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Pre-1600

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AD 69 AD 69 ( LXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 822 ''Ab urbe condita' ...
– In the
Second Battle of Bedriacum The Battle of Bedriacum refers to two battles fought during the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69) near the village of Bedriacum (now Calvatone), about from the town of Cremona in northern Italy. The fighting in fact took place between Bedriacum ...
, troops loyal to
Vespasian Vespasian (; la, Vespasianus ; 17 November AD 9 – 23/24 June 79) was a Roman emperor who reigned from AD 69 to 79. The fourth and last emperor who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empi ...
defeat those of Emperor Vitellius. *
1260 Year 1260 ( MCCLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Africa * October 24 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seiz ...
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Chartres Cathedral Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Roman Catholic church in Chartres, France, about southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres. Mostly con ...
is dedicated in the presence of King
Louis IX of France Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, was King of France from 1226 to 1270, and the most illustrious of the Direct Capetians. He was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the ...
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1360 Year 1360 (Roman numerals, MCCCLX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * October 24 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marki ...
– The
Treaty of Brétigny The Treaty of Brétigny was a treaty, drafted on 8 May 1360 and ratified on 24 October 1360, between Kings Edward III of England and John II of France. In retrospect, it is seen as having marked the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' ...
is ratified, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. *
1590 Events January–June * January 4 – The Cortes of Castile approves a new subsidy, the '' millones''. * March 4 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, takes Breda, by concealing 68 of his best men in a peat-boat, to ge ...
– John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists. *
1596 Events January–June * January 6– 20 – An English attempt led by Francis Drake to cross the Isthmus of Panama ends in defeat. * January 28 – Francis Drake dies of dysentery off Portobelo. * February 14 – Archbishop John Whitg ...
– The second Spanish armada sets sail to strike against England, but is smashed by storms off
Cape Finisterre Cape Finisterre (, also ; gl, Cabo Fisterra, italic=no ; es, Cabo Finisterre, italic=no ) is a rock-bound peninsula on the west coast of Galicia, Spain. In Roman times it was believed to be an end of the known world. The name Finisterre, like ...
forcing a retreat to port.


1601–1900

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1641 Events January–March * January 4 – The stratovolcano Mount Parker in the Philippines) has a major eruption. * January 18 – Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic. * February 16 – King Charles I of England giv ...
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Felim O'Neill of Kinard Sir Phelim Roe O'Neill of Kinard (Irish: ''Sir Féilim Rua Ó Néill na Ceann Ard''; 1604–1653) was an Irish politician and soldier who started the Irish rebellion in Ulster on 23 October 1641. He joined the Irish Catholic Confederati ...
, the leader of the Irish Rebellion, issues his
Proclamation of Dungannon The Proclamation of Dungannon was a document produced by Sir Phelim O'Neill on 24 October 1641 in the Irish town of Dungannon. O'Neill was one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion which had been launched the previous day. O'Neill's Proclamat ...
, justifying the uprising and declaring continued loyalty to King
Charles I of England Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until Execution of Charles I, his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of ...
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1648 1648 has been suggested as possibly the last year in which the overall human population declined, coming towards the end of a broader period of global instability which included the collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Thirty Years' War, t ...
– The
Peace of Westphalia The Peace of Westphalia (german: Westfälischer Friede, ) is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and brought pea ...
is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War. *
1795 Events January–June * January – Central England records its coldest ever month, in the Central England temperature, CET records dating back to 1659. * January 14 – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Uni ...
– Poland is completely consumed by Russia, Prussia and Austria. *
1812 Events January–March * January 1 – The ''Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch'' (the Austrian civil code) enters into force in the Austrian Empire. * January 19 – Peninsular War: The French-held fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo Siege of ...
– Napoleonic Wars: The
Battle of Maloyaroslavets The Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on 24 October 1812 as part of the French invasion of Russia. It was Kutuzov's decisive battle to force Napoleon to retreat northwest over Mozhaisk to Smolensk on the devastated route of his advance with ...
takes place near Moscow. *
1851 Events January–March * January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion. * January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly. ...
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William Lassell William Lassell (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer.1857 Events January–March * January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen. * January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating. * Janua ...
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Sheffield F.C. Sheffield Football Club is an English football club from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, although now based in nearby Dronfield, across the county boundary in Derbyshire. They currently compete in the . Founded in October 1857,
, the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in England. *
1861 Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. ** The first steam-p ...
– The
first transcontinental telegraph The first transcontinental telegraph (completed October 24, 1861) was a line that connected the existing telegraph network in the eastern United States to a small network in California, by means of a link between Omaha, Nebraska and Carson City, ...
line across the United States is completed. *
1871 Events January–March * January 3 – Franco-Prussian War – Battle of Bapaume: Prussians win a strategic victory. * January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the sout ...
– An estimated 17 to 22 Chinese immigrants are
lynched Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgressor, or intimidate people. It can also be an ex ...
in Los Angeles, California. *
1889 Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...
–
Henry Parkes Sir Henry Parkes, (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was a colonial Australian politician and longest non-consecutive Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia. He has ...
delivers the
Tenterfield Oration The Tenterfield Oration was a Speech (public address), speech given by Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Colony of New South Wales at the Tenterfield School of Arts in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Tenterfield, in rural New South Wales, Australia ...
, effectively starting the federation process in Australia. *
1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
– U.S. Government announces plans to buy
Danish West Indies The Danish West Indies ( da, Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Antilles or Danish Virgin Islands were a Danish colonization of the Americas, Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas ...
for $7 million.


