April 18th

April 18 is the 108th (one hundred and eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 109th in leap years. There are 257 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1025: in Gniezno (Poland) Boleslao I is crowned king.
• 1188: the Courts of the Kingdom of Lion begin, the first of all in history to give voice and vote to the three foundations of that moment; the clergy, the nobles and the plain people.
• 1491: from Cordoba (in present Spain), King Fernando the Catholic embarked on the march for the conquest of Granada, in the power of the Muslims, thus beginning the last phase of the conquest of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.
• 1506: In Rome, Pope Julius II placed the first stone of the Basilica of Saint Peter.
• 1518: In Poland, Bona Sforza is crowned queen consort.
• 1521: second day of the trial of Martin Luther during the assembly of Dieta de Worms. Luther refuses to retract his manifestations even at the risk of being excommunicated.
• 1649: In Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico), the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is consecrated.
• 1655: In the Valdenses Valleys the walrus massacres that are known as the Pyamonte Easters begin.
• 1689: In Boston (United States) an uprising is carried out against Sir Edmund Andros.
• 1738: In Madrid, Spain, the Royal Academy of History was founded.
• 1835: in Peru, the village of Chiclayo is elevated to the capital category of the Lambayeque region.

Battle of Cerro Gordo

• 1847: In Mexico, in the framework of the U.S. War of Intervention, the armies of Mexico and the United States are facing the battle of Cerro Gordo and the battle of Tuxpan.
• 1857: In Paris, Spiritist Allan Kardec publishes The Book of Spirits.
• 1868: Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters discovers the asteroid (98) Ianthe.
• 1877: Thomas Edison presents his sound recording technique, the photographer.
• 1881: In Mesilla, New Mexico, the criminal and murderer Billy the Child escapes from Lincoln County prison.
• 1897: Greek-Turkish war, the Turks bombed Arta, without conquering it.
• 1902: Quetzaltenango, the second city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
• 1906: Sismo e incendio en la ciudad de San Francisco, Estados Unidos de América.

Doolittle incursion plans

• 1909: Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• 1912: The RMS Carpathia arrives in New York after rescuing 705 survivors of the sinking of the Titanic.
• 1916: there is the Battle of Puerto de Varas in which the troops of Pancho Villa defeat the troops of the U.S. Army that took place in the village of Puerto de Varas (Chihua).
• 1923: In New York, the Yankee Stadium opens its doors.
• 1924: Simon & Schuster publishes the first book of crossword puzzles.
• 1942: in Japan—in the framework of World War II—American aircraft carriers led by General James H. Doolittle conducts a massive attack on the civilian population of Tokyo, such as revenge for the surprise bombing of soldiers and marines in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
• 1943: In Papua New Guinea—in the framework of the Second World War—Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto dies when his apparatus was shot down by American fighters on Bougainville Island (Operation Revenge).

Soviet artillery fired at German positions in the Battle of Seelow Hills

• 1945: in Germany—in the framework of the Second World War—the Soviet army beats the German army in the battle of Seelow Hills, in the last defensive action of the Nazis in the Eastern Front before the battle of Berlin.
• 1946: the League of Nations is dissolved by the creation of the United Nations.
• 1946: The International Court of Justice meets for the first time in The Hague.
• 1949: Éire withdraws from the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.
• 1951: France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Paris, creating the European Community of Coal and Steel (CECA).
• 1953: on the Nevada Test Site, the United States detonates the 23 kiloton Badger atomic bomb.
• 1954: Gamal Abdel Nasser exercises power in Egypt.
• 1955: the beginning of the Bandung Conference where 29 leaders of the Third World are present. Albert Einstein's death.
• 1956: in the Principality of Monaco, American actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III.
• 1961: the rules of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations are beginning to be adopted.
• 1963: in Madrid the trial against the politician Julián Grimau, judged in a war council for alleged crimes committed in the Spanish civil war, admitted under torture. Since the announcement of the charges, there is an unprecedented intense international pressure against Franco, which Franco himself attributes to a Jewish-Masonic conspiracy.

Protest in Paris in 1963 against the murders of Julián Grimau, Manuel Moreno Barranco, Francisco Granados Gata and Joaquín Delgado Martínez

• 1968: in an artificial well, 493 meters underground, in the U10t area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:05 (local time) United States detonates its 20 kiloton Shuffle atomic bomb. It's the 556 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1974: In Pakistan, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto opened the port of Lahore.
• 1977: Ecuador founded the television channel Gama TV, the second television channel in that country to start the images in color.
• 1980: the state with limited recognition of Rodesia becomes Zimbabwe, a new state, and adopts a new flag, thus achieving recognition of its independence.
• 1983: in Lebanon, a suicide bomber destroys the US embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
• 1988: As part of Operation Earnest Will during the war between Iran and Iraq, the United States launched Operation Religious Mantis against the Iranian Navy, which is the most important naval attack since the Second World War.
• 1999: in the Vatican City, Pope John Paul II canonize the French religious Marcelino Champagnat (1789-1840), founder of the Congregation of the Marist Brothers.
• 2014: in Mexico an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 is sense in several cities of the country. It happened on Holy Friday, which is why it is known as the sism of the Holy Friday.
• 2018: In Nicaragua, protests against the reforms to Daniel Ortega's social insurance system began.

Births

• 1469: Francis I of Foix, king Navarre (f. 1483).

Lucrecia Borgia

• 1480: Lucrecia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and emblem of the Borgia family (f. 1519).
• 1521: François de Coligny, a French military and aristocrat (f. 1569).
• 1580: Thomas Middleton, English playwright (f. 1627).
• 1589: John of Östergötland, Swedish prince (f. 1618).
• 1590: Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (f. 1617).
• 1605: Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (f. 1674).
• 1666: Jean-Féry Rebel, French composer (f. 1747).
• 1681: Girolamo Donnini, Italian painter (f. 1743).
• 1689: María Ana de Borbón-Conti, aristocrat french (f. 1720).
• 1734: Ramón Pignatelli, Spanish engineer and illustrator (f. 1793).
• 1757: María Josefa Lajarrota, patriot of Argentina (f. 1822).
• 1762: Jean François Leval, French military (f. 1834).
• 1768: Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter (f. 1848).
• 1771: Carlos Felipe de Schwarzenberg, diplomat and Austrian military (f. 1820).

David Ricardo

• 1772: David Ricardo, British economist (f. 1823).
• 1774: Antonio Basoli, Italian painter (f. 1848).
• 1782: Georg August Goldfuss, naturalist, paleontologist and German zoologist (f. 1848).
• 1787: Friedrich Wilhelm Sporleder, German naturalist (f. 1875).
• 1791: Octavio Fabricio Mossotti, physicist and Italian astronomer (f. 1863).
• 1800: Anton Eleutherius Sauter, botanist and Austrian physician (f. 1881).
• 1802: Henri Lecoq, French botanist (f. 1871).
• 1804: Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet Des Murs, a French politician and historian (f. 1878).
• 1809: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet.

José Maria Caldeira do Casal Ribeiro

• 1819: Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (f. 1895).
• 1822: August Petermann, German cartographer and geologist (f. 1878).
• 1823: Walter Leak Steele, American politician (f. 1891).
• 1825: José Maria Caldeira do Casal Ribeiro, a Portuguese politician (f. 1896).
• 1835: Perfect Amézquita Gutiérrez, Mexican bishop (f. 1900).
• 1836: Eleuterio Ramírez, Chilean military (f. 1879).
• 1838: Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, a French chemist (f. 1912).
• 1838: Maximum Rosenstock Up, Chilean politician (f. 1917).
• 1842: Antero de Quental, Portuguese poet (f. 1891).
• 1848: Luis Montt Montt, Chilean writer and politician (f. 1909).
• 1849: Constant Chatenier, a French biologist (f. 1926).

Gertrudis Echeñique

• 1851: Ricardo García Granados, economist, politician and Mexican historian (f. 1930).
• 1852: Eleuterio Delgado, Spanish politician (f. 1908).
• 1853: Gertrudis Echeñique, Chilean obstetrician (f. 1928), wife of President Federico Errázuriz.
• 1853: Ana Roque de Duprey, a Puerto Rican writer and activist (f. 1933).
• 1857: Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (f. 1938).
• 1857: Antonio Susillo, Spanish sculptor (f. 1896).
• 1858: Julio Bañados Espinosa, a Chilean lawyer and politician (f. 1899).
• 1860: Ramón José Cárcano, Argentine historian and politician (f. 1946).
• 1864: Richard Harding Davis, American writer and journalist (f. 1916).
• 1865: Leónidas Plaza Gutiérrez, politician and Ecuadorian president (f. 1932).
• 1865: César Silió, a Spanish politician and journalist (f. 1944).
• 1865: Abel Tarride, French actor and playwright (f. 1951).

Leopold Stokowski

• 1867: Lluís Millet, composer and Spanish choir director (f. 1941).
• 1867: Carlos Arturo Torres, Colombian writer and politician (f. 1911).
• 1870: Alexandre Arquillière, French actor (f. 1953).
• 1876: Fortunato Anzoátegui, a Uruguayan businessman and diplomat (f. 1924).
• 1877: Carlos Ibarguren, Argentine historian and politician (f. 1956).
• 1877: Enrique del Valle Iberlucea, politician and Argentine writer (f. 1921).
• 1880: Sam Crawford, American baseball player (f. 1968).
• 1881: Max Weber, American painter and poet (f. 1961).
• 1882: Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (f. 1948).
• 1882: Leopold Stokowski, director of British orchestra and musician (f. 1977).
• 1884: Gordon Hoare, British footballer (f. 1973).
• 1884: Ludwig Meidner, German painter (f. 1966).

Antonio Medina Allende

• 1886: Jorge Urzúa Urzúa, a Chilean lawyer and politician (f. 1980).
• 1888: Marguerite Marsh, American actress (f. 1925).
• 1888: José Pareja Yébenes, a Spanish physician and politician (f. 1951).
• 1890: María Pávlovna Románova, Russian aristocrat (f. 1958).
• 1891: José Guadalupe Zuno, Mexican politician (f. 1980).
• 1892: Bolesław Bierut, Polish politician (f. 1956).
• 1893: Alexander Granach, German actor (f. 1945).
• 1893: Páz Faz Riza, Mexican military and political (f. 1972).
• 1894: Joaquín Álvarez de Toledo y Caro, aristocrat Spaniard (f. 1955).
• 1895: Antonio Medina Allende, Argentine engineer and politician (f. 1963).
• 1896: Na Hye-sok, artist, writer and South Korean feminist activist (f. 1948).
• 1896: Xabier de Lizardi, Basque poet (f. 1933).

