On this day: 7 October
Events, births and deaths on 7 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Emil Kraepelin
- Births · Alex Groza
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 929 · Deaths · Charles the Simple
- 951 · Deaths · Emperor Shizong of Liao
- 988 · Deaths · Qian Chu
Events · 34
- 1403(Julian date)Battle of Modon — 1403 naval battle between the Venetians and the Genoese
- 1513(Julian date)Battle of La Motta — 1513 battle
- 1571(Julian date)Battle of Lepanto — 1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
- 1777Battles of Saratoga — 1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
- 1780Battle of Kings Mountain — 1780 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1826Akkerman Convention — treaty signed on October 7, 1826, between the Russian and the Ottoman Empires
- 1849death of Edgar Allan Poe — mysterious death of American author Edgar Allan Poe
- 1864Bahia incident — 1864 naval skirmish in the American Civil War
- 1879Dual Alliance — alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary
- 19161916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game — most lopsided game in the history of American college football
- 1919KLM — flag carrier airline of the Netherlands
- 1944Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz — 1944 uprising by Nazi death camp workers
- 1949East Germany — 1949–1990 country in central Europe, unified into modern Germany
- 19581958 Pakistani coup d'état — Events surrounding the deposing of Pakistani President Iskander Mirza by Ayub Khan, Pakistani Army Commander-in-Chief
- 19771977 Soviet Constitution — supreme law of the Soviet Union
- 1978Sha Tin Racecourse — Racecourse in Hong Kong
- 1978Aeroflot Flight 1080 — aviation accident
- 1985Achille Lauro hijacking — hijacking took place on 7 October 1985
- 1991Bombing of Banski dvori — bombing of Croatia
- 1996Fox News — American cable television news channel
- 20002000 Hezbollah cross-border raid — Hezbollah captured three Israeli soldiers on Lebanese border
- 2001War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) — armed conflict between NATO countries and Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021
- 2001United States invasion of Afghanistan — 2001 multinational military operation
- 20042004 Sinai bombings — series of vehicle bombings in Egypt
- 2006assassination of Anna Politkovskaya — assassination of a Russian journalist
- 2007Battle of Mirali — 2007 military engagement in Pakistan
- 2008Qantas Flight 72 — 2008 aircraft incident
- 20212021 Balochistan earthquake — earthquake 7 October, Pakistan
- 20212021 Chiba earthquake — 2021 earthquake in Japan
- 2022Creeslough explosion — 2022 explosion in Creeslough, Donegal, Ireland
- 2023Gaza War — armed conflict around the Gaza Strip that started on 7 October 2023
- 2023October 7 attacks — terrorist attack and massacre in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 carried out by the Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist Group Hamas
- 2023Re'im music festival massacre — massacre of Israeli civilians at a dance party near Re'im, Israel on 7 October 2023
- 2023Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis — hostages taken into Gaza
Births · 60
- 13 BCEDrusus Julius Caesar — son of Emperor Tiberius
- 1409(Julian date)Elizabeth of Luxembourg — Princess and Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia, and Regent of Hungary
- 1471(Julian date)Frederick I of Denmark — King of Denmark and Norway
- 1573(Julian date)William Laud — Archbishop of Canterbury (1573-1645)
- 1589Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria — Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- 1748Charles XIII of Sweden — King of Sweden (1809-1818) and King of Norway (1814-1818)
- 1879Joe Hill — Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
- 1885Niels Bohr — Danish physicist (1885–1962)
- 1888Henry A. Wallace — American politician (1888–1965); Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945
- 1896Paulino Alcántara — Spanish footballer (1896-1964)
- 1897Elijah Muhammad — American religious leader (1897-1975)
- 1900Heinrich Himmler — German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- 1912Fernando Belaúnde — President of Peru from 1963 to 1968 and from 1980 to 1985 (1912-2002)
- 1917June Allyson — American actress (1917–2006)
- 1919Georges Duby — French historian (1919–1996)
- 1921Raymond Goethals — Belgian football player and manager (1921-2004)
- 1923Irma Grese — German concentration camp guard (1923–1945)
- 1927R. D. Laing — unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist
- 1931Desmond Tutu — South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner (1931–2021)
- 1934Ulrike Meinhof — German left-wing militant, journalist and author (1934–1976)
- 1934Amiri Baraka — African-American writer (1934–2014)
- 1935Thomas Keneally — Australian novelist
- 1939Harry Kroto — British chemist (1939-2016)
- 1944Donald Tsang — Hong Kong politician (born 1944)
- 1946Catharine MacKinnon — American feminist and legal activist
Deaths · 60
- 643 BCEDuke Huan of Qi — ruler of Qi state; head of the Five Hegemons during the Chinese Spring Autumn period
- 858(Julian date)Montoku — Emperor of Japan
- 929(Julian date)Charles the Simple — King of West Francia
- 951Emperor Shizong of Liao — third emperor of the Liao Dynasty
- 1242(Julian date)Juntoku — Emperor of Japan
- 1259(Julian date)Ezzelino III da Romano — Italian lord (1194-1259)
- 1468(Julian date)Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta — Italian commandant (1417–1468)
- 1571(Julian date)Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg — Queen consort of Denmark and Norway (1511-1571)
- 1571Müezzinzade Ali Paşa — Ottoman governor and admiral
- 1577George Gascoigne — 16th-century English poet and courtier
- 1612Giovanni Battista Guarini — Italian poet (1538-1612)
- 1620Stanisław Żółkiewski — Polish noble (1547-1620)
- 1631Katō Yoshiaki — daimyo
- 1637Victor Amadeus I of Savoy — Duke of Savoy (1587–1637)
- 1708Guru Gobind Singh — tenth Sikh guru (1661–1708)
- 1719Pierre Raymond de Montmort — French mathematician (1678-1719)
- 1747Giulia Lama — Italian painter (1681-1747)
- 1792George Mason — American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1725-1792)
- 1796Thomas Reid — Scottish philosopher (1710–1796)
- 1849Edgar Allan Poe — American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
- 1894Oliver Wendell Holmes — American poet and physician (1809–1894)
- 1903Rudolf Lipschitz — German mathematician (1832-1903)
- 1911John Hughlings Jackson — British neurologist (1835–1911)
- 1919Alfred Deakin — Australian politician (1856–1919)
- 1925Christy Mathewson — American Major League baseball player, manager (1880-1925)
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