What happened on October 7 ?

336 - Pope Mark

1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)

1553 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer

1555 - Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)

1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet

1620 - Stanis?aw ?ó?kiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)

1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)

1651 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)

1653 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)

1708 - Guru Gobind Singh, tenth and last Sikh Guru (b. 1666)

1772 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)

1787 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)

1792 - George Mason, American patriot (b. 1725)

1793 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)

1796 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)

1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)

1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)

1911 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)

1919 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)

1925 - Christy Mathewson, baseball player (b. 1880)

1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)

1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)

1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)

1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)

1959 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)

1967 - Norman Angell, British politician and Nobel Laureate (b. 1872)

1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-born novelist (b. 1895)

1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (b. 1905)

1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)

1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)

1998 - Arnold Jacobs, Tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)

2001 - Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)

2001 - Herbert Block, American cartoonist (b. 1909)

2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)

RC Saints - Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary; formerly Saint Justina, Saint Osyth

Saints Sergius and Bacchus; Also see October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

East Germany - Republic Day

French Republican Calendar - Belle de nuit (Beautiful of Night, a flower) Day, sixteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

Composer Day in Brazil

BBC: On This Day