October 10th

The October 10 is the 283rd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 284th in leap years ), thus remain 82 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0680 : Hussain ibn ʿAlī , one of the central figures in the tradition of the Shia , falls against the Umayyads at the Battle of Karbala . The history of Islam has been followed by civil wars.

1471: Battle of Brunkeberg

• 1471 : In the Battle of Brunkeberg , the Swedish Governor Sten Sture the Elder defeats the Danish King Christian I and decides the Danish-Swedish War with one step towards the end of the Kalmar Union .
• 1637 : The city of Breda surrenders to the troops of the governor of the United Netherlands Friedrich Heinrich von Orange after eleven weeks of siege during the Thirty Years' War .
• 1733 : France declares the Roman-German Emperor Charles VI. because of the Polish succession dispute the war.
• 1793 : During the reign of terror in the French Revolution , the Welfare Committee was granted unlimited powers.

1794: Tadeusz Kościuszko

• 1794 : During the Kościuszko uprising in divided Poland , the dictator Tadeusz Kościuszko and his army defeated General Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow's Russian troops in the Battle of Maciejowice and were taken prisoner. The uprising continues in Warsaw .
• 1806 : The Prussian general Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia is killed in the battle of Saalfeld in the fourth coalition war against Napoleon Bonaparte .
• 1845 : US Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft establishes the Naval School , the predecessor of today's United States Naval Academy . After graduating from college, graduates must serve in the US Navy or US Marine Corps on a temporary basis.
• 1847 : At the Heppenheim conference , the moderate liberals draft their political program for the unification of Germany .
• 1868 : In Cuba begins with the battle cry of Yara by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes of the Ten Years' War against the Spanish colonial power.
• 1870 : In the battle near Artenay , an army corps of Bavarian troops under General Ludwig von der Tann-Rathsamhausen prevailed in the Franco-German War .
• 1874 : The Fiji group of islands is declared a British Crown Colony .
• 1903 : In Manchester , the British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel found the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) as the militant wing of the suffragettes .

Flag of China under the Qīng Dynasty from 1889 to 1912

• 1911 : With the Wuchang uprising by imperial troops in Wuhan in the Hubei province , the Chinese Empire comes to an end and leads to the founding of the Republic of China the following year .
• 1914 : With the death of King Carol I , his nephew Ferdinand I comes to the Romanian throne.
• 1914 : The siege of Antwerp ends with the capture of the city by German troops.
• 1920 : Italy annexed South Tyrol on the basis of the Treaty of Saint-Germain .

1920: The voting zones in Carinthia

• 1920 : In the referendum in Carinthia under the Treaty of Saint-Germain , the majority votes against affiliation to the SHS state .
• 1935 : In Greece , Prime Minister Panagis Tsaldaris resigns under pressure from the army leadership, which wants a return to the monarchy. War Minister Georgios Kondylis succeeds him in office and at the same time becomes provisional regent in place of Georg II.
• 1941 : Second World War : The authorized commanding general of the German Wehrmacht in Serbia, Franz Böhme , orders the shooting of 100 civilians for every German soldier killed by partisans and 50 civilians for every wounded German soldier.
• 1945 : All Nazi organizations are dissolved by the Control Council Act No. 2 of the Allied Control Council , new foundations are prohibited and existing property is confiscated.
• 1949 : The People's Control Commission dissolves after the founding of the GDR so far in the Soviet occupation zone established Soviet Military Administration in Germany from.
• 1957 : The GDR and Yugoslavia agree to establish diplomatic relations; thereupon the Federal Republic of Germany breaks off official relations with Yugoslavia on October 18 in accordance with the Hallstein Doctrine .
• 1961 : A day before begun volcanic eruption on the remote Atlantic -Insel Tristan da Cunha forcing the evacuation of the entire population. The approximately 300 people will first be brought to the neighboring island of Nightingale Island and from there to Great Britain . It was not until 1963 that the islanders were forced to return home.
• 1962 : The article “Conditionally ready for defense ” by Conrad Ahlers appears in Spiegel , criticizing the defense capabilities of the Bundeswehr in the event of a Soviet attack and triggering the Spiegel affair .
• 1963 : The Treaty on the Ban on Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, Space and Underwater enters into force.
• 1967 : The Treaty on the Principles Regulating the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and other Celestial Bodies ( Outer Space Treaty ) enters into force.
• 1970 : The Fiji Islands achieve complete independence from Great Britain.

1970: FLQ flag

• 1970 : During the October crisis in the Canadian province of Québec , the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor of the provincial government, Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by the Front de Liberation du Québec ( FLQ ).
• 1971 : In the early elections to the National Council in Austria , the SPÖ under Federal Chancellor Kreisky becomes the party with the largest number of votes and wins an absolute majority for the first time.

