Events & Holidays In October - 02

Day after the National Day of the People's Republic of China (Macau)

Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday (India)

Republic Day (Guinea)

World Farm Animals Day (International)

1452  On this day in history birth of king Richard III, of England (1483-85)  

1470  Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524) was born on this day in history.  

1538  Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584) was born on this day in history.  

1595  On this day in history birth of jacob Louys, Flemish engraver  

1616  On this day in history birth of a Gryphius, writer  

1644  François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) was born on this day in history.  

1646  On this day in history birth of guillaume Poitevin, composer  

1704  On this day in history birth of frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer  

0472  Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies on this day in history.  

0939  On this day in history death of giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49  

1113  On this day in history mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies  

1264  On this day in history urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies  

1517  On this day in history john Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37  

1559  On this day in history death of jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)  

1564  Andreas Vesalius, [Andries of Wesel], Flemish anatomist, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1588  On this day in history bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies