April 7

April 7th is the 97th (ninety-seventh) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 98th in leap years. There are 268 days left to end the year.

Events

• 451: In the present France, Attila plunders the city of Metz and attacks other cities in Galia.
• 529: In Rome, the emperor Justinian sanctioned the first volume of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
• 611: Mayan king Uneh Chan of Calakmul plunders the rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
• 1348: The Carolina University is founded in Prague.
• 1521: the Portuguese navigator Fernando de Magallanes – in the first circumnavigation of the globe, funded by the Crown of Spain – arrives in Cebu; he will die fifteen days later.
• 1541: Jesuit Francisco Javier takes part in the East to develop missionary work.
• 1621: In the present Spain, the aristocrat Pedro Girón falls prisoner; the persecution of Lerma's supporters begins.
• 1652: In Africa, the Dutch are established in Cape Town.
• 1798: the territory of the Mississippi is reorganized by the disputes between the United States and Spain. It will expand in 1804 and later in 1812.
• 1813: in the New Granada (now Colombia), Manuel Rodríguez Torices (president of the Free and Independent State of Cartagena) converts the coastal town of Barranquilla into "villa" and elevates it to the capital of the department of Tierradentro or Barlovento.
• 1815: in the village of Puerto Santo (Venezuela) the expeditionary force of General Pablo Morillo is seized.
• 1817: In the City of Barcelona (Venezuela) the Casa Fuerte falls into the hands of the Spanish forces, between 700 and 1200 people die there.
• 1822: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Society of Physical and Mathematical Sciences is founded.
• 1822: In the Great Colombia, Simon Bolivar faces realistic forces in the battle of Bomboná.
• 1823: In Spain, the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis enter the country, re-establishing the absolutist government of Fernando VII.
• 1825: in Bolivia, Spanish colonel José María Valdez surrenders, ending the war of independence in Upper Peru.
• 1827: British chemist John Walker sells the first box of matches, which he had invented the previous year.
• 1828: in the Teatro Carlo Felice de Genoa (Italy) the opera is premiered Bianca and FernandoVincenzo Bellini.
• 1831: in Brazil, Peter II became emperor.
• 1862: near Savannah—in the framework of the U.S. Civil War, the northern unionist army led by Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Southern confederate army in the battle of Shiloh.
• 1894: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Juan B. Justo founded the socialist newspaper The Vanguard.
• 1906: In Italy, the Vesuvius volcano erupted and devastated Naples.
• 1906: the representatives of Spain, Germany, France and England sign the Acta de Algeciras on Morocco by which Spain acquires obligations to exercise a protectorate in the area.
• 1908: In the UK, H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party succeeds Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as prime minister.
• 1920: in Jerusalem the three days of the Jerusalem pogrom end. Groups of Palestinian armed civilians, incited to violence by Arab nationalist leaders, attack the Jewish immigrant population. 12 civilians are killed and 250 injured. Because of the late response of the British military authority, the Jews decide to create their own defence force: the Haganah.
• 1928: Civic-military insurrection in Venezuela led by Rafael Alvarado Franco against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.
• 1933: The dry law in the United States is repealed for beer of not more than 3.2 per cent of alcohol in weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment XXI). It is now celebrated as the National Day of Beer in the United States.
• 1936: in Spain, Niceto Alcalá Zamora is dismissed as president of the Spanish Republic.
• 1939: Fascist Italy invades the kingdom of Albania.
• 1943: In Greece, Ioannis Rallis became the prime minister of collaboration during the occupation of the Axis.
• 1945: the battleship Yamato is sunk by 386 U.S. planes, meaning the end of the battleship era and beginning that of the aircraft carriers.
• 1946: France recognizes the independence of Syria.
• 1948: The World Health Organization is created at the UN.
• 1953: At the UN, Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld is appointed Secretary-General.