1973: Spiro Theodore Agnew

• 1973 : The US Vice President Spiro Theodore Agnew resigns on charges of tax evasion and corruption.
• 1981 : More than 300,000 people attend a peace demonstration in Bonn's Hofgarten to express their aversion to nuclear weapons.
• 1986 : The diplomat Gerold von Braunmühl is the victim of an RAF attack in Bonn . The two hooded perpetrators cannot be identified.
• 1990 : The statements of the Kuwaiti woman Nijirah al-Sabah before the US Congress about alleged atrocities by the Iraqi army have a considerable influence on the voting behavior regarding an American military operation.
• 2002 : The Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) again emerged victorious in local elections in Algeria .
• 2005 : SPD, CDU and CSU publish a joint agreement according to which Angela Merkel is to be elected to the office of Federal Chancellor by the 16th German Bundestag .
• 2009 : After almost a century of hostility, Armenian Foreign Minister Edouard Nalbandian and his Turkish colleague Ahmet Davutoğlu sign an agreement to normalize Armenian-Turkish relations in the auditorium of the University of Zurich .
• 2010 : The Netherlands Antilles dissolve as a single country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands . The islands of Curaçao and Sint Maarten then belong to the Netherlands as countries, the other islands as special municipalities .

economy

• 1865 : John Wesley Hyatt receives his first patent on the non- ivory billiard ball he invented . A few years later, while striving to improve the invention, he succeeds in developing the celluloid process .
• 1882 : The Bank of Japan is founded as a monopoly central bank . This means that private banks are no longer allowed to spend money in Japan .
• 1948 : The first edition of the radio magazine Gong , the later television magazine, appears in Nuremberg .

1971: London Bridge in Lake Havasu City

• 1971 : In Lake Havasu City in the US state of Arizona , the London Bridge from 1831 , which was sold to the United States, is reopened, the parts of which are built into a reinforced concrete structure.
• 1991 : The Neue Berliner Illustrierte , a magazine previously sought after in the GDR, appears for the last time.
• 2003 : The Magdeburg waterway junction goes into operation and shortens the travel time of inland waterways in an east-west direction by four hours.
• 2008 : The insurer Yamato Life Insurance needs due to the subprime crisis as the first Japanese financial company bankruptcy protection at the Tokyo District Court apply.

science and technology

• 1810 : The Alma Mater Berolinensis , today's Humboldt University in Berlin , begins teaching.

1846: The Neptune moon Triton

• 1846 : William Lassell discovers Triton , the largest moon on the planet Neptune .
• 1874 : JC Watson discovered the asteroid Juewa as a participant in a China expedition during a transit of Venus .

1881: Title page of the first edition

• 1881 : The first edition of the work The Formation of Vegetable Mold through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits ( The formation of the soil through the activity of the worms ) by Charles Darwin appears. With this book, Darwin concludes his decades of studies on the interrelationships between earthworms and soil conditions and on the behavior of these animals.
• 1935 : In Langenberg , a windpipe destroyed the 160 meter high transmission tower. As a result of this event, the construction of wooden transmission towers was almost completely stopped in Germany.
• 1994 : Håkon Wium Lie publishes his proposal for " Cascading HTML style sheets ".
• 1996 : In Germany, the Skyper intelligence service goes into operation via radio signal receivers .
• 2010 : The private spaceplane SpaceShipTwo successfully completes its first glide flight.

Culture

• 1784 : The first performance of the drama I due supposti conti, ossia Lo sposo senza moglie by Domenico Cimarosa takes place at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan.
• 1857 : Jacques Offenbach's one-act operetta Le mariage aux lanternes is premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.
• 1859 : The men's association Schlaraffia is founded in Prague as a worldwide German-speaking association to cultivate friendship, art and humor.
• 1935 : Ten days after the preview in Boston, George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, based on a libretto by DuBose Heyward, had its Broadway premiere at New York's Alvin Theater with moderate success with Todd Duncan and Anne Wiggins Brown in the title roles. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward and Gershwin's brother Ira .
• 1943 : The comic opera Barbe-bleue by Jacques Ibert is premiered.
• 1969 : The film Zwei Banditen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the leading roles is premiered as one of the first representatives of " New Hollywood " in Germany.
• 1974 : Mikis Theodorakis gives his first people 's concert after the overthrow of the Greek military junta in front of tens of thousands of enthusiastic people in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens.
• 1999 : The " London Eye ", currently the largest Ferris wheel in Europe, is erected.

society

• 1361 : Joan of Kent and Edward of Woodstock , the Black Prince, marry at Windsor Castle .
• 1846 : A double wedding is celebrated in Spain : Queen Isabella II marries her cousin Francisco de Asís de Borbón . Her sister Maria Luisa is married to the Duke of Montpensier and son of the French citizen-king Louis-Philippe , Antoine d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier .

religion

1982: Father Maximilian Kolbe

• 1982 : Pope John Paul II canonize Father Maximilian Kolbe, who was murdered in Auschwitz .

Disasters

• 1683 : After a fire breaks out, the explosion of the Wapen frigate of Hamburg loaded with ammunition in the Spanish port of Cadiz kills 65 people.
• 1780 : The worst Atlantic hurricane to date, the Great Hurricane of 1780 , begins its migration across the Caribbean islands, which will last until October 16, killing around 22,000 people.

1871: Ruins after the Great Chicago Fire

• 1871 : The Great Chicago Fire ends. Around a third of the 300,000 inhabitants lose their homes, around 300 people are killed.
• 1892 : The British passenger ship Bokhara sinks in a typhoon on Formosa Strait west of the island of Taiwan . 125 passengers and crew drown.
• 1918 : The Irish passenger ship RMS Leinster is sunk in Dublin Bay by a German submarine using two torpedoes. 501 passengers and crew members die. It is the worst shipping accident to date in the Irish Sea and one of the greatest loss of life from the sinking of a civilian ship in World War I.
• 1957 : The Windscale fire , one of the most serious nuclear accidents before the Chernobyl disaster , releases large amounts of radioactive material.
• 1980 : A 7.7 magnitude earthquake almost completely destroyed El-Asnam (formerly Orléansville ), today Ech Cheliff , Algeria , claiming around 20,000 lives.
• 1986 : A 5.5 magnitude earthquake in El Salvador kills over 1,000 people.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Sports

• 1936 : Sepp Herberger is appointed Reich coach of the German national soccer team.
• 1964 : In Tokyo beginning XVIII. Summer Olympics .

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 19th century

• 

  Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
  (* 1700)

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  Benjamin West
  (* 1738)

• 1201 : Richard de Fournival , north French cleric, scholar, surgeon, astronomer, alchemist, librarian, poet and musician
• 1470 : Selim I , sultan and first Ottoman caliph
• 1483 : Dmitri Ivanovich the grandson , Russian Grand Duke
• 1486 : Charles III. , Duke of Savoy
• 1528 : Adam Lonitzer , German naturalist, doctor and botanist
• 1560 : Jacob Arminius , Dutch theologian
• 1567 : Katharina Michaela of Spain , Duchess of Savoy
• 1593 : Georg Pauli-Stravius , German clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Cologne
• 1614 : Balthasar Cellarius , German Protestant theologian
• 1619 : Elisabeth Sophia of Saxe-Altenburg , Duchess of Saxe-Gotha
• 1625 : Erik Dahlberg , Swedish field marshal, fortress builder and architect
• 1653 : Anton Günther II , Prince of Schwarzburg, Count of Hohnstein, Lord of Sondershausen, Arnstadt and Leutenberg
• 1675 : Peter Kolb , German teacher and ethnologist
• 1684 : Jean-Antoine Watteau , French painter
• 1700 : Lambert-Sigisbert Adam , French sculptor
• 1715 : August Wilhelm , Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern and Prussian infantry general
• 1729 : Johann Engelhard Kahler , German Protestant theologian
• 1731 : Henry Cavendish , British natural scientist
• 1738 : Benjamin West , American-British painter
• 1757 : Erik Acharius , Swedish doctor and botanist
• 1766 : Count Leopold Maximilian von Firmian , Prince Archbishop of Vienna
• 1769 : Benjamin Christoph Gimmerthal , German Protestant clergyman
• 1771 : Ambros Rieder , Austrian composer and organist
• 1785 : Florestan I , Prince of Monaco

19th century

1801-1850

• 1804 : Charles Spackman Barker , English organ builder
• 1804 : Albín Mašek , Czech composer
• 1805 : Peter Beising , German theologian
• 1811 : Willem Gerard Brill , Dutch Dutch scholar, Romance scholar, English scholar and historian
• 1813 : Mark Pattison , British author

• 

  Giuseppe Verdi
  (* 1813)

• 

  Paul Kruger
  (* 1825)

• 

  Isabella II of Spain
  (* 1830)

• 

  Aleksis Kivi
  (* 1834)

• 1813 : Giuseppe Verdi , Italian Romantic composer
• 1816 : Johann Zeh , Austrian engineer
• 1817 : Serafino Dubois , Italian chess master
• 1817 : Christoph Buys Ballot , Dutch scientist, founder of meteorology in the Netherlands and initiator of international climate research
• 1820 : Johann Heinrich Ammann , Swiss lawyer and politician
• 1825 : Paul Kruger , South African politician, president, founder of the Kruger National Park
• 1829 : Rudolf Lindau , German writer and diplomat
• 1830 : Isabella II , Queen of Spain
• 1834 : Aleksis Kivi , Finnish national poet, is considered the father of modern literature in the Finnish language
• 1839 : Francisco Giner de los Ríos , Spanish philosopher and educator
• 1841 : Lamar Fontaine , American Confederate soldier and writer
• 1845 : Anton Jörgen Andersen , Norwegian composer
• 1848 : Retheos Berberian , Armenian educator, publicist, writer and translator

1851-1900

• 1854 : Otto Arendt , German publicist and politician
• 1858 : Lorenz Werthmann , German Catholic priest and social politician, founder of the German Caritas Association
• 1859 : Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Alexander Adolf Maurer , German medic
• 1861 : Edouard Dujardin , French writer

• 

  Fridtjof Nansen
  (* 1861)

• 

  Walter Anderson
  (* 1885)

