October 14
October 14 this yearin various calendars Akan Fowukuo Armenian 26 Sahmi 1476 Aztec Izcalli 12, 5 Cōātl Babylonian 1 Tashritu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Pasah, Jaya, Wage, Tungleh, Buda of Kelawu, Kala, Dangu, Pati Bengali 29 Ashshin , BS 1433 Chinese Yin Metal Rooster ・Chariot Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 9 , Day 5Hanlu , 9 days until Shuangjiang )Common Era 14 October 2026 CE Coptic 4 Paopi , AM 1743Egyptian 1 Phamenoth , 2775 NE Ethiopian 4 Ṭeqemt, 2019 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Duodi de Vendémiaire de l'Année 235 de la République Gregorian 14 October , AD 2026 Hebrew 3 Cheshvan , AM 5787 Hindu Anurādhā ・Ayuṣmān Āśvina , 1948 SE Caturthī , Śukla pakṣa of Āśvina , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,862 Icelandic Miðvikudagur, 21 Haustmánuður 2026 Islamic 2 Jumada al-awwal , AH 1448tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W42-3 Japanese 4 Nagatsuki , Reiwa 8Kanro , 9 days until Sōkō ) Julian 1 October , AD 2026 (AM 7535)Julian day 2461328 Korean 4 Gaedal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.14.0.5 18 Yax , 5 Chicchan Roman Kalendis Octobribus , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 22 Mehr , SH 1405 Tibetan 4 tha skar, me pho rta
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Day of the year
October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 78 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers , 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series ; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series .1910 – English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.1912 – Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin . With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster , the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.1915 – World War I : Bulgaria joins the Central Powers .1920 – Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu , exchanging some territories.1923 – After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial.1924 – The Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is created as an autonomous republic within the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic .1930 – The former and first President of Finland , K. J. Ståhlberg , and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg , are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement .1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference .1939 – World War II : The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.1940 – World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.1942 – World War II: The German submarine U-69 sinks the Canadian passenger ferry SS Caribou approximately 20 nautical miles southwest of Port aux Basques , Newfoundland.1943 – World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.1943 – World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt .
1943 – World War II: The Second Philippine Republic , a puppet state of Japan , is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
1947 – Flying the Bell X-1 over Muroc Army Air Field in California, Captain Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in level flight, reaching Mach 1.05 .1949 – The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.1952 – Korean War : The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar , leader of India's Untouchable caste , converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism ).1957 – The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada .1957 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia .
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence .1964 – The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev 's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.
1966 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.1966 – The Dutch Cals cabinet fell after Norbert Schmelzer , the leader of the government party, filed a successful motion against the budget, in what later became known as the Night of Schmelzer
1968 – Apollo program : The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.1968 – The 6.5 M w Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
1968 – Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising , over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.1975 – An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar , Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.1979 – The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.1980 – The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il Sung 's son Kim Jong Il as his successor.1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt , one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat .1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs .1991 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.1994 – Yasser Arafat , Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.1998 – Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.2003 – The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.2004 – MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport , killing all seven people on board.2004 – Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri . The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.
2012 – Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.2014 – A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.2014 – The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.
2015 – A suicide bomb attack in Tonsa, Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.2017 – An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonated a massive truck bomb at the Zobe junction in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu , killing 587 people, injuring 316 others, and leaving more than 500 missing.2021 – About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike .2023 – Australians vote to reject a constitutional amendment that would have established an Indigenous Voice to Parliament .2025 – A coup d'état successfully overthrows Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina .Births
1609 – Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (died 1689)1630 – Sophia of Hanover (died 1714)1633 – James II of England (died 1701)1639 – Simon van der Stel , Dutch commander and politician, 1st Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (died 1712)1643 – Bahadur Shah I , Mughal emperor (died 1712)1644 – William Penn , English businessman who founded Pennsylvania (died 1718)1687 – Robert Simson , Scottish mathematician and academic (died 1768)1712 – George Grenville , English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1770)1726 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham , Scottish-English admiral and politician (died 1813)1733 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt , Austrian field marshal (died 1798)1784 – Ferdinand VII (died 1833)1791 – Friedrich Parrot , Baltic German naturalist (died 1841)1801 – Joseph Plateau , Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope (died 1883)1806 – Preston King , American lawyer and politician (died 1865)1824 – Adolphe Monticelli , French painter (died 1886)1840 – Dmitry Pisarev , Russian author and critic (died 1868)1842 – Joe Start , American baseball player and manager (died 1927)1844 – John See , English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of New South Wales (died 1907)1845 – Laura Askew Haygood , American educator and missionary (died 1900)1848 – Byron Edmund Walker , Canadian banker and philanthropist (died 1924)1853 – John William Kendrick , American engineer and businessman (died 1924)1861 – Julia A. Ames , American journalist, editor, and reformer (died 1891)1867 – Masaoka Shiki , Japanese poet, author, and critic (died 1902)1869 – Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen , English art dealer (died 1939)1871 – Alexander von Zemlinsky , Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher (died 1942)1872 – Reginald Doherty , English tennis player (died 1910)1882 – Éamon de Valera , American-Irish rebel and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (died 1975)1882 – Charlie Parker , English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 1959)
1888 – Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1923)1888 – Yukio Sakurauchi , Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (died 1947)
1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower , American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (died 1969)1892 – Sumner Welles , American politician and diplomat, 11th Under Secretary of State (died 1961)1893 – Lois Lenski , American author and illustrator (died 1974)1893 – Lillian Gish , American actress (died 1993)
1894 – E. E. Cummings , American poet and playwright (died 1962)1894 – Victoria Drummond , British marine engineer (died 1978)
1894 – Sail Mohamed , Algerian anarchist and Spanish Civil War veteran (died 1953)
1897 – Alicja Dorabialska , Polish chemist (died 1975)1898 – Thomas William Holmes , Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1950)1900 – W. Edwards Deming , American statistician, author, and academic (died 1993)1902 – Learco Guerra , Italian cyclist and manager (died 1963)1904 – Christian Pineau , French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1995)1904 – Mikhail Pervukhin , Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1978)
1906 – Hassan al-Banna , Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (died 1949)1906 – Hannah Arendt , German-American philosopher and theorist (died 1975)
1907 – Allan Jones , American actor and singer (died 1992)1909 – Mochitsura Hashimoto , Japanese commander (died 2000)1909 – Dorothy Kingsley , American screenwriter and producer (died 1997)
1909 – Bernd Rosemeyer , German racing driver (died 1938)
