October 7
Day of the year
October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 85 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line .[ 5] 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.1919 – KLM , the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.1929 – Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.1940 – World War II : The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.1949 – The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.1950 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.1958 – The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.1958 – The U.S. crewed space-flight project is renamed to Project Mercury .
1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.1961 – A Douglas Dakota IV operated by Derby Aviation (later renamed to British Midland International ) crashes in Canigou , France, killing 34 people.[ 6] 1963 – President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty .1963 – Buddhist crisis : Amid worsening relations, outspoken South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu arrives in the US for a speaking tour, continuing a flurry of attacks on the Kennedy administration .[ 7] 1977 – The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.1978 – Aeroflot Flight 1080 crashes after takeoff from Koltsovo International Airport , killing 38.[ 8] 1979 – Swissair Flight 316 crashes at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens , Greece, killing 14.[ 9] 1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.1985 – Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
1987 – Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.1988 – A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales .1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of the Banski Dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.1996 – Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.1998 – Matthew Shepard , a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He dies five days later.2000 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict : Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid .2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history.2002 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station .[ 10] 2004 – Three bombs explode at Taba and Nuweiba in the Sinai Peninsula , Egypt, killing 34.[ 11] 2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into Earth's atmosphere.2008 – Qantas Flight 72 experiences an in-flight upset near Learmonth, Victoria , Australia, injuring 112.[ 12]
2016 – In the wake of Hurricane Matthew , the death toll rises to over 800.[ 13] 2022 – 10 people die and 8 are injured in an explosion at petrol station in Creeslough .[ 14] 2022 – Ales Bialiatski , along with two organisations, Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties , are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize .[ 15]
2023 – Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an attack into Israel , which results in the deaths of around 1,200,[ 16] 240 hostages ,[ 17] [ 18] [ 19] Israel–Hamas war . [ 20] [ 21] 2024 - Hurricane Milton reaches peak intensity with 180 mph winds.[ 22]
Births
Pre-1600
1635 – Roger de Piles , French painter (d. 1709)1713 – Granville Elliott , English general (d. 1759)1728 – Caesar Rodney , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (d. 1784)1744 – Sergey Vyazmitinov , Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (d. 1819)1746 – William Billings , American composer and educator (d. 1800)1748 – Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)1769 – Solomon Sibley , American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 1st Mayor of Detroit (d. 1846)1786 – Louis-Joseph Papineau , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume , French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875)1819 – Ann Eliza Smith , American author and patriot (d. 1905)[ 23] 1821 – Richard H. Anderson , American general (d. 1879)[ 24] 1832 – Charles Crozat Converse , American lawyer and composer (d. 1918)1835 – Felix Draeseke , German composer and educator (d. 1913)1836 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau , Canadian scholar and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1911)1841 – Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)1849 – James Whitcomb Riley , American poet and author (d. 1916)1860 – Leonidas Paraskevopoulos , Greek general and politician (d. 1936)1866 – Wlodimir Ledóchowski , Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)1870 – Uncle Dave Macon , American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian (d. 1952)1876 – Louis Tancred , South African cricketer (d. 1934)1879 – Joe Hill , Swedish-born American labor activist and poet (d. 1915)1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky , Ukrainian-Russian general (d. 1918)1884 – Harold Geiger , American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1927)1885 – Niels Bohr , Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)1885 – Claud Ashton Jones , American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1948)
1887 – Jack Russell , English cricketer and coach (d. 1961)1888 – Henry A. Wallace , American agronomist and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)1888 – Edna Meade Colson , American educator and activist (d. 1985)[ 25]
1889 – Robert Z. Leonard , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)1892 – Dwain Esper , American director and producer (d. 1982)1893 – Alice Dalgliesh , Trinidadian-American author and publisher (d. 1979)1895 – Maurice Grevisse , Belgian linguist and author (d. 1980)1896 – Paulino Alcántara , Spanish Filipino football player and manager (d. 1964)1897 – Elijah Muhammad , American religious leader (d. 1975)1897 – Thakin Mya , Burmese lawyer and politician (d. 1947)
1900 – Heinrich Himmler , German commander and politician (d. 1945)
1901 – Frank Boucher , Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1977)[ 26] 1904 – Armando Castellazzi , Italian footballer and coach (d. 1968)1904 – Chuck Klein , American baseball player (d. 1958)[ 27]
1905 – Andy Devine , American actor (d. 1977)1907 – Helen MacInnes , Scottish-American librarian and author (d. 1985)1909 – Anni Blomqvist , Finnish author (d. 1990)1909 – Shura Cherkassky , Ukrainian-American pianist and educator (d. 1995)
1909 – Erastus Corning 2nd , American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (d. 1983)[ 28]
1910 – Henry Plumer McIlhenny , American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1986)1911 – Vaughn Monroe , American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader (d. 1973)1912 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry , Peruvian architect and politician, 85th President of Peru (d. 2002)1912 – Peter Walker , English race car driver (d. 1984)
1913 – Simon Carmiggelt , Dutch journalist and author (d. 1987)1913 – Raimond Valgre , Estonian pianist, guitarist, and composer (d. 1949)
1914 – Begum Akhtar , Indian actress (d. 1974)[ 29] 1914 – Sarah Churchill , English actress (d. 1982)
1914 – Alfred Drake , American actor and singer (d. 1992)
1914 – Herman Keiser , American golfer (d. 2003)
1917 – June Allyson , American actress (d. 2006)[ 30] 1918 – Harry V. Jaffa , American historian, philosopher, and academic (d. 2015)1919 – Henriette Avram , American computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)1919 – Zelman Cowen , Australian academic and politician, 19th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011)
1919 – Georges Duby , French historian and author (d. 1996)
1920 – Georg Leber , German soldier and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence (d. 2012)1920 – Jack Rowley , English footballer and manager (d. 1998)
1921 – Raymond Goethals , Belgian footballer and coach (d. 2004)1922 – Grady Hatton , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2013)1922 – William Zinsser , American journalist and critic (d. 2015)
1923 – Irma Grese , German SS officer (d. 1945)1923 – Břetislav Pojar , Czech animator and director (d. 2012)
1923 – Jean-Paul Riopelle , Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
1926 – Alex Groza , American basketball player (d. 1995)[ 31] 1927 – Al Martino , American singer and actor (d. 2009)1927 – R. D. Laing , Scottish psychiatrist and author (d. 1989)
1927 – Demetrio González , Spanish-Mexican film actor and singer (d. 2015)
1928 – José Messias , Brazilian composer, singer, writer, host and critic (d. 2015)1928 – Ali Kafi , Algerian politician (d. 2013)
1928 – Lorna Wing , English autism researcher (d. 2014)
1929 – Graeme Ferguson , Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation (d. 2021)1929 – Mariano Gagnon , American Catholic priest and author (d. 2017)
1929 – Robert Westall , English journalist and author (d. 1993)
1930 – Curtis Crider , American race car driver (d. 2012)1931 – Cotton Fitzsimmons , American basketball player and coach (d. 2004)1931 – Tommy Lewis , American football player and coach (d. 2014)
1931 – R. Sivagurunathan , Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and academic (d. 2003)
1931 – Desmond Tutu , South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)[ 32]
1932 – Joannes Gijsen , Dutch bishop (d. 2013)1933 – Harold Dunaway , American race car driver and pilot (d. 2012)1934 – Amiri Baraka , American poet, playwright, and academic (d. 2014)1934 – Ulrike Meinhof , German far-left terrorist , co-founder of the Red Army Faction , journalist (d. 1976)
1934 – Willie Naulls , American basketball player (d. 2018)[ 33]
1934 – Julian Thompson , English general and historian
1935 – Thomas Keneally , Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist1936 – Michael Hurll , English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)1937 – Christopher Booker , English journalist and author (d. 2019)1937 – Chet Powers , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1994)
1937 – Maria Szyszkowska , Polish academic and politician
1938 – Yvonne Brewster , Jamaican actress and theatre director[ 34] 1938 – Ann Jones , English tennis player and sportscaster
1939 – John Hopcroft , American computer scientist and author1939 – Clive James , Australian television host, author, and critic (d. 2019)
1939 – Harry Kroto , English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1939 – Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya , Congolese cardinal (d. 2021)
1939 – Bill Snyder , American football player and coach
1942 – Joy Behar , American talk show host, comedian and television personality[ 35] 1943 – José Cardenal , Cuban baseball player and coach1943 – Oliver North , American colonel, journalist, and author[ 36]
1944 – Judee Sill , American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1979)1944 – Donald Tsang , Chinese civil servant and politician, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1945 – Kevin Godley , English singer-songwriter and director[ 35] 1945 – David Wallace , Scottish physicist and academic
1946 – John Brass , Australian rugby player and coach1946 – Catharine MacKinnon , American lawyer, activist, and author
1947 – Chris Bambridge , Australian footballer and referee1947 – Jill Larson , American actress[ 35]
1948 – Diane Ackerman , American poet and essayist1948 – John F. B. Mitchell , English climatologist and author
1948 – Stephen Rucker , American composer
1949 – Dave Hope , American bass player and priest1950 – Dick Jauron , American football player and coach1950 – Jakaya Kikwete , Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of Tanzania
1951 – Enki Bilal , French comic book creator, comics artist and film director1951 – John Mellencamp , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor[ 35]
1952 – Mary Badham , American actress[ 35] 1952 – Vladimir Putin , Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia [ 30]
1952 – Jacques Richard , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1952 – Graham Yallop , Australian cricketer
1953 – Linda Griffiths , Canadian actress and playwright (d. 2014)1953 – Margus Lepa , Estonian journalist and actor
1953 – Tico Torres , American drummer[ 35]
1955 – Ralph Johnson , American computer scientist and author1955 – Bill Henson , Australian photographer
1955 – Yo-Yo Ma , French-American cellist and educator[ 35]
1956 – Steve Bainbridge , English rugby player1956 – Mike Shipley , Australian-English sound engineer and producer (d. 2013)
1956 – Brian Sutter , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957 – Joey Marquez , Filipino basketball player, actor, and politician1957 – Michael W. Smith , American singer-songwriter and actor[ 35]
1957 – Jayne Torvill , English figure skater
1959 – Dylan Baker , American actor1959 – Simon Cowell , English businessman and record producer[ 35]
1959 – Lourdes Flores , Peruvian lawyer and politician
1959 – Jean-Marc Fournier , Canadian lawyer and politician
1959 – Brazo de Oro , Mexican wrestler (d. 2017)
1960 – Kevin Boyle , American historian and author1961 – Brian Mannix , Australian singer-songwriter1961 – Tony Sparano , American football player and coach (d. 2018)
1962 – Dave Bronconnier , Canadian businessman and politician, 35th Mayor of Calgary 1962 – Micky Flanagan , English comedian
1962 – William Johnson , German-English cricketer
1964 – Sam Brown , English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer1964 – Dan Savage , American LGBT rights activist, journalist and television producer