• 1954: in the Bikini atoll, the United States detonates the Koon hydrogen bomb, which was expected to be 1500 kilotons but turned out to be a fizzle 110 kt. In comparison, the atomic bomb Little Boy (from the atomic bombing against civilians in Hiroshima) was 16 kt.
• 1954: President Dwight Eisenhower comments Theory of the Domino for the first time in a press conference.
• 1955: In Rancagua (Chile) the O'Higgins Sports Club is founded.
• 1955: Winston Churchill resigns as prime minister for health problems.
• 1956: in José Ingenieros (Province of Buenos Aires) the Estadio Tres de Febrero was inaugurated. Currently, it remains the sports field of Club Almagro.
• 1956: Spain renounces its "protected" in Morocco.
• 1958: In Ibagué (Colombia) the Club Deportes Tolima is founded.
• 1964: in the United States, the IBM company presents the first model of its 360 series. (See Computer History).
• 1966: in a well at 561 meters underground, in the U3ek area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 14:27 (local time) United States detonates its 6 kt Tomato atomic bomb. It is the 457 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1969: RFC 1 is published in the United States; this is considered the symbolic date of the birth of the Internet.
• 1971: United States President Richard Nixon announced the increase in the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam.
• 1977: In Germany, the politician Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two members of the Red Army Fraction.
• 1978: In the United States, President Jimmy Carter interrupts the investigation of the neutron bomb.
• 1983: During the STS-6 mission, American astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle hike.
• 1985: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared a moratorium on the deployment of mid-range missiles in Europe.
• 1985: British Duo Wham!, becomes the first Western musical group to perform a concert in China.
• 1990: During the Iran-Contra scandal, John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges on his part in the scandal (the conviction is then revoked on appeal).
• 1992: Republika Srpska announces its independence.
• 1994: in Kigali, Rwanda, the massacre of Tutsis begins (genocide in Rwanda).
• 1995: first issue of Gundam Wing.
• 1998: Cardcaptor Sakura's anime is released.
• 1999: In Yugoslavia, during Operation Allied Force, the NATO air bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), several NATO aircraft attacked the city of Niš (Serbia with cluster bombs. According to NATO the target of the attack was Niš airport, however the bombs fell over the city centre. Mainly on a market and a hospital causing the death of at least fourteen civilians and 28 injured.
• 2001: United States Launches Space Probe Mars Odyssey.
• 2003: In Iraq, U.S. troops capture Baghdad. Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
• 2004: in Marseille, France, researchers from the Department of Underwater Archaeology confirm that the remains found at sea, 20 km south of Marseille, belong to the plane of the French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exuperý (1900-1944).
• 2005: In Mexico, the rages (political immunity) were removed to the mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in one of the most controversial political-legal episodes in the recent times of Mexican history.
• 2006: In Spain, Congress approves the 6th Education Act. The new rule establishes teachings common to 55%. Religion will be optional, free choice. Add a new subject, education for citizenship. Secondary students will not be able to go through school with more than 3 suspense.
• 2006: The Luxembourg Court prohibits the replacement of salary for vacations.
• 2006: In Spain, the Parliament unanimously approves the Tropa and Marineria Law, which establishes a model of professional army. The soldiers may remain in the armies until the age of 45 years.
• 2006: Spain declares the natural park of Peñagolosa.
• 2009: In Peru, former President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity in the cases of the massacres of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta University, carried out during his term by Colina.
• 2013: near the district of Napo (Peru), there is a helicopter crash, and 13 people die.
• 2017: a truck hits several people on a shopping street in Stockholm (Sweden).
• 2022: In Costa Rica a cargo plane from the company DHL split in two after an emergency landing at Juan Santamaría International Airport.

Births

• 1506: Francisco Javier, Jesuit and Holy Spanish (f. 1552).
• 1539: Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (f. 1584).
• 1613: Gerrit Dou, a Dutch painter (f. 1675).

John Joseph of Austria.

• 1629: Juan José de Austria, Spanish politician and military (f. 1679).
• 1636: Gregório de Matos Guerra, Brazilian poet (f. 1696).
• 1644: François de Neufville de Villeroy, French soldier (f. 1730).
• 1648: John Sheffield (Buckingham Duke), politician, aristocrat and British poet (f. 1721).
• 1652: Clemente XII, Italian Catholic Pope between 1730 and 1740 (f. 1740).
• 1718: Hugh Blair, Scottish writer and minister (f. 1800).
• 1727: Michel Adanson, a French naturalist (f. 1806).
• 1770: William Wordsworth, British poet (f. 1850).

Charles Fourier.

• 1772: Charles Fourier, a French socialist (f. 1837).
• 1784: Rafael del Riego, a Spanish military officer (f. 1823).
• 1794: Giovanni Battista Rubini, Italian tenor (f. 1854).
• 1780: William Ellery Channing, American theologian and pastor (f. 1842).
• 1797: Pierre Leroux politician French (f. 1871).

Tristan Flora.

• 1803: Flora Tristan, a French feminist-socialist philosopher (f. 1844).
• 1839: Ida Ferenczy, Hungarian aristocrat (f. 1928).
• 1852: Luis de Landecho, Spanish architect (f. 1941).
• 1853: Leopold of Albany, British aristocrat (f. 1884).
• 1859: Walter Camp, American player and coach (f. 1925).
• 1860: Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman (f. 1951).
• 1870: Gustav Landauer, German anarchist (f. 1919).
• 1871: Epifanio de los Santos, jurist and Filipino historian (f. 1927).
• 1876: Fay Moulton, American sportsman (f. 1945).
• 1882: Kurt von Schleicher, German military and political (f. 1934).
• 1883: Gino Severini, an Italian painter (f. 1966).
• 1884: Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish anthropologist (f. 1942).
• 1885: Walther Schwieger, German admiral (f. 1917).
• 1885: Alberto Ureta, Peruvian poet (f. 1966).
• 1887: Joseph Stadler, American athlete (f. 1950).

Gabriela Mistral.

• 1889: Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poetess, diplomat and pedagogue, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945 (f. 1957).
• 1891: Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (f. 1958).
• 1891: Victoria Ocampo, writer and editor of Argentina (f. 1979).
• 1893: Allen Dulles, American lawyer and politician (f. 1969).
• 1893: Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Spanish historian (f. 1984).
• 1894: Gerald Brenan, British writer (f. 1987).
• 1895: Eduardo Toldrá, Spanish musician (f. 1962).
• 1897: Erich Löwenhardt, German pilot (f. 1918).
• 1897: Walter Winchell, American journalist (f. 1972).
• 1899: Robert Casadesus, pianist and French composer (f. 1972).
• 1906: Hans Möser, Nazi German SS officer (f. 1948).
• 1907: Jacques Laudy, French hysterist (f. 1993).
• 1908: Percy Faith, Canadian musician (f. 1976).
• 1908: Orlando Sandoval, lawyer, farmer and Chilean politician (f. 1996).
• 1911: Eduardo León, Chilean lawyer (f. 1991).
• 1914: Salvador Nava, a Mexican physician and politician (f. 1994).

Billie Holiday.

• 1915: Billie Holiday, American jazz singer (f. 1959).
• 1915: Henry Kuttner, American writer (f. 1958).
• 1916: Anthony Caruso, American actor (f. 2003).
• 1917: Roberto Huerta, an Argentine military and aviation engineer (f. 2003).
• 1919: Edoardo Mangiarotti, an Italian teacher and sports leader. (f. 2012).
• 1920: Franco Alvarado Perdomo, Bolivian writer (f. 1987).
• 1920: Ravi Shankar, Indian Sitarist musician (f. 2012).
• 1922: Mongo Santamaría, percussionist, director of Cuban orchestra and arranger (f. 2003).
• 1922: Margia Dean, American actress.
• 1922 Boris Kovzan, Soviet combat pilot (f. 1985).
• 1924: Daniel Emilfork, a French actor (f. 2006).
• 1924: Johannes Mario Simmel, an Anglo-Austrian writer and writer (f. 2009).
• 1926: Julio Schererer, Mexican journalist (f. 2015).
• 1927: Babatunde Olatunji, a Nigerian drummer and activist (f. 2003).
• 1928: Alma Bressán, Argentine writer (f. 1999).
• 1928: James Garner, American actor (f. 2014).
• 1928: Alan J. Pakula, American filmmaker (f. 1998).
• 1929: Domingo Cura, Argentinean percussionist (f. 2004).
• 1929: Bob Denard, French mercenary (f. 2007).
• 1930: Gabriela Morreale, chemistry, researcher and academic italoespañola (f. 2017).
• 1930: Enrique González Pedrero, Mexican politician, governor of Tabasco from 1983 to 1987 (f. 2021).
• 1930: Yves Rocher, industrial of French cosmetics (f. 2009).
• 1931: Donald Barthelme, American journalist and writer (f. 1989).
• 1931: Ted Kotcheff, Bulgarian-Canadian filmmaker.
• 1931: Daniel Ellsberg, American writer and theologian.
• 1933: Wayne Rogers, American actor, producer and screenwriter (f. 2015).
• 1933: Hosein Nasr, an Iranian philosopher.
• 1934: Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (f. 2007).
• 1936: Xosé Manuel Beiras, Spanish politician.
• 1936: José Martín Colmenarejo, Spanish cyclist (f. 1995).
• 1937: Ulysses Dumont, Argentine actor (f. 2008).
• 1938: Jerry Brown, American politician.
• 1938: Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trompetist (f. 2008).
• 1938: Hermes Peña Torres, Cuban military (f. 1964).

Francis Ford Coppola.

• 1939: Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker.
• 1939: David Frost, a British journalist and presenter (f. 2013).
• 1939: Vaçe Zela, Albanian singer (f. 2014).
• 1942: José María Maravall, jurist, sociologist and Spanish politician.
• 1943: Mick Abrahams, British composer and guitarist, of the band Jethro Tull.
• 1943: Joaquim Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist (f. 1984).
• 1944: Gerhard Schröder, a German politician.
• 1944: Miguel Roa, director of Spanish orchestra (f. 2016).
• 1944: Makoto Kobayashi, Japanese physicist, nobel physics award in 2008.
• 1945: Megas, singer, composer and Icelandic writer.
• 1945: Joël Robuchon, French chef and writer (f. 2018).
• 1945: Werner Schroeter, German filmmaker and screenwriter (f. 2010).
• 1946: Zaid Abdul-Aziz, American basketball player.
• 1946: Colette Besson, French athlete (f. 2005).
• 1946: Stella Maris Closas, actress and theatrical director of Argentina.
• 1946: Stan Winston, special effects operator and U.S. makeup operator (f. 2008).
• 1947: Florian Schneider, German singer and drummer, of the Kraftwerk band (f. 2020).
• 1947: Michèle Torr, French singer.
• 1948: José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec, Spanish historian.
• 1948: Nestor Scotta, Argentine footballer (f. 2001).
• 1949: Mitch Daniels, American politician.
• 1949: Cecilia Maresca, actress and theatrical director of Argentina.
• 1949: John Oates, American musician, of the Hall & Oates band.
• 1952: Armando Ramírez, Mexican writer and journalist (f. 2019).
• 1953: Rachid Khimoune, a French sculptor of Algerian origin.
• 1954: Jackie Chan, actor, filmmaker and double risk Chinese.
• 1954: Tony Dorsett, American football player.
• 1955: Tortell Poltrona, Catalan clown.
• 1960: Buster Douglas, American boxer.
• 1961: Thurl Bailey, American basketball player.
• 1962: Andrew Hampsten, American cyclist.
• 1963: Jaime de Marichalar, Spanish aristocrat.

Russell Crowe.

• 1964: Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor.
• 1964: Angel Garrido, Spanish politician.
• 1965: Bill Bellamy, comic and American actor.
• 1965: Angeles González-Sinde, Spanish writer and filmmaker.
• 1965: Christophe Krywonis, French chef.
• 1970: Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist.

Guillaume Depardieu.

• 1970: Ivelín Giro, Cuban actress.
• 1971: Guillaume Depardieu, French actor, son of actor Gérard Depardieu (f. 2008).
• 1972: Gianluca Grignani, Italian singer.
• 1972: José Javier Hombrados, Spanish basketball player.
• 1973: Marco Delvecchio, Italian footballer.
• 1973: Carole Montillet, French skier.
• 1974: Tygo Gernandt, Dutch actor.
• 1975: Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer, The Knife band.
• 1975: Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player.
• 1975: John Cooper, American vocalist, of the Skillet band.
• 1975: Sergio Peris Mencheta, Spanish actor.
• 1976: Kevin Alejandro, American actor.
• 1978: Duncan James, British singer and composer, of the Blue band.
• 1979: Adrian Beltré, Dominican baseball player.
• 1979: Chris Gbandi, American nationalized Liberian footballer.
• 1979: Ruth Núñez, Spanish actress.
• 1979: Rafael Peralta, American Marine (f. 2004).
• 1979: Danny Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1980: Manuel Velasco Coello, Mexican politician.
• 1981: Sharka Blue, Czech porn actress.
• 1981: Alex Lanipekun, British actor.
• 1981: Óscar Pérez, actor, police and Venezuelan dissident (f. 2018).
• 1982: Sonjay Dutt, American fighter.
• 1982: Soledad Fandiño, actress and Argentine model.
• 1983: Andrea Fuentes, Spanish sync swimmer.
• 1983: Kyle Labine, Canadian actor.
• 1983: Franck Ribéry, French footballer.
• 1983: Jon Stead, British footballer.
• 1986: Brooke Brodack, American comic.
• 1986: Christian Fuchs, Austrian footballer.
• 1986: Choi Si-won, singer, model and South Korean actor.
• 1987: Martin Cáceres, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1987: Jack Duarte, Mexican actor and singer.
• 1987: Jack Johnson, American actor.
• 1988: Ed Speleers, British actor.
• 1989: Alexa Demara, American model and actress.
• 1989: Teddy Riner, French yudoca.
• 1989: Franco Di Santo, Argentine footballer.
• 1990: Sorana Cîrstea, Romanian tennis player.
• 1991: Anne-Marie, English singer.
• 1992: Alexis Jordan, American singer.
• 1992: Ana María Estupiñán, Colombian actress.
• 1992: Gerard Moreno, Spanish footballer
• 1997: Oliver Burke, Scottish footballer.

Deaths

• 1234: Sancho VII of Navarre, king of Navarre (n. 1154).
• 1302: Muhammad II, Nasrid Sultan between 1273 and 1302 (n. 1235).
• 1498: Charles VIII, the Friend, French king (n. 1470).
• 1557: Jerome de Alderete, Spanish conqueror (n. 1516).
• 1611: Antonio Pérez, a Spanish politician (n. 1540).

The Greco.

• 1614: El Greco, Greek painter (n. 1541).
• 1638: Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (n. 1576).
• 1651: Lennart Torstensson, a Swedish military and engineer (n. 1603).
• 1658: Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, a Spanish writer (n. 1595).
• 1668: William Davenant, British poet and playwright (n. 1606).
• 1719: John the Baptist of La Salle, ecclesiastical and French educator (n. 1651).

Dick Turpin.

• 1739: Dick Turpin, British criminal (n. 1705).
• 1761: Thomas Bayes, British mathematician (n. 1702).
• 1789: Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (n. 1725).
• 1789: Petrus Camper, doctor, naturalist and Dutch biologist (n. 1722).
• 1801: Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (n. 1724).
• 1804: Toussaint Louverture, Haitian politician and military (n. 1743).
• 1823: Jacques Charles, inventor, scientist and French mathematician (n. 1746).
• 1833: Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (n. 1775).
• 1836: William Godwin, a British journalist and writer (n. 1756).
• 1845: Julia Clary, queen consorte española (n. 1771).
• 1850: William Lisle Bowles, British poet (n. 1762).
• 1858: Anton Diabelli, Austrian musician (n. 1781).
• 1877: Fernán Caballero (Cecilia Bohl de Faber), Spanish writer (n. 1796).
• 1885: Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (n. 1804).

P. T. Barnum.

• 1891: Fr.T. Barnum, American businessman (n. 1810).
• 1905: Apolinar Brull Ayerra, Spanish composer (n. 1845).
• 1917: Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (n. 1861)
• 1920: Caroline Alice Elgar, a British novelist and poet (n. 1848).
• 1938: Suzanne Valadon, a French painter (n. 1867).
• 1939: Joseph Lyons, Australian politician (n. 1879).
• 1943: Alexandre Millerand, a French politician (n. 1859).

Henry Ford.

• 1947: Henry Ford, driver of the American automotive industry (n. 1863).
• 1947: Elsa O'Connor, an Argentine actress (n. 1906).
• 1950: Walter Huston, Canadian actor (n. 1884).
• 1955: Theda Bara, American actress (n. 1885).
• 1958: Ivan Petrov, Soviet military (n. 1896).
• 1960: Henri Guisan, Swiss military (n. 1874).
• 1961: Jesús Guridi, Spanish musician (n. 1886).
• 1963: Antonio Medina Allende, Argentine engineer (n. 1895).
• 1968: Jim Clark, British Formula 1 pilot (n. 1936).
• 1975: Charles Williams, American writer (n. 1909).
• 1977: Jim Thompson, American writer (n. 1906).
• 1981: Kit Lambert, American musical producer and manager (n. 1935).
• 1981: Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter (n. 1899).
• 1981: Papolo Vega, Dominican journalist (n. 1958).
• 1982: Harald Ertl, pilot of Formula 1 Austrian (n. 1948).
• 1984: Joaquim Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist (n. 1943).
• 1985: Carl Schmitt, jurist, German philosopher (n. 1888).
• 1994: Golo Mann, German historian (n. 1909).
• 1994: Agathe Uwilingiyimana, chemical, academic and political Rwandan (n. 1953).
• 1995: Philip Jebb, British architect and politician (n. 1927).
• 1998: Luis Díez del Corral, Spanish polytologist (n. 1911).
• 2000: Broery, Indonesian singer (n. 1944).
• 2000: Barbosa, Brazilian footballer (n. 1921).
• 2000: Heinz, singer and British bassist of German origin (n. 1942).
• 2001: David Graf, American actor (n. 1950).
• 2001: Alejandro Hales, a Chilean politician (n. 1923).
• 2001: Beatrice Straight, American actress (n. 1914).
• 2002: John Agar, American actor (n. 1921).
• 2003: Rubén Green, an Argentine actor (n. 1946).
• 2005: Cliff Allison, British Formula 1 pilot (n. 1932).
• 2007: Johnny Hart, American illustrator (n. 1931).
• 2007: Barry Nelson, American actor (n. 1917).
• 2008: Gloria Taylor, an Anglo-Nigerian activist (n. 1950).
• 2008: Ludu Daw Amar, journalist and Burmese author (n. 1915).
• 2009: Dave Arneson, American Game Designer (n. 1947).
• 2009: Stanley L. Jaki, Hungarian priest (n. 1924).
• 2011: Jerome Arozamena, Spanish jurist. (n. 1924).
• 2011: Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter (n. 1922).
• 2012: Manuel Albaladejo, Spanish jurist (n. 1920).
• 2012: Ignatius Moses I Daoud, a Syrian cardinal (n. 1930).
• 2012: Mike Wallace, American journalist (n. 1918).
• 2013: Les Blank, American director (n. 1935).
• 2013: Hans Jäcker, German footballer (n. 1932).
• 2014: Josep Maria Subirachs Spanish artist (n. 1927).
• 2015: Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (n. 1983).
• 2015: Kardam of Bulgaria, Prince Bulgarian and Spanish (n. 1962).
• 2016: Blackjack Mulligan, American professional fighter (n. 1942).
• 2018: Peter Grünberg, German physicist, nobel physics award in 2007 (n. 1939).
• 2019: Seymour Cassel, American actor (n. 1935).
• 2020: Jan Křen, Czech historian (n. 1930).
• 2020: Jean-Laurent Cochet, French actor (n. 1935).
• 2021: James Hampton, American actor, director and screenwriter (n. 1936).
• 2022: Miguel Angel Estrella, pianist and Argentine human rights activist (n. 1940).
• 2022: Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese mangaka (n. 1934).
• 2022: David McKee, British writer and illustrator (n. 1935).

Celebrations

• World Health Day.
• International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda.

Catholic saints list

• St. John the Baptist of the Salle, priest (1719).
• Saint Hegesipo of Rome (c. 180).
• St. Pelusio of Alexandria, priest and martyr.
• Saint Martyrs of Pentapolis (Teodoro, bishop, Irenaeus, deacon, Serapion and Ammonis, readers; s. IV).
• San Caliopio de Pompeiópolis, martyr (s. IV).
• Saint martyrs of Sinope, two hundred soldiers (s. IV).
• Saint George of Mitilene, Bishop (816).
• Saint Aibert of Crespin, priest and monk (1140).
• Saint Germán Joseph, priest (1252).
• Saint Henry Walpole and Blessed Alexander Rawlins, priests and martyrs (1595).
• Blessed martyrs Eduardo Oldcorne, priest, and Rodolfo Ashley (1606).
• Saint Peter Nguyen Van Luu, priest and martyr (1861).
• Blessed Mary Asunta Pallotta, virgin (1905).