October 14

October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings: In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
• 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
• 1465 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest
• 1582 – Because of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
• 1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
• 1758 – Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirch.
• 1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1773 – Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
• 1805 – Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
• 1806 – Battle of Jena–Auerstedt France defeats Prussia.
• 1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
• 1812 – Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
• 1840 – The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
• 1843 – The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station: Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
• 1880 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
• 1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
• 1884 – The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• 1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
• 1898 – The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
• 1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
• 1910 – The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
• 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
• 1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
• 1915 – World War I: The Kingdom of Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
• 1920 – Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
• 1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
• 1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
• 1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
• 1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
• 1939 – The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
• 1940 – Balham underground station disaster in London, England, sixty-six people in the station were killed during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
• 1943 – Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
• 1943 – World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
• 1943 – José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic).
• 1944 – World War II: Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head of government.
• 1944 – Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.
• 1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
• 1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
• 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
• 1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
• 1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
• 1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the throne in Ottawa, Canada.
• 1957 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the Spanish city of Valencia's history.
• 1958 – The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas.
• 1958 – The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
• 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
• 1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
• 1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies, such as Alexei Kosygin, the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
• 1966 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Twenty-seven soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
• 1968 – Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
• 1968 – An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter magnitude scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia. and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
• 1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
• 1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
• 1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government, 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
• 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
• 1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
• 1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
• 1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
• 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
• 1984 – "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
• 1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
• 1998 – Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins.
• 2006 – The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.
• 2014 – A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
• 2015 – A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan, kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.

Births

• 1257 – Przemysł II of Poland (d. 1296)
• 1404 – Marie of Anjou (d. 1463)
• 1493 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (d. 1568)
• 1542 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (d. 1605)
• 1563 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (d. 1611)
• 1609 – Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1689)
• 1630 – Sophia of Hanover (d. 1714)
• 1633 – James II of England (d. 1701)
• 1639 – Simon van der Stel, Dutch commander and politician, 1st Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (d. 1712)
• 1641 – Joachim Tielke German instrument maker (d. 1719)
• 1643 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor (d. 1712)
• 1644 – William Penn, English businessman, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
• 1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and academic (d. 1768)
• 1712 – George Grenville, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)
• 1726 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (d. 1813)
• 1733 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
• 1784 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
• 1790 – Thursday October Christian I, English son of Fletcher Christian (d. 1831)
• 1801 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope (d. 1883)
• 1806 – Preston King, American lawyer and politician (d. 1865)
• 1824 – Adolphe Monticelli, French painter (d. 1886)
• 1840 – Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (d. 1868)
• 1842 – Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (d. 1927)
• 1848 – Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker and philanthropist (d. 1924)
• 1853 – John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (d. 1924)
• 1853 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer and educator (d. 1883)
• 1861 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer and academic (d. 1944)
• 1867 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (d. 1902)
• 1869 – Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (d. 1939)
• 1872 – Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (d. 1910)
• 1873 – Ray Ewry, American jumper (d. 1937)
• 1873 – Jules Rimet, French businessman (d. 1954)
• 1882 – Éamon de Valera, American-Irish academic and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (d. 1975)
• 1882 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1959)
• 1884 – Jimmy Conlin, American actor and singer (d. 1962)
• 1888 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand-English author (d. 1923)
• 1888 – Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (d. 1947)
• 1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
• 1892 – Sumner Welles, American politician and diplomat, 11th Under Secretary of State (d. 1961)
• 1893 – Lillian Gish, American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
• 1893 – Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (d. 1974)
• 1894 – E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (d. 1962)
• 1898 – Thomas William Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1950)
• 1900 – W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993)
• 1902 – Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (d. 1963)
• 1904 – Christian Pineau, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1995)
• 1906 – Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
• 1906 – Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1908 – Ruth Hale, American actress and playwright (d. 2003)
• 1909 – Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
• 1909 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (d. 1938)
• 1910 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
• 1911 – Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Raymond Davis, Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal
• 1916 – C. Everett Koop, American admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician (d. 1991)
• 1918 – Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain (d. 2015)
• 1918 – Frances E. Nealy, American actress (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Doug Ring, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2003)
• 1921 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1925 – Clancy Lyall, American sergeant (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor (d. 1985)
• 1926 – Bill Justis, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Roger Moore, English actor and producer
• 1928 – Frank E. Resnik, American chemist and businessman (d. 1995)
• 1929 – Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer and wrestler (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist
• 1930 – Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
• 1930 – Alan Williams, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Nikhil Banerjee, Indian sitar player and composer (d. 1986)
• 1932 – Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and actor (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and academic (d. 2005)
• 1935 – La Monte Young, American composer
• 1936 – Hans Kraay, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1936 – Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (d. 2014)
• 1938 – John Dean, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel
• 1938 – Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, English curator and academic
• 1938 – Ron Lancaster, American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
• 1938 – Shula Marks, South African historian and academic
• 1938 – Farah Pahlavi, Iranian wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• 1939 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation
• 1939 – Rocky Thompson, American golfer and politician
• 1940 – Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
• 1940 – Cliff Richard, Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1940 – Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1941 – Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach
• 1941 – Laurie Lawrence, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1941 – Art Shamsky, American baseball player and manager
• 1941 – Roger Taylor, English tennis player
• 1942 – Suzzanna, Indonesian actress (d. 2008)
• 1942 – Evelio Javier, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1986)
• 1942 – Péter Nádas, Hungarian author and playwright
• 1943 – Dyanne Thorne, American model and actress
• 1944 – Udo Kier, German-American actor, singer, and director
• 1945 – Colin Hodgkinson, English bass player (Whitesnake and The Spencer Davis Group)
• 1945 – Daan Jippes, Dutch author and illustrator
• 1945 – Lesley Joseph, English actress
• 1946 – François Bozizé, Gabonese general and politician, President of the Central African Republic
• 1946 – Justin Hayward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moody Blues)
• 1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (Nazareth)
• 1946 – Al Oliver, American baseball player
• 1946 – Craig Venter, American biologist, geneticist, and academic
• 1947 – Norman Harris, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (MFSB) (d. 1987)
• 1947 – Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-American wrestler
• 1948 – Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer (Boney M)
• 1948 – Gerard Murphy, Irish-English actor (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Norman Ornstein, American political scientist and scholar
• 1948 – David Ruprecht, American game show host and actor
• 1949 – Damian Lau, Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
• 1949 – Katy Manning, English-Australian actress and production manager
• 1949 – Françoise Pascal, Mauritian-English actress
• 1949 – Katha Pollitt, American poet and author
• 1949 – Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player and referee
• 1950 – Joey Travolta, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 – Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist
• 1952 – Harry Anderson, American actor and screenwriter
• 1952 – Nikolai Andrianov, Russian gymnast and coach (d. 2011)
• 1952 – Rick Aviles, American comedian and actor (d. 1995)
• 1953 – Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, actress, and singer
• 1953 – Greg Evigan, American actor and singer
• 1953 – Kazumi Watanabe, Japanese guitarist and composer
• 1954 – Carole Malone, English journalist
• 1954 – Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic
• 1955 – Iwona Blazwick, English curator and critic
• 1956 – Ümit Besen, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Beth Daniel, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1956 – Jennell Jaquays, American game designer
• 1956 – Arleen Sorkin, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Michel Després, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Gen Nakatani, Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th Japanese Minister of Defense
• 1957 – Kenny Neal, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Downchild Blues Band)
• 1958 – Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1959 – A. J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister and Adrenaline Mob) (d. 2015)
• 1960 – Steve Cram, English runner and coach
• 1960 – Zbigniew Kruszyński, Polish footballer and coach
• 1961 – Isaac Mizrahi, American fashion designer
• 1962 – Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
• 1962 – Trevor Goddard, English-American actor (d. 2003)
• 1962 – Chris Thomas King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1963 – Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer (Sinawe)
• 1963 – Lori Petty, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Alessandro Safina, Italian tenor
• 1964 – Neşe Erberk, Turkish model and businesswoman, Miss Europe 1984
• 1964 – Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager
• 1964 – David Kaye, Canadian voice actor
• 1964 – Olu Oguibe, Nigerian-American painter, author, and critic
• 1964 – Jim Rome, American radio host
• 1965 – Steve Coogan, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower and politician
• 1965 – Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian flute player and composer
• 1965 – Karyn White, American singer-songwriter
• 1966 – Mark Nyman, English Scrabble player
• 1967 – Cha In-pyo, South Korean actor and singer
• 1967 – Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1967 – Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 – Jason Plato, English race car driver and television host
• 1967 – Savanna Samson, American porn actress
• 1967 – Stephen A. Smith, American sportscaster and actor
• 1968 – Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (Sloan)
• 1968 – Johnny Goudie, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Goudie)
• 1968 – Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer and journalist
• 1968 – Timothy Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer
• 1968 – Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1969 – P. J. Brown, American basketball player
• 1969 – David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1970 – Martin Barbarič, Czech footballer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1970 – Jim Jackson, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Takako Katou, Japanese actress and singer (Lip's and Nanatsuboshi)
• 1970 – Meelis Lindmaa, Estonian footballer
• 1970 – Hiromi Nagasaku, Japanese actress and singer (Ribbon)
• 1970 – Daniela Peštová, Czech model and actress
• 1970 – Jon Seda, American actor
• 1970 – Pär Zetterberg, Swedish footballer
• 1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1971 – Robert Jaworski, Jr., Filipino basketball player and politician
• 1972 – Erika de Lone, American tennis player
• 1972 – Julian O'Neill, Australian rugby player
• 1973 – Lasha Zhvania, Georgian businessman and politician
• 1974 – Jessica Drake, American porn actress and director
• 1974 – Samuel José da Silva Vieira, Brazilian footballer
• 1974 – Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
• 1974 – Viktor Röthlin, Swiss runner
• 1974 – Shaggy 2 Dope, American rapper, producer, wrestler, and actor (Insane Clown Posse, Psychopathic Rydas, and Dark Lotus)
• 1974 – Tümer Metin, Turkish footballer
• 1975 – Michael Duberry, English footballer
• 1975 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
• 1975 – Shaznay Lewis, English singer-songwriter and actress (All Saints)
• 1976 – Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1976 – Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
• 1976 – Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player
• 1977 – Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer
• 1977 – Bianca Beauchamp, Canadian model
• 1977 – Carmen Soo, Malaysian model and actress
• 1977 – Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 – Joey Didulica, Australian-Croatian footballer and manager
• 1977 – Barry Ditewig, Dutch footballer
• 1977 – Jeffrey Garcia, American voice actor
• 1977 – Carl Johan Grimmark, Swedish guitarist (Narnia, Saviour Machine, Rob Rock, and Beautiful Sin)
• 1977 – Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor and composer
• 1977 – Kelly Schumacher, American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player
• 1978 – Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1978 – Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist and songwriter (Most Precious Blood and Indecision)
• 1978 – Ryan Church, American baseball player
• 1978 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
• 1978 – Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player
• 1978 – Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Javon Walker, American football player
• 1979 – Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress
• 1979 – Liina-Grete Lilender, Estonian figure skater and coach
• 1980 – Paúl Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1980 – Ami Ishii, Japanese model
• 1980 – Amjad Khan, Danish-English cricketer
• 1980 – Scott Kooistra, American football player
• 1980 – Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
• 1980 – Terrence McGee, American football player
• 1980 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
• 1981 – Boof Bonser, American baseball player
• 1981 – Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer
• 1982 – Ryan Hall, American runner
• 1982 – Matt Roth, American football player
• 1983 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
• 1983 – Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
• 1984 – Baby Fae, American medical patient (d. 1984)
• 1984 – LaRon Landry, American football player
• 1984 – Alex Scott, English foorballer
• 1985 – Sherlyn González, Mexican actress and singer
• 1985 – Daniel Clark, American actor
• 1985 – Miyuki Maeda, Japanese badminton player
• 1985 – Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian race car driver
• 1986 – Tom Craddock, English footballer
• 1986 – Skyler Shaye, American actress
• 1987 – Jay Pharoah, American comedian and actor
• 1988 – Will Atkinson, English footballer
• 1988 – MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer
• 1988 – Max Thieriot, American actor
• 1988 – Mario Titone, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Pia Toscano, American singer
• 1989 – Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1990 – Jordan Clark, English cricketer
• 1990 – Raquel Diaz, American wrestler and singer
• 1991 – Shona McGarty, English actress
• 1992 – Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
• 1992 – Savannah Outen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1992 – Khagendra Thapa Magar, Nepali dwarf
• 1993 – Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer
• 1999 – Daniel Roche, English actor
• 2001 – Rowan Blanchard, American actress and singer
• 2002 – Youssif, Iraqi burn victim

Deaths

• 1066 – Harold Godwinson, English king (b. 1022)
• 1066 – Leofwine Godwinson, English son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1035)
• 1092 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (b. 1018)
• 1256 – Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
• 1318 – Edward Bruce, Irish king (b. 1280)
• 1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1488)
• 1565 – Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (b. 1521)
• 1568 – Jacques Arcadelt, Dutch singer and composer (b. 1507)
• 1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyo (b. 1540)
• 1619 – Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (b. 1562)
• 1637 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
• 1669 – Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (b. 1623)
• 1703 – Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop and poet (b. 1634)
• 1711 – Tewoflos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1708)
• 1758 – James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
• 1792 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714)
• 1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (b. 1761)
• 1880 – Victorio, Mexican tribal chief (b. 1825)
• 1911 – John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
• 1923 – Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1929 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
• 1930 – Samuel van Houten, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (b. 1837)
• 1942 – Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1943 – Sobibór uprising:
  • Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (b. 1910)
  • Siegfried Graetschus, German sergeant (b. 1916)
  • Johann Niemann, German lieutenant (b. 1913)
• 1944 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1953 – Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1877)
• 1953 – Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (b. 1882)
• 1959 – Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (b. 1907)
• 1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1909)
• 1959 – Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (b. 1926)
• 1960 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Paul Ramadier, French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
• 1961 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (b. 1876)
• 1965 – William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (b. 1914)
• 1967 – Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1969 – Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1969 – August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1914)
• 1973 – Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1897)
• 1973 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general and engineer (b. 1929)
• 1976 – Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Rhythm Boys) (b. 1903)
• 1983 – Johannes O., Indonesian-Dutch physician and murderer (b. 1916)
• 1983 – Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
• 1984 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1985 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b. 1916)
• 1986 – Keenan Wynn, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
• 1986 – Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Michael Carmine, American actor and singer (b. 1959)
• 1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (b. 1916)
• 1999 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Tony Roper, American race car driver (b. 1964)
• 2002 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job, English linguist, commander, and navigator (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek actor and singer (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Jared Anderson, American singer and bass player (Morbid Angel and Hate Eternal) (b. 1975)
• 2006 – Chun Wei Cheung, Dutch rower (b. 1972)
• 2006 – Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven) (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Maurice Grosse, English paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Nancy Lynn, American pilot (b. 1956)
• 2006 – Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Big Moe, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (b. 1974)
• 2007 – Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Richard Cooey, American murderer (b. 1967)
• 2008 – Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Lou Albano, Italian-American wrestler, manager, and actor (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Collin Wilcox, American actress (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, American son of Anwar al-Awlaki (b. 1995)
• 2011 – Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1948)
• 2011 – Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Kyle Bennett, American BMX racer (b. 1979)
• 2012 – John Clive, English actor and author (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2012 – James R. Grover, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Larry Sloan, American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Dody Weston Thompson, American photographer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and politician (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Kōichi Iijima, Japanese author and poet (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Frank Moore, American painter and poet (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Encke, American-English race horse (b. 2009)
• 2014 – A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboard player and producer (The Mars Volta, De Facto, and Free Moral Agents) (b. 1975)
• 2014 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress and director (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Margaret Keyes, American historian and academic (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Angadrisma
  • Fortunatus of Todi
  • Joseph Schereschewsky (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Pope Callixtus I
  • October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Intercession of the Theotokos
• Day of the Cathedral of Living Pillar (Georgian Orthodox Church)
• Mother's Day (Belarus)
• National Education Day (Poland), formerly Teachers' Day
• Nyerere Day (Tanzania)
• Second Revolution Day (Yemen)
• World Standards Day (International)
• Defender of Ukraine Day (Ukraine)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada