October 8

Events

• 314 - Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories.
• 451 - The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins.
• 876 - Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II.
• 1075 - Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
• 1200 - Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.
• 1322 - Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban after the Battle of Bliska.
• 1480 - The Great stand on the Ugra river puts an end to Tartar rule over Moscow
• 1573 - End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.
• 1645 - Jeanne Mance open the first lay hospital in North America.
• 1813 - The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.
• 1821 - The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence.
• 1829 - Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
• 1856 - The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident.
• 1862 - American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
• 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
• 1879 - War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.
• 1895 - Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
• 1912 - The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
• 1918 - World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
• 1921 - KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
• 1939 - World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.
• 1941 - World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
• 1943 - World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
• 1944 - World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
• 1952 - The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
• 1956 - The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
• 1962 - Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
• 1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
• 1969 - The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
• 1970 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
• 1973 - Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions.
• 1973 - Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
• 1974 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
• 1978 - Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
• 1982 - Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions.
• 1982 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
• 1990 - Second Intifada: Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock.
• 1991 - Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.
• 2001 - A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
• 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
• 2005 - The 7.6 Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.
• 2014 - Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
• 2016 - In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.
• 2019 - About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House in the Republic of Ireland.

  Births

• 319 BC - Pyrrhus of Epirus
• 1150 - Narapatisithu, king of Burma
• 1515 - Margaret Douglas, daughter of Archibald Douglas
• 1551 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
• 1553 - Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian
• 1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer
• 1609 - John Clarke, English physician
• 1676 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish monk and scholar
• 1713 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and author
• 1715 - Michel Benoist, French scientist and missionary
• 1747 - Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician
• 1753 - Princess Sophia Albertina of Sweden
• 1765 - Harman Blennerhassett, English-Irish lawyer and politician
• 1789 - John Ruggles, American lawyer and politician
• 1789 - William John Swainson, English-New Zealand ornithologist and entomologist
• 1807 - Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher and activist
• 1818 - John Henninger Reagan, American judge and politician, 3rd Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1834 - Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer
• 1838 - John Hay, American diplomat, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, 37th United States Secretary of State
• 1845 - Salomon Kalischer, German pianist, composer, and physicist
• 1847 - Rose Scott, Australian activist
• 1848 - Pierre De Geyter, Belgian composer
• 1850 - Henry Louis Le Châtelier, French chemist and academic
• 1860 - John D. Batten, British painter, printmaker and illustrator
• 1863 - Edythe Chapman, American actress
• 1864 - Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter and educator
• 1870 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer
• 1872 - Mary Engle Pennington, American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer
• 1873 - Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer
• 1873 - Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect and academic, designed Lenin's Mausoleum
• 1875 - Laurence Doherty, English tennis player and golfer
• 1876 - Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician
• 1877 - Hans Heysen, German-Australian painter
• 1879 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor
• 1882 - Harry McClintock, American singer-songwriter and poet
• 1883 - Dick Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal
• 1887 - Ping Bodie, American baseball player
• 1887 - Donie Bush, American baseball player, manager, and team owner
• 1888 - Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author
• 1889 - R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian engineer
• 1889 - Collett E. Woolman, American businessman, co-founded Delta Air Lines
• 1890 - Snuffy Browne, Barbadian cricketer
• 1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
• 1890 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist
• 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and author
• 1893 - Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer
• 1895 - Zog I of Albania
• 1895 - Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, 29th President of Argentina
• 1896 - Julien Duvivier, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1897 - Rouben Mamoulian, Georgian-American director and screenwriter
• 1897 - Marcel Herrand, French actor
• 1901 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist
• 1901 - Mark Oliphant, Australian physicist, humanitarian and politician, Governor of South Australia
• 1903 - Georgy Geshev, Bulgarian chess player
• 1904 - Yves Giraud-Cabantous, French race car driver
• 1907 - Richard Sharpe Shaver, American author and illustrator
• 1908 - Ezekias Papaioannou, Greek-Cypriot politician
• 1910 - Kirk Alyn, American actor
• 1910 - Paulette Dubost, French actress
• 1910 - Gus Hall, American soldier and politician
• 1910 - Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier
• 1910 - Ray Lewis, Canadian runner
• 1913 - Robert R. Gilruth, American pilot and engineer
• 1913 - Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens
• 1917 - Billy Conn, American boxer
• 1917 - Walter Lord, American historian and author
• 1917 - Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1917 - Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1918 - Halfdan Hegtun, Norwegian radio host and politician
• 1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1919 - Jack McGrath, American race car driver
• 1919 - Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1920 - Frank Herbert, American journalist, photographer, and author
• 1921 - Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino lawyer and jurist
• 1922 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager
• 1922 - Herbert B. Leonard, American production manager and producer
• 1924 - Alphons Egli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 77th President of the Swiss Confederation
• 1924 - Aloísio Lorscheider, Brazilian cardinal
• 1924 - Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet and scholar
• 1924 - John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician
• 1925 - Álvaro Magaña, Salvadoran economist and politician, President of El Salvador
• 1926 - Raaj Kumar, Pakistani-Indian police officer and actor
• 1927 - Jim Elliot, American missionary and translator
• 1927 - César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 - Didi, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1928 - M. Russell Ballard, American lieutenant and religious leader
• 1928 - Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer
• 1928 - Bill Maynard, English actor
• 1929 - Betty Boothroyd, English academic and politician, British Speaker of the House of Commons
• 1930 - Pepper Adams, American saxophonist and composer
• 1930 - Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer
• 1930 - Faith Ringgold, American painter and activist
• 1930 - Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer and theorist
• 1931 - Bill Brown, Scottish-Canadian footballer
• 1932 - Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player and police officer
• 1934 - Kader Asmal, South African academic and politician
• 1934 - Gerry Hitchens, English footballer and manager
• 1934 - James Holshouser, American lawyer and politician, 68th Governor of North Carolina
• 1935 - Albert Roux, French-English chef
• 1936 - Rona Barrett, American journalist and businesswoman
• 1937 - Merle Park, British ballerina and educator
• 1937 - Paul Schell, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Seattle
• 1938 - William Corlett, English author and playwright
• 1938 - Walter Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey coach and author
• 1938 - Fred Stolle, Australian-American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1938 - Bronislovas Lubys, Lithuanian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania
• 1939 - Elvīra Ozoliņa, Latvian javelin thrower
• 1939 - Harvey Pekar, American author and critic
• 1939 - Lynne Stewart, American lawyer and criminal
• 1940 - Fred Cash, American soul singer
• 1940 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 - Jesse Jackson, American minister and activist
• 1941 - Shane Stevens, American author
• 1941 - George Bellamy, English singer, guitarist, and producer
• 1942 - Stanley Bates, English actor and screenwriter
• 1943 - Chevy Chase, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1943 - R. L. Stine, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1944 - Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player
• 1944 - Susan Raye, American country music singer
• 1946 - Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian scholar, activist, and politician
• 1946 - Jean-Jacques Beineix, French director and producer
• 1946 - Dennis Kucinich, American journalist and politician, 53rd Mayor of Cleveland
• 1946 - Bel Mooney, English journalist and author
• 1946 - Jon Ekerold, South African motorcycle racer
• 1947 - Richard Morris, English archaeologist, historian, and author
• 1947 - Emiel Puttemans, Belgian runner
• 1947 - Stephen Shore, American photographer and educator
• 1947 - Bill Zorn, folk musician
• 1948 - Benjamin Cheever, American journalist and author
• 1948 - Claude Jade, French actress
• 1948 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1949 - Hamish Stuart, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress and producer
• 1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1950 - Blake Morrison, English poet, author, and academic
• 1951 - Jack O'Connell, American educator and politician
• 1951 - Timo Salonen, Finnish race car driver
• 1951 - Shannon C. Stimson, American philosopher, historian, and theorist
• 1952 - Takis Koroneos, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1952 - Jan Marijnissen, Dutch journalist and politician
• 1952 - Edward Zwick, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1953 - Robert Saxton, English composer and educator
• 1954 - Huub Rothengatter, Dutch race car driver and manager
• 1955 - Bill Elliott, American race car driver
• 1955 - Alain Ferté, French race car driver
• 1955 - Darrell Hammond, American comedian and actor
• 1955 - Paul Lennon, Australian politician, 42nd Premier of Tasmania
• 1955 - Lonnie Pitchford, American singer and guitarist
• 1956 - Jeff Lahti, American baseball player
• 1956 - Janice E. Voss, American engineer and astronaut
• 1957 - Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1958 - Steve Coll, American journalist and author
• 1958 - Bret Lott, American journalist, author, and academic
