October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 70 days remain until the end of the year.

• 362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
• 451 – The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
• 794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
• 1383 – The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
• 1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes.
• 1633 – Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
• 1707 – Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
• 1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
• 1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
• 1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
• 1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
• 1797 – André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
• 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
• 1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
• 1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
• 1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
• 1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
• 1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
• 1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
• 1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
• 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
• 1895 – In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
• 1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
• 1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
• 1923 – The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
• 1924 – Toastmasters International is founded.
• 1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death.
• 1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity
• 1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
• 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
• 1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
• 1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
• 1946 – Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
• 1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
• 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
• 1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
• 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
• 1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
• 1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
• 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
• 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
• 1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
• 1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
• 1978 – Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
• 1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
• 1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
• 1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
• 2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
• 2006 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
• 2007 – Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
• 2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
• 2013 – The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality Legislation Australian Capital Territory, 2013

• 1071 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 1126)
• 1197 – Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
• 1511 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
• 1592 – Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Swedish field marshal and politician (d. 1657)
• 1659 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician (d. 1734)
• 1689 – John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
• 1701 – Maria Amalia of Austria (d. 1756)
• 1729 – Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor and botanist (d. 1798)
• 1734 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820)
• 1749 – Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch bookseller (d. 1816)
• 1809 – Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Texas Attorney General (d. 1889)
• 1811 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
• 1818 – Leconte de Lisle, French poet and author (d. 1894)
• 1821 – Collis Potter Huntington, American businessman (d. 1900)
• 1844 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
• 1844 – Louis Riel, Canadian politician (d. 1885)
• 1847 – Koos de la Rey, South African general (d. 1914)
• 1856 – Dominique Gardères, French horse rider
• 1858 – Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1921)
• 1865 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1943)
• 1870 – Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
• 1870 – Alfred Douglas, English author and poet (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
• 1873 – Rama Tirtha, Indian philosopher and educator (d. 1906)
• 1875 – David van Embden, Dutch politician (d. 1962)
• 1878 – Jaan Lattik, Estonian politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (d. 1967)
• 1881 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist (d. 1908)
• 1882 – Géza Kiss, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1952)
• 1882 – Edmund Dulac, French illustrator (d. 1953)
• 1885 – Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor (d. 1969)
• 1886 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (d. 1970)
• 1887 – John Reed, American journalist and poet (d. 1920)
• 1891 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d. 1988)
• 1893 – Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)
• 1894 – Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera singer (d. 1961)
• 1896 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927)
• 1903 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Curly Howard, American actor and singer (d. 1952)
• 1904 – Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1965)
• 1905 – Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (d. 1969)
• 1906 – Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator (d. 1970)
• 1907 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1967)
• 1908 – John Gould, American journalist (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1912 – George N. Leighton, American chess player and judge
• 1913 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1954)
• 1913 – Bao Dai, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997)
• 1913 – Tamara Desni, German-English actress (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Joan Fontaine, Japanese-American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Lou Klein, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1976)
• 1919 – Kathleen Ankers, English-American set designer (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Doris Lessing, Iranian-English author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and poet (d. 1981)
• 1921 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Harald Nugiseks, Estonian military commander (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Bert Trautmann, German footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Allan Hendrickse, South African minister and politician (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1929 – Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)
• 1933 – Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
• 1935 – Ann Rule, American author
• 1936 – John Blashford-Snell, English soldier and explorer
• 1936 – Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Bobby Seale, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party
• 1937 – Manos Loizos, Greek musician (d. 1982)
• 1938 – K. Indrapala, Sri Lankan historian and academic
• 1938 – Derek Jacobi, English actor and director
• 1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor
• 1938 – Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (d. 1993)
• 1939 – Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician, 2nd President of Mozambique
• 1939 – George Cohen, English footballer
• 1939 – Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French author and poet
• 1939 – Susumu Kurobe, Japanese actor
• 1939 – Tony Roberts, American actor and singer
• 1941 – Charles Keating, English-American actor (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Count Christian of Rosenborg (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bobby Fuller Four) (d. 1966)
• 1942 – Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Allen Coage, American-Canadian wrestler and coach (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Jan de Bont, Dutch director, producer, and cinematographer
• 1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer
• 1943 – Seif Sharif Hamad, Zanzibari politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Zanzibar
• 1943 – Robert Long, Dutch singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor
• 1945 – Buzz Potamkin, American director and producer, founded Buzzco Associates (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Sheila Sherwood, English long jumper
• 1945 – Leslie West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mountain, The Vagrants, and West, Bruce and Laing)
• 1946 – Eddie Brigati, American singer-songwriter (The Rascals)
• 1946 – Claude Charron, Canadian educator and politician
• 1946 – Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author
• 1946 – Kelvin MacKenzie, English journalist
• 1946 – Richard McGonagle, American actor
• 1947 – Raymond Bachand, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1947 – Haley Barbour, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi
• 1948 – Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
• 1948 – Debbie Macomber, American author
• 1949 – Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church) (d. 1990)
• 1949 – Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician
• 1949 – Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
• 1951 – William David Sanders, American educator, victim of the Columbine High School massacre (d. 1999)
• 1952 – Julie Dash, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor
• 1952 – Greg Hawkes, American keyboard player (The Cars)
• 1954 – Graham Joyce, English author and educator (d. 2014)
• 1956 – Frank DiPino, American baseball player and coach
• 1959 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (d. 2005)
• 1959 – Marc Shaiman, American composer and songwriter
• 1960 – Darryl Jenifer, American bass player (Bad Brains and The White Mandingos)
• 1960 – Cris Kirkwood, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Meat Puppets)
• 1961 – Robert Torti, American actor and singer
• 1962 – Hüseyin Kenan Aydın, German politician
• 1962 – Bob Odenkirk, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Brian Boitano, American figure skater
• 1964 – TobyMac, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (DC Talk and The Gotee Brothers)
• 1964 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
• 1965 – Otis Smith, American football player and coach
• 1965 – John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter
• 1965 – Piotr Wiwczarek, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Vader)
• 1966 – Yuri Arbachakov, Russian-Japanese boxer
• 1966 – Valeria Golino, Italian actress, singer, and producer
• 1967 – Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor
• 1967 – Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
• 1967 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (d. 1994)
• 1967 – Carlos Mencia, Honduran-American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican-American rapper
• 1968 – Stephanie Cutter, American political consultant
• 1968 – Jay Johnston, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Shelby Lynne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
• 1969 – Spike Jonze, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Winston Bogarde, Dutch footballer
• 1970 – Amy Redford, American actress, director, and producer
• 1971 – Kornél Dávid, Hungarian basketball player
• 1972 – D'Lo Brown, American wrestler
• 1972 – Saffron Burrows, English actress
• 1973 – Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer
• 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
• 1973 – Mark van der Zijden, Dutch swimmer
• 1974 – Tim Kinsella, American singer-songwriter (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Owls, Make Believe, and Everyoned)
• 1974 – Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Jeff McInnis, American basketball player
• 1974 – Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1975 – Martín Cardetti, Argentinian footballer
• 1975 – Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor and singer
• 1975 – Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
• 1976 – Jon Foreman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Switchfoot and Fiction Family)
• 1976 – Helen Svedin, Swedish model
• 1976 – Laidback Luke, DJ and Producer
• 1978 – Dion Glover, American basketball player
• 1978 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
• 1978 – Owais Shah, Pakistani-English cricketer
• 1979 – Doni, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Luke O'Donnell, Australian rugby player
• 1981 – Michael Fishman, American actor and producer
• 1981 – Olivier Pla, French race car driver
• 1982 – Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 – Tim Erfen, German footballer
• 1982 – Heath Miller, American football player
• 1982 – Mark Renshaw, Australian cyclist
• 1983 – Plan B, English rapper, producer, and actor
• 1983 – Anton Müller, German footballer
• 1984 – Aleks Marić, Australian basketball player
• 1985 – Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan keyboard player, DJ, and producer
• 1985 – Mark Bell, American journalist
• 1985 – Zac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and drummer (Hanson)
• 1986 – Kara Lang, Canadian footballer
• 1986 – Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer
• 1988 – Matt Evans, Filipino actor
• 1988 – Elena Muhhina, Estonian figure skater
• 1988 – Sarah Barrow, English diver
• 1990 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
• 1992 – Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater
• 1992 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
• 1995 – Stevie Lynn Jones, American actress

• 741 – Charles Martel, Frankish military leader and politician (b. 688)
• 1383 – Ferdinand I of Portugal (b. 1345)
• 1565 – Jean Grolier de Servières, French book collector (b. 1479)
• 1625 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyo (b. 1561)
• 1708 – Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)
• 1751 – William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)
• 1755 – Elisha Williams, American minister, academic, and jurist (b. 1694)
• 1792 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
• 1847 – Sahle Selassie, Ethiopian son of Wossen Seged (b. 1795)
• 1853 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1784)
• 1859 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
• 1883 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American author (b. 1818)
• 1891 – Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (b. 1846)
• 1906 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• 1914 – Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866)
• 1917 – Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (b. 1863)
• 1918 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (b. 1891)
• 1927 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (b. 1876)
• 1928 – Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1935 – Edward Carson, Baron Carson, Irish-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1854)
• 1941 – Guy Môquet, French militant (b. 1924)
• 1952 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi author and poet (b. 1899)
• 1956 – Hannah Mitchell, English activist (b. 1872)
• 1959 – George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885)
• 1965 – Muriel George, English singer and actress (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 1973 – Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1979 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1985 – Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
• 1986 – Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer (b. 1947)
• 1986 – Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (b. 1897)
• 1986 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1987 – Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919)
• 1988 – Cynthia Freeman, American author (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1992 – Red Barber, American sportscaster (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Cleavon Little, American actor and singer (b. 1939)
• 1993 – Innes Ireland, Scottish race car driver (b. 1930)
• 1995 – Kingsley Amis, English author and poet (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Eric Ambler, English author (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Geraldine of Albania (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Tony Renna, American race car driver (b. 1976)
• 2005 – Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Tony Adams, Irish-American actor and producer (b. 1953)
• 2005 – Franky Gee, Cuban-American rapper (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Ève Curie, French pianist and journalist (b. 1904)
• 2009 – Don Lane, American-Australian actor, singer, and talk show host (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Carolyn Conwell, American actress (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Russell Means, American actor and activist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Salvatore Merlino, American mobster (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Mike Morris, English journalist (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Shubha Phutela, Indian model and actress (b. 1991)
• 2012 – Gabrielle Roth, American dancer, singer, and author (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Wilson Whineray, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Marylou Dawes, Canadian pianist and educator (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Lajos Für, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (b. 1930)
• 2013 – William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Yanwari Kazama, Japanese illustrator (b. 1977)
• 2013 – James Robinson Risner, American general (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Mark Small, American baseball player (b. 1967)

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Aaron the Illustrious (Syriac Orthodox Church)
  • Abercius of Hieropolis
  • Bertharius
  • Donatus of Fiesole
  • John Paul II
  • Mary Salome
  • Nunilo and Alodia
  • October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest day on which Labour Day can fall, while October 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in October (New Zealand)
• Earliest day on which Make a Difference Day can fall, while October 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Saturday in October (United States)
• Spiritual New Year, in Eckankar
• Fechner Day, celebrated by Psychophysicists
• International Stuttering Awareness Day (International)
• Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto)
• Wombat Day

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada