1 October
Notable Births
Priah Ferguson
b. 2006
American actress (born 2006)
Livvy Dunne
b. 2002
American gymnast and influencer (born 2002)
Luna Blaise
b. 2001
American actress (born 2001)
Mason Greenwood
b. 2001
English footballer (born 2001)
Kalle Rovanperä
b. 2000
Finnish rally driver (born 2000)
Daniel Gafford
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Haumole Olakau'atu
b. 1998
Tonga international rugby league footballer
Jade Bird
b. 1997
English singer (born 1997)
Trézéguet (Egyptian footballer)
b. 1994
Egyptian footballer (born 1994)
Chris Green (cricketer)
b. 1993
South African-Australian cricketer
Xander Bogaerts
b. 1992
Aruban baseball player (born 1992)
Robbie Ray
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Pedro Mendes (footballer, born October 1990)
b. 1990
Portuguese footballer (born 1990)
Albert Prosa
b. 1990
Estonian footballer
Brie Larson
b. 1989
American actress, singer and filmmaker (born 1989)
Mitchell Aubusson
b. 1987
Australian rugby league footballer
Matthew Daddario
b. 1987
American actor (born 1987)
Gibran Rakabuming Raka
b. 1987
Vice President of Indonesia since 2024
Sayaka Kanda
b. 1986
Japanese actress (1986–2021)
Bonnie and Clyde
b. 1910
American bank robbers in the 1930s
Notable Deaths
Jane Goodall
d. 2025
English zoologist (1934–2025)
Michael Ancram
d. 2024
British politician and peer (1945–2024)
Tim Wakefield
d. 2023
American baseball player (1966–2023)
Antonio Inoki
d. 2022
Japanese wrestler and politician (1943–2022)
Karel Gott
d. 2019
Czech singer (1939–2019)
Charles Aznavour
d. 2018
French singer and songwriter (1924–2018)
Stephen Paddock
d. 2017
American mass murderer (1953–2017)
Božo Bakota
d. 2015
Croatian footballer (1950–2015)
Don Edwards
d. 2015
American politician (1915–2015)
Hadi Norouzi
d. 2015
Iranian footballer (1985–2015)
Jacob Pressman
d. 2015
American rabbi (1919-2015)
Lynsey de Paul
d. 2014
English singer-songwriter and record producer (1948–2014)
Shlomo Lahat
d. 2014
Israeli military officer and politician
José Martínez (infielder/coach)
d. 2014
Cuban baseball player (1942–2014)
Robert Serra
d. 2014
Venezuelan politician (1987–2014)
Tom Clancy
d. 2013
American author (1947–2013)
Arnold Burns
d. 2013
American lawyer
Imero Fiorentino
d. 2013
Israel Gutman
d. 2013
20th and 21st-century Israeli historian and Holocaust survivor
Ole Danbolt Mjøs
d. 2013
Norwegian physician and politician
On This Day in History
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2024
Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the fifth Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978.
Israel
2022
One hundred and thirty-five are killed in a human crush following a football match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in East Java, Indonesia.
Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster
2021
The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expo 2020
2019
Kuopio school stabbing: One dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at Savo Vocational College in Kuopio, Finland.
Kuopio school stabbing
2018
The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia.
International Court of Justice
2017
An independence referendum, later declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.
2017 Catalan independence referendum
2017
Sixty people are killed and 867 others injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip in the United States; the gunman, Stephen Paddock, later commits suicide.
2017 Las Vegas shooting
2016
The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Pedro Sánchez, resigns. He would return to the position a year later.
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
2015
A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
2015 Umpqua Community College shooting
2015
Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in Guatemala, killing 280 people.
2015 Guatemala landslide
2015
The American cargo vessel SS El Faro sinks with all of its 33 crew after steaming into the eyewall of Hurricane Joaquin.
SS El Faro
2014
A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
2014 Gorni Lom explosions
2014
A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.
Homs school bombing
2012
A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
2012 Lamma Island ferry collision
2009
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
2003
The popular and controversial English-language imageboard 4chan is launched.
Imageboard
2001
Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
2001 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly car bombing
2001
3G wireless technology first becomes available when it is adopted by Japanese telecommunications company NTT Docomo.
3G
2000
Israel-Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the killing of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by Israeli police in northern Israel, beginning the "October 2000 events".
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
1994
Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
Palau