October 25

Events

Pre-1600

* 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
* 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as ''Caesar'' of the East Roman Empire.
* 1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
* 1147 – ''Reconquista'': After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer Lisbon.
* 1415 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.

1601–1900

* 1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
*1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
* 1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
*1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, , commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate .
* 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
* 1854 – The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as ''The Charge of the Light Brigade''.
* 1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
* 1868 – The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
*1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

1901–present

*1911 – The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Feng-shan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.
* 1917 – Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
*1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
*1924 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the ''Daily Mail''; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
*1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS ''Principessa Mafalda'' sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
*1932 – George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.
* 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
*1944 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
* 1944 – World War II: The under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
* 1944 – World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
* 1945 – Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
*1949 – The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
*1968 – A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.
*1971 – The People's Republic of China '' replaces'' the Republic of China at the United Nations.
* 1973 – Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
*1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
* 1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a ''coup d'état''.
* 1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
*1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
*1999 – A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart.
*2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
*2009 – The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.
*2010 – Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people.
*2010 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

Births

Pre-1600

* 840 – Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, founder of the Saffarid dynasty (d. 879)
*1102 – William Clito, French son of Sybilla of Conversano (d. 1128)
*1330 – Louis II, Count of Flanders, (d. 1384)
*1453 – Giuliano de' Medici (d. 1478)
*1510 – Renée of France (d. 1574)
*1574 – François de Sourdis, French Catholic prelate (d. 1628)
*1589 – Jan Stanisław Sapieha, Polish-Lithuanian noble (d. 1635)

1601–1900

*1612 – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (d. 1650)
*1667 – Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1718)
*1683 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English-Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1757)
*1692 – Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain (d. 1766)
*1709 – Georg Gebel (the younger), Georg Gebel, German organist and composer (d. 1753)
*1714 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (d. 1799)
*1736 – Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (d. 1824)
*1743 – Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1812)
*1749 – Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, Swedish chamberlain (d. 1802)
*1754 – Richard Howell, 3rd Governor of New Jersey (d. 1802)
*1755 – François Joseph Lefebvre, French military commander (d. 1820)
*1757 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman (d. 1831)
*1759 – Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), Maria Feodorovna, Russian wife of Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
* 1759 – William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, William Grenville, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1834)
* 1760 – Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian (d. 1842)
*1767 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and politician (d. 1830)
*1768 – Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Frederick William, ruler of House of Nassau-Weilburg, Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1816)
*1772 – Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein, French memoirist (d. 1857)
* 1772 – Géraud Duroc, French general and diplomat (d. 1813)
*1779 – Pedro Velarde y Santillán, Spanish artillery captain (d. 1808)
*1781 – Friedrich von Berchtold, Bohemian physician and botanist (d. 1876)
*1782 – Levi Lincoln Jr., American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
*1789 – Carlos María de Alvear, Argentine soldier and statesman (d. 1852)
* 1789 – Heinrich Schwabe, German astronomer (d. 1875)
*1790 – Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (d. 1878)
*1792 – Jeanne Jugan, French nun (d. 1879)
*1795 – John P. Kennedy, American novelist and Whig politician (d. 1870)
*1800 – Maria Jane Jewsbury, English writer, poet, literary reviewer (d. 1833)
* 1800 – Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet, historian, and politician, Secretary at War (d. 1859)
* 1800 – Jacques Paul Migne, French priest (d. 1875)
* 1800 – Julius von Mohl, German orientalist (d. 1876)
*1802 – Richard Parkes Bonington, English painter (d. 1828)
* 1802 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (d. 1864)
*1803 – Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist (d. 1884)
*1806 – Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (d. 1856)
*1811 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1832)
*1814 – Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours (d. 1896)
*1815 – Camillo Sivori, Italian virtuoso violinist and composer (d. 1894)
*1819 – Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist (d. 1904)
*1821 – Antonio Ciseri, Swiss-Italian painter (d. 1891)
*1825 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1899)
* 1825 – Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, German astronomer and geophysicist (d. 1884)
*1827 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (d. 1907)
*1832 – Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1909)
*1838 – Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
* 1838 – James Maybrick, English cotton merchant, victim of the "Aigburth Poisoning" (d. 1889)
*1844 – Philip Wicksteed, English economist (d. 1927)
*1848 – Carlo Emery, Italian entomologist (d. 1925)
* 1848 – Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian novelist (d. 1904)
*1852 – Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Russian author (d. 1912)
*1853 – Karl August Otto Hoffmann, German botanist (d. 1909)
*1856 – Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archaeologist (d. 1936)
*1858 – Take Ionescu, Romanian politician, diplomat, journalist and lawyer (d. 1922)
*1864 – John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge, Dodge Company (d. 1920)
* 1864 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 1956)
* 1864 – Toktogul Satylganov, Kyrgyz Akyn, poet and singer (d. 1933)
*1866 – Thomas Armat, American mechanic and inventor (d. 1948)
* 1866 – Norbert Klein, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno, Bishop of Brno (d. 1933)
* 1866 – Georg Schumann (composer), Georg Schumann, German composer (d. 1952)
*1867 – Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (d. 1937)
* 1868 – Dan Burke (baseball), Dan Burke, American baseball player (d. 1933)
* 1868 – Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (d. 1946)
*1874 – Emma Gramatica, Italian actress (d. 1965)
* 1874 – Victor Sonnemans, Belgian water polo player (d. 1962)
* 1874 – Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1916)
*1875 – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, American author and educator (d. 1961)
* 1875 – Arthur Birkett, British cricketer (d. 1941)
*1877 – Adolf Moller, German rower (d. 1968)
* 1877 – Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (d. 1957)
*1879 – Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (d. 1925)
*1880 – Bohumír Šmeral, Czech politician (d. 1941)
*1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
*1882 – John T. Flynn, American journalist and author (d. 1964)
* 1882 – Tony Jackson (pianist), Tony Jackson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1921)
* 1882 – André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1964)
* 1882 – Theodora Agnes Peck, American author and poet (d. 1964)
*1883 – Nikolay Krestinsky, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1938)
*1884 – Maria Czaplicka, Polish cultural anthropologist (d. 1921)
*1885 – Sam M. Lewis, American singer and lyricist (d. 1959)
* 1885 – Xavier Lesage, French equestrian (d. 1968)
*1886 – Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (d. 1972)
* 1886 – Karl Polanyi, Austro-Hungarian economist and historian (d. 1964)
*1887 – Alexander McCulloch, British rower (d. 1951)
*1888 – Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and pilot (d. 1957)
* 1888 – Nils Dardel, Swedish-American painter (d. 1943)
* 1888 – Jan Palouš, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (d. 1971)
* 1888 – Léon Tom, Belgian fencer and bobsledder
*1889 – Abel Gance, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
*1890 – Floyd Bennett, American aviator (d. 1928)
* 1890 – Kōtarō Tanaka (judge), Kōtarō Tanaka, Japanese jurist and politician (d. 1974)
*1891 – Charles Coughlin, Canadian-American priest and radio host (d. 1979)
* 1891 – Karl Elmendorff, German conductor (d. 1962)
*1892 – Nell Shipman, Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1970)
*1894 – Claude Cahun, French photographer and sculptor (d. 1954)
* 1894 – Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish poet and songwriter (d. 1973)
* 1894 – Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1982)
*1895 – Levi Eshkol, Ukrainian-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
* 1895 – Vsevolod Merkulov, Russian head of the People's Commissariat for State Security, NKGB (d. 1953)
* 1895 – Arthur Schmidt (soldier), Arthur Schmidt, German officer (d. 1987)
*1896 – Nils Backlund, Swedish water polo player (d. 1964)
*1897 – Erwin von Lahousen, German Abwehr official (d. 1955)
* 1897 – Karl Olivecrona, Swedish lawyer and philosopher (d. 1980)
* 1897 – Luigi Pavese, Italian actor (d. 1969)
*1898 – Karl Anton, German director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1979)
*1899 – Armand Thirard, French cinematographer (d. 1973)
*1900 – Johan Greter, Dutch equestrian (d. 1975)
* 1900 – Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (d. 1978)
* 1900 – William Stevenson (athlete), William Stevenson, American track and fielder (d. 1985)

1901–present

*1901 – Roy Fox, British dance bandleader (d. 1982)

