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October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

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  768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.


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  1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.


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  1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.


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  1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.


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  1594 – Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.


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  1604 – Supernova 1604 is sighted, the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.


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  1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.


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  1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.


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  1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.


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  1740 – Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.


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  1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.


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  1790 – A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.


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  1799 – HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.


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  1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.


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  1806 – Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.


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  1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.


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  1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.


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  1824 – Slavery in Latin America: Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.


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  1825 – Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.


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  1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.


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  1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.


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  1847 – Slavery in the British and French Caribbean: Slavery is abolished in Saint Barthélemy.


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  1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.


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  1861 – American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.


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  1864 – American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.


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  1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.


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  1874 – A international postal union is created by the Treaty of Bern.


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  1900 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.


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  1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.


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  1911 – An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.


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  1913 – The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.


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  1914 – World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.


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  1918 – The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland.


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  1919 – The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.


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  1934 – An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.


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  1936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.


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  1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.


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  1942 – Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.


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  1950 – The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.


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  1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.


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  1963 – In Italy, a large landslide a causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.


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  1966 – Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre.


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  1967 – A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.


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  1969 – In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue in over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".


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  1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.


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  1980 – Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.


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  1981 – President Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.


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  1983 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.


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  1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.


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  1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.


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  2003 – Mission: Space opens to the public in Walt Disney World.


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  2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.


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  2009 – First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.


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  2012 – Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.


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  2017 – The October 2017 Northern California wildfires ravage the North Bay, resulting in over 40 deaths, and about 8,900 structures destroyed.

Births

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  1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French minister and theologian, founded the Collège de Sorbonne (d. 1274)


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  1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1290)


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  1261 – Denis of Portugal (d. 1325)


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  1328 – Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)


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  1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (d. 1638)


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  1586 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (d. 1632)


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  1593 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (d. 1674)


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  1609 – Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (d. 1688)


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  1623 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (d. 1688)


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  1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)


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  1757 – Charles X of France (d. 1836)


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  1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor (d. 1878)


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  1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (d. 1921)


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  1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (d. 1902)


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  1840 – Simeon Solomon, English painter (d. 1905)


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  1845 – Carl Gustav Thulin, Swedish shipowner (d. 1918)


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  1850 – Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (d. 1930)


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  1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)


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  1858 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935)


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  1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (d. 1935)


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  1863 – Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (d. 1930)


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  1864 – Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (d. 1927)


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  1871 – Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (d. 1940)


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  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)


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  1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter (d. 1947)


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  1877 – Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (d. 1928)


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  1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)


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  1880 – Charlie Faust, American baseball player (d. 1915)


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  1883 – Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress (d. 1956)


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  1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (d. 1980)


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  1888 – Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (d. 1938)


• 1888 – Irving Cummings, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1959)


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  1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (d. 1944)


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  1892 – Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)


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  1893 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (d. 1945)


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  1897 – M. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras State (d. 1987)


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  1898 – Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright (d. 1987)


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  1898 – Joe Sewell, American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1990)


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  1899 – Bruce Catton, American historian and author (d. 1978)


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  1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented the bendy straw (d. 1982)


• 1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (d. 1976)


• 1900 – Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1990)


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  1901 – Alice Lee Jemison, Seneca political activist and journalist (d. 1964)


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  1902 – Freddie Young, English cinematographer (d. 1998)


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  1903 – Walter O'Malley, American lawyer and businessman (d. 1979)


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  1906 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (d. 1985)


• 1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (d. 2001)


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  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)


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  1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet and critic (d. 1961)


• 1908 – Werner von Haeften, German lieutenant (d. 1944)


• 1908 – Lee Wiley, American singer (d. 1975)


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  1909 – Donald Coggan, English archbishop (d. 2000)


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  1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)


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  1914 – Edward Andrews, American actor (d. 1985)


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  1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, American academic and politician, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010)


• 1915 – Belva Plain, American author (d. 2010)


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  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)


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  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)


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  1921 – Michel Boisrond, French director and screenwriter (d. 2002)


• 1921 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014)


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  1922 – Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (d. 1997)


• 1922 – Philip "Fyvush" Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)


• 1922 – Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (d. 2010)


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  1923 – Donald Sinden, English actor (d. 2014)


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  1924 – Immanuvel Devendrar, Indian soldier (d. 1957)


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  1926 – Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (d. 2015)


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  1927 – John Margetson, English scholar and diplomat, British Ambassador to the Netherlands
  


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  1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer and educator (d. 2016)


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  1930 – Hank Lauricella, American football player, lieutenant, and politician (d. 2014)


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  1931 – Tony Booth, English actor (d. 2017)


• 1931 – Homer Smith, American football player and coach (d. 2011)


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  1932 – Robert McBain, English actor and photographer (d. 2004)


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  1933 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)


• 1933 – Bill Tidy, English soldier and cartoonist


• 
  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)


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  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


• 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


• 
  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
  


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  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 – Taiguara, Uruguayan-Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. 1996)


• 1945 – Amjad Ali Khan, Indian classical Sarod player


• 
  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 – 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


• 
  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 (The Pogues)


• 1954 – John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host


• 1954 – Rubén Magnano, Argentine-Italian professional basketball coach


• 
  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


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  1958 – Al Jourgensen, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and producer


• 1958 – Alan Nunnelee, American lawyer and politician (d. 2015)


• 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


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  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
  


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  1963 – Andy Platt, English rugby league player


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  1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican-American director, producer, and screenwriter


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  1965 – Jimbo Fisher, American football player and coach


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  1966 – David Cameron, English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  


• 1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher, founded Plaza Magazine
  


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  1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player


• 1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (d. 2005)


• 1967 – Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer


• 
  1969 – Guto Bebb, Welsh businessman and 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


• 
  1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboard player


• 
  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 – 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 – 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 – Anatoly Baklanov, Russian footballer


• 1980 – Filip Bobek, Polish actor


• 1980 – Pāvels Doroševs, Latvian football goalkeeper


• 1980 – Kert Kütt, Estonian footballer


• 1980 – Amir Nussbaum, Israeli footballer


• 1980 – Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer


• 1980 – Sarah Lovell, Australian politician


• 1980 – Fábio Pinto, Brazilian footballer


• 1980 – Thami Tsolekile, South African cricketer


• 1980 – Warren Waugh, English footballer


• 1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player


• 
  1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor


• 1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player


• 
  1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player


• 1983 – Farhaan Behardien, South African cricketer


• 1983 – Jang Mi-ran, South Korean weightlifter


• 1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian race car driver


• 1983 – Gethin Anthony, American actor


• 
  1985 – Chris Jones, Welsh footballer


• 
  1985 – David Plummer, American swimmer


• 
  1986 – Derek Holland, American baseball player


• 1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer


• 1986 – Stephane Zubar, French footballer


• 
  1987 – Samantha Murray, English tennis player


• 1987 – Bill Walker, American basketball player


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  1988 – David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player


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  1989 – Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player


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  1990 – Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer


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  1991 – Tyson Frizell, Australian-Welsh rugby league player


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  1993 – Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player


• 1993 – Lauren Davis, American tennis player


• 1993 – Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player


• 1993 – Scotty McCreery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist


• 1993 – Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster


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  1996 – Bella Hadid, American model

Deaths

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  680 – Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint


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  892 – Al-Tirmidhi, Persian scholar and hadith compiler (b. 824)


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  1047 – Pope Clement II
  


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  1212 – Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (b. 1175)


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  1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1175)


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  1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (b. 1227)


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  1296 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)


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  1390 – John I of Castile (b. 1358)


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  1555 – Justus Jonas, German academic and reformer (b. 1493)


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  1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1523)


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  1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa (b. 1533)


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  1581 – Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1526)


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  1613 – Henry Constable, English poet (b. 1562)


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  1619 – Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (b. 1561)


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  1691 – William Sacheverell, English politician (b. 1638)


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  1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (b. 1654)


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  1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary and linguist (b. 1718)


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  1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (b. 1720)


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  1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731)


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  1808 – John Claiborne, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)


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  1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)


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  1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and author (b. 1785)


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  1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)


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  1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)


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  1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and critic (b. 1873)


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  1934 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander the Unifier (b. 1888)


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  1934 – Louis Barthou, French union leader and politician, 78th Prime Minister of France (b. 1862)


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  1937 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868)


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  1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)


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  1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)


• 
  1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)


• 
  1945 – Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)


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  1946 – Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)


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  1947 – Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)


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  1950 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)


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  1953 – James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)


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  1955 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)


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  1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)


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  1958 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)


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  1959 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and biologist (b. 1892)


• 
  1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (b. 1885)


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  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)


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  1969 – Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928)


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  1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)


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  1974 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (b. 1908)


• 
  1975 – Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910)


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  1976 – Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)


• 
  1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)


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  1982 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (b. 1893)


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  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)


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  1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)


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  1996 – Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (b. 1913)


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  1999 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (b. 1923)


• 1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (b. 1914)


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  2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)


• 2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)


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  2001 – Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1927)


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  2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (b. 1931)


• 2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)


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  2003 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (b. 1926)


• 2003 – Carl Fontana, American jazz trombonist (b. 1928)


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  2004 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1930)


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  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)


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  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)


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  2010 – Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)


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  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)


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  2013 – Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (b. 1933)


• 2013 – Srihari, Indian actor


• 2013 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)


• 2013 – Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (b. 1925)


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  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)


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  2015 – Ray Duncan, American businessman (b. 1930)


• 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)


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  2016 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (b. 1926)


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  2017 – Jean Rochefort, French actor^[1] (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  
  • Abraham
  
  
  • Denis
  
  
  • Dionysius the Areopagite
  
  
  • Ghislain
  
  
  • 
    Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias
    
  
  
  • Blessed 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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to October 9.

• BBC: On This Day


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  The New York Times: On This Day


• Today in Canadian History