October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
320 – Pappus of Alexandria , Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest 614 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii ), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defend the rights of the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom .629 – Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks .1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre , a Christian church in Jerusalem , is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock .1016 – The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Assandun .1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium .1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor .1356 – Basel earthquake , the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel , Switzerland.1386 – Opening of Heidelberg University .1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto 's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama , killing Tuskaloosa .1565 – Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay , the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.1599 – Michael the Brave , Prince of Wallachia , defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr , leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization .1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession .1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.1775 – American Revolutionary War : The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine ).
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.1797 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria1851 – Herman Melville 's Moby-Dick The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin , an unequal treaty .1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day .1898 – The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.1912 – First Balkan War : King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany .1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic .1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium , to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada Canadian law .1944 – World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany .1945 – The USSR 's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory .1945 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud , stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita , who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva "Evita" Duarte .
1949 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 78 is adopted.1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio .1961 – the initial European Social Charter is adopted.1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.1968 – The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "Black Power " salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games .1977 – German Autumn : a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union .2003 – Bolivian gas conflict : Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada , is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.2004 – Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption .2007 – Karachi bombing : A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)1130 – Zhu Xi , Chinese philosopher (d. 1200)1405 – Pope Pius II (d. 1464)1517 – Manuel da Nóbrega , Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1570)1547 – Justus Lipsius , Belgian philologist and scholar (d. 1606)1569 – Giambattista Marino , Italian poet (d. 1625)1634 – Luca Giordano , Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1705)1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck , South African-Dutch merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)1662 – Matthew Henry , Welsh minister and scholar (d. 1714)1663 – Prince Eugene of Savoy (d. 1736)1668 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)1679 – Ann Putnam, Jr. , American witness in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716)1701 – Charles le Beau , French historian and author (d. 1778)1706 – Baldassare Galuppi , Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1785)1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , French general and author (d. 1803)1777 – Heinrich von Kleist , German author and poet (d. 1811)1785 – Thomas Love Peacock , English author and poet (d. 1866)1792 – Lucas Alamán , conservative Mexican politician and historian (d. 1853)1804 – Mongkut , Thai king (d. 1868)1822 – Midhat Pasha , Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1883)1831 – Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888)1836 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz , American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)1850 – Basil Hall Chamberlain , English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (d. 1935)1854 – Billy Murdoch , Australian cricketer (d. 1911)1859 – Henri Bergson , French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)1862 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat , Ottoman general (d. 1952)1865 – Arie de Jong , Dutch linguist and author (d. 1957)1865 – Logan Pearsall Smith , American-English author and critic (d. 1946)
1868 – Ernst Didring , Swedish author (d. 1931)1870 – D. T. Suzuki , Japanese author and scholar (d. 1966)1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin , Russian poet and author (d. 1936)1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi , Italian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)1875 – Len Braund , English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1955)1878 – James Truslow Adams , American historian and author (d. 1949)1880 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky , Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist (d. 1940)1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton , French cyclist (d. 1917)1885 – Amleto Novelli , Italian actor (d. 1924)1887 – Takashi Sakai , Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (d. 1946)1893 – Sidney Holland , New Zealand lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1961)1893 – George Ohsawa , Japanese philosopher and academic (d. 1966)
1894 – H. L. Davis , American author and poet (d. 1960)1894 – Tibor Déry , Hungarian author and translator (d. 1977)
1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers , American theorist and author (d. 1980)1898 – Lotte Lenya , Austrian-American singer and actress (d. 1981)1901 – Annette Hanshaw , American singer (d. 1985)1902 – Miriam Hopkins , American actress and singer (d. 1972)1902 – Pascual Jordan , German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)
1903 – Lina Radke , German runner and coach (d. 1983)1904 – A. J. Liebling , American journalist and author (d. 1963)1904 – Haim Shirman , Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981)
1905 – Jan Gies , Dutch activist (d. 1993)1905 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993)
1906 – James Brooks , American painter and educator (d. 1992)1909 – Norberto Bobbio , Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2004)1914 – Raymond Lambert , Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)1915 – Victor Sen Yung , American actor (d. 1980)1918 – Molly Geertsema , Dutch lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1991)1918 – Constantine Mitsotakis , Greek lawyer and politician, 178th Prime Minister of Greece
1918 – Bobby Troup , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1999)
1919 – Ric Nordman , Canadian captain and politician (d. 1996)1919 – Anita O'Day , American singer (d. 2006)
1919 – Pierre Trudeau , Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
1919 – Camilla Williams , American soprano and educator (d. 2012)
1920 – Melina Mercouri , Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994)1921 – Jerry Cooke , Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 2005)1921 – Jesse Helms , American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2008)
1921 – Beatrice Helen Worsley , Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)
1923 – Jessie Mae Hemphill , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)1924 – Buddy MacMaster , Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2014)1925 – Ramiz Alia , Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (d. 2011)1926 – Chuck Berry , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1926 – Klaus Kinski , German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1927 – Marv Rotblatt , American baseball player (d. 2013)1927 – George C. Scott , American actor and director (d. 1999)
1928 – Keith Jackson , American sportscaster and actor1928 – Maurice El Mediouni , Algerian pianist and composer
1928 – Dick Taverne , English lawyer and politician
1929 – Violeta Chamorro , Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua 1929 – Hillard Elkins , American producer and manager (d. 2010)
1929 – Kees Fens , Dutch author and critic (d. 2008)
1930 – Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun , Scottish politician1930 – Esther Hautzig , Lithuanian-American author (d. 2009)
1931 – Chris Albertson , Icelandic-American historian, journalist, and producer1931 – Roger Climpson , English-Australian journalist
1931 – Ien Dales , Dutch civil servant and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d. 1994)
1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis , Lithuanian musicologist and politician1933 – Forrest Gregg , American football player and coach1933 – Ludovico Scarfiotti , Italian race car driver (d. 1968)
1934 – Calvin Lockhart , Bahamian-American actor (d. 2007)1934 – Inger Stevens , Swedish-American actress (d. 1970)
1934 – Chuck Swindoll , American pastor, author, and educator
1935 – Peter Boyle , American actor and singer (d. 2006)1936 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino , Cuban cardinal1938 – Robert Dove , American lawyer and politician1938 – Dawn Wells , American model and actress, Miss Nevada 1959
1939 – Earl Jolly Brown , American actor (d. 2006)1939 – Flavio Cotti , Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd President of the Swiss Confederation
1939 – Mike Ditka , American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1939 – Ted Boy Marino , Italian-Brazilian wrestler and actor (d. 2012)
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald , American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1939 – Jan Erik Vold , Norwegian poet, author, and translator
1940 – Cynthia Weil , American songwriter1941 – Timothy Bell, Baron Bell , English businessman1941 – Martha Burk , American psychologist and author
1942 – Gianfranco Ravasi , Italian cardinal and scholar1943 – Christine Charbonneau , Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)1943 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech , Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
1945 – Yıldo , Turkish footballer, volleyball player, actor and showman1945 – Huell Howser , American television host and actor (d. 2013)
1945 – Chris Shays , American politician
1945 – Norio Wakamoto , Japanese voice actor
1946 – James Robert Baker , American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)1946 – Frank Beamer , American football player and coach
1946 – Dafydd Elis-Thomas , Welsh academic and politician
1946 – Howard Shore , Canadian composer, conductor, and producer
1947 – Paul Chuckle , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter1947 – Job Cohen , Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
1947 – Joe Morton , American actor and director
1947 – Laura Nyro , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1997)
1948 – Hans Köchler , Austrian philosopher, author, and academic1948 – Ntozake Shange , American author, poet, and playwright
1949 – Joe Egan , Scottish singer-songwriter (Stealers Wheel )1949 – George Hendrick , American baseball player and coach
1949 – Gary Richrath , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (REO Speedwagon ) (d. 2015)
1950 – Om Puri , Indian actor and singer1950 – Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright and author (d. 2006)
1950 – Sheila White , English actress and singer
1951 – Mike Antonovich , American ice hockey player and coach1951 – Pam Dawber , American actress and singer
1951 – Terry McMillan , American author and screenwriter
1951 – David Normington , English civil servant and politician
1951 – Nic Potter , English bass player and songwriter (Van der Graaf Generator and The Misunderstood ) (d. 2013)
1952 – Roy Dias , Sri Lankan cricketer and coach1952 – Paul Geroski , American-English economist and academic (d. 2005)
1952 – Chuck Lorre , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1952 – Patrick Morrow , Canadian mountaineer and photographer
1952 – Bảo Ninh , Vietnamese soldier and author
1952 – Allen Ripley , American baseball player (d. 2014)
1952 – Jerry Royster , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1953 – Loes Luca , Dutch actress and singer1954 – Nick Houghton , English general1954 – Arliss Howard , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Jean-Pierre Hautier , Belgian journalist and television host (d. 2012)1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Pylon and Supercluster )
1955 – Timmy Mallett , English radio and television host
1955 – Stu Mead , American painter and illustrator
1955 – David Twohy , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Rita Verdonk , Dutch journalist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
1955 – Denis Watson , Zimbabwean golfer
1955 – Mark Welland , English physicist and academic
1956 – Craig Bartlett , American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor1956 – Martina Navratilova , Czech-American tennis player and coach
1956 – Alkistis Protopsalti , Egyptian-Greek singer
1956 – Jim Talent , American lawyer and politician
1957 – Jon Lindstrom , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1957 – Catherine Ringer , French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Les Rita Mitsouko )
1958 – Corinne Bohrer , American actress1958 – Thomas Hearns , American boxer
1958 – Megumi Ishii , Japanese actress and politician
1958 – Kjell Samuelsson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1959 – Kirby Chambliss , American pilot1959 – Tatyana Kolpakova , Kyrgyzstani long jumper and coach
1959 – Milcho Manchevski , Macedonian-American director and screenwriter
1959 – John Nord , American wrestler
1959 – Chris Russo , American radio host
1960 – Erin Moran , American actress and singer1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme , Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Wynton Marsalis , American trumpet player, composer, and educator1961 – Rick Moody , American author and composer
1961 – Gladstone Small , Barbadian-English cricketer
1962 – Min Ko Naing , Burmese activist1962 – Vincent Spano , American actor, director, and producer
1964 – Dan Lilker , American singer-songwriter and bass player (Anthrax , Stormtroopers of Death , Nuclear Assault , Exit-13 , and Brutal Truth )1964 – Charles Stross , English journalist, author, and programmer
1965 – Curtis Stigers , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1966 – Dave Price , American journalist and game show host1966 – Slavi Trifonov , Bulgarian actor and singer
1966 – Angela Visser , Dutch model and actress, Miss Universe 1989
1967 – Eric Stuart , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor1968 – Lisa Chappell , New Zealand actress and singer1968 – Narendra Hirwani , Indian cricketer
1968 – Stuart Law , Australian cricketer and coach
1968 – Michael Stich , German tennis player and sportscaster
1969 – Volker Neumüller , German talent manager1969 – Nelson Vivas , Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
1970 – Doug Mirabelli , American baseball player and coach1970 – Michihiro Morita , Japanese Go player
1970 – Mike Starink , Dutch television host and actor
1971 – Nick O'Hern , Australian golfer1971 – Koshalendraprasad Pande , Indian guru
1972 – Mika Ninagawa , Japanese photographer and director1972 – Alex Tagliani , Canadian race car driver
1973 – Stephen Allan , Australian golfer1973 – James Foley , American photographer and journalist (d. 2014)
1973 – Michalis Kapsis , Greek footballer
1973 – Rachel Nichols , American journalist and sportscaster
1973 – Brian Scolaro , American comedian, actor, and producer
1973 – Sarah Winckless , English rower
1974 – Noboru Kaneko , Japanese actor1974 – Robbie Savage , Welsh footballer and sportscaster
1974 – Peter Svensson , Swedish guitarist and songwriter (The Cardigans )
1975 – Baby Bash , American rapper1975 – Alex Cora , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and sportscaster
1976 – Zhou Xun , Chinese actress and singer1977 – Gloc-9 , Filipino rapper (Death Threat )1977 – Flavia Colgan , Brazilian-American journalist
1977 – Kunal Kapoor , Indian actor
1977 – Ryan Nelsen , New Zealand-American soccer player and coach
1977 – David Vuillemin , French motorcycle racer
1978 – Jyothika , Indian actress1978 – Mike Tindall , English rugby player
1978 – Kenji Wu , Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
1979 – Jaroslav Drobný , Czech footballer1979 – Hikaru Kawamura , Japanese model
1979 – 'Ana Po'uhila , Tongan shot putter, hammer, and discus thrower
1980 – Josh Gracin , American soldier and singer1980 – Rebecca Watson , American blogger
1980 – Birsen Yavuz , Turkish sprinter and hurdler
1981 – Tina Hergold , Slovenian tennis player1981 – Greg Warren , American football player
1982 – Ne-Yo , American singer-songwriter, actor, and producer1982 – Thierry Amiel , French singer-songwriter
1982 – Michael Dingsdag , Dutch footballer
1982 – Mark Sampson , Welsh footballer and manager
1982 – Simon Gotch , American wrestler
1983 – Dante , Brazilian footballer1984 – Robert Harting , German discus thrower1984 – Freida Pinto , Indian actress and model
1984 – Esperanza Spalding , American singer-songwriter and bassist
1984 – Lindsey Vonn , American skier
1985 – Yoenis Céspedes , Cuban baseball player1985 – Andrew Garcia , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 – Iori Nomizu , Japanese voice actress and singer
1986 – Wilma Elles , German actress and fashion designer1987 – Zac Efron , American actor and singer1987 – Freja Beha Erichsen , Danish model
1989 – Joy Lauren , American actress1989 – Riisa Naka , Japanese model and actress
1990 – Bristol Palin , American author1990 – Carly Schroeder , American actress
1991 – Roly Bonevacia , Dutch footballer1991 – Tyler Posey , American actor and producer
325 – Emperor Ming of Jin (b. 299)707 – Pope John VII (b. 650)1035 – Sancho III of Pamplona (b. 992)1101 – Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (b. 1053)1141 – Leopold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108)1382 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond , Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (b. 1331)1417 – Pope Gregory XII (b. 1326)1480 – Uhwudong , Korean dancer and poet (b. 1440)1503 – Pope Pius III (b. 1439)1541 – Margaret Tudor , English wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)1545 – John Taverner , English organist and composer (b. 1490)1558 – Mary of Hungary (b. 1505)1561 – Yamamoto Kansuke , Japanese samurai (b. 1501)1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius , German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)1570 – Manuel da Nóbrega , Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (b. 1517)1604 – Igram van Achelen , Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1528)1646 – Isaac Jogues , French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1607)1667 – Fasilides , Ethiopian emperor (b. 1603)1678 – Jacob Jordaens , Belgian painter illustrator (b. 1593)1739 – António José da Silva , Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby , English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1721)1775 – Christian August Crusius , German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)1817 – Etienne Nicolas Méhul , French pianist and composer (b. 1763)1865 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)1871 – Charles Babbage , English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)1886 – Philipp Franz von Siebold , German physician and botanist (b. 1796)1889 – Antonio Meucci , Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)1892 – William W. Chapman , American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)1893 – Charles Gounod , French composer and educator (b. 1818)1908 – Nozu Michitsura , Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)1911 – Alfred Binet , French psychologist and author (b. 1857)1921 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)1931 – Thomas Edison , American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)1935 – Gaston Lachaise , French-American sculptor (b. 1882)1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes , Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)1942 – Mikhail Nesterov , Russian painter (b. 1862)1947 – Michiaki Kamada , Japanese admiral (b. 1890)1948 – Walther von Brauchitsch , German field marshal (b. 1881)1956 – Yoshio Markino , Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)1959 – Boughera El Ouafi , Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)1961 – Tsuru Aoki , Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)1962 – Iván Petrovich , Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)1965 – Dezső Kertész , Hungarian actor and film director (b. 1892)1965 – Lauri Törni , Finnish-American captain (b. 1919)
1965 – Henry Travers , English-American actor (b. 1874)
1966 – Elizabeth Arden , Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)1966 – S. S. Kresge , American businessman, founded Kmart (b. 1867)
1973 – Margaret Caroline Anderson , American publisher, founded The Little Review 1973 – Walt Kelly , American illustrator and animator (b. 1913)
1973 – Leo Strauss , German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1899)
1975 – Al Lettieri , American actor (b. 1928)1976 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana , Indian poet and author (b. 1895)1977 – Andreas Baader , German militant (b. 1943)1977 – Gudrun Ensslin , German militant leader, founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1940)
1977 – Jean-François Martial , Belgian actor (b. 1891)
1977 – Jan-Carl Raspe , Austrian-German militant (b. 1944)
1978 – Ramón Mercader , Spanish journalist, assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)1980 – Edwin Way Teale , American photographer and author (b. 1899)1982 – Dwain Esper , American director and producer (b. 1892)1982 – Pierre Mendès France , French lawyer and politician, 143rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
1982 – John Robarts , Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1982 – Bess Truman , American wife of Harry S. Truman , 40th First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
1983 – Diego Abad de Santillán , Spanish economist and author (b. 1897)1983 – Willie Jones , American baseball player (b. 1925)
1984 – Jon-Erik Hexum , American model and actor (b. 1957)1984 – Henri Michaux , French painter and poet (b. 1899)
1987 – Adriaan Ditvoorst , Dutch director and screenwriter (b. 1940)1988 – Frederick Ashton , Ecuadorian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)1999 – Paddi Edwards , English-American actress (b. 1931)2000 – Julie London , American singer and actress (b. 1926)2000 – Gwen Verdon , American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
2002 – Roman Tam , Hong Kong singer and actor (Roman and the Four Steps ) (b. 1950)2003 – Preston Smith , American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (b. 1912)2003 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán , Spanish journalist, author, and critic (b. 1939)
2005 – Johnny Haynes , English-Scottish footballer (b. 1934)2005 – Bill King , American sportscaster (b. 1927)
2006 – Mario Francesco Pompedda , Italian cardinal (b. 1929)2006 – Anna Russell , English-Canadian singer and actress (b. 1911)
2006 – Laurie Taitt , Guyanese-English hurdler (b. 1934)
2007 – Alan Coren , English journalist and author (b. 1938)2007 – William J. Crowe , American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
2007 – Vincent DeDomenico , American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (b. 1915)
2007 – Lucky Dube , South African singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1964)
2008 – Dee Dee Warwick , American singer (b. 1945)2009 – Adriaan Kortlandt , Dutch ethologist and biologist (b. 1918)2009 – Nancy Spero , American painter and academic (b. 1926)
2010 – Marion Brown , American saxophonist and musicologist (b. 1931)2012 – Brain Damage , American wrestler (b. 1977)2012 – Sylvia Kristel , Dutch model and actress (b. 1952)
2012 – Slater Martin , American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
2012 – George Mattos , American pole vaulter (b. 1929)
2012 – Albert Lee Ueltschi , American pilot and businessman, founded FlightSafety International (b. 1917)
2012 – David S. Ware , American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
2013 – Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix , Mexican drug lord (b. 1949)2013 – Felix Dexter , Caribbean-English comedian and actor (b. 1961)
2013 – Tom Foley , American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1929)
2013 – Bum Phillips , American football player and coach (b. 1923)
2013 – Allan Stanley , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
2013 – Bill Young , American sergeant and politician (b. 1930)
2014 – Joanne Borgella , American singer and model (b. 1982)2014 – Paul Craft , American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2014 – Mariano Lebrón Saviñón , Dominican author and academic (b. 1922)
2014 – Edward Regan , American academic and politician (b. 1930)
2014 – Sidney Shapiro , American-Chinese author and translator (b. 1915)
2015 – Robert Dickerson , Australian painter (b. 1924)2015 – Gamal El-Ghitani , Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1945)
2015 – Robert W. Farquhar , American engineer (b. 1932)
2015 – Frank Watkins , American bass player (Obituary and Gorgoroth ) (b. 1968)
2015 – Paul West , English-American author, poet, and academic (b. 1930)
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