October 29th
Holidays and Festivals
Republic Day Turkey (1923)
Indigenous People's Day (Philippines) * CLICK HERE
Coronation Day of Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia
Devils Eve (USA)
National Frankenstein Day
Hermit Day
Feast of Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem (Roman Catholic)
Feast of James Hannington (Anglican Church)
Feast of St. Abraham of Rostov (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Douai Martyrs
Feast of St. Maximillian
Feast of St. Gaetano Errico Fête de la Scorsonère Translation: Black Salsify Day (French Republican) The Eighth day of the Month of Brumaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to Prohibiton...
May it continue to reduce the number of men who think they can sing."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Midnight Rider
1 and a half oz. Botran Reserva
1/2 oz. Orange Curacao
1 oz. Orange Juice
1 oz. Soda
1 Fresh squeezed Orange wedge
Garnish with an Orange wedge Add all the ingredients to a mixing Glass. Add ice and Shake. Strain into a tall Glass
Wine of The Day
Tinhorn Creek (2009) Late Harvest
Style - Kerner Icewine
Okanagan Valley
$15
Beer of The Day
Punkin Ale
Brewer - Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Style - Pumpkin Ale
ABV - 7%
Joke of The Day
Q. How do you get a Highlander onto the roof?
A. Tell him the drinks are on the house.
Quote of The Day
"In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don't need it."
- Unknown
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
Disarmament Week, October 24th to 30thPeace, Friendship and Good Will Week, October 24th to 30th
World Origami Days, Oct. 24th to Nov. 11th
Shocktober A.K.A. Shocktoberfest, Last Week of October
Devil Days, Last Week of October
International Horror Festivals, Last Week of October
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week, Last Week in October
International Magic Week, Last Week in October
Kids Care Week, Week of October 27th, Monday to Sunday
Red Ribbon Week (Drug Prevention), Last Week of October
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week, Week Before Daylight Savings Day
Historical Events on October 29th
(539 BC) Cyrus the Great entered the city of Babylon and detained Nabonidus.
(529 BC) The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.
437 Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
439 Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago
969 Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
1268 Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
1422 Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
1467 Battle of Brusthem, Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1508 Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
1552 Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle
1591 Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX
1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1658 Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1665 Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga..
1675 Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1682 William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania
1709 England, Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat"
1727 Severe earthquake in New England
1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792 Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1794 French troops occupies Venlo
1811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
1814 "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched
1833 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1859 Spain declares war on Morocco.
1863 Battle of Wauhatchie of the American Civil War, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1863 Eighteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963).
1864 Greek parliament accept new Constitution
1867 Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
1872 J S Risdon patents metal windmill
1881 Judge (U.S. magazine) first published.
1886 The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company
1889 NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
1889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
1894 1st election of Hawaiian Republic
1901 Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1901 In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1904 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
1904 IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (NYC) opens
1905 Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured
1910 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
1913 Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
1914 Russia declares war on Turkey, Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1915 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1915 Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
1918 The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German revolution.
1920 Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees
1921 Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA.
1921 The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1921 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1922 The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
1923 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway
1923 Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon
1923 Gibbs, Grey, Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in NYC
1923 Textile strike in Enschede Netherlands, against lower wages, begins
1923 Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1924 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
1924 Labour loses British parliamentary election
1929 "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
1929 The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1930 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
1931 Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP
1932 French liner Normandie is launched
1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1939 NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
1940 Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
1941 Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in NYC
1941 In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
1942 7th day of battle at El Alamein, Montgomery assault
1942 Alaska highway completed
1942 Branch Rickey named president,GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
1942 In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
1944 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda Neth
1944 Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland
1944 The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
1945 Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1945 Happy Chandler, resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commish
1947 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherland form Benelux Union
1947 Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam
1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev
1948 Safsaf massacre
1949 White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A's for Nellie Fox
1950 British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns
1950 Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10 attempts), Cleveland 45, Pittsburgh 7
1950 Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns
1953 A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns
1953 BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, California. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
1954 Sweden begins experimental TV
1955 Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
1955 Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) & 25,000m (1:16:36)
1955 The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
1956 International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco
1956 Kafr Qasim massacre, Israeli Border Police (Magav) shoot and kill 48 Arab civilians for unknowingly disobeying curfue orders imposed by Israeli army in Kafr Qasim, an Arab village.