1910 – John Wooden , American basketball player and coach (died 2010)1911 – Lê Đức Thọ , Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)1914 – Harry Brecheen , American baseball player and coach (died 2004)1914 – Raymond Davis Jr. , American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
1914 – Alexis Rannit , Estonian poet and critic (died 1985)
1915 – Loris Francesco Capovilla , Italian cardinal (died 2016)1916 – C. Everett Koop , American admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General (died 2013)1918 – Marcel Chaput , Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician (died 1991)1918 – Thelma Coyne Long , Australian tennis player and captain (died 2015)
1921 – José Arraño Acevedo , Chilean journalist and historian (died 2009)1923 – Joel Barnett , English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (died 2014)1926 – Willy Alberti , Dutch singer and actor (died 1985)1927 – Roger Moore , English actor and producer (died 2017)1928 – Joyce Bryant , American actress and singer (died 2022)1928 – Gary Graffman , American concert pianist (died 2025)
1928 – Frank E. Resnik , American chemist and businessman (died 1995)
1928 – Mary Tsingou , American mathematician and programmer of MANIAC (died 2026)
1929 – Yvon Durelle , Canadian boxer and wrestler (died 2007)1930 – Robert Parker , American singer and saxophonist (died 2020)1930 – Mobutu Sese Seko , Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (died 1997)
1930 – Alan Williams , Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (died 2014)
1936 – Hans Kraay Sr. , Dutch footballer and manager (died 2017)1936 – Jürg Schubiger , Swiss psychotherapist and author (died 2014)
1938 – John Dean , American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel 1938 – Shula Marks , South African historian and academic
1938 – Melba Montgomery , American country music singer (died 2025)
1938 – Farah Pahlavi , Empress of Iran
1939 – Ralph Lauren , American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation 1940 – Perrie Mans , South African snooker player (died 2023)1940 – Cliff Richard , Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor
1940 – J. C. Snead , American golfer (died 2025)
1941 – Jerry Glanville , American football player and coach1941 – Eddie Keher , Irish sportsman
1941 – Laurie Lawrence , Australian rugby player and coach
1941 – Art Shamsky , American baseball player and manager
1941 – Roger Taylor , English tennis player
1942 – Bob Hiller , English rugby player1942 – Evelio Javier , Filipino lawyer and politician (died 1986)
1942 – Péter Nádas , Hungarian author and playwright (died 2026)
1942 – Suzzanna , Indonesian actress (died 2008)
1943 – Mohammad Khatami , Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran 1944 – Udo Kier , German-American actor and director (died 2025)1945 – Daan Jippes , Dutch author and illustrator1945 – Lesley Joseph , English actress
1946 – François Bozizé , Gabonese general and politician, President of the Central African Republic 1946 – Joey de Leon , Filipino comedian, actor and television host
1946 – Justin Hayward , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Dan McCafferty , Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2022)
1946 – Craig Venter , American biologist, geneticist, and academic (died 2026)
1947 – Nikolai Volkoff , Croatian-American wrestler (died 2018)1948 – Marcia Barrett , Jamaican-English singer1948 – Norman Ornstein , American political scientist and scholar
1949 – Damian Lau , Hong Kong actor, director, and producer1949 – Katha Pollitt , American poet and author
1949 – Dave Schultz , Canadian ice hockey player and referee
1950 – Joey Travolta , American actor, director, and producer1951 – Aad van den Hoek , Dutch cyclist1952 – Harry Anderson , American actor and screenwriter (died 2018)1952 – Nikolai Andrianov , Russian gymnast and coach (died 2011)
1952 – Rick Aviles , American comedian and actor (died 1995)
1953 – Greg Evigan , American actor1953 – Kazumi Watanabe , Japanese guitarist and composer
1954 – Mordechai Vanunu , Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic1955 – Iwona Blazwick , English curator and critic1955 – Arleen Sorkin , American actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2023)
1956 – Chris Bangle , American automotive designer1956 – Ümit Besen , Turkish singer-songwriter
1956 – Beth Daniel , American golfer
1956 – Jennell Jaquays , American game designer (died 2024)
1957 – Michel Després , Canadian lawyer and politician1957 – Gen Nakatani , Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th Japanese Minister of Defense
1958 – Thomas Dolby , English singer-songwriter and producer1959 – Alexei Kasatonov , Russian ice hockey player1959 – A. J. Pero , American drummer (died 2015)
1960 – Steve Cram , English runner and coach1960 – Zbigniew Kruszyński , Polish footballer and coach
1961 – Isaac Mizrahi , American fashion designer1962 – Jaan Ehlvest , Estonian chess player1962 – Trevor Goddard , English-American actor (died 2003)
1962 – Chris Thomas King , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1962 – Shahar Perkiss , Israeli tennis player
1963 – Lori Petty , American actress1964 – Joe Girardi , American baseball player and manager1965 – Steve Coogan , English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter1965 – Jüri Jaanson , Estonian rower and politician
1965 – Constantine Koukias , Greek-Australian flute player and composer
1965 – Karyn White , American singer-songwriter
1967 – Pat Kelly , American baseball player, coach, and manager1967 – Sylvain Lefebvre , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1967 – Werner Daehn , German actor
1967 – Jason Plato , British racing driver
1967 – Stephen A. Smith , American sports television personality
1968 – Jay Ferguson , Canadian guitarist and songwriter1968 – Johnny Goudie , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1968 – Matthew Le Tissier , English footballer and journalist
1968 – Dwayne Schintzius , American basketball player and coach (died 2012)
1969 – P. J. Brown , American basketball player1969 – Viktor Onopko , Russian footballer and manager
1969 – David Strickland , American actor (died 1999)
1970 – Martin Barbarič , Czech footballer and coach (died 2013)1970 – Jim Jackson , American basketball player and sportscaster
1970 – Meelis Lindmaa , Estonian footballer
1970 – Hiromi Nagasaku , Japanese actress and singer
1970 – Jon Seda , American actor
1970 – Vasko Vassilev , Bulgarian violinist
1970 – Pär Zetterberg , Swedish footballer
1971 – Jorge Costa , Portuguese footballer and manager (died 2025)1971 – Robert Jaworski Jr. , Filipino basketball player and politician
1972 – Erika deLone , American tennis player1972 – Julian O'Neill , Australian rugby league player
1973 – Thom Brooks , American-British political philosopher and legal scholar1973 – George Floyd , American police brutality victim (died 2020)
1973 – Lasha Zhvania , Georgian businessman and politician
1974 – Jessica Drake , American porn actress and director1974 – Natalie Maines , American singer-songwriter
1974 – Tümer Metin , Turkish footballer
1974 – Viktor Röthlin , Swiss runner
1974 – Samuel , Brazilian footballer
1975 – Michael Duberry , English footballer1975 – Floyd Landis , American cyclist
1975 – Shaznay Lewis , English singer and songwriter
1975 – Carlos Spencer , New Zealand rugby player
1976 – Tillakaratne Dilshan , Sri Lankan cricketer1976 – Daniel Tjärnqvist , Swedish ice hockey player
1977 – Saeed Ajmal , Pakistani cricketer1977 – Barry Ditewig , Dutch footballer
1977 – Kelly Schumacher , American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player
1978 – Justin Lee Brannan , American guitarist and songwriter, and politician1978 – Paul Hunter , English snooker player (died 2006)
1978 – Jana Macurová , Czech tennis player
1978 – Steven Thompson , Scottish footballer
1978 – Usher , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1979 – Stacy Keibler , American wrestler and actress1979 – Liina-Grete Lilender , Estonian figure skater and coach
1980 – Paúl Ambrosi , Ecuadorian footballer1980 – Amjad Khan , Danish-English cricketer
1980 – Scott Kooistra , American football player
1980 – Niels Lodberg , Danish footballer
1980 – Terrence McGee , American football player
1980 – Ben Whishaw , English actor
1981 – Gautam Gambhir , Indian cricketer1982 – Ryan Hall , American runner1982 – Carlos Mármol , Dominican baseball player
1982 – Matt Roth , American football player
1983 – Betty Heidler , German hammer thrower1983 – Lin Dan , Chinese badminton player
1984 – LaRon Landry , American football player1984 – Alex Scott , English footballer
1985 – Alexandre Sarnes Negrão , Brazilian racing driver1985 – Alanna Nihell , Irish boxer