Dorothy Revier

• 1897: Ardito Desio, explorer, alpineist, geologist and Italian cartographer (f. 2001).
• 1898: Eduardo González-Gallarza, militar y aviador española (f. 1986).
• 1902: Wynn Bullock, American photographer (f. 1975).
• 1902: Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Ukrainian Rabbi (f. 1994).
• 1902: Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician (f. 1981).
• 1904: Dorothy Revier, American actress (f. 1993).
• 1905: Margaret of Greece and Denmark, Greek princess (f. 1981).
• 1905: George Herbert Hitchings, American scientist, nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1988 (f. 1998).
• 1905: Hermann Krumey, military of the German SS (f. 1981).
• 1906: Ena Gregory, Australian actress (f. 1993).
• 1907: Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (f. 1996).
• 1907: Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer (f. 1995).
• 1907: Raúl Roa, politician, diplomat and Cuban Foreign Minister (f. 1982).
• 1910: Rudolf Lange, German military (f. 1945).

José Joaquín Trejos Fernández

• 1911: Maurice Goldhaber, American physicist (f. 2011).
• 1911: Niel Steenbergen, a Dutch artist (f. 1997).
• 1912: José Manuel Urquiola, Spanish footballer.
• 1914: María Brunilda López Valle, Mexican educator (f. 2011).
• 1914: Joan Garcés Queralt, Spanish musician (f. 2014).
• 1915: Joy Gresham, American writer (f. 1960).
• 1915: Edmond Leburton, Belgian politician (f. 1997).
• 1915: Alberto Moreno, Uruguayan singer (f. 1990).
• 1916: Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (f. 2005).
• 1916: August Lambert, German aviator (f. 1945).
• 1916: José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, a Costa Rican politician (f. 2010).
• 1916: Joaquín Valle Benítez, Spanish footballer.
• 1917: Federica of Hanover, the German queen of Greece (f. 1981).
• 1918: Gabriel Axel, filmmaker and Franco-danese actor (f. 2014).

Melitón Reyes Andrade (iz.)

• 1918: André Bazin, French film critic (f. 1958).
• 1918: Melitón Reyes Andrade, Mexican politician and trade unionist (f. 2008).
• 1919: José María de Azcárate Ristori, Spanish art historian (f. 2001).
• 1919: Rolando Chaves, Argentine actor (f. 1995).
• 1919: Vondell Darr, American actress (f. 2012).
• 1920: Mariano Constante, Spanish writer (f. 2010).
• 1920: Eduardo Michaelsen, Cuban artist (f. 2010).
• 1921: Don Otten, American basketball player (f. 1985).
• 1921: Miguel Roca Cabanellas, Spanish bishop.
• 1921: Enrique Rosado, Mexican radio announcer (f. 2011).
• 1922: Nigel Kneale, British writer (f. 2006).
• 1923: Carlos Rojas González, Colombian painter (f. 1997).
• 1923: Jorge Cáceres, Chilean poet and dancer (f. 1949).

Samuel P. Huntington

• 1924: Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American musician (f. 2005).
• 1924: Germán Samper Gnecco, Colombian architect (f. 2019).
• 1925: Bill Cody Jr., American actor (f. 1989).
• 1925: José María Requena, a Spanish writer (f. 1998).
• 1925: Ksenia Konstantinova, Soviet military physician and Heroin of the Soviet Union (f. 1943).
• 1926: Francisco Soto Nieto, Spanish judge.
• 1927: Samuel P. Huntington, American polytologist (f. 2008).
• 1927: Ramón Mendoza, entrepreneur and president of Real Madrid (f. 2001).
• 1927: Harold Trevor Clifford, biologist and Australian explorer.
• 1927: Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish politician (f. 2013).
• 1928: Howard Becker, American sociologist.
• 1928: Otto Piene, German painter and sculptor (f. 2014).

Jorge Luis Borges, photographed by Sara Facio

• 1928: Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (f. 2015).
• 1928: Mikio Satō, Japanese mathematician.
• 1928: David Whitaker, British screenwriter (f. 1980).
• 1929: Héctor Lechuga, Mexican humorist (f. 2017).
• 1930: Clive Revill, New Zealand actor.
• 1930: Roberto Sosa, a Honduran poet (f. 2011).
• 1932: Nicolas Broca, a Belgian historietist (f. 1993).
• 1932: Sara Facio, Argentine photographer.
• 1932: Francesco Zagatti, Italian footballer (f. 2009).
• 1934: James Drury, American actor.
• 1934: George Shirley, American tenor.

Joseph Leonard Goldstein

• 1935: Paul A. Rothchild, American producer (f. 1995).
• 1936: Ramón Godínez Flores, Spanish bishop (f. 2007).
• 1936: Don Ohl, American basketball player.
• 1937: Jan Kaplický, Czech architect (f. 2009).
• 1938: Roberto Anzolin, Italian footballer.
• 1938: Lucio Dell'Angelo, footballer and Italian coach (f. 2013).
• 1938: Hal Galper, American pianist.
• 1939: Angel Rubio Castro, Spanish bishop.
• 1940: Luis Brandoni, an Argentine actor and politician.
• 1940: Alain Desrosières, a French sociologist (f. 2013).
• 1940: Joseph Leonard Goldstein, nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1985.
• 1940: Jaak Lipso, Latvian basketball player.

