December 17

December 17 is the 351st (thirty-fifty-first) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 352nd in leap years. There are 14 days left to end the year.

Events

• 283: In Rome, Cayo, the Diocletian Roman emperor, becomes a pope.
• 384: In Rome, Sirius becomes a Pope.
• 546: In Italy, the ostrogotes of King Totila conquer Rome.
• 942: William I of Normandy is killed.
• 1198: In Rome Pope Inocencio III approves the Rule proper to the Order of the Most Holy Trinity at the request of Saint John of Mata
• 1398: Tamerlan captures Delhi, the capital of the Sultanate of Delhi, the city will be plundered for 8 days; its massacred population, and more than 100,000 prisoners of the battle for the city will be executed..
• 1483: In Mondoñedo is decapitated the Marshal Pardo de Cela.
• 1500: Cristóbal Colón is received by the Catholic Kings, after returning chained from the island of La Española.
• 1531: In Rome, Pope Clement VII, at the request of King João III, authorized the establishment of the inquisition in Portugal.
• 1538: in Rome, Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
• 1577: from Plymouth, Francis Drake takes part in a secret mission to the coast of the American Pacific.
• 1586: Go-Yozei becomes emperor of Japan.
• 1600: Henry IV of France marries Maria de Médici.
• 1637: Rebellion Shimabara: the faithful of Amakusa Shirō face the daimyō Matsukura Shigeharu.
• 1718: War of the Quadruple Alliance: Britain declares war on Spain.
• 1770: In Bonn, Germany, Ludwig van Beethoven is baptized.
• 1771: In San Juan (Puerto Rico) the decree is issued to constitute and establish Cabo Rojo as a municipality of Puerto Rico.
• 1777: France recognizes the Independence of the United States.
• 1790: Under the Zócalo of Mexico City the Stone of the Aztec Sun is discovered.
• 1807: Napoleon Bonaparte issues the decree of Milan to regulate the disposition of his Continental Block.
• 1819: in the village of Angostura (in the present Venezuela), Simon Bolivar proclaims the first Great Colombia, union of the Viceroy of the New Granada and the General Office of Venezuela of 1810.
• 1830: in the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, an old hacienda located in the city of Santa Marta (Colombia), at the age of 47, Simon José Antonio of the Holy Trinity Bolivar Palaces and White, better known as El Libertador Simón Bolívar. Venezuelan military and political, and one of the most outstanding figures of the Emancipation and the Spanish-American Independence Wars in front of the Spanish Empire.
• 1843: Charles Dickens public for the first time his book A Christmas Carol (Christmas story).
• 1843: The French Empire turns the island of Madagascar into its "protected".
• 1903: at Kitty Hawk (North Carolina, United States), the Wright brothers make the first test flight of their first plane (the Wright Flyer).
• 1917: The United States promulgates the Seca Law.
• 1919: Uruguay signs the Buenos Aires Convention on literary and artistic property.
• 1935: the plane Douglas DC-3 make your first flight.
• 1939: in front of Montevideo—in the framework of the Second World War—the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee It is sunk by its captain Hans Langsdorff after the damage suffered at the Battle of the Rio de la Plata.
• 1941: In the Second World War, the Battle of Sevastopol begins.
• 1941: In the Second World War, Japan's imperial forces land in northern Borneo.
• 1946: in Cinco Casas (Spain) a railway accident occurs, with the result of 21 deaths.
• 1946: in Caracas (Venezuela) the Constituent Assembly elected by the people is installed.
• 1961: the Invasion of Goa begins, by which India annexes Goa (invaded by Portugal since the centuryXVII).
• 1954: Colombia creates the special district of Bogotá
• 1961: in the city of Niterói (against Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) there is a fire in the Great American CircusThe greatest tragedy in the circus history.
• 1967: near Portsea (Australia), Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming.
• 1969: The United States Air Force closes the Blue Book Project, research on UFOs.
• 1970: In Poland, the Polish socialist government suffocated workers' manifestations of Gdynia, leaving with dozens of deaths.