• 1958 - Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian-German physician and politician, Defense Minister of Germany
• 1958 - Ruffin McNeill, American football player and coach
• 1959 - Tommy Armour III, American golfer
• 1959 - Nick Bakay, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 - Gavin Friday, Irish singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
• 1959 - Erik Gundersen, Danish motorcycle racer
• 1959 - Peter Horrocks, English journalist and producer
• 1959 - Mike Morgan, American baseball player and coach
• 1959 - Carlos I. Noriega, Peruvian-American colonel and astronaut
• 1959 - Daniel Ribacoff, Brazilian-American polygraph examiner
• 1960 - Andrea Anastasi, Italian volleyball player and coach
• 1960 - Reed Hastings, American businessman, co-founded Netflix
• 1960 - Rano Karno, Indonesian actor and politician
• 1960 - Ralf Minge, German footballer and manager
• 1960 - François Pérusse, Canadian singer-songwriter and comedian
• 1960 - Mike Teague, English rugby player
• 1961 - Steven Bernstein, American trumpet player and composer
• 1961 - Jon Stevens, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1961 - Simon Burke, Australian actor and producer
• 1961 - Ted Kooshian, American pianist and composer
• 1962 - Richard Lintern, British actor
• 1962 - Bruno Thiry, Belgian race car driver
• 1962 - Chen Xiaoxia, Chinese diver
• 1963 - Steve Perry, American ska singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 - Jakob Arjouni, German author
• 1964 - Ian Hart, English actor
• 1964 - CeCe Winans, American singer-songwriter
• 1965 - Matt Biondi, American swimmer and coach
• 1965 - Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1965 - Harri Koskela, Finnish wrestler
• 1965 - C. J. Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1966 - Art Barr, American wrestler
• 1966 - Karyn Parsons, American actress and producer
• 1967 - Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan television host and actress
• 1967 - Teddy Riley, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1968 - Ali Benarbia, Algerian footballer
• 1968 - Zvonimir Boban, Croatian footballer and sportscaster
• 1968 - Emily Procter, American actress
• 1968 - CL Smooth, American rapper and producer
• 1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, English keyboard player and DJ
• 1969 - Jeremy Davies, American actor
• 1969 - Dylan Neal, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 - Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, Congolese colonel
• 1970 - Matt Damon, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 - Anne-Marie Duff, English actress
• 1970 - Sadiq Khan, English lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Transport, Mayor of London
• 1970 - Sisaundra Lewis, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 - Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video game designer and director
• 1971 - Marc Ellis, New Zealand rugby player and television host
• 1971 - David Gauke, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 - Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist, author, and academic
• 1971 - Monty Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1972 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1972 - Stanislav Varga, Slovak footballer and manager
• 1973 - Jim Fairchild, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 - Kari Korhonen, Finnish cartoonist
• 1974 - Kevyn Adams, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1974 - Fredrik Modin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1974 - Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
• 1976 - Karina Bacchi, Brazilian model and actress
• 1976 - Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player and coach
• 1976 - Renate Groenewold, Dutch speed skater and cyclist
• 1977 - Anne-Caroline Chausson, French cyclist
• 1977 - Jamie Marchi, American voice actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1977 - Erna Siikavirta, Finnish singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1978 - Antonino D'Agostino, Italian footballer
• 1978 - Mick O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player and coach
• 1979 - Paul Burchill, English wrestler
• 1979 - Gregori Chad Petree, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 - Nick Cannon, American actor, rapper, and producer
• 1981 - Vladimir Kisenkov, Russian footballer
• 1981 - Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 - Phil Mustard, English cricketer
• 1982 - Miloš Pavlović, Serbian race car driver
• 1982 - Annemiek van Vleuten, Dutch cyclist
• 1983 - Mario Cassano, Italian footballer
• 1983 - Michael Fraser, Scottish footballer
• 1983 - Mihkel Kukk, Estonian javelin thrower
• 1983 - Abhishek Nayar, Indian cricketer
• 1983 - Travis Pastrana, American motorcycle racer
• 1984 - Domenik Hixon, American football player
• 1985 - Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1985 - Eiji Wentz, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1985 - Elliphant, Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper
• 1986 - Louis Dodds, English footballer
• 1986 - Michele Sepe, Italian rugby player
• 1987 - Frankie Brown, Scottish footballer
• 1987 - Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1987 - Hassan Maatouk, Lebanese footballer
• 1987 - Taylor Price, American football player
• 1989 - Sione Lousi, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 - Mahmut Temür, Turkish footballer
• 1989 - Armand Traoré, French footballer
• 1990 - Rachel Klamer, Zimbabwean-Dutch triathlete
• 1991 - Jordan McLean, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 - Maria João Koehler, Portuguese tennis player
• 1992 - Lidziya Marozava, Belarusian tennis player
• 1993 - Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish tennis player
• 1993 - Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model and actress
• 1993 - Molly Quinn, American actress and producer
• 1993 - Darrell Wallace, Jr., American race car driver
• 1996 - Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spanish tennis player
• 1996 - Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
• 1997 - Bella Thorne, American actress
• 1999 - Camila Rossi, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