1901–present

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1901 Events January * January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...
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Annie Edson Taylor Anna "Annie" Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Her motives were financial but ...
becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. *
1902 Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's f ...
– Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century. *
1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...
– Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. *
1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...
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First Balkan War The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...
: The
Battle of Kirk Kilisse The Battle of Kirk Kilisse or Battle of Kirkkilise or Battle of Lozengrad was part of the First Balkan War between the armies of Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. It took place on 24 October 1912, when the Bulgarian army defeated an Ottoman Empire ...
concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire. * 1912 – First Balkan War: The
Battle of Kumanovo The Battle of Kumanovo ( sr, / , tr, Kumanova Muharebesi), on 23–24 October 1912, was a major battle of the First Balkan War. It was an important Serbian victory over the Ottoman army in the Kosovo Vilayet, shortly after the outbreak of ...
concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire. *
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
–
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat at the
Battle of Caporetto The Battle of Caporetto (also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, the Battle of Kobarid or the Battle of Karfreit) was a battle on the Italian front of World War I. The battle was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Central ...
on the Austro-Italian front. *
1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...
– World War I: Italian victory in the
Battle of Vittorio Veneto The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was fought from 24 October to 3 November 1918 (with an armistice taking effect 24 hours later) near Vittorio Veneto on the Italian Front during World War I. After having thoroughly defeated Austro-Hungarian troops ...
. *
1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...
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Harry Houdini Harry Houdini (, born Erik Weisz; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-American escape artist, magic man, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts. His pseudonym is a reference to his spiritual master, French magician ...
's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. *
1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
– "
Black Thursday Black Thursday is a term used to refer to typically negative, notable events that have occurred on a Thursday. It has been used in the following cases: *6 February 1851, bushfires in Victoria, Australia. *18 September 1873, during the Panic of ...
" on the New York Stock Exchange. *
1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...
– A bloodless
coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...
in Brazil ends the First Republic, replacing it with the Vargas Era. *
1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...
– The
George Washington Bridge The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting Fort Lee, New Jersey, with Manhattan in New York City. The bridge is named after George Washington, the first president of the United St ...
opens to public traffic over the Hudson River. *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
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World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
: Japan's center force is temporarily repulsed in the
Battle of Leyte Gulf The Battle of Leyte Gulf ( fil, Labanan sa golpo ng Leyte, lit=Battle of Leyte gulf; ) was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved. It was fou ...
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1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
– The
United Nations Charter The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the UN, an intergovernmental organization. It establishes the purposes, governing structure, and overall framework of the UN system, including its six principal organs: the ...
comes into effect. *
1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
– A camera on board the
V-2 No. 13 The V-2 No. 13 was a modified V-2 rocket that became the first object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space. Launched on 24 October 1946, at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico, the rocket reached a maximum altit ...
rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. *
1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
– Famed animator
Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film p ...
testifies before the
House Un-American Activities Committee The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly dubbed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloy ...
, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists. * 1947 –
United Airlines Flight 608 United Air Lines Flight 608 was a Douglas DC-6 airliner, registration NC37510, on a scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles to Chicago when it crashed at 12:29 pm on October 24, 1947 about southeast of Bryce Canyon Airport, Utah, United S ...
crashes over the
Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon National Park () is an American national park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern ...
killing all 52 passengers and crew onboard. *
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...
– The cornerstone of the
United Nations Headquarters The United Nations is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States, and the complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1951. It is in the Turtle Bay, Manhattan, Turtle Bay neig ...
is laid. *
1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
– US President
Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...
pledges United States support to
South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
. *
1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
– The United States Air Force starts the
X-20 Dyna-Soar The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including aerial reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite mainten ...
manned space program. *
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
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Nedelin catastrophe The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at Baikonur test range (of which Baikonur Cosmodrome is a part), during the development of the Soviet R-16 (missile), R-16 Intercontinental ...
: An R-16
ballistic missile A ballistic missile is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target. These weapons are guided only during relatively brief periods—most of the flight is unpowered. Short-range ballistic missiles stay within the ...
explodes on the launch pad at the
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
's
Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...
space facility, killing over 100 people, including Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin. *
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
– An oxygen leak from an
R-9 Desna The R-9 (NATO reporting name: SS-8 Sasin) was a two-stage IRBM of the Soviet Union, in service from 1964 to 1976. History Designed in 1959 and first tested in 1961, the R-9 was a great improvement over previous Soviet missile designs. The miss ...
missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people. *
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
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Northern Rhodesia Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in southern Africa, south central Africa, now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by Amalgamation (politics), amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of Barotziland-North-West ...
gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes Zambia. *
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gender inequality. *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...
– The government of Poland legalizes the
Solidarity trade union ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...
. *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...
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Nezar Hindawi The Hindawi affair was a failed attempt to bomb El Al Flight 016, from London to Tel Aviv in April 1986 by Nezar Nawwaf al-Mansur al-Hindawi ( ar, نزار نواف منصور الهنداوي, born 1954), a Jordanian citizen. On the morning of ...
is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing of an El Al flight at Heathrow Airport. *
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
– Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of
Gladio Operation Gladio is the codename for clandestine "stay-behind" operations of armed resistance that were organized by the Western Union (WU), and subsequently by NATO and the CIA, in collaboration with several European intelligence agencies during ...
, the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion. *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
– The
Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Since 1989, the team has played its home games ...
become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series. *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
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Deep Space 1 ''Deep Space 1'' (DS1) was a NASA technology demonstration spacecraft which flew by an asteroid and a comet. It was part of the New Millennium Program, dedicated to testing advanced technologies. Launched on 24 October 1998, the ''Deep Space 1 ...
is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies. *
2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
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Concorde The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde () is a retired Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France an ...
makes its last commercial flight. *
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
–
Arsenal Football Club Arsenal Football Club, commonly referred to as Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England. Arsenal plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The club has won 13 league titles (inclu ...
loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League. *
2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
–
Hurricane Wilma Hurricane Wilma was an extremely intense and destructive Atlantic hurricane which was the most intense storm of its kind and the second-most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the Western Hemisphere, after Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Part ...
makes landfall in Florida, resulting in 35 direct and 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage. *
2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
–
Chang'e 1 Chang'e 1 (; ) was an unmanned Chinese lunar-orbiting spacecraft, part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. The spacecraft was named after the Chinese Moon goddess, Chang'e. Chang'e 1 was launched on 24 October 2007 at 10 ...
, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. *
2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
– " Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. *
2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
– The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission,
Chang'e 5-T1 Chang'e 5-T1 () was an experimental robotic spacecraft that was launched to the Moon on 23 October 2014 by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to conduct atmospheric re-entry tests on the capsule design planned to be used in the Cha ...
, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth. *
2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
– A driver crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring 34. *
2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
– A French surveillance aircraft flying to Libya crashes on takeoff in Malta, killing all five people on board.


Births


Pre-1600

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AD 51 AD 51 ( LI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Scipio (or, less frequently, year 804 ''Ab urbe condita''). The ...
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Domitian Domitian (; la, Domitianus; 24 October 51 – 18 September 96) was a Roman emperor who reigned from 81 to 96. The son of Vespasian and the younger brother of Titus, his two predecessors on the throne, he was the last member of the Flavi ...
, Roman emperor (d. 96) *
1378 Year 1378 ( MCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, visits his nephew Charles V of Fran ...
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David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay David Stewart (24 October 1378 – 26 March 1402) was heir apparent to the throne of Scotland from 1390 and the first Duke of Rothesay from 1398. He was named after his great-great-uncle, David II of Scotland, and also held the titles of Ea ...
heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402) *
1503 __NOTOC__ Year 1503 ( MDIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 20 – Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive rights to trade wit ...
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Isabella of Portugal Isabella of Portugal (24 October 1503 – 1 May 1539) was the empress consort and queen consort of her cousin Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, and Duke of Burgundy. She was Queen of Spain and Germany, and La ...
(d. 1539) *
1561 Year 1561 ( MDLXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 31 – The Edict of Orleans suspends the persecution of the Huguenots in ...
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Anthony Babington Anthony Babington (24 October 156120 September 1586) was an English gentleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, for which he was hanged, drawn and quartere ...
, English conspirator (
Babington Plot The Babington Plot was a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, her Catholic cousin, on the English throne. It led to Mary's execution, a result of a letter sent by Mary (who had been impris ...
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1632 Events January–March * January – The Holland's Leguer, a brothel in London, is closed after having been besieged for a month. * February 22 – Galileo's ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is pub ...
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek ( ; ; 24 October 1632 – 26 August 1723) was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as " the ...
, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (d. 1723) *
1637 Events January–March * January 5 – Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy ''Le Cid'' is first performed, in Paris, France. * January 16 – The siege of Nagpur ends in what is now the Maharashtra state of India, as Kok Shah, the ...
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Lorenzo Magalotti Lorenzo Magalotti (24 October 1637 – 2 March 1712) was an Italian philosopher, author, diplomat and poet. Magalotti was born in Rome into an aristocratic family, the son of Ottavio Magalotti, Prefect of the Pontifical Mail: his uncle Lorenz ...
, Italian philosopher (d. 1712) *
1650 Events January–March * January 7 – Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, dies after a reign of more than 63 years. The area is now part of the northeastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. * January 18 – Cardinal Jules Ma ...
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Steven Blankaart Steven Blankaart (24 October 1650, Middelburg, Zeeland, Middelburg – 23 February 1704, Amsterdam) was a Dutch physician, iatrochemist, and Entomology, entomologist, who worked on the same field as Jan Swammerdam. Blankaart proved the exist ...
, Dutch entomologist (d. 1704) *
1675 Events January–March * January 5 – Franco-Dutch War – Battle of Turckheim: The French defeat Austria and Brandenburg. * January 29 – John Sassamon, an English-educated Native Americans in the United States, Nati ...
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Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (24 October 1675 – 14 September 1749) was a British soldier and Whig politician. After serving as a junior officer under William III during the Williamite War in Ireland and during the Nine Years' War, he ...
, English field marshal and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire There has been a Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire almost continuously since the position was created by King Henry VIII in 1535. The only exception to this was the English Civil War and English Interregnum between 1643 and 1660 when there was no ...
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1713 Events January–March * January 17 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albemarle County, North Carolina, in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take ref ...
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Marie Fel Marie Fel (24 October 1713 – 2 February 1794) was a French opera singer and a daughter of the organist Henri Fel. Marie Fel was born at Bordeaux. She made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1733 and sang regularly at the Concert Spirituel. In a ...
, French soprano and actress (d. 1794) *
1763 Events January–March * January 27 – The seat of colonial administration in the Viceroyalty of Brazil is moved from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro. * February 1 – The Royal Colony of North Carolina officially creates Meck ...
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Dorothea von Schlegel Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel (; 24 October 1764 – 3 August 1839) was a German novelist and translator. Life She was born as Brendel Mendelssohn in 1764 in Berlin.In older literature and on her gravestone one finds the date 1763, but this is ...
, German author and translator (d. 1839) *
1784 Events January–March * January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea. * January 14 – The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Brit ...
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Moses Montefiore Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, afte ...
, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (d. 1885) *
1788 Events January–March * January 1 – The first edition of ''The Times'', previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published in London. * January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S ...
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Sarah Josepha Hale Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of ''Godey's Lady's Book''. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the ...
, American author and poet (d. 1879) *
1798 Events January–June * January – Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces with interchangeable parts. * January 4 – Constantine Hangerli enters Bucharest, as Prince of Wa ...
– Massimo d'Azeglio, Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter (d. 1866) *
1804 Events January–March * January 1 – Haiti gains independence from France, and becomes the first black republic, having the only successful slave revolt ever. * February 4 – The Sokoto Caliphate is founded in West Africa. * Februa ...
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber Wilhelm Eduard Weber (; ; 24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph. Biography of Wilhelm Early years Weber was born in Schlossstrasse in ...
, German physicist and academic (d. 1891) *
1811 Events January–March * January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana. * January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Brid ...
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Ferdinand Hiller Ferdinand (von) Hiller (24 October 1811 – 11 May 1885) was a German composer, Conductor (music), conductor, pianist, writer and music director. Biography Ferdinand Hiller was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main, where his fat ...
, German composer and conductor (d. 1885) * 1811 –
Georg August Wallin Georg August Wallin (Yrjö Aukusti Wallin, aka Abd al-Wali; 24 October 1811 – 23 October 1852)orientalist, and professor (d. 1852) *
1830 It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the Revolutions of 1830 in France, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and Italy. Events January–March * January 11 – LaGrange College (later the University of North Alabama) b ...
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Marianne North Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the ...
, English biologist and painter (d. 1890) *
1838 Events January–March * January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London. * January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration o ...
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Annie Edson Taylor Anna "Annie" Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Her motives were financial but ...
, American stuntwoman and educator (d. 1921) *
1854 Events January–March * January 4 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the ''Samarang''. * January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is perhaps born. * January 9 – The Teut ...
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Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom H. W. Bakhuis Roozeboom (, October 24, 1854 – February 8, 1907) was a Dutch chemist who studied phase behaviour in physical chemistry. Education and career Bakhuis Roozeboom (originally "Bakhuys Roozeboom") was born in Alkmaar in the Netherl ...
, Dutch chemist and academic (d. 1907) *
1855 Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens ...
– James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th
Vice President of the United States The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice ...
(d. 1912) *
1857 Events January–March * January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen. * January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating. * Janua ...
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Ned Williamson Edward Nagle "Ned" Williamson (October 24, 1857 – March 3, 1894) was a professional baseball infielder in Major League Baseball. He played for three teams: the Indianapolis Blues of the National League (NL) for one season, the Chicago White S ...
, American baseball player (d. 1894) *
1868 Events January–March * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Jap ...
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Alexandra David-Néel Alexandra David-Néel (born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David; 24 October 1868 – 8 September 1969) was a Belgian–French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lh ...
, Belgian-French explorer and author (d. 1969) *
1872 Events January–March * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
– Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (d. 1957) *
1873 Events January–March * January 1 ** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar. ** The California Penal Code goes into effect. * January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat ...
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E. T. Whittaker Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early 20th-century who contributed widely to applied mathema ...
, British mathematician and physicist (d. 1956) *
1875 Events January–March * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the ...
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Konstantin Yuon Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon or Juon (russian: Константи́н Фёдорович Юо́н; – April 11, 1958) was a noted Russian painter and theatre designer associated with the Mir Iskusstva. Later, he co-founded the Union of Russian Ar ...
, Russian painter and set designer (d. 1958) *
1876 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs i ...
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Saya San Saya San also spelled Hsaya (original name Yar Kyaw, my, ဆရာစံ, ; 24 October 1876 – 28 November 1931) was a physician, former monk and the leader of the Saya San Rebellion of 1930-1932 in British Burma. The series of uprisings ...
, Burmese monk and activist (d. 1931) *
1879 Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * Janu ...
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B. A. Rolfe Benjamin Albert Rolfe (October 24, 1879 – April 23, 1956) was an American musician known as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder" who went on to be a bandleader, recording artist, radio personality, and film producer. Biography He was born on October 24, ...
, American bandleader and producer (d. 1956) *
1882 Events January–March * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in ...
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Sybil Thorndike Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson (24 October 18829 June 1976) was an English actress whose stage career lasted from 1904 to 1969. Trained in her youth as a concert pianist, Thorndike turned to the stage when a medical problem with her ...
, English actress (d. 1976) *
1884 Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price atte ...
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Emil Fjellström Emil Fjellström (24 October 1884 – 14 July 1944) was a Swedish stage and film actor. Early life and stage career Emil Fjellström was born in Näs parish, Östersund Municipality, Jämtland County and grew up in the city of Östersund. Aft ...
, Swedish actor (d. 1944) *
1885 Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – ...
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Alice Perry Alice Jacqueline Perry (24 October 1885 – 21 April 1969) was one of the first women in Europe to graduate with a degree in engineering. Early life and education Born in Wellpark, Galway in 1885, Alice was one of five daughters and a son of M ...
, Irish engineer and poet (d. 1969) *
1887 Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...
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Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (24 October 1887 – 15 April 1969) was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII from their marriage on 31 May 1906 until 14 April 1931, when the Spanish Second Republic was proclaimed. A Hessian ...
(d. 1969) * 1887 –
Octave Lapize Octave Lapize (; 24 October 1887 – 14 July 1917) was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist. Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres, ...
, French cyclist and pilot (d. 1917) *
1891 Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new Africa ...
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Rafael Trujillo Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ( , ; 24 October 189130 May 1961), nicknamed ''El Jefe'' (, "The Chief" or "The Boss"), was a Dominican dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from February 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. He ser ...
, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th
President of the Dominican Republic The president of the Dominican Republic ( es, Presidente de la República Dominicana) is both the head of state and head of government of the Dominican Republic. The presidential system was established in 1844, following the proclamation of th ...
(d. 1961) * 1891 –
Brenda Ueland Brenda Ueland (October 24, 1891 – March 5, 1985) was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. She is best known for her book ''If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit''. Background Brenda was born ...
, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1985) *
1894 Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
– Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987) *
1895 Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...
– Jack Warner, English actor and singer (d. 1981) *
1896 Events January–March * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wil ...
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Marjorie Joyner Marjorie Joyner (née Stewart; October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator, and activist. Joyner is noted for being the first African-American woman to create and pate ...
, American make-up artist and businesswoman (d. 1994) *
1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
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Peng Dehuai Peng Dehuai (; October 24, 1898November 29, 1974) was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader, who served as China's Defense Minister from 1954 to 1959. Peng was born into a poor peasant family, and received several years of primary edu ...
, Chinese general, 1st
Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China The Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China (), or the "National Defense Ministry" () for short, is the second-ranked cabinet level executive department under the State Council. It is headed by the Minister of Nationa ...
(d. 1974)


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1901 Events January * January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...
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Gilda Gray Gilda Gray (born Marianna Michalska; October 24, 1901 – December 22, 1959) was a Polish-American dancer and actress who popularized a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions. Early life and 'th ...
, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1959) *
1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...
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Melvin Purvis Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. Given the nickname "Little Mel" because of his short, frame, Purvis became noted for leadi ...
, American
FBI The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and its principal Federal law enforcement in the United States, federal law enforcement age ...
agent (d. 1960) *
1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...
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Moss Hart Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright, librettist, and theater director. Early years Hart was born in New York City, the son of Lillian (Solomon) and Barnett Hart, a cigar maker. He had a younger brother ...
, American director and playwright (d. 1961) * 1904 –
A.K. Golam Jilani A. K. Golam Jilani (24 October 1904 – 9 February 1932) was a Bengali revolutionary of the Indian independence movement from the Nawabganj Upazila, Dhaka in present-day Bangladesh. Early years A. K. Golam Jilani was born on 24 October 19 ...
, Bangladeshi activist (d. 1932) *
1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...
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Fran Zwitter Fran Zwitter (24 October 1905 – 14 April 1988) was a Slovenian historian. Together with Milko Kos, Bogo Grafenauer, and Vasilij Melik, he is considered the co-founder of the Ljubljana School of Historiography. Life and work He was born in ...
, Slovenian historian and academic (d. 1988) *
1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
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Alexander Gelfond Alexander Osipovich Gelfond (russian: Алекса́ндр О́сипович Ге́льфонд; 24 October 1906 – 7 November 1968) was a Soviet Union, Soviet mathematician. Gelfond–Schneider theorem, Gelfond's theorem, also known as the G ...
, Russian mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1968) *
1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...
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Patricia Griffin Patricia Griffin (24 October 1907 – 1986) was a nurse and volunteer social worker from Montserrat. In addition to providing nursing services, she founded the Old People's Welfare Association, was instrumental in developing the pre-school program ...
, Montserratian nurse and social worker (d. 1986) *
1908 Events January * January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica. * January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...
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John Tuzo Wilson John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. ''Plate tectonics'' is the scientific theory that the rigi ...
, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993) *
1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Januar ...
– Bill Carr, American runner (d. 1966) *
1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
– Stella Brooks, American singer (d. 2002) * 1910 –
Joe L. Evins Joseph Landon Evins (October 24, 1910 – March 31, 1984) was an American lawyer and politician who served 15 terms as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1947 to 1977. Early life Evins was a native of the Blend Community ...
, American lawyer and politician (d. 1984) * 1910 –
Gunter d'Alquen Gunter d'Alquen (24 October 1910 – 15 May 1998) was chief editor of the weekly ''Das Schwarze Korps'' ("The Black Corps"), the official newspaper of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. Early life Gunter d ...
, German SS officer and journalist (d. 1998) * 1910 –
James K. Woolnough James Karrick Woolnough (October 24, 1910 – May 30, 1996) was a United States Army four-star general who served as Commanding General of the United States Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe, Virginia. In this capacity he was responsibl ...
, American general (d. 1996) * 1910 –
Yoel Zussman Yoel Zussman also spelled Yoel Sussman ( he, יואל זוסמן, born 24 October 1910, died 2 March 1982) was an Israeli jurist and the fourth President of the Supreme Court of Israel, from 1976 to 1980. Biography Sussman was born in 1910 in Kr ...
, Polish-Israeli lawyer and judge (d. 1982) *
1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...
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Paul Grégoire Paul Grégoire, (October 24, 1911 – October 30, 1993) was a Canadians, Canadian Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal, Archbishop of Montreal from 1968 to 1990, and was ...
, Canadian cardinal (d. 1993) * 1911 –
Sonny Terry Saunders Terrell (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and oc ...
, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1986) *
1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...
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Peter Gellhorn Peter Gellhorn (born Hans Fritz Gellhorn, October 24, 1912 – February 13, 2004) was a German conductor, composer, pianist and teacher who settled in London and made a career in Britain that lasted unbroken until his death. Life Gellhorn, the ...
, German conductor (music) (d. 2004) * 1912 –
Murray Golden Murray Golden (October 24, 1912 – August 5, 1991) was an American television director. He directed for television programs including '' The Fugitive'', '' Bonanza'', ''The Rifleman'', '' Mannix'', ''Trapper John, M.D.'', '' Rawhide'', ''The T ...
, American television director (d. 1991) * 1912 –
Silviu Bindea Silviu Bindea (24 October 1912 – 6 March 1992) was a Romanian football player and coach. He represented Romania at the 1934 and 1938 World Cups as a forward, scoring twice in a first-round game in 1938. Honours Player ;Ripensia Timișoara * ...
, Romanian footballer (d. 1992) *
1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
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Tito Gobbi Tito Gobbi (24 October 19135 March 1984) was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation. He made his operatic debut in Gubbio in 1935 as Count Rodolfo in Bellini's ''La sonnambula'' and quickly appeared in Italy's major opera ...
, Italian actor and singer (d. 1984) *
1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...
– Charles Craig Cannon, American colonel (d. 1992) * 1914 –
František Čapek František Čapek (24 October 1914 – 31 January 2008) was a Czechoslovakian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 10000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Born ...
, Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2008) * 1914 –
Lakshmi Sahgal Lakshmi Sahgal () (born Lakshmi Swaminathan; 24 October 1914 – 23 July 2012) was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad Hind government. La ...
, Indian Independence movement revolutionary and Officer of
Indian National Army The Indian National Army (INA; ''Azad Hind Fauj'' ; 'Free Indian Army') was a collaborationist armed force formed by Indian collaborators and Imperial Japan on 1 September 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. Its aim was to secure In ...
(d. 2012) *
1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...
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Bob Kane Robert Kane (born Robert Kahn ; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created Batman (with Bill Finger) and most early related characters for DC comics. He was inducted into the comi ...
, American author and illustrator (d. 1998) * 1915 –
Marghanita Laski Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist. She also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories, and contributed about 250,000 additions to the ''Oxford English Dictiona ...
, English journalist and author (d. 1988) *
1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * ...
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Anne Sharp Anne Sharp (24 October 1916 – 25 August 2011) was a Scottish coloratura soprano particularly associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten. Background and education Anne Smellie Graham Sharp was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, the eighth and ...
, Scottish soprano and actress (d. 2011) *
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
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Marie Foster Marie Priscilla Martin Foster (October 24, 1917 – September 6, 2003) was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. during the 1960s. Her successful voter registration in Dallas County, Alabama fueled her to become an activist, and sh ...
, American activist (d. 2003) *
1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...
– Doreen Tovey, English author (d. 2008) *
1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...
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Frank Piasecki Frank Nicolas Piasecki ( ; ; October 24, 1919 – February 11, 2008) was an American engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer. Piasecki pioneered tandem rotor helicopter designs and created the compound helicopter concept of vectored thrust using ...
, American engineer and pilot (d. 2008) *
1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
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Marcel-Paul Schützenberger Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger (24 October 1920 – 29 July 1996) was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. He worked in the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.Herbert Wilf, Dominique Foata, ''et al.'', ...
, French mathematician and academic (d. 1996) * 1920 – Steve Conway, British singer (d. 1952) *
1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...
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Ted Ditchburn Edwin George Ditchburn (24 October 1921 – 26 December 2005) was an English professional football goalkeeper who played for Northfleet United, Tottenham Hotspur, Romford, Brentwood Town and represented England on six occasions at international ...
, English footballer and manager (d. 2005) * 1921 –
R. K. Laxman Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman ''Pg. 11 in the source says that Laxman & his brother Narayan were Tamil Iyer Brahmins.'' (24 October 1921 – 26 January 2015) was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He is best known for his creation ...
, Indian illustrator (d. 2015) *
1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
– George Miller, American educator and politician, Mayor of Tucson (d. 2014) *
1923 Events January–February * January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
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Robin Day Sir Robin Day (24 October 1923 – 6 August 2000) was an English political journalist and television and radio broadcaster. Day's obituary in ''The Guardian'' by Dick Taverne stated that he was "the most outstanding television journalist of ...
, English lieutenant and journalist (d. 2000) * 1923 –
Denise Levertov Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Early life and influences Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Ess ...
, British-born American poet (d. 1997) *
1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
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John Brereton Barlow John Brereton Barlow (24 October 1924 – 10 December 2008) was a world-renowned South African cardiologist. He qualified as a doctor in 1951, gained experience as a registrar in Hammersmith Hospital and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Lo ...
, South African cardiologist and physician (d. 2008) * 1924 – Mary Lee, American actress and singer (d. 1996) * 1924 –
Fuat Sezgin Fuat Sezgin (24 October 1924 – 30 June 2018) was a Turkish orientalist who specialized in the history of Arabic-Islamic science. He was ''professor emeritus'' of the History of Natural Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfu ...
, Turkish historian and academic (d. 2018) *
1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
– Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator (d. 2003) * 1925 – Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (d. 2014) * 1925 – Willie Mabon, American-French singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1985) * 1925 – Ken Mackay, Australian cricketer (d. 1982) * 1925 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician co-founded the Khmer Rouge (d. 2013) * 1925 – Paul Vaughan, English journalist and radio host (d. 2014) *
1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...
– Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (d. 2008) * 1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player (d. 2017) *1927 – Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2001) * 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor and singer (d. 1992) * 1927 – Barbara Robinson (author), Barbara Robinson, American author and poet (d. 2013) *1928 – George Bullard (baseball), George Bullard, American baseball player (d. 2002) *
1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
– Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (d. 1977) * 1929 – George Crumb, American composer and educator (d. 2022) * 1929 – Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home (d. 2012) * 1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright (d. 2004) * 1929 – Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (d. 2013) *
1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...
– Jack Angel, American voice actor (d. 2021) * 1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959) * 1930 – Elaine Feinstein, English poet, author, and playwright (d. 2019) * 1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician * 1930 – James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish racing driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (d. 1969) * 1930 – Ahmad Shah of Pahang (d. 2019) *
1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...
– Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian-German pianist and composer * 1931 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014) *1932 – Stephen Covey, American author and educator (d. 2012) * 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) * 1932 – Adrian Mitchell, English journalist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2008) * 1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021) *1933 – Kray twins, Reginald Kray, English gangster (d. 2000) * 1933 – Kray twins, Ronald Kray, English gangster (d. 1995) * 1933 – Norman Rush, American author and educator *1934 – John G. Cramer, American physicist and author * 1934 – Glen Glenn (singer), Glen Glenn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1934 – Margie Masters, Australian golfer (d. 2022) * 1934 – Sammy Petrillo, American actor (d. 2009) * 1934 – Sanger D. Shafer, American singer-songwriter (d. 2019) *1935 – Malcolm Bilson, American pianist, musicologist, and educator * 1935 – Antonino Calderone, Italian mobster (d. 2013) * 1935 – Mark Tully, Indian-English journalist and author *1936 – Jüri Arrak, Estonian painter (d. 2022) * 1936 – Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013) * 1936 – David Nelson (actor), David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2011) * 1936 – Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer *1937 – Miguel Ángel Coria, Spanish composer and educator (d. 2016) * 1937 – Santo Farina, American guitarist and songwriter * 1937 – John Goetz, American baseball player (d. 2008) * 1937 – Heribert Offermanns, German chemist and academic * 1937 – M. Rosaria Piomelli, Italian-American architect and academic * 1937 – Petar Stipetić, Croatian general (d. 2018) *1938 – Stephen Resnick, American economist and academic (d. 2013) *1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor *1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand director and producer * 1940 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (d. 2012) * 1940 – David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, English businessman and academic * 1940 – Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (d. 2015) *1941 – William H. Dobelle, American medical researcher (d. 2004) * 1941 – Peter Takeo Okada, Japanese archbishop * 1941 – Merle Woo, Asian American activist *1942 – Stephen R. Bloom, English physician and academic * 1942 – Maggie Blye, American actress (d. 2016) * 1942 – Frank Delaney, Irish journalist and author (d. 2017) * 1942 – Rafael Cordero Santiago, Puerto Rican politician, 132nd List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Mayor of Ponce (d. 2004) * 1942 – Fernando Vallejo, Colombian biologist and author *1943 – Bill Dundee, Scottish-American wrestler and manager * 1943 – Phil Hawthorne, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 1994) *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
– Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2007) * 1944 – Bettye Swann, American singer-songwriter *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
– Gérald Larose, Canadian educator and union leader *
1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
– Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (d. 1993) *
1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
– Kevin Kline, American actor and singer *1948 – Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby player (d. 2022) * 1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American lawyer and politician *
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...
– John Markoff, American journalist and author * 1949 – Keith Rowley, Trinidadian volcanologist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago *1950 – Iggy Arroyo, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2012) * 1950 – Pablove Black, Jamaican singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer * 1950 – Miguel Ángel Pichetto, Argentinian lawyer and politician * 1950 – Miroslav Sládek, Czech politician * 1950 – Gabriella Sica, Italian poet and author * 1950 – Maria Teschler-Nicola, Austrian biologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist *1951 – George Tsontakis, American composer and conductor *1952 – Keith Bain, Canadian educator and politician * 1952 – Francesco Camaldo, Italian priest * 1952 – Jane Fancher, American author and illustrator * 1952 – Mark Gray (singer), Mark Gray, American country music singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2016) * 1952 – Peter Smagorinsky, American theorist and educator * 1952 – Ángel Torres (baseball), Ángel Torres, Dominican baseball player * 1952 – Reggie Walton (baseball), Reggie Walton, American baseball player * 1952 – David Weber, American author *1953 – Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager * 1953 – Steven Hatfill, American physician and virologist *
1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
– Doug Davidson, American actor * 1954 – Tom Mulcair, Canadian lawyer and politician * 1954 – Jožo Ráž, Slovak singer-songwriter and bass player * 1954 – Mike Rounds, American businessman and politician, junior senator from South Dakota * 1954 – Brad Sherman, American accountant, lawyer, and politician * 1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian journalist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Australia *1955 – Cheryl Studer, American soprano and actress *1956 – Jeff Merkley, American businessman and politician *
1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
– Ron Gardenhire, German-American baseball player and manager * 1957 – John Kassir, American actor and voice actor *1959 – Dominique Baert, French lawyer and politician * 1959 – Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian banker and politician, 65th List of mayors of Bergen, Mayor of Bergen * 1959 – Chihiro Fujioka, Japanese director and composer * 1959 – Michelle Lujan Grisham, American lawyer and politician * 1959 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009) * 1959 – Denis Troch, French footballer and manager * 1959 – Annette Vilhelmsen, Danish educator and politician, Ministry of Social Affairs (Denmark), Danish Minister of Social Affairs *
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
– Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer and sportscaster * 1960 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and activist (d. 1999) * 1960 – Joachim Winkelhock, German racing driver * 1960 – BD Wong, American actor *1961 – Mary Bono, American gymnast and politician * 1961 – Bruce Castor, American lawyer and politician *1962 – Yves Bertucci, French footballer and manager * 1962 – Ian Dalziel (footballer), Ian Dalziel, English footballer and manager * 1962 – Jonathan Davies (rugby, born 1962), Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby player and television host * 1962 – Debbie Googe, English bass player and songwriter * 1962 – Andrea Horwath, Canadian politician * 1962 – Gibby Mbasela, Zambian footballer (d. 2000) *
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
– Mark Grant (baseball), Mark Grant, American baseball player and sportscaster * 1963 – John Hendrie (Scottish footballer), John Hendrie, Scottish footballer and manager *
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
– Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1964 – Paul Bonwick, Canadian businessman and politician * 1964 – Dmitri Gorkov, Russian footballer and manager * 1964 – Janele Hyer-Spencer, American lawyer and politician * 1964 – Ray LeBlanc, American ice hockey player * 1964 – Doug Lee (basketball), Doug Lee, American basketball player *1965 – Kyriakos Velopoulos, German-Greek journalist and politician *1966 – Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman and politician * 1966 – Simon Danczuk, English academic and politician *1967 – Ian Bishop (cricketer, born 1967), Ian Bishop, Trinidadian cricketer and sportscaster * 1967 – Olo Brown, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player * 1967 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress * 1967 – Esther McVey, English television host and politician *1968 – Francisco Clavet, Spanish tennis player * 1968 – Mark Walton (story artist), Mark Walton, American voice actor and illustrator * 1968 – Robert Wilonsky, American journalist and critic *1969 – Emma Donoghue, Irish-Canadian author *1970 – Rob Leslie-Carter, English field hockey player and engineer * 1970 – Jeff Mangum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist *1971 – Aaron Bailey (American football), Aaron Bailey, American football player * 1971 – Gustavo Jorge, Argentina international rugby union player * 1971 – Zephyr Teachout, American academic * 1971 – Diane Guthrie-Gresham, Jamaican track and field athlete * 1971 – Caprice Bourret, American model and actress *1972 – Pat Williams (American football), Pat Williams, American football player and coach * 1972 – Jeremy Wright, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales *1973 – Meelis Friedenthal, Estonian author and academic * 1973 – Kurt Kuenne, American filmmaker, known for the documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Dear Zachary * 1973 – Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist * 1973 – Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer and manager * 1973 – Laura Veirs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1973 – Jeff Wilson (sportsman), Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and radio host *1974 – Gábor Babos, Hungarian footballer * 1974 – Corey Dillon, American football player * 1974 – Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player and scout * 1974 – Jamal Mayers, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster *
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer * 1975 – Frank Seator, Liberian footballer (d. 2013) *1976 – Matteo Mazzantini, Italian rugby player * 1976 – Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer *1977 – Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer *1978 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer * 1978 – James Hopes, Australian cricketer *1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian drummer and songwriter * 1979 – Marijonas Petravičius, Lithuanian basketball player *
1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...
– Monica (singer), Monica, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress * 1980 – Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer * 1980 – Kerrin McEvoy, Australian jockey * 1980 – Zac Posen, American fashion designer * 1980 – Christian Vander (footballer), Christian Vander, German footballer * 1980 – Casey Wilson, American actress and screenwriter *1981 – Kemal Aslan, Turkish footballer * 1981 – Sebastián Bueno, Argentinian footballer * 1981 – Fredrik Mikkelsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer * 1981 – Tila Tequila, Singaporean-American model, actress, and singer * 1981 – Alfred Vargas, Filipino actor and politician *1982 – Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian racing driver * 1982 – Macay McBride, American baseball player *1983 – Adrienne Bailon, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress * 1983 – Chris Colabello, American baseball player * 1983 – Hernán Garin, Argentinian footballer * 1983 – Michael Gordon (rugby league), Michael Gordon, Australian rugby league player * 1983 – Brian Vickers, American race car driver *1984 – Lougee Basabas, Filipino singer-songwriter * 1984 – Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish ice hockey player * 1984 – Kaela Kimura, Japanese singer-songwriter *1985 – Robert Cornthwaite (footballer), Robert Cornthwaite, English-Australian footballer * 1985 – Matthew Robinson (snowboarder), Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (d. 2014) * 1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer * 1985 – Oscar Wendt, Swedish footballer *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...
– Drake (musician), Drake, Canadian rapper and actor * 1986 – John Ruddy, English footballer *1987 – Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer * 1987 – Charlie White (figure skater), Charlie White, American figure skater *1988 – Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player * 1988 – Christopher Linke, German race walker * 1988 – Demont Mitchell, Bahamian footballer *1989 – Anderson Conceição, Brazilian footballer * 1989 – Eric Hosmer, American baseball player * 1989 – PewDiePie, Swedish YouTuber *
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
– Peyton Siva, American basketball player * 1990 – Mohammed Jahfali, Saudi Arabia international footballer * 1990 – Jake Knott, American football linebacker * 1990 – Elijah Greer, American middle-distance runner * 1990 – Danilo Petrucci, Italian motorcycle racer * 1990 – İlkay Gündoğan, German footballer *1991 – Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian footballer * 1991 – Bojan Dubljević, Montenegrin basketball player *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
– Marrion Gopez, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer * 1992 – Ding Liren, Chinese chess grandmaster *1994 – Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress * 1994 – Tereza Martincová, Czech tennis player * 1994 – Jalen Ramsey, American football player *1995 – Vincent Leuluai, Australian rugby league player *1996 – Océane Dodin, French tennis player * 1996 – Kyla Ross, American gymnast *1997 – Claudia Fragapane, English gymnast *
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
– Daya (singer), Daya, American singer


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 935 – Li Yu (Later Tang), Li Yu, Chinese official and chancellor * 996 – Hugh Capet, French king *1152 – Jocelin of Soissons, French theologian, philosopher and composer *1168 – William IV, Count of Nevers, William IV, French nobleman *
1260 Year 1260 ( MCCLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Africa * October 24 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seiz ...
– Qutuz, Egyptian sultan *1375 – Valdemar IV of Denmark, Valdemar IV, Danish king (b. 1320) *1537 – Jane Seymour, English queen and wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c.1508) *1572 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1508)


1601–1900

*1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (b. 1546) *1633 – Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (b. 1562/3) *1642 – Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English peer and courtier (b. 1582) *1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1592) *1669 – William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600) *1672 – John Webb (architect), John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611) *1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1660) *1799 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1739) *1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740) *1824 – Israel Bissell, American patriot post rider during American Revolutionary War (b. 1752) *1852 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782) *
1875 Events January–March * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the ...
– Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817) *
1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
– Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)


1901–present

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1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...
– Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828) *
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
– James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852) *
1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
– George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839) *1935 – Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902) *1937 – Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886) *1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870) *1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912) *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
– Louis Renault (industrialist), Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault, Renault Company (b. 1877) *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
– Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, List of heads of government of Norway, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887) *1948 – Franz Lehár, Austrian-Hungarian composer (b. 1870) * 1948 – Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877) *
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...
– Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (b. 1902) *1958 – G. E. Moore, English philosopher and academic (b. 1873) *
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
– Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth Sputnik 1, satellite, Lenin prize, Lenin prize winner, Kandidat, Candidate of Technical Sciences (b. 1924) *
1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
– Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931) *1965 – Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879) *1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896) *1969 – Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1908) *1970 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916) *1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876) * 1971 – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1936) * 1971 – Chuck Hughes, NFL player died during a game (b. 1943) *1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1919) * 1972 – Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1892) *1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908) *
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– İsmail Erez, Turkish lawyer and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to France (b. 1919) * 1975 – Zdzisław Żygulski (senior), Zdzisław Żygulski, Polish historian, author, and academic (b. 1888) *1979 – Carlo Abarth, Italian automobile designer and founded of Abarth (b. 1908) *1983 – Jiang Wen-Ye, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1910) *1985 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941) * 1985 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (b. 1905) *1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948) *1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created ''Star Trek'' (b. 1921) * 1991 – Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1915) *
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
– Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1944) *1993 – Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930) *1994 – Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician and author (b. 1930) * 1994 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940) *1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor and singer (b. 1926) *1999 – Berthe Qvistgaard, Danish actress (b. 1910) *2001 – Kathleen Ankers, American actress and set designer (b. 1919) * 2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author and critic (b. 1937) * 2001 – Jaromil Jireš, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1935) *2002 – Winton M. Blount, American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921) * 2002 – Hernán Gaviria, Colombian footballer (b. 1969) * 2002 – Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (b. 1912) * 2002 – Peggy Moran, American actress and singer (b. 1918) *
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
– Randy Dorton, American engineer (b. 1954) * 2004 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1980) * 2004 – James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (b. 1920) * 2004 – Maaja Ranniku, Estonian chess player (b. 1941) *
2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
– Joy Clements, American soprano and actress (b. 1932) * 2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926) * 2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928) * 2005 – Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923) * 2005 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913) * 2005 – Robert Sloman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926) *2006 – Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (b. 1904) * 2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1909) *
2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
– Petr Eben, Czech organist and composer (b. 1929) * 2007 – Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (b. 1928) * 2007 – Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (b. 1981) * 2007 – Anne Weale, English journalist and author (b. 1929) *
2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
– Moshe Cotel, American pianist and composer (b. 1943) *2010 – Mike Esposito (comics), Mike Esposito, American author and illustrator (b. 1927) * 2010 – Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1922) * 2010 – Joseph Stein, American author and playwright (b. 1912) *2011 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1967) * 2011 – John McCarthy (computer scientist), John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp (programming language), Lisp programming language (b. 1927) *2012 – Peggy Ahern, American actress (b. 1917) * 2012 – Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923) * 2012 – Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957) * 2012 – Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) * 2012 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918) *2013 – Antonia Bird, English director and producer (b. 1951) * 2013 – Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare genetic disorder (b. 1993) * 2013 – Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (b. 1934) * 2013 – Lew Mayne, American football player and coach (b. 1920) *
2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
– Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (b. 1980) * 2014 – S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1928) * 2014 – Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948) *
2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
– Michael Beetham, English commander and pilot (b. 1923) * 2015 – Alvin Bronstein, American lawyer and academic (b. 1928) * 2015 – Margarita Khemlin, Ukrainian-Russian author and critic (b. 1960) * 2015 – Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal (b. 1924) * 2015 – Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1920) *
2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
– Bobby Vee, American pop singer (b. 1943) * 2016 – Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, former president (2000-2005) (b. 1927) *2017 – Fats Domino, American pianist and singer-songwriter (b. 1928) * 2017 – Robert Guillaume, American actor (b. 1927) * 2017 – Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (b. 1929) *2018 – Tony Joe White, American singer/songwriter (b. 1943) *2021 – James Michael Tyler, American actor (b. 1962) *2022 – Leslie Jordan, American actor, writer, and singer (b. 1955)


Holidays and observances

*Christian feast day: **Anthony Mary Claret **Eberigisil, Eberigisil (Evergitus) **Felix of Thibiuca, Five Martyrs of Carthage (Felix and Companions) **Luigi Guanella **Magloire, Magloire of Dol **Martin of Vertou **Proclus of Constantinople **Raphael (archangel), Raphael the Archangel (Catholic Church 1921-1969, local calendars) **Rafael Guízar y Valencia **Senoch **October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *Azad Kashmir Day (Pakistan) *Public holidays in Russia#List of other public holidays, commemorative and professional days, Day of Special Forces of the Armed Forces (Russia) *Food Day (United States) *Independence Day (Zambia), Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zambia from United Kingdom in 1964. *International Day of Diplomats *Suez Day (Egypt) *United Nations Day, the anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations, 1945 Charter of the United Nations (International observance, International) *World Development Information Day *World Polio Day


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