October 9

Pre-1600

• 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
• 1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
• 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
• 1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
• 1594 – Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.

1601–1900

• 1604 – Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
• 1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
• 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
• 1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
• 1740 – Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
• 1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
• 1790 – A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
• 1799 – HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
• 1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
• 1806 – Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
• 1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
• 1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
• 1825 – Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
• 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.
• 1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
• 1847 – Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens at the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.
• 1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
• 1874 – The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
• 1900 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

1901–present

• 1911 – An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
• 1913 – The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• 1914 – World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
• 1918 – The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland.
• 1919 – The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
• 1934 – An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
• 1936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
• 1937 – Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
• 1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
• 1942 – Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
• 1950 – The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
• 1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
• 1963 – In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
• 1966 – Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.
• 1967 – A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
• 1969 – In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
• 1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
• 1980 – Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
• 1981 – President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
• 1983 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
• 1984 – The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.
• 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
• 1986 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.
• 1992 – The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York
• 1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
• 2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
• 2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2007–2008 financial crises.
• 2009 – First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
• 2012 – Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
• 2016 – The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
• 2019 – Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.

Pre-1600

• 1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French minister and theologian, founded the Collège de Sorbonne (d. 1274)
• 1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1290)
• 1261 – Denis of Portugal (d. 1325)
• 1328 – Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
• 1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (d. 1638)
• 1586 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (d. 1632)
• 1593 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (d. 1674)

1601–1900

• 1609 – Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (d. 1688)
• 1623 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (d. 1688)
• 1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
• 1757 – Charles X of France (d. 1836)
• 1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor (d. 1878)
• 1823 – Mary Ann Shadd, American-Canadian abolitionist (d. 1893)
• 1826 – Agathon Meurman, Finnish politician and journalist (d. 1909)
• 1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (d. 1921)
• 1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (d. 1902)
• 1840 – Simeon Solomon, English painter (d. 1905)
• 1845 – Carl Gustav Thulin, Swedish shipowner (d. 1918)
• 1850 – Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (d. 1930)
• 1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• 1858 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935)
• 1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (d. 1935)
• 1863 – Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (d. 1930)
• 1864 – Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (d. 1927)
• 1871 – Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (d. 1940)
• 1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1944)
• 1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
• 1873 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (d. 1939)
• 1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (d. 1928)
• 1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1880 – Charlie Faust, American baseball player (d. 1915)
• 1883 – Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress (d. 1956)
• 1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (d. 1980)
• 1888 – Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (d. 1938)
• 1888 – Irving Cummings, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1959)
• 1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (d. 1944)
• 1892 – Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1893 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (d. 1945)
• 1895 – Eugene Bullard, American pilot (d. 1961)
• 1897 – M. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras State (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Joe Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1899 – Bruce Catton, American historian and author (d. 1978)
• 1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
• 1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1990)

1901–present

• 1901 – Alice Lee Jemison, Seneca political activist and journalist (d. 1964)
• 1902 – Freddie Young, English cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1903 – Walter O'Malley, American lawyer and businessman (d. 1979)
• 1906 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (d. 1985)
• 1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (d. 2001)
• 1907 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 2001)
• 1907 – Jacques Tati, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1907 – Horst Wessel, German SA officer (d. 1930)
• 1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet and critic (d. 1961)
• 1908 – Werner von Haeften, German lieutenant (d. 1944)
• 1908 – Lee Wiley, American singer (d. 1975)
• 1909 – Donald Coggan, English archbishop (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Edward Andrews, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, American academic and politician, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010)
• 1915 – Belva Plain, American author (d. 2010)
• 1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Charles Read, Australian air marshal (d. 2014)
• 1918 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author and educator (d. 1976)
• 1920 – Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Jason Wingreen, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1921 – Michel Boisrond, French director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)
• 1922 – Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Donald Sinden, English actor (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Immanuvel Devendrar, Indian soldier (d. 1957)
• 1924 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (d. 2015)
• 1927 – John Margetson, English scholar and diplomat, British Ambassador to the Netherlands (d. 2020)
• 1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer and educator (d. 2016)
• 1930 – Hank Lauricella, American football player, lieutenant, and politician (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Tony Booth, English actor (d. 2017)
• 1931 – Homer Smith, American football player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
• 1933 – Melvin Sokolsky, American fashion photographer (d. 2022)
• 1933 – Bill Tidy, English soldier and cartoonist (d. 2023)
• 1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian historian and author (d. 2018)
• 1934 – Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
• 1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
• 1935 – Don McCullin, English photographer and journalist
• 1936 – Brian Blessed, English actor
• 1936 – Mick Young, Australian politician (d. 1996)
• 1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian academic and politician, 11th President of Austria
• 1938 – John Sutherland, English journalist, author, and academic
• 1939 – Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect and academic
• 1939 – John Pilger, Australian-English journalist, director, and producer (d. 2023)
• 1939 – Stephen Sedley, English lawyer and judge
• 1939 – O. V. Wright, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1980)
• 1940 – Gordon J. Humphrey, American soldier, pilot, and politician
• 1940 – John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1980)
• 1940 – Joe Pepitone, American baseball player and coach (d. 2023)
• 1941 – Brian Lamb, American broadcaster, founded C-SPAN
• 1941 – Trent Lott, American lawyer and politician
• 1941 – Omali Yeshitela, political activist and founder of the Uhuru Movement
• 1942 – Michael Palmer, American physician and author (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Douglas Kirby, American psychologist and author (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Jimmy Montgomery, English footballer and coach
• 1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist
• 1944 – Rita Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy, English academic and politician
• 1944 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 2002)
• 1944 – Nona Hendryx, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1945 – Amjad Ali Khan, Indian classical Sarod player
• 1945 – Taiguara, Uruguayan-Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1947 – John Doubleday, English sculptor and painter
• 1947 – France Gall, French singer (d. 2018)
• 1947 – William E. McAnulty Jr., American lawyer and judge (d. 2007)
• 1947 – Tony Zappone, American photographer and journalist
• 1948 – Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 – John Gray, English cricketer and rugby player
• 1949 – Mark Hopkinson, American mass murderer (d. 1992)
• 1949 – Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2016)
• 1950 – Brian Downing, American baseball player
• 1950 – Yoshiyuki Konishi, Japanese fashion designer
• 1950 – Reichi Nakaido, Japanese singer and guitarist
• 1950 – Jody Williams, American academic and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1951 – Robert Wuhl, American actor, comedian, and writer
• 1952 – Simon Drew, English illustrator
• 1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English television host and manager
• 1952 – John Rose, English businessman
• 1952 – Dennis Stratton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – Sally Burgess, South African-English soprano and educator
• 1953 – Hank Pfister, American tennis player
• 1953 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor and producer
• 1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor
• 1954 – James Fearnley, English musician
• 1954 – Rubén Magnano, Argentine-Italian basketball coach
• 1954 – John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
• 1955 – Linwood Boomer, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Steve Ovett, English runner and sportscaster
• 1955 – Peter Saville, English graphic designer and art director
• 1957 – Don Garber, American businessman
• 1957 – Ini Kamoze, Jamaican singer-songwriter
• 1958 – Al Jourgensen, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1958 – Alan Nunnelee, American lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
• 1958 – Michael Paré, American actor
• 1958 – Mike Singletary, American football player and coach
• 1959 – Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2015)
• 1960 – Kenny Garrett, American saxophonist and composer
• 1961 – Julian Bailey, English race car driver and sportscaster
• 1961 – Kurt Neumann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 – Ellen Wheeler, American actress, director, and producer
• 1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1962 – Paul Radisich, New Zealand race car driver
• 1962 – Hugh Robertson, English soldier and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
• 1962 – Ōnokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna
• 1963 – Andy Platt, English rugby league player
• 1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Martín Jaite, Argentine tennis player
• 1965 – Jimbo Fisher, American football player and coach
• 1966 – David Cameron, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher, founded Plaza Magazine
• 1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player
• 1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1967 – Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
• 1968 – Guto Bebb, Welsh businessman and politician
• 1968 – Anbumani Ramadoss, Indian politician
• 1969 – Darren Britt, Australian rugby league player
• 1969 – Simon Fairweather, Australian archer
• 1969 – PJ Harvey, English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer
• 1969 – Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1969 – Giles Martin, English songwriter and producer
• 1969 – Steve McQueen, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Kenny Anderson, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 – Steve Jablonsky, American composer
• 1970 – Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer and architect
• 1971 – Wayne Bartrim, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1971 – Sian Evans, Welsh singer
• 1973 – Steve Burns, American actor, television host and musician
• 1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1974 – Keith Booth, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 – Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi
• 1975 – Haylie Ecker, Australian violinist
• 1975 – Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
• 1976 – William Alexander, American author and educator
• 1976 – Stephen Neal, American football player
• 1976 – Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer and coach
• 1976 – Özlem Türköne, Turkish journalist and politician
• 1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor and comedian
• 1977 – Emanuele Belardi, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Brian Roberts, American baseball player
• 1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player and coach
• 1979 – Vernon Fox, American football player and coach
• 1979 – Alex Greenwald, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1979 – Todd Kelly, Australian race car driver
• 1979 – Lecrae, American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor
• 1979 – Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Brandon Routh, American model and actor
• 1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 – Lucy Akello, Ugandan social worker and politician
• 1980 – Filip Bobek, Polish actor
• 1980 – Sarah Lovell, Australian politician
• 1980 – Thami Tsolekile, South African cricketer
• 1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
• 1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player
• 1983 – Farhaan Behardien, South African cricketer
• 1983 – Trevor Daley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
• 1983 – Spencer Grammer, American actress
• 1983 – Jang Mi-ran, South Korean weightlifter
• 1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian race car driver
• 1984 – Marie Kondo, Japanese author and television presenter
• 1985 – David Plummer, American swimmer
• 1986 – Derek Holland, American baseball player
• 1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
• 1986 – David Phelps, American baseball player
• 1986 – Jan Christian Vestre, Norwegian businessman and politician
• 1986 – Stephane Zubar, French footballer
• 1987 – Craig Brackins, American basketball player
• 1987 – Samantha Murray Sharan, British tennis player
• 1987 – Henry Walker, American basketball player
• 1988 – Starling Marte, Dominican baseball player
• 1988 – David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 – Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 – Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer
• 1990 – Jake Lamb, American baseball player
• 1992 – Jerian Grant, American basketball player
• 1992 – Sam Mewis, American soccer player
• 1992 – Tyler James Williams, American actor
• 1993 – Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player
• 1993 – Lauren Davis, American tennis player
• 1993 – Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 – George Kittle, American football player
• 1993 – Scotty McCreery, American singer and songwriter
• 1993 – Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster
• 1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
• 1996 – Jacob Batalon, Filipino-American actor
• 1996 – Bella Hadid, American model
• 1997 – Jharrel Jerome, American actor
• 2000 – Penei Sewell, American football player
• 2001 – Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer

Pre-1600

• 680 – Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint
• 892 – Al-Tirmidhi, Persian scholar and hadith compiler (b. 824)
• 1047 – Pope Clement II
• 1212 – Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (b. 1175)
• 1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1175)
• 1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (b. 1227)
• 1296 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)
• 1390 – John I of Castile (b. 1358)
• 1555 – Justus Jonas, German academic and reformer (b. 1493)
• 1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1523)
• 1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa (b. 1533)
• 1581 – Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1526)

1601–1900

• 1613 – Henry Constable, English poet (b. 1562)
• 1619 – Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (b. 1561)
• 1691 – William Sacheverell, English politician (b. 1638)
• 1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (b. 1654)
• 1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary and linguist (b. 1718)
• 1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (b. 1720)
• 1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731)
• 1808 – John Claiborne, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
• 1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and author (b. 1785)
• 1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
• 1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)

1901–present

• 1911 – Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (b. 1849)
• 1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
• 1934 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander the Unifier (b. 1888)
• 1934 – Louis Barthou, French union leader and politician, 78th Prime Minister of France (b. 1862)
• 1937 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868)
• 1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)
• 1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
• 1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1944 – Stefanina Moro, Italian partisan (b. 1927)
• 1945 – Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
• 1946 – Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
• 1947 – Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
• 1950 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)
• 1953 – James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1955 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
• 1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
• 1958 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and biologist (b. 1892)
• 1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1967 – Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (b. 1928)
• 1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1967 – André Maurois, French soldier and author (b. 1885)
• 1967 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910)
• 1976 – Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
• 1982 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (b. 1893)
• 1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1903)
• 1987 – William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1988 – Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (b. 1914)
• 2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (b. 1931)
• 2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Carl Fontana, American jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Louis Nye, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (b. 1978)
• 2006 – Kanshi Ram, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Enrico Banducci, American businessman, founded hungry i (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Carol Bruce, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author and educator (b. 1934)
• 2009 – John Daido Loori, American Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2011 – Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989)
• 2012 – Sammi Kane Kraft, American actress (b. 1992)
• 2012 – Kenny Rollins, American basketball player (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Harris Savides, American cinematographer (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Srihari, Indian actor (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Boris Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (b. 1957)
• 2014 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Ray Duncan, American businessman (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Ravindra Jain, Indian composer and director (b. 1944)
• 2016 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Jean Rochefort, French actor (b. 1930)

• Christian feast day:
  • Abraham
  • Denis
  • Dionysius the Areopagite
  • Ghislain
  • Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias
  • John Henry Newman
  • John Leonardi
  • Luis Beltran
  • Robert Grosseteste (Church of England)
  • Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Fire Prevention Day (Canada, United States)
• Hangul Day (South Korea)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962. (Uganda)
• Independence of Guayaquil from Spain in 1820 (Ecuador)
• Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland and Norway)
• National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania)
• National Nanotechnology Day (United States)
• Takayama Autumn Festival (Takayama, Japan)
• World Post Day
• Indian Foreign Service Day

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