1806)
  • 1719 Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic (d. 1792)
  • 1720 Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1795)[20]
  • 1725 John Wilkes, English journalist and politician (d. 1797)
  • 1729 Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic (d. 1817)
  • 1735 Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist (d. 1803)
  • 1759 Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter (d. 1814)
  • 1760 Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
  • 1768 Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1838)
  • 1779 Louis Charles, French prince of the blood (d. 1808)
  • 1779 José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argentine statesman and priest (d. approx. 1820)
  • 1780 Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
  • 1781 Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist (d. 1833)
  • 1784 Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay (d. 1854)
  • 1785 Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist (d. 1816)
  • 1792 John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (d. 1826)
  • 1797 Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (d.1841)
  • 1803 Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (d. 1876)
  • 1810 Adolphe-Félix Cals, French painter (d. 1880)
  • 1811 Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor and educator (d. 1876)
  • 1813 Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (d. 1837)
  • 1814 Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888)
  • 1817 Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (d. 1898)
  • 1821 Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (d. 1882)
  • 1828 Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (d. 1890)
  • 1833 José E. Días, Paraguayan general (d. 1867)
  • 1835 Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (d. 1894)
  • 1835 Paul Haenlein, German mechanical engineer (d.1905)
  • 1840 André Gill, French caricaturist (d. 1885)
  • 1844 Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (d. 1929)
  • 1845 John J. Gardner, American politician (d. 1921)
  • 1853 Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
  • 1859 Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator (d. 1935)
  • 1860 Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary (d. 1927)
  • 1864 Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943)
  • 1865 James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950)
  • 1867 Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí (d. 1956)
  • 1871 Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (d.1929)
  • 1876 Hippolyte Aucouturier, French road cyclist (d. 1944)
  • 1878 Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (d. 1953)
  • 1880 Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector (d. 1977)
  • 1881 Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (d. 1959)
  • 1882 Haritina Korotkevich, Russian war heroine (d. 1904)[21]
  • 1883 Alexander Neill, Scottish educator (d. 1973)
  • 1883 Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (d. 1966)
  • 1886 Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
  • 1889 Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese author (d. 1988)
  • 1890 Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
  • 1892 Theodor Eicke, German SS general (d. 1943)
  • 1892 Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator (d. 1983)
  • 1893 Raffaele Bendandi, Italian clockmaker and seismologist (d. 1979)
  • 1894 Prince René, Italian Prince of Denmark (d. 1962)
  • 1894 Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (d. 1968)
  • 1895 Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (d. 1982)
  • 1895 Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1958)
  • 1896 Roman Petrovich, Russian prince (d. 1978)
  • 1898 Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
  • 1898 Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1991)
  • 1898 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971)
  • 1900 C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
  • 1900 Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
  • 1900 Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968)