  Deaths

• 705 - Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Muslim caliph
• 923 - Pilgrim I, archbishop of Salzburg
• 951 - Xiao Sagezhi, Chinese Khitan empress
• 976 - Helen of Zadar, queen consort of the Kingdom of Croatia
• 1281 - Princess Constance of Greater Poland
• 1286 - John I, Duke of Brittany
• 1317 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan
• 1354 - Cola di Rienzo, Roman tribune
• 1361 - John Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp
• 1436 - Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut
• 1469 - Filippo Lippi, artist
• 1594 - Ishikawa Goemon, ninja and thief of Japan
• 1621 - Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist
• 1647 - Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and mathematician
• 1652 - John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer
• 1656 - John George I, Elector of Saxony
• 1659 - Jean de Quen, French missionary, priest, and historian
• 1735 - Yongzheng Emperor of China
• 1754 - Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright
• 1772 - Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer
• 1793 - John Hancock, American merchant and politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts
• 1795 - Andrew Kippis, English minister and author
• 1802 - Emmanuele Vitale, Maltese general and politician
• 1804 - Thomas Cochran, Canadian lawyer and judge
• 1809 - James Elphinston, Scottish orthographer, phonologist, and linguist
• 1821 - Juan O'Donojú, last Spanish ruler of Mexico
• 1834 - François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer
• 1869 - Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States
• 1879 - Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral
• 1886 - Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician
• 1897 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic
• 1928 - Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1931 - John Monash, Australian general and engineer
• 1936 - Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter
• 1936 - Red Ames, American baseball player and manager
• 1936 - Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• 1936 - William Henry Stark, American businessman
• 1942 - Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer
• 1944 - Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician
• 1945 - Felix Salten, Austrian author and critic
• 1952 - Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager
• 1953 - Nigel Bruce, British actor
• 1953 - Kathleen Ferrier, English soprano
• 1955 - Iry LeJeune, American accordion player
• 1958 - Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author and translator
• 1963 - Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican painter
• 1967 - Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1970 - Jean Giono, French author and poet
• 1973 - Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, playwright, and critic
• 1977 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1978 - Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist
• 1979 - Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal
• 1979 - Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician
• 1982 - Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director
• 1982 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1983 - Joan Hackett, American actress
• 1985 - Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist
• 1985 - Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and scholar
• 1987 - Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece
• 1992 - Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1994 - Oscar M. Ruebhausen, American lawyer
• 1995 - Christopher Keene, American conductor and educator
• 1997 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building
• 1999 - John McLendon, American basketball player and coach
• 2000 - Charlotte Lamb, English author
• 2001 - Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
• 2002 - Phyllis Calvert, English actress
• 2002 - Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 2004 - James Chace, American historian and author
• 2006 - Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver
• 2007 - Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor
• 2008 - Ângelo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
• 2008 - Bob Friend, English journalist
• 2008 - Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress
• 2008 - George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2010 - Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist
• 2010 - Eileen Crofton, British physician and author
• 2011 - Al Davis, American football player, coach, and manager
• 2011 - Mikey Welsh, American guitarist and painter
• 2011 - Roger Williams, American pianist
• 2012 - Varsha Bhosle, Indian singer and journalist
• 2012 - Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter
• 2012 - Eric Lomax, Scottish captain and author
• 2012 - Nawal Kishore Sharma, Indian politician, 20th Governor of Gujarat
• 2013 - Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2013 - Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
• 2013 - Rod Grams, American journalist and politician
• 2013 - Rodolphe Kasser, Swiss archaeologist and philologist
• 2013 - Andy Pafko, American baseball player and manager
• 2013 - Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader
• 2014 - Morris Lurie, Australian author and playwright
• 2014 - Alden E. Matthews, American missionary
• 2014 - Harden M. McConnell, American chemist and academic
• 2014 - Zilpha Keatley Snyder, American author
• 2014 - Jeen van den Berg, Dutch speed skater
• 2015 - Richard Davies, Welsh-English actor
• 2015 - Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 2015 - Dennis Eichhorn, American author and illustrator
• 2015 - Lindy Infante, American football player and coach
• 2015 - Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author

  Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
• *Evodus
• *Palatias and Laurentia
• *Pelagia
• *Reparata
• *San Ernesto, Che Guevara as a folk saint.
• *Simeon
• *Thaïs
• *William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard T. Ely
• *October 8
• Earliest day on which Columbus Day can fall, while October 14 is the latest; observed on the second Monday of October ; and its related observance :
• *Discoverer's Day
• *Indigenous Peoples' Day, a counter Columbus Day
• *Piomingo Day
• Earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while October 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in October
• Earliest day on which the first day of Fire Prevention Week can fall, while October 14 is the latest; observed on the second week in October.
• Earliest day on which Thanksgiving can fall, while October 14 is the latest; observed on the second Monday in October.
• Earliest day on which White Sunday can fall, while October 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in October.
• World Space Week
• Air Force Day
• Arbor Day
• Children's Day
• Navy Day
• International Lesbian Day
• National Octopus Day