October 4 leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 88 days remaining until the end of the year.
610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople , overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1363 - End of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang , in one of the largest naval battles in history .
1209 - Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III .
1227 - Assassination of Caliph al-Adil .
1511 - Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon , the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France .
1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible ) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale .
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar . In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15 .
1636 - The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock .
1693 - Battle of Marsaglia : Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1725 - Foundation of Rosario in Argentina .
1777 - Battle of Germantown : Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe .
1779 - The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1795 - Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention ).
1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands .
1853 - Crimean War : The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia .
1883 - First run of the Orient Express . 1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow , Scotland .
1895 - The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport .
1910 - Declaration of the Portuguese Republic . King Manuel II flees to the United Kingdom .
1910 - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda .
1918 - An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville . Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007.
1921 - Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume .
1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore .
1940 - Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass .
1943 - World War II : U.S. captures Solomon Islands .
1957 - Launch of Sputnik I 1957 - Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton .
1958 - Fifth Republic of France is established.
1960 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 , a Lockheed L-188 Electra , crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston 's Logan International Airport , killing 62 of 72 on board.
1965 - The first Pope to ever visit the United States of America , Pope Paul VI arrives in New York .
1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho .
1967 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah .
1975 - A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington , killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA 's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair .
1976 - Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).1983 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada .
1985 - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts , USA .
1988 - U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature .
1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
1992 - El Al Flight 1862 : an El Al Boeing 747 -258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam , killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
1993 - Russian Constitutional Crisis : In Moscow , tanks bombard the White House , a government building that housed the Russian parliament , while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte office of Loomis, Fargo and Company . An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
2001 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 : a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa , Israel : 21 Israelis , Jews and Arabs , are killed, and 51 others wounded.
2004 - SpaceShipOne Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
1160 - Alys , daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1220 )
1276 - Margaret of Brabant , Queen of Germany (d. 1311 )
1289 - King Louis X of France (d. 1316 )
1379 - King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406 )
1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger , German painter (d. 1586 )
1542 - Robert Bellarmine , Italian saint (d. 1621 )
1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611 )
1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus , Danish astronomer (d. 1647 )
1570 - Péter Pázmány , Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637 )
1585 - Anna of Tyrol , Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1618 )
1625 - Jacqueline Pascal , French child prodigy (d. 1661 )
1626 - Richard Cromwell , Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712 )
1657 - Francesco Solimena , Italian painter (d. 1747 )
1720 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi , Italian artist (d. 1778 )
1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus , German entomologist (d. 1798 )
1759 - Antoine Arbogast , French mathematician (d. 1803 )
1787 - François Guizot , French statesman (d. 1874 )
1807 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine , French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864 )
1814 - Jean-François Millet , French painter (d. 1875 )
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes , 19th President of the United States (d. 1893 )
1836 - Juliette Adam , French writer (d. 1936 )
1841 - Prudente José de Morais Barros , President of Brazil (d. 1912 )
1841 - Maria Sophie of Bavaria , queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1925 )
1858 - Michael Pupin , Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935 )
1861 - Frederic Remington , American painter (d. 1909 )
1862 - Edward Stratemeyer , American author (d. 1930 )
1876 - Hugh McCrae , Australian writer (d. 1958 )
1877 - Razor Smith , English cricketer (d. 1946 )
1880 - Damon Runyon , American writer (d. 1946 )
1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch , German Commander-in-Chief (d. 1948 )
1884 - Subramaniya Siva , Indian freedom fighter (d. 1925 )
1886 - Luis Alberni , Spanish actor (d. 1962 )
1888 - Oscar Mathisen , Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954 )
1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss , Austrian politician (d. 1934 )
1895 - Buster Keaton , American comedian (d. 1966 )
1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff , American computer pioneer (d. 1995 )
1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner , German military officer and senior Nazi (d. 1946 )
1903 - Bona Arsenault , French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993 )
1907 - Run Run Shaw , Hong Kong media mogul
1910 - Frankie Crosetti , American baseball player (d. 2002 )
1914 - Jim Cairns , Australian politician (d. 2003 )
1914 - Brendan Gill , American writer (d. 1997 )
1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg , Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1916 - Jan Murray , American comedian (d. 2006 )
1916 - George Sidney , American film director (d. 2002 )
1918 - Kenichi Fukui , Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998 )
1922 - Malcolm Baldrige , 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987 )
1922 - Shin Kyuk-Ho , Japanese businessman
1924 - Charlton Heston , American actor
1928 - Alvin Toffler , American author
1928 - Torben Ulrich , Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player
1929 - Scotty Beckett , American child actor, Our Gang comedies (d. 1968 )
1929 - Leroy Van Dyke , American singer
1931 - Richard Rorty , Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Stanford University
1932 - Milan Chvostek , Canadian television director
1934 - Sam Huff , American football player
1937 - Jackie Collins , British author
1937 - Jim Sillars , Scottish politician
1938 - Kurt Wüthrich , Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Silvio Marzolini , Argentine footballer
1940 - Alberto Vilar , Cuban-American investor and philanthropist
1941 - Roy Blount , American writer
1941 - Anne Rice , American writer
1941 - Robert Wilson , American theatre director
1941 - Karl Oppitzhauser , Austrian racing driver
1942 - Karl W. Richter , American aviator (d. 1967 )
1943 - H. Rap Brown , American civil rights activist
1944 - Tony La Russa , American baseball manager
1944 - Rocío Dúrcal , Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006 )
1945 - Clifton Davis , American actor
1946 - Chuck Hagel , American politician
1946 - Bridget St John , English singer/songwriter and guitarist
1946 - Susan Sarandon , American actress
1947 - Ann Widdecombe , British politician
1947 - Julien Clerc , French singer
1947 - Jim Fielder , American bassist (Blood )
1948 - Linda McMahon , CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment
1949 - Armand Assante , American actor
1949 - Stephen Gyllenhaal , American director
1950 - Meg Bennett , American writer and actress
1951 - Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov , Kazakh poet
1953 - Tchéky Karyo , Turkish-French actor
1955 - Jorge Valdano , Argentine footballer
1957 - Alexander Tkachyov , Soviet gymnast
1957 - Bill Fagerbakke , American actor
1959 - Chris Lowe , British musician (Pet Shop Boys )
1959 - Tony Meo , English snooker player
1960 - Afrika Bambaataa , American musician
1960 - Joe Boever , American baseball player
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi , Japanese author
1962 - Jon Secada , Cuban singer and songwriter
1963 - A.C. Green , American basketball player
1964 - Sarah Lancashire , British actress
1965 - Skip Heller , American musician
1967 - Marcus Bentley , British voice actor
1967 - Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin , Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer
1967 - Liev Schreiber , American actor
1970 - Richard Hancox , English footballer
1971 - Friderika Bayer , Hungarian singer
1972 - Kurt Thomas , American basketball player
1973 - Chris Parks , American wrestler
1974 - Paco León , Spanish actor
1975 - Cristiano Lucarelli , Italian football player
1976 - Alicia Silverstone , American actress
1976 - Mauro Camoranesi , Argentine-Italian footballer
1978 - Ko Soo , South Korean television and movie actor
1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook , American actress
1979 - Stefan Booth , British actor
1980 - Kristina Lenko , Canadian Ice Skater
1980 - Me'Lisa Barber , American athlete
1980 - Sarah Fisher , American race car driver
1980 - Tim Peper , American actor
1980 - Tomáš Rosický , Czech footballer
1981 - Justin Williams , Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Scott Hammond , American photographer
1981 - Juka , Japanese singer
1982 - Jered Weaver , American baseball player
1982 - Tony Gwynn Jr. , American baseball player
1983 - Risa Kudo , Japanese gravure idol
1983 - Ueda Tatsuya , Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN )
1983 - Dan Clarke , British racing driver
1983 - Kurt Suzuki , American baseball player
1984 - Lena Katina , Russian singer
1986 - Yuridia , Mexican singer
1989 - Lil Mama , American rapper
2005 - Prince Emmanuel of Belgium
1052 - Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020 )
1221 - William III Talvas , Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179 )
1250 - Herman VI
1305 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249 )
1582 - Teresa of Avila , Spanish saint (b. 1515 )
1597 - Sarsa Dengel , Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550 )
1646 - Thomas Howard , English statesman (b. 1586 )
1660 - Francesco Albani , Italian painter (b. 1578 )
1661 - Jacqueline Pascal , French child prodigy (b. 1625 )
1669 - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn , Dutch painter (b. 1606 )
1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet , French engineer
1743 - John Campbell , Scottish soldier (b. 1678 )
1749 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck , Austrian soldier (b. 1711 )
1754 - Tanacharison , Catawba Indian chief
1785 - David Brearly , American statesman (b. 1703 )
1821 - John Rennie , Scottish engineer (b. 1761 )
1851 - Manuel de Godoy , Spanish statesman (b. 1767 )
1859 - Karl Baedeker , German publisher (b. 1801 )
1864 - Joseph Montferrand , French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802 )
1867 - Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819 )
1890 - Catherine Booth , the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829 )
1903 - Otto Weininger , Austrian philosopher (b. 1880 )
1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi , French sculptor (b. 1834 )
1904 - Karl Bayer , Austrian chemist (b. 1847 )
1910 - Sergey Muromtsev , Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850 )
1935 - Jean Béraud , French painter (b. 1849 )
1935 - Marie Gutheil-Schoder , German soprano (b. 1874 )
1943 - Irena Iłłakowicz , Polish agent of Intelligence (b. 1906 )
1944 - Al Smith , American politician (b. 1873 )
1946 - Barney Oldfield , American automobile pioneer (b. 1878 )
1947 - Max Planck , A German Nobel laureate (b. 1858 )
1951 - Willie Moretti , American gangster (b. 1894 )
1961 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov) , Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880 )
1969 - Natalino Otto , Italian singer (b. 1912 )
1970 - Janis Joplin , American singer (b. 1943 )
1974 - Anne Sexton , American poet (b. 1928 )
1975 - Joan Whitney Payson , American heiress (b. 1903 )
1981 - Freddie Lindstrom , Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905 )
1982 - Glenn Gould , Canadian pianist (b. 1932 )
1989 - Graham Chapman , British comedian (b. 1941 )
1989 - Secretariat , American race horse (b. 1970 )
1991 - J. Frank Wilson , American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers ) (b. 1941 )
1992 - Denny Hulme , New Zealand race care driver (b. 1936 )
1993 - Jim Holton , Scottish footballer (b. 1951 )
1994 - Danny Gatton , American guitar virtuoso (b. 1945 )
1996 - Larry Gene Bell , American child murderer (executed by electric chair)
1997 - Gunpei Yokoi , Japanese game developer (b. 1941 )
1999 - Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969 )
1999 - Art Farmer , American jazz trumpet player (b. 1928 )
1999 - Bernard Buffet , French painter (b. 1928 )
2000 - Michael Smith , Nobel laureate (b. 1932 )
2000 - Yu Kuo-hwa , former Premier of Taiwan (b. 1914)
2001 - Blaise Alexander , American Race Car Driver (b. 1976 )
2002 - Alphonse Chapanis , founder of ergonomics (b. 1917 )
2002 - André Delvaux , Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926 )
2003 - Sid McMath , American politician (b. 1912 )
2004 - Gordon Cooper , American astronaut (b. 1927 )
2004 - Rio Diaz , Flipino actress & TV hosts (b. 1959 )
2005 - Stanley K. Hathaway , American politician (b. 1924 )
2006 - Tom Bell , English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933 )
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