October 20th
Holidays and Festivals
Barley Day a.k.a. Orge Day * (see below)
Brandied Fruit Day
National Tree Planting Day (Czech Republic) * CLICK HERE
Miss American Rose Day
Birth of the Bab (Bahá'í Faith) Holy Day
Feast day of martyr Andrew of Crete
Feast day of Caprasius of Agen
Feast day of Irene of Tomar
Feast day of Artemius
* Fantasy Fest Key West, Florida penultimate Friday - last Sunday in Oct (5-10)
* Cirio de Nazare Belem, Brazil - October - 2 weeks (14-14)
* CMJ Music Marathon New York City, New York, USA October 19 - 23 (2of5)
* Orge (Barley) Day (French Republican), twenty-ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Toast of The Day
"A round to the best
May we never get less
A round to the worst
May they die of thirst."
- Traditional Scottish
Drink of The Day
Chip Shot
1 Part Irish Cream
1 Part Frangelico
1/2 Part Tuaca
Fill With Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream. Pour the Coffee last, not too hot.
Wine of The Day
Spartacus 2006 Special Reserve
Style - Merlot
Thracian Valley
Beer of The Day
Top Heavy Hefeweizen
Brewer - Piece Brewing Co. Chicago, IL, USA
Style - South German-Style Hefeweizen
Joke of The Day
A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed.
She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front him. He appears deep in thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of coffee.
"What's the matter, dear?" she whispers as she steps into the room. "Why are you down here at this time of night?"
The husband looks up, "Do you remember 20 years ago when we were dating, and
you were only 17?" he asks solemnly.
The wife is touched thinking her husband is so caring and sensitive. "Yes, I do," she replies.
The husband pauses. The words are not coming easily. "Do you remember when
you father caught us in the back seat of my car?"
"Yes, I remember," says the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him.
The husband continues..."Do you remember when he shoved a shotgun in my face and said, "Either you marry my daughter, or I will send you to jail for 20 years".
"I remember that too", she replies softly.
He wipes another tear from his cheek and says... "I would have gotten out today!"
Quote of The Day
"Never have sex with a stranger unless you are stranger than them."
- Anonymous
Whisky of The Day
Price: $50
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
Winterizing Week, (North, Northern Hemisphere) Third Week in OctoberPastoral Care Week, Third Week in October
Bullying Bystanders Unite Week, Third Full Week in October
Freedom of Speech Week, Third Full Week in October
Medical Assistants Recognition Week, Third Full Week in October
National Character Counts Week, Third Full Week in October
National Chemistry Week, Third Full Week in October
National Forest Products Week, Third Full Week in October
National Friends of Libraries Week, Third Full Week in October
National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week, Third Full Week in October
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, Third Full Week in October
National Save For Retirement Week, Third Full Week in October
Pastoral Care Week, Third Full Week in October
Ally Week Week, Third Work Week in October
National School Bus Safety Week, Third Work Week in October
National Nuclear Science Week Week, Third Work Week in October
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week, Third Thursday through Fourth Thursday in October
National Massage Therapy Week, Last Full Week in October
Red Ribbon Week, Last Full Week in October
National Respiratory Care Week, Last Full Week in October
Historical Events on October 20th
1097 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch
1528 Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor & church)
1536 Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions
1548 The city of Nuestra Senora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) was founded by Captain Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
1576 Spanish troops occupies & plunder Maastricht
1587 Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League
1600 Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
1603 Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
1634 English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax
1714 Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I
1740 Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
1751 Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort
1774 Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment
1781 Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
1786 Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US
1803 The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1813 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
1817 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
1818 The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
1818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
1820 Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million
1822 1st edition of London Sunday Times
1827 Battle of Navarino a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
1833 Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana
1835 HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti
1843 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname
1847 Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa
1856 Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens
1862 Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname
1864 Lincoln formaly establishes Thanksgiving as a natl holiday
1873 P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens (NYC)
1877 Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1880 Amsterdam Free University opens
1883 Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed
1883 Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
1888 Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
1889 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," premieres in Berlin
1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins
1898 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
1899 Battle at Talana Hill Natal, British army vs Boers
1899 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup
1903 US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada
1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1905 Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)
1908 King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
1910 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series
1910 Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
1910 The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1911 Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St NYC
1911 Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
1912 Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC
1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
1918 Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions
1920 "1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in NYC
1922 Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place
1924 1st Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0
1926 Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
1929 Bayshore Highway opens (SF)
1930 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1931 Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP
1932 Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS
1934 All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan
1934 Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau"
1935 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
1935 Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels
1935 Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up
1935 Mao Tse Tung & his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China
1935 The Long March ends.
1936 Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL
1936 Spanish government moves to Barcelona
1939 "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch
1939 Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus
1940 Greenhouse and Cheese rationing begins in Netherlands
1941 Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre during World War II.
1942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
1944 General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
1944 Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, Ohio, USA then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 135, 3,600 homeless.
1944 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
1944 The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
1944 US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
1944 US 6th army forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Leyte, Philippines
1945 Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg
1946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants
1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1947 Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years
1947 Robinson Jeffer's "Medea," premieres in NYC
1947 The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1947 United States of America and Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time.
1949 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
1951 The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma
1952 Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
1953 WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances
1955 "No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith
1955 Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)
1955 Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings.
1955 Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
1956 58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)
1956 Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft
1957 Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt
1957 Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
1959 Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
1959 WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast
1960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
1960 Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
1962 Chinese army lands in India
1962 Musical "Mr President" opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 Alec Douglas-Home forms British government
1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open
1963 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy
1963 WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 "Golden Boy" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances
1964 Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)
1965 19th NHL All-Star Game, All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal
1965 Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"
1965 Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
1967 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi
1967 A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
1967 Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland A's
1967 KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 perfs
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1968 Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios.
1968 Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4)
1969 WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1970 American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1970 Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
1970 Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return)
1971 "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" opens at Barrymore for 325 per
1971 The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1972 Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia
1973 "Saturday Night Massacre", President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
1973 Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty
1973 Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"
1973 OPEC oil embargo begins
1973 Pres Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House
1973 Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass
1973 The Sydney Opera House opens.
1974 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF
1974 Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center NYC
1975 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
1976 NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to Phila 76ers
1976 The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
1977 A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in McComb, Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, Dean kilpatrick, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.
1977 David Mamet's "Life in the Theater," premieres in NYC
1977 Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons "Dracula," premieres in NYC
1978 Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
1978 Police's 1st US concert (NY's CBGBs)
1978 US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2
1979 Bob Dylan appears on Saturday Night Live
1979 John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 The John F. Kennedy library is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
1981 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99
1981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
1981 Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured
1982 Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's
1982 During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
1982 Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler
1982 Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected
1982 St Louis Cards beat Milwaukee Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series
1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
1984 Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed
1984 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals
1984 The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
1986 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
1987 Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record)
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
1988 Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
1988 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
1988 LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's in baseball's 85th World Series 4 games to 1
1988 Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
1988 Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
1989 Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin
1989 US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
1990 Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in 86th World Series
1991 "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 perfs
1991 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
1991 Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
1991 Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo
1991 The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
1992 1st World Series game outside of US Toronto beats Atlanta
1992 David Houghton gets Zimbabwe's 1st Test ton (121 v India, debut)
1992 Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria
1993 Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m
1995 STS 73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit
1995 Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
1996 "Summer & Smoke" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1996 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf
1996 Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series
1996 Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf
1996 Wasim Akram scores cricket 257 v Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura, 12 sixes. Akram & Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt
1997 Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty
1997 US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers
2004 Boston Red Sox come back from 0-3 to defeat the New York Yankees 4-3 to win baseball's American League
2011 The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.
2012 30 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station bombing by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa
2013 30 people are killed by a suicide truck bomber in Hama, Syria
2013 37 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 78 people are killed by cattle raiders in Jonglei, Sudan
2014 Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia
2014 Laquan McDonald (17) is shot dead by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke while jaywalking, the murder caught on video footage
2015 Migrants arriving in Greece top 500,00 for the year, according to the UN
2015 US Vice President Joe Biden confirms he will not run for President
Born on October 20th
1435 Andrea Della Robbia, Florence, sculptor, nephew of Luca
1463 Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)
1475 Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api)
1496 Claude de Lutherans, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
1616 Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
1620 Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
1632 Christopher Wren, English astronomer, Great Architect (St. Paul's Cathedral) (d. 1723)
1637 Nicolaas van der Veken, Flemish sculptor (confessional chairs)
1656 Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
1660 Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
1677 Stanislaus I Leszczynski, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1679 Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer
1700 Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
1711 Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
1719 Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer, statistician, economist (d. 1772)
1740 Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Three Women)
1751 Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch MP/secretary of Interior
1759 Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
1780 Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, Corsican duchess of Parma, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1825)
1784 Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
1785 George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
1788 Philip Knapton, composer
1792 Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer
1792 Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, British officer (Sepoy-uprising)
1801 Melchior Berri, Swiss architect (d. 1854)
1808 Karl (Theodor) Andree, German geographer, journalist (Globus) (d. 1875)
1812 Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
1819 Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (d. 1897)
1819 Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1914)
1819 Karol Mikuli, composer
1819 The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
1820 Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)
1820 George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1822 Mansfield Lovell, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1823 Thomas Hughes, English author (Tom Brown's School Days) (d. 1896)
1832 Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
1843 Victor de Stuers, Dutch art connoisseur
1854 Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile)
1854 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, adventurer (Illuminations) (d. 1891)
1858 John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
1859 G B Studd, cricketer (brother of C T, 4 Tests for England)
1859 John Dewey, American philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) (d. 1952)
1864 James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
1871 Frederick Burton, IN, actor (One Way Passage)
1873 Nellie McClung, Canadian feminist (d. 1951)
1874 Charles Edward Ives, American composer (Holiday Quick Step) (d. 1954)
1874 Viscount Palmerston (Whig), British PM (1855-65)
1877 Josephine McGill, composer
1882 Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space) (d. 1956)
1884 Thomas Chalmers, NYC, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage)
1887 Addison Richards, Zanesville OH, actor (Pentagon, Fighting Seabees)
1887 John Warburton, Huddersfield England, actor (Saratoga Trunk)
1889 Margaret Dumont, American actress (Day at the Races) (d. 1965)
1890 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, American jazz pianist, composer (d. 1941)
1891 James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (discovered neutron) (d. 1974)
1891 Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (1963-78) (d. 1978)
1893 Charley Chase, American comedian, director (Sons of Desert) (d. 1940)
1894 Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
1895 Rex Ingram, American actor (Tarzan of the Apes, 10 Commandments) (d. 1969)
1896 Nat Holman, basketball coach (CCNY)
1897 Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1897 Jevsei G Liberman, Ukrainian economist (Plan, profit, bonuses)
1899 Evelyn Brent, American actress (Panama Lady, Last Coomand)
1899 Marnix Gijsen (baron Jan-Albert Goris), Flemish writer (Grote God Pan)
1900 Heinrich Himmler, head of Gestapo
1900 Rodolfo Halffter, composer
1900 Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (Sen-R/D-Ore) (d. 1974)
1901 Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer
1903 John Lodge, Washington DC, actor (Witchmaker)
1904 Anna Neagle, English actress (London Melody, Nurse Edith Cavell) (d. 1986)
1904 Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
1905 Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist (d. 1965)
1905 Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (d. 1982)
1907 Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
1909 Carla Laemmle, American actress
1909 Monique Hare, French pianist
1909 Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
1910 Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees press announcer
1911 Will Rogers Jr, NY, actor (Down to Earth)
1913 Angelo Ephrikian, composer
1913 Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam (1949-55)
1913 Barney Phillips, St Louis Mo, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad)
1913 Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
1913 Grandpa (Louis M) Jones, Niagra KY, country musician (Hee-Haw)
1914 Fayard Nicholas, American dancer (Big Broadcast of 1936) (d. 2006)
1915 Giora Schuster, composer
1917 Efrain Jonckheer, premier Dutch Antilles
1917 Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (A Cop) (d. 1973)
1917 Ken Cranston, cricketer (England all-rounder captained once in 1948)
1918 Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna)
1918 Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
1919 Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008)
1921 Hans Warren, Dutch writer/poet/critic (Secret Diary)
1921 Pierre Laporte, Canada, journalist/statesman (Revolution Script)
1922 John Anderson, American actor (Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp) (d. 1992)
1923 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front)
1923 Joe Minogue, journalist
1923 Robert Craft, American conductor, Stravinsky-follower
1924 Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist
1924 Stanley Eric Francis Booth-Clibborn, bishop (Manchester)
1925 Art Buchwald, American humorist, author (Have I Ever Lied to You) (d. 2007)
1925 Herman Roelstraete, composer
1925 Roger Hanin, French actor
1925 Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002)
1926 Ursula Happe, Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1927 Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (d.2007)
1927 Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist ($64,000 Question, Naked Gun)
1927 Oskar Pastior, writer
1931 Ken Morrison, English supermarket maginate/multi-millionaire
1931 Mickey Mantle, American baseball player, NY Yankees (1956 Triple Crown) (d. 1995)
1931 Richard Caliguiri, American politician (d. 1988)
1932 Roosevelt Brown, American football player, NFL hall of fame tackle (NY Giants) (d. 2004)
1932 William Christopher, American actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H)
1934 Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist, composer (d. 1996)
1934 Martin Landau, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood)
1934 Michael Dunn, Shattuck OK, actor (House of the Damned, Ship of Fools)
1934 Michiko, empress of Japan
1934 Timothy West, Yorkshire England, actor (Masada)
1935 Barrie Chase, American dancer
1935 Jerry Orbach, American actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing) (d. 2004)
1936 Larry Mowry, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1987 Crestar Pepsi Senior)
1937 Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (SF Giants)
1937 Wanda Jackson, American country singer (Let's Have a Party)
1938 Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
1939 Jay Siegel, Bkln, rock bassist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1939 Raymond Jones, rocker
1940 Kathy Kirby, British singer
1940 Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States
1941 Bob Panasik, Windsor Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1986 Canadian TPC)
1942 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 Earl Hindman, American actor (Wilson-Home Improvement) (d. 2003)
1943 Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
1944 David Mancuso, American disc jockey
1944 Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan theoretical physicist, philosopher and a political analyst
1944 William Hugh Albright, composer
1945 Ric Lee, drummer (Ten Years After-Cannock, Staffs)
1945 Thomas Pasatieri, composer
1946 Connie Chung, Washington DC, news ancher (NBC, CBS)
1946 Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (d. 1994)
1946 Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
1946 Richard Loncraine, British film director
1948 Andrei Suraikin, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972)
1948 Melih Gökçek, Turkish politician
1948 Robert A Borski, (Rep-D-PA, 1983)
1949 Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 Wayne Collett, US, 400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1950 Isaac Curtis, NFL wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1950 Tom Petty, American musician (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
1951 Al Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time)
1951 Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager
1951 Ken Ham, Australian evangelist and businessman
1951 Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
1951 Patrick Hall, British politician
1952 Dave Collins, baseball player
1952 Dave McLelland, NHLer
1952 Melanie Mayron, Phila, actress (30 Something, Car Wash, Missing)
1952 Mikhail Georgiyevich Potapov, Russian cosmonaut
1953 Bill Nunn, American actor
1953 Keith Hernandez, American baseball player, 1st baseman (St Louis Cards, NY Mets)
1954 Günter Müller, German sound artist, improvisor and percussionist
1954 Steve Orich, orchestrator
1954 Suru Nayak, cricketer (two Tests for India v England 1982)
1955 Aaron Pryor, American boxer
1955 David Profumo, English novelist
1955 Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV host/cabaret artist
1955 Thomas Newman, American composer
1956 Danny Boyle, English film director
1957 Chris Cowdrey, cricketer (son of Colin, captain of England 1988)
1957 Hilda Solis, American politician
1957 Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
