| 0 | | Roman festival of the October Horse |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, Virgin, Mystic, Ecstatic, Doctor of the Church, Patron of Spain |
| 533 | | Belisarius captured Carthage from the Vandals -- Learn More |
| 1080 | | Battle of Saale: Rudolf of Swabia defeats Henry IV of Germany |
| 1575 | | Battle of Dormans: French Catholics defeat the Huguenots |
| 1582 | | The Gregorian Calendar went into force in Catholic countries, and so it was the day following Oct 6, 1582 |
| 1655 | | Massacre of the Jews of Lublin, Poland |
| 1764 | | Edward Gibbon, sitting amid the ruins of the Forum, decided to write "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" -- Learn More |
| 1815 | | Congress rejects a proposal to relocate the nation's capital from Washington, recently captured and burned by the British, further west. |
| 1860 | | Grace Bedell, 11, suggests candidate Lincoln grow a beard |
| 1861 | | Combat at Potosi/Big River Bridge, Mo |
| 1914 | | Montenegro declares war on Bulgaria |
| 1917 | | USS 'Cassin' (DD-43) torpedoed by German 'U-61' off Ireland. |
| 1935 | | Germany activates three panzer divisions. |
| 1936 | | Benito Mussolini (53) and Clara Petacci (24) become lovers |
| 1938 | | Hitler's propagandist Josef Goebbels may have attempted suicide when Hitler refuses him permission to divorce his wife in order to marry an actress |
| 1940 | | Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" opens in New York. |
| 1940 | | Italian sub 'Enrico Toti' sinks sub HMS 'Triad' in a gunfight off Libya |
| 1941 | | Hideki Tojo becomes prime minister of Japan (resigns, July 22, 1944) |
| 1942 | | Japanese cruisers again shell Henderson Field, as 6 transports beach, to land reinforcements |
| 1942 | | Japanese aircraft off 'Zuikaku' sink the USS 'Meredith' (DD 434) off San Cristobal. |
| 1943 | | British Adm. Sir Andrew Cunningham is appointed First Sea Lord of the Admiralty and Chief of the Naval Staff (1943-1946) -- Learn More |
| 1944 | | Peleliu secured: Japanese KIA c. 12,000, US over 1,200. |
| 1944 | | Pro-Nazi coup in Hungary ousts Horthy government |
| 70 | BC | Publius Vergilius Maro - Virgil, "Arma virumque cano", d. 19 BC |
| 961 | | Umayyad Caliph and Emir of Cordoba Abd-ar-Rahman III (912-961), 70 |
| 1542 | | Akbar, Mughal Emperor of India (1556-1605) |
| 1795 | | King Frederick Willem IV of Prussia (1840-61) |
| 1802 | | Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general, Dictator (Jun 28-Dec 20,1848), d. 1857 |
| 1816 | | Amiel Weeks Whipple, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1863 |
| 1818 | | Irvin McDowell, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1885 |
| 1832 | | Henry Harrison Walker, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1912 |
| 1836 | | Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1910 |
| 1844 | | Friedrich Nietzsche, inventor of the "Übermensch", d. 1900 |
| 1856 | | Robert Nivelle, inept French general, d. 1924 |
| 1878 | | Paul Reynaud, Premier of France (1940), who wasn't tough enough, d. 1966 |
| 1893 | | King Charles II of Romania (1930-40), d. 1953 |
| 1917 | | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian, ("The Age of Jackson"), d. 2007 |
| 1948 | | Aleksandr S Puchkov, cosmonaut |
| 912 | | Abd Allah ibn Mu?ammad, 68, Emir of al-Andalus (888 - 912) |
| 961 | | Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III of Cordoba (912-961), 72 |
| 1080 | | Rudolf of Rheinfelden, c. 55, Duke of Swabia (1057-1079) and King-Aspirant of the Germans (1077-1080), kia Saale |
| 1389 | | Pope Urban VI - Bartolomeo Prignano of Itri (1378-1389), c. 70-71 |
| 1591 | | Pope Gregory XIV - Niccolo Spondrati (1590-1591), 46 |
| 1820 | | Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian Field Marshal, at 49 |
| 1880 | | Chirichaua Apache Chief Victorio/Bidu-ya, c. 55, kia by Mexican troops |
| 1917 | | GM Osmond Kelly Ingram, 30, earning a Medal of Honor, USS 'Cassin' (DD-43) |
| 1917 | | Mata Hari, 41, shot as a spy by the French |
| 1934 | | Pres Raymond Poincare of France (1913-20), at 74 |
| 1941 | | Nina Iakivska, aged 10, shot by the Germans for giving bread to Soviet prisoners-of-war, Zhytomyr, Ukraine |
| 1945 | | Pierre Laval, 62, French politician, anti-Nazi, then Vichyite collaborator, executed as a traitor |
| 1946 | | Herman Goring, 53, sometime war hero, Nazi criminal, suicide to cheat the hangman |