Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
October 16
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
{{pp-move}} {{pp-pc}} {{calendar}} {{This date in recent years}} {{Day}} ==Events== ===Pre-1600=== * [[456]] – [[Ricimer]] defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.<ref>[[John of Antioch (chronicler)|John of Antioch]], fragment 202; translated by C.D. Gordon, ''Age of Attila'', p. 116</ref> * [[690]] – Empress [[Wu Zetian]] ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire. * [[912]] – [[Abd ar-Rahman III]] becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba.<ref name="EB">{{cite encyclopedia|year=2010|title='Abd ar-Rahman III|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|location=Chicago, IL|edition=15th|volume=I: A–Ak – Bayes|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency/page/17 17–18]|isbn=978-1-59339-837-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency/page/17}}</ref> * [[955]] – King Otto I [[Battle on the Raxa|defeats]] a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. *[[1311]] – The [[Council of Vienne]] convenes for the first time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15423a.htm|title=Catholic Encyclopedia : Council of Vienne (1311–12)|website=www.newadvent.org|access-date=2018-10-16}}</ref> *[[1384]] – [[Jadwiga of Poland|Jadwiga]] is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Frost |first=Robert I. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880557774 |title=The Oxford history of Poland-Lithuania |date=2015 |isbn=978-0-19-820869-3 |edition=1st |location=Oxford, UK |oclc=880557774}}</ref> *[[1590]] – Prince [[Carlo Gesualdo|Gesualdo]] of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ober |first=W. B. |date=1973 |title=Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa: murder, madrigals, and masochism. |journal=Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine |volume=49 |issue=7 |pages=634–645 |issn=0028-7091 |pmc=1807043 |pmid=4575970}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1736]] – Mathematician [[William Whiston]]'s predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201511/physicshistory.cfm|title=This Month in Physics History|language=en|access-date=2018-10-16}}</ref> *[[1780]] – American Revolutionary War: The British-led [[Royalton raid]] is the last Native American raid on New England. * 1780 – The [[Great Hurricane of 1780]] finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdeadlyapp1.shtml?|title=The Deadliest Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, 1492–1996|website=www.nhc.noaa.gov|access-date=2018-10-16}}</ref> *[[1793]] – French Revolution: Queen [[Marie Antoinette]] is executed. * 1793 – War of the First Coalition: French victory at the [[Battle of Wattignies]] forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge. *[[1805]] – War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon [[Battle of Ulm|surrounds]] the Austrian army at Ulm.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Ulm|title=Battle of Ulm {{!}} German history|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en}}</ref> *[[1813]] – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the four-day [[Battle of Leipzig]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=1813 and the lead up to the Battle of Leipzig |url=https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/timelines/1813-and-the-lead-up-to-the-battle-of-leipzig/ |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=napoleon.org |language=en-US}}</ref> *[[1817]] – Italian explorer and archaeologist [[Giovanni Belzoni]], uncovered the [[Tomb of Seti I]] in the [[Valley of the Kings]].<ref>{{cite web|title=KV17 (Tomb of Seti I)|url=https://madainproject.com/kv17_(tomb_of_seti_i)|publisher=Madain Project – Abrahamic History and Archaeology|access-date=10 October 2023|language=en}}</ref> *[[1817]] – Simón Bolívar sentences [[Manuel Piar]] to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blackpast.org/gah/piar-manuel-carlos-1782-1817|title=Piar, Manuel Carlos (1782–1817) {{!}} The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed|website=blackpast.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-16|date=2009-08-18}}</ref> *[[1834]] – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London [[Burning of Parliament|burns to the ground]]. *[[1836]] – Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers [[Battle of Vegkop|repulse]] a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock. *[[1841]] – [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] is founded in the Province of Canada. *[[1843]] – [[William Rowan Hamilton]] invents [[quaternion]]s, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers. *[[1846]] – [[William T. G. Morton]] administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation. *[[1859]] – [[Origins of the American Civil War]]: [[Abolitionism in the United States|Abolitionist]] [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]] and his supporters [[John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry|launch a raid]] on [[Harpers Ferry, Virginia]] (now West Virginia).<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Faust |first1=Drew Gilpin |title=The Men Who Started the War |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/12/harpers-ferry-raid-john-brown-abolition/675814/ |access-date=1 January 2024 |magazine=The Atlantic |date=13 November 2023 |pages=83–89 |language=en |volume=332 |issue=5 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> *[[1869]] – The [[Cardiff Giant]], one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". * 1869 – [[Girton College, Cambridge]] is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women. *[[1875]] – [[Brigham Young University]] is founded in Provo, Utah. *[[1882]] – The [[New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad|Nickel Plate Railroad]] opens for business. *[[1891]] – A [[Baltimore crisis|diplomatic incident]] between the [[United States]] and [[Chile]] occurred after U.S. sailors were attacked in [[Valparaíso]], nearly leading to war.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Today in Naval History : October 16 |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-history/october-16.html |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=Naval History and Heritage Command |language=en-US}}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1905]] – The [[Partition of Bengal (1905)|Partition of Bengal]] in India takes place. *[[1909]] – [[William Howard Taft]] and [[Porfirio Díaz]] hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Carletta|first1=David M.|last2=Harris|first2=Charles H.|date=2010|title=Review of The Secret War in EI Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906–1920, Charles H. Harris III|journal=International Social Science Review|volume=85|issue=3/4|pages=153–155|jstor=41887460}}</ref> *[[1916]] – [[Margaret Sanger]] opens the first family planning clinic in the United States. *[[1919]] – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the [[German Workers' Party]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Barnes |first1=James J.|last2=Barnes |first2=Patience P.|last3=Carey |first3=Arthur E.|date=1986|title=An English Translation of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Printed in Germany, ca. 1940|journal=The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America|volume=80|issue=3|pages=374–377|jstor=24303851|doi=10.1086/pbsa.80.3.24303851|s2cid=192972565}}</ref> *[[1923]] – [[Walt Disney]] and his brother, [[Roy O. Disney|Roy]], found the ''Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio'', today known as [[The Walt Disney Company]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Disney History|publisher=[[The Walt Disney Company]]|url=https://d23.com/disney-history/|language=en}}</ref> *[[1934]] – Chinese Communists begin the [[Long March]] to escape Nationalist encirclement. *[[1939]] – [[World War II]]: [[No. 603 Squadron RAF]] intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain. *[[1940]] – Holocaust in Poland: The [[Warsaw Ghetto]] is established. *[[1943]] – Holocaust in Italy: [[Raid on the Roman Ghetto]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Plato |first1=Alexander von |last2=Leh |first2=Almut |last3=Thonfeld |first3=Christoph |title=Hitler's Slaves: Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe |date= 2010 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-84545-990-1 |page=312 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUjRhscAaToC&pg=PA312 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1946]] – [[Nuremberg trials]]: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal [[Nuremberg executions|are executed by hanging]]. *[[1947]] – The Philippines takes over the administration of the [[Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi|Turtle Islands]] and the [[Mangsee Islands]] from the United Kingdom. *[[1949]] – The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the [[Greek Civil War]]. *[[1951]] – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, [[Liaquat Ali Khan]], is assassinated in Rawalpindi. *[[1953]] – [[Cuba]]n revolutionary [[Fidel Castro]] delivers his "[[History Will Absolve Me]]" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the [[Fulgencio Batista]] government for leading an [[attack on the Moncada Barracks]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Volker|last=Skierka|title=Fidel Castro: A Biography|publisher=Polity Press|year=2004|page=36|isbn=0-7456-3006-5}}</ref> *[[1962]] – [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point). *[[1964]] – China detonates its [[Project 596|first nuclear weapon]]. * 1964 – [[Leonid Brezhnev]] becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while [[Alexei Kosygin]] becomes the head of government. *[[1968]] – Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the [[1968 Olympics Black Power salute|Olympics Black Power salute]]. * 1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the [[Rodney riots]], inspired by the barring of [[Walter Rodney]] from the country. * 1968 – [[Yasunari Kawabata]] becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. *[[1970]] – Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the [[War Measures Act]] during the [[October Crisis]]. *[[1973]] – [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[Lê Đức Thọ]] are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. *[[1975]] – Indonesian troops kill the [[Balibo Five]], a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor. * 1975 – Three-year-old [[Rahima Banu]], from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox. * 1975 – The Australian Coalition sparks a [[1975 Australian constitutional crisis|constitutional crisis]] when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget. *[[1978]] – Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is [[October 1978 papal conclave|elected]] to the papacy as [[Pope John Paul II]], he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. *[[1984]] – [[Desmond Tutu]] is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. *[[1991]] – George Hennard [[Luby's shooting|runs amok]] in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20. *[[1995]] – The [[Million Man March]] takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing/research/completed/million-man-march/ | title=Million Man March » Center for Remote Sensing » Boston University | access-date=2017-10-16 | archive-date=2017-10-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012211519/http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing/research/completed/million-man-march/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1995 – The [[Skye Bridge]] in Scotland is opened. *[[1996]] – Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive [[Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores disaster|crush]] at [[Estadio Mateo Flores#The October 16 disaster|a match]] in Guatemala City. *[[1998]] – Former Chilean dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]] is [[Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet|arrested]] in London on a murder extradition warrant. *[[1999]] – The magnitude 7.1 [[1999 Hector Mine earthquake|Hector Mine earthquake]] strikes Southern California<ref>{{Cite web |title=M 7.1 – The 1999 Hector Mine, California Earthquake |url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci9108652/origin/detail |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=earthquake.usgs.gov}}</ref> *[[2002]] – The [[Bibliotheca Alexandrina]] opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria. *[[2013]] – [[Lao Airlines Flight 301]] crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people. *[[2017]] – [[Hurricane Ophelia (2017)|Storm Ophelia]] strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss. *[[2024]] – [[Yahya Sinwar]], leader of [[Hamas]], is killed in a firefight during the [[Gaza war]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bergman |first=Ronen |date=2024-10-17 |title=Surprise Battlefield Encounter Led to Hamas Leader's Death |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/world/middleeast/hamas-sinwar-gaza-israel.html |access-date=2024-10-24 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> ==Births== ===Pre-1600=== *[[1351]] – [[Gian Galeazzo Visconti]], first Duke of Milan (d. 1402) *[[1396]] – [[William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk]], English admiral (d. 1450) *[[1430]] – [[James II of Scotland]] (d. 1460) *[[1483]] – [[Gasparo Contarini]], Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1542) *[[1535]] – [[Niwa Nagahide]], Japanese samurai (d. 1585) *[[1588]] – [[Luke Wadding]], Irish Franciscan friar and historian (d. 1657) ===1601–1900=== *[[1605]] – [[Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy]], French writer and composer (d. 1677) *[[1620]] – [[Pierre Paul Puget]], French painter and sculptor (d. 1694) *[[1678]] – [[Anna Waser]], Swiss painter (d. 1714) *[[1679]] – [[Jan Dismas Zelenka]], Czech [[viol]] player and composer (d. 1745) *[[1710]] – [[András Hadik]], Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1790) *[[1714]] – [[Giovanni Arduino (geologist)|Giovanni Arduino]], Italian geologist and academic (d. 1795) *[[1726]] – [[Daniel Chodowiecki]], Polish-German painter and educator (d. 1801) *[[1729]] – [[Pierre van Maldere]], Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768) *[[1752]] – [[Johann Gottfried Eichhorn]], German theologian and academic (d. 1827) *[[1754]] – [[Morgan Lewis (governor)|Morgan Lewis]], American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd [[Governor of New York]] (d. 1844) *[[1758]] – [[Noah Webster]], American lexicographer (d. 1843) *[[1762]] – [[Paul Hamilton (politician)|Paul Hamilton]], American soldier and politician, 3rd [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] (d. 1816) *[[1789]] – [[William Burton (governor)|William Burton]], American physician and politician, 39th [[Governor of Delaware]] (d. 1866) *[[1795]] – [[William Buell Sprague]], American minister, historian, and author (d. 1876) *[[1802]] – [[Isaac Murphy]], American educator and politician, 8th [[Governor of Arkansas]] (d. 1882) *[[1803]] – [[Robert Stephenson]], English railway and civil engineer (d. 1859) *[[1804]] – [[Benjamin Russell (artist)|Benjamin Russell]], American painter and educator (d. 1885) *[[1806]] – [[William P. Fessenden]], American lawyer and politician, 26th [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] (d. 1869) *[[1815]] – [[Francis Lubbock]], American colonel and politician, 9th [[Governor of Texas]] (d. 1905) *[[1818]] – [[William Forster (Australian politician)|William Forster]], Indian-Australian politician, 4th [[Premier of New South Wales]] (d. 1882) *[[1819]] – [[Austin F. Pike]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1886) *[[1827]] – [[Arnold Böcklin]], Swiss painter (d. 1901)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/more-on-this-day/October-16 | title=More on this Day - October, 16 | Britannica }}</ref> *[[1831]] – [[Lucy Stanton (abolitionist)|Lucy Stanton]], American activist (d. 1910)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Jessie Carney|last1=Smith|first2=Shirelle|last2=Phelp|title=Notable Black American Women Book 2|location=New York|publisher=Gale Research|year=1996|page=589|isbn=978-0-81034-749-6}}</ref> *[[1832]] – [[Vicente Riva Palacio]], Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (d. 1896) *[[1840]] – [[Kuroda Kiyotaka]], Japanese general and politician, 2nd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. 1900) *[[1841]] – [[Itō Hirobumi]], Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. 1909) *[[1847]] – [[Maria Pia of Savoy]] (d. 1911) *[[1852]] – [[Carl von In der Maur]], Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913) *[[1854]] – [[Karl Kautsky]], Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938) * 1854 – [[Oscar Wilde]], Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (d. 1900)<ref>{{cite web |title=Oscar Wilde |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde |website=www.bl.uk |access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref> *[[1855]] – [[Samad bey Mehmandarov]], Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd [[Ministry of Defense (Azerbaijan)|Azerbaijani Minister of Defense]] (d. 1931) *[[1861]] – [[J. B. Bury]], Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927) * 1861 – [[Richard Sears (tennis)|Richard Sears]], American tennis player (d. 1943) *[[1863]] – [[Austen Chamberlain]], English businessman and politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1937) *[[1867]] – [[Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa]] (d. 1963) *[[1869]] – [[Claude H. Van Tyne]], American historian and author (d. 1930) *[[1872]] – [[Walter Buckmaster]], English polo player and businessman, co-founded [[Buckmaster & Moore]] (d. 1942) *[[1876]] – [[Jimmy Sinclair]], South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913) *[[1881]] – [[William R. Orthwein|William Orthwein]], American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1955) *[[1884]] – [[Rembrandt Bugatti]], Italian sculptor (d. 1916) *[[1886]] – [[David Ben-Gurion]], Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (d. 1973) *[[1888]] – [[Eugene O'Neill]], American playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1953) * 1888 – [[Paul Popenoe]], American founder of [[relationship counseling]] (d. 1979) *[[1890]] – [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], Irish general and politician, 2nd [[Minister for Finance (Ireland)|Irish Minister for Finance]] (d. 1922) * 1890 – [[Maria Goretti]], Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902) * 1890 – [[Paul Strand]], American photographer and director (d. 1975) *[[1897]] – [[Louis de Cazenave]], French soldier (d. 2008) *[[1898]] – [[William O. Douglas]], American lawyer and jurist (d. 1980) *[[1900]] – [[Edward Ardizzone]], Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979) * 1900 – [[Primo Conti]], Italian painter and poet (d. 1988) * 1900 – [[Goose Goslin]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1971) ===1901–present=== *[[1903]] – [[Cecile de Brunhoff]], French author and pianist (d. 2003) * 1903 – [[Big Joe Williams]], American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982) *[[1904]] – [[Björn Berglund]], Swedish actor (d. 1968) *[[1905]] – [[Ernst Kuzorra]], German footballer and manager (d. 1990) *[[1906]] – [[León Klimovsky]], Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996) *[[1907]] – [[Richard Titmuss]], English sociologist and academic (d. 1973) *[[1908]] – [[Olivia Coolidge]], English-American author and educator (d. 2006)<ref>{{cite book | first1=Bernice E. | last1=Cullinan | first2=Diane Goetz | last2=Person | title=The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature | location=London | publisher=Continuum | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-8264-1778-7 | page=193}}</ref> * 1908 – [[Enver Hoxha]], Albanian general and politician, [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (d. 1985) *[[1911]] – [[Otto von Bülow]], German commander (d. 2006) *[[1912]] – [[Clifford Hansen]], American rancher and politician, 26th [[Governor of Wyoming]] (d. 2009) *[[1918]] – [[Louis Althusser]], Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1990) * 1918 – [[Abraham Nemeth]], American mathematician and academic (d. 2013) * 1918 – [[Tony Rolt]], English race car driver and engineer (d. 2008) *[[1919]] – [[Kathleen Winsor]], American journalist and author (d. 2003)<ref>{{cite book | first1=James | last1=Vinson | first2=Daniel Lane | last2=Kirkpatrick | title=Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers | location=London | publisher=Macmillan | year=1982 | isbn=978-0-3333-2138-6 | page=706}}</ref> *[[1920]] – [[Paddy Finucane]], Irish fighter pilot and flying ace (d. 1942) *[[1921]] – [[Matt Batts]], American baseball player and coach (d. 2013) * 1921 – [[Sita Ram Goel]], Indian historian, publisher and writer (d. 2003) * 1921 – [[MacKenzie Miller]], American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010) *[[1922]] – [[Max Bygraves]], English-Australian actor and singer (d. 2012) * 1922 – [[Leon Sullivan]], American minister and activist (d. 2001) *[[1923]] – [[Linda Darnell]], American actress (d. 1965) * 1923 – [[Bert Kaempfert]], German conductor and composer (d. 1980) * 1923 – [[Bill McLaren]], Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010) *[[1924]] – [[Gerard Parkes]], Irish-Canadian actor (d. 2014) *[[1925]] – [[Daniel J. Evans]], American politician, 16th [[Governor of Washington]] (d. 2024)<ref name=cong-bio>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000236 Congressional Biography], accessed online August 13, 2007.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-21 |title=Dan Evans, former Republican governor of Washington and US senator, dies at 98 |url=https://apnews.com/article/dan-evans-dead-washington-governor-obituary-095b013c7e23413583496e998be9631c |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> * 1925 – [[Angela Lansbury]], English-American actress, singer, and producer (d. 2022)<ref>{{cite book | first=Colin | last=Larkin | title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Stage and Film Musicals | location=London | publisher=Virgin with Muse | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-7535-0375-1 | page=[https://archive.org/details/virginencycloped0081unse/page/358 358] | url=https://archive.org/details/virginencycloped0081unse/page/358 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/arts/angela-lansbury-dead.html|title=Angela Lansbury, Star of Film, Stage and 'Murder, She Wrote,' Dies at 96|last=Lewis|first=Daniel|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 11, 2022|access-date=October 11, 2022}}</ref> *[[1926]] – [[Charles Dolan]], American businessman, founded [[Cablevision]] and [[HBO]] (d. 2024)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=December 29, 2024 |title=Charles Dolan, Cablevision and HBO Founder, Dies at 98 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/business/charles-dolan-dead.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241229175334/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/business/charles-dolan-dead.html |archive-date=December 29, 2024 |access-date=December 30, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref> * 1926 – [[Ed Valigursky]], American illustrator (d. 2009)<ref>{{cite web|title=Valigursky, Ed|website=Encyclopedia of Science Fiction|date=September 12, 2022|accessdate=January 27, 2024|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/valigursky_ed}}</ref> *[[1927]] – [[Günter Grass]], German novelist, poet, playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2015) * 1927 – [[Rosa Rosal]], Filipino actress *[[1928]] – [[Mary Daly]], American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)<ref>{{cite book | first=Anne-Marie | last=Korte| chapter=Mary Daly | editor-first1=Graham | editor-last1=Oppy | editor-first2=Nick N. | editor-last2=Trakakis | title=Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion | location=London | publisher=Routledge | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-3157-2959-6 | page=245}}</ref> * 1928 – [[Ann Morgan Guilbert]], American actress (d. 2016) *[[1929]] – [[Fernanda Montenegro]], Brazilian actress *[[1930]] – [[John Polkinghorne]], English physicist, theologian and priest (d. 2021) * 1930 – [[Carmen Sevilla]], Spanish actress (d. 2023) *[[1931]] – [[Charles Colson]], American lawyer and politician (d. 2012) * 1931 – [[Valery Klimov (violinist)|Valery Klimov]], Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 2022) * 1931 – [[P. W. Underwood]], American football player and coach (d. 2013) *[[1932]] – [[John Grant (British politician)|John Grant]], English journalist and politician (d. 2000) * 1932 – [[Henry Lewis (musician)|Henry Lewis]], American bassist and conductor (d. 1996) * 1932 – [[Lucien Paiement]], Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013) *[[1933]] – [[Nobuyo Ōyama]], Japanese voice actress (d. 2024)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/11/asia/nobuyo-oyama-doraemon-actor-dies-intl-hnk/index.html|title=Nobuyo Oyama, voice of beloved 'Doraemon,' dies aged 90|publisher=CNN|first1=Jessie|last1=Yeung|access-date=17 October 2024 |date=11 October 2024|last2=Asada|first2=Yumi}}</ref> *[[1934]] – [[Peter Ashdown]], English race car driver *[[1936]] – [[Peter Bowles]], English actor and screenwriter (d. 2022) * 1936 – [[Andrei Chikatilo]], Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (d. 1994) * 1936 – [[Mladen Koščak]], Croatian footballer (d. 1997) * 1936 – [[Akira Machida]], Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th [[List of Chief Justices of Japan|Chief Justice of Japan]] (d. 2015) *[[1937]] – [[Emile Ford]], Saint Lucia-born British singer and first [[Black British]] musician to sell over one million copies of a single (d. 2016)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/02/emile-ford-obituary | title=Emile Ford obituary | newspaper=The Guardian | date=2 May 2016 | last1=Laing | first1=Dave }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.soundrevelation.co.uk/emile.htm | title=Sound Revelation Services - Mastering, Music Downloads and More! }}</ref> *[[1938]] – [[Carl Gunter, Jr.]], American politician (d. 1999) * 1938 – [[Nico]], German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988) *[[1940]] – [[Barry Corbin]], American actor and producer<ref name="AP" /> * 1940 – [[Dave DeBusschere]], American basketball player and coach (d. 2003) * 1940 – [[Ivan Della Mea]], Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2009) *[[1941]] – [[Mel Counts]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Mel Counts |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/76458/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=15 October 2023}}</ref> * 1941 – [[Tim McCarver]], American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2023) * 1941 – [[Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne]], English computer programmer and politician *[[1943]] – [[Fred Turner (musician)|Fred Turner]], Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player<ref name="AP" /> *[[1944]] – [[Kaizer Motaung]], South African footballer and manager * 1944 – [[Elizabeth Loftus]], American psychologist<ref name="Zagorski">{{Cite journal| last1 = Zagorski | first1 = N.| title = Profile of Elizabeth F. Loftus| doi = 10.1073/pnas.0506223102| journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences| volume = 102| issue = 39| pages = 13721–13723| year = 2005| pmid = 16172386| pmc =1236565| bibcode = 2005PNAS..10213721Z| doi-access = free}}</ref> *[[1945]] – [[Stefan Buczacki]], English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host * 1945 – [[Roger Hawkins (drummer)|Roger Hawkins]], American session drummer (d. 2021) * 1945 – [[Paul Monette]], American author and poet (d. 1995) *[[1946]] – [[Geoff Barnett (footballer)|Geoff Barnett]], English footballer (d. 2021) * 1946 – [[Suzanne Somers]], American actress and producer (d. 2023)<ref name="AP">{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for October 16, 2022 includes celebrities Flea, Tim Robbins |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/10/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-october-16-2022-includes-celebrities-flea-tim-robbins.html |website=[[The Plain Dealer]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=15 October 2023 |date=16 October 2022}}</ref> *[[1947]] – [[Nicholas Day (actor)|Nicholas Day]], English actor * 1947 – [[Terry Griffiths]], Welsh snooker player and coach (d. 2024)<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 2, 2024 |title=Terry Griffiths: Former world snooker champion dies after lengthy battle with dementia |url=https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/snooker/news/12040/13265097/terry-griffiths-former-world-snooker-champion-dies-after-lengthy-battle-with-dementia |access-date=December 2, 2024 |work=[[Sky Sports]]}}</ref> * 1947 – [[Bob Weir]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref name="AP" /> * 1947 – [[David Zucker (filmmaker)|David Zucker]], American director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="AP" /> *[[1948]] – [[Alison Chitty]], English production designer and costume designer * 1948 – [[Bruce Fleisher]], American golfer (d. 2021) * 1948 – [[Hema Malini]], Indian actress, director, producer, and politician * 1948 – [[Leo Mazzone]], American baseball player and coach *[[1950]] – [[Angry Grandpa]], American internet personality (d. 2017) * 1950 – [[Károly Horváth]], Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (d. 2015) *[[1952]] – [[Christopher Cox]], American lawyer and politician * 1952 – [[Cordell Mosson]], American bass player (d. 2013) * 1952 – [[Crazy Mohan]], Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2019) * 1952 – [[Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton]], English politician *[[1953]] – [[Tony Carey]], American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer * 1953 – [[Paulo Roberto Falcão]], Brazilian footballer and manager * 1953 – [[K. S. Kugathasan]], Sri Lankan politician<ref>{{cite web |title=Directory of Members: K. S. Kugathasan |url=https://www.parliament.lk/en/members-of-parliament/directory-of-members/viewMember/3458 |publisher=[[Parliament of Sri Lanka]] |access-date=21 August 2024 |location=Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka}}</ref> * 1953 – [[Brinsley Forde]], British singer and actor <ref>{{cite web | url=https://lukesmithmusic.net/artists/brinsley-forde/ | title=Brinsley Forde }}</ref> *[[1954]] – [[Lorenzo Carcaterra]], American author and blogger * 1954 – [[Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean]], Scottish politician, [[Secretary of State for Scotland]] * 1954 – [[Serafino Ghizzoni]], Italian rugby player * 1954 – [[Corinna Harfouch]], German actress *[[1955]] – [[Kieran Doherty (hunger striker)|Kieran Doherty]], [[Irish Republican]] hunger striker and politician (d. 1981)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bobbysandstrust.com/hungerstrikers/kieran%20doherty/ |title=Kieran Doherty,Died August 2nd, 1981 |website=www.bobbysandstrust.com}}</ref> * 1955 – [[Ellen Dolan]], American actress *[[1956]] – [[Marin Alsop]], American violinist and conductor * 1956 – [[John Chavis (American football)|John Chavis]], American football player and coach * 1956 – [[Meg Rosoff]], American-English author * 1956 – [[Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah]], Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (d. 1992) *[[1957]] – [[Priidu Beier]], Estonian poet and educator *[[1958]] – [[Roy McDonough]], English footballer and manager * 1958 – [[Tim Robbins]], American actor, director, and screenwriter<ref name="AP" /> *[[1959]] – [[Kevin Brennan (politician)|Kevin Brennan]], Welsh journalist and politician * 1959 – [[Brian Harper]], American baseball player * 1959 – [[Gary Kemp]], English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor<ref name="AP" /> * 1959 – [[Philip Maini]], Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford * 1959 – [[Tessa Munt]], English lawyer and politician * 1959 – [[Jamie Salmon]], English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster * 1959 – [[Erkki-Sven Tüür]], Estonian flute player and composer * 1959 – [[John Whittingdale]], English politician *[[1960]] – [[Guy LeBlanc (keyboardist)|Guy LeBlanc]], Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2015) * 1960 – [[Bob Mould]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer<ref name="AP" /> *[[1961]] – [[Chris Doleman]], American football player (d. 2020)<ref>{{cite web |title=Chris Doleman |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/chris-doleman/ |publisher=[[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] |access-date=15 October 2023}}</ref> * 1961 – [[Marc Levy]], French author * 1961 – [[Scott O'Hara]], American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998) * 1961 – [[Randy Vasquez]], American actor, director, and producer<ref name="AP" /> *[[1962]] – [[Manute Bol]], Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (d. 2010) * 1962 – [[Flea (musician)|Flea]], Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor<ref name="AP" /> * 1962 – [[Dmitri Hvorostovsky]], Russian opera singer (d. 2017)<ref>{{cite web |title=Dmitri Hvorostovsky obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/22/dmitri-hvorostovsky-obituary |website=the Guardian |access-date=19 April 2022 |language=en |date=22 November 2017}}</ref> * 1962 – [[Nico Lazaridis]], German footballer * 1962 – [[Tamara McKinney]], American skier *[[1963]] – [[Brendan Kibble]], Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1963 – [[Timothy Leighton]], English physicist and academic *[[1964]] – [[Shawn Little]], Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2012) * 1964 – [[James Thompson (author)|James Thompson]], American-Finnish author (d. 2014) *[[1965]] – [[Kang Kyung-ok]], South Korean illustrator * 1965 – [[German Titov (ice hockey)|German Titov]], Russian ice hockey player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=German Titov |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/german-titov-8459672 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=15 October 2023}}</ref> * 1965 – [[Tom Tolbert]], American basketball player and sportscaster *[[1966]] – [[Olof Lundh]], Swedish journalist * 1966 – [[Mary Elizabeth McGlynn]], American voice actress, singer, and director *[[1967]] – [[Michael Laffy]], Australian footballer * 1967 – [[Davina McCall]], English television host and actress *[[1968]] – [[Randall Batinkoff]], American actor and producer * 1968 – [[Mark Lee (Singaporean actor)|Mark Lee]], Singaporean actor and singer * 1968 – [[Francesco Libetta]], Italian pianist, composer, and conductor * 1968 – [[Todd Stashwick]], American actor and writer * 1968 – [[Elsa Zylberstein]], French actress *[[1969]] – [[Roy Hargrove]], American trumpet player and composer (d. 2018) * 1969 – [[Takao Omori]], Japanese wrestler * 1969 – [[Terri J. Vaughn]], American actress and producer<ref name="AP" /> * 1969 – [[Wendy Wilson]], American singer-songwriter<ref name="AP" /> *[[1970]] – [[Kazuyuki Fujita]], Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist * 1970 – [[Mehmet Scholl]], German footballer and manager *[[1971]] – [[Frank Cuesta]], Spanish television presenter * 1971 – [[Chad Gray]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref name="AP" /> * 1971 – [[Paul Sparks]], American actor<ref name="AP" /> *[[1972]] – [[Adrianne Frost]], American comedian, actress, and author * 1972 – [[Darius Kasparaitis]], Lithuanian-American ice hockey player and coach * 1972 – [[Kordell Stewart]], American football player and radio host *[[1973]] – [[Justin Credible]], American wrestler * 1973 – [[David Unsworth]], English footballer and manager *[[1974]] – [[Aurela Gaçe]], Albanian singer * 1974 – [[Paul Kariya]], Canadian ice hockey player *[[1975]] – [[Ernesto Noel Aquino]], Honduran footballer * 1975 – [[Brynjar Gunnarsson]], Icelandic footballer * 1975 – [[Jacques Kallis]], South African cricketer * 1975 – [[Kellie Martin]], American actress, director, and producer<ref name="AP" /> *[[1977]] – [[John Mayer]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer<ref name="AP" /> * 1977 – [[Björn Yttling]], Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, producer and member of [[Peter, Bjorn and John]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://genius.com/artists/Bjorn-yttling | title=Björn Yttling }}</ref> *[[1980]] – [[Sue Bird]], Israeli-American basketball player<ref name="UPI">{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Oct. 16: Flea, Naomi Osaka |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2022/10/16/Famous-birthdays-for-Oct-16-Flea-Naomi-Osaka/3521665844109/ |publisher=[[UPI]] |access-date=15 October 2023 |date=16 October 2022}}</ref> * 1980 – [[Jeremy Jackson]], American actor and singer<ref name="AP" /> * 1980 – [[Caterina Scorsone]], Canadian-American actress<ref name="AP" /> * 1980 – [[Timana Tahu]], Australian rugby league player *[[1981]] – [[Brea Grant]], American actress and writer<ref>{{Cite tweet |last=Grant |first=Brea |user=breagrant |number=1184467472713474048 |date=16 October 2019 |title=It's my birthday... |access-date=16 October 2019 |link=https://twitter.com/breagrant/status/1184467472713474048 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016135729/https://twitter.com/breagrant/status/1184467472713474048 |archive-date=16 October 2019}}</ref> * 1981 – [[Martin Halle]], Danish footballer * 1981 – [[Boyd Melson]], American boxer * 1981 – [[Anthony Reyes]], American baseball player *[[1982]] – [[Alan Anderson (basketball)|Alan Anderson]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Alan Anderson |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/101187/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=15 October 2023}}</ref> * 1982 – [[Frédéric Michalak]], French rugby player * 1982 – [[Cristian Riveros]], Paraguayan footballer * 1982 – [[Prithviraj Sukumaran]], Indian actor, singer, and producer *[[1983]] – [[Philipp Kohlschreiber]], German tennis player * 1983 – [[Loreen]], Swedish singer<ref>{{cite web |title=Who is Loreen? Meet Sweden's Eurovision 2023 entry |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/talent-shows/eurovision-2023-sweden-entry-loreen-profile-instagram/ |website=Radio Times |access-date=14 May 2023 |language=en}}</ref> * 1983 – [[Kenny Omega]], Canadian wrestler *[[1984]] – [[François Pervis]], French track cyclist * 1984 – [[Rachel Reilly]], American talk show host and actress *[[1985]] – [[Jay Beagle]], Canadian ice hockey player * 1985 – [[Alexis Hornbuckle]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexis Hornbuckle |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/201487/alexis-hornbuckle |publisher=[[WNBA]] |access-date=15 October 2023}}</ref> * 1985 – [[Verena Sailer]], German sprinter * 1985 – [[Casey Stoner]], Australian motorcycle racer * 1985 – [[Peter Wallace (rugby league)|Peter Wallace]], Australian rugby league player *[[1986]] – [[Nicky Adams]], English-Welsh footballer * 1986 – [[Derk Boerrigter]], Dutch footballer * 1986 – [[Inna]], Romanian singer<ref name="libertatea">{{cite news|url=http://www.libertatea.ro/subiect/inna|title=Subiect – Inna|newspaper=[[Libertatea]]|language=ro|access-date=12 March 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313043433/http://www.libertatea.ro/subiect/inna|archive-date=13 March 2017}}</ref> *[[1988]] – [[Zoltán Stieber]], Hungarian footballer *[[1989]] – [[Dan Biggar]], Welsh rugby player *[[1991]] – [[Jonathan Schoop]], Curaçaoan baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jonathan Schoop |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jonathan-schoop-570731 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=15 October 2023}}</ref> * 1991 – [[Shardul Thakur]], Indian cricketer<ref>http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/475281.html ESPNcricinfo</ref> *[[1992]] – [[Kostas Fortounis]], Greek footballer * 1992 – [[Viktorija Golubic]], Swiss tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women's Tennis Association – Official Website |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/316296/viktorija-golubic |access-date=17 October 2022 |website=Women's Tennis Association |language=en}}</ref> * 1992 – [[Bryce Harper]], American baseball player * 1992 – [[Stuart Lightbody]], Irish badminton player<ref>{{cite web|title= Players: Stuart Lightbody |url=http://bwfbadminton.com/player/72687/stuart-lightbody |website=bwfbadminton.com|publisher=[[Badminton World Federation]]|access-date=4 September 2016}}</ref> *[[1993]] – [[Jovit Baldivino]], Filipino singer and actor (d. 2022)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dumaual |first=Mario |date=9 December 2022 |title=Singer Jovit Baldivino passes away |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/12/09/22/singer-jovit-baldivino-passes-away |access-date=12 December 2022 |website=ABS-CBN News |language=en, fil |quote=Jovit Baldivino, who rose to fame as the first grand winner of ABS-CBN’s nationwide talent-reality show “Pilipinas Got Talent” in 2010, died Friday in Batangas City... He just turned 29 last October 16 [2022].}}</ref> * 1993 – [[Caroline Garcia]], French tennis player *[[1994]] – [[Adam Elliott]], Australian rugby league player * 1994 – [[Halimah Nakaayi]], Ugandan middle-distance runner<ref>{{Cite web |title=Halimah Nakaayi |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/131923 |website=olympedia.org |access-date=20 March 2024 }}</ref> *[[1997]] – [[Aliou Dieng]], Malian footballer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fdp.fifa.org/assetspublic/ce71/pdf/SquadLists-English.pdf |title=FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2022™: List of Players: Al Ahly SC |publisher=FIFA |page=1 |date=7 February 2023 |access-date=18 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212205323/https://fdp.fifa.org/assetspublic/ce71/pdf/SquadLists-English.pdf |archive-date=12 February 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1997 – [[Charles Leclerc]], Monégasque racing driver<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.formula1.com/en/drivers/charles-leclerc |access-date=October 17, 2024 |title=Charles Leclerc - F1 Driver for Ferrari |website=formula1.com}}</ref> * 1997 – [[Naomi Osaka]], Japanese tennis player<ref name="UPI" /> *[[1999]] – [[Aaron Nesmith]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Aaron Nesmith |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1630174/aaron-nesmith |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=15 October 2023}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year; just link the first occurrence.--> ==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[385]] – [[Fu Jian (337–385)|Fu Jian]], Chinese emperor (b. 337) * [[786]] – [[Lullus]], archbishop of Mainz (b. 710) * [[976]] – [[Al-Hakam II]], Umayyad caliph (b. 915) *[[1027]] – [[Fujiwara no Kenshi (Sanjō)|Fujiwara no Kenshi]], Japanese empress (b. 994) *[[1130]] – [[Pedro González de Lara]], Castilian magnate *[[1284]] – [[Shams al-Din Juvayni]], Persian statesman, [[vizier]] and [[minister of finance]] of the [[Ilkhanate]] *[[1323]] – [[Amadeus V, Count of Savoy|Amadeus V]], count of Savoy (b. 1249) *[[1333]] – [[Antipope Nicholas V|Nicholas V]], antipope of Rome (b. 1260) *[[1438]] – [[Anne of Gloucester]], English noblewoman (b. 1383) *[[1355]] – [[Louis, King of Sicily|Louis the Child]], king of Sicily (b. 1338) *[[1523]] – [[Luca Signorelli]], Italian painter (b. c.1450) *[[1553]] – [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], German painter and engraver (b. 1472) *[[1555]] – [[Hugh Latimer]], English bishop and saint (b. 1487) * 1555 – [[Nicholas Ridley (martyr)|Nicholas Ridley]], English bishop and martyr (b. 1500) *[[1591]] – [[Pope Gregory XIV|Gregory XIV]], pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1535)<ref>{{cite web |title=Gregory XIV {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gregory-XIV |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=11 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1594]] – [[William Allen (cardinal)|William Allen]], English cardinal (b. 1532) ===1601–1900=== *[[1621]] – [[Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck]], Dutch organist and composer (b. 1562) *[[1628]] – [[François de Malherbe]], French poet and critic (b. 1555)<ref>{{cite web |title=François de Malherbe {{!}} French poet {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-de-Malherbe |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=4 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1637]] – [[Johann Rudolf Stadler]], Swiss clock-maker (b. 1605)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lassner |first1=Martin |title=Johann Rudolf Stadler |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/029418/2011-07-18/ |website=Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS) |access-date=13 April 2020 |language=fr |date=18 July 2011}}</ref> *[[1649]] – [[Isaac van Ostade]], Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1621) *[[1655]] – [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]], Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b. 1591) *[[1660]] – [[John Cook (regicide)|John Cook]], English politician, [[Solicitor General for England and Wales]] (b. 1608) *[[1679]] – [[Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery]], Irish-English soldier and politician (b. 1621) *[[1680]] – [[Raimondo Montecuccoli]], Italian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1609) *[[1730]] – [[Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac]], French-American explorer and politician, 3rd [[List of colonial governors of Louisiana|French Governor of Louisiana]] (b. 1658) * 1730 – [[Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha]], Greek politician, 139th [[List of Ottoman Grand Viziers|Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] (b. 1666) *[[1750]] – [[Sylvius Leopold Weiss]], German lute player and composer (b. 1687) *[[1755]] – [[Gerard Majella]], Italian saint (b. 1725) *[[1774]] – [[Robert Fergusson]], Scottish poet (b. 1750) *[[1791]] – [[Grigory Potemkin]], Russian general and politician (b. 1739) *[[1793]] – [[Marie Antoinette]], Austrian-born queen consort of [[Louis XVI of France]] (b. 1755)<ref>{{cite web |title=Marie-Antoinette {{!}} Facts, Biography, & French Revolution |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Antoinette-queen-of-France |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> * 1793 – [[John Hunter (surgeon)|John Hunter]], Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728) *[[1796]] – [[Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia]] (b. 1726) *[[1799]] – [[Veerapandiya Kattabomman]] Indian activist (b. 1760) *[[1810]] – [[Nachman of Breslov]], Ukrainian religious leader, founded the [[Breslov (Hasidic group)|Breslov Hasidic group]] (b. 1772) *[[1822]] – [[Eva Marie Veigel]], Austrian-English dancer (b. 1724) *[[1877]] – [[Théodore Barrière]], French playwright (b. 1823) *[[1888]] – [[John Wentworth (Illinois politician)|John Wentworth]], American journalist and politician, 19th [[Mayor of Chicago]] (b. 1815) ===1901–present=== *[[1904]] – [[Haritina Korotkevich]], Russian heroine (b. 1882)<ref>{{cite book | first=Alexander Ivanovich | last=Smetanin | title=Оборона Порт-Артура | location=Moscow | publisher=Voennoe Izd-vo. | year=1991 |isbn= 978-5-2030-0488-8 | language=ru | page=103}}</ref> *[[1908]] – [[Joseph Leycester Lyne]], English monk (b. 1837) *[[1909]] – [[Jakub Bart-Ćišinski]], German poet and playwright (b. 1856) *[[1913]] – [[Ralph Rose]], American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885) *[[1936]] – [[Effie Adelaide Rowlands]], British writer (b. 1859) *[[1937]] – [[Jean de Brunhoff]], French poet and playwright (b. 1899) *[[1946]] – [[Nuremberg trial]] executions of the Main Trial: ** [[Hans Frank]], German lawyer, politician and war criminal (b. 1900) ** [[Wilhelm Frick]], German lawyer and politician, [[List of German interior ministers|German Minister of the Interior]] (b. 1877) ** [[Alfred Jodl]], German general (b. 1890) ** [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]], Austrian [[SS]] officer (b. 1903) ** [[Wilhelm Keitel]], German field marshal (b. 1882) ** [[Alfred Rosenberg]], Estonian architect and politician (b. 1893) ** [[Fritz Sauckel]], German sailor and politician (b. 1894) ** [[Arthur Seyss-Inquart]], Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th [[List of Chancellors of Austria|Federal Chancellor of Austria]] (b. 1892) ** [[Julius Streicher]], German journalist and politician (b. 1887) ** [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]], German lieutenant and politician, [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany)|Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany]] (b. 1893) *[[1947]] – [[Anna B. Eckstein]], German peace activist (b. 1868)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lammel |first1=Wolfgang |title=Vision Weltfrieden: Die Pazifistin Anna B. Eckstein |url=https://www.sonntagsblatt.de/artikel/bayern/vision-weltfrieden-die-pazifistin-anna-b-eckstein |access-date=28 July 2019 |work=Sonntagsblatt |date=30 June 2018 |location=Munich |language=de}}</ref> *[[1951]] – [[Liaquat Ali Khan]], Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] (b. 1895) *[[1956]] – [[Jules Rimet]], French businessman (b. 1873) *[[1957]] – [[John Anthony Sydney Ritson]], English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887) *[[1958]] – [[Robert Redfield]], American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897) *[[1959]] – [[Minor Hall]], American drummer (b. 1897) * 1959 – [[George Marshall]], American general and politician, 3rd [[United States Secretary of Defense]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1880) *[[1962]] – [[Gaston Bachelard]], French poet and philosopher (b. 1884) *[[1964]] – [[Patsy Callighen]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906) *[[1966]] – [[George O'Hara (actor)|George O'Hara]], American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899) *[[1968]] – [[Ellis Kinder]], American baseball player (b. 1914) *[[1971]] – [[Robin Boyd (architect)|Robin Boyd]], Australian architect and educator, designed the [[Domain Park Flats]] (b. 1919) *[[1972]] – [[Nick Begich Sr.|Nick Begich]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1932) * 1972 – [[Hale Boggs]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1914) * 1972 – [[Leo G. Carroll]], English-American actor (b. 1886) *[[1973]] – [[Gene Krupa]], American drummer, composer, and actor (b. 1909) *[[1975]] – [[Vittorio Gui]], Italian conductor and composer (b. 1885) *[[1978]] – [[Dan Dailey]], American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1913) *[[1979]] – [[Johan Borgen]], Norwegian author and critic (b. 1903) *[[1981]] – [[Moshe Dayan]], Israeli general and politician, 5th [[Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel]] (b. 1915) * 1981 – [[Eugene Eisenmann]], Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist (b. 1906) *[[1982]] – [[Mario Del Monaco]], Italian tenor (b. 1915) *[[1983]] – [[Jakov Gotovac]], Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1895) *[[1986]] – [[Arthur Grumiaux]], Belgian violinist and pianist (b. 1921) *[[1989]] – [[Walter Farley]], American author and educator (b. 1915) * 1989 – [[Scott O'Dell]], American journalist and author (b. 1898) * 1989 – [[Cornel Wilde]], American actor (b. 1912) *[[1990]] – [[Art Blakey]], American drummer and bandleader (b. 1919) * 1990 – [[Jorge Bolet]], Cuban-American pianist and educator (b. 1914) *[[1992]] – [[Shirley Booth]], American actress and singer (b. 1898) *[[1996]] – [[Jason Bernard]], American actor (b. 1938) * 1996 – [[Eric Malpass]], English author (b. 1910) *[[1997]] – [[Audra Lindley]], American actress (b. 1918) * 1997 – [[James A. Michener]], American author and philanthropist (b. 1907) *[[1998]] – [[Jon Postel]], American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943) *[[1999]] – [[Jean Shepherd]], American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1921) *[[2000]] – [[Mel Carnahan]], American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st [[Governor of Missouri]] (b. 1934) * 2000 – [[Rick Jason]], American actor (b. 1923) *[[2001]] – [[Etta Jones]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1928) *[[2003]] – [[Avni Arbaş]], Turkish painter (b. 1919) * 2003 – [[Stu Hart]], Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1915) * 2003 – [[László Papp]], Hungarian boxer (b. 1926) *[[2004]] – [[Pierre Salinger]], American journalist and politician, 11th [[White House Press Secretary]] (b. 1925) *[[2006]] – [[John Victor Murra]], Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916) * 2006 – [[Valentín Paniagua]], Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st [[President of Peru]] (b. 1936) *[[2007]] – [[Deborah Kerr]], Scottish actress (b. 1921) * 2007 – [[Toše Proeski]], Macedonian singer-songwriter (b. 1981) *[[2008]] – [[Dagmar Normet]], Estonian author and translator (b. 1921) *[[2010]] – [[Eyedea]], American rapper and producer (b. 1981) * 2010 – [[Barbara Billingsley]], American actress (b. 1915)<ref>{{cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |title=Barbara Billingsley, Mother on 'Leave It to Beaver', Dies at 94 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 16, 2010 |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-barbara-billingsley-20101017,0,2782610,full.story |access-date=December 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117224123/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-barbara-billingsley-20101017%2C0%2C2782610%2Cfull.story |archive-date=November 17, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> *[[2011]] – [[Dan Wheldon]], English race car driver (b. 1978) *[[2012]] – [[Frank Moore Cross]], American scholar and academic (b. 1921) * 2012 – [[John A. Durkin]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1936) * 2012 – [[Mario Gallegos, Jr.]], American firefighter and politician (b. 1950) * 2012 – [[Bódog Török]], Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1923) * 2012 – [[Eddie Yost]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1926) *[[2013]] – [[Govind Purushottam Deshpande]], Indian playwright and academic (b. 1938) * 2013 – [[George Hourmouziadis]], Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1932) * 2013 – [[Ed Lauter]], American actor (b. 1938)<ref>{{cite news|title=Veteran character actor Ed Lauter dies at age 74|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Veteran-character-actor-Ed-Lauter-dies-at-age-74-4902071.php |date=October 17, 2013 |access-date=October 18, 2013|work=The [[San Francisco Chronicle]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020162250/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Veteran-character-actor-Ed-Lauter-dies-at-age-74-4902071.php |archive-date=2013-10-20 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Laurel Martyn]], Australian ballerina and choreographer (b. 1916) * 2013 – [[Robert B. Rheault]], American colonel (b. 1925) * 2013 – [[Saggy Tahir]], Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944) *[[2014]] – [[Ioannis Charalambopoulos]], Greek colonel and politician, [[Deputy Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. 1919) * 2014 – [[Allen Forte]], American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926) * 2014 – [[Seppo Kuusela]], Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934) * 2014 – [[John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough]], English businessman (b. 1926) *[[2015]] – [[Richard J. Cardamone]], American lawyer and judge (b. 1925) * 2015 – [[James W. Fowler]], American psychologist and academic (b. 1940) * 2015 – [[William James (Australian general)|William James]], Australian general and physician (b. 1930) * 2015 – [[Vera Williams]], American author and illustrator (b. 1927) * 2015 – [[Memduh Ün]], Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920) *[[2016]] – [[Calvin Gotlieb|Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb]], Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921) *[[2017]] – [[Daphne Caruana Galizia]], Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964) * 2017 – [[Roy Dotrice]], British actor (b. 1923) * 2017 – [[John Dunsworth]], Canadian actor (b. 1946) * 2017 – [[Sean Hughes (comedian)|Sean Hughes]], British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dessau |first1=Bruce |title=Sean Hughes obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/oct/16/sean-hughes-obituary |website=The Guardian |access-date=14 May 2023 |date=16 October 2017}}</ref> *[[2023]] – [[Martti Ahtisaari]], former [[President of Finland]] and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1937)<ref>{{Cite news| author=Anne Kauranen|date=16 October 2023|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finnish-nobel-peace-laureate-ahtisaari-dies-86-2023-10-16/|title=Finnish Nobel Peace laureate and former president Ahtisaari dies at 86|work=Reuters|access-date=16 October 2023}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Ollie Olsen]], Australian musician, composer and sound designer (b. 1958)<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-10-16 |title=Ollie Olsen, celebrated musician and Michael Hutchence collaborator, dies age 66 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/ollie-olsen-dead-age-66-post-punk-electronic-musician/104479248 |access-date=2024-11-03 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref> *2024 – [[Liam Payne]], English singer-songwriter (b. 1993)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-16 |title=Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies at 31 in Argentina hotel fall |url=https://apnews.com/article/liam-payne-dies-one-direction-6b7893a56e0d8701096775f611399dd8 |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> *2024 – [[Yahya Sinwar]], leader of [[Hamas]] (b. 1962)<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Yoon |first1=John |last2=Boxerman |first2=Aaron |date=October 17, 2024 |title=Here Is the Remaining Leadership of Hamas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/world/middleeast/hamas-leadership-sinwar-death.html |access-date=October 17, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.--> ==Holidays and observances== * [[Air Force Day (Bulgaria)]] * [[Boss's Day]] (United States)<ref>{{cite web |title=Boss's Day in the United States |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/boss-day |website=www.timeanddate.com |access-date=15 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * Christian [[feast day]]: ** [[Balderic, Abbot of Montfaucon|Balderic (Baudry) of Monfaucon]] ** [[Bercharius of Hautvillers|Bercharius]] ** [[Bertrand of Comminges]] ** [[Colmán of Kilroot|Colmán of Kilroot (Colman mac Cathbaid)]] ** [[Eliphius]] ** [[Fortunatus of Casei]] ** [[Saint Gall|Gall]] ** [[Gerard Majella]] ** [[Hedwig of Silesia]] ** [[Hugh Latimer]] ([[Anglicanism]]) ** [[Junian of Saint-Junien|Junian (of Saint-Junien)]] ** [[Marguerite Marie Alacoque]] ** [[Marie-Marguerite d'Youville]] ** [[Nicholas Ridley (martyr)|Nicholas Ridley]] ([[Anglicanism]]) ** [[Silvanus of Ahun]] ** [[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Thevarparampil Kunjachan]] ([[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]] / [[Catholic Church]]) ** [[Pope Victor III]] ** [[October 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]] * [[Pope John Paul II Day]] (Poland) * [[Death anniversary of Liaquat Ali Khan]] (Pakistan) * [[Teachers' Day]] ([[Chile]]) * [[World Food Day]] ([[International observance|International]])<ref>{{cite web |title=International Days |url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/ |website=www.un.org |access-date=2 January 2021 |language=en |date=6 January 2015}}</ref> * [[Bu-Ma Democratic Protests]] Commemoration Day ([[South Korea]])<ref>{{cite web |title=국경일·기념일 |url=https://www.mois.go.kr/frt/sub/a06/b08/nationalHoliday_4/screen.do#v_1 |website=행정안전부 |access-date=16 October 2022 |language=ko}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commons}} * {{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16 |title=On This Day |publisher=BBC}} * {{NYT On this day|month=10|day=16}} * {{cite web |url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/october/16 |title=Historical Events on October 16 |publisher=OnThisDay.com}} {{months}} {{DEFAULTSORT:October 16}} [[Category:Days of October]]
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Templates used on this page:
Template:Calendar
(
edit
)
Template:Cite book
(
edit
)
Template:Cite encyclopedia
(
edit
)
Template:Cite journal
(
edit
)
Template:Cite magazine
(
edit
)
Template:Cite news
(
edit
)
Template:Cite tweet
(
edit
)
Template:Cite web
(
edit
)
Template:Commons
(
edit
)
Template:Day
(
edit
)
Template:Months
(
edit
)
Template:NYT On this day
(
edit
)
Template:Pp-move
(
edit
)
Template:Pp-pc
(
edit
)
Template:Reflist
(
edit
)
Template:This date in recent years
(
edit
)
Search
Search
Editing
October 16
Add topic