1901–present

  • 1901 Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator (d. 1973)[22]
  • 1902 Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
  • 1903 Andrei Grechko, Soviet general (d. 1976)
  • 1903 Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
  • 1905 Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (d. 1996)
  • 1906 Andrey Tikhonov, Soviet and Russian mathematician (d. 1993)
  • 1906 Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
  • 1907 John Marley, American actor (d. 1984)
  • 1908 Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (d. 1988)
  • 1908 Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player (d. 1980)
  • 1908 Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1969)
  • 1908 Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007)
  • 1909 Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981)
  • 1909 Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (d. 1962)
  • 1909 Joaquín Satrústegui, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 1992)
  • 1910 Ester Wier, American author (d. 2000)
  • 1910 Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (d. 1995)[23]
  • 1912 Pope John Paul I, Catholic pope from August 1978- September 1978 (d. 1978)
  • 1912 Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001)
  • 1912 Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
  • 1913 Faik Türün, Turkish general (d. 2003)
  • 1913 Robert Lowery, American actor (d. 1971)
  • 1913 Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (d. 2006)
  • 1914 Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
  • 1915 Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2005)
  • 1916 José López Rega, Argentinean politician (d. 1989)
  • 1917 Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor (d. 2000)
  • 1917 Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
  • 1917 Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991)
  • 1917 Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer (d. 2022)
  • 1917 Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (d. 1989)[24]
  • 1917 Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
  • 1917 Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (d. 2013)
  • 1918 Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987)
  • 1918 Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014)
  • 1918 Luis Alberto Solari, Uruguayan artist (d. 1993)
  • 1919 Isaak Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian theoretical physicist and academic (d. 2021)
  • 1919 Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
  • 1919 Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
  • 1920 Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
  • 1920 Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2010)
  • 1920 Zully Moreno, Argentine actress (d. 1999)
  • 1921 George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996)
  • 1921 Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
  • 1921 Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)[25]
  • 1921 Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
  • 1922 Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2001)
  • 1922 Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012)
  • 1923 Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
  • 1923 Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (d. 2001)
  • 1924 Don Coryell, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
  • 1924 Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (d. 2012)
  • 1924 Giacomo Mari, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
  • 1924 Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone (d. 2019)
  • 1925 Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d. 2010)
  • 1926 Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)[26]
  • 1926 Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)
  • 1926 Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (d. 2011)
  • 1928 Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and minister (d. 2007)
  • 1928 Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan politician (d. 2017)
  • 1929 Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager (d. 2016)
  • 1930 Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer (d. 2003)
  • 1930 Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (d. 2003)
  • 1931 Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and playwright (d. 2012)
  • 1931 José Alencar, Brazilian businessman and politician (d. 2011)
  • 1931 Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer (d. 2008)
  • 1932 Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994)
  • 1933 William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut
  • 1933 The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985)
  • 1934 Alan Garner, English author and playwright
  • 1934 Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (d. 2005)
  • 1934 Rico Rodriguez, Jamaican trombonist (d. 2015)
  • 1935 Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (d. 2014)
  • 1935 Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival
  • 1935 Carlos Pairetti, Argetine racing driver (d. 2022)
  • 1936 Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
  • 1936 Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic
  • 1936 Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (d. 1993)
  • 1936 Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (d. 2018)
  • 1937 Paxton Whitehead, English actor
  • 1937 José María Álvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician
  • 1937 Aida Navarro, Venezuelan mezzo-soprano
  • 1937 Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (d. 2011)
  • 1938 Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
  • 1938 Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (d. 2019)
  • 1938 António Calvário, Portuguese singer and artist
  • 1939 Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic (d. 2015)
  • 1940 Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor
  • 1940 Jim Smith, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
  • 1940 Peter Stringfellow, English businessman (d. 2018)
  • 1941 Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
  • 1941 Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist
  • 1941 Paul Ellison, American musician
  • 1942 Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
  • 1942 Gary Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1943 Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist (d. 2015)
  • 1944 Ángel Cristo, Spanish circus performer (d. 2010)
  • 1946 Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010)
  • 1946 Michael Hossack, American drummer (d. 2012)
  • 1946 Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager
  • 1946 Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian
  • 1946 Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic
  • 1946 Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
  • 1946 Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez, Mexican actor and comedian
  • 1946 Julio Miranda, Argentine politician (d. 2021)
  • 1946 Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician (d. 2018)
  • 1946 José Perramón, Spanish handball player
  • 1946 Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician
  • 1946 Rüdiger Wittig, German geobotanist and ecologist
  • 1946 Akira Kushida, Japanese vocalist
  • 1947 Gene Green, American lawyer and politician
  • 1947 Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
  • 1947 Robert Post, American educator and academic
  • 1947 Omar Azziman, adviser to the King of Morocco
  • 1948 Robert Jordan, American soldier and author (d. 2007)
  • 1948 Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (d. 2018)
  • 1948 George Wendt, American actor and comedian
  • 1948 Osvaldo Castro, Chilean footballer
  • 1949 Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2020)
  • 1949 Bill Hudson, American musician and actor
  • 1950 Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
  • 1950 Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
  • 1950 Sandra Reemer, Indo-Dutch singer (d. 2017)
  • 1951 Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater
  • 1951 Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
  • 1951 Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
  • 1951 Dirk Beheydt, Belgian footballer
  • 1953 Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader
  • 1953 Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer
  • 1954 Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
  • 1955 Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
  • 1955 Mike Bratz, American basketball player
  • 1956 Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1956 Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut
  • 1956 Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina
  • 1956 Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author
  • 1957 Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer
  • 1957 Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster
  • 1957 Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor
  • 1957 Antonio Galdo, Italian journalist
  • 1957 Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player (d. 2002)
  • 1957 Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist
  • 1957 Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek folk singer
  • 1958 Howard Alden, American guitarist
  • 1958 Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter
  • 1958 Craig Murray, British diplomat
  • 1958 Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress (d. 1977)
  • 1959 Ron Drummond, American author and scholar
  • 1959 Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2016)
  • 1959 Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
  • 1959 Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2021)
  • 1959 Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
  • 1959 Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic
  • 1959 Mustafa Aberchán, Spanish politician
  • 1959 Eugenio Hernández Flores, Mexican politician
  • 1960 Guy Henry, English actor
  • 1960 Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer
  • 1960 Bernie Nolan, Irish singer (d. 2013)
  • 1960 Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic
  • 1961 David Means, American short story writer
  • 1962 Glenn Braggs, American baseball player
  • 1962 Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
  • 1962 Jay Humphries, American basketball player
  • 1963 Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
  • 1963 Toby Young, English journalist and academic
  • 1964 Gregg Wallace, English television presenter
  • 1964 Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician
  • 1965 Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
  • 1965 Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor
  • 1966 Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach
  • 1966 Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager
  • 1966 Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and novelist
  • 1966 Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and sportscaster
  • 1967 Simon Segars, English businessman
  • 1967 Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player
  • 1967 René Dif, Danish musician
  • 1967 Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer
  • 1968 Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster
  • 1968 Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
  • 1968 David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager
  • 1968 Alejandra Ávalos, Mexican artist
  • 1969 Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster
  • 1969 Jesús Ángel García, Spanish racewalker[27]
  • 1969 Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
  • 1969 Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1969 Wood Harris, American actor
  • 1970 Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
  • 1970 John Mabry, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1970 J. C. MacKenzie, Canadian actor
  • 1971 Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
  • 1971 Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter and dancer
  • 1971 Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player
  • 1971 Martin Heinrich, American politician
  • 1971 Derrick Plourde, American drummer (d. 2005)
  • 1972 Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor
  • 1972 Tarkan, German-Turkish singer
  • 1972 Akio "Musashi" Mori, Japanese karateka and kickboxer
  • 1973 Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach
  • 1973 Rubén Garcés, Panamanian basketball player
  • 1974 Ariel Levy, American journalist and author
  • 1974 Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
  • 1974 Obdulio Ávila Mayo, Mexican politician
  • 1974 Bárbara Paz, Brazilian actress
  • 1974 Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player
  • 1974 John Rocker, American baseball player
  • 1974 Darío Sala, Argentine footballer
  • 1974 Gabriel Silberstein, Chilean tennis player
  • 1974 Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer
  • 1975 Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1975 Jericó Abramo Masso, Mexican politician
  • 1975 Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer
  • 1976 Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
  • 1976 Seth Etherton, American baseball player
  • 1976 Carlos Loret de Mola, Mexican journalist
  • 1976 Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and coach
  • 1977 Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer[28]
  • 1977 Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer
  • 1977 Bryan Bertino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1977 Walter Calderón, Ecuadorian footballer
  • 1977 Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician
  • 1977 Ryan McGinley, American photographer
  • 1977 André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager
  • 1978 Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
  • 1978 Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player and coach
  • 1978 Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress
  • 1978 Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician
  • 1979 Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist
  • 1979 Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist (d. 2022)
  • 1979 Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
  • 1979 Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
  • 1980 Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
  • 1980 Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
  • 1980 Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer
  • 1980 Angel Parker, American actress
  • 1980 Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver
  • 1980 Justin Shenkarow, American actor
  • 1981 Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer
  • 1981 Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer-songwriter
  • 1981 Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
  • 1981 Ben Rothwell, American mixed-martial artist
  • 1982 Rubén Ramírez, Argentine footballer
  • 1982 Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
  • 1982 Marion Rolland, alpine ski racer
  • 1983 Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress
  • 1983 Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
  • 1983 Felicity Jones, English actress
  • 1983 Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
  • 1983 Riki Miura, Japanese actor
  • 1983 Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
  • 1983 Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
  • 1983 Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
  • 1983 Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer
  • 1984 Chris Lowell, American actor
  • 1984 Giovanni Marchese, Italian footballer
  • 1984 Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator
  • 1984 Luke Rockhold, American mixed martial artist
  • 1984 Anja Eline Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader
  • 1984 Gottfrid Svartholm, Swedish computer specialist
  • 1984 Jared Tallent, Australian race walker
  • 1985 Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 1985 Max Irons, English-Irish actor
  • 1985 Collins John, Dutch footballer
  • 1985 Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer
  • 1986 Alexandre Bonnet, French footballer
  • 1986 Antoni Bou, Spanish motorcyclist
  • 1986 Aija Brumermane, Latvian basketball player
  • 1986 Constant Djakpa, Ivorian footballer
  • 1986 Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater
  • 1986 Nicolás Richotti, Argentine basketball player
  • 1987 Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer
  • 1987 Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
  • 1987 Elliot Grandin, French footballer
  • 1987 Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer
  • 1988 Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player
  • 1988 Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model
  • 1988 Marina Salas, Spanish actress
  • 1989 Débora García, Spanish footballer
  • 1989 Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer
  • 1989 Sophie Luck, Australian actress
  • 1989 Charles Oliveira, Brazilian mixed martial artist[29]
  • 1989 David Timor, Spanish footballer
  • 1990 Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
  • 1990 Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player
  • 1990 Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
  • 1990 Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
  • 1990 Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
  • 1991 Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
  • 1992 Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
  • 1992 Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
  • 1993 Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
  • 2001 Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer

Deaths

Pre-1600

  • AD 33 Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC)
  • 532 Pope Boniface II
  • 866 Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (b. 836)
  • 1271 Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
  • 1277 Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (b. c. 1254)
  • 1346 John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
  • 1346 Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
  • 1456 Nicolas Grenon, French composer (b. 1375)
  • 1485 John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
  • 1552 Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
  • 1575 Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
  • 1586 Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
  • 1587 Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)

1601–1900

  • 1616 John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
  • 1660 Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
  • 1673 Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
  • 1690 Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
  • 1757 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
  • 1776 Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
  • 1780 William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
  • 1781 Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)[30]
  • 1786 Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
  • 1806 Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
  • 1836 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
  • 1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
  • 1849 Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
  • 1868 Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
  • 1887 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
  • 1889 Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
  • 1893 Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)

1901–present

  • 1910 Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
  • 1918 Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
  • 1920 Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican) died on Hunger Strike (b. 1881)[31]
  • 1928 Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
  • 1931 Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
  • 1937 J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
  • 1938 Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
  • 1948 Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
  • 1955 Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
  • 1956 Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
  • 1957 Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (b. 1884)[32]
  • 1958 Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
  • 1958 Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
  • 1962 Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)[33]
  • 1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
  • 1965 Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
  • 1966 Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
  • 1966 Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
  • 1967 Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
  • 1970 Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
  • 1970 Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
  • 1970 Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (b. 1890)
  • 1972 Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
  • 1972 George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
  • 1973 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
  • 1978 George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890)
  • 1978 Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
  • 1979 S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
  • 1979 John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
  • 1979 Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
  • 1981 Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
  • 1981 Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
  • 1981 Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
  • 1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
  • 1987 Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
  • 1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
  • 1992 Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
  • 1992 Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • 1993 Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
  • 1996 Chris Acland, English musician and drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
  • 1997 Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
  • 1998 Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
  • 1998 Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
  • 1999 Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
  • 2000 Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
  • 2000 Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
  • 2001 Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
  • 2001 Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
  • 2001 Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)
  • 2002 Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935)
  • 2004 Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
  • 2006 Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b. 1924)
  • 2006 Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
  • 2007 Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
  • 2007 Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
  • 2007 Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (b. 1939)
  • 2008 Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1955)
  • 2008 Levi Stubbs, American singer (b. 1936)
  • 2008 Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
  • 2009 Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (b. 1931)
  • 2009 Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916)
  • 2011 Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
  • 2012 Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
  • 2012 Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
  • 2012 Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
  • 2012 Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
  • 2012 Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
  • 2013 Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
  • 2013 Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)
  • 2013 Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926)
  • 2013 Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928)
  • 2013 Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966)
  • 2014 Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937)
  • 2014 Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943)
  • 2014 Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945)
  • 2014 Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919)
  • 2015 Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (b. 1926)
  • 2015 Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
  • 2015 Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
  • 2015 Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947)
  • 2017 Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964)[34]
  • 2019 Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951)[35]

Holidays and observances

  • Christian feast day:
    • Andrew of Crete
    • Anstrudis
    • Catervus
    • Ethelred and Ethelberht
    • Florentius of Orange
    • François-Isidore Gagelin (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
    • Hosea
    • Ignatius of Antioch
    • John the Short (John Colobus)
    • Marguerite Marie Alacoque (pre-1969 calendar, Visitadines)
    • Nothhelm
    • Rule of Andrew
    • Richard Gwyn
    • Victor of Capua
    • October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • International Day for the Eradication of Poverty[36]
  • Loyalty Day (Argentina)
  • National Police Day (Thailand)

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