1958 Dave Finlay, Irish professional wrestler
1958 Dave Krieg, American football player, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Oilers)
1958 Eric Scott, Hollywood California, actor (Ben-Waltons)
1958 Ivo Pogorelich, Yugoslavian pianist (1978 Casagrande winner)
1958 Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
1958 Mark King, English bassist and singer (Level 42)
1958 Ricky Byrd, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts)
1958 Scott Hall, American professional wrestler
1958 Valerie Faris, American film director
1958 Viggo Mortensen, American actor
1959 Janice McCaffrey, Etobicoke Ontario, 10k walker (Olympics-25-92, 96)
1959 Razor Ramon (Scott Hall), Professional wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA/Florida/AWA/KC)
1960 Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
1960 Lepa Brena, famous Yugoslav singer
1961 Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
1961 Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
1962 Dave Wong, Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1962 David M. Evans, American screenwriter and film director
1962 Ray Childress, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1962 Steven R "Randy" Jackson, US percussionist/singer (Enjoy Yourself)
1963 Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut
1963 Navjot Singh Sidhu, cricketer (Indian opening batsman)
1963 Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
1965 Amos Mansdorf, lsrael, tennis star
1965 Chad Hennings, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1965 Jil Caplan, French singer and songwriter
1965 M Shtalenkov, Moscow Russia, NHL goalie (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1965 Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Team Russia, Anaheim)
1965 Norman Blake, Scottish musician
1965 William Zabka, American actor
1966 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
1966 Allan Donald, South African cricketer
1966 Erin Deiters, Green Bay Wis, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1994)
1966 Fred Coury, American drummer (Cinderella)
1966 Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
1966 Stefan Raab, German entertainer
1967 Elizabeth Carling, English Actress and Singer
1967 Harvey Pulliam, SF CA, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1967 Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
1967 Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor
1967 Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
1967 Susan Tulley, British actress (Michelle-EastEnders)
1968 Raymond Biggs, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 Chantel Tremitiere, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs)
1969 Guillermo Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star
1969 Herman Moore, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1969 Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1969 Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
1969 Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer
1970 Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler
1970 Greg Primus, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears)
1970 Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author
1970 Ralph Dawkins, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 Sander Boschke, soccer player (FC Twente)
1970 Shane George, cricketer (S Australian fast bowler, Shield debut at 17)
1971 Dannii Minogue, Australian singer, sister of Kylie Minogue
1971 Eddie Jones, American basketball player, NBA guard, forward (LA Lakers)
1971 Kimberly Po, LA California, tennis star (1991 Futures-Evansville IN)
1971 Matt Norman, Australian Director/Producer
1971 Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus), American rapper (What's My Name, Gin & Juice)
1972 Dexter Coakley, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 Oleg Fediukov, Moscow Russia, dance skater (& Debbie Koegel)
1972 Will Greenwood, England rugby union player
1973 Scott Goodman, Hobart Tasmania Aus, 200m butterfly swimmer (Oly-br-96)
1974 Ayelet Ohayon, Israel, Women's foil fencer (Oly-1996)
1974 Jerald Honeycutt, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1976 Reidel Anthony, wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1976 Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
1977 Leila Josefowicz, Canadian classical violinist
1977 Matt Jansen, English footballer
1977 Sam Witwer, American actor
1978 Michael Johns, American Idol (season 7) finalist
1978 Paul Wilson, Scottish bass player (Snow Patrol)
1978 Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
1979 John Krasinski, American actor
1979 Paul Ifill, Barbadian footballer
1979 Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
1980 Gary Jarman, English musician
1980 Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
1980 Niall Matter, Canadian actor
1981 Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1981 Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
1981 Willis McGahee, American football player
1982 Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
1982 Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
1983 Alex Nackman, musician
1983 Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
1983 Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor
1984 Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player
1984 Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
1985 Alphonso Smith, American football player
1985 Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
1985 James Sutton, British racing driver
1985 Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
1986 Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
1988 Candice Swanepoel, South African model
1988 Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1992 Ksenia Semenova, Russian Olympic gymnast.
1994 Morgan Featherstone, Australian model
Died on on October 20th
460 Eudocia Aelia Athenais, Byzantine Empress, poetess
1139 Henry X the Trotse, Duke of Bayern (1126-38)
1187 Urbanus III (Umberto Crivelli), Italian Pope (1185-87)
1268 Conrad Hohenstaufen (Conrad van Zwaben), son of Conrad IV, beheaded
1274 Engelbert II of Falkenburg, archbishop of Cologne
1438 Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor
1525 Joannes Custos, S Neth humanist
1570 João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
1631 Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
1640 John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1652 Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
1676 Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61
1713 Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
1740 Charles VI, Holy Roman-German emperor (1711-40) (b. 1685)
1765 William August duke of Cumberland, Engl supreme commander
1794 James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture)
1819 Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer
1842 Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
1864 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Confederate gen-major
1865 Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821)
1870 Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl)
1871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator)
1876 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian
1882 Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida)
1890 Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
1899 Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, Brit colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle
1900 Charles Dudley Warner, US writer (As We Go)
1900 Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
1904 Henry Hiles, composer
1906 William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants)
1907 Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
1910 David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
1913 Leander Schlegel, composer
1920 Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre)
1926 Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
1927 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer
1929 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist
1931 Emanuel Moor, composer
1935 Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
1936 Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
1940 Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
1941 Ken Farnes, English cricketer (60 wickets)
1942 May Robson, actress (Star is Born, Reckless)
1944 Gabriel Groulez, composer
1950 Henry Lewsis Stimson, US minister of War/gov-gen
1952 Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night)
1953 Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
1954 Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40)
1955 Eino Roiha, composer
1959 Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street)
1964 Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (1929-33) (b. 1874)
1964 Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt)
1967 Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
1968 Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
1968 Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher
1970 Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia)
1972 Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy) (b. 1885)
1977 Cassie Gaines, American vocalist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), killed in a plane crash (b. 1948)
1977 Ronnie Van Zant, American lead singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), killed in a plane crash (b. 1948)
1977 Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), killed in a plane crash (b. 1949)
1978 Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)
1983 Merle Travis, country singer
1983 Peter Dudley, British actor (b. 1935)
1983 Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
1984 Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1984 Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1986 Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash
1987 Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
1988 Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
1989 Anthony Quayle, English actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow) (b. 1913)
1990 Joel McCrea, American actor (Ramrod) (b. 1905)
1992 Orton Chirwa, Malawi's lawyer/Justice minister, dies in captivity
1992 Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (b. 1926)
1993 James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy)
1993 Maurice Dolbier, US actor/writer (Nowhere near Everest)
1993 Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
1994 Burt Lancaster, American actor (Elmer Gantry) (b. 1913)
1994 Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/Choreographer
1994 Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort)
1994 Ivan Svitak, philosopher
1994 Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor, director (Waterloo)
1995 Bernadette Hingley, priest
1995 Christopher Stone, American actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns) (b. 1942)
1995 Jack Rose, screenwriter
1995 Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer
1996 Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot
1996 Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant
1999 Calvin Griffith, Former owner of Washington Senators (b. 1911)
1999 Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917)
2001 Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
2002 Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
2002 Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
2003 Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 Miodrag Petrovic, Serbian actor (b. 1924)
2004 Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
2004 Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (b. 1941)
2005 Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
2005 Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
2006 Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
2007 Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
2007 Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (b. 1961)
2008 Gene Hickerson, American football Hall of Famer (b. 1935)
2010 Bob Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse magazine) (b. 1930)
2010 Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948)
2011 Moatassem Gaddafi, Son of Moammar Gaddafi and National Security Adviser of Libya (b. 1977)
2011 Muammar Gaddafi, Ruler of Libya (b. 1942)
2011 Tone Pavček, Slovenian poet and translator (b. 1928)
2015 Cory Wells [Emil Lewandowski], American rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
2015 Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger