August 24

August 24 is the 236th (two hundred and thirty-sixth) day in the Gregorian calendar and the 237th in leap years. There are 129 days left to end the year.

Events

• 79: In Italy, the Vesuvius volcano erupted, rooting the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Estabia.
• 358: An earthquake is recorded in the Bikini localities of Nicomedia and Nicaea (now Turkey) (for two hours of darkness). The resulting fire ends up destroying the cities.
• 410: the looting of Rome by the Visigoths of Alarico I and this is a prisoner to Gala Placidia, sister of the Emperor Honorius.
• 1238: in Andalusia, Spain, Fernando III de Castilla conquers Montoro.
• 1511: In Malaysia, Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Malaca, first place in the Indian Ocean trade.
• 1541: In the borage Valley (Antioquia, Colombia), Lieutenant Jerónimo Luis Tejelo, sent from the Marshal Don Jorge Robledo, discovered that valley, appointing it "Valle de San Bartolomé de los Alcázares".
• 1562: In Ávila, Spain, Teresa of Jesus founded the convent of Saint Joseph, the first stone of the Carmel Reform.
• 1572: In Paris, France, the Catholic population murders more than 3000 Hugonotes (St. Bartholomew's death).
• 1563: A conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs.
• 1639: In the Valle del Cauca (southwest of Colombia), Spanish captain Juan de Lemos and Aguirre founded the village of San Bartolomé de Tuluá.
• 1812: The Hispanic-Ganglo-Portuguese army succeeded in putting an end to the Cadiz Site
• 1814: The British army invades American territory. A command arrives to the capital (Washington), and President James Madison escapes from the White House. The Capitol, the White House and several government buildings are on fire. This is the first time in history that the United States is invaded.
• 1821: In the city of Cordoba, Veracruz, the viceroy Juan O'Donojú and Agustín de Iturbide, commander of the Trigarant Army, sign the Treaties of Cordoba by which New Spain is recognized as an independent empire.
• 1837: In Villar de los Navarros (Zaragoza, Spain)—in the framework of the First Carlist War—the battle of Villar de los Navarros is waged.
• 1852: John Russell Hind discovers asteroid number 18, baptized Melpomene.
• 1867: James Craig Watson discovers asteroid number 93, named Minerva.
• 1883: In Indonesia, the eruptions of the Krakatoa volcano, which will explode on 27 August, will increase and leave a balance of 36,417 fatal casualties.
• 1904: In Liaoyang (northeast of China)—in the framework of the Russian-Japanese war, the battle of Liaoyang begins.
• 1937: the political leaders of the Basque Nationalist Party and the commands of the Italian forces fighting in the Spanish civil war sign the Pact of Santoña.
• 1937: In Gijón, Spain, the Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed.
• 1940: in Hamburg (Germany) – in the framework of World War II – the battleship Bismarck enters into service.
• 1940: In London (England)—in the framework of World War II—the Nazis mistakenly bomb a civilian settlement. England responds to the aggression bombing Berlin. (Eagle Day).
• 1944: In the Second World War, Paris is liberated from the German occupation.
• 1949: the treaty established by NATO is in force.
• 1962: In Venezuela, the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge that unites the East and West Coasts of Lake Maracaibo is inaugurated.
• 1962: In Jakarta, Indonesia, the IV Asian Games begin.
• 1962: 289 m underground, in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:00 a.m. (local time), United States detonates its atomic bomb York5 kt (to 226 m underground). At 9:00 detonate the bomb Bobac, of 2.5 kt (to 206 m underground). It is the 284 and 285 of the 1129 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1963: in Venezuela the Armed Forces of National Liberation, in propaganda action, retain the famous footballer Alfredo Di Stéfano, in the operation Julián Grimau, then returned safely.
• 1967: 228 m underground, in the area of atomic testing in Nevada, at 5:30 a.m. (local time), United States detonates its atomic bomb Lexington0.8 kt. It's the bomb number 517 of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1970: In Bangkok, Thailand, the VI Asian Games begin.
• 1991: Ukraine is independent of the Soviet Union.
• 1994: in Montevideo (Uruguay) there are serious clashes between the police and protesters near the Filtro Hospital.
• 1995: In the United States, Microsoft launched the Windows 95 operating system.
• 1996: In the United States, Microsoft launches Windows NT 4.0 operating system
• 2001: Joaquín Sabina suffers from a mild stroke
• 2003: in Hungary, Fernando Alonso wins the Hungarian Grand Prix and becomes the youngest driver in history to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix, as well as being the first Spanish to win a victory in this competition.
• 2006: The International Astronomical Union publishes a new definition of planet that excludes Pluto. The solar system reduces its number of planets from nine to eight.
• 2008: the 2008 Beijing Olympics are closed in China.
• 2010: at the Morón Air Base in Seville (Spain), a Eurofighter Typhoon is crashed at the speed of 300 km/h, in which one pilot was illiterate, but the other died.
• 2010: Disc released Teenage Dream Katy Perry.
• 2011: in the United States, Steve Jobs resigns from his position as director of the Apple company.
• 2011: In Peru, an earthquake of magnitude 7 degrees of the Richter scale – with epicenter in the city of Pucallpa – shakes much of the country, leaving 1 dead and 20 wounded.

