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October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
• 1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
• 1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1793 – Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
• 1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
• 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
• 1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt to the ground.
• 1841 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• 1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
• 1846 – William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
• 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
• 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
• 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
• 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• 1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
• 1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• 1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
• 1916 – Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
• 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
• 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
• 1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
• 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
• 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
• 1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
• 1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
• 1949 – Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
• 1949 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
• 1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba begins.
• 1964 – The People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• 1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively.
• 1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the USA's team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
• 1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• 1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
• 1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
• 1975 – Rahima Banu, a 2-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
• 1975 – The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
• 1978 – Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
• 1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
• 1986 – Ron Arad, Israeli Weapons System Officer, is captured by Lebanese Shi'ite militia Amal
• 1987 – Great Storm of 1987: Hurricane force winds hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
• 1991 – Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
• 1993 – Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
• 1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
• 1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened.
• 1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
• 1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
• 2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
• 2006 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport. See 2006 Hawaii Earthquake.

Births

• 1396 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
• 1430 – King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
• 1483 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
• 1535 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
• 1663 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
• 1710 – Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
• 1714 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
• 1726 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
• 1751 – Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
• 1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
• 1754 – Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
• 1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
• 1762 – Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804–06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809–12) (d. 1816)
• 1789 – William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859–63) (d. 1866)
• 1795 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
• 1802 – Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
• 1806 – William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (d. 1869)
• 1815 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
• 1819 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
• 1840 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
• 1841 – Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909)
• 1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
• 1854 – Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (d. 1938)
• 1855 – Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
• 1861 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
• 1863 – Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
• 1876 – Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer, rugby union and soccer player (d. 1913)
• 1878 – Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
• 1883 – Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
• 1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
• 1886 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
• 1888 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
• 1888 – Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
• 1890 – Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
• 1890 – Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
• 1897 – Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian (d. 2008)
• 1898 – William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971)
• 1903 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
• 1906 – León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Clifford Hansen, American politician (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, Shah of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
• 1916 – George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
• 1918 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1919 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
• 1922 – Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1923 – Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
• 1923 – Bill McLaren MBE, Scottish rugby commentator (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
• 1927 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 – Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
• 1929 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• 1930 – Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
• 1931 – Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator
• 1931 – Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
• 1931 – Valery Klimov, Russian violinist
• 1932 – John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
• 1932 – Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (d. 1996)
• 1934 – Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
• 1936 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
• 1936 – Akira Machida, Japanese judge
• 1936 – Peter Bowles, English actor
• 1938 – Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
• 1938 – Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
• 1940 – Barry Corbin, American actor
• 1940 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
• 1940 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
• 1943 – Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
• 1946 – Suzanne Somers, American actress
• 1947 – Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
• 1947 – Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
• 1947 – David Zucker, American film director
• 1948 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
• 1948 – Hema Malini, Indian Actress
• 1952 – Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
• 1952 – Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1953 – Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
• 1953 – Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
• 1953 – Al Sobotka, Zamboni driver
• 1954 – Stephen Mellor, American actor
• 1956 – John Chavis, American football coach
• 1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
• 1958 – Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
• 1959 – Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
• 1959 – Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
• 1959 – Brian Harper, baseball player
• 1960 – Bob Mould, American musician
• 1961 – Randy Vasquez, American actor
• 1961 – Marc Levy, French novelist
• 1962 – Flea, Australian-born American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• 1962 – Ken Chinn, American musician (SNFU)
• 1962 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-born basketball player for the NBA
• 1962 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
• 1963 – Brendan Kibble, Australian musician
• 1965 – Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
• 1965 – Tom Tolbert, American basketball player
• 1967 – Davina McCall, British television presenter
• 1968 – Randall Batinkoff, American actor
• 1968 – Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
• 1969 – Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
• 1969 – Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
• 1969 – Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
• 1969 – Takao Ōmori, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1970 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
• 1970 – Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
• 1971 – Chad Gray, American singer
• 1972 – Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
• 1972 – Darius Kasparaitis, Russian Super League player
• 1972 – Kordell Stewart, American football player
• 1973 – María Eugenia Larraín, Chilean model, engineer and socialite
• 1973 – Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
• 1973 – David Unsworth, English professional footballer
• 1974 – Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
• 1975 – Kellie Martin, American actress
• 1975 – Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1975 – Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
• 1976 – Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
• 1977 – John Mayer, American musician/man whore!
• 1978 – Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K)
• 1979 – Erin Brown, American actress, model, filmmaker, and musician
• 1980 – Sue Bird, American basketball player
• 1980 – Jeremy Jackson, American actor
• 1980 – Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
• 1981 – Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
• 1981 – Martin Halle, Danish footballer
• 1982 – Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1982 – Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
• 1982 – Pippa Black, Australian actress
• 1983 – Jennifer Hurt, model
• 1984 – Trevor Blumas, Canadian actor
• 1984 – Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress
• 1984 – Shayne Ward, British singer
• 1985 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1986 – Craig Pickering, British sprinter
• 1988 – Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
• 1991 – John and Edward Grimes, Irish twin entertainers

Deaths

• 1355 – Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death (b. 1337)
• 1553 – Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
• 1555 – Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred)
• 1555 – Nicholas Ridley, English Protestant (martyred)
• 1591 – Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
• 1594 – William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
• 1621 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
• 1628 – François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
• 1649 – Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
• 1655 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
• 1680 – Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general
• 1750 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
• 1755 – Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
• 1774 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750)
• 1781 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
• 1791 – Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
• 1793 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
• 1793 – John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728)
• 1796 – Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
• 1810 – Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
• 1822 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
• 1865 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
• 1877 – Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
• 1888 – John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
• 1893 – Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
• 1908 – Father Ignatius, a restorer of religious life in the Church of England (b. 1837)
• 1909 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
• 1937 – Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
• 1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
  • Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
  • Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
  • Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
  • Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
  • Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
  • Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
  • Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
  • Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
• 1951 – Liaqat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895/10/02)
• 1952 – Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian/Pakistani Muslim leader and poet (b. 1876)
• 1956 – Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
• 1959 – Minor Hall, American jazz musician (b. 1897)
• 1959 – George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
• 1962 – Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
• 1964 – Patsy Callighen, Canadian Hockey Player (b. 1906)
• 1966 – George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1968 – Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
• 1972 – Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
• 1972 – Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
• 1974 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1979 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
• 1982 – Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
• 1983 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)
• 1983 – Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
• 1986 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1990 – Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1997 – James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
• 1997 – Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
• 1999 – Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Dawson family, American murder victims
• 2003 – Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
• 2003 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
• 2005 – "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (b. 1933)
• 2005 – David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
• 2005 – Ursula Howells, English actress (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
• 2006 – John Murra, Ukranian-american anthropologist (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Ross Davidson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star and humanitarian (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Barbara West, Second to last living Titanic survivor (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances

• Boss's Day in the United States
• Pope John Paul II Day in Poland
• World Food Day
• R.C. Saints – Gerard Majella, Hedwig, Fortunatus of Casei, Silvanus of Ahun
• International Credit Union Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Nothing endures but change. ~ Heraclitus

• selected by Kalki

2005

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ Oscar Wilde (born 16 October 1854)

• proposed by MosheZadka

2006

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~ Oscar Wilde

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2007

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. ~ Oscar Wilde

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. ~ William O. Douglas

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience. ~ William O. Douglas

• proposed by Zarbon

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

• Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • Used 16 July 2003, selected by Nanobug

• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • Used 28 February 2004, selected by Kalki

• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • Used 23 August 2004, selected by Kalki

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. ~ Oscar Wilde

• 3 InvisibleSun 18:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 82.73.85.73 10:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. ~ Oscar Wilde

• 3 InvisibleSun 18:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. ~ Oscar Wilde

• 3 InvisibleSun 18:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue. ~ Wilhelm Keitel (died October 16)

• 4 because this to me, is one of my three all-time favorite quotes. I have been waiting all year for this quotation and if a rating of 5 were possible, I would give it to this, since the wait has been rather long. Other than 2 other quotes, this quote is highly important to me. For more, please see the September 22 section. I initially suggested this for the date of birth, where ratings of 2 (Kalki), 2 (InvisibleSun), and 2 (UDScott) were given but I am bringing this up here in the hopes that it will make it this year. I really hope it makes it. Again, I've made quite a few suggestions for upcoming years, but I seriously hope this makes it for this year. - Zarbon 03:14, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Because it is so important to you, I will refrain from rating this time. However for my thoughts on the subject I would direct people to our discussion on september 22. Denji 21:50, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 This evokes qualities and appeals to certain emotions of devotion and loyalty which might be admirable, but this statement itself, to my mind is not admirable at all.
  I could agree with a statement that asserted "It isn't right to seek to be virtuous only when things are easy", but absolute obedience to the will of any person or group is something I consider not to be virtuous at all, though it is often very easy, comfortable, and convenient to many of those who are profoundly confused about what the paths of true virtue actually impel, and how greatly they can and often must diverge from paths of any form of abject or absolute obedience to anyone.
  I was inclined to rank this at 1 for a time, because I do believe that if enough people do strongly endorse such profoundly stupid views, I do believe their voices should be heard. Yet reflecting upon the profound contempt I have for such extremely confused attitudes, and for many others which I would also be inclined to rank at 0, I finally resolved that there certainly are attitudes and expressions which I certainly do not believe are at all worth noting as a quote of the day, and this is one of them.
  If this does end up clearly ranking highest for the day, under the current guidelines, it will probably still be selected for use despite my own protests and objections. Even so, I firmly believe that the worship of any form of abject or absolute obedience to any person or group, is certainly never a virtue, even when the views they express are actually virtuous, and to my own views this quote is testimony from someone whose ideas and loyalties were far from that.
  To me the quote itself remains an expression of a profoundly contemptible attitude, by a person who lived to a great extent a profoundly contemptible life, in service to a profoundly contemptible cause. Though I recognize that some situations exist where there are conflicts and challenges which give advantages to those who have some form of limited obedience to others, this expression of total worship of the traditions of slavery, by an enslaved mind who seeks to be a master over the enslaved minds of others, is not even a view which could ever be endorsed by someone who is entirely sane and rational.
  I expect it is a view which many who have much capacity for much good sense brutally beaten out of them by others or by other foul circumstances might come to endorse most avidly. I can pity such people for their fates and their very limited views of things, but I certainly cannot agree with them upon such matters. ~ Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
  • You gave the quote a 2 on another date, why the change of heart...also, the rating of 0 isn't even possible unless the quote has nothing to do with the person's date of birth or date of death. It is highly noteworthy that we should maintain the consensus of rating the quotes on the basis of 1-4 and 0 only if they are worthless/useless or completely out of context and date. This quote is neither of those things. If this were the case, then I'd give everything else a 0 for this date just to have this quote make it. - Zarbon 03:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
  • I believe this is a very climactic quote and loyalty at times of difficulty is an admirable quality. Historical quotations have incorporated powerful imagery with sincere and dire loyalty. I like this quote a lot. Waheedone 04:00, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Again I must assert that I perceive there to be an extreme confusion of concepts evident in the quote and in the comments about it. Loyalty can certainly be a virtue, when it is well informed, and not simply automatic or blind, but loyalty involves some levels of proper autonomy and freedom of will, and even great forms of fairness and equality which are not intrinsic to most notions of obedience. As the term "obedience" is usually used, it involves some presumptions of inherent superiority and inferiority on the part of the participants, which I am generally loathe to accept, let alone presume. I might possibly have ranked the quote higher in the past somewhere because I was less reluctant to let some rather foolish expressions be heard, but I do not know of any official statements anywhere where the rankings used on these pages indicate anything other than the assessments of those who choose to rank them, and I certainly don't believe that I have ever made such statements anywhere as constrain people's right to use the zero ranking on a quotation that they simply abhor. It is a ranking I certainly rarely use, even on remarks which I do abhor strongly, usually giving them a 1, but I thought it proper to be as fully honest as possible in indicating my own assessments of this remark. It is one I do not wish to use, and truly believe not generally suitable for a Wikiquote QOTD. Though I might concede there could conceivably be some ironic use of it I could accept someday, where I might rank it a 1 or 2, I cannot think of any particular situations in which I would ever be very eager to use it. ~ Kalki 13:29, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 While virtue is to be found in loyalty, devotion, and self-sacrifice, appeal to obedience in itself is dehumanizing. ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0. This quote belongs on the subject's DOB, September 22. There is no reason to repeat it for his DOD. This is not a practice to be encouraged. - InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Be of good comfort...play the man...we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace...as I trust shall never be put out. ~ Hugh Latimer (date of death)

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• This has already been used. ~ Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ~ Hugh Latimer (date of death)

• 2 because good things may happen rarely, but when they do happen, they leave a mark. Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Respect yourself, if you want others to respect you. ~ Adolf Freiherr Knigge

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC) This attitude can be used to provide a stark contrast to that presented by Wilhelm Keitel, above.
• 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Do not be too much a slave of others' opinions of you! Be self-sufficient! Why, in the end, does the opinion of the whole world trouble you, if you do what you should? ~ Adolf Freiherr Knigge

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC) This attitude can be used to provide a stark contrast to that presented by Wilhelm Keitel, above.
• 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

In many matters children — not ensnared by dogmatism, passion, or erudition — judge far truer than adults. ~ Adolf Freiherr Knigge

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC) This attitude can be used to provide a stark contrast to that presented by Wilhelm Keitel, above.
• 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I tell you this; early this morning I signed my death warrant. I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous — a bullet may just as well have done the job five years ago. ~ Michael Collins

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC) Not very meaningful without context.
• 2 if the quote is expanded to "Think — what have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past seven hundred years. Will anyone be satisfied at the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this; early this morning I signed my death warrant. I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous — a bullet may just as well have done the job five years ago." - InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate — and remain forever scatheless. ~ Eugene O'Neill

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Supposing I was to tell you that it's just Beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell of the East which lures me in the books I've read, the need of the freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on — in quest of the secret which is hidden over there, beyond the horizon? ~ Eugene O'Neill

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. ~ William O. Douglas

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 3 Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. ~ William O. Douglas

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

My art cannot be bought. I will not exchange my feelings for earthly treasure. ~ Otto Mueller

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind. ~ John Mayer

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ Ningauble 13:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day. ~ John Mayer

• 2 Zarbon 14:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 15:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever. ~ Eugene O'Neill

• 3 Kalki 13:49, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:56, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Articles detailing events that are related to October 16. This may include the release of games or systems, the founding of a video game related company or some other important event.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2003
  • Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in North America
• 2000
  • Cruis'n Exotica for the Nintendo 64

• 1999
  • Dead or Alive 2 for the Arcade

• 1998
  • Elmo's Letter Adventure for the PlayStation in North America

From Familypedia

October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
• 1775 - Portland burnt by the British.
• 1780 - Royalton and Tunbridge last major raid of the American Revolutionary War.
• 1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown after the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
• 1793 - Battle of Wattignies.
• 1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
• 1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down.
• 1841 - Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• 1843 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
• 1859 - John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry
• 1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered.
• 1869 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, is founded.
• 1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• 1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
• 1905 - The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
• 1906 - The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
• 1916 - Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
• 1923 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
• 1934 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
• 1939 - World War II: First attack on British territory by German Luftwaffe.
• 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army.
• 1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established.
• 1945 - The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada.
• 1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged.
• 1949 - Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
• 1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• 1961 - Cork Airport opened in Ireland.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba began.
• 1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• 1968 - United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
• 1968 - Kingston is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• 1969 - United States - The "miracle" New York Mets win the World Series, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.
• 1970 - Canada - In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act.
• 1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1975 - The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
• 1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II.
• 1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
• 1991 - Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
• 1991 - Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
• 1993 - Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters
• 1995 - The Million Man March occurs in Washington.
• 1996 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
• 2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
• 2002 - Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, was signed into law by President George W. Bush.

Births

• 1396 - William de la Pole, English soldier (d. 1450)
• 1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
• 1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
• 1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
• 1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
• 1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
• 1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
• 1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
• 1751 - Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
• 1752 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
• 1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
• 1758 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
• 1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816)
• 1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
• 1795 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
• 1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
• 1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (d. 1869)
• 1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
• 1819 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
• 1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
• 1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
• 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
• 1854 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (d. 1938)
• 1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
• 1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
• 1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
• 1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
• 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
• 1888 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
• 1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
• 1890 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
• 1890 - Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
• 1897 - Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man
• 1898 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
• 1900 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
• 1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
• 1906 - León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (d. 1996)
• 1908 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985)
• 1914 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
• 1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
• 1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1922 - Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
• 1922 - Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
• 1923 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1923 - Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
• 1925 - Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
• 1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
• 1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
• 1929 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• 1930 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
• 1931 - Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator
• 1932 - John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
• 1934 - Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
• 1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
• 1936 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
• 1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
• 1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
• 1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
• 1938 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
• 1940 - Barry Corbin, American actor
• 1940 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
• 1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
• 1943 - Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
• 1946 - Suzanne Somers, American actress
• 1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
• 1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
• 1947 - David Zucker, American film director
• 1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
• 1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
• 1952 - Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
• 1953 - Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
• 1954 - Stephen Mellor, American actor
• 1956 - Johnny Chavis, American football coach
• 1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
• 1958 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
• 1959 - Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
• 1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
• 1959 - Brian Harper, baseball player
• 1960 - Bob Mould, American musician
• 1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor
• 1961 - Marc Levy, French novelist
• 1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• 1962 - Manute Bol, Sudanese-born basketball player for the NBA
• 1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
• 1965 - Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
• 1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
• 1968 - Randall Batinkoff, American actor
• 1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
• 1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
• 1969 - Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
• 1969 - Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
• 1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
• 1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
• 1972 - Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
• 1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, National Hockey League player
• 1972 - Kordell Stewart, American football player
• 1973 - Chad Gray, American singer (Mudvayne)
• 1973 - Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
• 1973 - David Unsworth, English professional footballer
• 1974 - Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
• 1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter
• 1975 - Kellie Martin, American actress
• 1975 - Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1975 - Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
• 1976 - Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
• 1977 - John Mayer, American musician
• 1979 - Erin Brown, American B-movie actress, model, filmmaker, former softcore erotic actress, and musician
• 1980 - Sue Bird, American basketball player
• 1980 - Jeremy Jackson, American actor
• 1980 - Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
• 1981 - Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
• 1981 - Anthony Reyes, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
• 1982 - Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1982 - Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
• 1984 - Trevor Blumas, Canadian actor
• 1984 - Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress
• 1984 - Shayne Ward, UK singer, winner of The X Factor, series 2005
• 1985 - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer and 2007 MotoGP World Champion
• 1988 - Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

Deaths

• 1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
• 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
• 1555 - Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred)
• 1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English Protestant (martyred)
• 1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
• 1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
• 1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
• 1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
• 1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
• 1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
• 1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
• 1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
• 1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
• 1781 - Edward Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
• 1791 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
• 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
• 1793 - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
• 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
• 1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
• 1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
• 1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
• 1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
• 1893 - Patrice MacMahon, President of France (b. 1808)
• 1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
• 1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
• 1946 - Nuremberg trial executions
  • Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
  • Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
  • Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
  • Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
  • Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
  • Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
  • Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
  • Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
• 1956 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
• 1959 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
• 1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
• 1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
• 1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
• 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1892)
• 1973 - Gene Krupa, American musician (b. 1909)
• 1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
• 1978 - Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
• 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
• 1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
• 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)
• 1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
• 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
• 1989 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
• 1990 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)
• 1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1994 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
• 1996 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910)
• 1996 - Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1997 - James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
• 1997 - Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
• 1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
• 2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
• 2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
• 2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
• 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
• 2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
• 2005 - "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
• 2005 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (b. 1933)
• 2005 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
• 2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
• 2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
• 2006 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
• 2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star (b. 1981)
• 2007 - Barbara West, Second to last living Titanic survivor.

Holidays and observances

• Boss's Day in the United States
• Pope John Paul II Day in Poland
• World Food Day
• R.C. Saints - Gerard Majella and Hedwig

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada