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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of October 1187 | EVENT | Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule. |
| 2nd of October 1263 | EVENT | The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots. |
| 2nd of October 1535 | EVENT | Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec. |
| 2nd of October 1552 | EVENT | Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible. |
| 2nd of October 1780 | EVENT | John Andre, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces. |
| 2nd of October 1789 | EVENT | George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification. |
| 2nd of October 1814 | EVENT | Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera. |
| 2nd of October 1835 | EVENT | The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia. |
| 2nd of October 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Saltville : Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops. |
| 2nd of October 1889 | EVENT | In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West. |
| 2nd of October 1919 | EVENT | U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. |
| 2nd of October 1924 | EVENT | The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations. |
| 2nd of October 1925 | EVENT | John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system. |
| 2nd of October 1928 | EVENT | The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaria Escriva. |
| 2nd of October 1941 | EVENT | World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow. |
| 2nd of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising. |
| 2nd of October 1950 | EVENT | Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published |
| 2nd of October 1958 | EVENT | Guinea declares its independence from France. |
| 2nd of October 1959 | EVENT | The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television. |
| 2nd of October 1967 | EVENT | Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court. |
| 2nd of October 1968 | EVENT | A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre. |
| 2nd of October 1970 | EVENT | A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people. |
| 2nd of October 1990 | EVENT | Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people. |
| 2nd of October 1992 | EVENT | The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
| 2nd of October 1996 | EVENT | Aeroperu Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70. |
| 2nd of October 1996 | EVENT | The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. |
| 2nd of October 2001 | EVENT | NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11. |
| 2nd of October 2001 | EVENT | Swissair liquidates and the airline is replaced by SWISS. |
| 2nd of October 2002 | EVENT | The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks. |
| 2nd of October 2005 | EVENT | Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people. |
| 2nd of October 2006 | EVENT | Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide. |
| 2nd of October 2007 | EVENT | President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. |
| 2nd of October 1452 | BIRTHDAY | King Richard III of England (d. 1485) |
| 2nd of October 1470 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524) |
| 2nd of October 1538 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584) |
| 2nd of October 1644 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Timoleon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) |
| 2nd of October 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776) |
| 2nd of October 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791) |
| 2nd of October 1768 | BIRTHDAY | William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854) |
| 2nd of October 1798 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849) |
| 2nd of October 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Nat Turner, African-American slave and insurgent (d. 1831) |
| 2nd of October 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896) |
| 2nd of October 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917) |
| 2nd of October 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (d. 1897) |
| 2nd of October 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934) |
| 2nd of October 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Foch, French soldier (d. 1929) |
| 2nd of October 1852 | BIRTHDAY | William Ramsay, Scottish chemist (d. 1916) |
| 2nd of October 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi), Indian politician, national father and spiritual leader (d. 1948) |
| 2nd of October 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955) |
| 2nd of October 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect (d. 1959) |
| 2nd of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (d. 1924) |
| 2nd of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Plum Warner, English cricketer (d. 1963) |
| 2nd of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955) |
| 2nd of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945) |
| 2nd of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977) |
| 2nd of October 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Leroy Shield, American film score and radio composer (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy) (d. 1962) |
| 2nd of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974) |
| 2nd of October 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Prin, French singer and artist (d. 1953) |
| 2nd of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (d. 1965) |
| 2nd of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (d. 1966) |
| 2nd of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991) |
| 2nd of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001) |
| 2nd of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995) |
| 2nd of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967) |
| 2nd of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist, author, and occultist (d. 1952) |
| 2nd of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master (d. 1998) |
| 2nd of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, Nobel laureate |
| 2nd of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 2nd of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000) |
| 2nd of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Morris, English writer |
| 2nd of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 2nd of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian |
| 2nd of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Roberts, American Jazz Guitarist, Educator, and Session Musician (d. 1992) |
| 2nd of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (d. 1996) |
| 2nd of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Moses Gunn, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 2nd of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Cesare Maestri, Italian climber, famous for climbing Cerro Torre |
| 2nd of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia |
| 2nd of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Maury Wills, American baseball player |
| 2nd of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Phill Niblock, American composer, filmmaker and videographer |
| 2nd of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Sivori, Argentine football player (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Barnett, American basketball player |
| 2nd of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor |
| 2nd of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (d. 1983) |
| 2nd of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gheorghe Gruia, Romanian handball player |
| 2nd of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Zareh Baronian, Armenian theologian |
| 2nd of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Franklin Rosemont, American artist |
| 2nd of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Don McLean, American songwriter |
| 2nd of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Peterson, Canadian actor |
| 2nd of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gen.Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of Council for National Security and Commander-in-Chief of Royal Thai Army |
| 2nd of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Karan, American fashion designer |
| 2nd of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Avery Brooks, American actor |
| 2nd of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Chris LeDoux, American musician and rodeo performer (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Brooking, English footballer |
| 2nd of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Siim Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia |
| 2nd of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hell, American musician |
| 2nd of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Leibovitz, American photographer |
| 2nd of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (d. 1998) |
| 2nd of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ian McNeice, English actor |
| 2nd of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Rutherford, English musician (Genesis) |
| 2nd of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Sting, English musician and actor |
| 2nd of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Romina Power, Italian singer |
| 2nd of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Riker, American actress |
| 2nd of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Svejnar, Czech politician |
| 2nd of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Wahed Wafa, Afghan singer |
| 2nd of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Lorraine Bracco, American actress |
| 2nd of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Oakey, English singer (The Human League) |
| 2nd of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Wade Dooley, English rugby union player |
| 2nd of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Al Connelly, Canadian Musician/Songwriter |
| 2nd of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Nevil, American singer and songwriter |
| 2nd of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Lothar Schlapp, German footballer |
| 2nd of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Bennett, American voice actor |
| 2nd of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic drummer (The Sugarcubes) |
| 2nd of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | James Hunter, English singer |
| 2nd of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Aziz M. Osman, Malaysian actor and director |
| 2nd of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Rypien, American football player |
| 2nd of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player |
| 2nd of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Bockarie, RUF Rebel Military Commander |
| 2nd of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000) |
| 2nd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete |
| 2nd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime) |
| 2nd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gillian Welch, American singer and songwriter |
| 2nd of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Derbyshire, British radio presenter |
| 2nd of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Martin, Canadian singer/songwriter (The Tea Party) |
| 2nd of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jana Novotna, Czech tennis player |
| 2nd of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Wesley, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Damon Gough, English singer |
| 2nd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 2nd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch English, American actor |
| 2nd of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Guardado, American baseball relief pitcher |
| 2nd of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Maribel Verdu, Spanish actress |
| 2nd of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Ripa, American actress |
| 2nd of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot) |
| 2nd of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany, American singer |
| 2nd of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tara Dawn Holland, Miss America 1997 |
| 2nd of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron McKie, American basketball player |
| 2nd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Efren Ramirez, American actor |
| 2nd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lene Nystr?m Rasted, Norwegian singer (Aqua) |
| 2nd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Proof, American rapper (D12) (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian entertainer |
| 2nd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player |
| 2nd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Wetterstrand, Swedish politician |
| 2nd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Gregson, British actor |
| 2nd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Krusiec, American actress |
| 2nd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Roberts, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 2nd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Teutul Jr., American custom motorcycle builder |
| 2nd of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Kulcsar, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | John Thornton, American football player |
| 2nd of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mandisa, American singer |
| 2nd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer |
| 2nd of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Primoz Brezec, Slovenian basketball player |
| 2nd of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Arta Dobroshi, Kosovar actress |
| 2nd of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Fonseca, Mexican footballer |
| 2nd of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Maja Ivarsson, Swedish singer (The Sounds) |
| 2nd of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Andrus, American football player |
| 2nd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer |
| 2nd of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Lee Ettinger, American actress |
| 2nd of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tyson Chandler, American basketball player |
| 2nd of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | George Pettit, Canadian singer (Alexisonfire) |
| 2nd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Bartoli, French tennis player |
| 2nd of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Buster Davis, American football player |
| 2nd of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Jackson, American football player |
| 2nd of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Camilla Belle, American actress |
| 2nd of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Reinders, Canadian football player |
| 2nd of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player |
| 2nd of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Bouzanis, Australian footballer |
| 2nd of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Barks, Manx singer and actress |
| 2nd of October 0939 | DEATH | Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine |
| 2nd of October 1559 | DEATH | Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (Born 1483) |
| 2nd of October 1626 | DEATH | Diego Sarmiento de Acuna, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (Born 1567) |
| 2nd of October 1629 | DEATH | Pierre de Berulle, French cardinal and statesman (Born 1575) |
| 2nd of October 1629 | DEATH | Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (Born 1584) |
| 2nd of October 1708 | DEATH | Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (Born 1650) |
| 2nd of October 1724 | DEATH | Francois-Timoleon de Choisy, French writer (Born 1644) |
| 2nd of October 1746 | DEATH | Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty |
| 2nd of October 1764 | DEATH | William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1720) |
| 2nd of October 1775 | DEATH | Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (Born 1703) |
| 2nd of October 1780 | DEATH | John Andre, British Army officer (executed) (Born 1750) |
| 2nd of October 1782 | DEATH | Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (Born 1732) |
| 2nd of October 1786 | DEATH | Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (Born 1725) |
| 2nd of October 1803 | DEATH | Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (Born 1722) |
| 2nd of October 1804 | DEATH | Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (Born 1725) |
| 2nd of October 1817 | DEATH | Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (Born 1744) |
| 2nd of October 1850 | DEATH | Sarah Biffen, English painter (Born 1784) |
| 2nd of October 1853 | DEATH | Francois Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (Born 1786) |
| 2nd of October 1920 | DEATH | Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (Born 1838) |
| 2nd of October 1927 | DEATH | Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1859) |
| 2nd of October 1938 | DEATH | Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (Born 1859) |
| 2nd of October 1947 | DEATH | Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (Born 1878) |
| 2nd of October 1962 | DEATH | Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (Born 1859) |
| 2nd of October 1968 | DEATH | Marcel Duchamp, French artist (Born 1887) |
| 2nd of October 1971 | DEATH | Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of October 1973 | DEATH | Paul Hartman, American actor (Born 1904) |
| 2nd of October 1973 | DEATH | Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (Born 1897) |
| 2nd of October 1974 | DEATH | Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of October 1975 | DEATH | Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (Born 1903) |
| 2nd of October 1981 | DEATH | Harry Golden, American journalist (Born 1902) |
| 2nd of October 1981 | DEATH | Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of October 1985 | DEATH | Rock Hudson, American actor (Born 1925) |
| 2nd of October 1987 | DEATH | Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (Born 1906) |
| 2nd of October 1987 | DEATH | Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1915) |
| 2nd of October 1988 | DEATH | Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (Born 1906) |
| 2nd of October 1994 | DEATH | Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (Born 1909) |
| 2nd of October 1996 | DEATH | Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (Born 1933) |
| 2nd of October 1996 | DEATH | Exminister of Bulgaria Andrey Lukanov is shot in front of his home in Sofia from a possible hired assassin. |
| 2nd of October 1998 | DEATH | Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (Born 1907) |
| 2nd of October 1998 | DEATH | Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of October 1999 | DEATH | Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (Born 1921) |
| 2nd of October 2001 | DEATH | Franz Biebl, German composer (Born 1906) |
| 2nd of October 2002 | DEATH | Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of October 2003 | DEATH | John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of October 2005 | DEATH | August Wilson, American playwright (Born 1945) |
| 2nd of October 2005 | DEATH | Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (Born 1931) |
| 2nd of October 2005 | DEATH | Nipsey Russell, American comedian (Born 1918) |
| 2nd of October 2006 | DEATH | Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (Born 1938) |
| 2nd of October 2006 | DEATH | Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (Born 1916) |
| 2nd of October 2006 | DEATH | Tamara Dobson, American actress (Born 1947) |
| 2nd of October 2006 | DEATH | Charles Carl Roberts, American spree killer (Born 1973) |
| 2nd of October 2007 | DEATH | Tex Coulter, American football player (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of October 2007 | DEATH | Christopher Derrick, British writer (Born 1921) |
| 2nd of October 2007 | DEATH | Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (Born 1954) |
| 2nd of October 2007 | DEATH | Dan Keating, Irish politician (Born 1902) |
| 2nd of October 2008 | DEATH | Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (Born 1950) |
| 2nd of October 2008 | DEATH | Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (Born 1968) |
| 2nd of October 2010 | DEATH | Kwa Geok Choo, Mrs Lee Kuan Yew (Born 1920) |