October 17

Events

• 1091 - London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
• 1346 - The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
• 1448 - An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
• 1456 - The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
• 1534 - Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
• 1558 - Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
• 1604 - Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
• 1610 - French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
• 1660 - The Nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
• 1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
• 1771 - Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
• 1781 - American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
• 1806 - Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
• 1814 - Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
• 1817 - The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.
• 1827 - Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, is premiered at Milan.
• 1860 - First The Open Championship.
• 1861 - Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
• 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph.
• 1907 - Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
• 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
• 1919 - RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
• 1931 - Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
• 1933 - Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
• 1940 - The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
• 1941 - World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first US Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
• 1943 - The Burma Railway is completed.
• 1943 - Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
• 1945 - A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
• 1956 - The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
• 1956 - Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
• 1961 - Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
• 1965 - The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
• 1966 - The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
• 1969 - The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
• 1970 - FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
• 1973 - OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
• 1977 - The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
• 1979 - Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1979 - The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education.
• 1980 - As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
• 1988 - Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
• 1989 - The 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing Sixty-three.
• 1989 - The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
• 1991 - 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.
• 1992 - Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 1994 - Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
• 2000 - The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
• 2001 - Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
• 2003 - Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest highrise.
• 2005 - The Colbert Report, an American satirical news television program and talk show hosted by Stephen Colbert, premiered on Comedy Central.
• 2018 - The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
• 2018 - Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
• 2019 - Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.

  Births

• 503 - Lý Nam Đế, first emperor of Vietnam
• 1253 - Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint
• 1493 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor
• 1500 - Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest
• 1538 - Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter
• 1577 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter
• 1577 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince
• 1582 - Johann Gerhard, German theologian and academic
• 1587 - Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor
• 1623 - Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic
• 1629 - Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias
• 1688 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer
• 1711 - Jupiter Hammon, American poet
• 1719 - Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic
• 1720 - Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer
• 1725 - John Wilkes, English journalist and politician
• 1729 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic
• 1735 - Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist
• 1759 - Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter
• 1760 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher
• 1760 - Henri de Saint-Simon, French political and economic theorist
• 1768 - Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia
• 1779 - Louis Charles, French prince of the blood
• 1779 - José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argentine statesman and priest
• 1780 - Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States
• 1781 - Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist
• 1784 - Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay
• 1785 - Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist
• 1792 - John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong
• 1797 - Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician
• 1803 - Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician
• 1810 - Adolphe-Félix Cals, French painter
• 1811 - Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor and educator
• 1813 - Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright
• 1814 - Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet
• 1817 - Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar
• 1821 - Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer
• 1828 - Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist
• 1833 - José E. Días, Paraguayan general
• 1835 - Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor
• 1835 - Paul Haenlein, German mechanical engineer
• 1840 - André Gill, French caricaturist
• 1844 - Gustave Schlumberger, French historian
• 1845 - John J. Gardner, American politician
• 1853 - Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
• 1859 - Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator
• 1860 - Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary
• 1864 - Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1865 - James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1867 - Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí
• 1871 - Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter
• 1876 - Hippolyte Aucouturier, French cyclist
• 1878 - Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba
• 1880 - Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector
• 1881 - Maria Dulęba, Polish actress
• 1882 - Haritina Korotkevich, Russian war heroine
• 1883 - Alexander Neill, Scottish educator
• 1883 - Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler
• 1886 - Spring Byington, American actress
• 1889 - Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese author
• 1890 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer
• 1892 - Theodor Eicke, German SS general
• 1892 - Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator
• 1893 - Raffaele Bendandi, Italian clockmaker and seismologist
• 1894 - Prince René, Italian Prince of Denmark
• 1894 - Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet
• 1895 - Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala
• 1895 - Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer
• 1896 - Roman Petrovich, Russian prince
• 1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator
• 1898 - Eileen Sedgwick, American actress
• 1898 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet
• 1900 - C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor
• 1900 - Jean Arthur, American actress
• 1900 - Yvor Winters, American critic and poet
• 1901 - Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator
• 1902 - Irene Ryan, American actress
• 1903 - Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter
• 1903 - Andrei Grechko, Soviet general
• 1905 - Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly
• 1906 - Paul Derringer, American baseball player
• 1907 - John Marley, American actor
• 1908 - Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress
• 1908 - Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player
• 1908 - Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1908 - Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician
• 1909 - Cozy Cole, American drummer
• 1909 - Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet
• 1909 - Joaquín Satrústegui, Spanish lawyer and politician
• 1910 - Ester Wier, American author
• 1910 - Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor
• 1912 - Pope John Paul I, Catholic pope from August 1978- September 1978
• 1912 - Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School
• 1912 - Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1913 - Faik Türün, Turkish general
• 1913 - Robert Lowery, American actor
• 1913 - Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist
• 1914 - Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator
• 1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter
• 1916 - José López Rega, Argentinean politician
• 1917 - Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor
• 1917 - Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer
• 1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright
• 1917 - Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer
• 1917 - Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor
• 1917 - Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor
• 1918 - Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer
• 1918 - Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills
• 1918 - Luis Alberto Solari, Uruguayan artist
• 1919 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic
• 1919 - Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot
• 1919 - Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician
• 1920 - Montgomery Clift, American actor
• 1920 - Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author
• 1920 - Zully Moreno, Argentine actress
• 1921 - George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright
• 1921 - Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author
• 1921 - Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast
• 1921 - Tom Poston, American actor and comedian
• 1922 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer
• 1922 - Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival
• 1923 - Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer
• 1923 - Charles McClendon, American football player and coach
• 1924 - Don Coryell, American football player and coach
• 1924 - Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer
• 1924 - Giacomo Mari, Italian football midfielder
• 1924 - Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone
• 1925 - Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster
• 1926 - Julie Adams, American actress
• 1926 - Beverly Garland, American actress
• 1926 - Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver
• 1928 - Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and minister
• 1928 - Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan politician
• 1929 - Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager
• 1930 - Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer
• 1930 - Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet
• 1930 - Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author
• 1931 - Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and playwright
• 1931 - José Alencar, Brazilian businessman and politician
• 1931 - Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer
• 1932 - Paul Anderson, American weightlifter
• 1933 - William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut
• 1933 - The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun
• 1934 - Alan Garner, English author and playwright
• 1934 - Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer
• 1934 - Rico Rodriguez, American trombonist
• 1935 - Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
• 1935 - Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival
• 1935 - Carlos Pairetti, Argetine racing driver
• 1936 - Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter
• 1936 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic
• 1936 - Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player
• 1936 - Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer
• 1937 - Paxton Whitehead, English actor
• 1937 - José María Álvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician
• 1937 - Aida Navarro, Venezuelan mezzo-soprano
• 1937 - Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist
• 1938 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman
• 1938 - Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic
• 1938 - António Calvário, Portuguese singer and artist
• 1939 - Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic
• 1940 - Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor
• 1940 - Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
• 1940 - Peter Stringfellow, English businessman
• 1941 - Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 - Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist
• 1941 - Paul Ellison, American musician
• 1942 - Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1942 - Gary Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 - Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist
• 1944 - Ángel Cristo, Spanish circus performer
• 1946 - Ronni Chasen, American publicist
• 1946 - Michael Hossack, American drummer
• 1946 - Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager
• 1946 - Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian
• 1946 - Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic
• 1946 - Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
• 1946 - Manuel Ibáñez, Mexican actor and comedian
• 1946 - Julio Miranda, Argentine politician
• 1946 - Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician
• 1946 - José Perramón, Spanish handball player
• 1946 - Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician
• 1946 - Rüdiger Wittig, German geobotanist and ecologist
• 1946 - Akira Kushida, Japanese vocalist
• 1947 - Gene Green, American lawyer and politician
• 1947 - Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
• 1947 - Robert Post, American educator and academic
• 1947 - Omar Azziman, adviser to the King of Morocco
• 1948 - Robert Jordan, American soldier and author
• 1948 - Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress
• 1948 - George Wendt, American actor and comedian
• 1948 - Osvaldo Castro, Chilean footballer
• 1949 - Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados
• 1949 - Bill Hudson, American musician and actor
• 1950 - Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
• 1950 - Howard Rollins, American actor
• 1950 - Sandra Reemer, Indo-Dutch singer
• 1951 - Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater
• 1951 - Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
• 1951 - Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1951 - Dirk Beheydt, Belgian football player.
• 1953 - Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader
• 1953 - Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer
• 1954 - Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
• 1955 - Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
• 1955 - Mike Bratz, American basketball player
• 1956 - Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 - Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut
• 1956 - Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina
• 1956 - Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author
• 1957 - Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer
• 1957 - Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster
• 1957 - Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor
• 1957 - Antonio Galdo, Italian journalist
• 1957 - Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player
• 1957 - Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist
• 1957 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek folk singer
• 1958 - Howard Alden, American guitarist
• 1958 - Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter
• 1958 - Craig Murray, British diplomat
• 1958 - Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress
• 1959 - Ron Drummond, American author and scholar
• 1959 - Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador
• 1959 - Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1959 - Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 - Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
• 1959 - Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic
• 1959 - Mustafa Aberchán, Spanish politician
• 1959 - Eugenio Hernández Flores, Mexican politician
• 1960 - Guy Henry, English actor
• 1960 - Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer
• 1960 - Bernie Nolan, Irish singer
• 1960 - Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic
• 1961 - David Means, American short story writer
• 1962 - Glenn Braggs, American baseball player
• 1962 - Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
• 1962 - Jay Humphries, American basketball player
• 1963 - Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
• 1963 - Toby Young, English journalist and academic
• 1964 - Gregg Wallace, English television presenter
• 1964 - Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician
• 1965 - Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1965 - Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor
• 1966 - Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach
• 1966 - Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager
• 1966 - Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and novelist
• 1966 - Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1967 - Simon Segars, English businessman
• 1967 - Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player
• 1967 - René Dif, Danish musician
• 1967 - Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer
• 1968 - Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1968 - Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
• 1968 - David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1968 - Alejandra Ávalos, Mexican artist
• 1969 - Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster
• 1969 - Jesús Ángel García, Spanish racewalker
• 1969 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1969 - Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 - Wood Harris, American actor
• 1970 - Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
• 1970 - John Mabry, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1970 - J. C. MacKenzie, Canadian actor
• 1971 - Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1971 - Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1971 - Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1971 - Martin Heinrich, American politician
• 1971 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer
• 1972 - Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1972 - Tarkan, German-Turkish singer
• 1972 - Akio "Musashi" Mori, Japanese karateka and kickboxer
• 1973 - Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach
• 1973 - Rubén Garcés, Panamanian basketball player
• 1974 - Ariel Levy, American journalist and author
• 1974 - Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
• 1974 - Obdulio Ávila Mayo, Mexican politician
• 1974 - Bárbara Paz, Brazilian actress
• 1974 - Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player
• 1974 - John Rocker, American baseball player
• 1974 - Darío Sala, Argentine footballer
• 1974 - Gabriel Silberstein, Chilean tennis player
• 1974 - Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer
• 1975 - Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Jericó Abramo Masso, Mexican politician
• 1975 - Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer
• 1976 - Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
• 1976 - Seth Etherton, American baseball player
• 1976 - Carlos Loret de Mola, Mexican journalist
• 1976 - Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and coach
• 1977 - Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
• 1977 - Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer
• 1977 - Bryan Bertino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1977 - Walter Calderón, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1977 - Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician
• 1977 - Ryan McGinley, American photographer
• 1977 - André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1978 - Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
• 1978 - Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player and coach
• 1978 - Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress
• 1978 - Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician
• 1979 - Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1979 - Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist
• 1979 - Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
• 1979 - Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
• 1980 - Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
• 1980 - Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
• 1980 - Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1980 - Angel Parker, American actress
• 1980 - Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver
• 1980 - Justin Shenkarow, American actor
• 1981 - Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer
• 1981 - Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1981 - Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
• 1981 - Ben Rothwell, American mixed-martial artist
• 1982 - Rubén Ramírez, Argentine football striker
• 1982 - Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
• 1982 - Marion Rolland, alpine ski racer
• 1983 - Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress
• 1983 - Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
• 1983 - Felicity Jones, English actress
• 1983 - Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
• 1983 - Riki Miura, Japanese actor
• 1983 - Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
• 1983 - Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
• 1983 - Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
• 1983 - Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer
• 1984 - Chris Lowell, American actor
• 1984 - Giovanni Marchese, Italian footballer
• 1984 - Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator
• 1984 - Luke Rockhold, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 - Anja Eline Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader
• 1984 - Gottfrid Svartholm, Swedish computer specialist
• 1984 - Jared Tallent, Australian race walker
• 1985 - Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1985 - Max Irons, English-Irish actor
• 1985 - Collins John, Dutch footballer
• 1985 - Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer
• 1986 - Alexandre Bonnet, French football midfielder
• 1986 - Antoni Bou, Spanish motorcyclist
• 1986 - Aija Brumermane, Latvian basketball player
• 1986 - Constant Djakpa, Ivorian footballer
• 1986 - Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater
• 1986 - Nicolás Richotti, Argentine basketball player
• 1987 - Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer
• 1987 - Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
• 1987 - Elliot Grandin, French football winger
• 1987 - Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer
• 1988 - Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player
• 1988 - Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model
• 1988 - Marina Salas, Spanish actress
• 1989 - Débora García, Spanish football midfielder
• 1989 - Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer
• 1989 - Sophie Luck, Australian actress
• 1989 - David Timor, Spanish footballer
• 1990 - Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
• 1990 - Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player
• 1990 - Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
• 1990 - Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
• 1990 - Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
• 1991 - Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
• 1992 - Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
• 1992 - Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
• 1993 - Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
• 2001 - Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer

  Deaths

• AD 33 - Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus
• 532 - Pope Boniface II
• 866 - Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph
• 1271 - Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
• 1277 - Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort
• 1346 - John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
• 1346 - Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
• 1456 - Nicolas Grenon, French composer
• 1485 - John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
• 1552 - Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian
• 1575 - Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal
• 1586 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general
• 1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
• 1616 - John Pitts, English priest and scholar
• 1660 - Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician
• 1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England
• 1690 - Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic
• 1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic
• 1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author
• 1780 - William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister
• 1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral
• 1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator
• 1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti
• 1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter
• 1837 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer
• 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer
• 1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine
• 1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist
• 1889 - Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic
• 1893 - Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France
• 1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter
• 1918 - Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author
• 1928 - Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator
• 1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic
• 1937 - J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman
• 1938 - Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician
• 1948 - Royal Cortissoz, American art critic
• 1955 - Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician
• 1956 - Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress
• 1958 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer
• 1958 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer
• 1962 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer
• 1963 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic
• 1965 - Bart King, American cricketer
• 1966 - Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier
• 1966 - Wieland Wagner, German director and manager
• 1967 - Puyi, Chinese emperor
• 1970 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician
• 1970 - Vola Vale, American actress
• 1970 - Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic
• 1972 - Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 - George, Crown Prince of Serbia
• 1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet
• 1978 - George Clark, American race car driver
• 1978 - Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic
• 1979 - S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter
• 1979 - John Stuart, Scottish-English actor
• 1979 - Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon
• 1981 - Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter
• 1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author
• 1981 - Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician
• 1983 - Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher
• 1987 - Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician
• 1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor
• 1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician
• 1992 - Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1993 - Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1996 - Chris Acland, English musician & drummer of Lush
• 1997 - Larry Jennings, American magician and author
• 1998 - Joan Hickson, English actress
• 1998 - Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh
• 1999 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist
• 2000 - Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler
• 2000 - Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet
• 2001 - Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter
• 2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist
• 2001 - Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel
• 2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer
• 2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter
• 2006 - Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor
• 2006 - Christopher Glenn, American journalist
• 2007 - Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host
• 2007 - Teresa Brewer, American singer
• 2007 - Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic
• 2008 - Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author
• 2008 - Levi Stubbs, American singer
• 2008 - Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness
• 2009 - Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator
• 2009 - Vic Mizzy, American composer
• 2011 - Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman
• 2012 - Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer
• 2012 - Émile Allais, French skier
• 2012 - Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author
• 2012 - Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices
• 2012 - Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 2013 - Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist
• 2013 - Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach
• 2013 - Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
• 2013 - Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company
• 2013 - Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player
• 2014 - Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician
• 2014 - Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist
• 2014 - Tom Shaw, American bishop
• 2014 - Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States
• 2015 - Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer
• 2015 - Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager
• 2015 - Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician
• 2015 - Tom Smith, American businessman and politician
• 2017 - Gord Downie, Canadian musician

  Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
• *Andrew of Crete
• *Anstrudis
• *Catervus
• *Ethelred and Ethelberht
• *Florentius of Orange
• *François-Isidore Gagelin
• *Hosea
• *Ignatius of Antioch
• *John the Short
• *Marguerite Marie Alacoque
• *Nothhelm
• *Rule of Andrew
• *Richard Gwyn
• *Victor of Capua
• *October 17
• Dessalines Day
• Digital Society Day
• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
• Loyalty Day