October 10th
Holidays and Festivals
Fiji Day (Fiji) * (see below)
Double Ten Day (China, Tiawan) * (see below)
Day of Finnish literature (Finland) * (see below)
World Mental Health Day (International)
Party Foundation Day (North Korea) * (see below)
Arbor Day (Poland) * CLICK HERE
Naval Academy Day
Universal Music Day
National Angel Food Cake Day
The Fifth Binary Day (5of 9) (0s and 1s)
National Cake Decorating Day
National Health-Sports Day until 2000; since made a moveable feast on the second Monday in October. (Japan)
Moldy Cheese Day (or Oct 9th)
Christian Feast Day of Cerbonius
Christian Feast Day of Paulinus of York (in England)
Christian Feast Day of Viktor of Xanten
* Cirio de Nazare Belem, Brazil - October - 2 weeks (4-14)
* Austin City Limits Austin, Texas, USA October 8 - 10 (3of3) (2010)
* Fiji Day (Fiji) , celebrate the independence of Fiji from United Kingdom in 1970.
* Double Ten Day (Republic of China and Tiawan) , celebrate outbreak of the Wuchang Insurgence that led to founding of the Republic of China or Taiwan in 1911.
* Day of Finnish literature (Finland) is the birthday of the National writer Aleksis Kivi.
* Party Foundation Day (North Korea) , the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea
Toast of The Day
"Health to you, and wealth to you, and the best that life can give to you!"
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Caprioska
Whole - Quartered Lime
A Teaspoon of Brown Sugar
1 Shot of Vodka
Lots of Crushed Ice
Soda Water
Slice limes, Roll in Sugar. Fill glass with crushed ice, pour in vodka, top off with Soda water, Mix and serve.
Alternatives : Add Blueberries, Strawberries or other fruit.
Wine of The Day
Amalthea (2006) Reserve
Style - Cabernet Franc
Outer Coastal Plain
$20
Beer of The Day
Munich Dunkles
Brewer - Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant, Topeka, KS, USA
Style - European-Style Dark/Münchner Dunkel
Joke of the Day
A guy walked into a pub and immediately noticed a young lady at the bar on her own. After a couple of drinks, he decided to offer her a drink and make small talk.
“What’s your name?” he asked.
“Carmen,” she replied.
“That’s a nice name,” he said. “Did your mother or father name you that?”
“Neither,” she said. “I changed my name when I was 18 from Sharon to Carmen.”
“Why did you do that?” he asked.
“Well,” she explained, “I like men and I like cars, so that is how I got my name. What’s your name?”
“Beertits,” the man replied.
Quote of The Day
"Be yourself; because an original is worth more than a copy."
- Unknown
Whiskey of The Day
$15
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
World Rainforest Week, Second Week in OctoberPet Peeve Week, Second Week in October
Great American Beer Festival, Second Thursday through Saturday in October
World Space Week, October 4th through 10th
National Metric Week, First Full Week with October 10th
Take Your Medicine Americans Week, October 10th through 16th
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 10th
680 At the Battle of Karbala, Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
732 Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
1375 Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
1471 Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm, Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
1549 Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned
1575 Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1578 Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen
1580 After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1631 Saxon army occupies Prague
1695 King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
1720 French government proclaims strike on banknotes
1733 France declares war on emperor Charles VI
1760 Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
1787 Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
1799 Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs
1802 1st non indian settlement in Oklahoma
1839 British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut
1845 In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
1846 Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"
1846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1854 US Assay Office in NY City, NY opens
1857 American Chess Association formed (NYC)
1860 The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
1863 Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
1865 John Hyatts patents billard ball
1868 1st written account of a Canadian football game
1868 Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence.
1874 Fiji becomes a British possession
1886 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (tuxedo)
1888 Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
1889 Barnard College is founded.
1892 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan
1899 IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
1902 S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht
1904 Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
1904 Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC
1904 Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game & chance at pennant
1908 Baseball Writers Association, formed
1910 The Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity is established at Columbia University.
1911 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Natl Day)
1911 The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1911 The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
1913 Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix
1913 President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
1913 Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China
1914 German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1916 In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
1917 Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
1917 Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC
1918 Baden's Geisz forms government
1919 Richard Strauss & Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
1920 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
1920 Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play, Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam
1920 Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
1920 Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
1920 The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
1921 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
1923 NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium
1923 Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
1924 Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
1924 Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7
1926 St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series
1930 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
1930 Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
1931 A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4
1931 St Louis Cards beat Phila A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series
1931 William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast," premieres in Leeds
1932 "Betty & Bob" premieres on radio
1932 Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest)
1933 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
1933 United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 "Porgy & Bess," by George Gershwin, NY premiere
1935 A coup d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under military strongman Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic in favor of Greek monarchy.
1935 A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg. As a result of this catastrophe, few wooden towers are constructed after this date.
1935 George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1935 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
1936 Bradman scores 212 in 202 mins in a cricket testimonial game
1937 NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
1938 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet
1938 The Munich Agreement cedes Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
1941 German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
1942 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt
1942 The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
1943 Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1943 Double Tenth Incident in Japanese controlled Singapore
1943 US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Netherlands, causing 151 deaths
1944 Adm Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die
1944 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
1944 US takes Okinawa
1945 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
1945 The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
1946 Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich
1947 "Allegro" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances
1947 Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premieres in NYC
1948 Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
1949 3rd NHL All-Star Game, All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto
1951 Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game
1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out
1956 Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Aus, Karachi
1956 On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7.
1957 Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
1957 Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series. Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series
1957 The Windscale fire in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear accident.
1957 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 "Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
1959 Pan Am begins regular flights around World
1960 "Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 perfs
1960 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
1960 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
1960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
1960 WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 "Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances
1961 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets
1961 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
1963 Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die
1963 France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1963 Netherland population hits 12,000,000
1963 Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR
1964 18th NHL All-Star Game, All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto
1964 The opening ceremony at The 1964 18th modern Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
1965 "Drat! The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
1965 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
1965 Supreme appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1967 Brendan Behans "Norstal Boy," premieres in Dublin
1967 The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
1968 Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series
1968 George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
1968 Lee Evans of US sets 400 meter record at 43.86
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1970 In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1971 1st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1
1971 5th Country Music Association Award, Charlie Pride wins
1971 Fenholt & Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," premieres in NYC
1971 Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962
1971 Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1973 NY Mets beat Cin Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS
1973 Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
1974 A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley
1974 Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 US Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
1975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
1975 Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
1975 Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1976 Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow
1976 Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
1976 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
1977 11th Country Music Association Award, Ronnie Milsap wins
1978 Aerosmith's Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb
1978 British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published
1978 Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar
1978 Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya
1978 Steve Perry joins Journey
1978 Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
1979 Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
1979 Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
1979 Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
1979 Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC
1980 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
1980 Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series
1981 Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
1982 Brewers beat Angels in ALCS
1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
1982 US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
1983 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1983 Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
1983 Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
1985 Sudan adopts interim constitution
1985 United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
1986 An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
1986 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
1987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
1987 Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
1987 Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game
1988 22nd Country Music Association Award, Highway 101, K T Oslin win
1988 Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989
1990 Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
1990 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1991 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
1991 US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
1992 Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury
1992 Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham
1992 Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands
1993 Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds)
1993 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
1993 Ted Kennedy Jr (32) weds psychiatrist Katherine Gershman (34)
1994 Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
1994 MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
1994 NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
1994 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
1994 Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
1995 "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
1995 Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1995 Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
1995 Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
1996 "Sex & Longing" opens at Cort Theater NYC
1996 Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in NYC
1997 An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
2005 Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year.
2006 The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture's worst recorded floods.
2007 British rock band Radiohead release their seventh album, In Rainbows, online for whatever price fans wished to pay.
2008 The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
2009 After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
2010 The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved.
2012 Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors
2013 Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature
2014 Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
2015 Bombing at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey kills 95, injures 200
Born on October 10th
1344 Mary Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1362)
1486 Charles III, Duke of Savoy
1567 Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
1599 Jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea)
1678 John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (Union of 1707) (d. 1743)
1684 Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter (Onverschillige) (d. 1721)
1700 Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
1713 Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer
1731 Henry Cavendish, British physicist, chemist (discovered hydrogen) (d. 1810)
1738 Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
1757 Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist (lichens)
1779 Antoine Celles, Belgium-Dutch-French MP
1780 John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
1790 George Gerson, composer
1794 William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
1804 Albin Masek, composer
1813 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (La donna è mobile Rigoletto) (d. 1901)
1817 Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, founder KNMI
1819 Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
1819 Zebulon York, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1900)
1823 Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer
1825 Paul Kruger, Boer leader, President of the Transvaal Republic, South African Republic (1883) (d. 1904)
1828 Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
1829 Dandridge McRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1899)
1830 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68) (d. 1904)
1832 Theodore Shelton Bowers, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army) (d. 1866)
1834 Aleksis Kivi (Stenvall), Finnish author, poet (Nummisuutarit) (d. 1872)
1837 Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)
1847 Gheorghe Dima, composer
1854 Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer
1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer, humanitarian (Nobel laureate 1922) (d. 1930)
1862 Arthur De Greef, composer
1863 Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
1863 Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
1864 T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
1865 Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish cardinal
1868 Guillermo M Tomas, composer
1870 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)
1870 Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
1876 Walter Niemann, composer
1884 C "Ormy" C Pearse, cricketer (3 Tests for S Afr in Australia 1910-11)
1884 Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Bint)
1884 Ida Wüst, German actress (d. 1958)
1885 Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
1887 Rie Cramer (Marie Holman), Dutch cartoonist, author
1889 Han (Henricus A) Van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forgers (Vermeer) (d. 1947)
1893 August Balthazar, Belgian politician
1895 Fridolf Rhudin, Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
1895 Johnny Taylor, cricketer (stalwart Aussie batsman of post-WW I days)
1895 Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1897 Lamar Stringfield, composer
1897 Pricilla L Williams, social activist/humanitarian
1898 Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
1900 Helen Hayes, American actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday) (d. 1993)
1901 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor, painter (d. 1966)
1903 Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and educator (d. 2009)
1903 Charles T von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Count of Flanders, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
1903 Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
1905 Jane Winton, Phila, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan)
1906 Paul Creston (Giuseppe Guttoveggio), American composer (Creative Harmony) (d. 1985)
1906 R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
1908 David Alexander Reginald Herbert, writer
1908 Johnny (Waldo) Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (Body & Soul, Guy Lombardo's arranger) (d. 1989)
1908 Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
1909 Florida Friebus, actress (Dobie Gillis' mom, Bob Newhart Show)
1909 Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer, erotic poet
1909 Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director
1910 Alan Frank, music publisher
1910 Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer (d. 2009)
1910 Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader
1910 Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas)
1911 Clare Hollingworth, British journalist
1912 Charles Henry Madge, poet writer, sociologist
1913 Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1913 Johnny Downs, Bkln NY, actor (Manhattan Showcase)
1914 Dorothy Lamour (Kaumeyer), American actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio)
1914 Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)
1914 Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 Benson Fong, Sacramento CA, actress (Charlie Chan, Purple Heart)
1916 Scott Huston, composer
1917 Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night)
1917 Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1918 Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orchestra leader (Club Seven)
1918 Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast
1918 Jigal Allon, Israeli politician
1919 Gerald Etheridge Gomez, cricketer (post-war WI all-rounder)
1921 "Boy" (FHP) Trip, Dutch minister
1922 Boeli (Willem C) van Leeuwen, Antillian writer (Vreemdeling Op Aarde)
1922 Harry Cave, cricketer (NZ bowler & Test captain in the 1950's)
1923 Louis Gottlieb, musician
1923 Nicholas Parsons, English actor
1924 Edward D Wood Jr, American director (Plan 9 from Outer Space) (d. 1978)
1924 Huey "Piano" Smith, rocker (Rockin' Pneumonia & Boogie Woogie Flu)
1924 James Clavell, Australian author (Tai Pan, Shogun) (d. 1994)
1924 Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (Sins of Rome) (d. 2004)
1925 Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
1925 Ivan Svitak, philosopher
1926 Oscar Brown Jr, US songwriter (Brown Baby, Forbidden Fruit)
1926 Richard Jaeckel, American actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima) (d. 1997)
1927 Clairmonte Depeiaza, cricketer (world record partnership v Aust 1955)
1927 Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
1927 John Eric Tieman, production manager (The Guardian)
1927 Thomas Brendon Wilson, composer
1930 Adlai Stevenson III, (D-Sen-Ill)
1930 Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957)
1930 Harold Pinter, English playwright (Homecoming, Servant), Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1930 Konstantin Vyrupayev, Soviet wrestler (Greco-Roman Bantamweight Olympic Gold 1956), (d. 2012)
1930 Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
1930 Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
1932 Charles Dnaiels, archaeologist
1932 Harry Smith, English footballer
1933 Daniel Massey, London, actress (Vault of Horror)
1933 Gerald Masters, South African/British author (Pan Book of Dates)
1933 Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1934 Sadashiv Patil, cricketer (pace bowler in Test India v NZ 1955-56)
1935 Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
1935 André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
1935 Dave Charnley, Dartford England, lightweight boxer (Dartford Destroyer) (d. 2012)
1935 Paolo Renosto, composer
1936 Art Dick, cricket wicket-keeper (NZ of 60's)
1936 Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
1936 Judith Chalmers, English TV hostess (Wish You Were Here)
1937 Bruce Devlin, Armidale Australia, PGA golfer (1964 St Petersburg Open)
1938 Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin)
1938 Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
1938 Tobias A Roth, (Rep-R-Wisconsin, 1979)
1939 Joseph Pitts, American politician
1940 Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (d. 2010)
1941 Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer, environmentalist
1941 Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor
1942 Peter Coyote (Cohon), American actor (Kika, Living a Lie, Exposure, ET)
1942 Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister
1943 Denis D'Ell (Dennis Dalziel), Musician
1943 Earl of Stockton, English publisher, grandson of premier Macmillan
1943 Frederick Barthelme, American author
1944 Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader
1944 Renier S Schoeman, S Afr MP (NP)/journalist
1944 Stephen Scott, composer
1945 Alan Cartwright, rocker (Procul Harum)
1946 Ben Vereen, American actor, dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster)
1946 Charles Dance, English actor (Plenty, Jewel in the Crown)
1946 Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter
1946 Franco Malerba, Genoa Italy, astronaut (STS 46)
1946 John Prine, American country singer (Hello in There)
1946 Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
1946 Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
1946 Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL (Montreal Canadiens)
1947 Alan Rachins, Cambridge Mass, actor (Douglas-LA Law)
1947 Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1948 Ed Volker, American musician
1948 Greg Lake, Musician
1948 Rosemary Casals, SF California, tennis doubles (5X Wimbledon)
1948 Séverine, French singer
1949 Ioannis Glavakis, Greek politician
1949 Jessica Harper, Chicago IL, actress (Inserts, Stardust Memories)
1949 Lance Cairns, cricketer (big-hitting NZ medium-pace bowler)
1950 Dennis Holmes, actor (Mike-Laramie)
1950 Nora Roberts, American novelist
1950 Peter Jan Rens, Dutch actor/director (Mister Cactus, Passion)
1951 Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
1953 Gus Williams, American basketball player, NBA guard (Golden State, Seattle, Washington)
1953 Midge Ure, Scottish musician (Dear God, Ultravox-We Came to Dance)
1954 "Maestro" Jimmy Fearnley, English accordionist (The Pogues)
1954 Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer and actor, most popular Arab singer in the world.
1954 Patric Zimmerman, American voice actor
1954 Rekha, Bollywood actress
1955 David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
1956 Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress
1956 Mark Gordon, American film producer
1956 Melissa Belote, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1972)
1957 Craig Marseilles, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Gold Coast)
1957 Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
1958 J Eddie Peck, Joplin Missouri, actor (Bold & Beautiful-Cole Howard)
1958 John M Grunsfeld, Chicago Ill, PhD/astronaut (STS 67, 81)
1958 Tanya Tucker, American country singer, actress (Follow that Car)
1959 Bradley Whitford, American actor
1959 Chris Lowe, English rock keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys-It's a Sin)
1959 Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
1960 Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)
1960 Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 Simon Townshend, British rock guitarist
1961 Brian Lee Diemer, Grand Rapids Mich, steeplechase (Olymp-bronze-1984)
1961 Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner
1961 Jodi Benson, American voice actress
1961 Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian
1961 Martin Kemp, British musician, bassist (Spandau Ballet) and actor
1962 Rex J Walheim, Redwood City California, Captain USAF astronaut
1963 Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
1963 Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
1963 Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
1963 Mike Donnelly, Detroit, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier.
1964 Maxi Gnauck, German DR, uneven parallel bars (Olympic-gold-1980)
1964 Neneh Cherry, Stockholm Sweden, rock vocalist
1964 Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
1964 Sarah Lancashire, English actress
1965 Brett Perriman, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins)
1965 Chris Penn, American actor (True Romance, Reservoir Dogs) (d. 2006)
1965 Clive Jones, British engineer
1965 Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
1965 Steve Scalise, American politician
1965 Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
1966 Darren Carrington, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1966 Derrick McKey, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1966 Elana Meyer (van Zyl), South African runner (Olympics-silver-92)
1966 Kevin Paige, vocalist (Don't Shut Me Out)
1966 Tony Adams, English footballer
1967 Frank Wainright, tight end (Miami Dolphins)
1967 Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco
1967 Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
1967 Mike Malinin, American drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
1967 Willie Davis, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs, Tennessee Oilers)
1968 Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
1968 James Williams, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, SF 49ers)
1968 L B Williams, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 Nancy Brookhart, Elmhurst Ill, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17th-1994)
1969 Brett Favre, American football player, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 Scott Anthony Murray Nelson, Geelong Australia, NZ 20k walker (Oly-96)
1969 Shawn "Thunderbird" Jamison, American basketball coach and ex Harlem Globetrotter
1969 Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
1970 Bai Ling, Chinese American actress
1970 Corinna May, German singer
1970 Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
1970 Glenn Foley, NFL quarterback (NY Jets)
1970 Helen Louise Goldsby, Brooklyn NY, Miss America (NY-Top 10-1996)
1970 Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete
1970 Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
1970 Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower
1971 Bryn Parry, Vancouver BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 BC Amateur-2nd)
1971 Claus Dalpiaz, hockey goaltender (Team Austria 1998)
1971 Corey Louchiey, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1971 Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
1971 Ian Bennett, English footballer
1972 Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1972 Dean Roland, American guitarist (Collective Soul)
1972 Hunter Goodwin, tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter
1972 Marianne Limpert, Matagami Quebec, 200m relay swimmer (Oly-silver-96)
1972 Trent McCleary, Swift Current, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1972 Yinka Dare, NBA center (NJ Nets)
1973 A J Ofodile, tight end (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 Jeff Shantz, Duchess, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1973 Jessica Shahriari, Miss USA-Arizona (1997)
1973 John Mobley, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 Mario López, American actor (A C Slater-Saved by the Bell)
1973 Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer
1973 Zach Thornton, American soccer player, goalkeeper (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor
1974 Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Team Canada Oly-1998, St. Louis)
1974 Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver
1974 Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
1974 Naike Rivelli, Germany, model/daughter of Ornella Muti
1975 Plácido Polanco, Dominican baseball player
1975 Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer
1976 Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
1976 Pat Burrell, American baseball player
1976 Shane Doan, Canadian Hockey Player, NHL right wing (Phoenix Coyotes)
1978 Autumn Waterbury, Miss Illinois Teen USA (2nd-1997)
1978 Brandi Watkins, Miss Arkansas Teen USA (1997)
1978 Jodi Lynn O'Keefe, American actress (Cassidy-Nash Bridges)
1978 Scott Dobie, English born Scotland International footballer
1979 Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
1979 Joel Przybilla, American basketball player
1979 Mya Harrison, American singer
1979 Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
1979 Wu Chun, Brunei born Taiwanese actor (Fahrenheit/Fei Lun Hai)
1980 Casey FitzSimmons, American football player
1980 Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
1980 Sherine, Egyptian singer
1980 Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
1981 Michael Oliver, American actor
1981 Una Healy, Irish singer (The Saturdays)
1982 Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
1982 Eddie J Peck, Lynchburg Pa, actor (Sutton-Wildside)
1982 Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver
1983 Nikos Spiropoulos, Greek footballer
1983 Tolga Zengin, Turkish football player
1983 Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 Amber Scott, American actress
1984 Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
1984 Paul Posluszny, American football player
1984 Rod Benson, American basketball player
1984 Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1984 Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player, SS (Colorado Rockies)
1985 Aaron Himelstein, American actor
1985 Dizzee Rascal, British rapper/grime artist
1985 Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
1985 Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer/songwriter
1986 Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
1989 Aimee Teegarden, American actress
1991 Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
1991 Mariana Espósito, Argentine actress, singer and model
Died on October 10th
(413 BC) Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias)
19 Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman general of Rijnleger (b. 15 BC)
680 Husayn (Hussein) ibn Ali, Shi'a Imam, prophet Muhammad's grandson, beheaded (b. 626)
732 Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
833 al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
1359 King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
1459 Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
1531 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (b. 1484)
1616 Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren
1651 Philippus Rovenius (Rouveen), apostole
1659 Able J Tasmania, Dutch explorer, discovered (Tasmania, NZ) (b. 1603)
1674 Thomas Traherne, English poet
1676 Sebastian Knupfer, composer
1691 Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
1708 David Gregory, Scottish astronomer, mathematician (b. 1659)
1714 Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
1720 Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
1723 William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
1725 Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
1727 Alphonse d' Eve, composer
1745 Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist
1747 John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
1759 Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
1765 Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1789 Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer
1791 C F D Schubart, writer
1795 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
1797 Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence)
1806 Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
1827 Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer, poet (b. 1778)
1836 Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer
1837 Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
1843 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
1856 Michal Wielhorski, composer
1858 Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat
1864 David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel
1867 Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer,
1872 William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Kozjma Prutkov), Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
1876 Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
1886 David L Yule, 1st Jewish US senator
1889 Adolph von Henselt, composer
1893 Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
1901 Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1910 Willem Maris, painter (Hague School)
1911 Jack Daniel, American Distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery (b. 1846 or 1850)
1913 Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
1913 Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1914 Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister
1914 Karol (Carol) I Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914) (b. 1839)
1922 Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer (b. 1866)
1927 Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
1930 Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
1931 Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
1935 Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934)
1938 Martin Bladen, cricketer (the 7th Lord Hawke)
1939 Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
1940 Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
1942 Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Schlemihle)
1948 Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
1953 Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand judge (b. 1884)
1957 Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
1959 Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein
1963 Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
1963 Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
1964 Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater) (b. 1892)
1964 Frantisek Picha, composer
1964 Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
1964 Konrad Bayer, writer
1964 Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
1965 Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
1967 Ervin Major, composer
1968 Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child)
1970 Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68)
1970 Édouard Daladier, Premier of France (1933-1940) (b. 1884)
1971 John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
1973 Albe (Renaut A Joostens), Flemish writer (Paradise Bird)
1974 Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer
1975 Lillian Walker
1976 Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue)
1976 Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
1977 Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
1978 Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter, lawyer
1978 Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
1978 Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete, polititcian (Rep-D-Ill) (b. 1910)
1979 Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1979 Paul Paray, French conductor, composer (b. 1886)
1980 Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat)
1980 Walter Keeton, cricketer (opening bat in 2 Test for Eng 1934-39)
1980 William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal)
1982 Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
1983 Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
1983 Sir Ralph (David) Richardson, English actor (Richard III)
1985 Orson Welles, American director and actor (Citizen Kane) (b. 1915)
1985 Yul Brynner (Taidje Khan), Russian actor (King & I) (b. 1920)
1986 Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1990 Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World)
1990 Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee
1990 Michael A Salcido
1990 Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and writer (b. 1909)
1990 Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
1991 Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons)
1991 Stephen J Falat
1992 James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man)
1993 Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn)
1993 Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered
1994 Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno
1994 Chaim Raphael, writer
1994 Danny Gatton, US guitarist, commits suicide
1994 Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
1994 Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist
1995 Edward Gill, baseball player
1995 Jimmy Nash, record company owner
1995 John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck
1995 Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner
1995 Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer
1996 Dick Pickering, trade unionist
1996 Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, submariner
1996 John Hillaby, writer/traveller
1996 Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey
1996 Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist
1997 Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet)
1998 Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
1998 Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
2000 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
2001 Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
2001 Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
2002 Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2003 Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
2004 Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
2004 Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2004 Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
2005 Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
2005 Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
2006 Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2006 Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
2007 Mehmed Uzun, contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist (b. 1953)
2008 Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
2009 Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
2010 Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
2010 Solomon Burke, American singer (b. 1940)
2011 Jagjit Singh, Indian Musician, Ghazal Maestro, Padma Bhusan awardee (b. 1941)
2012 Alex Karras, American NFL player
2012 Kyaw Zaw, Burmese politician and soldier
2013 Scott Carpenter, American pilot and astronaut
2015 Jim Diamond, Scottish singer/songwriter (I Should Have Known Better)
2015 Hilla Becher (née Wobeser), German artist, worked collaboratively with husband Bernd Becher