1985 – Ivan Pernar , Croatian Member of Parliament
1986 – Tom Craddock , English footballer1986 – Wesley Matthews , American basketball player
1986 – Skyler Shaye , American actress
1987 – Jay Pharoah , American actor and comedian1988 – Glenn Maxwell , Australian cricketer1988 – Max Thieriot , American actor
1989 – Arca , Venezuelan musician1990 – Jordan Clark , English cricketer1992 – Ahmed Musa , Nigerian footballer1993 – Ashton Agar , Australian cricketer1993 – Charlie Kirk , American media personality and political activist (died 2025)
1994 – Joe Burgess , English rugby league player1994 – Jaelen Feeney , Australian rugby league player
1994 – Jared Goff , American football player
1998 – Ariela Barer , American actress1999 – Quinn Hughes , American ice hockey player2001 – Rowan Blanchard , American actress2003 – Tate Sandell , American college football playerDeaths
Pre-1600
530 – Antipope Dioscorus 841 – Shi Yuanzhong , Chinese governor869 – Pang Xun , Chinese rebel leader962 – Gerloc , Frankish noblewoman996 – Al-Aziz Billah , Fatimid caliph (born 955)1066 – Battle of Hastings :
1077 – Andronikos Doukas , Byzantine courtier (born 1022)1092 – Nizam al-Mulk , Persian scholar and politician (born 1018)1184 – Yusuf I , Almohad caliph (born 1135)1213 – Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex , English sheriff and Chief Justiciar1217 – Isabella , English noblewoman and wife of John of England (born c. 1173)1240 – Razia Sultana , female sultan of Delhi (born c. 1205)1256 – Kujō Yoritsugu , Japanese shogun (born 1239)1318 – Edward Bruce , High King of Ireland (born 1275)1366 – Ibn Nubata , Arab poet (born 1287)1416 – Henry the Mild , duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg1536 – Garcilaso de la Vega , Spanish poet (born 1503)1552 – Oswald Myconius , Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1488)1565 – Thomas Chaloner , English poet and politician (born 1521)1568 – Jacques Arcadelt , Dutch singer and composer (born 1507)1610 – Amago Yoshihisa , Japanese daimyō (born 1540)1618 – Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton , English nobleman (bornc. 1570)1619 – Samuel Daniel , English poet and historian (born 1562)1631 – Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow , queen of Denmark and Norway (born 1557)1637 – Gabriello Chiabrera , Italian poet (born 1552)1669 – Antonio Cesti , Italian organist and composer (born 1623)1703 – Thomas Kingo , Danish bishop and poet (born 1634)1711 – Tewoflos , Ethiopian emperor (born 1708)1758 – James Francis Edward Keith , Scottish-Prussian field marshal (born 1696)1831 – Jean-Louis Pons , French astronomer and educator (born 1761)1911 – John Marshall Harlan , American lawyer and politician (born 1833)1923 – Marcellus Emants , Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (born 1848)1929 – Henri Berger , German composer and bandleader (born 1844)1930 – Samuel van Houten , Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (born 1837)1942 – Noboru Yamaguchi , Japanese mob boss (born 1902)1943 – Sobibór uprising :
1944 – Erwin Rommel , German field marshal (born 1891)1953 – Émile Sarrade , French rugby player and tug of war competitor (born 1877)1953 – Kyuichi Tokuda , Japanese lawyer and politician (born 1894)
1958 – Douglas Mawson , Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (born 1882)1958 – Nikolay Zabolotsky , Russian-Soviet poet and translator (born 1903)
1959 – Jack Davey , New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (born 1907)1959 – Errol Flynn , Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (born 1909)1960 – Abram Ioffe , Russian physicist and academic (born 1880)1961 – Paul Ramadier , French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (born 1888)1961 – Harriet Shaw Weaver , English journalist and activist (born 1876)
1965 – William Hogenson , American sprinter (born 1884)1965 – Randall Jarrell , American poet and author (born 1914)
1966 – George Carstairs , Australian rugby league player (born 1900)1966 – Arthur Folwell , English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (born 1904)
1967 – Marcel Aymé , French author and playwright (born 1902)1969 – Haguroyama Masaji , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (born 1914)1969 – August Sang , Estonian poet and translator (born 1914)
1970 – Mavis Wheeler , English socialite and artist's model, also known for shooting her lover (born 1908)1973 – Edmund A. Chester , American journalist and broadcaster (born 1897)1973 – Ahmed Hamdi , Egyptian general and engineer (born 1929)
1976 – Edith Evans , English actress (born 1888)1977 – Bing Crosby , American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1903)1982 – Louis Rougier , French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1889)1983 – Willard Price , Canadian-American historian and author (born 1887)1984 – Martin Ryle , English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)1985 – Emil Gilels , Ukrainian-Russian pianist (born 1916)1986 – Keenan Wynn , American actor (born 1916)1986 – Takahiko Yamanouchi , Japanese physicist (born 1902)
1990 – Leonard Bernstein , American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)1997 – Harold Robbins , American author (born 1915)1998 – Cleveland Amory , American author and activist (born 1917)1998 – Frankie Yankovic , American accordion player (born 1916)
1999 – Julius Nyerere , Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (born 1922)2000 – Art Coulter , Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1909)2000 – Tony Roper , American race car driver (born 1964)
2002 – Norbert Schultze , German composer and conductor (born 1911)2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job , English linguist, commander, and navigator (born 1913)2004 – Ted Blakey , American historian, activist, and businessman (born 1925)2006 – Freddy Fender , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)2006 – Klaas Runia , Dutch theologian and journalist (born 1926)
2006 – Gerry Studds , American educator and politician (born 1937)
2008 – Robert Furman , American engineer and intelligence officer (born 1915)2008 – Kazys Petkevičius , Lithuanian basketball player and coach (born 1926)
2009 – Martyn Sanderson , New Zealand actor and screenwriter (born 1938)2009 – Collin Wilcox , American actress (born 1935)
2009 – Lou Albano , American professional wrestler (born 1933)
2010 – Simon MacCorkindale , English actor, director, and producer (born 1952)2010 – Benoit Mandelbrot , Polish-American mathematician and economist (born 1924)
2011 – Reg Alcock , Canadian businessman and politician (born 1948)2011 – Ashawna Hailey , American computer scientist and philanthropist (born 1949)
2012 – John Clive , English actor and author (born 1933)2012 – Max Fatchen , Australian journalist and author (born 1920)
2012 – James R. Grover Jr. , American lawyer and politician (born 1919)
2012 – Larry Sloan , American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (born 1922)
2012 – Arlen Specter , American lieutenant and politician (born 1930)
2012 – Dody Weston Thompson , American photographer (born 1923)
2012 – Gart Westerhout , Dutch-American astronomer and academic (born 1927)
2013 – Wally Bell , American baseball player and umpire (born 1965)2013 – Max Cahner , German-Catalan historian and politician (born 1936)
2013 – Kōichi Iijima , Japanese author and poet (born 1930)
2013 – Bruno Metsu , French footballer and manager (born 1954)
2013 – Frank Moore , American painter and poet (born 1946)
2013 – Käty van der Mije-Nicolau , Romanian-Dutch chess player (born 1940)
2014 – A. H. Halsey , English sociologist and academic (born 1923)2014 – Leonard Liggio , American author and academic (born 1933)
2014 – Elizabeth Peña , American actress (born 1959)
2015 – Nurlan Balgimbayev , Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (born 1947)2015 – Mathieu Kérékou , Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (born 1933)
2015 – Margaret Keyes , American historian and academic (born 1918)
2015 – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani , Indian admiral (born 1930)
2016 – Helen Kelly , New Zealand trade union leader (born 1964)2019 – Harold Bloom , American literary critic (born 1930)2019 – Sulli , South Korean actress, singer, and model (born 1994)
2021 – Lee Wan-koo , South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea 2022 – Robbie Coltrane , Scottish actor, comedian and writer (born 1950)2024 – Thomas J. Donohue , American business executive (born 1938)2024 – Tina Kaidanow , American diplomat and government official (born 1965)
2024 – Janet Nelson , British historian (born 1942)
2024 – Philip Zimbardo , American psychologist and academic (born 1933)
2025 – D'Angelo , American musician (born 1974)