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

• 2016: is held in the city of Los Angeles (California) Kobe Bryant Day (Kobe Bryant Day) in honor of the former basketball player of the NBA Kobe Bryant.
• 2016: an earthquake in the province of Rieti (Italy) of magnitude 6.2 in the Richter scale causes at least 267 deaths in the center of the country.
• 2016: an earthquake shakes Burma of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter scale.
• 2021: The opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was held.
• 2022: Early in the morning, the king of Morocco Mohamed VI is captured and engraved by roadmen stumbling over the streets of Paris in a supposed state of drunkenness. The state of the monarch generates many reactions on social networks.

Births

• 1113: Godofredo V of Anjou, aristocrat Norman (f. 1151).
• 1198: Alexander II, Scottish king (f. 1249).
• 1358: John I, king of Castilian (f. 1390).
• 1393: Count of Richemont, French aristocrat (f. 1458).
• 1484: Bartolomé de las Casas, dominico español, bishop of Chiapas (Mexico) and defender of the Native Americans (f. 1566).
• 1493: Girolamo Bellarmato, architect, engineer and Italian cartographer (f. 1555).
• 1552: Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (f. 1614).
• 1591: Robert Herrick, British poet (f. 1674).
• 1635: Peder Schumacher, aristocrat Danish (f. 1699).
• 1643: Alfonso VI, Portuguese king (f. 1683).
• 1698: Erik Pontoppidan, theologian and Danish ornithologist (f. 1764).
• 1736: Stanisław Małachowski, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (f. 1809).
• 1750: María Leticia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (f. 1836).
• 1753: Bartolina Sisa, Aymara indigenous heroin, virrein and commander (f. 1782).
• 1758: Sofia Federica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German aristocrat, princess of Denmark and Norway (f. 1794).

William Wilberforce

• 1759: William Wilberforce, politician, philanthropist and British abolitionist (f. 1833).
• 1767: Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth, Swiss politician, artist and scientist (f. 1823).
• 1772: William I, the Dutch king (f. 1843).
• 1776: Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, a mathematician and Polish Mesian philosopher (f. 1853).
• 1780: Bartolomé Salom, Venezuelan military (f. 1863).
• 1786: Felipe Arana, jurisconsulto and politician Argentinian (f. 1865).
• 1787: James Weddell, British Marine (f. 1834).
• 1805: Albrecht Gustav von Manstein, Prussian general (f. 1877).
• 1808: Bartolome Herrera, Peruvian priest (f. 1864).
• 1810: Theodore Parker, American theologian, writer and abolitionist (f. 1860).
• 1815: Bartolomé Calvo, 43rd Colombian President (f. 1889).
• 1816: Merceditas San Martín, Argentinean woman, daughter of General José de San Martín (f. 1875).
• 1821: Catherine Federica of Württemberg, German aristocrat (f. 1898).
• 1826: Marcial del Adalid, Spanish composer (f. 1881).
• 1831: Augustus of Sweden, Swedish prince (f. 1873).
• 1837: Françoise Clément Théodore Dubois, a French musician and composer (f. 1924).
• 1837: Adolf Wilbrandt, playwright and German novelist (f. 1911).
• 1838: Philip of Orleans, Count of Paris (f. 1894).
• 1855: María Teresa de Braganza, archduchess of Austria, Infanta de Portugal (f. 1944).
• 1856: Felix Mottl, Austrian director and composer (f. 1911).
• 1864: Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (f. 1919).
• 1865: Fernando I of Romania, Romanian king (f. 1927).
• 1869: Luis Gutiérrez Ortiz, Mexican military and political (f. 1936).
• 1870: Vladimir Purishkévich, politician, anti-Semite and Russian nationalist (f. 1920).
• 1872: Max Beerbohm, British writer and cartoonist (f. 1956).
• 1876: Florencio Parravicini, an Argentine actor (f. 1941).
• 1876: Nesta Webster, British historian (f. 1960).
• 1881: Vincenzo Lancia, Italian pilot and entrepreneur (f. 1937).
• 1883: Alberto Bonacossa, industrial and Italian sports leader (f. 1953).
• 1889: Moses Simons, director of orchestra, composer and Cuban pianist (f. 1945).
• 1890: Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer, considered the father of modern surfing (f. 1968).

Duke Paoa Kahanamoku

• 1890: Jean Rhys, Caribbean novelist (f. 1979).
• 1895: Arturo Álvarez-Buylla Godino, a Spanish military officer (f. 1937).
• 1895: Victor Halperin, American filmmaker

Jorge Luis Borges

• 1899: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (f. 1986).
• 1899: Ferhat Abbas, politician, nationalist leader and first Algerian president (f. 1985).
• 1899: Albert Claude, French physician and biologist, nobel medical prize in 1974 (f. 1983).
• 1900: Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician, director of the German National Socialist Medical Association (f. 1945).
• 1900: Preston Foster, American singer (f. 1970).
• 1902: Fernand Braudel, French historian (f. 1985).
• 1902: Carlo Gambino, Italian mafioso, head of the Gambino Family (f. 1976).
• 1903: Patricio Escobal, Spanish footballer (f. 2002).
• 1903: Karl Hanke, German politician, last commander of the Nazi SS (f. 1945).
• 1903: Graham Sutherland, British artist (f. 2002).
• 1904: Ramón Castroviejo, Spanish ophthalmologist (f. 1987).
• 1904: Aparicio Méndez, politician and Uruguayan dictator (f. 1988).
• 1904: Alice White, American actress (f. 1983).
• 1905: Siaka Stevens, politician and dictator Sierralles (f. 1988).
• 1905: Arthur Crudup, American blues musician (f. 1974).
• 1906: Ruth Berlau, actress, director, photographer and Danish writer (f. 1974).
• 1911: Michel Pablo, Trotskyist leader of Greek origin (f. 1996).
• 1911: Durward Kirby, American commentator, presenter and humorist (f. 2000).
• 1911: Siegfried Seidl, German Nazi officer, member of the Waffen-SS (f. 1947).
• 1912: Alita Román, an Argentine actress (f. 1989).
• 1913: Malcolm Knowles, American pedagogue (f. 1997).
• 1914: Coralia Fandiño Ricart, Galician woman, of the sisters Las Dos Marías (f. 1983).
• 1915: Angel Magaña, Argentine actor (f. 1982).
• 1915: James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (f. 1987).
• 1916: Amparito Arozamena, Mexican actress (f. 2009).
• 1916: Léo Ferré, pianist and French poet (f. 1993).
• 1918: Avery Dulles, American Cardinal (f. 2008).
• 1919: Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, politician and Ecuadorian president (f. 2004).
• 1919: Benny Moré, Cuban singer (f. 1963).
• 1920: Alex Colville, Canadian painter (f. 2013).
• 1922: Lennart Nilsson, Swedish photographer and scientist (f. 2017).
• 1922: René Lévesque, journalist and Canadian nationalist politician (f. 1987).
• 1922: Howard Zinn, American historian and activist (f. 2010).
• 1922: Ahmadou Ahidjo, politician and first Cameroonian president (f. 1989).
• 1923: Arthur Jensen, American psychologist (f. 2012).
• 1923: Jean-Marc Thibault, French actor and director (f. 2017).
• 1924: Jimmy Gardner, British actor (f. 2010).
• 1927: Harry Markowitz, an American economist, a prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel 1990.
• 1927: David Ireland, Australian novelist (f. 2022).
• 1928: Levkó Lukiánenko, diplomat, activist and Ukrainian politician (f. 2018).
• 1928: Antonio Ozores, actor and Spanish filmmaker (f. 2010).

Yasir Arafat

• 1929: Yasir Arafat, Palestinian leader, Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 (f. 2004).
• 1933: Guillermo Bredeston, Argentine actor (f. 2018).
• 1933: Alberto Olmedo, Argentine humorist (f. 1988).
• 1934: Kenny Baker, British actor, famous for playing robot R2-D2 in Star Wars (f. 2016).
• 1935: Lando Buzzanca, Italian actor and comedian (f. 2022).
• 1937: Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th governor of Nevada (f. 2010).
• 1942: Karen Uhlenbeck, American math.
• 1943: Irma Lozano, Mexican actress (f. 2013).
• 1944: Gregory Jarvis, an American astronaut who died in the Challenger shuttle (f. 1988).
• 1944: Rocky Johnson, American professional fighter.
• 1944: Alberto Segado, Argentine actor (f. 2010).
• 1945: Vince McMahon, an American businessman, a free fighter.
• 1945: Ronee Blakley, American actress, producer and filmmaker.
• 1945: Ken Hensley, British composer.
• 1947: Anne Archer, American actress.
• 1947: Paulo Coelho, Brazilian novelist.
• 1947: Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist, Cycle Champion.
• 1948: Jean-Michel Jarré, interpreter of electronic music and French composer.
• 1948: Sauli Niinistö, Finnish politician, President of Finland since 2012.
• 1948: Alexander McCall Smith, British writer.
• 1950: Tim White, American paleoanthropologist.
• 1951: Orson Scott Card, American writer.
• 1951: Oscar Hijuelos, American writer (f. 2013).
• 1951: Pacho Herrera, Colombian drug dealer (f. 1998).
• 1952: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican poet, musician and activist.
• 1952: Mike Shanahan, American football coach.
• 1952: Gus Van Sant, American filmmaker and producer.
• 1955: Mike Huckabee, American politician.
• 1955: Antonio Valero, Spanish actor.
• 1957: Stephen Fry, comedian and British actor.
• 1958: Steve Guttenberg, American actor.
• 1959: Rodrigo García Barcha, Colombian television director and filmmaker.
• 1960: Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker.
• 1960: Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player.
• 1960: Franz Viehböck, Austrian astronaut.
• 1960: Stephen Wayne Lindsey, American astronaut.
• 1961: Jared Harris, British actor.
• 1962: David Koechner, comedian and American actor.
• 1963: John Bush, American singer, of the Anthrax band.
• 1963: Claudio García, Argentine soccer player.
• 1963: Peter Rufai, Nigerian porter.
• 1963: Hideo Kojima, videogame designer and Japanese filmmaker.
• 1964: Éric Bernard, French Formula 1 pilot.
• 1964: Dana Gould, American comedian and screenwriter.
• 1964: Carlos Hermosillo, Mexican footballer.
• 1965: Marlee Matlin, American actress.
• 1965: Reggie Miller, American basketball player.
• 1965: Pavel Telička, Czech Lobist.
• 1968: Hiroshi_Kitadani Japanese singer.
• 1968: Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional fighter.
• 1968: Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist, from the Sepultura band.
• 1968: James Toney, American boxer.
• 1969: Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor.
• 1969: John Tobias, American programmer.
• 1970: Dan Henderson, American wrestler of mixed martial arts.
• 1971: Amy Spanger, American actress, singer and dancer.
• 1972: Christian Ruud, Norwegian tennis player.
• 1972: Fritz Strobl, Austrian Olympic skier.
• 1973: Inge de Bruijn, a Dutch swimmer.
• 1973: Dave Chappelle, American actor and comedian.
• 1973: Grey DeLisle, American singer.
• 1973: Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor.
• 1973: Barret Oliver, American actor and photographer.
• 1974: Órla Fallon, Irish singer and composer, of the Celtic Woman band.
• 1975: James D'Arcy, British actor.
• 1976: Luna Monti, Argentine folk singer.

Alex O'Loughlin

• 1976: Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor.
• 1976: Nordin Wooter, Dutch footballer.
• 1977: Denilson, Brazilian footballer.
• 1977: Ezequiel Montalt, Spanish actor.
• 1977: Robert Enke, German footballer (f. 2009).
• 1977: John Green, American writer.
• 1977: Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer.
• 1977: Marcos Martínez, an Afro-Agentine actor.
• 1977: Massimo Colomba, Swiss footballer.
• 1978: José Antonio Hermida, Spanish cyclist.
• 1978: Beth Riesgraf, American actress.
• 1979: Kaki King, American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
• 1979: Michael Redd, American basketball player.
• 1980: Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress.
• 1980: Rachael Carpani, Australian actress.
• 1981: Tomás Fonzi, Argentine actor.

Chad Michael Murray

• 1981: Chad Michael Murray, American actor.
• 1981: Jiro Wang, Taiwanese actor.
• 1981: Goran Šukalo, Slovenian footballer.
• 1982: José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer.
• 1982: Kim Källström, Swedish footballer.
• 1983: Martha Higareda, Mexican actress.
• 1984: Yesung (Kim Jong-Woon), Korean singer and dancer, member of the Super Junior group.
• 1984: Miriam Higareda, Mexican actress of telenovelas and films.
• 1984: Lumidee, rapper and American singer.
• 1984: Charlie Villanueva, Dominican-American basketball player.
• 1984: Antonio Longás, Spanish footballer.
• 1985: Hamid Sourian, Iranian fighter.
• 1986: Miguel Samudio, Paraguayan footballer
• 1986: Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer.
• 1986: Fabiano Santacroce, Italian footballer.
• 1987: Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player.
• 1987: Oleksandr Gladki, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1987: Éric Bauthéac, French footballer.
• 1987: Luisa Maria Mayor Luján, Mexican politics.
• 1987: Ri Jun-il, North Korean footballer.
• 1988: Rupert Grint, British actor.
• 1988: Paula Silva, Chilean teacher.
• 1988: Maya Yoshida, Japanese footballer.
• 1989: Rocío Igarzábal, actress, singer and Argentine model.
• 1990: Juan Pedro Peter Lanzani, Argentine actor and singer.
• 1992: Augusto Schuster, Chilean actor and singer.
• 1992: Hans Vanaken, Belgian footballer.
• 1992: Mick van Buren, Dutch footballer.
• 1992: Jemerson, Brazilian footballer.
• 1992: Varazdat Haroyan, Armenian footballer.
• 1993: Maryna Zanevska, a Ukrainian tennis player.
• 1994: Tyler Ennis, Canadian basketball player.
• 1994: Carlos Mario Arango, Colombian lawyer.

Alan Walker

• 1995: Wenwen Han, Chinese actress and violinist.
• 1995: Noah Vonleh, American basketball player.
• 1997: Alan Walker, Norwegian producer and DJ.
• 1997: Szymon Sajnok, Polish cyclist.
• 1997: Karol Robak, Polish taekwondista.
• 1997: Han Hye-ri, South Korean singer and actress.
• 1997: Nicla Mosetti, Italian athlete.
• 1997: Miki Yanagi, Japanese actress and model.
• 1997: Gabi Kanichowsky, an Israeli footballer.
• 1997: Luis Diego Rivas, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1997: Philipp Kellner, Austrian remero.
• 1998: Robin Packalen, Finnish singer.
• 1998: Sofia Richie, American model.
• 1998: Ramón Rodríguez Vázquez, Spanish footballer.
• 1998: Adrian Brzeziński, Polish athlete.
• 2000: Griffin Gluck, American actor.
• 2003: Estanis Pedrola, Spanish footballer.
• 2003: Alyona Kostornaya, an art skater on Russian ice.

Deaths

• 1217: Eustaquio el Monje, French Corsario (n. v. 1170).
• 1347: Gil de Albornoz, Spanish archbishop (n. c. 1310).
• 1540: Parmigianino, Italian painter (n. 1503).
• 1617: Isabel Flores de Oliva (Santa Rosa de Lima), Peruvian religious (n. 1586).
• 1648: Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, a Spanish writer, politician and diplomat (n. 1584).
• 1809: Lorenzo Hervás and Panduro, Spanish encyclopedist, precursor of Comparative Philology (n. 1735).
• 1832: Nicolás Léonard Sadi Carnot, a French scientist and engineer (n. 1796).
• 1835: María del Pilar Melo, aristocrat española (n. 1776).
• 1869: Macedonio Alcalá, Mexican composer (n. 1831).
• 1881: José Ángel Montero, Venezuelan composer (n. 1832).
• 1888: Rudolf Clausius, Prussian physicist (n. 1822).
• 1895: Albert Mummery, alpinist and British economist (n. 1855).
• 1902: Margarita Sofia of Austria, Austrian aristocrat (n. 1870).
• 1922: Concepción Agramonte, patriot of Cuban independence (n. 1834).
• 1925: R. G. Bhandarkar, an Orientalist scholar and an Indian activist (n. 1837).
• 1925: Felix Sesúmaga, Spanish footballer (n. 1898).
• 1927: Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, a Venezuelan modernist writer (n. 1871).
• 1940: Paul Nipkow, German engineer (n. 1860).
• 1943: Simone Weil, a French philosopher and writer (n. 1909).
• 1950: Arturo Alessandri, Chilean president between 1920 and 1925 and between 1932 and 1938 (n. 1868).
• 1954: Getúlio Vargas, general and Brazilian politician (n. 1882).
• 1956: Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese filmmaker (n. 1898).
• 1961: Huaso (ex-Faithful) Chilean horse, champion of the world in high leap (n. 1933).
• 1962: Lillian Albertson, American actress (n. 1881)
• 1966: Lao She, Chinese writer (n. 1899).
• 1978: Louis Prima, American musician (n. 1910).
• 1979: Hanna Reitsch, German shipper (n. 1912).
• 1982: Francisco Vales Villamarín, Spanish historian and professor (n. 1891).
• 1989: Domingo Pérez Minik, Spanish writer (n. 1903).
• 1995: Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photojournalist (n. 1898).
• 1997: Tete Montoliu, pianist and Spanish jazz composer (n. 1933).
• 1998: E. G. Marshall, American actor (n. 1914).
• 1999: Eduardo Endériz, Spanish-Uruguayan footballer (n. 1940).
• 2002: Modesto Ciruelos, Spanish painter (n. 1908).
• 2002: Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Dutch astronomer (n. 1920).
• 2003: Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer and writer (n. 1910).
• 2004: Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, was a Colombian painter and sculptor. (n. 1922).
• 2004: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist and Swiss-American writer (n. 1926).
• 2005: Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer of vallenata music (n. 1984).
• 2005: Ambrogio Fogar, navigator, explorer, writer, television presenter, rally pilot and Italian adventurer (n. 1941).
• 2006: Fernanda de Utrera, Spanish flamenco singer (n. 1923).
• 2007: Aaron Russo, filmmaker and U.S. political activist (n. 1943).
• 2008: José Vicente Grecco, Argentine footballer (n. 1929).
• 2009: Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (n. 1935).
• 2009: Daniel Barret, Uruguayan anarchist sociologist (n. 1952).
• 2010: Sathoshi Kon, Japanese filmmaker (n. 1963).
• 2013: Julie Harris, American actress (n. 1925).
• 2014: Richard Attenborough, British actor and filmmaker (n. 1923).
• 2015: Justin Wilson, British motor racing pilot (n. 1978).
• 2016:
  • Michel Butor, French writer (n. 1926).
  • Roger Y. Tsien, U.S. biochemical, 2008 nobel chemistry award (n. 1952).
  • Victoria Martens, American girl (n. 2006).
  • Walter Scheel, German politician, president of Germany between 1974 and 1979 (n. 1919).
• 2019: Arun Jaitley, Indian lawyer and politician (n. 1952).
• 2020: Jorge Sanjinez Lenz, Peruvian war veteran (n. 1917).
• 2020: Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Congo between 1992 and 1997 (n. 1931).

Charlie Watts

• 2021:
  • Charlie Watts, British drummer and musician (n. 1941).
  • Hissène Habré, Chadian politician, president of Chad between 1982 and 1990 (n. 1942).

Celebrations

• Argentina: Reading Day.
• Bolivia: Fiesta de Ch'utillos takes place in the city of Potosí the parade of folkloric and indigenous dances in honor of St.
• Costa Rica: National Park Day.
• Spain: parties in honor of St. Bartholomew Apostle in various localities:
  • Altorricón (Huesca).
  • Valloria (Soria).
  • San Bartolomé de las Abiertas (Toledo)
  • Ribaforada (Navarra).
  • The Saints (Salamanca)
  • Borja (Zaragoza)
  • Liétor (Albacete).
  • Fiestas del Potein Santa Barbara (Asturias)
  • Folgoso de la Carballeda (Zamora).
  • Trespaderne
  • Alcalá de Henares: The Fairs
  • Casasimarro (Cuenca).
  • Cieza
  • Cimanes del Tejar (Leon)
  • Nieles (Las Alpujarras, Granada).
  • Field Pater
  • San Cristobal de La Laguna
  • Vilasar de Dalt (Barcelona).
  • Molinillo (Salamanca).
  • Villayandre (Leon).
  • Aldeadávila de la Ribera (provincia de Salamanca): Fiestas del Toro (in honor of San Bartolomé).
  • Bimon (Cantabria).
  • Old house (Avila).
  • San Bartolomé de Pinares (Ávila).
  • Cegama (Guipuzcoa).
  • Messia (La Coruña).
  • Sitges (Barcelona).
  • Bohonal de Ibor, Cáceres
  • Tejina (Tenerife): Feasts of Hearts (in honor of St. Bartholomew Apostle).
  • Almagro (Real City): beginning of the Fairs in honor of St. Bartholomew.
  • Zarza Capilla (Badajoz).
  • Mairena del Alcor (Sevilla).
  • Nerva (Huelva).
  • San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria).
  • Sierra de Yeguas (Málaga).
  • Tricio (La Rioja).
• Mexico: annual employers' party in Tenayuca, Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico.
• Ukraine: Independence Day (1991).
• Uruguay: Night of nostalgia on the eve of the Declaration of Independence.
• Uruguay: Payer Day.
• El SalvadorEl Salvador: Mechanical Day.

Catholic saints list

• Bartholomew the Apostle (feast).

Saints

• San Abán.
• San Audoin
• San Agofrido.
• Santa Emilia de Vialar.
• St. Eutychius of Troas.
• St. George Limniotes.
• San Ircardo.
• Santa Juana Thouret.
• Santa Micaela.
• St Patrick the old man.
• San Ptolomeo de Nepi.
• San Romano de Nepi.
• San Sandrato.
• San Taziano de Claudiópolis.

Blessed

• Blessed André Fardeau
• Beato Antonio de Blanes
• Beato Eduardo Kaźmierski
• Beato Eduardo Klinik
• Beato Félix González Tejedor
• Blessed Francisco Kesy
• Beato Fortunato Velasco Tobar
• Beato Isidro Torres Balsells
• Blessed Jarogniew Wojciechowski
• Blessed Luis Almécija Lazaro
• Blessed Mary of the Rosal Incarnation
• Blessed Maximilian Binkiewicz
• Blessed Miroslav Bulešic
• Beato Rigoberto Aquilino de Anta Barrio
• Beata Verónica Antal