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== Events ==
=== Up to 1900 ===
* [[42 BC]] - Roman civil wars: [[Battle of Philippi|Second Battle of Philippi]] - [[Mark Antony]] and [[Augustus|Octavian]] defeat the [[army]] of [[Marcus Junius Brutus]], who commits suicide shortly after.
* [[425]] – [[Valentinian III]] becomes Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
* [[1086]] - [[Battle of az-Zallaqah]]: The [[army]] of [[Yusuf ibn Tashfa]] defeats forces of King [[Alfonso VI of Castile]].
* [[1157]] - The [[Battle of Grathe-Heath]] ends the civil war in [[Denmark]]. King [[Sweyn III]] is killed and [[Valdemar I of Denmark]] takes over. 
* [[1295]] – [[Scotland]] and [[France]] sign the first treaty of the '[[Auld Alliance]]' in [[Paris]], against [[England]].
* [[1520]] - [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] is crowned in [[Aachen]].
* [[1642]] – [[English Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Edgehill]]
* [[1707]] – The first [[parliament]] of [[Great Britain]] meets.
* [[1739]] - [[War of Jenkins' Ear]]: British Prime Minister [[Robert Walpole]] reluctantly declares war on [[Spain]].
* [[1812]] - [[Charles Francois de Malet]], a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow then-Emperor [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], by falsely claiming that he (Napoleon) had died in his attempt to conquer [[Russia]].
* [[1850]] - The first National [[Woman|Women's Rights]] Convention begins in Worcester, [[Massachusetts]].
* [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: Union forces defeat the Confederates in the [[Battle of Westport]].
* [[1870]] - [[Franco-Prussian War]]: The [[Siege of Metz]] concludes with a decisive [[Prussia]]n victory.

=== 1901 {{ndash}} 2000 ===
* [[1906]] – [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]] flies an [[aircraft]] in the first heavier-than-air flight, in [[Paris]].
* [[1912]] – The [[Battle of Kumanovo]] between [[Russia]]n and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces begins.
* [[1915]] - 25,000 to 33,000 women march on [[Fifth Avenue]] in [[New York City]] to advocate their right to [[vote]].
* [[1917]] - [[Vladimir Lenin]] calls for the [[October Revolution]] in [[Russia]].
* [[1929]] – [[Great Depression]]: The first signs of panic show.
* [[1940]] - Norwegian [[Hurtigruten]] passenger steamer ''Prinsesse Ragnhild'' sinks after an explosion off northern [[Norway]], killing 299 people on board.
* [[1941]] – [[World War II]]: [[Georgy Zhukov]] takes command of the [[Red Army]] operation to prevent the [[Nazi]]s' further advances into [[Russia]].
* [[1942]] – [[World War II]]: The [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] takes place, as the British Eighth Army begins an offensive to expel the [[Axis countries|Axis]] armies from [[Egypt]].
* [[1942]] - [[World War II]]: The [[Battle of Henderson Field]] begins in the [[Guadalcanal Campaign]], lasting until [[October 26]].
* [[1944]] – [[World War II]]: The Red Army enters [[Hungary]].
* [[1944]] - [[World War II]]: The [[Battle of Leyte Gulf]] in the [[Philippines]].
* [[1946]] – In [[New York City|New York]], the [[UN]] General Assembly meets for the first time.
* [[1956]] – The [[Hungary|Hungarian]] Revolution of [[1956]] against [[Soviet]] rule begins.
* [[1958]] - [[The Smurfs]] [[cartoon]]s appear for the first time.
* [[1958]] - The Springhill Mine Bump [[mining]] disaster in [[Nova Scotia]], killing 74 people, with 100 surviving the accident.
* [[1970]] - [[Gary Gabelich]] sets a land-speed record in a [[rocket]]-powered [[automobile]] called the [[Blue Flame]], fueled by natural gas.
* [[1972]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Linebacker]] - The [[US]] ends a [[bomb]]ing campaign of [[North Vietnam]] following the [[Easter Offensive]].
* [[1973]] - A [[UN]]-sanctioned ceasefire officially ends the [[Yom Kippur War]] between [[Israel]] and [[Syria]].
* [[1983]] – A truck bomb hits a [[US]] barracks in [[Lebanon]], killing 241 troops. On the same day, another truck bomb hits a French barracks, killing 58 military personnel.
* [[1989]] – The [[Hungary|Hungarian Republic]] is declared.
* [[1989]] - The Philips Disaster in Pasadena, [[Texas]] kills 23 people.
* [[1992]] – [[Akihito]] becomes the first Japanese Emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
* [[1995]] - [[Yolanda Saldivar]] is convicted of murdering the singer [[Selena]] on [[March 31]] of the same year.

=== From 2001 ===
* [[2001]] – The [[iPod]] is released.
* [[2002]] – The [[Moscow Theatre Siege]] begins, as Chechen terrorists take around 700 theatregoers hostage.
* [[2003]] - The [[Walt Disney Concert Hall]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], designed by [[Frank Gehry]], is opened.
* [[2004]] – An [[earthquake]] in the [[Niigata]] Prefecture in [[Japan]] kills 35 people and injures around 2,200.
* [[2005]] – [[Hurricane Wilma]] hits the [[Yucatán Peninsula|Yucatán]], in [[Mexico]].
* [[2005]] – [[Lech Kaczynski]] is elected [[President of Poland]], ahead of [[Donald Tusk]].
* [[2011]] – [[New Zealand]] wins the [[Rugby football|Rugby]] World Cup, defeating [[France]] 8-7 in [[Auckland]].
* [[2011]] – [[Motorcycle]] rider [[Marco Simoncelli]] is killed in a crash at the [[Malaysia]]n Moto GP.
* [[2011]] – A powerful magnitude 7.2 [[earthquake]] hits [[Van (Turkey)|Van]] Province, in eastern [[Turkey]].
* [[2012]] - The [[BBC]] ends its 38-year teletext service [[Ceefax]], with [[Northern Ireland]] completing the [[United Kingdom]]'s transition to digital [[television]] broadcasting.
* [[2015]] - [[Hurricane Patricia]] is measured as the heaviest [[hurricane]] ever to hit [[North America|North]] or [[Central America]], as it hits the [[Pacific Ocean]] coast of [[Mexico]].
* [[2015]] - 43 people, mostly pensioners on a day-trip, die in a [[coach (vehicle)|coach]] crash in Southwestern [[France]], in one of the country's deadliest-ever road accidents.
* [[2018]] - The [[Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge]] is officially opened by Chinese Communist Party general secretary [[Xi Jinping]].
* [[2018]] - [[October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts]]: A [[mail]] [[bomb]] addressed to former [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Hillary Clinton]] is caught by [[police]], after one addressed to [[George Soros]] was caught the previous day.
* [[2019]] - The bodies of 39 people are found in a [[lorry]] trailer at Purfleet, [[Essex]], [[England]].

==Births==
===Up to 1900===
* [[63 BC]] - [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]], Roman general (d. [[12 BC]])
* [[1503]] – [[Isabella of Portugal]] (d. [[1539]])
* [[1516]] – [[Charlotte of Valois]], French princess (d. [[1524]])
* [[1634]] - [[Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp]] (d. [[1715]])
* [[1654]] - [[Johann Bernhard Staudt]], Austrian [[Jesuit]] [[composer]] (d. [[1712]])
* [[1713]] - [[Pieter Burman the Younger]], Dutch [[Philology|philologist]] (d. [[1778]])
* [[1715]] – Tsar [[Peter II of Russia]] (d. [[1730]])
* [[1762]] - [[Samuel Morey]], American inventor (d. [[1843]])
* [[1770]] - [[George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie]], Scottish soldier and colonial administrator (d. [[1838]])
* [[1771]] - [[Jean-Andoche Junot]], French [[General officer|general]] (d. [[1813]])
* [[1796]] - [[Stefano Franscini]], Swiss Federal Councillor (d. [[1857]])
* [[1801]] – [[Albert Lortzing]], German composer (d. [[1851]])
* [[1813]] – [[Ludwig Leichhardt]], German explorer (d. [[1848]])
* [[1815]] - [[Joao Mauricio Wanderley]], Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. [[1889]])
* [[1817]] - [[Pierre Athanase Larousse]], French [[Encyclopaedia|lexicographer]] (d. [[1875]])
* [[1831]] - [[Basil Lanneau Gilders Lane]], American [[classic]]al{{Disambiguation needed|date=February 2022}} scholar (d. [[1924]])
* [[1835]] – [[Adlai E. Stevenson]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. [[1914]])
* [[1844]] - [[Robert Bridges]], English [[poet]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[1857]] – [[Juan Luna]], [[Philippines|Filipino]] painter (d. [[1899]])
* [[1868]] - [[Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett]], British industrialist, financier and politician (d. [[1930]])
* [[1869]] – [[John Heisman]], [[American football]] player and coach (d. [[1936]])
* [[1871]] - [[Gjergj Fishta]], [[Albania]]n [[poet]] (d. [[1940]])
* [[1873]] - [[William D. Coolidge]], American [[physicist]] and [[inventor]] (d. [[1975]])
* [[1875]] - [[Gilbert N. Lewis]], American [[chemist]] (d. [[1946]])
* [[1876]] - [[Franz Schlegelberger]], German politician (d. [[1970]])
* [[1880]] - [[Una O'Connor]], Irish actress (d. [[1959]])
* [[1885]] - [[Lawren Harris]], Canadian painter (d. [[1970]])
* [[1893]] – [[Gummo Marx]], American actor (d. [[1977]])
* [[1894]] - [[Rube Bressler]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1966]])
* [[1896]] - [[Roman Jakobson]], Russian-born [[Language|linguist]] (d. [[1982]])
* [[1896]] - [[Lilyan Tashman]], American [[actress]] (b. [[1934]])

=== 1901 {{ndash}} 1950 ===
* [[1905]] – [[Felix Bloch]], Swiss [[physicist]] (d. [[1983]])
* [[1905]] – [[Gertrude Ederle]], American swimmer (d. [[2003]])
* [[1905]] - [[Yen Chia-han]], [[President]] of the [[Republic of China]] (d. [[1993]])
* [[1908]] – [[Ilya Frank]], Russian physicist (d. [[1990]])
* [[1910]] - [[Richard Mortensen]], Danish painter (d. [[1993]])
* [[1910]] - [[Hayden Rorke]], American actor (d. [[1987]])
* [[1911]] - [[Jack Keller]], American hurdler (d. [[1978]])
* [[1918]] - [[James Daly]], American actor (d. [[1978]])
* [[1919]] - [[Manolis Andronikos]], Greek [[Archaeology|archaeologist]] (d. [[1992]])
* [[1920]] - [[Lygia Clark]], Brazilian artist (d. [[1988]])
* [[1920]] - [[Bob Montana]], American [[cartoonist]] (d. [[1975]])
* [[1922]] - [[Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington]], English politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[1922]] - [[Coleen Gray]], American actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[1923]] - [[Bhairon Singh Shekhawat]], [[Vice President]] of [[India]] (d. [[2010]])
* [[1925]] – [[Manos Hadjidakis]], Greek composer (d. [[1994]])
* [[1925]] – [[Johnny Carson]], American television host (d. [[2005]])
* [[1927]] - [[Barron Hilton]], American businessman (d. [[2019]])
* [[1927]] – [[Leszek Kolakowski]], Polish [[philosopher]] (d. [[2009]])
* [[1927]] - [[Dezso Gyarmati]], Hungarian [[water polo]] player (d. [[2013]])
* [[1928]] - [[Zhu Rongji]], Chinese politician
* [[1929]] - [[Shamsur Rahman]], [[Bangladesh]]i [[poet]], columnist and [[journalist]] (d. [[2006]])
* [[1931]] - [[Diana Dors]], British actress (d. [[1984]])
* [[1931]] – [[Jim Bunning]], American [[baseball]] player and politician
* [[1936]] – [[Philip Kaufman]], American director
* [[1938]] – [[H. John Heinz III]], American politician (d. [[1991]])
* [[1940]] – [[Pelé]], [[Brazil]]ian [[footballer]]
* [[1940]] - [[Jane Holzer]], American model, actress, producer and art collector
* [[1941]] - [[Lawrence Foster]], American [[Conductor (music)|conductor]]
* [[1941]] - [[Igor Smirnov]], [[Moldova]]n politician
* [[1942]] - [[Bernd Erdmann]], German [[footballer]]
* [[1942]] – [[Michael Crichton]], American [[writer]] (d. [[2008]])
* [[1942]] – [[Anita Roddick]], British businesswoman (d. [[2007]])
* [[1945]] - [[Maggi Hambling]], British painter and sculptor
* [[1945]] – [[Kim Larsen]], Danish musician and singer (d. [[2018]])
* [[1945]] - [[Michel Vautrot]], French football referee
* [[1947]] - [[Kazimierz Deyna]], Polish [[footballer]] (d. [[1989]])
* [[1947]] – [[Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi]], leader of [[Hamas]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[1948]] - [[Gerry Robinson]], Irish [[business]]man and [[television]] presenter
* [[1949]] – [[Michael Burston]] ([[Wurzel]]), British musician ([[Motorhead]]) (d. [[2011]])

=== 1951 {{ndash}} 1975 ===
* [[1951]] – [[Charly García]], [[Argentina|Argentine]] singer
* [[1951]] – [[Fatmir Sejdiu]], former [[President]] of [[Kosovo]]
* [[1951]] - [[Angel de Andres Lopez]], Spanish actor (d. [[2016]])
* [[1952]] - [[Ken Tipton]], American [[entrepreneur]], [[actor]], [[Movie director|director]], [[writer]] and [[producer]]
* [[1954]] – [[Ang Lee]], [[Taiwan]]ese movie director
* [[1954]] - [[Uli Stein]], German [[footballer]]
* [[1956]] - [[Dianne Reeves]], American [[jazz]] singer
* [[1956]] - [[Dwight Yoakam]], American [[singer-songwriter]], [[guitar]]ist and [[actor]]
* [[1957]] - [[Martin Luther King III]], American [[activist]]
* [[1957]] - [[Paul Kagame]], [[President]] of [[Rwanda]]
* [[1959]] - [[Sam Raimi]], American [[movie director]]
* [[1959]] – [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], American musical parodist
* [[1960]] – [[Randy Pausch]], American computer scientist and writer (d. [[2008]])
* [[1961]] – [[Andoni Zubizarreta]], Spanish footballer
* [[1962]] - [[Stefano Colantuono]], Italian [[footballer]] and [[Coach (sport)|coach]]
* [[1963]] - [[Rashidi Yekini]], [[Nigeria]]n [[footballer]] (d. [[2012]])
* [[1964]] – [[Robert Trujillo]], American musician ([[Metallica]])
* [[1967]] - [[Omar Linares]], Cuban [[baseball]] player
* [[1968]] - Maria Darling, English voice actress
* [[1969]] - [[Trudi Canavan]], Australian writer
* [[1969]] - [[Dolly Buster]], Czech-German pornographic actress
* [[1970]] - [[Matthew Barzun]], American [[diplomat]]
* [[1971]] - [[Bohuslav Sobotka]], Czech politician, [[Prime Minister]] of the [[Czech Republic]]
* [[1973]] – [[Christian Dailly]], Scottish footballer
* [[1975]] - [[Yoon Sun-ha]], South Korean actress and singer

=== From 1976 ===
* [[1976]] - [[Cat Deeley]], British [[television]] personality
* [[1976]] – [[Ryan Reynolds]], Canadian actor
* [[1978]] – [[Jimmy Bullard]], English footballer
* [[1978]] – [[Archie Thompson]], Australian footballer
* [[1978]] - [[Steve Harmison]], English [[cricket]]er
* [[1978]] - [[John Lackey]], American [[baseball]] player
* [[1979]] – [[Simon Davies]], Welsh footballer
* [[1984]] – [[Izabel Goulart]], Brazilian model
* [[1984]] - [[Meghan McCain]], American columnist and author
* [[1985]] - [[Masiela Lusha]], Albanian-born American writer and actress
* [[1985]] - Lachlan Gillespie, Australian musician ([[The Wiggles]])
* [[1985]] - [[Mohammed Abdellaoue]], Norwegian footballer
* [[1986]] - [[Briana Evigan]], American actress
* [[1986]] - [[Jessica Stroup]], American actress
* [[1986]] - [[Emilia Clarke]], English actress
* [[1987]] - [[Faye Hamlin]], Swedish singer
* [[1988]] - [[Jordan Crawford]], American [[basketball]] player
* [[1989]] - [[Andriy Yarmolenko]], Ukrainian [[footballer]]
* [[1990]] – [[Paradise Oskar]], Finnish singer
* [[1991]] – [[Princess Mako of Akishino]] of [[Japan]]
* [[1992]] - [[Alvaro Morata]], Spanish [[footballer]]
* [[1993]] - [[Taylor Spreitler]], American actress
* [[1994]] - [[Georgia Toffolo]], English television personality
* [[1997]] - [[Daphne Blunt]], American actress and singer
* [[1998]] - [[Amandla Stenberg]], American actress

== Deaths ==
=== Up to 1900 ===
* [[42 BC]] – [[Marcus Junius Brutus]] (suicide) (b. [[85 BC]])
* [[877]] - [[Ignatius]], Greek Orthodox [[Patriarch]] of [[Constantinople]] (b. [[797]])
* [[891]] - [[Yazaman al-Khadim]], [[Arab]] [[military]] leader
* [[930]] – [[Emperor Daigo]] of [[Japan]] (b. [[885]])
* [[1157]] - [[Sweyn III of Denmark]] (b. [[1120]])
* [[1456]] - [[Giovanni da Capistrano]], Italian saint (b. [[1381]])
* [[1581]] – [[Michael Neander]], German [[mathematician]] and [[astronomer]] (b. [[1529]])
* [[1616]] - [[Leonhard Hutter]], German [[theologian]] (b. [[1563]])
* [[1774]] - [[Michel Benoist]], French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. [[1715]])
* [[1869]] – [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1799]])
* [[1872]] – [[Théophile Gautier]], French writer (b. [[1811]])
* [[1885]] - [[Charles S. West]], Texan jurist and politician (b. [[1829]])
* [[1893]] - [[Alexander Battenberg]], Prince of [[Bulgaria]] (b. [[1857]])
* [[1896]] - [[Columbus Delano]], American politician (b. [[1809]])

=== 1901 {{ndash}} 2000 ===
* [[1910]] – [[Chulalongkorn]] (Rama V), [[King]] of [[Siam]] (now [[Thailand]]) (b. [[1853]])
* [[1915]] – [[W. G. Grace]], English [[cricket]]er (b. [[1848]])
* [[1921]] – [[John Boyd Dunlop]], Scottish inventor (b. [[1840]])
* [[1930]] - [[Vicente Casanova y Marzol]], [[Archbishop]] of [[Granada]] (b. [[1854]])
* [[1938]] - [[Jean-Guy Gautier]], French [[rugby]]{{Disambiguation needed|date=February 2022}} player (b. [[1875]])
* [[1939]] – [[Zane Grey]], American writer (b. [[1872]])
* [[1940]] - [[George R. Cortelyou]], American politician (b. [[1862]])
* [[1944]] – [[Charles Glover Barkla]], English physicist (b. [[1877]])
* [[1944]] - [[Hana Brady]], Czech [[Holocaust]] victim (b. [[1931]])
* [[1948]] - [[Carl Edward Bailey]], [[Governor]] of [[Arkansas]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[1950]] – [[Al Jolson]], American singer and actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[1957]] – [[Christian Dior]], French fashion designer (b. [[1905]])
* [[1959]] - [[Gerda Lundequist]], Swedish [[actress]] (b. [[1871]])
* [[1979]] - [[Antonio Caggiano]], Argentine [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] (b. [[1889]])
* [[1983]] – [[Jessica Savitch]], journalist (b. [[1947]])
* [[1984]] - [[Oskar Werner]], Austrian actor (b. [[1922]])
* [[1986]] – [[Edward Adelbert Doisy]], [[Americans|American]] [[biochemist]], won the 1843 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[1988]] - [[Asashio Taro III]], Japanese [[sumo]] wrestler (b. [[1929]])
* [[1989]] - [[Armida]], Mexican-American [[actress]], [[singer]] and [[dance]]r (b. [[1911]])
* [[1990]] – [[Louis Althusser]], French Marxist philosopher (b. [[1918]])
* [[1994]] - [[Robert Lansing]], American actor (b. [[1928]])
* [[1997]] - [[Bert Haanstra]], Dutch [[Movie director|director]], [[producer]] and [[screenwriter]] (b. [[1916]])
* [[2000]] - [[Rodney Adnoa'i]], [[Samoa]]n-American [[professional wrestler]] (b. [[1966]])

=== From 2001 ===
* [[2003]] – [[Tony Capstick]], British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster (b. [[1944]])
* [[2003]] – [[Soong May-ling]], widow of [[Chiang Kai-shek]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[2004]] - [[George Silk]], New Zealand-American [[photograph]]er (b. [[1916]])
* [[2005]] - [[John Muth]], American [[economist]] (b. [[1930]])
* [[2009]] – [[Lou Jacobi]], Canadian actor (b. [[1913]])
* [[2010]] – [[David Thompson (Barbadian politician)|David Thompson]], [[Prime Minister of Barbados]] (b. [[1961]])
* [[2011]] - [[Nusrat Bhutto]], former First Lady of [[Pakistan]] (b. [[1929]])
* [[2011]] – [[Marco Simoncelli]], Italian [[motorcycle]] racer (b. [[1987]])
* [[2011]] – [[Herbert A. Hauptman]], American [[mathematician]] and [[Nobel Prize]]-winning [[chemist]] (b. [[1917]])
* [[2011]] – [[John McCarthy]], American computer scientist (b. [[1927]])
* [[2011]] - [[Bronislovas Lubys]], former [[Prime Minister]] of [[Lithuania]] (b. [[1938]])
* [[2012]] - [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]], Indian [[novel]]ist and [[poet]] (b. [[1934]])
* [[2012]] - [[Wilhelm Brasse]], Polish photographer (b. [[1917]])
* [[2013]] - [[Bill Mazer]], American TV and radio presenter (b. [[1920]])
* [[2013]] - [[Anthony Caro]], British [[sculptor]] (b. [[1924]])
* [[2014]] - [[Alvin Stardust]], British singer (b. [[1942]])
* [[2014]] - [[Ghulam Azam]], Bangladeshi politician (b. [[1922]])
* [[2014]] - [[John Bramlett]], American football player (b. [[1941]])
* [[2014]] - [[Bernard Mayes]], British author and broadcaster (b. [[1929]])
* [[2014]] - [[André Piters]], Belgian [[footballer]] (b. [[1931]])
* [[2014]] - [[Tullio Regge]], Italian [[physicist]] (b. [[1931]])
* [[2015]] - [[Krunoslav Hulak]], Croatian [[chess]] player (b. [[1951]])
* [[2015]] - [[Leon Bibb]], American folk singer (b. [[1922]])
* [[2015]] - [[Paride Tumburus]], Italian [[footballer]] (b. [[1939]])
* [[2015]] - [[Jimmy Roberts]], Canadian [[ice hockey]] player (b. [[1946]])
* [[2016]] - [[Jimmy Perry]], English [[actor]] and [[screenwriter]] (b. [[1923]])
* [[2016]] - [[Pete Burns]], English [[singer-songwriter]] (b. [[1959]])
* [[2016]] - [[Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani]], former [[Emir]] of [[Qatar]] (b. [[1932]])
* [[2017]] - [[Walter Lassally]], German-born British-Greek [[cinema]]tographer (b. [[1926]])
* [[2017]] - [[Paul J. Weitz]], American pilot and astronaut (b. [[1932]])
* [[2018]] - [[Skip Campbell]], American politician (b. [[1948]])
* [[2018]] - [[James Karen]], American actor (b. [[1923]])
* [[2018]] - [[Alojz Rebula]], Italian-Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist (b. [[1924]])
* [[2018]] - [[Laurens van Ravens]], [[Belgium|Belgian]] football referee (b. [[1922]])
* [[2019]] - [[Santos Juliá]], Spanish historian and sociologist (b. [[1940]])
* [[2019]] - [[James W. Montgomery]], American [[Episcopal Church|Episcopalian]] prelate (b. [[1921]])
* [[2019]] - [[Alfred Znamierowski]], Polish [[Vexillology|vexillologist]] (b. [[1940]])

== Observances ==
* [[Mole]] Day ([[Chemist]]s)
* Chulalongkorn Day ([[Thailand]])
* National Day of [[Hungary]]
* Day of the [[North Macedonia|Macedonian]] [[Revolution]]ary Struggle

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