*1902 – Henry Steele Commager, American historian and author (d. 1998)
* 1902 – Carlo Gnocchi, Italian priest, educator and writer (d. 1956)
* 1902 – Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
*1903 – Piet van der Horst, Dutch cyclist (d. 1983)
*1904 – Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1985)
* 1904 – Denny Shute, American golfer (d. 1974)
* 1904 – Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-American animator (d. 1968)
*1905 – Bob McPhail, Scottish footballer (d. 2000)
*1906 – Karl Humenberger, Austrian footballer (d. 1989)
*1908 – Carmen Dillon, English film and production designer (d. 2000)
* 1908 – Gotthard Handrick, German fighter pilot and Olympic athlete (d. 1978)
* 1908 – Polly Ann Young, American actress (d. 1997)
*1909 – Whit Bissell, American actor (d. 1996)
* 1909 – Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1985)
* 1909 – Ken Domon, Japanese photographer (d. 1990)
* 1909 – Edward Flynn (boxer), Edward Flynn, American boxer (d. 1976)
*1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (d. 1994)
* 1910 – Johnny Mauro, American race car driver (d. 2003)
* 1910 – Tyrus Wong, Chinese-American artist (d. 2016)
*1912 – Abdelkader Ben Bouali, French footballer (d. 1997)
* 1912 – Alfred Klingler, German field handballer
* 1912 – Minnie Pearl, American entertainer and philanthropist (d. 1996)
* 1912 – Luigi Raimondi, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1975)
*1913 – Klaus Barbie, German SS captain (d. 1991)
* 1913 – Anton Kochinyan, Soviet-Armenian politician (d. 1990)
*1914 – John Berryman, American poet and scholar (d. 1972)
*1915 – Ivan M. Niven, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1999)
*1916 – Helge Larsson, Swedish canoeist (d. 1971)
* 1917 – Carl Forssell, Swedish fencer (d. 2005)
* 1917 – Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2001)
*1918 – David Ausubel, American psychologist (d. 2008)
*1919 – Beate Uhse-Rotermund, German pilot and entrepreneur (d. 2001)
* 1919 – Raoul Remy, French cyclist (d. 2002)
*1920 – Megan Taylor, British figure skater (d. 1993)
*1921 – Michael I of Romania (d. 2017)
*1922 – Gloria Lasso, Spanish singer (d. 2005)
*1923 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian prelate (d. 2019)
* 1923 – Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (d. 2012)
* 1923 – Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player (d. 2010)
*1924 – Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
* 1924 – Earl Palmer, American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame drummer (d. 2008)
*1925 – Oralia Dominguez, Mexican operatic mezzo-soprano singer (d. 2013)
* 1925 – Joseph Michel (politician), Joseph Michel, Belgian politician (d. 2016)
*1926 – Bo Carpelan, Finnish poet and author (d. 2011)
* 1926 – Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2020)
* 1926 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian-American soprano and actress (d. 2012)
*1927 – Barbara Cook, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
* 1927 – Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Uruguay (d. 2016)
* 1927 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist and author (d. 1987)
* 1927 – Lauretta Masiero, Italian actress and singer (d. 2010)
*1928 – Jeanne Cooper, American actress (d. 2013)
* 1928 – Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (d. 2021)
* 1928 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
* 1928 – Adolphe Gesché, Belgian Catholic priest and theologian (d. 2003)
* 1928 – Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic (d. 2016)
* 1928 – Marion Ross, American actress
* 1928 – Yakov Rylsky, History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, Soviet Jewish sabre fencer (d. 1999)
*1929 – Michel Knuysen, Belgian rower (d. 2013)
* 1929 – Zdravko Milev, Bulgarian chess player (d. 1984)
* 1929 – Claude Rouer, French cyclist (d. 2021)
* 1929 – Peter Rühmkorf, German writer (d. 2008)
*1930 – Harold Brodkey, American author and academic (d. 1996)
* 1930 – Karoly Honfi, Hungarian chess player (d. 1996)
*1931 – Annie Girardot, French actress and singer (d. 2011)
* 1931 – Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 2018)
*1932 – Vitold Fokin, Ukrainian first deputy prime minister
* 1932 – Jerzy Pawłowski, Polish fencer and double agent (d. 2005)
* 1932 – Theodor Pištěk (costume designer), Theodor Pištěk, Czech costume designer
*1933 – René Brodmann, Swiss footballer
* 1933 – Martti Mansikka, Finnish gymnast
*1934 – Carlos Sherman, Belarusian–Spanish translator, writer, activist (d. 2005)
