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October 2 in history

195 sourced entries recorded on October 2, from 313 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 313Lateran Synod: Donatism is declared a heresy.source
  • 679Leodegar, bishop of Autun, is tortured and executed by Neustrian nobles at Fécamp (Normandy).source
  • 811Michael I is declared emperor of the Byzantine Empire; Stauracius is forced by senior officials to retire to a monastery.source
  • 939Battle of Andernach: Otto I crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard III, duke of Franconia, and other Frankish dukes, in Andernach on the Rhine River. Otto prevails, with support from Odo of Wetterau. Eberhard is killed while Gilbert, duke of Lotharingia (or Lorraine) drowns when trying to escape.source
  • 1187September 20–October 2 – Siege of Jerusalem: Egyptian army under Saladin captures Jerusalem, after the Crusaders led by Balian of Ibelin surrender the 'Holy City'. The take-over of the city is relatively peaceful; Saladin agrees to let the Muslims and Christians leave the city, taking with them their goods. Balian joins his wife Maria Komnene and family, in the County of Tripoli.source
  • 1246Damascus falls to the Ayyubid vizier Mu'in al-Din Hasan ibn al-Shaykh after a siege of some four months.source
  • 1263King Henry III of England travels to Boulogne for an attempt to broker peace with his barons by King Louis IX of France.source
  • 1263Battle of Largs: Scottish forces under Alexander Stewart rout a Viking invasion force led by Haakon IV at Largs in North Ayrshire. The battle is inconclusive. On the morning of October 3, the Norwegians return to collect their dead and burn their beached ships. By the end of October, the Viking fleet reaches Orkney, where Haakon becomes ill and dies at the Bishop's Palace, on December 16.source
  • 1373Wenzel of Luxembourg, son of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is installed by the Empire as the new Margrave of Brandenburg, ending the war with Pomerania and entering into an alliance with the Pomeranian dukes.Buchholz (1999), p.161source
  • 1380Caterina Visconti marries her first cousin, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, later Duke of Milan, at the Church of San Giovanni in Conca.source
  • 1394King Richard II of England leads his first expedition to Ireland to enforce his rule.source
  • 1413The Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania sign the Union of Horodło.source
  • 1418Sim On is appointed as the new Chief State Councillor of Korea (Yeonguijeong) by the new monarch, King Sejong, but is only in power for three months before being arrested and subsequently executed.source
  • 1441(16 Jumada I, 845 AH) In what is now Saudi Arabia, Ali ibn Hasan ibn Ajlan is appointed as the new Emir of Mecca by the Mamluk Sultanate and his brother Barakat ibn Hasan is deposed, but the news does not reach Barakat for nearly two months.source
  • 1454At the Battle of Kruševac, the Serbian Army, commanded by General Skobaljić with the assistance of troops from John Hunyadi and Đurađ Branković, destroys Ottoman invaders commanded by Feriz Beg.source
  • 1471Eleven days after Hungary's King Matthias is supported to be King of Bohemia, Prince Casimir of Poland, a younger son of King Casimir IV (who is later canonised as a Roman Catholic saint) leads an army on an invasion of Bohemia and begins a war against Hungary.source
  • 1489The Rorschacher Klosterbruch, a civil war in Switzerland, comes to an end after three months when the Abbey of Saint Gall (in the canton of St. Gallen) signs a peace with the canton of Appenzell.source
  • 1501Leonardo Loredan is elected 75th doge of the Venetian Republic, taking office on October 13, and serves for almost 20 years.source
  • 1501Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon arrives in England and arrives at Plymouth. Although she will later become the wife of King Henry VIII in 1509, she initially arrives to marry Henry's older brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales.source
  • 1535Jacques Cartier reaches the island in the Saint Lawrence River, that eventually becomes Montreal.source
  • 1536Coronation of the queen.source
  • 1550Battle of Sauðafell in Iceland: Daði Guðmundsson of Snóksdalur defeats the forces of Catholic Bishop Jón Arason, resulting in Iceland becoming fully Protestant. Arason is captured; he is executed, along with his two sons, on November 7.source
  • 1552The Khanate of Kazan falls to troops of Ivan IV of Russia.source
  • 1566Richard Onslow (Solicitor General) is elected as the Speaker of the English House of Commons by a vote of 82 to 70.source
  • 1572Spanish Fury at Mechelen: The mostly Catholic population of the Netherlands city of Mechelen (now in Belgium) surrenders to the Spanish Army and signifies its intention to offer no resistance, singing Catholic psalms of penitence to welcome the Catholic Spaniards. Nevertheless, the Duke of Alba authorizes his troops to conduct three days of slaughter, rape and pillaging.source
  • 1601October 2 (September 22 O.S.) – 4th Spanish Armada; a large Spanish fleet, with 4,500 soldiers led by Juan del Águila, lands at Kinsale at County Cork in Ireland, to assist Tyrone's Rebellion.source
  • 1601Siege of Kinsale by Spanish forces begins.source
  • 1606King Charles IX of Sweden founds the city of Vaasa, in the parish of Korsholm in Coastal Ostrobothnia.source
  • 1608Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch Parliament.source
  • 1614After Louis XIII reaches the age of 13, he is given full power as King of France and the regency of his mother is ended. Queen Regent Marie retains her position as leader of the Conseil du Roi, however, and continues to control the French government.source
  • 1622Eighty Years' War: After a siege of 86 days, Bergen op Zoom is relieved by a Dutch army led by Maurice of Nassau and Ernst von Mansfeld.source
  • 1627The Tianqi Emperor's 16-year-old brother, Zhu Youjian, is enthroned as the Chongzhen Emperor.source
  • 1629In what is now the state of Western Australia, administered at the time by the Dutch East India Company, seven members of the crew of the Batavia are hanged on the Abrolhos Islands for their massacre of 125 passengers and crew.source
  • 1641Scottish politician John Campbell takes office as Lord Chancellor of Scotland and is given the title of the Earl of Loudoun by Charles I in his capacity as King of Scotland.source
  • 1652The Great Fire of Oulu destroys almost all of the houses of the town’s bourgeoisie, the provision warehouses and the drawbridge of Oulu Castle, in the town of Oulu, Finland.source
  • 1672Manuel de Cendoya, Spain's Governor of Florida, breaks ground for the construction of the Castillo de San Marcos, a masonry fortress designed to protect St. Augustine. Governor Cendoya follows on November 9 with the ceremonial laying for the first stone for the foundation.source
  • 1715During the rebellion in Great Britain by supporters of the Pretender to the Throne, James Stuart, the Jacobites raid the Scottish parish of Burntisland, capture an arsenal of weapons, and begin an occupation of the area on October 9 in the name of Stuart as King James VIII of Scotland.source
  • 1724Muhammad bin Nasir is elected as the new Imam of Oman after the overthrow of his brother, Saif bin Sultan II.source
  • 1741the Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin.source
  • 1749Edward Cornwallis, the British Governor of Nova Scotia, commands his militia and local citizens "to annoy, distress, take or destroy the Savage commonly called Micmac, wherever they are found" and promises a reward of ten guineas (21 British shillings) for every Mi'kmaq scalp brought in.source
  • 1762September 24–October 6 – Battle of Manila: Troops of the British East India Company take Manila from the Spanish, leading to the British occupation of Manila and its being made an open port.source
  • 1780American Revolutionary War: In Tappan, New York, British spy John André is hanged by American forces.source
  • 1780American Revolutionary War: British spy John André is hanged by American forces.source
  • 1786Lofthusreisingen begins, a large peasant revolt in South Norway.source
  • 1792The Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering, England.source
  • 1792Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering.source
  • 1794Battle of Aldenhoven between French forces and those of Austria.source
  • 1795British forces capture the Île d'Yeu off the coast of Brittany.source
  • 1798The Cherokee nation signs a treaty with the United States allowing free passage through Cherokee lands in Tennessee through the Cumberland Gap through the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia into Kentucky.source
  • 1802War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.source
  • 1802First Barbary War: Fighting ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.source
  • 1802first Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson.source
  • 1813The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is founded (the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States).source
  • 1816Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg.source
  • 1835The Texas Revolution – Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.source
  • 1835Texas Revolution – Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.source
  • 1836Charles Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle, with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution, having left South America on August 17.source
  • 1841The Canada Gazette publishes its first issue.source
  • 1848The National Defence Committee (Országos Honvédelmi Bizottmány), led by Lajos Kossuth, becomes the executive power in Hungary, after the resignation of the Lajos Batthyány government.source
  • 1862A breakwater construction locomotive for Table Bay Harbour arrives on the ship Navarino.source
  • 1870A plebiscite held in Rome supports, by 133,681 votes to 1,507, the annexation of the city by Italy.source
  • 1872Kirtlebridge rail crash at Kirtlebridge station on the Caledonian Railway in Dumfries and Galloway: 12 killed in a collisionsource
  • 1873The British ship SS Ismailia, an Anchor Line steamer that departed from New York on September 30 with 52 people disappears while en route to Glasgow.source
  • 1878The Buffalo Bisons of the International League defeat the National League champion Boston Red Caps behind the pitching of Pud Galvin to become Baseball's First Undisputed Championsource
  • 1879Qing dynasty China signs the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian Empire.source
  • 1879William Denny and Brothers launch the world's first transatlantic steamer to be built of mild steel, the SS Buenos Ayrean, at Dumbarton. On 1 December she makes her maiden voyage out of Glasgow for South America.source
  • 1887Prime Minister Crispi visits Germany and meets German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, for consultation upon the working of the Triple Alliance.source
  • 1888The Whitehall Mystery: Dismembered remains of a woman's body are discovered at three central London locations, one being the construction site of the police headquarters at New Scotland Yard.source
  • 1889In Washington, D.C., the first International Conference of American States begins.source
  • 1895September 24–October 3 – the Automobile Club de France sponsors the longest race to date, a 1,710 km event, from Bordeaux to Agen and back. Because it is held in ten stages, it can be considered the first rally. The first three places are taken by two Panhards and a three-wheeler De Dion-Bouton.source
  • 1895Peiyang University, predecessor of Tianjin University, is founded as an institution of higher education in Qing dynasty China.source
  • 1896The Victorian Football League is established as Australian rules football in Australia (a predecessor of the Australian Football League).source
  • 1897the War of Canudos comes to a brutal end, when a large Brazilian army force overruns the village and kills nearly all the inhabitants.source
  • 1901The British Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness.source
  • 1903October 1–13 – First modern World Series: The Boston Americans defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games.source
  • 1905HMS Dreadnought is laid down in the United Kingdom, revolutionizing battleship design and triggering a naval arms race.source
  • 1912Ebbe Hertzberg, politician (born 1847).source
  • 1915The 6.8 Mw Pleasant Valley earthquake shook north-central Nevada with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing limited damage and pronounced fault scarps along the base of the Tobin Range.source
  • 1916September 29-October 5 – Flămânda Offensivesource
  • 1917September 26–October 3 – WWI: Battle of Polygon Wood (part of the Battle of Passchendaele) near Ypres in Belgium – British and Australian troops capture positions from the Germans.source
  • 1919President of the United States Woodrow Wilson suffers a serious stroke, rendering him an invalid for the remainder of his life.source
  • 1923Küstrin Putsch: After two days of siege, Major Buchrucker and his men surrender.source
  • 1924The Geneva Protocol is adopted by the League of Nations Assembly as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified.source
  • 1925In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.source
  • 1926Józef Piłsudski becomes prime minister of Poland.source
  • 1928Arvid Lindman returns as Prime Minister of Sweden, with his right-wing rival Ernst Trygger as Foreign Minister of Sweden.source
  • 1928Josemaría Escrivá founds Opus Dei.source
  • 1929the Union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland takes place.source
  • 1934A typhoon in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, kills 1,660, injures 5,400, and destroys the rice harvest.source
  • 1935October 2–3 – The Second Italo-Ethiopian War begins, as Italian General Emilio De Bono invades Ethiopia.source
  • 1937October 2–8 – Parsley Massacre: Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo, Dominican troops kill thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.source
  • 1938Disgusted with Neville Chamberlain's conduct at Munich, Duff Cooper resigns his post as First Lord of the Admiralty. With his resignation, formal debate begins in the Parliament of the United Kingdom on the Munich Agreement, but with Chamberlain at the peak of his popularity, there can be little doubt His Majesty's Government will receive a vote of confidence.source
  • 19381936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine: In the 1938 Tiberias massacre, Arab rioters kill 19 Jews in the city of Tiberias, eleven of whom are children. During the massacre, 70 armed Arabs set fire to Jewish homes and the local synagogue.source
  • 1938Tiberias massacre: Arab raiders murder 19 Jewish immigrants.source
  • 1941WWII: Operation Typhoon begins, as Germany launches an all-out offensive against Moscow.source
  • 1941Operation Typhoon begins as Germany launches an all-out offensive against Moscow.source
  • 1942The first American-built turbojet aircraft, the Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter prototype, makes its first official flight.source
  • 1943September 22–October 2 – WWII: Landing at Scarlet Beach on the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea by Allied forces, the first time Australian troops have made an opposed amphibious landing since the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.source
  • 1944Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising. Home Army commander Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski signs the act of capitulation. This is followed by the Destruction of Warsaw.source
  • 1945George Albert Smith becomes president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.source
  • 1950The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven U.S. newspapers.source
  • 1951Television in the Netherlands commences with the first broadcast from NTS; also television in Denmark from DR1.source
  • 1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on the CBS TV network in the United States.source
  • 1957David Lean's Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai is released.source
  • 1961Shipping Corporation of India is incorporated by amalgamation of Eastern Shipping Corporation and Western Shipping Corporation.source
  • 1963Nigeria becomes a republic; The 1st Republican Constitution is established.source
  • 1963The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in the United States issues its final reports to President Kennedy.source
  • 1963Second Short SC.1 VTOL research aircraft (XG905), flying from Belfast Harbour Airport, crashes due to a control malfunction, killing the pilot, J. R. Green.source
  • 1965The commissioning of Darkhan Thermal Power Plant in Darkhan City, Selenge Province.source
  • 1968Tlatelolco massacre: A student demonstration ends in bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico, 10 days before the inauguration of the 1968 Summer Olympics. 300-400 are estimated to have been killed.source
  • 1969A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–1970 underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations.source
  • 1970The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.source
  • 1971September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.source
  • 1972September 30-October 7: Hurricane Joannesource
  • 1977The mutiners are defeated by government forces, but is followed by another failed attempt to overthrow Zia in Dhakasource
  • 1978Mommie Dearest, written by Christina Crawford that discusses her adoptive mother Joan Crawford's abusive nature, is published. It is the first celebrity tell-all memoir.source
  • 1979October 1–7 – Pope John Paul II makes a six-city visit to the United States, starting in Boston.source
  • 1979Pope John Paul II arrives in New York City for his first papal tour where he addresses the U.N. General Assembly against all forms of concentration camps and torture.source
  • 1983Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.source
  • 1983The 1983 Israel bank stock crisis erupts fully. The crisis results in the collapse of the stocks of the four largest banks in Israel, and the government's nationalization of those banks.source
  • 1983Grameen Bank was established through a government ordinance.source
  • 1984John Schnatter founded Papa John's in Jeffersontown, Kentucky.source
  • 1989October 1–13 – Typhoons Angela (Rubing), Dan (Saling), and Elsie (Tasing) impact the country in two weeks.source
  • 1990The Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front makes an attack from Uganda, starting the Rwandan Civil War.source
  • 1990According to The Civil Aviation of China, two commercial planes collide on the runway at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangdong, China. The total death toll is 128; 53 people were wounded, 97 were rescued.source
  • 1991The Punjab subordinate judiciary service tribunal act is passed.source
  • 1992A riot breaks out in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, resulting in the Carandiru massacre.source
  • 1994October 2 – 16 – The Philippines participates in the 1994 Asian Games held in Hiroshima, Japan from October 2 to 16, 1994. It Ranks 14th with three gold medals, two silver medals and eight bronze medals with a total of 13 over-all medals.source
  • 1996Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the Pacific Ocean when the instruments fail just after takeoff from Lima Airport, killing all 70 people on board.source
  • 1996September 30 – October 4: Hurricane Hernansource
  • 1997British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.source
  • 2001Swissair, the national airline of Switzerland, seeks bankruptcy protection and grounds its entire fleet, stranding thousands of people worldwide.source
  • 2001October 1 – 3G wireless technology first becomes available when it is adopted by Japanese telecommunications company NTT Docomo.source
  • 2002Former Republika Srpska president Biljana Plavšić pleads guilty to crimes against humanity for her involvement in the Bosnian genocide.source
  • 2002September 21–October 4 – Hurricane Lili crosses Cuba and several other Caribbean islands before making landfall in Louisiana.source
  • 2005The Supreme Court of Liberia rules that the National Elections Commission (NEC) had erred by rejecting three candidates on grounds that their registration documents were incomplete. The court says that NEC must provide the disqualified contenders with sufficient time to correct the deficiencies that barred them from being on the ballot.source
  • 2009Ireland holds a second referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty. The amendment is approved by the Irish electorate, having been rejected in the Lisbon I referendum held last year.source
  • 2009The International Olympic Committee awards Rio de Janeiro the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.source
  • 2016Visit of Papa Francesco Azerbaijan.source
  • 2016Police allegedly attack Oromo protesters at a religious festival in Bishoftu, causing a stampede that killed 52 people.source
  • 2016Heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman.source
  • 2022A state memorial service for Elizabeth II, Queen of the Bahamas, takes place at Christ Church Cathedral in Nassau.source
  • 20232 October 2023 - March 28, 2024: Expo 2023 is an International Horticultural Expo to be hosted by Doha, Qatar.source
  • 2024President Chan Santokhi announces a $10 billion project titled GrandMorgu between the French energy firm TotalEnergies, the US-based APA Corporation and the state oil company Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname to extract an estimated 700 million barrels of the coast of Suriname.source
  • 2024The Ambatovy mine shuts down its ore pipeline to a processing plant after damage is reported, with operations under assessment by majority shareholder Sumitomo Corporation.source

Births

  • 1452King Richard III of England (died 1485)source
  • 1470Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, daughter of Alfonso II of Naples (died 1524)source
  • 1470Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (died 1498)source
  • 1527William Drury, English politician (died 1579)source
  • 1527William Drury, Lord President of Munster and Lord Justice of Ireland, is born in Hawstead, Suffolk (died 1579).source
  • 1538Saint Charles Borromeo, Spanish saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1584)source
  • 1591Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine (1608–1624) (died 1632)source
  • 1658Nicholas Roosevelt (1658–1742), Dutch-American politician (died 1742)source
  • 1755Hannah Adams, American author (died 1831)source
  • 1768William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (died 1854)source
  • 1798King Charles Albert of Sardinia, King of Sardinia (died 1849)source
  • 1839Hans Thoma, German painter (died 1924)source
  • 1847Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal, President of Germany (died 1934)source
  • 1851Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces in World War I (died 1929)source
  • 1869Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (died 1948)source
  • 1871Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1955)source
  • 1881Pannalal Bose, Indian educationist, first Education Minister of West Bengal, translated Rabindranath Tagore's ক্ষুধিত পাষাণ (Khudto Pashan) into The Hungry Stone (died 1956)source
  • 1952Vera Duarte, politiciansource

Deaths

  • 534King Athalaric dies of tuberculosis, age 18, having dissipated his youth in drink and debauchery. His mother, Amalasuntha, proposes to her cousin Theodahad, the kingdom's largest landowner and her father's last male heir, that he share the throne with her but that he will be king of the Ostrogoths in name only. Theodahad has secret conversations with the Byzantine ambassador, and promises to turn over Tuscany in exchange for a large sum of money, the rank of senator, and permission to live at Constantinople.source
  • 534Athalaric, king of the Ostrogothssource
  • 829Michael II, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (born 770)source
  • 829Emperor Michael II dies after an 8-year reign in Constantinople, and is succeeded by his 16-year-old son Theophilos, as sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He continues his father's ideology of iconoclasm.source
  • 939Gilbert, duke of Lotharingiasource
  • 939Eberhard III, duke of Franconiasource
  • 1113Mawdud ibn Altuntash, Turkic governorsource
  • 1264Urban IV dies after a pontificate of 3-years and is succeeded by Clement IV. His papal election occurs at Perugia, which will last for four months.source
  • 1264Urban IV, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1195)source
  • 1294John de Sandford, Archbishop of Dublin.source
  • 1348Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln, English noblewoman (born 1281)source
  • 1484Isabel of Cambridge, Countess of Essex (born 1409)source
  • 1515In India, Suja Rathore of Marwar dies after ruling Marawar for 23 years, and two of his grandsons, Biram Singh Rathore and Rao Ganga, compete for the throne.source
  • 1626Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (born 1567)source
  • 1629Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (born 1575)source
  • 1633Scipione Borghese, Italian Catholic cardinal and art collector (born 1577)source
  • 1674George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen, officer in the Dutch Army (born 1606)source
  • 1709Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine (born 1639)source
  • 1764William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1720)source
  • 1780John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (executed) (born 1750)source
  • 1782Charles Lee, Continental Army general during the American War of Independence (born 1732)source
  • 1786Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (born 1725)source
  • 1803Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (born 1722)source
  • 1842William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian theologian, minister (born 1780)source
  • 1846Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician, medical professor (born 1754)source
  • 1847Vasil Aprilov, Bulgarian educator, merchant and writer (born 1789)source
  • 1853François Arago, French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (born 1786)source
  • 1892Ernest Renan, French philosopher, philologist, historian and writer (born 1823)source
  • 1944Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher (gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (born 1898)source
  • 1968Marcel Duchamp, French artist (born 1887)source
  • 1980John Kotelawala, politician (born 1895).source
  • 2018The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, triggering a diplomatic crisis for Saudi Arabia.source