1956 Suez Crisis begins, Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal, Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran.
1956 Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1957 Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 Dr F Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
1960 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6.
1961 Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
1964 A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1964 Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings v Pakistan
1964 Karmi'el founded in Galilee
1964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
1964 Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee
1964 United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed United Republic of Tanzania.
1965 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon, 6.7°N 162°E
1966 National Organization for Women is founded.
1967 Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open
1967 London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
1967 MacDermot, Ragni & Rado's musical "Hair," premieres in NYC
1967 Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1969 October 29, 1969: the Supreme Court ruled that school districts must end segregation “now and hereafter", "at once".
1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1969 Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award
1969 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1972 Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
1972 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
1975 Boston's Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills 1st victim
1977 "Act" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances
1977 Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season
1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
1979 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1980 Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1980 Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.
1981 Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies
1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1982 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"
1983 Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards & 6 touchdowns
1983 Over 500,000 Dutch people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, Netherlands.
1984 Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon
1985 Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump
1985 Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
1986 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
1986 Kirk Muller scores NJ Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6
1986 Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs
1986 West Indies all out for 53 v Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)
1987 "Don't Get God Started" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 86 perfs
1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
1988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
1988 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)
1989 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International
1989 NYC MTA opens 63rd street extension to subway
1989 Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
1991 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager
1991 The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1993 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
1994 Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed
1994 Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
1994 NY Lotto pays $60 million+
1994 National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)
1995 "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC
1995 Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
1995 US beats Japan, 19-17, at Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament
1998 ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
1998 In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
1998 Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
1998 The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden claims 63 lives and injures 200.
1998 While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1999 A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
1999 Deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone hits Orissa, India. This event was known as 1999 Orissa cyclone ever since.
2002 Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
2004 In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
2004 The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2005 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
2007 Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
2008 Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
2008 The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5 of the 2008 World Series to become champions of Major League Baseball.
2011 Record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million residents without power for more than 36 hours.
2012 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close
2012 Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merge to form the world's largest publisher
2014 San Francisco Giants win the 2014 World Series, Madison Bumgarner is named MLB 2014 World Series MVP
2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years
2015 Murphy Anderson, American comic artist (DC Comics), dies at 89
2015 Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, succeeding John Boehner (R-Ohio)
Born on October 29th
1017 Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1463 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician, philosopher
1507 Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73)
1513 Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne
1562 George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury
1656 Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]
1682 Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
1690 Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
1704 John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
1740 James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
1815 Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1815 Ludovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856)
1816 Ferdinand II AFA, king of Portugal
1822 Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer, President of High Council (1885-97)
1822 Mieczyslaw Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
1824 Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1904)
1827 Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
1832 Narcisa de Jesús Martillo, an Ecuadorian saint (d. 1869)
1837 Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-12)
1837 Harriet Powers, US, slave/writer (Creation of Animals)
1844 Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker
1853 Josephine B Willson Bruce, US theorist (NACW)
1855 Paul Bruchési, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939)
1857 Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal)
1859 Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
1861 Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1866 Antonio Luna, Filipino revolutionary general (d. 1899)
1871 Narziss Ach, German psychologist (Analyse des Willens)
1873 Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet, translator, statesman
1875 Marie of Edinburgh, queen of Romania, consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27) (d. 1938)
1877 Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966)
1877 Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (d. 1973)
1878 Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II)
1879 Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941)
1879 Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (1932), German diplomat (d. 1969)
1880 Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (d. 1960)
1882 Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
1883 Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor/director (Hofstad Stage)
1884 Bela Lugosi, Lugos Hungary, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
1890 Claire Goll, writer
1891 Fanny Brice, American singer, comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks) (d. 1951)
1893 Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor
1897 Hope Emerson, American actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn)
1897 (Paul) Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)
1898 Emmanuel Bondeville, composer
1899 Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (For Whom the Bell Tolls) (d. 1972)
1901 Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer
1903 Vivian Ellis, composer
1905 Laurence Dowdall, lawyer
1906 Fredric (William) Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer (Martians Go Home) (d. 1972)
1907 Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (d. 1998)
1908 Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster
1909 Douglass Montgomery, LA CA, actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane)
1910 Alfred J Ayer, English Neopositivist philosopher, logician (d. 1989)
1911 Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader
1915 Dennis Brookes, cricketer (one Test England v WI 1948, scored 10 & 7)
1915 William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005)
1917 Eddie Constantine, American actor (Lucky Jo, It Lives Again), singer (d. 1993)
1917 Henry Carlsson, Sweden, soccer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007)
1920 Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
1920 Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic (Orthodox Church)
1921 Ed Kemmer, Reading Pa, actor (Buzz Corey-Space Patrol)
1921 William Henry Mauldin, American political cartoonist (Pulitzer-1945, 59) (WW II Army grunts) (d. 2003)
1922 Francois H L Henrichs, sportscaster, actor (Spider)
1922 Neal Hefti, American jazz musician, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Show) (d. 2008)
1922 Neil Blaney, politician
1923 Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
1923 Dietrich Manicke, composer
1923 Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete
1924 Zbigniew Herbert, writer
1925 Betty Evans Grayson, Portland Or, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959)
1925 Dominick Dunne, American author (d. 2009)
1925 Geraldine Brooks, NYC, actr (Faraday & Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder)
1925 Robert Hardy, English actor
1925 Zoot Sims, Musician
1926 Jon(athan Stewart) Vickers, Canadian tenor
1927 Frank A Sedgman, tennis champ (US Open-1951)
1927 Hugo Schiltz, Flemish politician
1930 Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
1930 Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1930 Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
1930 Peter Stampfel, rocker
1930 Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
1931 Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor
1934 Karl Francis Hettinger, Onion Field survivor
1934 Pim Jacobs, jazz pianist/Dutch TV host/actor (Gilas)
1934 Ramon Sender, composer
1934 Robert E Hughes, American orchestra leader (Rich Little Show)
1935 David Allen, cricketer (England off-spinner of 60's)
1935 Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director
1936 Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
1937 Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964)
1938 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
1938 Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist
1940 Connie Mack, U.S. Senator from Florida (Rep-R-FL, 1983/Sen-R-FL)
1940 Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
1940 Galen Weston, English/Canadian industrial/multi-millionaire
1940 José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Catholic bishop
1941 Brian Yuile, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer took 34 wkts in 17 Tests)
1942 Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)
1942 Johan Fleming Ramsland, British broadcaster
1942 Melora Harte, American voice actor
1943 Donald Simpson, American film producer (d. 1996)
1944 Claude Brochu, Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos)
1944 Denny Laine (Brian Hines), English guitarist (Moody Blues, Wings, Ginger Baker's Air Force)
1944 Fausto Leali, Italian entertainer
1944 Otto Wiesheu, German minister
1944 Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch guitarist (Shocking Blue)
1945 Melba Moore (Beatrice), American singer, actress (Ellis Island)
1946 Anura Tennekoon, Sri Lankan cricketer (World Cup captain 1975-79)
1946 Lynn Carey, American actress and singer (Mama Lion)
1946 Peter Green (Peter Greenbaum), English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1946 Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist
1947 Helen Coonan, Australian politician
1947 Richard Dreyfuss, American actor (Jaws, Close Encounters of a Third Kind, Mr Holland's Opus)
1948 Kate Jackson, American actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels)
1948 Ricky Reynolds, rocker
1949 James Williamson, American guitarist
1949 Kieron Baker, English footballer
1949 Paul Orndorff, American professional wrestler (WCW/SMW/NWA/WWF, Mr Wonderful)
1950 Abdullah Gul, Turkish President
1950 Bronwen Mantel, Canadian actress and voice actor
1951 Dirk Kempthorne, American politician (Sen-R Idaho)
1951 Guy Gelso, rock drummer (Zebra)
1951 Rick Bordia, rock guitarist (Mink Deville)
1952 Arnell Carmichael, rock keyboardist (Raydio)
1952 Beth Solomon, LPGA golfer
1952 Valeri I Tokarev, Russian colonel, cosmonaut
1953 Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player, NY Islander defenseman (Norris trophy)
1954 Anita Meijer, Dutch singer (Just a Disillusion)
1954 Herman Ronald Frazier, Phila, 400m/4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 Boy Abunda, Filipino journalist and television personality
1955 Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (d. 2007)
1955 Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1956 Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican boxer
1957 Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor, Best known as the voice of Homer Simpson
1958 Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter
1958 David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker
1959 Finola Hughes, London, actress (Anna-General Hospital, Staying Alive)
1959 Jesse Barfield, American baseball player, outfielder (Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader)
1959 Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1959 Tamar Baruch, actress (Small Truth, Q & Q)
1960 Finola Hughes, British actress
1960 Michael Carter, Dallas Tx, shot putter (Olympic-silver-1984)
1961 Cornelia Oschkenat, German DR, hurdler (50m indoor)
1961 Joel Otto, Ice Hockey Player, NHL center (Phila Flyers, Team USA Oly-1998)
1961 Randy Jackson, American musician (Jackson 5)
1962 Einar Örn Benediktsson, Icelandic musician (The Sugarcubes)
1964 Eddie McGuire, Australian television presenter
1964 Greg Montgomery, punter (Baltimore Ravens)
1964 Jackie Pereira, Perth Australia, field hockey center/forward (Oly-96)
1964 May Allison, Toronto Ontario, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1964 Yasmin Le Bon, British model
1965 Andy Beal, Germany, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 West of England Pro)
1965 Greg Davis, NFL kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1965 Steven Sweet, Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1967 Beth Chapman, Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter
1967 Greg Gohr, Santa Clara California, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 Joely Fisher, American actress (Paige-Ellen, The Mask)
1967 Rufus Sewell, English actor (Dark City)
1968 Grayson McCouch, NYC, actor (Morgan Winthrop-Another World)
1968 Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater (Olympics-3 gold-1994)
1968 Tsunku, Japanese music producer
1969 Eleni Menegaki, Greek TV presenter
1969 Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer
1969 Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
1969 Peter Breen, Brockton Mass, dance skater
1970 Charles Swann, WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores)
1970 Chris Thorpe, Waukegan Ill, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)
1970 Dan Ratushny, Nepean, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1970 Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer, goalkeeper (Ajax)
1970 Marquez Pope, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
1970 Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer (Vitesse, PSV)
1971 Daniel J. Bernstein, American professor
1971 Greg Blewett, cricketer (Aust batsman, century on Test debut 1995)
1971 Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
1971 Winona Ryder (Horowitz), American actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand)
1972 Gabrielle Union, American actress (Bad Boys II)
1972 Rhonda Blades, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1972 Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur
1972 Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress
1973 Adam Bacher, South African cricketer
1973 Robert Pirès, French footballer
1973 Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
1974 Mike Crawford, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1974 R A Dickey, Nashville Tenn, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 Renata Hornofova, Miss Universe-Czech Republic (1996)
1975 Kelly Lin, Chinese actress
1976 Claudia Dopf, Miss Peru Universe (1997)
1976 Giorgos Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
1976 Milena Govich, American actress
1976 Mohsen Emadi, Iranian Poet
1976 Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer
1977 Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor (Final Destination)
1978 Travis Henry, American football player
1979 Andrew Lee Potts, Actor (1408)
1979 Anshuman Singh, MHRIL Venue Manager
1979 Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan politician
1980 B.J. Sams, American football player
1980 Ben Foster, American actor (3:10 to Yuma)
1981 Amanda Beard, American swimmer, 100m/200m breaststroke (Oly-2 silv-96)
1981 Jonathan Brown, Australian rules footballer
1981 Reema Sen, Indian actress
1982 Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1982 Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress
1983 Dana Eveland, American baseball player
1983 Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish racing driver
1983 Johnny Lewis, American California, actor (Sons of Anarchy, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem) (d. 2012)
1983 Maurice Clarett, American football player
1983 Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
1984 Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Janet Montgomery, Actress (Black Swan)
1985 Severino Jefferson, Brazilian footballer
1986 Italia Ricci, Actress (Don Jon)
1986 Sarita Pérez de Tagle, Filipina actress and model
1987 Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer
1989 Chelsea Ricketts, Actress (The Hole)
1990 Carlson Young,American actress
1990 Melissa DaPonte, Actress (Chasing the Dragon)
1991 Kristy Landers, Actress (Circus Camp)
1992 Mason Lucero, Actor (I Am Sam)
1993 Emiliano Zurita, Actor (Ángel caído)
1993 India Eisley, Actress (Underworld: Awakening)
1999 Olivia Waldriff, Actress (Grey Gardens)
2008 Owen Bento, Actor (Friends with Kids)
Died on October 29th
490 Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria
1038 Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 Boleslaw III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1321 Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321)
1590 Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, Dutch politician, theologist, philosopher (b. 1522)
1618 Walter Raleigh, English explorer, poet, historian, beheaded for treason (b. 1554)
1650 David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1783 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher, mathematician (b. 1717)
1790 Pieter of Bleiswijk, Pension advisor 1771-1787
1802 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer
1822 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl, general, Minister of War
1829 Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart, Austrian pianist (b. 1751)
1846 Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom
1853 Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer
1853 William Richard Bexfield, composer
1856 Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director
1873 Ernest Feydeau, French author
1873 Johan N M J, King of Saxon (1854-73)
1873 Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship
1876 Jacques Gregoir, composer
1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1882 Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer
1883 Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer
1885 George B McClellan, Union army general
1885 James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda
1892 William M Harnett, US painter (Old Cupboard Door)
1897 Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist (b. 1839)
1901 Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, electrocuted (b. 1873)
1905 Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1911 Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
1916 John Sebastian Little, American politician and congressman (b. 1851)
1919 A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1919 Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura
1920 Johann Ernst Perabo, composer
1922 George August Lumbye, composer
1927 Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule)
1931 Luciano Gallet, composer
1932 Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (B-Reflex) (b. 1857)
1933 Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
1933 Paul (Prudent) Painlevé, French mathematician, minister, premier (b. 1853)
1934 Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer
1936 Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer and political theorist (b. 1874)
1939 Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1941 Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1943 Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered
1946 John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas)
1947 Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97)
1947 Theodore Samuel Holland, composer
1949 G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1950 Gustav V, King of Sweden (b. 1858)
1951 De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered
1951 Robert G Aitken, US astronomer (New General Catalogue)
1953 William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (MGM) (b. 1885)
1957 Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1958 Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
1962 Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer
1963 Adolphe Menjou, American actor (Front Page, Star is Born) (b. 1890)
1965 Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered
1966 (Louis C) Marcel Berckmans, painter, actor (Manner Kater)
1968 Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer
1969 Vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36)
1971 Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1971 Duane Allman, American musician, dies in a motorcycle accident (b. 1946)
1973 Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer
1974 Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry)
1975 John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show)
1981 Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)
1981 William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post
1983 Sten Broman, composer
1985 John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint) (gov-R-CT)
1986 Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1986 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer
1987 Kamal El Mallakh
1987 Woody Herman, American bandleader, composer (Thundering Herds) (b. 1913)
1990 William French Smith, attorney general (1980)
1991 Donald Churchill, playwright
1991 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party
1991 Maria Monica, silent film actress
1991 Mario Scelba, PM of Italia (1954-55)
1992 Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland
1992 Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree)
1993 George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out)
1993 Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report)
1994 Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer
1994 Evelyn Anderson, dancer
1994 Pearl Primus, dancer
1995 Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1996 James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicid
1996 Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster
1996 Patrick Johnson, physicist
1997 Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and NASA astrophysicist (b. 1947)
1997 Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1998 Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
1999 Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
2002 Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2003 Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921)
2003 Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
2004 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
2004 Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
2004 Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
2006 Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
2008 Mike Baker, American singer Shadow Gallery (b. 1963)
2011 Jimmy Savile, British media personality (b. 1926)