October 7

October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
• 1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
• 1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
• 1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
• 1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) annihilates the Turkish fleet.
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
• 1763 – King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
• 1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
• 1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
• 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
• 1828 – Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
• 1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
• 1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia
• 1864 – American Civil War: Bahia incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
• 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
• 1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
• 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
• 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 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
• 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.
• 1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
• 1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
• 1949 – The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
• 1950 – Mother Teresa build an order called Missionary of Charity
• 1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
• 1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
• 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
• 1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
• 1960 – Nigeria joins the United Nations.
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
• 1971 – Oman joins the United Nations.
• 1976 – Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter's death barely a month earlier.
• 1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
• 1985 – The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front.
• 1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
• 1987 – Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
• 1988 – An Inupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
• 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills one civilian.
• 1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
• 1996 – The 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.
• 2001 – The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
• 2003 – The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• 2008 – asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan.

Births

• 13 BC – Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman politician (d. 23 AD)
• 1409 – Elizabeth of Luxembourg (d. 1442)
• 1471 – Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
• 1573 – William Laud, English archbishop and academic (d. 1645)
• 1576 – John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634)
• 1589 – Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (d. 1631)
• 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)
• 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 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1873)
• 1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, American singer-songwriter, banjo player, and comedian (d. 1952)
• 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 lawyer and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
• 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)
• 1894 – Del Lord, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1970)
• 1895 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (d. 1980)
• 1897 – Thakin Mya, Burmese lawyer and politician (d. 1947)
• 1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (d. 1975)
• 1900 – Heinrich Himmler, German commander and politician (d. 1945)
• 1904 – Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1968)
• 1905 – Andy Devine, American actor and singer (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)
• 1910 – Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Jo Jones, American drummer (d. 1985)
• 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 singer and actress (d. 1974)
• 1914 – Sarah Churchill, English actress and dancer (d. 1982)
• 1914 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1917 – June Allyson, American actress and singer (d. 2006)
• 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 – Kalju Lepik, Estonian-Swedish poet and author (d. 1999)
• 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 – Diana Lynn, American actress and singer (d. 1971)
• 1927 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Sanne Ledermann, German-Dutch holocaust victim (d. 1943)
• 1928 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
• 1929 – Tony Beckley, English actor (d. 1980)
• 1929 – Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation
• 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
• 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 journalist and activist (d. 1976)
• 1934 – Julian Thompson, English general and historian
• 1935 – Thomas Keneally, Australian author and playwright
• 1936 – Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
• 1936 – Michael Hurll, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Christopher Booker, English journalist and author
• 1937 – Maria Szyszkowska, Polish academic and politician
• 1938 – Ann Jones, English tennis player and sportscaster
• 1938 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer, actor, and poet (d. 1992)
• 1939 – John Hopcroft, American computer scientist and author
• 1939 – Clive James, Australian television host, author, and critic
• 1939 – Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 – Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cardinal
• 1939 – Bill Snyder, American football player and coach
• 1940 – Bruce Vento, American educator and politician (d. 2000)
• 1942 – Joy Behar, American talk show host and actress
• 1943 – José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player and coach
• 1943 – Oliver North, American colonel, journalist, and author
• 1944 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1979)
• 1944 – Donald Tsang, Chinese civil servant and politician, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• 1944 – Pete van Wieren, American sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter and director (10cc, Hotlegs, Godley & Creme, Doctor Father, and The Magic Lanterns)
• 1945 – David Wallace, Scottish physicist and academic
• 1946 – John Brass, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1946 – Bernard Lavilliers, French singer-songwriter and actor
• 1946 – Catharine MacKinnon, American lawyer, activist, and author
• 1946 – Pengiran Anak Saleha, Bruneian wife of Hassanal Bolkiah
• 1947 – Chris Bambridge, Australian footballer and referee
• 1948 – Diane Ackerman, American poet, author, and academic
• 1948 – John F. B. Mitchell, English climatologist and author
• 1948 – Stephen Rucker, American composer
• 1949 – Dave Hope, American bass player and priest (Kansas and AD)
• 1949 – Kieran Kane, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The O'Kanes)
• 1950 – Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of Tanzania
• 1951 – John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1952 – Mary Badham, American actress
• 1952 – Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia
• 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 (Bon Jovi)
• 1955 – Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author
• 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator (Silk Road Project)
• 1955 – Bill Henson, Australian photographer
• 1956 – 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 politician
• 1957 – Michael W. Smith, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1957 – Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
• 1958 – Timothy Ackroyd, English actor
• 1959 – Dylan Baker, American actor
• 1959 – Simon Cowell, English businessman and producer, created The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent
• 1959 – Lourdes Flores, Peruvian lawyer and politician
• 1959 – Jean-Marc Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1960 – Kevin Boyle, American historian and author
• 1960 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Boøwy)
• 1960 – Viktor Lazlo, French-Belgian singer
• 1961 – Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor (Uncanny X-Men)
• 1961 – Matthew Roloff, American farmer and author
• 1961 – Tony Sparano, American football player and coach
• 1962 – Dave Bronconnier, Canadian businessman and politician, 35th Mayor of Calgary
• 1962 – William Johnson, German-English cricketer
• 1963 – Ann Curless, American singer-songwriter (Exposé)
• 1964 – Yavuz Bingöl, Turkish singer and actor
• 1964 – Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Dan Savage, American journalist and author
• 1964 – Paul Stewart, English footballer
• 1965 – Genji Hashimoto, Japanese race car driver
• 1965 – Kumiko Watanabe, Japanese voice actress
• 1966 – Sherman Alexie, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1966 – Marco Beltrami, Italian-American composer and conductor
• 1966 – Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (d. 2012)
• 1967 – Toni Braxton, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (The Braxtons)
• 1967 – Luke Haines, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Auteurs, The Servants, and Black Box Recorder)
• 1967 – Ellen ten Damme, Dutch actress and singer
• 1968 – Pippa Funnell, English horse rider
• 1968 – Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Radiohead and Atoms for Peace)
• 1969 – Bobbie Brown, American model and actress
• 1969 – Benny Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1969 – Malia Hosaka, American wrestler
• 1969 – Per Mathisen, Norwegian bass player and composer
• 1969 – Maria Whittaker, English model, actress, and singer
• 1970 – Nicole Ari Parker, American model and actress
• 1971 – Daniel Boucher, Canadian singer and actor
• 1972 – Marlou Aquino, Filipino basketball player
• 1972 – Ben Younger, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Loek van Wely, Dutch chess player
• 1973 – Dida, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 – 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 skateboarder
• 1974 – Allison Munn, American actress
• 1974 – Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer (Wizex and Anders Engbergs)
• 1974 – Alexander Polinsky, American actor and singer
• 1975 – Rhino, American wrestler and actor
• 1975 – Jamie Hector, American actor
• 1975 – Giorgos Karadimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Damian Kulash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (OK Go and 8in8)
• 1975 – Tim Minchin, English-Australian comedian, actor, and singer
• 1975 – Kaspars Znotiņš, Latvian actor
• 1976 – Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1976 – Taylor Hicks, American singer-songwriter and actor (Little Memphis Blues Orchestra)
• 1976 – Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Charles Woodson, American football player
• 1977 – Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
• 1977 – Brandon Quinn, American actor
• 1978 – Alison Balsom, English trumpet player and educator
• 1978 – Omar Benson Miller, American actor and producer
• 1978 – Alesha Dixon, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Mis-Teeq)
• 1978 – Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
• 1979 – Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
• 1979 – Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
• 1979 – Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor and producer
• 1979 – Tang Wei, Chinese actress
• 1980 – Edison Chen, Canadian-Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1980 – Tim Cresswell, Hong Kong footballer
• 1981 – Jelena Jensen, American porn actress and model
• 1982 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
• 1982 – Jermain Defoe, English footballer
• 1982 – Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
• 1982 – Lockett Pundt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deerhunter)
• 1982 – Li Yundi, Chinese pianist
• 1983 – Archie Bland, English journalist and author
• 1983 – Dwayne Bravo, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1983 – Flying Lotus, American rapper, DJ, and producer
• 1983 – Scottie Upshall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
• 1984 – Toma Ikuta, Japanese actor and singer
• 1984 – Kazuki Kato, Japanese actor and singer
• 1984 – Anna Larrucea, Filipino actress
• 1984 – Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer
• 1984 – Zachary Wyatt, American soldier and politician
• 1985 – Evan Longoria, American baseball player
• 1986 – Kaitlyn, American wrestler and model
• 1986 – Chase Daniel, American football player
• 1986 – Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
• 1986 – Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
• 1986 – Bree Olson, American porn actress and producer
• 1987 – Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
• 1987 – Sam Querrey, American tennis player
• 1988 – Diego da Silva Costa, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Lauren Mayberry, Scottish singer-songwriter (Chvrches)
• 1989 – Trent Merrin, Australian rugby player
• 1990 – Thunder, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (MBLAQ)
• 1990 – Sebastián Coates, Uruguayan footballer
• 1990 – Ayla Kell, American actress
• 1991 – Nicole Jung, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Kara)
• 1992 – Mookie Betts, American baseball player
• 1993 – Jean-Luc Baker, American ice dancer
• 1996 – Ejowvokoghene Oduduru, Nigerian sprinter
• 1997 – Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
• 1997 – Lauren Platt, English singer
• 2001 – Princess Senate Seeiso of Lesotho

Deaths

• 336 – Pope Mark
• 929 – Charles the Simple, French king (b. 879)
• 1242 – Emperor Juntoku of Japan (b. 1197)
• 1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Belgian-English politician (b. 1338)
• 1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
• 1555 – Louis of Praet (b. 1488)
• 1571 – Sufi Ali Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Ottoman Governor of Egypt
• 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)
• 1772 – John Woolman, American preacher and activist (b. 1720)
• 1780 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier (b. 1744)
• 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 author, poet, and critic (b. 1809)
• 1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
• 1896 – Emma Darwin, English wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808)
• 1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1904 – Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (b. 1831)
• 1906 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 – Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Eugen Schmidt, Danish target shooter and tug of war competitor (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 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)
• 1966 – Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
• 1967 – Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 – Lars Ekborg, Swedish actor (b. 1926)
• 1969 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Billy Daniels, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1990 – Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)
• 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-Irish actor (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Ernest Ingenito, American murderer (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese-Dutch author, playwright, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1998 – Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)
• 1998 – Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player and educator (b. 1915)
• 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 – Tony Lanfranchi, English race car driver (b. 1935)
• 2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (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 (Dixie Dregs, Jazz Is Dead, and Widespread Panic) (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 – Mersad Berber, Bosnian-Croatian painter and illustrator (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Larry Block, American actor (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Andrew Brimmer, American economist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974)
• 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 – 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)
• 2013 – Ovadia Yosef, Iraqi-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Cigar, American race horse (b. 1990)
• 2014 – Federico Boido, Italian actor (b. 1938)
• 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 – Elena Lucena, Argentinian actress (b. 1914)
• 2015 – W. R. Mitchell, English journalist and author (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Gail Zappa, American businesswoman (b. 1945)
• 2015 – Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Justina of Padua
  • Henry Muhlenberg
  • Osgyth
  • Our Lady of the Rosary
  • Pope Mark
  • Sergius and Bacchus
  • October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Italian Evacuation Day (Libya)
• Teacher's Day (Laos)
• The first day of Nagasaki Kunchi, celebrated until October 9 (Nagasaki)

External links

• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada