| 0 | | Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, sometime soldier and prisoner-of-war, Patron of Italy, Animals, Ecology, Stowaways, and more |
| 0 | | World Animal Day |
| 241 | BC | Caius Lutatius Catulus celebrated a Triumph for the defeat of the Carthaginian fleet in the Battle of the Aegates Islands -- Learn More |
| 1189 | | the Crusaders defeated an Ayyubid attempt to storm Acre -- Learn More |
| 1636 | | Battle of Wittsok: The Swedes defeat the Imperialists |
| 1674 | | Battle of Enzheim: The French defeat the Imperialists |
| 1693 | | Battle of Marsiglia: The French defeat the Savoyards |
| 1775 | | Continental Army Chief Surgeon Benjamin Church convicted of espionage |
| 1777 | | Washington almost defeated the British at Germantown -- Learn More |
| 1821 | | the US Navy’s first anti-slavery squadron sailed for patrol off Africa |
| 1824 | | Emperor Agustin Iturbide overthrown, as Mexico becomes a republic |
| 1830 | | the Belgian Provisional Government seceded from the Netherlands -- Learn More |
| 1861 | | Combat at Buffalo Hill, Ky |
| 1862 | | Battle of Corinth ends (from Oct 3) |
| 1910 | | Portugal becomes a republic, as King Manuel II flees to England |
| 1918 | | Sayville, NJ: Explosion at the T.A. Gillespie Shell Loading Plant, over 100 die |
| 1939 | | Last Polish troops surrender to the Germans |
| 1940 | | Hitler and Mussolini confer at the Brenner Pass |
| 1942 | | USS 'Greenling' (SS-213) sinks 'Setsuyo Maru' east of Tokyo: Since Dec 7, '41 Japan has lost 700,000 grt of merchant shipping |
| 1943 | | Corsica liberated by Free French troops |
| 1944 | | Aircraft off USS 'Ranger' (CV-4) raid German bases in Norway, sink or damage 8 ships |
| 1957 | | USSR orbits Sputnik I - the "Space Race" begins |
| 1962 | | USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300 m |
| 1289 | | King Louis X "the Stubborn" of France (Nov. 29, 1314-June 5, 1316) |
| 1550 | | King Charles IX of Sweden (1569-1611) |
| 1626 | | Richard Cromwell, sometime ´Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland' (1658-1659), d. 1712 |
| 1809 | | Robert Cumming Schenck, Maj. Gen, U.S., d. 1890 |
| 1816 | | Egbert Benson Brown, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1902 |
| 1822 | | Rutherford B. Hayes, Brig. Gen. and President (1877-81), d. 1893 -- Learn More |
| 1840 | | Princess Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Queen consort of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1859-1861), a better man than her husband, d. 1925 |
| 1861 | | Frederic Remington, artist of the West and the frontier army, d. 1909 |
| 1877 | | Doroteo "Pancho Villa" Arango, Mexican revolutionary, assassinated, 1923 -- Learn More |
| 1881 | | Walter von Brauchitsch, German C-in-C (1938-1941), d. 1948 |
| 1892 | | Engelbert Dollfuss, Frontsoldat, Austrian chancellor & strongman (1932-1934), murdered by Nazis, 1934 |
| 1895 | | Richard Sorge, Soviet spy in Tokyo, executed, 1944 |
| 1896 | | John H. Pruitt was born, and later, as CPL, USMC, was kia on this date in 1918 at 22, earning the Medal of Honor -- -- Learn More |
| 1903 | | Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Nazi criminal, executed 1946 |
| 1913 | | Lelia Caetani, last Princess of Sermoneta, d. 1977 |
| 1582 | | St. Teresa of Avila, 67 |
| 1758 | | James Francis Edward Keith, 62, Scottish Jacobite and Prussian field marshal |
| 1830 | | Count Hans Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian military reformer, at 71 |
| 1851 | | Manuel Godoy y Álvarez de Faria, 84, inept Prime Minister of Spain (1792-1797, 1801-1808) |
| 1859 | | Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker, 57, the guidebook man, who helped millions of tourists and invaders find their way |
| 1904 | | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor of "The Statue of Liberty" and much else, at 70 |
| 1932 | | Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, 75, Austrian lieutenant, Egyptian Pasha, British Maj. Gen. |
| 2004 | | Michael Grant, historian ("Gladiators"), at 89 |
| 2008 | | Ted Briggs, last survivor of the sinking of HMS 'Hood', at 85 |
| 2013 | | Võ Nguyên Giáp, brilliant Vietnamese commander, who fought Japanese, French, & Americans, at 102 -- Learn More |