1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on the island of Saint Helena to begin his exile
1923 - Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat NY Giants 6-4 in Game 6 at the Polo Grounds for a 4-2 series win; the Yankees' first World Series victory
1965 - WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting
1986 - MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat California Angels, 4-3
1992 - Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM in Chicago, Illinois
2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io
2007 - Fox Business Network (FBN), an American financial cable network, is launched
2008 - MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1

1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (inventor of barometer), born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1647)
1711 - Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen consort of Sardinia (1737-41), born in Château de Lunéville, Lorraine (d. 1741)
1836 - James Tissot, French artist, born in Nantes, France (d. 1902)
1875 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball shortstop, 1904-13 and 1934 (Detroit Tiger, St. Louis Cardinals; oldest MLB player to collect a hit and score a run at 58 for St. Louis Browns 1934), and coach, 1913-37 (Cardinals, NY Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Browns), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1941)
1902 - William Edmonson, American bass harmony and gospel vocalist (Southernaires), radio, stage and screen actor (Thirty Years Later), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 1979)
1922 - Lorraine Gordon [Stein], American jazz music advocate and owner of Village Vanguard jazz club, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2018)
1932 - Jaan Rääts, Estonian pianist, orchestral and film score composer, born in Tartu, Estonia (d. 2020)
1945 - Jim Palmer, American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1966, 70, 83; AL Cy Young Award 1973, 75, 76; no-hitter 1969; Baltimore Orioles), born in New York City
1958 - Jayne Modean, American actress (Nurse Hooter-Trauma Center), born in Hartford, Connecticut
1968 - Jyrki 69 [Jyrki Pekka Emil Linnankivi], Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes), born in Helsinki, Finland

1512 - Antoon Keldermans, Brabant builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72
1715 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician, dies at 40
1817 - Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Swiss traveller and orientalist, 1st European to discover Petra and Abu Simbel, dies at 32
1819 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman, dies at 75
1833 - Michał Ogiński, Polish diplomat, violinist, balalaika player, and composer (Farewell to My Homeland), dies at 68
1900 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech classical composer (Šárka; Hippodamia; Moods, Impressions, and Reminiscences), dies at 49
1955 - Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese film score composer (Rashomon; Seven Samurai), dies of tuberculosis at 41
1993 - Ken E. Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra), dies of AIDS at 34
2008 - Jack Narz, American TV game show host (Dotto, Video Village), dies at 85
2018 - Shelley Hamlin, American golfer (US Open runner-up 1973), dies of breast cancer at 69