October 15

Events

• 1066 - Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueor two months later.
• 1211 - Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
• 1529 - The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
• 1582 - Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
• 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
• 1793 - Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
• 1809 - The Viceroy the Río de la Plata, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, opens the port of Buenos Aires to trade with nations other than Spain.
• 1815 - Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
• 1863 - American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
• 1878 - The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• 1879 - The Segura river in southeastern Spain floods, killing 1077 people.
• 1888 - The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
• 1910 - Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
• 1917 - World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
• 1923 - The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
• 1928 - The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
• 1932 - Tata Airlines makes its first flight.
• 1939 - The New York Municipal Airport is dedicated.
• 1940 - President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
• 1944 - World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after it announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
• 1945 - The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, is executed for treason.
• 1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
• 1954 - Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
• 1956 - FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
• 1966 - The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
• 1979 - Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
• 1989 - Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
• 1989 - Eight of those convicted in the Rivonia Trial are released from prison.
• 1990 - Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
• 1991 - The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
• 1994 - The Clinton administration returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
• 1995 - Marco Campos dies in a race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
• 1995 - Saddam Hussein is reelected president of Iraq through a referendum.
• 1997 - The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
• 2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
• 2003 - China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
• 2005 - A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in Toledo, Ohio. Twenty-nine people are arrested.
• 2006 - The 6.7 Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
• 2007 - Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
• 2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
• 2011 - The 2011 Global Protests occur.
• 2013 - The 7.2 Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 die.
• 2016 - One hundred ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

  Births

• 99 BC - Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher
• 70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet
• 1265 - Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan
• 1440 - Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble
• 1471 - Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic
• 1542 - Akbar, Mughal emperor
• 1561 - Richard Field, English cathedral dean
• 1564 - Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• 1599 - Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam
• 1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician
• 1622 - Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man
• 1686 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright
• 1701 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns
• 1711 - Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine
• 1762 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator
• 1767 - Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician
• 1784 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria
• 1785 - José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician
• 1789 - William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds
• 1795 - Frederick William IV of Prussia, Prussian king from 1840-1861
• 1814 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter
• 1816 - John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales
• 1818 - Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer
• 1825 - Marie of Prussia
• 1829 - Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic
• 1833 - John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria
• 1836 - James Tissot, French painter and illustrator
• 1840 - Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec
• 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher
• 1858 - John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist
• 1865 - Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator
• 1872 - Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria
• 1872 - August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor
• 1874 - Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• 1878 - Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France
• 1879 - Jane Darwell, American actress
• 1881 - P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright
• 1882 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach
• 1884 - Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot
• 1887 - Frederick Fleet, English sailor
• 1888 - S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic
• 1890 - Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer
• 1893 - Carol II of Romania
• 1894 - Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel
• 1897 - Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile
• 1899 - Adolf Brudes, Polish-German race car driver
• 1899 - José Ramón Guizado, Panamanian politician, 17th President of Panama
• 1900 - Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer
• 1901 - Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist
• 1905 - C. P. Snow, English chemist and author
• 1906 - Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician
• 1906 - Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday
• 1906 - Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1907 - Varian Fry, American journalist and author
• 1908 - Herman Chittison, American pianist
• 1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India
• 1909 - Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic
• 1909 - Robert Trout, American journalist
• 1910 - Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan
• 1912 - Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist
• 1913 - Wolfgang Lüth, German commander
• 1914 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king
• 1916 - Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader
• 1916 - George Turner, Australian author and critic
• 1917 - Jan Miner, American actress
• 1917 - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic
• 1917 - Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator
• 1919 - Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist
• 1919 - Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver
• 1920 - Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor
• 1920 - Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress
• 1920 - Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter
• 1920 - Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1921 - Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player
• 1922 - Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author
• 1922 - Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway
• 1923 - Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist
• 1923 - Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician
• 1923 - Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist
• 1923 - Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria
• 1924 - Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator
• 1924 - Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author
• 1924 - Warren Miller, American director and screenwriter
• 1925 - Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist
• 1925 - Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress
• 1925 - Tony Hart, English painter and television host
• 1926 - James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
• 1926 - Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet
• 1926 - Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher
• 1926 - Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter
• 1926 - Jean Peters, American actress
• 1926 - Karl Richter, German organist and conductor
• 1927 - B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist
• 1929 - Will Insley, American painter and architect
• 1930 - FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat
• 1931 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India
• 1931 - Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician
• 1932 - Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer
• 1933 - Nicky Barnes, American drug lord
• 1934 - Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player
• 1934 - N. Ramani, Indian flute player
• 1935 - Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1935 - Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer
• 1935 - Bobby Morrow, American sprinter
• 1935 - Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1936 - Michel Aumont, French actor
• 1936 - Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman
• 1937 - Linda Lavin, American actress and singer
• 1938 - Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1938 - Brice Marden, American painter
• 1938 - Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1938 - Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist
• 1940 - Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
• 1940 - Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 - Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
• 1942 - Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter
• 1942 - Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral
• 1942 - Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1943 - Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer
• 1944 - Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania
• 1944 - A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician
• 1944 - Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
• 1944 - David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 - Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer
• 1945 - Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal
• 1945 - Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch
• 1945 - Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1946 - Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director
• 1946 - Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1946 - Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer
• 1946 - Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change
• 1947 - Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1947 - Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer
• 1948 - Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
• 1948 - Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1949 - Laurie McBain, American author
• 1949 - Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV
• 1950 - Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer
• 1951 - Atoy Co, Filipino basketball player, coach, and actor
• 1951 - Peter Richardson, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1951 - Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player
• 1951 - Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player
• 1951 - A. F. Th. van der Heijden, Dutch author
• 1953 - Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier
• 1953 - Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 - Larry Miller, American actor and screenwriter
• 1953 - Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist
• 1953 - Walter Jon Williams, American author
• 1954 - Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator
• 1954 - Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria
• 1954 - Jere Burns, American actor
• 1954 - Princess Friederike of Hanover
• 1954 - Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic
• 1955 - Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player
• 1955 - Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator
• 1957 - Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer
• 1957 - Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer
• 1957 - Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta
• 1958 - Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
• 1959 - Sarah, Duchess of York
• 1959 - Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author
• 1959 - Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
• 1959 - Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1961 - Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 - Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1964 - Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1965 - Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer
• 1966 - Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager
• 1966 - Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer
• 1966 - Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer
• 1966 - Dave Stead, English drummer
• 1967 - Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter
• 1967 - Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
• 1968 - Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager
• 1968 - Vanessa Marcil, American actress
• 1968 - Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player
• 1968 - Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician
• 1969 - Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer
• 1969 - Dominic West, English actor and director
• 1970 - Eric Benét, American musician
• 1970 - Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1970 - Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier
• 1971 - Joey Abs, American wrestler
• 1971 - Andy Cole, English footballer and coach
• 1971 - Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator
• 1972 - Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach
• 1972 - Matt Keeslar, American actor
• 1972 - Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager
• 1973 - Aleksandr Filimonov, Russian footballer
• 1973 - Maria Hjorth, Swedish golfer
• 1974 - Ömer Çatkıç, Turkish footballer
• 1974 - Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress
• 1975 - Alessandro Doga, Italian footballer
• 1975 - Glen Little, English footballer and manager
• 1976 - Christian Allen, American video game designer
• 1976 - Manuel Dallan, Italian rugby player
• 1977 - Masato Kawabata, Japanese race car driver
• 1977 - David Trezeguet, French footballer
• 1977 - Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1978 - Devon Gummersall, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1978 - Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler
• 1979 - Blue Adams, American football player and coach
• 1979 - Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer
• 1979 - Jekaterina Golovatenko, Estonian figure skater
• 1979 - Paul Robinson, English footballer
• 1979 - Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1979 - Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer
• 1980 - Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
• 1980 - Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1981 - Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1981 - Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
• 1981 - Radoslav Židek, Slovak snowboarder
• 1982 - Paulini, Fijian-Australian singer
• 1982 - Sachiko Yamada, Japanese swimmer
• 1983 - Bruno Senna, Brazilian race car driver
• 1983 - Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer
• 1984 - Izale McLeod, English footballer
• 1984 - Johan Voskamp, Dutch footballer
• 1984 - Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter
• 1985 - Arron Afflalo, American basketball player
• 1985 - Walter Alberto López, Uruguayan footballer
• 1985 - Marcos Martínez, Spanish race car driver
• 1986 - Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1986 - Carlo Janka, Swiss skier
• 1986 - Nolito, Spanish footballer
• 1987 - Jesse Levine, Canadian-American tennis player
• 1987 - Chantal Strand, Canadian voice actress and singer
• 1987 - Ott Tänak, Estonian race car driver
• 1988 - Lassy Mbouity, Congolese writer and politician
• 1988 - Mesut Özil, German footballer
• 1989 - Blaine Gabbert, American football player
• 1989 - Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer
• 1989 - Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer
• 1990 - Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1994 - Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper
• 1995 - Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player
• 1996 - Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer
• 1996 - Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer
• 1999 - Bailee Madison, American actress

  Deaths

• 412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
• 892 - Al-Mu'tamid, Muslim caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
• 898 - Lambert of Italy
• 912 - Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir
• 925 - Rhazes, Persian polymath
• 961 - Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba
• 1002 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy
• 1080 - Rudolf of Rheinfelden
• 1243 - Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint
• 1173 - Petronilla of Aragon
• 1326 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop and politician, Lord High Treasurer
• 1385 - Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
• 1389 - Pope Urban VI
• 1404 - Marie Valois, French princess
• 1496 - Gilbert, Count of Montpensier
• 1564 - Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author
• 1674 - Robert Herrick, English poet
• 1684 - Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer
• 1690 - Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator
• 1715 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher
• 1788 - Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral
• 1810 - Alfred Moore, American captain and judge
• 1811 - Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician
• 1817 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer
• 1819 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg
• 1820 - Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
• 1837 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice
• 1891 - Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter
• 1900 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer
• 1910 - Stanley Ketchel, American boxer
• 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy
• 1918 - Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint
• 1925 - Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary
• 1930 - Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company
• 1934 - Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France
• 1940 - Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia
• 1945 - Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France
• 1946 - Hermann Göring, German general and politician
• 1948 - Edythe Chapman, American actress
• 1955 - Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer
• 1958 - Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author
• 1958 - Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist
• 1959 - Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician
• 1959 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic
• 1960 - Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer
• 1961 - Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author
• 1963 - Horton Smith, American golfer and captain
• 1964 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
• 1965 - Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic
• 1966 - Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician
• 1968 - Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator
• 1976 - Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss
• 1978 - W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist
• 1980 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician
• 1980 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player
• 1981 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver
• 1983 - Pat O'Brien, American actor
• 1987 - Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso
• 1987 - Donald Wandrei, American author and poet
• 1988 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic
• 1989 - Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator.
• 1990 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director
• 1993 - Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic
• 1994 - Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic
• 1995 - Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1995 - Marco Campos, Brazilian race car driver
• 1999 - Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor
• 2000 - Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2000 - Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic
• 2003 - Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist
• 2005 - Jason Collier, American basketball player
• 2005 - Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician
• 2007 - Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician
• 2008 - Edie Adams, American actress and singer
• 2008 - Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet
• 2008 - Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer
• 2009 - Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer
• 2010 - Richard C. Miller, American photographer
• 2010 - Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist
• 2010 - Johnny Sheffield, American actor
• 2011 - Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author
• 2012 - Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 2012 - Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter
• 2012 - Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic
• 2012 - Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia
• 2012 - Pat Ward, American lawyer and politician
• 2013 - Donald Bailey, American drummer
• 2013 - Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher
• 2013 - Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist
• 2013 - Gloria Lynne, American singer
• 2013 - Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach
• 2013 - Hans Riegel, German businessman
• 2014 - Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian
• 2014 - Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer
• 2014 - Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician
• 2014 - Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach
• 2015 - Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager
• 2015 - Nate Huffman, American basketball player
• 2015 - Neill Sheridan, American baseball player
• 2015 - Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat
• 2015 - Tyrone Young, American football player
• 2017 - Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor
• 2018 - Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks

  Holidays and observances

• Anniversary of the 1987 Coup d'État
• Breast Health Day
• Christian feast day:
• *Bruno of Querfurt
• *Cúan of Ahascragh
• *Teresa of Ávila
• *Thecla of Kitzingen
• *October 15
• Earliest day on which Heroes' Day can fall, while October 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in October.
• Earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while October 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in October.
• Earliest day on which Sweetest Day can fall, while October 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Saturday in October.
• Evacuation Day
• Global Handwashing Day
• International Day of Rural Women
• King Father's Commemoration Day
• National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
• Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
• Teachers' Day
• White Cane Safety Day
• World Students' Day