Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs was kidnapped from her home in Barron, Wisconsin, and held captive for 88 days.
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.
Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.
New Zealand Police conducted several anti-terrorism raids in relation to the discovery of an alleged paramilitary training camp in the Urewera mountain ranges, arresting 17 people and seizing four guns and 230 rounds of ammunition.
An earthquake registering 6.7 Mw occurred off the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaii.
A march by members of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, in Toledo, Ohio, U.S., sparked a riot among protestors.
President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.
The Motherland Calls, a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, which commemorates the casualties of the Battle of Stalingrad, was dedicated, becoming the then-tallest statue in the world.
Vietnam War protests: At an anti-war rally in New York City, David J. Miller burned his draft card (example pictured), the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
Hurricane Hazel (flooding pictured) made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.
Air India, the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
The "From Hell" letter, allegedly from Jack the Ripper, was sent to George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London.
American Civil War: Confederate forces captured Glasgow, Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Price's Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later.
Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The siege of Vienna ended with Austrian forces repelling the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.
One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
The 6.7 Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.
Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.
During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.
The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.
The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War with a Patriot victory. It occurred four days before the British surrender at Yorktown.
Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen.
Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.
Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark
Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender
Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer
Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, Indonesian activist and politician
Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer
Grace Van Dien, American actress
Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer
Jack Flaherty, American baseball player
Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player
Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper
Babar Azam, Pakistani cricket player
Richaun Holmes, American basketball player
Roh Tae-hyun, South Korean singer and dancer
Ncuti Gatwa, Rwandan-Scottish actor
Teoscar Hernández, Dominican baseball player
Vincent Martella, American actor
Brock Nelson, American ice hockey player
Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
Blaine Gabbert, American football player
Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer
Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer
Dominique Jones, American basketball player
Mesut Özil, German footballer
Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver
Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter
Carlo Janka, Swiss skier
Nolito, Spanish footballer
Arron Afflalo, American basketball player
Walter Alberto López, Uruguayan footballer
Marcos Martínez, Spanish racing driver
Izale McLeod, English footballer
Johan Voskamp, Dutch footballer
Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter
Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer
Bruno Senna, Brazilian ex-F1 Driver
Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer
Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
Brandon Jay McLaren, Canadian actor
Blue Adams, American football player and coach
Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer
Jekaterina Golovatenko, Estonian figure skater
Paul Robinson, English footballer
Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress
Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer
Devon Gummersall, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Wes Moore, American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland
Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler
Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver
David Trezeguet, French footballer
Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
Elisa Aguilar, Spanish basketball player
Manuel Dallan, Italian rugby player
Alessandro Doga, Italian footballer
Glen Little, English footballer and manager
Ömer Çatkıç, Turkish footballer
Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress
Aleksandr Filimonov, Russian footballer
Maria Hjorth, Swedish golfer
Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach
Matt Keeslar, American actor
Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager
Joey Abs, American wrestler
Andy Cole, English footballer and coach
Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator
Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier
Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer
Dominic West, English actor and director
Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager
Vanessa Marcil, American actress
Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player
Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician
Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter
Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter
Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager
Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer
Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer
Dave Stead, English drummer
Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer (died 2013)
Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author
Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
Sarah, Duchess of York
Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer
Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer
Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta
Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player
Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator
Tanya Roberts, American actress (died 2021)
Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator
Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria
Jere Burns, American actor
Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic
Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier
Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist
Peter Richardson, English actor, director, and screenwriter
Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player
Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player
Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (died 2015)
Laurie McBain, American author
Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV
Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2016)
Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer
Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director
Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer
Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change
Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer (died 2015)
Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal
Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (died 2024)
Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster
Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania
A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (died 2005)
Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Stanley Fischer, American and Israeli economist (died 2025)
Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer (died 2018)
Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter
Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral
Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1993)
Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist (died 1997)
Brice Marden, American painter (died 2023)
Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)
Linda Lavin, American actress and singer (died 2024)
Michel Aumont, French actor (died 2019)
Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman (died 2019)
Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer (died 2025)
Bobby Morrow, American sprinter (died 2020)
Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)
Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (died 2016)
N. Ramani, Indian flute player (died 2015)
Nicky Barnes, American drug lord (died 2012)
Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer (died 2020)
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (died 2015)
Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician
FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (died 2000)
Ned McWherter, American politician, 46th Governor of Tennessee (died 2011)
Will Insley, American painter and architect (died 2011)
B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)
James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (died 2010)
Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet (died 2012)
Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (died 1984)
Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)
Jean Peters, American actress (died 2000)
Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (died 1981)
Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (died 2012)
Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (died 2012)
Tony Hart, English painter and television host (died 2009)
Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator (died 2022)
Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author (died 2019)
Warren Miller, American director and screenwriter (died 2018)
Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (died 1985)
Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (died 2010)
Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (died 2013)
Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (died 2008)
Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author (died 2019)
Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (died 2013)
Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (died 2006)
Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor (died 2012)
Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress (died 1968)
Peter Koch, American industrial engineer and wood scientist (died 1998)
Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (died 1999)
Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist (died 1985)
Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (died 1995)
Jan Miner, American actress (died 2004)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (died 2007)
Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (died 2013)
Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1950)
George Turner, Australian author and critic (died 1997)
Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (died 2007)
Wolfgang Lüth, German commander (died 1945)
Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist (died 2007)
Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1990)
Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (died 2002)
Robert Trout, American journalist (died 2000)
Herman Chittison, American pianist (died 1967)
John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (died 2006)
Varian Fry, American journalist and author (died 1967)
Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (died 2004)
Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday (died 1963)
Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)
C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (died 1980)
Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (died 1952)
Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (died 1987)
Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (died 1986)
Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1960)
Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1965)
Carol II of Romania (died 1953)
Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer (died 1935)
S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (died 1939)
Frederick Fleet, English sailor (died 1965)
Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (died 1910)
Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (died 1941)
P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (died 1975)
Jane Darwell, American actress (died 1967)
Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (died 1966)
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1899)
Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (died 1956)
August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (died 1921)
Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (died 1925)
John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (died 1918)
Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (died 1900)
Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (died 1894)
James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (died 1902)
John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (died 1894)
Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (died 1907)
Marie of Prussia (died 1889)
Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (died 1869)
John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (died 1891)
Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (died 1841)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, head of state of France in 1848 (died 1857)
William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (died 1847)
José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (died 1821)
Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria (died 1849)
Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (died 1838)
Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (died 1832)
Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (died 1820)
Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (died 1741)
Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (died 1771)
Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (died 1758)
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (died 1686)
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)
Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (died 1664)
Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1613)
Richard Field, English cathedral dean (died 1616)
Akbar, Mughal emperor (died 1605)
Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (died 1526)
Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (died 1483)
Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (died 1307)
Virgil, Roman poet (died 19 BC)
Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (died 55 BCE)
Mike Jackson, English general (born 1944)
David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (born 1952)
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (born 1953)
Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (born 1950)
Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (born 1971)
Nate Huffman, American basketball player (born 1975)
Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (born 1921)
Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (born 1934)
Tyrone Young, American football player (born 1960)
Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (born 1931)
Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (born 1929)
Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (born 1929)
Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1926)
Donald Bailey, American drummer (born 1933)
Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher (born 1947)
Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (born 1937)
Gloria Lynne, American singer (born 1931)
Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (born 1930)
Hans Riegel, German businessman (born 1923)
Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1920)
Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (born 1933)
Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (born 1953)
Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1922)
Pat Ward, American lawyer and politician (born 1957)
Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (born 1920)
Richard C. Miller, American photographer (born 1912)
Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (born 1926)
Johnny Sheffield, American actor (born 1931)
Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (born 1939)
Edie Adams, American actress and singer (born 1927)
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (born 1914)
Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (born 1922)
Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (born 1933)
Jason Collier, American basketball player (born 1977)
Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (born 1945)
Per Højholt, Danish poet (born 1928)
Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (born 1919)
Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (born 1901)
Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (born 1924)
Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (born 1917)
Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1967)
Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (born 1976)
Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (born 1934)
Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (born 1913)
Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (born 1932)
Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (born 1935)
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (born 1892)
Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (born 1949)
Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (born 1908)
Pat O'Brien, American actor (born 1899)
Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1900)
Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (born 1896)
W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (born 1918)
Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (born 1899)
Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)
Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (born 1909)
Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (born 1876)
Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (born 1891)
Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (born 1891)
Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (born 1908)
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (born 1896)
Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (born 1890)
Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (born 1909)
Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1880)
Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (born 1907)
Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (born 1908)
Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (born 1914)
Edythe Chapman, American actress (born 1863)
Hermann Göring, German general and politician (born 1893)
Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (born 1883)
Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (born 1882)
Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (born 1860)
Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (born 1866)
Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (born 1848?)
Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (born 1838)
Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (born 1876)
Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (born 1886)
Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (born 1850)
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (born 1837)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (born 1802)
Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (born 1760)
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (born 1771)
Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (born 1744)
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (born 1746)
Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (born 1735)
Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (born 1755)
Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (born 1735)
Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (born 1675)
Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (born 1622)
Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (born 1626)
Robert Herrick, English poet (born 1591)
Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (born 1514)
Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (born 1443)
Marie Valois, French princess (born 1344)
Pope Urban VI (born 1318)
Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
Walter Stapledon, bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England, and his brother Sir Richard Stapledon, judge and politician.
Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint (born 1174)
Razia Sultana, sultan of Delhi (born 1205)
Petronilla of Aragon (born 1135)
Rudolf of Rheinfelden (born 1025)
Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (born 946)
Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba
Rhazes, Persian polymath (born 864)
Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (born 844)
Lambert of Italy (born 880)
Al-Mu'tamid, Abbasid caliph
Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
Breast Health Day (Europe)
Christian feast day: Bruno of Querfurt
Christian feast day: Cúan of Ahascragh
Christian feast day: Teresa of Ávila
Christian feast day: Thecla of Kitzingen
Christian feast day: October 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
Shwmae Su'mae Day (Wales)
World Students' Day