Jochen Rindt

• 1941: Michael D. Higgins, Irish politician and president.
• 1942: Robert Christgau, American journalist.
• 1942: Rodolfo Rhiner, Argentine politician.
• 1942: Jochen Rindt, Austrian Formula 1 pilot (f. 1970).
• 1943: Jaime Bauzá, a Chilean businessman.
• 1943: Cecilia López Montaño, Colombian economist and policy.
• 1944: Francis Bell, British actor (f. 1994).
• 1944: Frances D'Souza, British scientist.
• 1944: Robert Hanssen, FBI agent and American spy.
• 1944: Claudio Vinazzani, Italian footballer.
• 1945: Nelson Bocaranda, Venezuelan journalist.
• 1945: Karen Wynn Fonstad, British illustrator (f. 2005).

Hayley Mills

• 1945: Guillermo Páez, Chilean footballer.
• 1945: Mohamed Sibari, Moroccan poet.
• 1946: Janet Kagan, American writer (f. 2008).
• 1946: Hayley Mills, British actress and singer.
• 1946: Irene Fernandez, a Malaysian activist (f. 2014).
• 1946: Fernando Mendes Rosas, politician, journalist and Portuguese historian.
• 1947: Moses Blah, Liberian politician, 23rd President (f. 2013).
• 1947: Lori Martin, American actress (f. 2010).
• 1947: Herbert Mullin, American serial killer.
• 1947: Greg Quill, a Canadian musician and journalist (f. 2013).
• 1947: Manuel Sánchez Monge, Spanish bishop.
• 1947: Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor and filmmaker.

James Woods

• 1947: James Woods, American actor.
• 1947: Loïc Le Ribault, French geologist and essayist (f. 2007).
• 1947: Jerzy Stuhr, Polish filmmaker.
• 1949: Geoff Bodine, American racing pilot.
• 1949: Antônio Fagundes, Brazilian actor.
• 1949: Charles Fefferman, American mathematician.
• 1949: Francisco López Pérez, Spanish historian and writer.
• 1949: Celia Villalobos, Spanish politics.
• 1949: Bengt Holmström, Finnish economist.
• 1950: Adolfo Arata, Chilean businessman.
• 1950: Kenny Ortega, American director and choreographer.
• 1951: Darío Díaz Pérez, Argentine politician.

Rick Moranis

• 1951: Patxi Iriguíbel, Spanish footballer.
• 1951: José Yáñez Valenzuela, Chilean researcher.
• 1952: Jorge Boccanera, Argentine poet and journalist.
• 1952: Reyes Tamez Guerra, Mexican researcher and politician.
• 1953: Bernt Johansson, Swedish cyclist.
• 1953: Rick Moranis, American actor and singer.
• 1953: Paul Biyoghé Mba, a Gabonese politician.
• 1954: Francisco Javier Ceballos Sierra, Spanish computer author.
• 1954: Lito Epumer, guitarist and Argentine rock composer.
• 1954: Torsten Persson, Swedish economist.
• 1956: Rien Djamain, Indonesian singer.
• 1956: John James, American actor.

Eric Roberts

• 1956: Eric Roberts, American actor.
• 1956: Carmen de Rivera, Spanish politics.
• 1956: Melody Thomas Scott, American actress.
• 1957: Sergio del Campo Fayet, Chilean politician.
• 1958: Pedro Febles, Venezuelan footballer (f. 2011).
• 1959: Susan Faludi, American journalist and writer.
• 1959: Arlette Pacheco, Mexican actress.
• 1960: Juan Luis Castro, a Chilean doctor and politician.
• 1960: Rolando Jiménez, Chilean activist.
• 1961: Dirk Heidemann, German dancer.
• 1961: Jane Leeves, British actress.
• 1961: Steve Lombardi, American fighter.
• 1962: Jan Björklund, Swedish politician.
• 1962: Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist and comic.

Mike Mangini

• 1962: Carme Pigem, Spanish architect.
• 1963: Júlia Lemmertz, Brazilian actress.
• 1963: Mike Mangini, American drummer.
• 1963: Eric McCormack, Canadian actor.
• 1963: Rubén Moreira, Mexican politician.
• 1963: Conan O'Brien, American TV presenter.
• 1964: Niall Ferguson, British historian.

Maria Bello

• 1964: Rafael Martínez Sansegundo, Spanish basketball.
• 1964: Rithy Panh, Cambodian filmmaker.
• 1966: Lidia Borda, Argentine tango singer.
• 1966: Camille Coduri, British actress.
• 1966: Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete.
• 1966: Aaron Rodríguez Contreras, Mexican botanist.
• 1967: Maria Bello, American actress.
• 1967: Paul Jones, British footballer.
• 1968: Mary Birdsong, American actress and singer.
• 1968: Javier González, Spanish basketball player.
• 1968: Pedro González Martínez, Spanish footballer.

Paco Jémez

• 1968: David Hewlett, British actor.
• 1968: Roberto Medina, Mexican footballer.
• 1968: Jorge Rodriguez, Mexican footballer.
• 1968: Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, Mexican politician, governor of Veracruz since 2018.
• 1969: Sergio Solomon Céspedes, Mexican politician, governor of Puebla since 2022.
• 1969: Sayako Kuroda, daughter of Emperor Akihito.
• 1969: Juan Antonio Morales, Spanish basketball player.
• 1969: Emma Rabbe, Venezuelan presenter and model.
• 1969: Stefan Schwarz, Swedish footballer.
• 1970: Saad Hariri, Lebanese politician, 66th Prime Minister.
• 1970: Paco Jémez, footballer and Spanish coach.

Haile Gebrselassie

• 1970: Ramón Jufresa, Spanish hockey player.
• 1970: Carlos López de Silanes, Mexican footballer.
• 1970: Jorge Zabaleta, Chilean actor.
• 1971: Fredro Starr, American rapper, onyx band.
• 1971: David Tennant, British actor.
• 1972: Lars Christiansen, Danish basketball player.
• 1972: Eli Roth, an American filmmaker and writer.
• 1973: Maite Embil, Mexican actress.
• 1973: Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete.
• 1974: Millie Corretjer Puerto Rican singer.
• 1974: Madeleine Peyroux, American singer and guitarist.

Mark Tremonti

• 1974: Armando Rodríguez Cervantes, Mexican politician.
• 1974: Rebeca Rus, Spanish writer.
• 1974: Mark Tremonti, American musician and guitarist.
• 1974: Edgar Wright, British filmmaker.
• 1975: Adriano Basso, Brazilian footballer.
• 1975: Alvaro Bisama, Chilean writer and literary critic.
• 1975: Frédéric Née, French footballer.
• 1975: Christian Sancho, Argentine actor.
• 1976: Yulenny Cortés León, Mexican politics.
• 1976: Diego Crosa, Argentine soccer player.

Melissa Joan Hart

• 1976: Melissa Joan Hart, American actress.
• 1976: Rodrigo de la Serna, actor and Argentine musician.
• 1977: Hassan El Fakiri, Moroccan footballer.
• 1977: Anna Fegi, Filipino singer.
• 1977: Adrian Sina, Romanian singer.
• 1978: Carlos García Quesada, Spanish cyclist.
• 1978: Luciano Pagliarini, Brazilian cyclist.
• 1978: Buffy Tyler, American model.
• 1979: Ethan Cohn, American actor.
• 1979: Anthony Davidson, British motor racing pilot.
• 1979: Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer.
• 1979: Kourtney Kardashian, American model and actress.

Karl Wolf

• 1979: Germán Rivarola, Argentine footballer.
• 1979: Alvaro Rubio, Spanish footballer.
• 1979: Matthew Upson, British footballer.
• 1979: Karl Wolf, a Lebanese-Canadian musician.
• 1979: Park Dong-hyuk, South Korean footballer.
• 1980: Rabiu Afolabi, Nigerian footballer.
• 1980: Javier Bizarro, Spanish poet and writer.
• 1980: Matías Donnet, Argentine footballer.
• 1980: Laura Mennell, Canadian actress
• 1981: Maxim Iglinskiy, Kazakh cyclist.
• 1981: Milan Jovanović, Serbian footballer.

Sol Gabetta

• 1981: Nicolás Maiques, Argentine actor.
• 1981: Aldo Leão Ramírez, Colombian footballer.
• 1981: Sol Gabetta, Argentinian cellist.
• 1982: Santiago Morero, Argentine footballer.
• 1982: David Toledo, Mexican footballer.
• 1983: Alvaro Ricaldi, Bolivian footballer.
• 1983: Carina Cruz, Colombian actress.
• 1983: François Clerc, French footballer.
• 1983: Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1983: Juan Carlos Núñez, Mexican footballer.
• 1983: Lucas Sebastián Haedo, Argentine cyclist.
• 1983: Marvin Morgan, English footballer (f. 2021).

Yelena Témnikova

• 1983: Roberto Gutiérrez, Chilean footballer.
• 1983: Sofian Chahed, German footballer.
• 1983: Szabolcs Huszti, Hungarian footballer.
• 1983: Tomás Verdejo, Chilean actor.
• 1984: America Ferrera, American actress.
• 1984: Ikechukwu Kalu, Nigerian footballer.
• 1985: Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer.
• 1985: Mary Elise Hayden, American actress.
• 1985: Rachel Smith, American model.
• 1985: Yelena Témnikova, Russian singer.
• 1985: Yū Shimamura, Japanese voice actress.
• 1986: Maurice Edu, American footballer.
• 1986: Jakov Gojun, Croatian basketball player.

Efraín Velarde

• 1986: Eleanor James, British actress and dancer.
• 1986: Haruki Nakamura, American football player.
• 1986: Osael Romero, Salvadoran footballer.
• 1986: Efraín Velarde, Mexican footballer.
• 1987: Danny Guthrie, British footballer.
• 1987: Michael Bradley, American footballer.
• 1987: Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer.
• 1987: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, British model and actress.
• 1988: Kayleigh McEnany, American political commentator and writer.
• 1988: Anagabriela Espinoza, Mexican model.
• 1988: Pierrick Valdivia, French footballer.
• 1988: Vanessa Kirby, British actress.
• 1989: Bojan Bogdanović, Croatian basketball player.

Britt Robertson

• 1989: Jessica Jung, Korean-American singer and actress.
• 1989: Patricio Rubio, Chilean footballer.
• 1990: Britt Robertson, American actress.
• 1990: Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer.
• 1990: Henderson Álvarez, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1991: Blake Powell, Australian footballer.
• 1992: Dzsenifer Marozsán, German footballer.
• 1992: Chloe Bennet, American actress and singer.
• 1993: Javier Baldassari, Chilean actor.

Nathan Sykes

• 1993: Nathan Sykes, British singer.
• 1994: Moses Arias, an American actor.
• 1994: Lucas Romero, Argentine soccer player.
• 1995: Alastair Gordon, British footballer.
• 1996: Daniil Dubov, Russian chess player.
• 1996: Denzel Dumfries, Dutch footballer.
• 1997: Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer.
• 1999: Michael Andrew, American swimmer.
• 1999: Ben Brereton, Anglo-Chinese footballer.
• 2007: Lerotholi Seeiso, prince heir to Lesoto.

Deaths

• 727: Agallians Kontoskeles, military officer and rebel leader of Byzantine (n. before 710).
• 850: Perfect for Cordoba, monk and Spanish saint (n. before 833).
• 1213: Mary of Montpellier, wife of Peter II of Aragon (n. 1180).

Roxelana, by Tiziano

• 1494: Domenico di Michelino, Florentine painter (n. 1417).
• 1552: John Leland, English poet (n. 1502).
• 1555: Polidoro Virgilio, Italian writer and humanist (n. 1470).
• 1556: Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and politician (n. 1495).
• 1558: Roxelana, the legitimate wife of Sultan Süleyman and mother of Sultan Selim II (Sulleyman)c.1502).
• 1587: John Foxe, English historian and writer (n. 1516).
• 1602: Andrés Hibernón, religious and Spanish beato (n. 1534).
• 1660: Susana Lorántffy, Hungarian aristocrat (n. 1600).
• 1674: John Graunt, British demographer (n. 1620).
• 1679: Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau, German poet (n. 1617).
• 1689: George Jeffreys, Welsh judge and politician (n. 1648).
• 1690: Carlos V de Lorena, German aristocrat (n. 1643).
• 1732: Louis Feuillée, astronomer, French geographer and botanist (n. 1660).

Jacques Cassini

• 1756: Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (n. 1677).
• 1758: Lorenz Heister, botanist and German surgeon (n. 1683).
• 1770: José Benegasi and Luján, a Spanish writer (n. 1707).
• 1794: Jean-Joseph of Laborde, banker and French merchant (n. 1724).
• 1794: Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert, a French military and aristocrat (n. 1736).
• 1796: Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (n. 1732).
• 1801: Noël François De Wailly, French grammar (n. 1724).
• 1802: Erasmus Darwin, British scientist (n. 1731).
• 1803: Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French politician and mathematician (n. 1759).
• 1804: Theodore of Almeida, a Portuguese priest and writer (n. 1722).

María Bibiana Benítez

• 1819: Juan Fernández de Rojas, writer, historian and Spanish humorist (n. 1750).
• 1823: Fernando Camborda, Spanish writer (n. 1769).
• 1824: José Moldes, politician and military Argentinean (n. 1785).
• 1830: José Maurício Nunes García, a Brazilian priest and composer (n. 1767).
• 1845: Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure, Swiss chemical (n. 1767).
• 1850: Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg, aristocrat and Russian diplomat (n. 1766).
• 1854: Józef Ksawery Elsner, Polish composer (n. 1769).
• 1865: Léon Dufour, a French doctor (n. 1780).
• 1866: Luca Passi, Italian religious (n. 1789).
• 1866: Manuel María Sierra Moya, a Spanish politician (n. 1799).
• 1873: María Bibiana Benítez, a Puerto Rican poet (n. 1783).
• 1873: Miguel García Cuesta, Spanish bishop (n. 1803).

Justus von Liebig

• 1873: Justus von Liebig, German chemical (n. 1803).
• 1875: Giovanni Strazza, Italian sculptor (n. 1818).
• 1877: Franz Hanfstaengl, German painter (n. 1804).
• 1878: Thomas Thomson, British botanist (n. 1817).
• 1887: Ignacy Gurowski, a Polish aristocrat (n. 1812).
• 1890: Caetano da Costa Alegre, Portuguese poet (n. 1864).
• 1892: Agostino Todaro, Italian botanist (n. 1818).
• 1897: Gervasio Méndez, Argentinean writer and military (n. 1843).
• 1898: Gustave Moreau, French painter (n. 1826).
• 1899: Manuel Bulnes Pinto, Chilean military and political (n. 1842).
• 1900: Rudolf Charousek, Hungarian chess player (n. 1873).
• 1904: Sumner Paine, American Olympic shooter (n. 1868).
• 1905: Hugh Low, British naturalist and explorer (n. 1824).
  

  Carlos Alfredo Becú
• 1905: Enoch Sontonga, a South African writer and missionary (n. 1873).
• 1905: Juan Valera, a Spanish writer (n. 1824).
• 1906: Luis Martín García, a Spanish religious (n. 1846).
• 1910: Augusto Arcimís, Spanish scientist and meteorologist (n. 1844).
• 1910: Tomás Romero Hodges, a Chilean politician (n. 1854).
• 1911: José Copas, a Mexican revolutionary (n. before 1893).
• 1911: Rafael Merino, a Mexican revolutionary (n. 1872).
• 1913: Lester Frank Ward, American paleontologist (n. 1841).
• 1919: Joaquín Rucoba, Spanish architect (n. 1844).
• 1921: Joseph Reinach, French writer and politician (n. 1856).
• 1924: Carlos Alfredo Becú, an Argentine politician (n. 1879).
• 1925: Claudio López Bru, entrepreneur, aristocrat and Spanish philanthropist (n. 1853).

Enrique Santamarina

• 1927: José Tartiere, Spanish entrepreneur (n. 1848).
• 1928: José Joaquín Arrospide, Spanish bishop (n. 1862).
• 1929: Evaristo Bozas Urrutia, a Spanish journalist and writer (n. 1886).
• 1933: Johann F. Heymans, written Suriname (n. 1871).
• 1934: Raffaele Garofalo, Italian jurist and criminologist (n. 1851).
• 1935: Panait Istrati, a Romanian writer (n. 1884).
• 1936: Ottorino Respighi, composer and director of Italian orchestra (n. 1879).
• 1937: Enrique Santamarina, an Argentine politician (n. 1870).
• 1938: George Bryant, American archer (n. 1878).
• 1939: Bertha Kalich, German actress (n. 1874).
• 1941: Alexandros Korizis, Greek politician (n. 1885).
• 1941: Domenico Quattrociocchi, Italian painter (n. 1872).
• 1942: Léon Marie Dufour, French botanist (n. 1862).

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

• 1942: Leonid Kúbel, Russian composer (n. 1891).
• 1942: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and philanthropist (n. 1875).
• 1943: Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (n. 1884).
• 1945: John Ambrose Fleming, British inventor (n. 1849).
• 1945: William Frederick of Wied, Prince Albanian (n. 1876).
• 1945: Ernie Pyle, American journalist (n. 1900).
• 1947: Jozef Tiso, politician and Slovak priest (n. 1887).
• 1948: Alberto Candia, a Paraguayan politician and trade unionist (n. 1919).
• 1949: Leonard Bloomfield, American philologist (n. 1887).
• 1949: Will Hay, British actor and director (n. 1888).
• 1949: Franz Stassen, German speaker (n. 1869).
• 1951: José Belbiure Serrano, Spanish sculptor (n. 1893).
• 1951: Óscar Carmona, Portuguese politician (n. 1869).
• 1951: Humberto Trucco, Chilean lawyer and judge.
• 1954: George Kay, British footballer (n. 1891).
• 1954: Juan José Ríos, Mexican military and political (n. 1882).

Albert Einstein

• 1955: Albert Einstein, a German-American scientist, a nobel physics award in 1921 (n. 1879).
• 1955: José Rafael Pocaterra, Venezuelan writer (n. 1889).
• 1956: Acácio Lino, Portuguese artist (n. 1878).
• 1957: Francisco Tamayo Pacheco, a Peruvian politician (n. 1891).
• 1958: Maurice Gamelin, French general (n. 1872).
• 1958: Louisa de Orleans, Princess of Orleans (n. 1882).
• 1959: Wilhelm Nestle, German classic philologist (n. 1865).
• 1960: Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus, Dutch economist (n. 1880).
• 1961: Ernesto Jaén Guardia, politician and Panamanian president (n. 1895).
• 1964: Fumio Asakura, Japanese sculptor (n. 1883).
• 1964: Ben Hecht, American filmmaker (n. 1894).
• 1964: Hermes Peña Torres, Cuban military (n. 1938).
• 1965: Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (n. 1917).
• 1966: Mita von Ahlefeldt, German actress (n. 1891).

Pedro Arico Suárez

• 1967: Friedrich Heiler, German theologian (n. 1892).
• 1968: Toribio Echevarría, writer, politician and Spanish humanist (n. 1887).
• 1968: Enrique Pérez Serantes, Chilean bishop (n. 1883).
• 1968: Manuel Romero de Terreros, historian and Mexican writer (n. 1880).
• 1970: Michał Kalecki, Polish economist (n. 1899).
• 1970: Glenn Tryon, American filmmaker (n. 1898).
• 1972: Manuel Isidro Méndez, Spanish historian (n. 1882).
• 1972: Willie "The Lion" Smith, pianist, American singer and composer (n. 1897).
• 1974: Betty Compson, American actress (n. 1897).
• 1974: Marcel Pagnol, novelist, screenwriter and French filmmaker (n. 1895).
• 1977: Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, Mexican physicist (n. 1899).
• 1979: Pedro Arico Suárez, Argentine footballer (n. 1908).
• 1986: Marcel Dassault, French magnate (n. 1892).
• 1986: Antonio Lauro, Venezuelan composer (n. 1917).
• 1986: Eduardo Pisano, Spanish painter (n. 1912).
• 1986: Juan Luis Vassallo, Spanish sculptor (n. 1908).

Gabriel Celaya

• 1987: Federico Enrique Bruno Christmann, Argentine physician (n. 1898).
• 1988: Pierre Desproges, French humorist (n. 1939).
• 1988: Józef Łobodowski, Polish writer (n. 1909).
• 1988: Antonín Puč, Czechoslovak footballer (n. 1907).
• 1990: Gory Guerrero, Mexican professional fighter (n. 1921).
• 1990: Frédéric Rossif, director of French cinema (n. 1922).
• 1991: Gabriel Celaya, Spanish writer (n. 1911).
• 1991: Martin Hannett, Zero, British musician (n. 1948).
• 1991: Barry Rogers, American musician (n. 1935).
• 1992: Frankie Howerd, British actor (n. 1917).
• 1993: Elisabeth Frink, British sculptor and painter (n. 1930).
• 1993: Masahiko Kimura, Japanese fighter (n. 1917).
• 1993: Fernando Santos, Spanish actor (n. 1923).
• 1994: Bernard Tramont, a French rally pilot (n. 1938).
• 1995: Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, Colombian writer (n. 1963).

Arturo Frondizi

• 1995: Arturo Frondizi, Argentine President (n. 1908).
• 1995: Peter van de Kamp, Dutch astronomer (n. 1901).
• 1995: Elvira Noriega, a Spanish actress (n. 1914).
• 1996: Bernard Edwards, U.S. bassist, of the Chic band (n. 1952).
• 1996: Manuel López-Villaseñor, a Spanish painter (n. 1924).
• 1997: Carlos Auyero, Argentine politician (n. 1936).
• 1997: Juan Félix Sánchez, Venezuelan artist (n. 1900).
• 1998: Nelson Gonçalves, Brazilian musician (n. 1919).
• 1998: Linda Schele, American archaeologist (n. 1942).
• 1999: Vicente Escrivá, Spanish filmmaker (n. 1913).
• 1999: Enrique Hormazábal, Chilean footballer (n. 1931).

Thor Heyerdahl

• 2001: René Dahinden, Swiss zoologist (n. 1930).
• 2002: Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (n. 1914).
• 2002: Wayne Hightower, American basketball player (n. 1940).
• 2002: Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and fighter (n. 1938).
• 2003: Edgar Frank Codd, British computer scientist (n. 1923).
• 2003: Juan Bautista Villalba, Paraguayan footballer (n. 1924).
• 2003: Emil Loteanu, filmmaker, actor and Moldovan writer (n. 1936).
• 2004: Frances Rafferty, American actress (n. 1922).
• 2005: Maevia Noemí Correa, botanical Argentina (n. 1914).
• 2005: Jorge Olavarría, politician, historian and Venezuelan journalist (n. 1933).
• 2006: Aída Alberti, an Argentine actress (n. 1915).

Joy Page

• 2006: Manuel Capdevila, a Catalan painter and goldsmith (n. 1910).
• 2006: Mercedes Palomino, Canadian actress (n. 1913).
• 2007: John T. Parsons, American engineer (n. 1913).
• 2008: Erminio Favalli, Italian footballer (n. 1944).
• 2008: Joy Page, American actress (n. 1924).
• 2009: Enrique Franco, Spanish composer (n. 1920).
• 2009: Fernando Hilbeck, Spanish actor (n. 1933).
• 2011: Juan Pedro Domecq, Spanish rancher (n. 1942).
• 2012: Juan Carlos Araujo, Argentine actor (n. 1930).
• 2012: Carlos Castrodeza, Spanish philosopher (n. 1945).
• 2012: José Cerviño Cerviño, Spanish bishop (n. 1920).

Dick Clark.

• 2012: Dick Clark, American presenter (n. 1929).
• 2012: Jorge Santistevan de Noriega, Peruvian lawyer (n. 1945).
• 2013: Ilona Edelsheim-Gyulai, noble Hungarian (n. 1918), wife of István Horthy.
• 2013: Mario Franco, journalist and Argentine politician (n. 1923).
• 2013: Jack Price, British footballer (n. 1918).
• 2013: Storm Thorgerson, British graphic designer (n. 1944).
• 2014: Guru Dhanapal, director of Indian cinema (n. 1959).
• 2014: Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (n. 1994).
• 2019: Lorraine Warren, American medium and clairvoyant (n. 1927).
• 2020: Amparo Dávila, Mexican writer (n. 1928).
• 2021: José Luis Rosasco, a Chilean writer (n. 1935).
• 2022: José Luis Cortés (El Tosco), Cuban music creator of NG the band (n. 1951).

Celebrations

• International Day of Monuments and Sites.
• World Radio Day.
• ZimbabweZimbabwe: Independence Day.

Catholic saints list

• Saint Antusa of Constantinople.
• Santa Atanasia de Egina.
• San Elpidio de Melitene.
• St. Eusebius of Fano.
• San Galdino Della Sala.
• San Hermosgenes de Melitene.
• San Juan Isauro.
• San Molasio de Leighlin.
• San Perfect de Córdoba.
• San Pusicio de Persia.
• San Ursmaro de Lobbes.
• Beato Andrés Hibernón.
• Beato Andrés de Montereale.
• Blessed Idesbaldo of Bruges.
• Blessed Jose Moreau.
• Beata María de la Encarnación Avrillot.
• Beato Roman Archutowski.
• Blessed Luca Passi.
• Beata Savina Petrilli.