Events

Pre-1600

* 1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the

Battle of Hastings The Battle of Hastings nrf, Batâle dé Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conque ...

. * 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King

Edward II of England Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir apparent to t ...

at the

Battle of Old Byland The Battle of Old Byland (also known as the Battle of Byland Abbey, the Battle of Byland Moor and the Battle of Scotch Corner) was a significant encounter between Scots and English troops in Yorkshire in October 1322, forming part of the War ...

, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. * 1586 –

Mary, Queen of Scots Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of S ...

, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen

Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". Eli ...

1601–1900

* 1656 – The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the

Religious Society of Friends Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...

. * 1758 –

Seven Years' War The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict that involved most of the European Great Powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. Other concurrent conflicts include the French and Indian War (175 ...

Frederick the Great Frederick II (german: Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King in Prussia from 1740 until 1772, and King of Prussia from 1772 until his death in 1786. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the S ...

suffers a rare defeat at the

Battle of Hochkirch The Battle of Hochkirch took place on 14 October 1758, during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War). After several weeks of maneuvering for position, an Austrian army of 80,000 commanded by Lieutenant Field Marshal Leopold Jo ...

. *

1773 Events January–March * January 1 – The hymn that becomes known as '' Amazing Grace'', at this time titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17", is first used to accompany a sermon led by curate John Newton in the town of Olney, Bucki ...

– The first recorded ministry of education, the

Commission of National Education The Commission of National Education ( pl, Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, KEN; lt, Edukacinė komisija) was the central educational authority in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, created by the Sejm and King Stanisław II August on October 1 ...

, is formed in the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ru ...

. * 1774 –

American Revolution The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revoluti ...

: The First Continental Congress denounces the

British Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprem ...

Intolerable Acts The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act, a tax measur ...

and demands British concessions. *

1805 After thirteen years the First French Empire abolished the French Republican Calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 11 – The Michigan Territory is created. * February 7 – King Anouvong become ...

–

War of the Third Coalition The War of the Third Coalition) * In French historiography, it is known as the Austrian campaign of 1805 (french: Campagne d'Autriche de 1805) or the German campaign of 1805 (french: Campagne d'Allemagne de 1805) was a European conflict spanni ...

: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm. * 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. *

1808 Events January–March * January 1 ** The importation of slaves into the United States is banned, as the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect; African slaves continue to be imported into Cuba, and until the island ab ...

– The

Republic of Ragusa hr, Sloboda se ne prodaje za sve zlato svijeta it, La libertà non si vende nemmeno per tutto l'oro del mondo"Liberty is not sold for all the gold in the world" , population_estimate = 90 000 in the XVI Century , currency = ...

is annexed by France. * 1843 – Irish nationalist

Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell (I) ( ga, Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilizat ...

is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy. *

1863 Events January–March * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states an official war goal. It proclaim ...

–

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...

: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the

Union Army During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states. It proved essential to th ...

completely out of

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

. *

1884 Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's '' Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price at ...

–

George Eastman George Eastman (July 12, 1854March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. He was a major philanthropist, establishing the Eastman ...

receives a U.S. Government

patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A ...

on his new paper-strip photographic film. *

1888 In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late ...

–

Louis Le Prince Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequ ...

films the first motion picture, '' Roundhay Garden Scene''. *

1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...

– The steam ship sinks near the

Lizard peninsula The Lizard ( kw, An Lysardh) is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The most southerly point of the British mainland is near Lizard Point at SW 701115; Lizard village, also known as The Lizard, is the most southerl ...

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

, killing 106.

1901–present

* 1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the

1908 World Series The 1908 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1908 season. The fifth edition of the World Series, it matched the defending National League champion Chicago Cubs against the American League champion Detroit Ti ...

; this would be their last until winning the

2016 World Series The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season. The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American Leag ...

. *

1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...

– English aviator

Claude Grahame-White Claude Grahame-White (21 August 1879 – 19 August 1959) was an English pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the ''Daily Mail''-sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race. Early life Claude Grahame-White was born ...

lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the

White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in ...

in Washington, D.C. * 1912 – Former president

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26t ...

is shot and mildly wounded by

John Flammang Schrank On October 14, 1912, former saloonkeeper John Flammang Schrank (1876–1943) attempted to assassinate former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt while he was campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Schrank's bullet lodged in Roos ...

. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. *

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the ...

–

Senghenydd colliery disaster The Senghenydd colliery disaster, also known as the Senghenydd explosion ( cy, Tanchwa Senghennydd), occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales, on 14 October 1913. The explosion, which killed 439 mine ...

, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners. *

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". * January ...

–

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers. * 1920 – Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories. *

1923 Events January–February * January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...

– After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial. *

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will b ...

– The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement. * 1933 – Germany withdraws from the

League of Nations The League of Nations (french: link=no, Société des Nations ) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ...

and

World Disarmament Conference The Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, generally known as the Geneva Conference or World Disarmament Conference, was an international conference of states held in Geneva, Switzerland, between February 1932 and November 1934 ...

. * 1939 –

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

: The sinks the British battleship within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland. *

1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * Januar ...

– World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz. *

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 ...

– World War II: Prisoners at

Sobibor extermination camp Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As an ...

covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout. * 1943 – World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt. * 1943 – World War II: The

Second Philippine Republic The Second Philippine Republic, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines ( tl, Repúbliká ng Pilipinas; es, República de Filipinas; ja, フィリピン共和国, ''Firipin-kyōwakoku'') and also known as the Japanese-sponsored Phi ...

, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president. * 1947 –

Chuck Yeager Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager ( , February 13, 1923December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the ...

becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound. * 1949 – The

Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in New York City from 1949 to 1958 were the result of Federal government of the United States, US federal government prosecutions in the postwar period and during the Cold War between the Soviet Uni ...

in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government. *

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

–

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: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952. * 1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's

Untouchable caste Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming ...

, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism). *

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year ...

– The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the

Queen of Canada The monarchy of Canada is Canada's form of government embodied by the Canadian sovereign and head of state. It is at the core of Canada's constitutional Canadian federalism, federal structure and Westminster system, Westminster-style Parliamentar ...

. * 1957 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating

flood A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrol ...

in the history of the Spanish city of

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

. *

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...

– The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba. *

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...

–

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

receives the

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...

for combating

racial inequality Social inequality occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons. It posses and creates gender c ...

through nonviolence. * 1964 – The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept

Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...

's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices. * 1966 – The city of

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system. * 1968 – Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew. * 1968 – The 6.5 Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

with a maximum

Mercalli intensity The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS), developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of 1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of shaking produced by an earthquake. It measures the eff ...

of IX (''Violent''), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured. * 1968 –

Jim Hines James Ray Hines (born September 10, 1946) is a retired American track and field athlete and NFL player, who held the 100-meter world record for 15 years. In 1968, he became the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100 me ...

becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds. *

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: ...

– In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers. * 1975 – An

RAF The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...

Avro Vulcan The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984. Aircraft manufacturer A.V. Roe an ...

bomber explodes and crashes over

Żabbar Żabbar ( mt, Ħaż-Żabbar, ), also known as Città Hompesch, is a city in the South Eastern Region of Malta. It is the sixth largest city in the country, with a population of 15,404 as of March 2014. Originally a part of Żejtun, Żabbar was gr ...

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground. *

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...

– The first

National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on October 14, 1979. The first such march on Washington, it drew between 75,000 and 125,000Ghaziani, Amin. 2008. ''T ...

draws approximately 100,000 people. * 1980 – The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President

Kim Il-sung Kim Il-sung (; , ; born Kim Song-ju, ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he ruled from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of ...

's son Kim Jong-il as his successor. *

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

– Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the

President of Egypt The president of Egypt is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointer of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the E ...

, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat. * 1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a

War on Drugs The war on drugs is a global campaign, led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States.Cockburn and St. Clair, 1 ...

. *

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

– Burmese opposition leader

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2 ...

is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. * 1994 –

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin (; he, יִצְחָק רַבִּין, ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until h ...

and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government. *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

–

Eric Rudolph Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted for a series of bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injur ...

is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. * 2003 – The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at

Wrigley Field Wrigley Field is a Major League Baseball (MLB) stadium on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home of the Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises. It first opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park for Charles Weeghman's Chicago ...

in Chicago, Illinois. * 2004 – MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board. * 2004 – Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed. *

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gat ...

–

Felix Baumgartner Felix Baumgartner (; born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He is widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States, as par ...

successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere. *

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

– A

snowstorm A winter storm is an event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental climates, these storms are not necessar ...

and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people. * 2014 – The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win. * 2015 – A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others. *

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...

– A massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others. *

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...

– About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike.

Births

Pre-1600

1257 Year 1257 ( MCCLVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – The Epirote–Nicaean conflict begins between the Despotate of Epirus and ...

–

Przemysł II Przemysł II ( also given in English and Latin language, Latin as ''Premyslas'' or ''Premislaus'' or in Polish as '; 14 October 1257 – 8 February 1296) was the Duke of Poznań from 1257–1279, of Greater Poland from 1279 to 1296, of Kraków f ...

of Poland (d. 1296) *

1404 Year 1404 ( MCDIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * April or May – Battle of Blackpool Sands: Local English forces defeat an attempte ...

– Marie of Anjou (d. 1463) * 1425 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (d. 1499) *

1465 Year 1465 ( MCDLXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 24 – Chilia is conquered by Stephen the Great of Moldavia, following a ...

– Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (d. 1547) *

1493 Year 1493 ( MCDXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 19 – Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne a ...

–

Shimazu Tadayoshi was a ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of Satsuma Province during Japan's Sengoku period. He was born into the Mimasaka Shimazu family (伊作島津家), which was part of the Shimazu clan, but after his father Shimazu Yoshihisa died, his mother ma ...

, Japanese daimyō (d. 1568) *

1542 __NOTOC__ Year 1542 ( MDXLII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * February 2 – Battle of Baçente: The Portuguese under Cristóvão da ...

–

Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg Philip IV of Nassau-Weilburg, also known as Philip III of Nassau-Saarbrücken (14 October 1542 in Weilburg – 12 March 1602 in Saarbrücken) was Count of Nassau-Weilburg from 1559 until his death and since 1574 also Count of Nassau-Saarbrü ...

(d. 1602) *

1563 Year 1563 ( MDLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * February 1 – Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia. * Jan ...

– Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (d. 1611) *

1569 Year 1569 ( MDLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 11–May 6 – The first recorded lottery in England is performed nonstop, at the we ...

– Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (d. 1625)

1601–1900

1609 Events January–June * January – The Basque witch trials begin. * January 15 – One of the world's first newspapers, ''Avisa Relation oder Zeitung'', begins publication in Wolfenbüttel (Holy Roman Empire). * January 3 ...

– Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1689) *

1630 Events January–March * January 2 – A shoemaker in Turin is found to have the first case of bubonic plague there as the plague of 1630 begins spreading through Italy. * January 5 – A team of Portuguese military advisers ...

– Sophia of Hanover (d. 1714) *

1633 Events January–March * January 20 – Galileo Galilei, having been summoned to Rome on orders of Pope Urban VIII, leaves for Florence for his journey. His carriage is halted at Ponte a Centino at the border of Tuscany, w ...

–

James II of England James VII and II (14 October 1633 16 September 1701) was King of England and King of Ireland as James II, and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Re ...

(d. 1701) *

1639 Events January–March * January 14 – Connecticut's first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted. * January 19 – Hämeenlinna ( sv, Tavastehus) is granted privileges, after it separates from the Vanaja parish ...

–

Simon van der Stel Simon van der Stel (14 October 1639 – 24 June 1712) was the last commander and first Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony, the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. Background Simon was the son of Adriaan van der Steland Maria Lievens, ...

, Dutch commander and politician, 1st Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (d. 1712) *

1643 Events January–March * January 21 – Abel Tasman sights the island of Tonga. * February 6 – Abel Tasman sights the Fiji Islands. * March 13 – First English Civil War: First Battle of Middlewich – Roundheads ...

–

Bahadur Shah I Bahadur Shah I (14 October 1643 – 27 February 1712), also known as Muhammad Mu'azzam and Shah Alam I. was the eighth Mughal Emperor who ruled from 1707 until his death in 1712. In his youth, he conspired to overthrow his father Aurangzeb, t ...

, Mughal emperor (d. 1712) *

1644 It is one of eight years (CE) to contain each Roman numeral once (1000(M)+500(D)+100(C)+(-10(X)+50(L))+(-1(I)+5(V)) = 1644). Events January–March * January 22 – The Royalist Oxford Parliament is first assembled by King ...

– William Penn, English businessman who founded

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

(d. 1718) *

1687 Events January–March * January 3 – With the end of latest of the Savoyard–Waldensian wars in the Duchy of Savoy between the Savoyard government and Protestant Italians known as the Waldensians, Victor Amadeus III, Duke ...

–

Robert Simson Robert Simson (14 October 1687 – 1 October 1768) was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. The Simson line is named after him.1712 –

George Grenville George Grenville (14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770) was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain. Grenville was born into an influential political family and first entered Parliament in 1741 as an ...

, English lawyer and politician,

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern ...

(d. 1770) *

1726 Events January–March * January 23 – (January 12 Old Style) The Conventicle Act (''Konventikelplakatet'') is adopted in Sweden, outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services. * January 26 – ...

–

Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, PC (14 October 172617 June 1813) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the Seven Years' War. Middleton was given command of a guardship at the Nore, a Roy ...

, Scottish-English admiral and politician (d. 1813) *

1733 Events January–March * January 13 – Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the death of King Sanphet IX. * January 27 – George Frideric Handel's classic opera, ''Orlando'' is performed for th ...

– François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798) *

1784 Events January–March * January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea. * January 14 – The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Bri ...

–

Ferdinand VII of Spain , house = Bourbon-Anjou , father = Charles IV of Spain , mother = Maria Luisa of Parma , birth_date = 14 October 1784 , birth_place = El Escorial, Spain , death_date = , death_place = Madrid, Spain , burial_p ...

(d. 1833) *

1791 Events January–March * January 1 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arrives in England, to perform a series of concerts. * January 2 – Northwest Indian War: Big Bottom Massacre – The war begins in the Ohio Country ...

–

Friedrich Parrot Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot (14 October 1791) was a Baltic German naturalist, explorer, and mountaineer, who lived and worked in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia) in what was then the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. A pio ...

, Baltic German naturalist (d. 1841) *

1801 Events January–March * January 1 ** The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the abolition of the Parliament of I ...

– Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the

Phenakistoscope The phenakistiscope (also known by the spellings phénakisticope or phenakistoscope) was the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion of motion. Dubbed and ('stroboscopic discs') by its inventors, it has been known unde ...

(d. 1883) * 1806 – Preston King, American lawyer and politician (d. 1865) * 1824 – Adolphe Monticelli, French painter (d. 1886) *

1840 Events January–March * January 3 – One of the predecessor papers of the ''Herald Sun'' of Melbourne, Australia, ''The Port Phillip Herald'', is founded. * January 10 – Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United Kingdom. * Janu ...

– Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (d. 1868) *

1842 Events January–March * January ** Michael Alexander takes office, as the first appointee to the Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem. ** American medical student William E. Clarke of Berkshire Medical College becomes the first pe ...

–

Joe Start Joseph Start (October 14, 1842 – March 27, 1927), nicknamed "Old Reliable", was one of the most durable regulars of baseball's earliest era, and one of the top first basemen of his time. He began his playing career in 1859, before the forma ...

, American baseball player and manager (d. 1927) * 1844 –

John See Sir John See (14 October 184431 January 1907) was a member of the New South Wales Legislature from 26 November 1880 to 15 June 1901, and was then Premier of New South Wales from 1901 to 1904. See was a self-made man of strong character, ...

, English-Australian politician, 14th

Premier of New South Wales The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Government of New South Wales follows the Westminster Parliamentary System, with a Parliament of New South Wales acting as the legislatu ...

(d. 1907) * 1845 – Laura Askew Haygood (d. 1900) *

1848 1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the polit ...

– Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker and philanthropist (d. 1924) * 1853 – John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (d. 1924) *

1861 Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. ** The first stea ...

– Julia A. Ames, American journalist, editor, and reformer (d. 1891) *

1867 Events January–March * January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...

–

Masaoka Shiki , pen-name of Masaoka Noboru (正岡升), was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during ...

, Japanese poet, author, and critic (d. 1902) *

1869 Events January–March * January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan. * January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional Soccer, football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded. * January 20 & ...

– Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (d. 1939) * 1871 –

Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky (14 October 1871 – 15 March 1942) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher. Biography Early life Zemlinsky was born in Vienna to a highly diverse family. Zemlinsky's grandfather, Anton S ...

, Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher (d. 1942) *

1872 Events January–March * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...

–

Reginald Doherty Reginald "Reggie" or "R. F." Frank Doherty (14 October 1872 – 29 December 1910) was a British tennis player and the older brother of tennis player Laurence Doherty. He was known in the tennis world as "R.F." rather than "Reggie".

, English tennis player (d. 1910) *

1882 Events January–March * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in t ...

–

Éamon de Valera Éamon de Valera (, ; first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent Irish statesman and political leader. He served several terms as head of govern ...

, American-Irish rebel and politician, 3rd

President of Ireland The president of Ireland ( ga, Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of Ireland and the supreme commander of the Irish Defence Forces. The president holds office for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms.Constitu ...

(d. 1975) * 1882 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1959) *

–

Katherine Mansfield Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebra ...

, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1923) * 1888 – Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (d. 1947) * 1890 –

Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...

, American general and politician, 34th

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States ...

(d. 1969) *

1892 Events January–March * January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. * February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado. * February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies fo ...

– Sumner Welles, American politician and diplomat, 11th

Under Secretary of State Under Secretary of State (U/S) is a title used by senior officials of the United States Department of State who rank above the Assistant Secretaries and below the Deputy Secretary. From 1919 to 1972, the Under Secretary was the second-ranking off ...

(d. 1961) *

1893 Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – Th ...

– Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (d. 1974) * 1893 – Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993) *

1894 Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...

– E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (d. 1962) *

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Victoria Drummond Victoria Alexandrina Drummond MBE (14 October 1894 – 25 December 1978), was the first woman marine engineer in the UK and the first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. In World War II she served at sea as an engineering officer in t ...

, British marine engineer (d. 1978) *

1897 Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puni ...

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Alicja Dorabialska Alicja Dorabialska (14 October 1897 – 1975), was a Polish chemist. Life Alicja Dorabialska was born in Sosnowiec, Vistula Land, Russian Empire (now Poland) on 14 October 1897. She graduated from a high school in Warsaw in 1914 and then enrolled ...

, Polish chemist (d. 1975) *

– Thomas William Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot,

Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previously ...

recipient (d. 1950) *

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...

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W. Edwards Deming William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical ...

, American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993)

1901–present

1902 Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world' ...

– Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (d. 1963) * 1902 – Arthur Justice, Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (d. 1977) *

1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library syst ...

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Christian Pineau Christian Pineau (; 14 October 1904, in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France – 5 April 1995, in Paris) was a noted French Resistance fighter, who later served an important term as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 through 1958. Life ...

, French politician,

French Minister of Foreign Affairs The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs () is the ministry of the Government of France that handles France's foreign relations. Since 1855, its headquarters have been located at 37 Quai d'Orsay, close to the National Assembly. The term Qu ...

(d. 1995) * 1904 – Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician,

First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union The First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union was the deputy head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); despite the title, the office was not necessarily held by a single individual. The office had three different name ...

(d. 1978) *

1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

– Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949) * 1906 – Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (d. 1975) *

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco ...

– Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992) *

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Jan ...

– Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (d. 2000) * 1909 –

Dorothy Kingsley Dorothy Kingsley (October 14, 1909 – September 26, 1997) was an American screenwriter, who worked extensively in film, radio and television. Biography Born in New York City, Kingsley was the daughter of newspaperman and press agent Walter J. ...

, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997) * 1909 –

Bernd Rosemeyer Bernd Rosemeyer (14 October 1909 – 28 January 1938) was a German racing driver and speed record holder. He is considered one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. Though he was not a member of the Nazi party, he was made a member of the ...

, German racing driver (d. 1938) *

– John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010) * 1911 –

Lê Đức Thọ Lê Đức Thọ (; 14 October 1911 – 13 October 1990), born Phan Đình Khải in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and politician. He was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with ...

, Vietnamese general and politician,

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

laureate (d. 1990) *

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...

– Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004) * 1914 – Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist,

laureate (d. 2006) * 1914 – Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic (d. 1985) *

– Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (d. 2016) *

1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * J ...

– C. Everett Koop, American admiral and surgeon, 13th

United States Surgeon General The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States. Th ...

(d. 2013) * 1918 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician (d. 1991) * 1918 – Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain (d. 2015) * 1918 – Doug Ring, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2003) * 1921 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009) *

– Joel Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (d. 2014) *

1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Viet ...

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Willy Alberti Willy Alberti (born Carel Verbrugge; 14 October 1926 – 18 February 1985) was a Dutch singer, who sang in Dutch and Italian. He was also an actor and a radio and TV personality. Alberti was born in Amsterdam as the third of eight children to Ja ...

, Dutch singer and actor (d. 1985) *

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 ...

– Roger Moore, English actor and producer (d. 2017) * 1928 – Joyce Bryant, American actress and singer * 1928 – Frank E. Resnik, American chemist and businessman (d. 1995) *

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

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Yvon Durelle Yvon Durelle (October 14, 1929 – January 6, 2007), was a Canadian champion boxer. He was of Acadian descent. Early life From a family of fourteen children, Yvon Durelle grew up in Baie-Ste-Anne, a small Acadian fishing village on Miramich ...

, Canadian boxer and wrestler (d. 2007) *

– Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist (d. 2020) * 1930 – Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician,

President of Zaire President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese f ...

(d. 1997) * 1930 – Alan Williams, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (d. 2014) * 1932 – Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and actor (d. 2005) * 1932 –

Anatoly Larkin Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin (russian: Анатолий Иванович Ларкин; October 14, 1932 – August 4, 2005) was a Russian theoretical physicist, universally recognised as a leader in theory of condensed matter, and who was also a cele ...

, Russian-American physicist and academic (d. 2005) *

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

– Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2017) * 1936 – Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (d. 2014) * 1938 –

Farah Pahlavi Farah Pahlavi ( fa, فرح پهلوی, née Farah Diba ( fa, فرح دیبا, label=none); born 14 October 1938) is the widow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was successively Queen and Empress ('' Shahbanu'') of Iran fro ...

, Empress of Iran * 1938 –

John Dean John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is an American former attorney who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal ...

, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel * 1938 – Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, English curator and academic * 1938 –

Ron Lancaster Ronald Lancaster (October 14, 1938 – September 18, 2008) was an American-Canadian professional football player and coach in the Canadian Football League (CFL). As the starting quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders for 16 seasons, he ...

, American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008) * 1938 – Shula Marks, South African historian and academic * 1938 –

Melba Montgomery Melba Joyce Montgomery (born October 14, 1938) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for a series of duet recordings made with George Jones, Gene Pitney and Charlie Louvin. She is also a solo artist, having reaching th ...

, American country music singer * 1939 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the

Ralph Lauren Corporation Ralph Lauren Corporation is an American publicly traded fashion company that was founded in 1967 by American fashion designer Ralph Lauren. The company is headquartered in New York City, producing products ranging from the mid-range to the luxur ...

* 1939 – Rocky Thompson, American golfer and politician *

– Perrie Mans, South African snooker player * 1940 – Cliff Richard, Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor * 1940 –

J. C. Snead Jesse Carlyle "J. C." Snead (born October 14, 1940) is an American professional golfer who won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. Snead is the nephew of hall of famer Sam Snead. Snead, who prefers that people called him by his ...

, American golfer * 1940 –

Christopher Timothy Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει� ...

, Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter * 1941 –

Jerry Glanville Jerry Michael Glanville (born October 14, 1941) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Alabama Airborne of Major League Football. He played football at Northern Michigan University in the early 1960s, and is a former NASCAR ...

, American football player and coach * 1941 –

Eddie Keher Edward Peter Keher (; born 14 October 1941) is an Irish former hurler who played as a centre-forward at senior level for the Kilkenny county team. Born in Inistioge, County Kilkenny, Keher first played competitive hurling whilst at school in ...

, Irish sportsman * 1941 – Laurie Lawrence, Australian rugby player and coach * 1941 –

Art Shamsky Arthur Louis Shamsky (nicknamed "Sham" and "Smasher"; born October 14, 1941) is an American former Major League Baseball player. He played right field, left field, and first base from 1965 to 1972 for the Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Chicago ...

, American baseball player and manager * 1941 – Roger Taylor, English tennis player *

1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in w ...

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Bob Hiller Robert Hiller (born 14 October 1942) is a former England international rugby union player. Hiller was England's first choice fullback between 1968 and 1972. He made his England debut against Wales at Twickenham on 20 January 1968 and won the ...

, English rugby player * 1942 –

Evelio Javier Evelio Bellaflor Javier (October 31, 1942 – February 11, 1986) was a Filipino politician. He served as governor of the province of Antique and was an opponent of the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos. His assassination on February 11, ...

, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1986) * 1942 – Péter Nádas, Hungarian author and playwright * 1942 – Suzzanna, Indonesian actress (d. 2008) *

– Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th

President of Iran The president of Iran ( fa, رئیس‌جمهور ایران, Rayis Jomhur-e Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The president is the second highest-ranking official of Iran after the Supreme Leader. The president ...

* 1944 –

Udo Kier Udo Kierspe (born 14 October 1944), known professionally as Udo Kier, is a German actor. Known primarily as a character actor, Kier has appeared in more than 220 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe and the Americas. He h ...

, German-American actor and director *

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which Nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat. Events Below, ...

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Colin Hodgkinson Colin Hodgkinson (born 14 October 1945, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England) is a British rock, jazz and blues bassist, who has been active since the 1960s. Career Hodgkinson played in several bands, but was even more prolific as a sessi ...

, English bass player * 1945 – Daan Jippes, Dutch author and illustrator * 1945 – Lesley Joseph, English actress * 1946 – François Bozizé, Gabonese general and politician,

President of the Central African Republic President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese f ...

* 1946 –

Joey de Leon Jose Maria Ramos de Leon Jr. (born October 14, 1946), professionally known as Joey de Leon, is a Filipino comedian, actor, television presenter and songwriter. He hosts the noontime variety show ''Eat Bulaga!'' He is a member of the comedy trio ...

, Filipino comedian, actor and television host * 1946 –

Justin Hayward David Justin Hayward (born 14 October 1946) is an English musician best known as the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the rock band the Moody Blues. Hayward became the group's principal lead guitarist and vocalist over the 1967–1974 ...

, English singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2022) * 1946 –

Al Oliver Albert Oliver Jr. (born October 14, 1946) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder and first baseman from through , most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates teams that won f ...

, American baseball player * 1946 – Craig Venter, American biologist, geneticist, and academic * 1947 – Norman Harris, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987) * 1947 – Charlie Joiner, American football player * 1947 –

Nikolai Volkoff Josip Hrvoje Peruzović (October 14, 1947 – July 29, 2018), better known by his ring name Nikolai Volkoff, was a Yugoslav-American professional wrestler best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Although Volkoff often p ...

, Croatian-American wrestler (d. 2018) * 1948 –

Marcia Barrett Marcia Barrett (born 14 October 1948) is a Jamaican-British singer and one of the original singers with the vocal group Boney M. Early years Barrett was born in Saint Catherine Parish, British Jamaica; her parents brought her to Croydon, Eng ...

, Jamaican-English singer * 1948 –

Norman Ornstein Norman Jay Ornstein (; born October 14, 1948) is an American political scientist and an Emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington, D.C. conservative think tank. He is the co-author (along with Thomas E. Mann) o ...

, American political scientist and scholar * 1949 –

Damian Lau Damian Lau Chung-yan (born 14 October 1949) is a Hong Kong film and television actor, executive producer and film director. Lau has starred in many television drama series of various genres, produced by Hong Kong's TVB and ATV. Biography ...

, Hong Kong actor, director, and producer * 1949 –

Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949) is an American poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry. Her writing focuses on political and social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abo ...

, American poet and author * 1949 – Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player and referee *

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ...

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Joey Travolta Joseph Allen Travolta (born October 14, 1950) is an American actor, singer, producer, director and screenwriter. He is the older brother of actor John Travolta. Early life Travolta was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, a nearby suburb o ...

, American actor, director, and producer *

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

– Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist *

– Harry Anderson, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2018) * 1952 – Nikolai Andrianov, Russian gymnast and coach (d. 2011) * 1952 –

Rick Aviles Rick Aviles (October 14, 1952 – March 17, 1995) was an American stand-up comedian and actor of Puerto Rican descent, best remembered for portraying the villainous Willie Lopez in the film ''Ghost''. Career Born in Manhattan, Aviles worked as ...

, American comedian and actor (d. 1995) * 1953 –

Kazumi Watanabe is a Japanese guitarist. Other guitarists such as Luke Takamura and Sugizo have cited him as an influence. Career Watanabe learned guitar at the age of 12 from Sadanori Nakamure at the Yamaha Music School in Tokyo. He released his first album ...

, Japanese guitarist and composer * 1954 –

Mordechai Vanunu Mordechai Vanunu ( he, מרדכי ואנונו; born 14 October 1952), also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israe ...

, Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic * 1955 – Iwona Blazwick, English curator and critic * 1955 – Arleen Sorkin, American actress, producer, and screenwriter * 1956 – Ümit Besen, Turkish singer-songwriter * 1956 – Beth Daniel, American golfer * 1956 –

Jennell Jaquays Jennell Jaquays (born Paul Jaquays, October 14, 1956) is an American game designer, video game artist, and illustrator of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs). Her notable works include the '' Dungeons & Dragons'' modules '' Dark Tower'' and '' Ca ...

, American game designer *

– Michel Després, Canadian lawyer and politician * 1957 –

Gen Nakatani is a Japanese politician who was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency (now Japan Ministry of Defense) in the first cabinet of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2001-2002 and was appointed as the Minister of Defense by former ...

, Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th Japanese Minister of Defense * 1958 – Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer *

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

– A. J. Pero, American drummer (d. 2015) * 1960 – Steve Cram, English runner and coach * 1960 – Zbigniew Kruszyński, Polish footballer and coach * 1961 –

Isaac Mizrahi Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961) is an American fashion designer, television presenter and chief designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand for Xcel Brands. Based in New York City, he is best known for his eponymous fashion lines. Mizrahi was prev ...

, American fashion designer *

– Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player * 1962 –

Trevor Goddard Trevor Joseph Goddard (14 October 1962 – 7 June 2003) was an English actor. He was best known for playing Kano in the martial arts film ''Mortal Kombat'', Lieutenant Commander Mic Brumby in the television series '' JAG'' and main villain ...

, English-American actor (d. 2003) * 1962 –

Chris Thomas King Chris Thomas King (born Durwood Christopher Thomas, October 14, 1962) is an American blues musician and actor based in New Orleans, Louisiana. History King was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. He is the son of blues musician Tabb ...

, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor * 1962 – Shahar Perkiss, Israeli tennis player *

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...

–

Lori Petty Lori Petty (born October 14, 1963) is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She is noted for her roles in the films ''Point Break'' (1991), ''A League of Their Own'' (1992), '' Free Willy '' (1993), and the title role in '' Tank Girl' ...

, American actress *

– Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager * 1965 – Steve Coogan, English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter * 1965 –

Jüri Jaanson Jüri Jaanson (born 14 October 1965) is the most successful Estonian rower of all time and the winner of five medals at World Rowing Championships. He became World Champion in Tasmania 1990 in the single sculls event. 14 years later, at age 3 ...

, Estonian rower and politician * 1965 – Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian flute player and composer * 1965 –

Karyn White Karyn Layvonne White (born October 14, 1965) is an American singer who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is known for several hit singles including "Superwoman" (1988), " Secret Rendezvous" (1989), " The Way You Love Me" (19 ...

, American singer-songwriter *

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...

– Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach, and manager * 1967 –

Sylvain Lefebvre Sylvain Jean Lefebvre (born October 14, 1967) is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman who played on five National Hockey League teams from 1989 to 2003. He won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996. Lefebvre was most recently an a ...

, Canadian ice hockey player and coach * 1967 – Werner Daehn, German actor * 1968 – Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist and songwriter * 1968 – Johnny Goudie, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor * 1968 –

Matthew Le Tissier Matthew Paul Le Tissier (; born 14 October 1968) is a former professional footballer. Born in Guernsey, he won eight caps for the England national team. Le Tissier spent his entire professional club career with Southampton before turning to n ...

, English footballer and journalist * 1968 – Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012) * 1969 – P. J. Brown, American basketball player * 1969 – Viktor Onopko, Russian footballer and manager * 1969 – David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999) *

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and ...

– Martin Barbarič, Czech footballer and coach (d. 2013) * 1970 – Jim Jackson, American basketball player and sportscaster * 1970 – Meelis Lindmaa, Estonian footballer * 1970 – Hiromi Nagasaku, Japanese actress and singer * 1970 –

Pär Zetterberg Pär Johan Zetterberg (; born 14 October 1970) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is best remembered for his time with R.S.C. Anderlecht, but also represented Falkenbergs FF, Charleroi, and Olympiacos duri ...

, Swedish footballer * 1970 – Vasko Vassilev, Bulgarian violinist * 1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer and manager * 1971 – Robert Jaworski Jr., Filipino basketball player and politician *

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...

–

Erika deLone Erika deLone (born October 14, 1972) is an American retired tennis player who turned professional in 1992. She reached one WTA Tour singles final in her career, finishing runner-up to Åsa Svensson at the Wismilak International in 1999. In Apri ...

, American tennis player * 1972 –

Julian O'Neill Brian Julian O'Neill (born 14 October 1972) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. Primarily a goal-kicking or and goal-kicker, during his 14-year top-grade career he played with sever ...

, Australian rugby league player *

– Thom Brooks, American-British political philosopher and legal scholar * 1973 – George Floyd, American police brutality victim (d. 2020) * 1973 – Lasha Zhvania, Georgian businessman and politician * 1974 –

Jessica Drake Jessica Drake is an American pornographic actress and sex educator. Career Drake spent two years as a contract performer for the studio Sin City until May 31, 2002, when her contract expired. She gained her first AVN Award in 2001, winning "Bes ...

, American porn actress and director * 1974 – Samuel José da Silva Vieira, Brazilian footballer * 1974 –

Natalie Maines Natalie Louise Maines (born October 14, 1974) is an American singer. She is the lead vocalist for the all-female country band The Chicks. In 1995, after leaving Berklee College of Music, Maines was recruited by the Dixie Chicks to replace their ...

, American singer-songwriter * 1974 – Viktor Röthlin, Swiss runner * 1974 – Tümer Metin, Turkish footballer * 1975 – Michael Duberry, English footballer * 1975 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist * 1975 – Carlos Spencer, New Zealand rugby player *

1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 ...

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Tillakaratne Dilshan Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan ( si, තිලකරත්න මුදියන්සේලාගේ ඩිල්ෂාන්; born 14 October 1976), commonly known as TM Dilshan () is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain of th ...

, Sri Lankan cricketer *

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrat ...

– Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer * 1977 – Barry Ditewig, Dutch footballer * 1977 –

Kelly Schumacher Kelly Schumacher (born October 14, 1977) is an American-born Canadian professional basketball player and professional volleyball player. She had been playing in the WNBA for the Detroit Shock, until her release 18 June 2009. After her junior sea ...

, American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player * 1978 – Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist and songwriter, and politician * 1978 –

Paul Hunter Paul Alan Hunter (14 October 1978 – 9 October 2006) was an English professional snooker player. He was a three-time Masters champion, winning the event in 2001, 2002, and 2004, recovering from a deficit in the final to win 10–9 on a ...

, English snooker player (d. 2006) * 1978 – Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player * 1978 – Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer * 1978 – Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor *

–

Stacy Keibler Stacy Ann-Marie Keibler (born October 14, 1979) is an American retired professional wrestler and actress, former cheerleader, dancer, and model. She is specifically known for her work with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling E ...

, American wrestler and actress * 1979 – Liina-Grete Lilender, Estonian figure skater and coach * 1980 –

Paúl Ambrosi Vicente Paúl Ambrosi Zambrano, commonly known as Paúl Ambrosi (born October 14, 1980, in Guaranda), is a retired Ecuadorian football player who played as a defender. He has spent the vast majority of his professional career at LDU Quito. He i ...

, Ecuadorian footballer * 1980 – Amjad Khan, Danish-English cricketer * 1980 – Scott Kooistra, American football player * 1980 – Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer * 1980 –

Terrence McGee Terrence Dewayne McGee (born October 14, 1980) is a former American football cornerback and kick returner in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by Buffalo Bills in the fourth round (111th overall) of the 2003 NFL Draft. He play ...

, American football player * 1980 –

Ben Whishaw Benjamin John Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor and producer. After winning a British Independent Film Award for his performance in ''My Brother Tom'' (2001), he was nominated for an Olivier Award for his portrayal of the titl ...

, English actor *

– Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer * 1982 – Ryan Hall, American runner * 1982 – Matt Roth, American football player *

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...

– Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower * 1983 –

Lin Dan Lin Dan (born 14 October 1983) is a Chinese former professional badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic champion, five-time World champion, as well as a six-time All England champion. Widely regarded as the greatest badminton player of a ...

, Chinese badminton player *

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

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LaRon Landry LaRon Louis Landry (born October 14, 1984) is a former American football safety (American football position), safety. He played college football for LSU Tigers football, Louisiana State University (LSU), and earned consensus All-American honors ...

, American football player * 1984 – Alex Scott, English footballer *

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

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Alexandre Sarnes Negrão Alexandre Sarnes Negrão (born October 14, 1985), better known as Xande Negrão and nicknamed ''Xandinho'', is a Brazilian entrepreneur and race car driver. He raced in the first three seasons of the GP2 Series, all with the Piquet Sports team, ha ...

, Brazilian racing driver * 1985 –

Alanna Nihell Alanna Nihell (; born 14 October 1985) is a Northern Irish amateur boxer. Nihell competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a bronze medal in the women's lightweight event. She also competed in 2018. She joined the army and serve ...

, Irish boxer * 1985 – Ivan Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament * 1986 –

Tom Craddock Thomas Craddock (born 14 October 1986) is a retired English professional footballer who played for multiple clubs including Spennymoor Town, Middlesbrough, and Portsmouth as a striker. Career Middlesbrough Born in Darlington, County Durham, ...

, English footballer *

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

– Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer *

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

– Arca, Venezuelan musician * 1990 – Jordan Clark, English cricketer * 1992 –

Ahmed Musa Ahmed Musa (born 14 October 1992) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward and left winger for Turkish Süper Lig club Sivasspor and the Nigeria national team. Musa became the first Nigerian to score more than once in a ...

, Nigerian footballer *

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

– Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer * 1994 – Joe Burgess, English rugby league player * 1994 –

Jaelen Feeney Jaelen Feeney (born 14 October 1994) is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a and for the Townsville Blackhawks in the Queensland Cup. He previously played for the Newcastle Knights in the NRL. Backgrou ...

, Australian rugby league player * 1994 – Jared Goff, American football player * 2001 –

Rowan Blanchard Rowan Blanchard (born October 14, 2001) is an American actress and political activist. She was included on a list of ''Times list of Most Influential Teens in 2015. She first became known for starring as Rebecca Wilson in '' Spy Kids: All t ...

, American actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

* 530 – Antipope Dioscorus * 841 – Shi Yuanzhong, Chinese governor * 869 – Pang Xun, Chinese rebel leader * 962 – Gerloc, Frankish noblewoman * 996 – Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid caliph (b. 955) * 1066 –

: ** Harold Godwinson, English king (b. 1022) ** Leofwine Godwinson, English nobleman and brother of Harold ** Gyrth Godwinson, English nobleman and brother of Harold *1077 – Andronikos Doukas (cousin of Michael VII), Andronicus Ducas, Byzantine courtier (b. 1022) *1092 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (b. 1018) *1184 – Abu Yaqub Yusuf, Yusuf I, Almohad caliph (b. 1135) *1213 – Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, English sheriff and Chief Justiciar *1217 – Isabella, Countess of Gloucester, Isabella, English noblewoman and wife of John, King of England, John of England (b. c. 1173) *1240 – Razia Sultana, Only female sultan of Delhi (b. c. 1205) *1256 – Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239) *1318 – Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (b. 1275) *1366 – Ibn Nubata, Arab poet (b. 1287) *1416 – Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Henry the Mild, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg *1536 – Garcilaso de la Vega (poet), Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (b. 1503) *1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1488) *1565 – Thomas Chaloner (statesman), Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (b. 1521) *1568 – Jacques Arcadelt, Dutch singer and composer (b. 1507)

1601–1900

*1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1540) *1618 – Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton, English nobleman (b.c. 1570) *1619 – Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (b. 1562) *1631 – Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (b. 1557) *1637 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552) *1669 – Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (b. 1623) *1703 – Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop and poet (b. 1634) *1711 – Tewoflos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1708) * 1758 – James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (b. 1696) *1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (b. 1761)

1901–present

* 1911 – John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833) *

– Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848) *

– Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844) *

– Samuel van Houten, Dutch lawyer and politician, List of Ministers of the Interior of the Netherlands, Dutch Minister of the Interior (b. 1837) *

– Noboru Yamaguchi (yakuza), Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (b. 1902) *

– Sobibór uprising: ** Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (b. 1910) ** Siegfried Graetschus, German sergeant (b. 1916) ** Johann Niemann, German lieutenant (b. 1913) * 1944 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891) * 1953 – Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1877) * 1953 – Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894) * 1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (b. 1882) * 1958 – Nikolay Zabolotsky, Russian-Soviet poet and translator (b. 1903) *

– Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (b. 1907) *

– Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1909) * 1960 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1880) * 1961 – Paul Ramadier, French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (b. 1888) * 1961 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (b. 1876) * 1965 – William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884) * 1965 – Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (b. 1914) *

– Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (b. 1902) * 1969 – Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (sumo), Yokozuna (b. 1914) * 1969 – August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1914) *

– Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1897) * 1973 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general and engineer (b. 1929) *

– Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888) *

– Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1903) * 1982 – Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1889) *

– Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887) *

– Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist,

laureate (b. 1918) *

– Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b. 1916) * 1986 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916) * 1986 – Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902) * 1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918) *1997 – Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915) *

– Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (b. 1917) * 1998 – Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (b. 1916) *1999 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922) *2000 – Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1909) * 2000 – Tony Roper (racing driver), Tony Roper, American race car driver (b. 1964) *2002 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (b. 1911) * 2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job, English linguist, commander, and navigator (b. 1913) *2006 – Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937) * 2006 – Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (b. 1926) * 2006 – Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (b. 1937) *2008 – Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915) * 2008 – Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1926) *2009 – Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor and screenwriter (b. 1938) * 2009 – Collin Wilcox (actress), Collin Wilcox, American actress (b. 1935) * 2009 – Lou Albano, American professional wrestler (b. 1933) *2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952) * 2010 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (b. 1924) *2011 – Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1948) * 2011 – Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (b. 1949) *

– John Clive, English actor and author (b. 1933) * 2012 – Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (b. 1920) * 2012 – James R. Grover Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1919) * 2012 – Larry Sloan, American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (b. 1922) * 2012 – Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1930) * 2012 – Dody Weston Thompson, American photographer (b. 1923) * 2012 – Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1927) *2013 – Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1965) * 2013 – Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and politician (b. 1936) * 2013 – Kōichi Iijima, Japanese author and poet (b. 1930) * 2013 – Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (b. 1954) * 2013 – Frank Moore (performance artist), Frank Moore, American painter and poet (b. 1946) * 2013 – Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (b. 1940) *

– A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (b. 1923) * 2014 – Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (b. 1933) * 2014 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959) * 2015 – Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1947) * 2015 – Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (b. 1933) * 2015 – Margaret Keyes, American historian and academic (b. 1918) * 2015 – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (b. 1930) *2016 – Helen Kelly (trade unionist), Helen Kelly, New Zealand trade union leader (b. 1964) *2019 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic (b. 1930) * 2019 – Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and model (b. 1994) *

– Lee Wan-koo, South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea *2022 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (b. 1950)

Holidays and observances

*Christian calendar of saints, feast day: **Angadrisma **Fortunatus of Todi **Joseph Schereschewsky (Episcopal Church (USA)) **Pope Callixtus I **October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) **Intercession of the Theotokos *Day of the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, Cathedral of the Living Pillar (Georgian Orthodox Church) *Mother's Day (Belarus) *National Education Day (Poland), formerly Teachers' Day *Nyerere Day (Tanzania) *Second Revolution Day (Yemen) *World Standards Day (International observance, International) *Defender of Ukraine Day (Ukraine)

References

External links

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