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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 7th of October 1513 | EVENT | Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians. |
| 7th of October 1542 | EVENT | Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off the California coast. |
| 7th of October 1571 | EVENT | The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet. |
| 7th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 7th of October 1763 | EVENT | George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements. |
| 7th of October 1776 | EVENT | Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Wurttemberg. |
| 7th of October 1777 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights. |
| 7th of October 1780 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina. |
| 7th of October 1800 | EVENT | French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'aout. |
| 7th of October 1826 | EVENT | The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S. |
| 7th of October 1828 | EVENT | The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison. |
| 7th of October 1840 | EVENT | Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands. |
| 7th of October 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Darbytown Road: the Confederate forces' attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted. |
| 7th of October 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: USS Wachusett captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil. |
| 7th of October 1868 | EVENT | Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date. |
| 7th of October 1870 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War : Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon. |
| 7th of October 1879 | EVENT | Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance. |
| 7th of October 1912 | EVENT | The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction. |
| 7th of October 1916 | EVENT | Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history. |
| 7th of October 1919 | EVENT | KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name. |
| 7th of October 1933 | EVENT | Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines. |
| 7th of October 1940 | EVENT | World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States. |
| 7th of October 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. |
| 7th of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria. |
| 7th of October 1949 | EVENT | The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed. |
| 7th of October 1958 | EVENT | The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. |
| 7th of October 1958 | EVENT | President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959. |
| 7th of October 1959 | EVENT | U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. |
| 7th of October 1960 | EVENT | Nigeria joins the United Nations. |
| 7th of October 1963 | EVENT | John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. |
| 7th of October 1971 | EVENT | Oman joins the United Nations. |
| 7th of October 1977 | EVENT | The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution. |
| 7th of October 1982 | EVENT | Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000. |
| 7th of October 1985 | EVENT | The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization. |
| 7th of October 1985 | EVENT | The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history. |
| 7th of October 1991 | EVENT | Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb. |
| 7th of October 1993 | EVENT | The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage. |
| 7th of October 1998 | EVENT | Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. |
| 7th of October 2001 | EVENT | The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. |
| 7th of October 2004 | EVENT | King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates. |
| 7th of October 1471 | BIRTHDAY | King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533) |
| 7th of October 1573 | BIRTHDAY | William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645) |
| 7th of October 1576 | BIRTHDAY | John Marston, English writer (d. 1634) |
| 7th of October 1589 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631) |
| 7th of October 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759) |
| 7th of October 1728 | BIRTHDAY | Caesar Rodney, American lawyer (d. 1784) |
| 7th of October 1744 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819) |
| 7th of October 1746 | BIRTHDAY | William Billings, American composer (d. 1800) |
| 7th of October 1748 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818) |
| 7th of October 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Solomon Sibley, American politician and former Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan Territory (d. 1846) |
| 7th of October 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871) |
| 7th of October 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913) |
| 7th of October 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Elzear Taschereau, Canadian jurist and Chief justice of Canada (d. 1911) |
| 7th of October 1841 | BIRTHDAY | King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921) |
| 7th of October 1849 | BIRTHDAY | James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916) |
| 7th of October 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942) |
| 7th of October 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1873) |
| 7th of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Hill, American Labor Activist and Poet (d. 1915) |
| 7th of October 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918) |
| 7th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927) |
| 7th of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962) |
| 7th of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Claud Ashton Jones, United States Navy rear admiral and Medal of Honor winner (d. 1948) |
| 7th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965) |
| 7th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982) |
| 7th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Del Lord, American director (d. 1970) |
| 7th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (d. 1980) |
| 7th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d. 1975) |
| 7th of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956) |
| 7th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official (d. 1945) |
| 7th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977) |
| 7th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001) |
| 7th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983) |
| 7th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990) |
| 7th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986) |
| 7th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995) |
| 7th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973) |
| 7th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Belaunde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002) |
| 7th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (d. 1987) |
| 7th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 7th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982) |
| 7th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006) |
| 7th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician |
| 7th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Duby, French historian (d. 1996) |
| 7th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Rowley, English footballer (d. 1998) |
| 7th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004) |
| 7th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Grady Hatton, American baseball player |
| 7th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | William Zinsser, American writer |
| 7th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quebecois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002) |
| 7th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps (d. 1945) |
| 7th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971) |
| 7th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (d. 1989) |
| 7th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009) |
| 7th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980) |
| 7th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive |
| 7th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993) |
| 7th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate |
| 7th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004) |
| 7th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Amiri Baraka, American writer |
| 7th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrike Meinhof, German journalist and political activist (d. 1976) |
| 7th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Keneally, Australian author |
| 7th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor |
| 7th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician |
| 7th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John Hopcroft, American computer scientist |
| 7th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 7th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Snyder, American football coach |
| 7th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer |
| 7th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Vento, American politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota (d. 2000) |
| 7th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Behar, American television personality |
| 7th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Cardenal, Cuban baseball player |
| 7th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver North, American former military officer |
| 7th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979) |
| 7th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong |
| 7th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Godley, British musician (10cc) |
| 7th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Lavilliers, French singer |
| 7th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei |
| 7th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine MacKinnon, American feminist and author |
| 7th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Bambridge, former Australian football referee |
| 7th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist |
| 7th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Hope, American musician (Kansas) |
| 7th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician |
| 7th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | David J. Halberstam, American radio executive |
| 7th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John Mellencamp, American singer |
| 7th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Badham, American actress |
| 7th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister and former President of the Russian Federation |
| 7th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002) |
| 7th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer |
| 7th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tico Torres, musician (Bon Jovi) |
| 7th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Atchley, American composer |
| 7th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Yo-Yo Ma, French-born American cellist |
| 7th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist |
| 7th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Michael W. Smith, American singer |
| 7th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jayne Torvill, British figure skater |
| 7th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Landers, American actress |
| 7th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dylan Baker, American character actor |
| 7th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician |
| 7th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Cowell, English recording executive |
| 7th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician |
| 7th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer |
| 7th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer |
| 7th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Roloff, American reality star |
| 7th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor |
| 7th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician |
| 7th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter |
| 7th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author |
| 7th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Stewart, English footballer |
| 7th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Genji Hashimoto, Japanese racing driver |
| 7th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer |
| 7th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sherman Alexie, Native American author and comedian |
| 7th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder) |
| 7th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Toni Braxton, American singer |
| 7th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Takahiro Izutani, Japanese Composer |
| 7th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead) |
| 7th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Bobbie Brown, American actress, model |
| 7th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler |
| 7th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Whittaker, English model |
| 7th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor and singer |
| 7th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Ari Parker, American actress |
| 7th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Boucher, Quebecois musician |
| 7th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director |
| 7th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dida, Brazilian footballer |
| 7th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Priest Holmes, American Football Running Back |
| 7th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sami Hyypia, Finnish footballer |
| 7th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Munn, American actress |
| 7th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer |
| 7th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Polinsky, American actor |
| 7th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go) |
| 7th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler |
| 7th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician |
| 7th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kaspars Znotins, Latvian actor |
| 7th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Hicks, American musician |
| 7th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer |
| 7th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Woodson, American football player |
| 7th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer |
| 7th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer |
| 7th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Quinn, American actor |
| 7th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress |
| 7th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq) |
| 7th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Humphrey, English television presenter |
| 7th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer |
| 7th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Simona Amanar, Romanian gymnast |
| 7th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor |
| 7th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tang Wei, Chinese actress |
| 7th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor |
| 7th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Edison Chen, Canadian actor |
| 7th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Cresswell, Hong Kong footballer |
| 7th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Doni Schroader, American avant garde composer,pop musician |
| 7th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer |
| 7th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jermain Defoe, English footballer |
| 7th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Robby Ginepri, American tennis player |
| 7th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist |
| 7th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Flying Lotus, American electronic music producer |
| 7th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Scottie Upshall, Canadian Hockey Player |
| 7th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer |
| 7th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Toma Ikuta, Japanese singer and actor |
| 7th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Longoria, American baseball player |
| 7th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Nguyen, American soccer player |
| 7th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Chase Daniel, American football player |
| 7th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer |
| 7th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Bree Olson, American pornographic actress |
| 7th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Querrey, American tennis player |
| 7th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer |
| 7th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley) |
| 7th of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Ayla Kell, American actress |
| 7th of October 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Jung, Korean/American singer/actress |
| 7th of October 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Slade Pearce, American actor |
| 7th of October 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho |
| 7th of October 0336 | DEATH | Pope Mark |
| 7th of October 0929 | DEATH | Charles the Simple, King of France (Born 879) |
| 7th of October 1368 | DEATH | Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (Born 1338) |
| 7th of October 1553 | DEATH | Cristobal de Morales, Spanish composer (Born c.1500) |
| 7th of October 1555 | DEATH | Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (Born 1488) |
| 7th of October 1577 | DEATH | George Gascoigne, English poet |
| 7th of October 1612 | DEATH | Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat, (Born 1538) |
| 7th of October 1620 | DEATH | Stanis?aw Zo?kiewski, Polish military leader (Born 1547) |
| 7th of October 1637 | DEATH | Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (Born 1587) |
| 7th of October 1651 | DEATH | Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (Born 1559) |
| 7th of October 1653 | DEATH | Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (Born 1581) |
| 7th of October 1708 | DEATH | Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (Born 1666) |
| 7th of October 1772 | DEATH | John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (Born 1720) |
| 7th of October 1787 | DEATH | Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (Born 1711) |
| 7th of October 1792 | DEATH | George Mason, American statesman (Born 1725) |
| 7th of October 1793 | DEATH | Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (Born 1718) |
| 7th of October 1796 | DEATH | Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (Born 1710) |
| 7th of October 1849 | DEATH | Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (Born 1809) |
| 7th of October 1894 | DEATH | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (Born 1809) |
| 7th of October 1896 | DEATH | Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin, (Born 1808) |
| 7th of October 1903 | DEATH | Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (Born 1832) |
| 7th of October 1904 | DEATH | Isabella Bird, English explorer, writer, and natural historian (Born 1831) |
| 7th of October 1906 | DEATH | Honore Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (Born 1848) |
| 7th of October 1911 | DEATH | John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (Born 1835) |
| 7th of October 1919 | DEATH | Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1856) |
| 7th of October 1925 | DEATH | Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (Born 1880) |
| 7th of October 1926 | DEATH | Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (Born 1856) |
| 7th of October 1939 | DEATH | Harvey Cushing, Father of Modern Neurosurgery (Born 1869) |
| 7th of October 1943 | DEATH | Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (Born 1899) |
| 7th of October 1943 | DEATH | Radclyffe Hall, British author (Born 1880) |
| 7th of October 1944 | DEATH | Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (Born 1918) |
| 7th of October 1956 | DEATH | Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (Born 1886) |
| 7th of October 1959 | DEATH | Mario Lanza, American tenor (Born 1921) |
| 7th of October 1966 | DEATH | Smiley Lewis, American musician (Born 1913) |
| 7th of October 1966 | DEATH | Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer and songwriter. (Born 1890) |
| 7th of October 1967 | DEATH | Norman Angell, British politician and Nobel Laureate (Born 1872) |
| 7th of October 1969 | DEATH | Leon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (Born 1888) |
| 7th of October 1970 | DEATH | Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest, educator and academic executive (Born 1906) |
| 7th of October 1991 | DEATH | Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (Born 1905) |
| 7th of October 1992 | DEATH | Tevfik Esenc, last known speaker of Ubykh (Born 1904) |
| 7th of October 1992 | DEATH | Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (Born 1930) |
| 7th of October 1993 | DEATH | Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (Born 1910) |
| 7th of October 1994 | DEATH | Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born Danish immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1911) |
| 7th of October 1995 | DEATH | Ernest Ingenito, American mass murderer (Born 1924) |
| 7th of October 1998 | DEATH | Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (Born 1915) |
| 7th of October 2001 | DEATH | Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (Born 1955) |
| 7th of October 2001 | DEATH | Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (Born 1913) |
| 7th of October 2001 | DEATH | Herblock, American cartoonist (Born 1909) |
| 7th of October 2002 | DEATH | Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (Born 1942) |
| 7th of October 2003 | DEATH | Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (Born 1931) |
| 7th of October 2003 | DEATH | Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (Born 1932) |
| 7th of October 2003 | DEATH | Arthur Berger, American composer (Born 1912) |
| 7th of October 2004 | DEATH | Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (Born 1942) |
| 7th of October 2005 | DEATH | Charles Rocket, American actor (Born 1949) |
| 7th of October 2006 | DEATH | Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (Born 1958) |
| 7th of October 2006 | DEATH | Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish Basque cyclist (Born 1985) |
| 7th of October 2006 | DEATH | Abraham Afewerki, Eritrean singer (Born1966) |
| 7th of October 2007 | DEATH | George E. Sangmeister, American politician (Born 1931) |
| 7th of October 2007 | DEATH | Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (Born 1975) |
| 7th of October 2008 | DEATH | Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (Born 1913) |
| 7th of October 2009 | DEATH | Irving Penn, American photographer (Born 1917) |
| 7th of October 2010 | DEATH | Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (Born 1924) |
| 7th of October 2010 | DEATH | Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (Born 1966) |
| 7th of October 2010 | DEATH | T Lavitz, American musician (Born 1956) |