• 1861 : Fridtjof Nansen , Norwegian zoologist, polar researcher and diplomat, Nobel Prize winner
• 1862 : Emil Mayrisch , Luxembourg steel industrialist, president of the board of directors of the Arbed steel group
• 1863 : Vladimir Afanassjewitsch Obruchev , Soviet geologist, geographer and writer
• 1864 : Theodore Frank Appleby , American politician
• 1865 : Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta , Spanish-British cardinal
• 1873 : Eduard Cruse , German general
• 1873 : Else Kolshorn , German trade unionist
• 1873 : Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg , German colonial official, first president of the NOK
• 1877 : William Richard Morris , British entrepreneur, founder of the Morris Motor Company
• 1878 : Albert von Trentini , Austrian writer
• 1879 : Bruno Cicognani , Italian writer
• 1879 : Eugen Täubler , German ancient historian
• 1880 : Maximilian Kaller , Bishop of Warmia in East Prussia
• 1884 : Ida Wüst , German actress
• 1885 : Walter Anderson , German folklorist
• 1886 : Franz Arczynski , German trade union official and politician
• 1888 : Pietro Lana , Italian football player
• 1889 : Henricus Antonius van Meegeren , Dutch painter and art forger
• 1889 : Kermit Roosevelt Sr. , American writer, businessman, and officer
• 1893 : Willi Apel , American musicologist
• 1895 : Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen , German Army and Air Force soldier, Chief of Staff of the Condor Legion, Field Marshal General
• 1897 : Willy Wobst , German forester, civil servant and author, chairman of the working group for natural forest management
• 1898 : Karl Bielig , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1899 : Wilhelm Röpke , German economist and social philosopher, is considered one of the fathers of the social market economy
• 1900 : Helen Hayes , American actress
• 1900 : Karl Kaufmann , German politician, Gauleiter and Reich Governor in Hamburg
• 1900 : Walter Stahlecker , German lawyer and general of the SS and the police, task force leader, war criminal
• 1900 : Zeno Vancea , Romanian composer and musicologist

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Alberto Giacometti , Swiss sculptor, painter and graphic artist
  

  Alberto Giacometti (* 1901)
• 1902 : Erwin Leuchter , Argentine musicologist and conductor
• 1903 : Lee L. Blair , American jazz guitarist and banjo player
• 1904 : Sam Theard , American singer and songwriter
• 1905 : Franz Augsberger , Austrian SS brigade leader and major general
• 1905 : Wilhelm Beiglböck , Austrian doctor, war criminal
• 1905 : Tanaka Chikao , Japanese playwright and theater director
• 1905 : Kurt Frör , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1906 : Klaus Mehnert , German political scientist and journalist
• 1907 : Kiichi Aichi , Japanese politician
• 1908 : Edmund Stadler , German middle-distance runner
• 1909 : Robert F. Boyle , American production designer
• 1909 : Mercè Rodoreda , Spanish writer
• 1910 : Milt Larkin , American jazz trumpeter
• 1912 : John Austrheim , Norwegian economic manager and politician
• 1912 : Johnny Rodríguez , Puerto Rican singer and composer
• 1913 : Claude Simon , French writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1914 : Ivory Joe Hunter , American R&B singer, pianist, and songwriter
• 1914 : Mario Lanzi , Italian athlete
• 1914 : Agostino Straulino , Italian sailor
• 1915 : Helmut Polensky , German racing car driver and entrepreneur
• 1917 : Thelonious Monk , American jazz pianist and composer, co-founder of bebop, innovator of modern jazz
  

  Thelonious Monk (* 1917)
• 1918 : Jigal Allon , Israeli politician, multiple minister, foreign minister
• 1918 : Werner Dollinger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
• 1918 : John W. King , American politician
• 1918 : Erich Schwertner , German politician, MdL, MdB
• 1919 : Roland Lebrun , Canadian singer-songwriter ("Le Soldat Lebrun")
• 1920 : Gail Halvorsen , American pilot
• 1921 : Julius Watkins , American bugler
• 1922 : Helmut Nordhaus , German soccer player
• 1923 : Mohamad Muda Asri , Malaysian politician
• 1923 : Nicholas Parsons , British actor and presenter
• 1923 : Murray Walker , British motorsport commentator
• 1924 : Ed Wood , American film director
• 1924 : James Clavell , American writer
• 1925 : Francisco Aguabella , Cuban Latin jazz drummer and percussionist

1926-1950

• 1926 : Richard Jaeckel , American actor
• 1927 : Dana Elcar , American actor
• 1928 : Leyla Gencer , Turkish soprano
• 1929 : Ed Blackwell , American jazz drummer
• 1929 : Georges Burggraff , French racing car driver
• 1929 : Hans-Joachim Hoffmann , German politician, Minister for Culture of the GDR, member of the Central Committee of the SED
• 1930 : Eugenio Castellotti , Italian racing driver
• 1930 : Yves Chauvin , French chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1930 : Daniel Keel , Swiss publisher

Harold Pinter (born 1930)

• 1930 : Harold Pinter , British playwright and director, Nobel Prize winner
• 1932 : Francisco Elizalde , Filipino entrepreneur and sports official
• 1932 : Hans Watzek , German politician, Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management in the GDR
• 1933 : Jutta Langenau , German swimming athlete
• 1933 : Daniel Massey , British actor
• 1934 : Clauss Dietel , German designer
• 1934 : Kunie Iwahashi , Japanese writer
• 1934 : Clear trailblazer , German politician
• 1935 : Yumiko Kurahashi , Japanese writer
• 1935 : Hermann Nuber , German football player
• 1935 : Werner Groß , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice

Gerhard Ertl (* 1936)

• 1936 : Gerhard Ertl , German physicist and surface chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1938 : Horst Rehberger , German politician
• 1939 : Norbert Henke , German lawyer, presiding judge at the Federal Social Court
• 1940 : Helge Adolphsen , German theologian
• 1940 : Kiyoshi Tanabe , Japanese boxer
• 1941 : Peter Coyote , American actor
• 1941 : Assadullah Habib , Afghan poet and writer
• 1941 : Gerd Honsik , Austrian writer and poet, Holocaust denier
• 1941 : Gert Voss , German stage actor
• 1941 : Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa , Nigerian civil rights activist and writer
• 1942 : Claus Bantzer , German composer and church musician
• 1942 : Luis Díaz , Cuban Son singer and composer
• 1943 : Denis Komivi Amuzu-Dzakpah , Togolese archbishop
• 1943 : Reinhard Libuda , German football player
• 1943 : Ursula Staack , German actress, singer, diseuse and cabaret artist
• 1945 : Alan Cartwright , British rock musician
• 1945 : Edoardo Reja , Italian football player and coach
• 1946 : Charles Dance , British actor and director
• 1946 : John Prine , American country singer and songwriter
• 1948 : John Bundrick , British keyboardist, pianist and organist
• 1948 : Juan Falú , US-Argentinian guitarist
• 1949 : Anupong Paochinda , Thai army officer
• 1949 : Hans-Joachim Hacker , German politician, member of the People's Chamber of the GDR, Member of the Bundestag
• 1950 : Nora Roberts , American writer
• 1950 : Takashi Yorino , Japanese racing car driver

1951-1975

• 1951 : Eugen Egner , German draftsman and writer
• 1951 : Willi Brase , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1952 : Siegfried Stohr , Italian racing driver
• 1953 : Midge Ure , British musician, singer and songwriter ( Ultravox )

David Lee Roth (* 1954)

• 1954 : Ariane Ascaride , French actress
• 1954 : David Lee Roth , American singer ( Van Halen )
• 1955 : Peter Ratzenbeck , Austrian guitarist and composer
• 1956 : Amanda Burton , British actress
• 1956 : Fiona Fullerton , British film and television actress
• 1956 : David Hempleman-Adams , British entrepreneur and adventurer
• 1956 : Taur Matan Ruak , East Timorese freedom fighter and general, president
• 1957 : Christel Justen , German swimmer and sports therapist
• 1957 : Rumiko Takahashi , Japanese mangaka
• 1958 : Anne Delaney , American composer, singer and songwriter
• 1958 : Hans-Jürgen Schatz , German actor
• 1958 : Tanya Tucker , American singer
• 1958 : John Mace Grunsfeld , American astronaut
• 1959 : Kirsty MacColl , British singer and songwriter
• 1959 : Michael Klein , Romanian football player
• 1960 : Khadija Arib , Dutch politician
• 1960 : Eric Martin , American rock musician ( Mr. Big )
• 1960 : Arlene McCarthy , British politician, MEP
• 1960 : Simon Townshend , British guitarist, singer and songwriter
• 1961 : Oliver P. Aro , Filipino theologian
• 1961 : Viktor Muschenko , Ukrainian army general
• 1961 : Danuta Stenka , Polish actress
• 1961 : Eckart Würzner , German politician, Lord Mayor of Heidelberg
• 1963 : Leif-Eric Andersson , German volleyball player
• 1963 : Anita Mui , Chinese musician and actress
• 1963 : Daniel Pearl , American journalist
• 1963 : Vegard Ulvang , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1963 : David Wilms , German presenter
• 1964 : Matthias Arter , Swiss oboist, composer and lecturer
• 1964 : Suat Atalık , Turkish chess master
• 1964 : Maxi Gnauck , German gymnast
• 1964 : Michael Hirte , German musician
• 1966 : Tony Adams , English football player and coach
• 1966 : Elana Meyer , South African athlete
• 1966 : Sylk Schneider , German writer
• 1966 : Chris Walden , German jazz musician and composer

Gavin Newsom

• 1967 : Gavin Newsom , American politician
• 1968 : Zacarías Ferreira , Dominican Bachata singer and composer
• 1968 : Andreas Türck , German television presenter
• 1969 : Nina von Arx , German actress
• 1969 : Manu Bennett , New Zealand actor and model of Maori descent
• 1969 : Brett Favre , American football player
• 1969 : Robert Quiroga , American boxer
• 1970 : Bai Ling , Chinese actress
• 1970 : Matthew Pinsent , British rower, Olympic champion
• 1970 : Silke Kraushaar , German luge athlete, Olympic champion, world champion
• 1971 : Lameck Aguta , Kenyan marathon runner
• 1971 : Elvir Bolić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1971 : Yevgeny Igorewitsch Kissin , Russian pianist
• 1971 : Tiffany Mynx , American porn actress and stripper

Markus Heitz (* 1971)

• 1971 : Markus Heitz , German fantasy and science fiction author
• 1971 : Sharon Petzold , American freestyle skier
• 1971 : Truth Hurts , American R&B singer
• 1972 : Oh Seong-ok , South Korean handball player
• 1973 : Vikash Dhorasoo , French football player
• 1974 : Ade Akinbiyi , Nigerian soccer player
• 1974 : Christian Beermann , German actor
• 1974 : Julio Cruz , Argentine soccer player
• 1974 : Dale Earnhardt junior , American racing driver
• 1974 : Chris Pronger , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 : Naike Rivelli , Italian actress and model
• 1974 : Roberto Yáñez , German-Chilean painter
• 1975 : Marco Wanderwitz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag

1976-2000

• 1976 : Levan Tskitishvili , Georgian football player
• 1976 : Das Bo , German rapper
• 1977 : Sanel Kuljić , Austrian football player
• 1977 : Shin'ya Nakano , Japanese motorcycle racer
• 1977 : Roger Yasukawa , American racing driver
• 1978 : Caroline Evers-Swindell , New Zealand rower
• 1979 : Mýa , American singer
• 1979 : Michal Mertiňák , Slovak tennis player
• 1979 : Jens Tiedtke , German handball player
• 1981 : Chara , Angolan football player
• 1982 : David Cal , Spanish canoeist and world champion
• 1982 : Logi Geirsson , Icelandic handball player
• 1983 : Ania Niedieck , German actress
• 1983 : Emma Ruth Rundle , American singer and guitarist
• 1983 : Nikolaos Spyropoulos , Greek football player
• 1983 : Jelle Van Damme , Belgian football player
• 1983 : Vincent Stein , German music producer
• 1984 : Babatunde Luqmon Adekunle , Nigerian soccer player
• 1984 : Damien Ambrosetti , French cross-country skier
• 1984 : Mario Fillinger , German soccer player
• 1984 : Huỳnh Quang Thanh , Vietnamese soccer player
• 1984 : Chiaki Kuriyama , Japanese actress
• 1984 : Marcio Vieira , Andorran football player

Marina Diamandis (* 1985)

• 1985 : Marina Diamandis , British singer
• 1985 : Gisa Flake , German actress
• 1986 : Ezequiel Marcelo Garay , Argentine soccer player
• 1986 : Billy Johnson , American racing car driver
• 1987 : Maryna Anzybor , Ukrainian cross-country skier
• 1987 : Jimmy Downey , Australian soccer player
• 1988 : Hamad Afif , Qatari track and road cyclist
• 1988 : Ideye Brown , Nigerian soccer player
• 1988 : Jason Moore , British racing driver
• 1988 : Jil Funke , German actress
• 1989 : Jeurys Familia , Dominican baseball player
• 1989 : Aimee Teegarden , American actress and model
• 1990 : Jury Astapenka , Belarusian cross-country skier
• 1990 : Jakub Vadlejch , Czech javelin thrower
• 1991 : Michael Carter-Williams , American basketball player
• 1991 : Gabriella Cilmi , Australian pop singer
• 1991 : Xherdan Shaqiri , Swiss football player
• 1992 : Dschano Ananidze , Georgian football player
• 1992 : Gabrielle Ann Aplin , British singer-songwriter
• 1996 : Pascal Richter , German soccer player
• 1998 : Fabio Di Giannantonio , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1998 : Job van Uitert , Dutch racing driver
• 2000 : Felix Nmecha , German-English soccer player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0019 : Germanicus , Roman general
• 0644 : Paulinus of York , first bishop of York
• 0680 : al-Abbās ibn Ali , Shiite martyr
• 0680 : Husain ibn ʿAlī , Arab imam
• 0928 : Sehard , Bishop of Hildesheim
• 0930 : Tuto , Bishop of Regensburg and Catholic blessed
• 1036 : Sigebert , Bishop of Minden
• 1086 : Giselbert , Abbot of St. Blasien
• 1149 : al-Hafiz , Caliph of the Fatimids
• 1229 : Henry de Beaumont, 5th Earl of Warwick , English magnate
• 1302 : Theoderich von Neuhaus , Bishop of Olmütz
• 1359 : Hugo IV , King of Cyprus
• 1372 : Johannes von Dambach , Alsatian Dominican and theologian (* 1288 )
• 1402 : Ludwig von Thierstein , Abbot of Einsiedeln
• 1411 : Nikolaus von Bunzlau , German Benedictine monk and auxiliary bishop in Breslau
• 1451 : Astorgio Agnesi , Archbishop of Benvenent and Cardinal

16th to 18th century

• 1503 : Pierre II. De Bourbon , Duke of Bourbon
• 1504 : Michael , abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach
• 1505 : William Boleyn , English nobleman and high sheriff of Kent
• 1508 : Johann I. Thurzo , Hungarian patrician, merchant and mining entrepreneur
• 1563 : Jakob Zili , Swiss businessman and politician
• 1602 : Katharina von Brandenburg-Küstrin , Electress
• 1616 : Maria von Oranien-Nassau , Countess von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
• 1645 : Heinrich Julius von Wietersheim , Stiftshofmeister in Quedlinburg
• 1659 : Abel Tasman , Dutch navigator
• 1674 : Michael Friedrich Lederer , German legal scholar
• 1676 : Sebastian Knüpfer , German composer
• 1680 : Jacob Tappe , German physician and professor of medicine at the University of Helmstedt
• 1683 : Berend Jacob Karpfanger , pirate hunter and captain of the ship " Wappen von Hamburg "
• 1708 : David Gregory , Scottish mathematician
• 1714 : Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert , French economist
• 1716 : Anton Egon , Imperial Prince and Prince Landgrave of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
• 1720 : Antoine Coysevox , French sculptor
• 1727 : Gottfried Vockerodt , German educator
• 1729 : Johann Martin Seekatz , German painter
• 1731 : Johann Jänichen , German educator and poet
• 1747 : John Potter (Bishop) , Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1770 : Hieronymus Annoni , Swiss Reformed theologian and hymn poet
• 1791 : Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart , German poet

19th century

• 1806 : Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia , Prussian general, nephew of Frederick the Great
• 1806 : Theresa Concordia Maron , German painter
• 1819 : Gottfried August Arndt , German historian, ethnologist and political scientist
• 1825 : Dmytro Bortnjanskyj , Ukrainian composer
• 1826 : Félix Berenguer de Marquina , Spanish colonial administrator, governor of the Philippines and viceroy of New Spain
• 1832 : James Stephen , British MP
• 1834 : Thomas Say , American entomologist
• 1837 : Charles Fourier , French social theorist
• 1840 : Johann Christoph Stelzhammer , Austrian Catholic clergyman and physicist
• 1848 : Heinrich Robert Stöckhardt , lawyer and professor
• 1854 : Gordon Drummond , British general and colonial administrator

Karl August Varnhagen († 1858)

• 1858 : Karl August Varnhagen von Ense , German storyteller and diplomat
• 1866 : Rudolf Anger , German theologian and philosopher
• 1867 : Julius Mosen , German poet and writer
• 1871 : Berthold Carl Seemann , German botanist
• 1872 : William H. Seward , American politician and secretary of state
• 1875 : Alexei Konstantinowitsch Tolstoy , Russian writer, playwright and poet, cousin Leo Tolstoy
• 1884 : Robert Christian Barthold Avé-Lallemant , German doctor and explorer
• 1886 : Wilhelm Lehmann , German emigrant, colonist and founder of the city of Rafaela in Argentina
• 1889 : Adolf Henselt , German composer and piano virtuoso
• 1889 : Heinrich Heydemann , German archaeologist
• 1894 : Julius Lehr , German forest scientist and economist
• 1899 : Albert Böhler , Austrian industrialist
• 1899 : Allan James Foley , Irish opera singer (bass)

20th century

1901-1950

Adolphus Busch († 1913)

Charles I († 1914)

Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann († 1914)

• 1901 : Lorenzo Snow , American Mormon
• 1906 : Karl Attenhofer , Swiss lawyer and federal judge
• 1913 : Adolphus Busch , German-American entrepreneur and brewer ( Anheuser-Busch )
• 1913 : Cardinal Gregorio María Aguirre y García , Spanish Archbishop
• 1913 : Katsura Tarō , Japanese officer and prime minister
• 1914 : Johan Jacob Ahrenberg , Finnish-Swedish architect and writer
• 1914 : Domenico Ferrata , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
• 1914 : Charles I , King of Romania
• 1914 : Johann Schwarzer , Austrian film pioneer
• 1916 : Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann , first German woman to graduate from medical school with a state examination
• 1917 : Sarah Aaronsohn , Romanian spy who worked for the British against the Ottoman Empire
• 1918 : Elisabeth Bürstenbinder , German writer
• 1919 : Martin Leo Arons , German physicist and politician
• 1919 : Anatole Mallet , Swiss engineer
• 1921 : Otto von Gierke , German lawyer, legal historian and politician
• 1922 : Luisa Capetillo , Puerto Rican feminist and anarchist
• 1926 : Pierre Decourcelle , French writer
• 1927 : Aurél Stromfeld , Austrian officer and Chief of Staff of the Army of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
• 1927 : Gustav Weißkopf , German-American pioneer of powered flight
• 1931 : Carl von Bach , German mechanical engineer and university professor
• 1932 : Arnošt Muka , Sorbian cultural organizer, writer and folklorist
• 1934 : Takamura Kōun , Japanese sculptor
• 1935 : Heinrich Gustav Arnhold , German banker, collector, patron and Esperantist
• 1942 : Richard von Schaukal , Austrian poet
• 1943 : Franz Diekamp , German theologian
• 1943 : Charlotte Salomon , German painter
• 1948 : Mary Eaton , American actress
• 1949 : Charles Silver , French composer

1951-1975

• 1952 : Franz Johann Ludwig August Adenauer , German lawyer
• 1955 : Frederick Matthias Alexander , Australian actor
• 1955 : Riccardo Stracciari , opera singer and vocal teacher
• 1960 : Basil Ruysdael , American actor
• 1962 : Trygve Gulbranssen , Norwegian writer
• 1963 : Edith Piaf , French singer
• 1964 : Konrad Bayer , Austrian writer and dandy
• 1964 : Heinrich Neuhaus , Ukrainian pianist
• 1967 : Vyvyan Holland , British writer and translator
• 1968 : Nikifor , Polish painter
• 1971 : Arne Benary , German economist
• 1971 : Cyril Lodowic Burt , British psychologist
• 1971 : Metod Doležil , Czech choir director and music teacher
• 1971 : Ernst Kuntscher , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1973 : Ludwig von Mises , Austrian economist
• 1974 : Marie Luise Kaschnitz , German writer
• 1975 : August Dvorak , American psychologist and education professor

1976-2000

• 1976 : Silvana Armenulić , Yugoslav folk singer
• 1977 : Lea Grundig , German painter and graphic artist
• 1978 : John Randolph Bray , American cartoon pioneer
• 1978 : Ralph Metcalfe , American athlete and Olympic champion, politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1979 : Heinrich Behnke , German mathematician
• 1979 : Paul Paray , French conductor and composer
• 1980 : Carlo Annovazzi , Italian football player
• 1980 : Auguste Veuillet , French racing driver and entrepreneur
• 1983 : Ralph Richardson , British actor
• 1983 : Heinrich Schulte , German psychiatrist
• 1984 : Rudolf Adolph , German writer

Orson Welles († 1985)

• 1985 : Yul Brynner , American actor
• 1985 : Orson Welles , American actor and director
• 1986 : Massie Kennard , American church reformer
• 1986 : Antonio di Benedetto , Argentine writer
• 1986 : Gerold von Braunmühl , German diplomat who was murdered by the Red Army Faction (RAF)
• 1989 : Lionel Audet , Canadian auxiliary bishop
• 1990 : Franco Autori , American conductor
• 1990 : Emil Joseph Diemer , German chess player
• 1990 : Carlos Thompson , Argentine actor and writer
• 1991 : Rudolf Arens , German grassland scientist
• 1993 : Absalon , Israeli installation artist, video artist and sculptor
• 1994 : Richard John Copland Atkinson , British prehistorian
• 1994 : Germain Muller , French politician, cabaret artist and poet
• 1995 : Robert Finch , American politician, minister
• 1995 : Alarich Weiss , German physical chemist
• 2000 : Ferenc Farkas , Hungarian composer

21st century

• 2001 : Luis Antonio García Navarro , Spanish conductor
• 2003 : Eugene Istomin , American pianist
• 2004 : Kelsey Jones , Canadian composer, harpsichordist, pianist, organist, conductor and music teacher
• 2004 : Christopher Reeve , American actor
• 2005 : Kurt Artner , Austrian marksman
• 2005 : Milton Obote , Ugandan President
• 2005 : Gardner Read , American composer
• 2006 : August Henne , German forester
• 2006 : Danièle Huillet , French filmmaker
• 2008 : Alexei Prokurorow , Russian cross-country skier, Olympic champion
• 2008 : Kurt Weinzierl , Austrian actor
• 2009 : Stephen Gately , Irish singer ( Boyzone )
• 2010 : Solomon Burke , American soul and rhythm and blues singer
• 2010 : Franz Schwarzenböck , German bishop
• 2010 : Joan Sutherland , Australian opera singer (soprano)
• 2011 : Gorgen Ray Aghayan , Persian costume designer
• 2011 : Albert Rosellini , American politician
• 2011 : Otto Tausig , Austrian actor, screenwriter and director
• 2011 : Klaus-Peter Thiele , German actor
• 2011 : Karl Wienand , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, agent of the GDR State Security
• 2012 : Ilse Maria Aschner , Austrian journalist
• 2012 : Nils Kopagh , German musician and freelance artist
• 2012 : Amanda Todd , Canadian high school student who committed suicide for cyberbullying
• 2013 : Scott Carpenter , American astronaut
• 2015 : Richard F. Heck , American chemist and Nobel Prize winner
• 2016 : Tamme Hanken , German naturopath and horse whisperer
• 2017 : Lissy Tempelhof , German actress
• 2018 : Mary Midgley , British philosopher

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Viktor von Xanten , Roman martyr (Catholic, Orthodox)
  • St. Brun of Cologne , Archbishop of Cologne, Arch Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire (Protestant, the Catholic day of remembrance is on October 11th )
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder , German painter (Protestant)
  • Saints Cassius and Florentius , Roman soldiers and martyrs (Catholic)
  • St. Gereon of Cologne , Roman officer, martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
  • Massie Kennard , American church reformer (Protestant: ELCA )

• Name days
  • Florentin , Gereon

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Republic of China (Taiwan) : National Day to commemorate the start of the Wuchang Uprising
  • North Korea : Labor Party of Korea Founding Day
  • Austria : Carinthian national holiday ( referendum 1920 )

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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