October 7th
Holidays and Festivals
The first day of Nagasaki Kunchi (Nagasaki, Japan)
Balloons Around The World
Bald and Free Day
World Smile Day
National Frappe Day
Our Lady of the Rosary
IAS Anniversary (Church of Scientology)
Christian Feast Day of Justina of Padua (former)
Christian Feast Day of Osgyth
Christian Feast Day of Pope Mark
Christian Feast Day of Sergius and Bacchus
* Cirio de Nazare Belem (Brazil) 2 weeks (1-14)
Toast of The Day
"When wine enlivens the heart may friendship surround the table."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (August 29th, 1809 – October 7th, 1894), an American physician (also see August 29th)
- Alternative -
L'Chaim! (Le Hy-em)
Translation : To Life!
- Traditional Hebrew - In Celebartion of Yom Kippur on Sunset, October 7th to nightfall, October 8th.
Drink of The Day
Horse's Neck
1 Part Brandy
3 Parts Ginger ale
Dash of Angostura Bitters (optional)
Pour Brandy and Ginger ale directly into old fashioned Glass With ice cubes. Stir gently. Garnish With Lemon zest. Add a couple dashes of Angostura Bitters.
Wine of The Day
Calcareous Vineyards (2007) Meritage
Paso Robles
$40
Beer of The Day
Lemon Grass wheat Ale
Brewer - Outer Banks Brewing Station, Kill Devil Hills, NC, USA
Style - Herb and Spice Beer
Joke of The Day
This young Dublin fella comes home all excited to tell his ma he's fallen in love and going to get married. He says: "Just for fun, Ma, I'm going to bring over three women and you just try and guess which one I'm going to marry."
The mother agrees, so the next day he brings along three beautiful and sits them down on the couch and they chat away for a while. He then says: "Right, OK Ma, guess which one I'm going to marry."
She immediately replies, "The one in the middle."
"That's amazing, Ma. You're right. How did ye know?"
"I don't like her."
Quote of The Day
"You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."
- Shira Tehrani
October Observances
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
American Pharmacist Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Apple Jack Month
Apple Month
Awareness Month
Bat Appreciation Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celebrate Sun Dried Tomatoes Month
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign (10/1-12/31)
Church Library Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
Co-op Awareness Month
Computer Learning Month
Cookie Month
Cut Out Dissection Month
Diversity Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Eat Better, Eat Together Month
Eat Country Ham Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair, Improve Your Home Month (10/1-3/31)
Fair Trade Month
Feral Hog Month or Hog Out Month
Financial Planning Month
Gay and Lesbian History Month
German-American Heritage Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Go Hog Wild, Eat Country Ham Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Intergeneration Month
International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month
International Drum Month
International Starman Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
LGBT History Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
Lupus Awareness Month
Month of Free Thought
National "Gain The Inside Advantage" Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
National Arts & Humanities Month
National Audiology Awareness Month
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Book Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Canine Good Health Month
National Caramel Month
National Chili Month
National Chiropractic Month
National Communicate with Your Kid Month
National Construction Toy Month
National Cookbook Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Depression Education & Awareness Month
National Diabetes Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Family Sexuality Education Month
National Field Trip Month
National Gain the Inside Advantage Month
National Go On A Field Trip Month
National Kitchen & Bath Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National RSV Awareness Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Sarcastic Awareness Month
National Seafood Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month
National Toilet Tank Repair Month
National Vegetarian Month
National Window Covering Safety Month
National Work and Family Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Pear and Pineapple Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Positive Attitude Month
Raptor Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Rhizomes and Persimmons Month
Rhubarb Month
Right Brainers Rule! Month
Sausage Month
Second Binary Month (2of 3) (0s and 1s)
Self-Promotion Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Squirrel Awareness Month (Different Than Squirrel Appreciation Day in January)
Tackling Hunger Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
Wishbones for Pets Month (10/15 - 11/30)
Women's Small Business Month
Workplace Politics Awareness Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
World Menopause Month
Observances this Week
Customer Service Week, First Week of OctoberUniversal Children's Week, First Week of October
Get Organized Week, First Week of October
World Space Week, October 4th through 10th
National Metric Week, First Full Week with October 10th
National Physicians Assistant Week, First Full Week in October
Emergency Nurses Week, First Full Week in October
Fire Prevention Week, First Full Week in October
Great Books Week, First Full Week in October
Mental Illness Awareness Week, First Full Week in October
Mystery Series Week, First Full Week in October
National Carry A Tune Week, First Full Week in October
National Work From Home Week, First Full Week in October
Nuclear Medicine Week, First Full Week in October
Customer Service Week, First Work Week in October
Kids' Goal Setting Week, First Work Week in October
Financial Planning Week, First Full Week in October Monday through Sunday in October
World Dairy Expo, First Tuesday through Sunday in October
Spinning & Weaving Week, First Full Week Monday-Sunday in October
Historical Events on October 7th
(3761 BC) The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
336 Pope Saint Mark death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant
1492 Columbus misses Florida when he changed course
1506 Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna
1513 Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1520 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1542 Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off the California coast.
1571 The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet.
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1637 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda
1690 English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
1702 English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
1714 People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
1737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1763 George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
1765 Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1776 Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights of the American Revolutionary War.
1780 Battle of Kings Mountain of the American Revolutionary War, American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel 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.
1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1816 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1825 Miramichi Fire, disaster in New Brunswick
1826 The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828 The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands, Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1856 Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
1864 Battle of Darbytown Road, Virginia of the American Civil War, the Confederate forces' attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted.
1864 U.S.S. Wachusett captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia Harbor, Brazil in the American Civil War.
1868 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) holds opening day ceremonies, initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1870 Siege of Paris of the Franco-Prussian War, Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon.
1871 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
1879 Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1882 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
1886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1900 The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
1904 NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
1907 France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane
1908 Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
1908 Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
1912 The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1913 Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
1916 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit Aerial Transport & KLM)
1919 Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in NYC
1919 KLM, Netherlands Airlines, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1920 The Suwalki Agreement between Poland and Lithuania is signed.
1922 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
1922 Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
1922 Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria
1923 Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
1924 Greek government of Dikalekopoulis, forms
1926 Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
1926 Italian Great Fascist Council forms
1927 Yankee Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1928 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
1928 Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
1929 Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address US Congress
1931 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1933 Air France is inaugurated, after being formed from a merger of 5 French airlines.
1933 NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
1935 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
1935 Himmler, Hess, Heydrich bezichtigen concentration camp Dachau
1936 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1937 Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam
1938 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J
1939 HALL airship Binnendijk runs up German my
1940 Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
1940 The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States in World War II.
1941 German army occupies Viarma, USSR
1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad
1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)
1942 Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St Mark," premieres in NYC
1942 US & British government announce establishment of United Nations
1942 The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River in World War II.
1942 Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ
1943 Weill, Perelman, Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in NYC
1944 Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
1944 Fieldmarshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin
1944 Riots in Amersfoort, Utrecht, Strugle
1944 Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums
1944 Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down the crematoria, World War II.
1945 Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes
1946 Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres
1947 Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
1949 German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (East Germany) formed (National Day).
1949 Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of German DR
1949 Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of German DR
1950 NY Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series
1950 US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1950 Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head, William H Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA
1950 Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2, Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies
1951 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1952 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1952 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series, Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
1953 Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply
1954 Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt
1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem
1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched
1955 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco.
1956 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
1957 "American Bandstand" premieres
1957 KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
1958 Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
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 "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
1959 U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the far side of the moon.
1960 "Route 66" premieres
1960 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
1960 Nigeria joins the United Nations.
1961 "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 perfs
1961 15th NHL All-Star Game, All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago
1962 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
1963 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
1963 John F. Kennedy signs ratification for Partial Test Ban Treaty.
1964 NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
1965 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447
1965 Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one
1967 Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
1967 Rolf Hochhuths "Soldaten," premieres in West Berlin
1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1969 WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 Disney World opens in Orlando
1971 Oman joins the United Nations.
1971 T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?," premieres in NYC
1972 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1974 German DR amends constitution
1975 Players' Association, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith
1975 US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction
1977 Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
1977 The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1978 LA Dodgers win the pennant
1978 USSR performs nuclear test
1979 "1940's Radio Hour" opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances
1979 "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
1979 Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns
1979 Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1979 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1980 Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns
1981 Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt
1981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
1982 "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway NYC for 5000+ performances in nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1982 Olof Palme forms Swedish government
1984 Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant
1984 Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader
1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission
1985 Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
1985 PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
1985 The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
1986 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing
1988 Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
1988 Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR
1988 Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
1988 Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
1988 WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio)
1989 Howard Stern's US Open Sores Tennis match
1989 Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
1989 Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1990 Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
1991 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her
1991 Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
1992 Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
1993 "Les Miserables," opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines
1993 "She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances
1993 Massive Muslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed
1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
1993 The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1994 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1994 Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
1994 Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
1994 Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
1995 Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
1995 Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
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.