*1935 – Rusty Schweickart, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut
*1936 – Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (d. 2015)
* 1936 – Arnfinn Nesset, Norwegian nurse and convicted serial killer
* 1936 – Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and singer
*1937 – Vendramino Bariviera, Italian cyclist (d. 2001)
* 1937 – Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, Spanish prelate
* 1937 – Roberto Menescal, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
*1938 – Bob Webster, American diver
*1939 – Zelmo Beaty, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
* 1939 – Sara Dylan, American actress and model
* 1939 – Nikolay Kiselyov (athlete), Nikolay Kiselyov, Soviet Nordic combined athlete (d. 2005)
* 1939 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
* 1939 – Dave Simmonds, British motorcycle racer (d. 1972)
* 1939 – Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
* 1940 – Jimmy Herman, Canadian actor (d. 2013)
* 1940 – Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach
*1941 – Lynda Benglis, American sculptor and painter
* 1941 – Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2020)
* 1941 – Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor (d. 2011)
* 1941 – Anne Tyler, American author and critic
* 1941 – Dave Weill, American discus thrower
*1942 – Terumasa Hino, Japanese jazz trumpeter
* 1942 – Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2018)
* 1942 – Franklin Loufrani, French President of the Smiley Company
*1943 – Orso Maria Guerrini, Italian actor
*1944 – Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician, 10th List of Menteris Besar of Kedah, Menteri Besar of Kedah (d. 2013)
* 1944 – Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1944 – James Carville, American lawyer and political consultant
* 1944 – Donald Ford, Scottish footballer
* 1944 – Fred Housego, Scottish-English taxi driver and game show host
* 1944 – Kati Kovács, Hungarian singer-songwriter and actress
* 1944 – Ren Zhengfei, Chinese businessman
* 1945 – Peter Ledger, Australian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1994)
* 1945 – Roy Lynes, English keyboardist and singer
* 1945 – Yuriy Meshkov, Ukrainian politician and Russian separatist (d. 2019)
* 1945 – Phil Volk, Phil "Fang" Volk, American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer
* 1945 – Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Polish lawyer, screenwriter and politician
* 1945 – Francisco Sá, Argentine footballer
* 1945 – David S. Ward, American director and screenwriter
* 1945 – Keaton Yamada, Japanese voice actor
*1946 – Gail Bird and Yazzie Johnson, Yazzie Johnson, Navajo artist
* 1946 – Elías Figueroa, Chilean footballer
* 1946 – Peter Lieberson, American composer
*1947 – Requena Nozal, Spanish artist
* 1947 – Glenn Tipton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
*1948 – Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
* 1948 – Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
* 1948 – Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach
* 1948 – Sigleif Johansen, Norwegian biathlete
*1949 – Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
* 1949 – Walter Hyatt, American singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
* 1949 – Brian Kerwin, American actor
* 1949 – Wilfried Louis, Haitian footballer
*1950 – Anne Alvaro, French actress
* 1950 – Fernando Arêas Rifan, Brazilian bishop
* 1950 – Roger Davies (footballer), Roger Davies, English footballer
* 1950 – John Matuszak, American footballer (d. 1989)
* 1950 – Francisco Oscar Lamolina, Argentine football referee
* 1950 – Chris Norman, English singer-songwriter
*1951 – Richard Lloyd (guitarist), Richard Lloyd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
*1952 – Samir Geagea, Lebanese commander and politician
* 1952 – Wendy Hall, English computer scientist, mathematician, and academic
* 1952 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
* 1952 – Tove Nilsen, Norwegian author
*1953 – Daniele Bagnoli, Italian volleyball coach
* 1953 – Jasem Yaqoub, Kuwaiti footballer
*1954 – Mike Eruzione, American ice hockey player and coach
* 1954 – Ed Powers, American founder of Ed Powers Productions
*1955 – Glynis Barber, South African-English actress
* 1955 – Robin Eubanks, American trombonist and educator
* 1955 – Gale Anne Hurd, American producer
* 1955 – Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter
* 1955 – Leena Lander, Finnish author
* 1955 – Lito Lapid, Filipino actor
*1956 – Stephen Leather, British author
*1957 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
* 1957 – Enrique López Zarza, Mexican footballer
* 1957 – Robbie McIntosh, English guitarist
* 1957 – Piet Wildschut, Dutch footballer
*1958 – Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer
* 1958 – Kjell Inge Røkke, Norwegian businessman and philanthropist
*1959 – Óscar Aguirregaray, Uruguayan footballer
* 1959 – Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2013)
*1960 – Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director and screenwriter
*1961 – John Sivebæk, Danish footballer
* 1961 – Chad Smith, American drummer
* 1962 – David Furnish, Canadian filmmaker
* 1962 – Steve Gainer, American cinematographer and director
* 1962 – Steve Hodge, English footballer and manager
* 1962 – John Stollmeyer, American soccer player
*1963 – John Levén, Swedish bass player and songwriter
* 1963 – Michael Lynagh, Australian rugby union footballer
* 1963 – Melinda McGraw, American actress
* 1963 – José Ortiz (basketball), José Ortiz, Puerto Rican basketball player
* 1963 – Tracy Nelson (actress), Tracy Nelson, American actress
*1964 – Michael Boatman, American actor
* 1964 – Johan de Kock, Dutch footballer
* 1964 – Nicole (German singer), Nicole, German singer
* 1964 – Kevin Michael Richardson, American voice actor and singer
*1965 – 2 Cold Scorpio, American wrestler
* 1965 – Mathieu Amalric, French actor and director
* 1965 – Valdir Benedito, Brazilian footballer
* 1965 – Claire Colebrook, Australian philosopher, theorist, and academic
* 1965 – Dominique Herr, Swiss footballer
* 1965 – Derrick Rostagno, American tennis player
* 1965 – Rainer Strecker, German actor
*1966 – Zana Briski, British photographer and filmmaker
* 1966 – Lionel Charbonnier, French footballer
* 1966 – Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1966 – Perry Saturn, American wrestler
*1967 – Martin Marinov, Australian canoeist
* 1967 – Taiyō Matsumoto, Japanese manga artist
* 1967 – Gary Sundgren, Swedish footballer
*1968 – Doris Fitschen, German footballer
* 1968 – Speech (rapper), Speech, American rapper
*1969 – Samantha Bee, Canadian-American comedian and television host
* 1969 – Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player and coach
* 1969 – Slavko Cicak, Swedish chess Grandmaster
* 1969 – Nika Futterman, American voice actress, comedian and singer
* 1969 – Ibragim Gasanbekov, Azerbaijani footballer
* 1969 – Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer
* 1969 – Alex Webster, American bass player
*1970 – J. A. Adande, American journalist and academic
* 1970 – Peter Aerts, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
* 1970 – Adam Goldberg, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1970 – Damir Mršić, Bosnian basketball player
* 1970 – Adam Pascal, American actor and singer
* 1970 – Rafael González Robles, Spanish footballer
* 1970 – Ed Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1970 – Daniel Scheinhardt, German footballer
* 1970 – Chely Wright, American singer-songwriter and actress
*1971 – Simon Charlton, English footballer and manager
* 1971 – Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
* 1971 – Neil Fallon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1971 – Midori (violinist), Midori Gotō, Japanese-American violinist and educator
* 1971 – Leslie Grossman, American actress
* 1971 – Rosie Ledet, American singer-songwriter and accordion player
* 1971 – Pedro Martínez, Dominican-American baseball player and sportscaster
* 1971 – Craig Robinson (actor), Craig Robinson, American actor and singer
* 1971 – Elif Şafak, French-Turkish journalist, author, and academic
*1972 – Cristian Dulca, Romanian footballer
* 1972 – Rodolfo Falcón, Cuban swimmer
* 1972 – Maxi Mounds, American nude big-bust model and pornographic actress
* 1972 – Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
* 1972 – Persia White, American actress
* 1973 – Fırat Aydınus, Turkish football referee
* 1973 – Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (d. 2005)
* 1973 – Michael Weston, American actor
*1974 – Lee Byung-kyu, South Korean baseball player
* 1974 – Yoo Yong-sung, South Korean badminton player
*1975 – Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1975 – Ryan Clement, American football player
* 1975 – Agustín Julio, Colombian footballer
* 1975 – Zadie Smith, English author and academic
* 1975 – Antony Starr, New Zealand actor
*1976 – Deon Burton, Jamaican footballer
* 1976 – Ahmed Dokhi, Saudi Arabian footballer
* 1976 – Akihisa Ikeda, Japanese manga artist
* 1976 – Steve Jones (footballer, born 1976), Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer
* 1976 – Brett Kirk, Australian footballer and coach
* 1976 – Anton Sikharulidze, Russian pair skater
*1977 – The Alchemist (musician), The Alchemist, American rapper, DJ, and producer
* 1977 – Yeho, Israeli singer and actor
* 1977 – Rodolfo Bodipo, Equatoguinean retired footballer
* 1977 – Mitică Pricop, Romanian sprint canoer
* 1977 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer and psychologist
* 1977 – Rakan Rushaidat, Croatian actor
* 1977 – Kateryna Serebrianska, Ukrainian gymnast
* 1977 – Mihai Tararache, Romanian footballer
*1978 – Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
* 1978 – Zachary Knighton, American actor
* 1978 – Bobby Madden, Scottish football referee
* 1978 – Robert Mambo Mumba, Kenyan footballer
* 1978 – Markus Pöyhönen, Finnish sprinter
* 1978 – An Yong-hak, North Korean footballer
*1979 – Bat for Lashes, English singer
* 1979 – Rob Hulse, English footballer
* 1979 – Mariana Klaveno, American actress
* 1979 – João Lucas (footballer, born 1979), João Lucas, Portuguese footballer (d. 2015)
* 1979 – Rosa Mendes, Canadian-American wrestler and model
*1980 – Mehcad Brooks, American model and actor
* 1980 – Félicien Singbo, Beninois footballer
*1981 – Hiroshi Aoyama, Japanese motorcycle racer
* 1981 – Josh Henderson, American actor and singer
* 1981 – Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
*1982 – Victoria Francés, Spanish illustrator
* 1982 – Devin Green, American basketball player
* 1982 – Guido Grünheid, German basketball player
* 1982 – Camilla Jensen, Danish curler
* 1982 – Michael Sweetney, American basketball player
* 1982 – Mickaël Tavares, Senegalese footballer
* 1983 – Princess Yōko of Mikasa
* 1983 – Hotaru Akane, Japanese actress and activist
* 1983 – Stanislav Bohush, Ukrainian footballer
* 1983 – Daniele Mannini, Italian footballer
* 1983 – Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
*1984 – Nicolas Besch, French ice hockey player
* 1984 – Ticia Gara, Hungarian chess player
* 1984 – Sara Lumholdt, Swedish singer and dancer
* 1984 – Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
* 1984 – Iván Ramis, Spanish footballer
* 1984 – Karolina Šprem, Croatian tennis player
*1985 – Ciara, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
* 1985 – Óscar Granados, Costa Rican footballer
* 1985 – Kara Lynn Joyce, American swimmer
* 1985 – Daniele Padelli, Italian footballer
*1986 – Tweety Carter, American basketball player
* 1986 – Roger Espinoza, Honduran footballer
* 1986 – Eddie Gaven, American soccer player
* 1986 – Kristian Sarkies, Australian footballer
* 1986 – Ekaterina Shumilova, Russian biathlete
*1987 – Bill Amis, American basketball player
* 1987 – Darron Gibson, Irish footballer
* 1987 – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
*1988 – Robson Conceição, Brazilian boxer
* 1988 – Lewis McGugan, English professional footballer
* 1988 – Chandler Parsons, American basketball player
* 1988 – Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer
* 1988 – Karim Yoda, French footballer
*1989 – Filip Grgić, Croatian taekwondo practitioner
* 1989 – Sten Grytebust, Norwegian footballer
* 1989 – David Hala, Australian rugby league player
* 1989 – Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer
*1990 – Mattia Cattaneo, Italian cyclist
* 1990 – Sara Chafak, Finnish beauty pageant winner
* 1990 – Asha Philip, British athlete
* 1990 – Milena Rašić, Serbian volleyball player
* 1990 – Dzina Sazanavets, Belarusian weightlifter
*1991 – Davide Faraoni, Italian footballer
* 1991 – Isabella Shinikova, Bulgarian tennis player
*1992 – Clarisse Agbegnenou, French judoka
* 1992 – Davide Formolo, Italian cyclist
* 1992 – Sergey Ridzik, Russian freestyle skier
*1993 – Isaiah Austin, American basketball player
* 1993 – Iván García (diver), Iván Garcia, Mexican diver
*1994 – Richard Jouve, French cross-country skier
* 1994 – Jefferson Lerma, Colombian footballer
* 1994 – Matteo Lodo, Italian rower
* 1994 – Gor Minasyan, Armenian weightlifter
* 1994 – Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster
* 1995 – Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
* 1995 – Patrick McCaw, American basketball player
*1997 – Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer
*1998 – Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player
*2000 – Vincent Zhou, American figure skater
*2001 – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, Princess Elisabeth, Belgian princess

Deaths

Pre-1600

* 625 – Pope Boniface V
* 912 – Rudolph I of Burgundy, Rudolph I, king of Upper Burgundy, Burgundy (b. 859)
*1047 – Magnus the Good, Norwegian king (b. 1024)
*1053 – Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu
*1154 – Stephen, King of England
*1180 – John of Salisbury, French bishop (b. c. 1120)
*1200 – Conrad of Wittelsbach, German cardinal (b. 1120)
*1230 – Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1180)
*1292 – Robert Burnell, Lord Chancellor of England
*1349 – James III of Majorca (b. 1315)
*1359 – Beatrice of Castile (1293–1359), Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (b. 1293)
*1400 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English philosopher, poet, and author (b. c.1343)
* 1415 – Charles I of Albret
* 1415 – Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389)
* 1415 – Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont (b. 1371)
* 1415 – Jean I, Duke of Alençon (b. 1385)
* 1415 – Anthony, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384)
* 1415 – Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, English soldier (b. 1394)
* 1415 – Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, English politician (b. 1373)
* 1415 – Dafydd Gam, Welsh nobleman (b. c. 1380)
*1478 – Catherine of Bosnia (b. 1425)
*1492 – Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop (b. 1455)
*1495 – John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
*1514 – William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and academic, founded University of Aberdeen (b. 1431)
*1557 – William Cavendish (courtier), William Cavendish, English courtier and civil servant (b. 1505)

1601–1900

*1647 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
*1651 – Saint Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint (b. 1551)
*1683 – William Scroggs, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (b. 1623)
*1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667)
*1757 – Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (b. 1672)
* 1760 – George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
*1806 – Henry Knox, American general and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of War (b. 1750)
*1826 – Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (b. 1745)
*1833 – Abbas Mirza, Persian prince (b. 1789)
*1852 – John C. Clark, American lawyer and politician (b. 1793)
*1889 – Émile Augier, French playwright (b. 1820)
*1895 – Charles Hallé, German-English pianist and conductor (b. 1819)

1901–present

*1902 – Frank Norris, American journalist and novelist (b. 1870)
*1910 – Willie Anderson (golfer), Willie Anderson, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1878)
*1916 – William Merritt Chase, American painter and educator (b. 1849)
*1919 – William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland (b. 1849)
*1920 – Alexander of Greece (b. 1893)
* 1920 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright, politician, Lord Mayor of Cork and hunger striker (b. 1879)
*1920 – Joe Murphy (Irish republican) died during the 1920 Cork hunger strike
*1921 – Bat Masterson, American lawman, buffalo hunter, and sport writer (b. 1853)
*1924 – Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet, and activist (b. 1876)
*1938 – Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author (b. 1892)
* 1940 – Thomas Waddell, Irish-Australian politician, 15th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1854)
*1941 – Franz von Werra, Swiss-German captain and pilot (b. 1914)
* 1945 – Robert Ley, German politician (b. 1890)
*1949 – Mary Ackworth Orr Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (b. 1867)
*1953 – Holger Pedersen (linguist), Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (b. 1867)
*1954 – Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, Indian jeweller and namesake of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers (b. 1874)
*1955 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese girl (b. 1943)
*1956 – Risto Ryti, Finnish lawyer, politician and Governor of the Bank of Finland; 5th President of Finland (b. 1889)
*1957 – Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
* 1957 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, English-Irish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
*1960 – Harry Ferguson, Irish-English engineer, founded the Ferguson Company (b. 1884)
*1963 – Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (b. 1898)
*1967 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright (b. 1886)
*1969 – Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (b. 1893)
*1970 – Ülo Sooster, Estonian painter (b. 1924)
*1971 – Mikhail Yangel, Soviet missile designer (b. 1911)
*1972 – Johnny Mantz, American race car driver (b. 1918)
* 1973 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
* 1973 – Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
* 1973 – Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (b. 1891)
*1975 – Vladimir Herzog, Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1937)
*1976 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (b. 1903)
*1977 – Félix Gouin, French politician (b. 1884)
*1979 – Gerald Templer, English field marshal and politician, List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Malaya, British High Commissioner in Malaya (b. 1898)
*1980 – Virgil Fox, American organist and educator (b. 1912)
* 1980 – Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (b. 1948)
* 1980 – Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1921)
*1982 – Bill Eckersley, English footballer (b. 1925)
* 1982 – Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver (b. 1901)
*1985 – Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
*1986 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (b. 1919)
*1989 – Mary McCarthy (author), Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (b. 1912)
*1990 – Alberto da Costa Pereira, Portuguese footballer (b. 1929)
*1991 – Bill Graham (promoter), Bill Graham, German-American concert promoter (b. 1931)
*1992 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)
* 1992 – Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (b. 1916)
*1993 – Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1958)
* 1993 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
*1994 – Kara Hultgreen, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1965)
* 1994 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
* 1995 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
* 1995 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
*1999 – Leonard Boyle, Irish and Canadian palaeographer and medievalist (b. 1923)
* 1999 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
*2000 – Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (b. 1909)
*2002 – Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (b. 1930)
* 2002 – René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (b. 1923)
* 2002 – Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (b. 1944)
*2003 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher (b. 1920)
* 2003 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician (b. 1925)
*2004 – John Peel, English radio host and producer (b. 1939)
*2010 – Lisa Blount, American actress (b. 1957)
* 2010 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
* 2010 – Vesna Parun, Croatian poet and author (b. 1922)
*2012 – Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (b. 1907)
* 2012 – Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
* 2012 – John Connelly (footballer, born 1938), John Connelly, English footballer (b. 1938)
* 2012 – Emanuel Steward, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster (b. 1944)
*2013 – Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach (b. 1934)
* 2013 – Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic (b. 1924)
* 2013 – Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (b. 1930)
* 2013 – Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
* 2013 – Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (b. 1930)
* 2013 – Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
* 2013 – Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (b. 1942)
*2014 – Jack Bruce, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1943)
* 2014 – Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th List of Vice Presidents of the Dominican Republic, Vice President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1940)
*2015 – David Cesarani, English historian and author (b. 1956)
* 2015 – Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (b. 1944)
* 2015 – Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (b. 1988)
* 2015 – Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955)
*2016 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (b. 1944)
* 2016 – Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (b. 1922)
*2018 – Thomas Keating, an American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (b. 1923)Rev. Thomas Keating, Pioneer in Contemplative Movement, Dies at 95
by Katharine Q. Seelye (The New York Times, Oct. 28, 2018)
*2019 – Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances

*Armed Forces Day (Romania)
*Christian feast day:
**Bernat Calbó, Bernat Calbó (Bernard of Calvo)
**Pope Boniface I
**Saint Canna, Canna
**Beatification, Blessed Carlo Gnocchi
**Saints Chrysanthus and Daria, Crysanthus and Daria (Western Christianity)
**Crispin and Crispinian
**Saint Fructus, Fructus
**Gaudentius of Brescia
**Goeznovius
**Minias of Florence
**Mar Nestorius (in the Church of the East, Nestorian churches)
**Dorcas, Tabitha (Dorcas)
**Tegulus
**Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy
**Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, The Six Welsh Martyrs and companions (in Wales)
**The Hallowing of Nestorius
**October 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Earliest day on which Nevada Day can fall, while October 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Friday in October. (Nevada)
*Earliest day on which October Holiday can fall, while October 31 is the latest; observed on last Monday in October. (Republic of Ireland, Ireland)
*Earliest day on which Teacher's Day (Australia) can fall, while October 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Friday in October. (Australia)
*Public holidays in Russia, Customs Officer's Day (Russia)
*National Day, Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country)
*Retrocession Day (Taiwan)
*Sovereignty Day (Slovenia)
*Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)

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