1964 – Paul Stewart , English footballer
1965 – Genji Hashimoto , Japanese race car driver1965 – Kumiko Watanabe , Japanese voice actress
1966 – Sherman Alexie , American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker1966 – Marco Beltrami , Italian-American composer and conductor
1966 – Janet Shaw , Australian cyclist and author (d. 2012)
1967 – Michelle Alexander , American law professor, author and activist1967 – Peter Baker , English golfer[ 37]
1967 – Toni Braxton , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress[ 35]
1968 – Thom Yorke , English singer-songwriter and guitarist[ 35] 1969 – Bobbie Brown , American model and actress1969 – Malia Hosaka , American wrestler
1970 – Nicole Ari Parker , American actress[ 35] 1971 – Daniel Boucher , Canadian singer and actor1972 – Marlou Aquino , Filipino basketball player1972 – Ben Younger , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Dida , Brazilian footballer1973 – Priest Holmes , American football player
1973 – Sami Hyypiä , Finnish footballer and manager
1973 – Grigol Mgaloblishvili , Georgian politician and diplomat, 7th Prime Minister of Georgia
1974 – Rune Glifberg , Danish skateboarder1974 – Allison Munn , American actress[ 35]
1974 – Ruslan Nigmatullin , Russian footballer
1974 – Charlotte Perrelli , Swedish singer
1975 – Giorgos Karadimos , Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist1975 – Damian Kulash , American singer-songwriter and guitarist[ 35]
1975 – Tim Minchin , English-Australian comedian, actor, and singer
1975 – Rhyno , American wrestler[ 38]
1976 – Marc Coma , Spanish motorcycle racer1976 – Taylor Hicks , American singer-songwriter[ 35]
1976 – Gilberto Silva , Brazilian footballer
1976 – Santiago Solari , Argentinian footballer and manager
1976 – Charles Woodson , American football player
1977 – Antoine Revoy , French comics writer and illustrator1978 – Alison Balsom , English trumpet player and educator1978 – Alesha Dixon , English singer-songwriter and dancer
1978 – Zaheer Khan , Indian cricketer
1978 – Omar Benson Miller , American actor[ 35]
1979 – Simona Amânar , Romanian gymnast1979 – Aaron Ashmore , Canadian actor
1979 – Shawn Ashmore , Canadian actor[ 35]
1982 – Madjid Bougherra , Algerian footballer1982 – Jermain Defoe , English footballer
1982 – Robby Ginepri , American tennis player
1982 – Jake McLaughlin , American actor[ 35]
1982 – Lockett Pundt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 – Li Yundi , Chinese pianist
1983 – Archie Bland , English journalist and author1983 – Dwayne Bravo , Trinidadian cricketer
1983 – Flying Lotus , American rapper, DJ, and producer[ 35]
1983 – Scottie Upshall , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Salman Butt , Pakistani cricketer1984 – Toma Ikuta , Japanese actor and singer
1984 – Simon Poulsen , Danish footballer
1984 – Zachary Wyatt , American soldier and politician
1985 – Evan Longoria , American baseball player1986 – Chase Daniel , American football player1986 – Lee Nguyen , American soccer player
1986 – Gunnar Nielsen , Faroese footballer
1986 – Bree Olson , American actress, model, and former pornographic actress
1986 – A. J. Price , American basketball player[ 39]
1986 – Holland Roden , American actress[ 35]
1986 – Amy Satterthwaite , New Zealand cricketer
1986 – Amber Stevens West , American actress[ 35]
1987 – Jeremy Brockie , New Zealand footballer1987 – Alex Cobb , American baseball player[ 40]
1987 – Aiden English , American wrestler
1987 – Damion James , American basketball player[ 41]
1987 – Sam Querrey , American tennis player
1988 – Diego da Silva Costa , Brazilian footballer1989 – Trent Merrin , Australian rugby league player1990 – Sebastián Coates , Uruguayan footballer1991 – Oscar Fantenberg , Swedish ice hockey player[ 42] 1991 – Mike Foltynewicz , American baseball player[ 43]
1991 – Nicole Jung , American singer[ 44]
1991 – Lay Zhang , Chinese singer-songwriter and actor[ 45]
1992 – Mookie Betts , American baseball player1993 – Nic Stauskas , Canadian basketball player[ 46] 1995 – Lyndon Dykes , Australian professional footballer1995 – Mathias Dyngeland , Norwegian footballer
1995 – Lloyd Jones , English professional footballer
1995 – Bram van Vlerken , Dutch professional football player
1996 – Lewis Capaldi , Scottish singer-songwriter[ 47] 1996 – Choi Jeong , South Korean Go player[ 48]
1997 – Kira Kosarin , American actress and singer[ 49] 1997 – Nicole Maines , American actress, writer, and activist[ 30]
1998 – Trent Alexander-Arnold , English footballer1998 – Ryan Trahan , American YouTuber[ 50]
2001 – Princess Senate Seeiso , Princess of Lesotho[ 51]
Deaths
Pre-1600
336 – Mark , pope of the Catholic Church 858 – Montoku , Japanese emperor (b. 826)929 – Charles the Simple , French king (b. 879)950 – Li , Chinese empress consort951 – Shi Zong , emperor of the Liao Dynasty (b. 919)951 – Xiao , Chinese Khitan empress dowager
951 – Zhen , Chinese Khitan empress consort
988 – Qian Chu , king of Wuyue (b. 929)1242 – Juntoku , Japanese emperor (b. 1197)1259 – Ezzelino III da Romano , Italian ruler1363 – Eleanor de Bohun , English noblewoman (b. 1304)1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence , Belgian-English politician (b. 1338)1461 – Jean Poton de Xaintrailles , follower of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1390)1468 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta , Italian nobleman (b. 1417)1553 – Cristóbal de Morales , Spanish composer (b. 1500)1571 – Sufi Ali Pasha , Ottoman soldier and politician, Ottoman Governor of Egypt 1571 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg , Danish queen consort of Christian III of Denmark (b. 1511)
1577 – George Gascoigne , English soldier, courtier, and poet (b. 1535)
1612 – Giovanni Battista Guarini , Italian poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1538)1620 – Stanisław Żółkiewski , Polish-Lithuanian commander (b. 1547)1637 – Victor Amadeus I , duke of Savoy (b. 1587)1651 – Jacques Sirmond , French scholar (b. 1559)1653 – Fausto Poli , Italian cardinal (b. 1581)1708 – Guru Gobind Singh , Indian 10th Sikh guru (b. 1666)1747 – Giulia Lama , Italian painter (b. 1681)[ 52] 1772 – John Woolman , American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)1787 – Henry Muhlenberg , German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711)1792 – George Mason , American lawyer and politician (b. 1725)1793 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire , English politician, President of the Board of Trade (b. 1718)1796 – Thomas Reid , Scottish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1710)1849 – Edgar Allan Poe , American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)1884 – Bernard Petitjean , French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829)1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. , American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz , German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)[ 53] 1904 – Isabella Bird , English historian and explorer (b. 1831)[ 54] 1906 – Honoré Beaugrand , Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)[ 55] 1911 – John Hughlings Jackson , English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)[ 56] 1919 – Alfred Deakin , Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)[ 57] 1925 – Christy Mathewson , American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)1926 – Emil Kraepelin , German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)1933 – Alexander Peacock , Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)1939 – Harvey Williams Cushing , American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)1943 – Radclyffe Hall , English author and poet (b. 1880)1944 – Helmut Lent , German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)1950 – Willis Haviland Carrier , American engineer (b. 1876)1951 – Anton Philips , Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)1956 – Clarence Birdseye , American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)1959 – Mario Lanza , American tenor and actor (b. 1921)1966 – Grigoris Asikis , Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)1967 – Norman Angell , English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)1969 – Léon Scieur , Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)1970 – Alphonse-Marie Parent , Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)1983 – George O. Abell , American astronomer, professor, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)1985 – Cemal Reşit Rey , Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904)1990 – Beatrice Hutton , Australian architect (b. 1893)1990 – Chiara Badano , Italian beatified (b.1971)
1990 – Grim Natwick , American animator (b. 1890)[ 58]
1991 – Harry W. Brown , American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)1991 – Leo Durocher , American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
1991 – Darren Millane , Australian footballer (b. 1965)
1992 – Allan Bloom , American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)1992 – Babu Karam Singh Bal , Indian businessman and politician (b.1927)
1993 – Cyril Cusack , South African-born Irish actor (b. 1910)1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne , Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)1995 – Ivan Hutchinson , Australian film critic and author (b. 1928)1995 – Olga Taussky-Todd , Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)
1996 – Lou Lichtveld , Surinamese-Dutch author, playwright, and politician (b. 1903)1998 – Cees de Vreugd , Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)2001 – Herblock , American cartoonist and author (b. 1909)2001 – Christopher Adams , English-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1955)
2001 – Roger Gaudry , Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913)
2002 – Pierangelo Bertoli , Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)2003 – Izzy Asper , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)2003 – Arthur Berger , American composer and educator (b. 1912)
2004 – Miki Matsubara , Japanese composer, lyricist, and singer (b. 1959)[ 59] 2004 – Tony Lanfranchi , English race car driver (b. 1935)2005 – Charles Rocket , American actor and comedian (b. 1949)2006 – Julen Goikoetxea , Spanish cyclist (b. 1985)2006 – Anna Politkovskaya , American-Russian journalist and activist (b. 1958)
2007 – Norifumi Abe , Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)2007 – George E. Sangmeister , American lawyer and politician (b. 1931)
2009 – Irving Penn , American photographer (b. 1917)2010 – T Lavitz , American keyboard player, composer, and producer (b. 1956)2010 – Milka Planinc , Croatian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2011 – Ramiz Alia , Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)2011 – Andrew Laszlo , Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1926)
2012 – Mervyn M. Dymally , Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1926)2012 – Ivo Michiels , Belgian-French author and poet (b. 1923)
2012 – Wiley Reed , American-Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)
2013 – Mick Buckley , English footballer (b. 1953)2013 – Terry Burnham , American actress (b. 1949)[ 60]
2013 – Patrice Chéreau , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
2013 – David E. Jeremiah , American admiral (b. 1934)
2013 – Leandro Mendoza , Filipino police officer and politician, 36th Executive Secretary of the Philippines (b. 1946)
2013 – Joe Rogers , American lawyer and politician, 45th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado (b. 1964)
2014 – Nika Kiladze , Georgian footballer (b. 1988)2014 – Siegfried Lenz , Polish-German author and playwright (b. 1926)
2014 – Iva Withers , Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1917)
2015 – Harry Gallatin , American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)2015 – Hossein Hamadani , Iranian general (b. 1951)
2015 – Jurelang Zedkaia , Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)
2016 – Ross Higgins , Australian actor, comedian (b. 1930)[ 61] 2020 – Mario Molina , Mexican chemist (b. 1943)[ 62] 2022 – Arun Bali , Indian actor (b. 1942)[ 63] 2023 – Israelis murdered or fell in the line of duty during the October 7 attack
Lior Asulin , Israeli footballer (b. 1980)[ 11] Jayar Davidov , Israeli police officer (b. 1979)[ 64] Asaf Hamami Israeli soldier who served as commander of the Southern Brigade (b. 1982)[ 65] Hayim Katsman , American-Israeli peace activist (b. 1991)[ 66] Ofir Libstein , Israeli politician (b. 1973)[ 67] Roi Levy , Israel Defense Forces officer (b. 1979)[ 68] Shani Louk , Israeli-German tattoo artist (b.2001)[ 69] Izhar Peled , retired Israeli police officer (b. 1961)[ 70] Aner Shapira , an off-duty Israeli soldier who has been credited with saving the lives of at least 7 people (b. 2001)[ 71] Vivian Silver , Canadian-Israeli peace activist (b. 1949)[ 72] Yonatan Steinberg , Israel Defense Forces officer (b. 1980)[ 73] Yahav Winner , Israeli filmmaker (b. 1986)[ 74] 2024 – Cissy Houston , American singer (b. 1933)[ 75] 2024 – Arie L. Kopelman , American businessman (b. 1938)[ 76]
2024 – Zaw Myint Maung , Burmese politician, physician and former political prisoner (b. 1951)[ 77]
2024 – Lore Segal , American novelist (b. 1928)[ 78]
Holidays and observances
References
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