2000 The last ever competitive match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England to Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium.
2001 The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003 Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.
2004 King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
2012 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
2012 Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year
2013 James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells
2014 Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes
2014 Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa
2015 Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar (Turkey) for work on cells DNA repair
2015 US President Barack Obama apologies to Doctors without Borders President and the President of Afghanistan for the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz
Born on October 7th
1471 King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1573 William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45) (d. 1645)
1576 John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
1577 Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/archbishop
1589 Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631)
1698 Henri Madin, composer
1713 Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
1728 Caesar Rodney, American lawyer, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence) (d. 1784)
1734 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana)
1744 Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1746 William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
1748 Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18), Norway (1814-18) (d. 1818)
1758 Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1769 Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1774 Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1786 Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
1798 Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
1801 Adolf Muller, composer
1802 Wilhelm Bernard Molique, composer
1817 Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1821 Richard Heron Anderson, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1821 William Sill, with The Underground Railroad
1826 William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen (Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86)
1835 Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
1841 King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1841 Nicolaas Petrovic Njegos, king of Montenegro (1910-18)
1849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (Raggedy Man) (d. 1916)
1854 Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War
1866 Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children
1866 Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1868 Fred H Hovey, tennis champ (US Open-1895)
1870 Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1873)
1870 Uncle Dave Macon, entertainer
1879 Joe Hill, American Labor Activist, Poet, organizer (IWW), songwriter (Union Scab), martyr (d. 1915)
1879 Joseph Bovet, composer
1880 Jaime Pahissa, composer
1881 Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1884 Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
1885 Claud Ashton Jones, United States Navy rear admiral and Medal of Honor winner
1885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel Prize laureate 1922) (d. 1962)
1886 Johannes B Tielrooy, Dutch literary (Chateaubriand)
1887 A C "Jack" Russell, cricketer (prolific England batsman post-WW I)
1887 Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show)
1888 Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States, founder Progressive Party (d. 1965)
1889 Clarence Muse, Balt MD, actor (Sam-Casablanca, Black Stallion)
1892 Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
1894 Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1894 Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer
1896 Cyril Allcott, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in their early Tests)
1897 Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader, leader of Nation of Islam (d. 1975)
1898 Alfred Wallenstein, Chicago Illinois, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29)
1898 Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956)
1900 Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official, head of the Gestapo (d. 1945)
1901 Frank X Boucher, Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers)
1901 Ralph Rainger, composer
1901 Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos
1902 Willemina J H "Mascha" ter Weene, dancer, ballerina
1903 Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist, anthropologist
1904 Chuck Klein, Indianapolis In, Philadelphia Phillies (43 HRs in 1929)
1905 Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz), American actor (Andy's Gang) (d. 1977)
1906 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
1907 Tutta Rolf, Norway, actress (Whalers)
1907 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
1908 Richard Caldicot, London England, actor (Horse's Mouth)
1909 Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)
1909 Erastus Corning II, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
1909 Shura Cherkassky, pianist
1910 Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
1911 Joe Jones, Chicago IL, drummer
1911 Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
1911 Vaughn Monroe, American singer, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show) (d. 1973)
1912 Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913 Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer
1913 Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist (Het Parool, Kinks) and writer (d. 1987)
1914 Alfred Drake (Capurro), American singer, actor (Kiss Me Kate) (d. 1992)
1914 Sarah Churchill, British actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding) (d. 1982)
1915 Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja)
1915 Roman Padlewski, composer
1916 Walt W Rostow, NYC, economist (Politics & Stages of Growth)
1917 Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak)
1917 June Allyson, American actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas) (d. 2006)
1918 Guido Aristarco, film critic
1919 Gabriel Dell, Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show)
1919 George Duby, historian
1919 Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
1920 Georg Leber, German politician (SPD), (d. 2012)
1920 Jack Rowley, English footballer (d. 1998)
1921 John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
1921 Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004)
1922 Grady Hatton, American baseball player
1922 Martha Stewart, Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
1922 Reina Prinsen Geerligs (Leentje Vandendriesch), Dutch antifascist
1922 William Zinsser, American writer
1923 Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps (d. 1945)
1923 Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1926 Diana Lynn, American actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go) (d. 1971)
1926 Ivan Jirko, composer
1926 Marcello Abbado, composer
1927 Al Martino, American singer (Here in My Heart) and actor (Godfather) (d. 2009)
1927 R(onald) D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (anti-psychiatrist) (d. 1989)
1928 Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1929 Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive
1929 Harold Zirin, Boston, Massachusetts, astronomer, (d. 2012)
1929 Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
1931 Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
1931 Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop (Nobel Laureate 1982)
1932 Joannes M Gijsen, Bishop of Roermond
1933 Paul B Price, Cataret NJ, actor (Busting Loose)
1934 Imamu Amiri Baraka (Everett Leroi Jones), American writer, poet
1934 Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist, Red Army member (d. 1976)
1934 Willie Naulls, NBA star (NY Knicks)
1934 (Everett) LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), US writer (Black Music)
1935 Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer (Schindler's List)
1936 Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1936 Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov, Russia, cosmonaut
1937 Col Guest, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1963, scored 11 took 0-59)
1937 Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
1938 Robert Drivas, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man) [or 11/21]
1939 Bill Snyder, American football coach
1939 Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer
1939 Colin Cooper, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1939 Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1940 Bruce F Vento, American politician (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1977) (d. 2000)
1940 Dino Valenti, rock guitarist/vocalist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1940 Richard H Stallings, (Rep-D-ID, 1985)
1941 Martin Murray, London England, rocker (Honeycombs)
1941 Tony Sylvester, rocker (Main Ingredient)
1943 José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
1943 Joy Behar, American television personality
1943 Oliver L North, American military officer, US colonel (Irangate)
1944 Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
1944 Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1945 Kevin Godley, British musician (10cc)
1946 Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
1946 Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
1948 Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
1949 Catherine Duggan, LPGA golfer
1949 Dave Hope, American musician, bassist (Kansas)
1949 Kieran Kane, Queens NY, singer (O'Kanes-Daddies Need to Grow Up Too)
1950 Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
1950 Maartje van Weegen (Walet), Dutch TV hostess
1951 Carmen R "Tata" Vega, US soul singer (Color Purple soundtrack)
1951 David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
1951 John (Cougar) Mellencamp, American singer (Jack & Diane)
1952 Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
1952 Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1952 Ludmila Tourischeva, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 Martyn Harris, journalist
1952 Mary Badham, American actress
1952 Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister and President of the Russian Federation
1953 Christopher Norris, NYC, actress (Summer of '42, Eat My Dust)
1953 Tico Torres, musician, drummer (Bon Jovi)
1954 Kenneth Atchley, American composer
1954 Victor Manuel Mar, wrestler (AAA/NJPW, Black Cat)
1955 Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
1955 Yo-Yo Ma, French-born American cellist
1956 James Van Patten, Bkln NY, actor (Bo-Chisholms)
1956 Julio Pezua, jockey
1957 Jayne Torvill, British figure skater (Torvill & Dean, Oly-gold-84)
1957 Judy Sams, Toronto Ontario, golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic-38th)
1957 Michael W. Smith, American singer
1958 Judy Landers, American actress
1958 Kim Morris, San Diego Ca, playmate (Mar, 1986)
1959 Dylan Baker, American character actor
1959 Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
1959 Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
1959 Penny Graeber, Sydney Australia, golfer (1990 6th Vic Open)
1959 Simon Cowell, English recording executive and television producer (X-Factor, American Idol)
1960 Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
1960 Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1961 Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
1961 Judy Landers, Phila, actress (Vega$, BJ & the Bear, Madame's Place)
1961 Matthew Roloff, American reality star
1962 Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician
1964 Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
1964 Paul Stewart, English footballer
1964 Rich Delucia, Reading PA, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter (Stop!)
1964 Stuart Hendley, Houston Tx, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Manitoba Open)
1965 Genji Hashimoto, Japanese racing driver
1965 Juul Ellerman, soccer player (PSV, FC Twente)
1966 Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
1966 Sherman Alexie, Native American author and comedian
1966 Trent Brown, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
1967 Mariana Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star
1967 Takahiro Izutani, Japanese Composer
1967 Toni Braxton, American singer
1968 Erick Anderson, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 Randy Bartz, Roseville Minn, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)
1969 Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor and singer
1969 Bobbie Brown, American actress, model
1969 Brent Dorman, Ocala Florida, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
1969 Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1969 Maria Whittaker, English model
1969 Martin Haywood, cricketer (NSW opening batsman)
1970 Daniel Collins, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 Dwayne Provo, cornerback (New England Patriots)
1970 Harold Ellis, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1970 Le'Shai Maston, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
1970 Vaughn Hebron, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
1971 Dexter Dawson, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 Johnnie Morton, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1971 Paul Hannam, Vancouver BC, 470 yachter (Olympics-96)
1972 Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director
1972 John Hyden, Tustin California, volleyball outside hitter (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 Rahsaan Giddings, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 Dida, Brazilian footballer
1973 Gerald McBurrows, safety (St Louis Rams)
1973 Priest Holmes, American Football Running Back (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer
1974 Alexander Polinsky, American actor (Adam-Charles in Charge)
1974 Allison Munn, American actress
1974 Benjamin Oberman, Denver Colo, pairs skater (& Naomi Grabow)
1974 Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
1974 Shannon MacMillan, Syosset NY, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1975 Billy Walsh, Summit NJ, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1975 Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
1975 Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician
1976 Charles Woodson, American football player
1976 Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976 Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
1976 Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
1976 Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
1976 Taylor Hicks, American musician
1977 Brandon Quinn, American actor
1977 Clayton Miller, Toronto Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1977 Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
1978 Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
1978 Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
1979 Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
1979 Tang Wei, Chinese actress
1980 Edison Chen, Canadian actor
1980 Tim Cresswell, Hong Kong footballer
1981 Doni Schroader, American avant garde composer,pop musician
1982 Eirini Sevastou, Greek singer
1982 Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982 Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
1982 Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982 Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1983 Scottie Upshall, Canadian Hockey Player
1984 Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor
1984 Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1984 Toma Ikuta, Japanese singer and actor
1985 Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 Bree Olson, American pornographic actress
1986 Chase Daniel, American football player
1986 Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1986 Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
1987 Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
1987 Sam Querrey, American tennis player
1988 Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
1992 Dan Malone, American-Canadian journalist
2001 Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho
2002 Cleopatra Stratan, Moldovan child singer
Died on October 7th
290 (Christian) Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated
336 Pope Saint Mark, bishop of Rome (336), dies of natural causes
929 Charles III, the Plain (Simple), King of France (893-929) (b. 879)
1368 Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
1488 Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor, painter, goldsmith
1553 Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. c. 1500)
1555 Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
1571 Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle
1577 George Gascoigne, English poet
1612 Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat (b. 1538)
1612 Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar, theologist
1620 Stanislaw Zólkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
1637 Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1639 John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)
1651 Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
1653 Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
1660 Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique)
1681 Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat
1708 Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
1766 Andre Cheron, composer
1772 John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
1777 Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
1780 Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle
1787 Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
1792 George Mason, American statesman (b. 1725)
1793 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
1796 Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1800 Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
1811 August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist
1849 Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (The Raven) (b. 1809)
1864 Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1887 George James Webb, composer
1890 John Hill Hewitt, composer
1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1896 Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808)
1903 Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1906 Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1911 John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1915 Samuel Prowse Warren, composer
1918 C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem)
1919 Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1924 Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy)
1925 Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1925 Hubert Platt Main, composer
1926 Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
1939 Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, Father of Modern Neurosurgery (b. 1869)
1943 Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
1943 Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1944 Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (b. 1918)
1951 Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips)
1956 Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959 Mario Lanza, American tenor opera singer (b. 1921)
1959 PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
1962 Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail)
1963 Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface)
1964 Eugen Varga, Hungarian-Russian economist, politician
1966 Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer and songwriter. (b. 1890)
1966 Johnny Kidd, musician (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies in a car crash
1966 Smiley Lewis (Overton Amos Lemons), American musician (b. 1913)
1967 Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist, pacifist (Nobel Laureate 1933) (b. 1872)
1969 Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
1976 Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer
1981 Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)
1981 Wouter Paap, composer
1988 Billy Daniels, singer
1990 J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter
1990 John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer
1990 Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51)
1991 Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants) (b. 1905)
1992 Allan Bloom, American philosopher, educator, author (Closing of the American Mind) (b. 1930)
1992 Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet)
1992 Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
1993 Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo)
1993 Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (Fahrenheit 451) (b. 1910)
1993 Kenneth Nelson, English actor (Boys in the Band)
1994 James Hill, director
1994 Niels Kaj Jerne, English-Danish immunologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984) (b. 1911)
1994 Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo)
1995 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician, businessman
1995 Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins)
1996 Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser
1998 Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
2001 Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
2001 Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
2001 Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2002 Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2003 Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
2003 Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (b. 1932)
2003 Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2004 Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
2005 Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2006 Abraham Afewerki, Eritrean singer (b.1966)
2006 Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
2006 Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish Basque cyclist (b. 1985)
2007 George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
2007 Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2008 Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2009 Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
2010 Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
2010 Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2010 T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956)
2011 Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
2012 John Martin Tchicai, Danish saxophonist
2013 Patrice Chéreau, French film and opera director