• 1973: At Rome-Fiumicino Airport an attack on a Pan American World Airways flight causes 32 deaths.
• 1974: In Santiago de Chile, the Military Board of Government appoints the dictator Augusto Pinochet as the president of Chile.
• 1976: dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is released in Moscow.
• 1978: In Jamaica, Trevor Munroe founded the Workers' Party.
• 1981: In Spain, the Congress of Deputies approves the first Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia.
• 1983: In London, the Provisional IRA explodes a bomb in a Harrods store, killing seven people.
• 1983: In Madrid, Spain, 82 people died in the Alcalá disco fire 20
• 1984: in New York, the Unesco declares the historic centre of Córdoba (Spain) as a World Heritage Site.
• 1986: In Bogotá, Guillermo Cano Isaza, director of the newspaper The Spectator. The murder is attributed to members of the Medellín Cartel.
• 1987: the punk rock band Hüsker Dü is dissolved.
• 1989: In the United States, the Fox chain broadcasts the first episode of the animated series The Simpsons.
• 1989: In Timişoara, Romania, the rebels set fire to the seat of the Romanian Communist Party.
• 1989: Brazil holds the first free elections after 29 years of dictatorship.
• 1995: in Buenos Aires, Vélez Sarsfield beats Independent by 3-0 as a visitor at the Libertadores de América Stadium and is dedicated champion of the 1995 Opening.
• 1996: in Lima, Peru, terrorists of Tupac Amaru take the residence of the Japanese ambassador, and abducted 800 people.
• 1996: In Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, six Red Cross workers are killed.
• 1999: in Venezuela, a series of landslides from Cerro El Ávila produced strong floods and human and material losses in the cities of Caracas, La Guaira and others in the state Vargas.
• 1999: the new Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is adopted through referendum.
• 1999: the Disney classic is released Fantasy 2000 in New York.
• 2001: In Afghanistan the Battle of Tora Bora concludes.
• 2003: Se estrena global The Lord of the Rings: the King's Return, third installment of Peter Jackson's film trilogy, based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.
• 2005: in Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdica of the throne.
• 2007: in Montevideo (Uruguay) the ex-dictator Gregorio Álvarez (82 years old) is convicted for repeated crimes of enforced disappearance, crimes against humanity and anti-constitutional crimes.
• 2010: in Tunisia the young university and street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi burns to the bonzo (26). The Jazmine Revolution begins, which will be the mecha of the Revolution in the Arab world of 2011.
• 2014: Barack Obama announced that the U.S. "gets the anchor of the past" and moderates the blockade on Cuba.
• 2014: In South Carolina (United States), a judge decrees that George Stinney, the youngest in the history of the United States, did not have a fair trial.
• 2015: Estrena Star Wars: Episode VII - The Awakening of Force.
• 2015: Analog signals end in Mexico, giving way to TDT (Television Digital Terrestrial).
• 2015: In Argentina, the Government of Mauricio Macri eliminates the restriction would change, known as the bare, to the value of the US dollar and unifies the exchange rate inherited from the government of Cristina Kirchner
• 2017: in Chile, Sebastián Piñera returns to power after being elected with 54.57 % of the votes validly cast in the second presidential round in front of its contendant Alejandro Guillier.
• 2021: It is premiered globally, Spider-Man: No Way Home, the vigeest UCM film starring Tom Holland, which marks the return of Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire as their respective Spider-Man, after 7 and 14 years of leaving the paper, respectively.
• 2022: In Catar, the third place of the World Cup of Qatar Soccer 2022 was disputed, where the selection of Croatia won the Moroccan team 2 to 1 and thus the third place of the tournament.

Births

• 1239: Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (f. 1256).
• 1267: Go-Uda, Japanese emperor (f. 1324).
• 1554: Ernesto de Baviera, aristocrat German (f. 1612).
• 1563: Diego Pérez de Mesa, a Spanish humanist (f. 1632).
• 1574: Pedro Téllez-Girón and Velasco, aristocrat, politician and Spanish military (f. 1624).
• 1607: Pacecco de Rosa, Italian painter (f. 1656).
• 1616: Roger L'Estrange, British writer (f. 1704).
• 1619: Rupert of the Rhine, military and British admiral (f. 1682).
• 1638: Ana Sofia de Hesse-Darmstadt, aristocrat and German religious (f. 1683).
• 1642: Francis of Jerome, religious and holy Italian (f. 1716).
• 1642: Francisco Castillo Fajardo, Spanish general (f. 1716).
• 1701: Ignatius of Laconi, Italian priest and saint (f. 1781).
• 1706: Émilie du Châtelet, math and French physics (f. 1749).
• 1734: Mary I, Portuguese queen (f. 1816).
• 1749: Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (f. 1801).
• 1768: Johann Philipp Palm, a freer and a German hero (f. 1806).
• 1770: (baptized) Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (f. 1827).
• 1777: François Marius Granet, French painter (f. 1849).
• 1778: Humphry Davy, a British chemical (f. 1829).
• 1785: José Lázaro de la Garza y Ballesteros, Mexican bishop, 27th Archbishop of Mexico (f. 1862).
• 1787: Jan Evangelista Purkyně, anatomist, physiologist, Czech botanist (f. 1869).
• 1797: Tomasz-Franciszek Bartmański, a Polish military engineer and traveler (f. 1880).
• 1797: Joseph Henry, American physicist (f. 1878).
• 1799: Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, entomologist and German physician (f. 1874).
• 1807: John Greenleaf Whittier American writer (f. 1892).
• 1810: Francisco Serrano and Domínguez, a Spanish military and politician (f. 1885).
• 1819: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African President (f. 1901).
• 1824: John Kerr, Scottish physicist (f. 1907).
• 1825: Thomas Woolner, British sculptor and poet (f. 1892).
• 1828: Leonor Pérez Cabrera, Cuban woman, mother of José Martí (f. 1907).
• 1830: Jules de Goncourt, French writer (f. 1870).
• 1830: Lazaro Garza Ayala, lawyer, military and Mexican politician (f. 1913).
• 1835: Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist (f. 1910).
• 1838: Angelo Mariani, an Italian-French chemist (f. 1914).
• 1840: Nozu Michitsura, Japanese military (f. 1908).
• 1842: Ernest Lavisse, French historian (f. 1908).
• 1842: Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (f. 1899).
• 1847: Émile Faguet, French literate (f. 1916).
• 1848: William Wynn Westcott, British physician and occultist, co-founder of the Golden Dawn (f. 1925).
• 1851: Friedrich Otto Schott, German chemist (f. 1935).
• 1852: Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor and theatre director (f. 1917).
• 1853: Émile Roux, a French doctor (f. 1933).
• 1859: Paul César Helleu, a French painter (f. 1927).
• 1861: Arthur Edwin Kennelly, American electrical engineer (f. 1939).
• 1862: Guillermo Barros Jaraquemada, Chilean politician (f. 1943).
• 1862: Moriz Rosenthal, Polish pianist (f. 1946).
• 1863: Henri Padé, French mathematician (f. 1953).
• 1866: Mario García Menocal, Cuban president (f. 1941).
• 1866: Kazys Grinius, Lithuanian President (f. 1950).
• 1866: István Tömörkény, Hungarian writer and archaeologist (f. 1917).
• 1872: Jesús Valdés Sánchez, a Mexican doctor and politician (f. 1959).
• 1873: Ford Madox Ford, British novelist (f. 1939).
• 1874: William Lyon Mackenzie King, lawyer, politician and Canadian prime minister (f. 1950).
• 1876: Afrânio Peixoto, a Brazilian doctor and literate (f. 1947).
• 1885: Alphonse Barbé, French anarchist (f. 1983).
• 1887: Herminia von Schoenaich, Prussian queen (f. 1947).
• 1888: Alexander I, the Yugoslav king (f. 1934).
• 1888: Pedro Barrié de la Maza, a Spanish banker and businessman (f. 1971).
• 1890: Joaquín de Prussia, aristocrat Prussian (f. 1920).
• 1892: Sam Barry, American coach (f. 1950).
• 1892: Hu Shih, Chinese intellectual (f. 1962).
• 1893: Erwin Piscator, German filmmaker (f. 1966).
• 1894: David Butler, American filmmaker (f. 1979).
• 1894: Arthur Fiedler, American musician (f. 1979).
• 1895: Angel Casal, editor and Spanish politician (f. 1936).
• 1895: Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis player (f. 1967).
• 1896: Ralph O'Neill, Mexican-American General (f. 1980).
• 1897: Władysław Broniewski, a Polish soldier and poet (f. 1962).
• 1900: Mary Lucy Cartwright, British mathematics (f. 1998).
• 1900: Manuel Larraín Errázuriz, Chilean bishop (f. 1966).
• 1900: Isidro Parga Pondal, Spanish geologist (f. 1986).
• 1900: Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (f. 1973).
• 1902: Raúl Caballero Aburto, Mexican politician (f. 1977).
• 1902: Miguel Angel Espino, journalist and Salvadoran writer (f. 1967).
• 1903: Erskine Caldwell, American novelist (f. 1987).
• 1903: Ray Noble, British musician (f. 1978).
• 1904: Paul Cadmus, American artist (f. 1999).
• 1905: Simo Häyhä, Finnish military (f. 2002).
• 1905: Érico Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (f. 1975).
• 1906: Bede Griffiths, British mystic (f. 1993).
• 1906: Enzo Doméstico Kabregu, painter italo-uruguayo (f. 1971).
• 1908: Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960 (f. 1980).
• 1910: Spade Cooley, American musician (f. 1969).
• 1910: Sy Oliver, American musician (f. 1988).
• 1910: Manuel Vázquez Sagastizabal, a Spanish Francoist aviator (f. 1939).
• 1910: Jean Maitron, French historian (f. 1987).
• 1913: Alicia Lourteig, Argentine botany (f. 2003).
• 1914: Raymond Fernández, American criminal (f. 1951).
• 1915: André Claveau, French singer (f. 2003).
• 1915: Robert A. Dahl, American polytologist (f. 2014).
• 1916: Penelope Fitzgerald, British writer (f. 2000).
• 1919: Ezekiel Mphahlele, a South African writer (f. 2008).
• 1920: Kenneth Iverson, American mathematician (f. 2004).
• 1922: Mario Rigamonti, Italian footballer (f. 1949).
• 1923: Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (f. 2006).
• 1923: Jürgen Ponto, German banker (f. 1977).
• 1923: Nina Ulianenko, Soviet Military Aircraft and Heroin of the Soviet Union (f. 2005)
• 1925: José Rivera Ramírez, Spanish priest (f. 1991).
• 1926: José Lutzenberger, Brazilian environmentalist (f. 2002).
• 1927: Antonio Fernández Alba, Spanish architect.
• 1930: Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor.
• 1932: Luis Tasca, an Argentine actor (f. 1996).
• 1936: Francis, Pope of Rome since 2013.
• 1936: Klaus Kinkel, German politician (f. 2019).
• 1937: Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor and director (f. 2007).
• 1937: John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (f. 1969).
• 1937: Jaime Lerner, a Brazilian urbanist and politician (f. 2021).
• 1938: Peter Snell, a New Zealand athlete (f. 2019).
• 1938: Cayetano Utrera Ravassa, Spanish politician (f. 2012).
• 1939: José Balza, a Venezuelan writer.
• 1940: Alicia Muñoz, writer, screenwriter and Argentine playwright.
• 1940: Edika, Egyptian-French hysterist.
• 1940: María Elena Velasco ("La India María"), Mexican actress (f. 2015).
• 1941: Thelma Biral, an Argentine actress.
• 1942: Juan de Dios Román, Spanish basketball coach and director (f. 2020).
• 1942: Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian president.
• 1942: Paul Butterfield, American musician (f. 1987).
• 1943: Bert Hawthorne, a New Zealand motor racing pilot (f. 1972).
• 1943: Pak Doo-ik, North Korean player.
• 1944: Bernard Hill, British actor.
• 1944: Enrique Porta, Spanish footballer.
• 1945: Daniel Gutiérrez, Uruguayan magistrate.
• 1945: Ernie Hudson, American actor.
• 1945: Chris Matthews, American presenter.
• 1946: Eugene Levy, Canadian actor.
• 1947: Mikola Azárov, Ukrainian Prime Minister.
• 1947: Robert Dornhelm, Romanian filmmaker.
• 1947: Wes Studi, American actor.
• 1948: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Turkish politician.
• 1948: Carlos Melero, Spanish cyclist.
• 1949: Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer.
• 1949: Paul Rodgers, British singer, of the Free and Bad Company bands.
• 1950: Oscar Fabbiani, Chilean-Argentine footballer.
• 1951: Jaume Bosch i Pugès, Spanish politician.
• 1951: Tatiana Kazankina, Russian athlete.
• 1951: Curro Rivera, Mexican bullfighter.
• 1952: Silvia Fernández Barrio, an Argentine journalist.
• 1952: René Simões, Brazilian football coach.
• 1953: Aleksandr Beliavski, Ukrainian chess player.
• 1953: Sally Menke, American Film Rider (f. 2010).
• 1953: Bill Pullman, American actor.
• 1954: Pichi Alonso, Spanish footballer.
• 1954: Tucho Calvo, a Spanish journalist and writer.
• 1954: Amado Carrillo, Mexican drug dealer (f. 1997).
• 1955: Brad Davis, American basketball player.
• 1956: Peter Farrelly, American producer and filmmaker.
• 1956: Ronald Melzer, critic and producer of Uruguayan cinema (f. 2013).
• 1957: Andrés Mignucci, Puerto Rican architect.
• 1957: Pino Palladino, British bassist.
• 1957: Patricio Patrón Laviada, Mexican politician.
• 1958: Mike Mills, American musician, of the REM band.
• 1959: Gregg Araki, director of American cinema.
• 1959: Albert King, American basketball player.
• 1960: Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist.
• 1960: Abdellatif Kechiche, filmmaker franco-tunecino.
• 1960: Pilar González España, Spanish poet.
• 1961: Sarah Dallin, British composer.
• 1961: Inés Fernández-Ordóñez, a Spanish philosopher and academic.
• 1962: Ari Folman, Israeli filmmaker.
• 1963: Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Icelandic writer.
• 1964: Iñaki Badiola, Spanish entrepreneur.
• 1964: Iñigo Muguruza, Spanish musician.
• 1964: Rogelio Rueda Sánchez, Mexican politician.
• 1964: Joe Wolf, American basketball player.
• 1966: Yūko Arimori, Japanese athlete.
• 1967: Gigi D'Agostino, DJ and Italian producer.
• 1968: Almendra Gomelsky, Argentine television presenter.
• 1968: Claudio Suárez, Mexican footballer.
• 1968: Paul Tracy, a Canadian racer.
• 1969: Laurie Holden, American actress.
• 1969: Elías Jaua, politician and Venezuelan sociologist.
• 1969: Chuck Liddell, American fighter.
• 1969: Mick Quinn, British musician.
• 1969: Michael V., Filipino actor and singer.
• 1970: Michael Mols, Dutch footballer.
• 1970: Pavel Padrnos, Czech cyclist.
• 1970: Stella Tennant, British model.
• 1970: Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor.
• 1971: Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player.
• 1972: John Abraham, Indian actor.
• 1972: David Belenguer, Spanish porter.

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• 1972: Ivan Pedroso, Cuban athlete.
• 1973: Martha Érika Alonso, Mexican policy (f. 2018).
• 1973: Paula Radcliffe, British athlete.
• 1974: Marilia Andrés Casares, Spanish singer, of the band Ella Baila Sola.
• 1974: Giovanni Ribisi, American actor.
• 1974: Sarah Paulson, American actress.
• 1975: Nick Dinsmore, American fighter.
• 1975: Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress and model.

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• 1976: Nir Davidovich, Israeli doorman.
• 1976: Marina Anna Eich, German actress.
• 1976: Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer.
• 1977: Ramiro Amarelle, Spanish footballer.
• 1977: Maria Brink, American rock singer.
• 1977: Arnaud Clément, French tennis player.
• 1977: Oksana Fiódorova, Russian model.
• 1977: Liédson, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer.
• 1977: Katheryn Winnick, Canadian actress
• 1978: Alex Cintron, Puerto Rican baseball player.
• 1978: Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer.
• 1978: Chase Utley, American baseball player.
• 1978: Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer of the Three Days Grace band.
• 1979: Ryan Key, American vocalist and guitarist, from the Yellowcard band.
• 1979: Toño Martínez, Spanish footballer.
• 1980: Sebastian Beccacece, professional football coach.
• 1980: Ryan Hunter-Reay, American motor racing pilot.
• 1981: Tremmell Darden, American basketball player.
• 1981: Tim Wiese, German footballer.
• 1982: Benjamin Goldwasser, American musician, of the MGMT band.
• 1982: Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player.
• 1982: Boubacar Sanogo, Ivory footballer.
• 1983: Chidi Odiah, Nigerian footballer.
• 1983: Sébastien Ogier, a French rally driver.
• 1984: Christof Innerhofer, Italian skier.
• 1985: Martin Ricca, Argentine actor and singer.
• 1985: Łukasz Broź, Polish footballer.
• 1986: Emma Bell, American actress.
• 1986: Besart Ibraimi, Macedonian footballer.
• 1987: Chelsea Manning, transgender woman, soldier and American intelligence analyst.
• 1988: David Rudisha, Kenyan athlete.
• 1989: André Ayew, Franco-Ghana footballer.
• 1989: Taylor York, American guitarist, from the Paramore band.
• 1990: Abderrazak Hamdallah, Moroccan footballer.
• 1990: John Rooney, British footballer.
• 1991: Lee Jae Jin, South Korean singer, F. T. Island.
• 1993: Buddy Hield, Bahamian basketball player.
• 1994: Jackie Groenen, Dutch footballer.
• 1994: Sirgėdas, Lithuanian footballer.
• 1996: Olivier Thill, Luxembourg footballer.
• 1998: Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer.
• 2001: Ez Abde, Moroccan-Spanish footballer.
• 2007: Jacobo Mountbatten-Windsor, a member of the British Royal Family.

Deaths

• 942: William I, aristocrat Norman (n. c. 893).
• 1187: Gregory VIII, Catholic Pope in 1187 (n. c. 1100).
• 1195: Balduino V de Hainaut, aristocrat flamenco (n. 1150).
• 1213: Saint John of Mata, a French religious and founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity (n. 1150).
• 1273: Yalalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet (n. 1207).
• 1621: Roberto Belarmino, Jesuit and Italian Cardinal (n. 1542).
• 1813: Antoine Parmentier, French acronym (n. 1737).
• 1830: Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan military and political (n. 1783).
• 1847: Maria Luisa of Austria, French Empress (n. 1791).
• 1870: Saverio Mercadante, composer of operas, Italian (n. 1795).
• 1881: Lewis Henry Morgan, lawyer, anthropologist, ethnologist and American writer (n. 1818).
• 1887: Nazario Toledo, Guatemalan doctor (n. 1807).
• 1891: José María Iglesias, Mexican politician (n. 1823).
• 1896: Tomás Gallo Goyenechea, a Chilean businessman and politician (n. 1822).
• 1901: José María Múzquiz, a Mexican lawyer and politician (n. 1842).
• 1901: Josep Manyanet and Vives, a Spanish priest and educator (n. 1833).
• 1902: Martin Tovar and Tovar, Venezuelan painter and portraitist (n. 1827).
• 1907: Lord Kelvin, British physicist and mathematician (n. 1824).
• 1909: Leopoldo II, Belgian king and genocidal, responsible for the Congolese genocide: between 8 and 15 million people (n. 1835).
• 1910: Rafael Barret, a Spanish-Paraguayan writer and anarchist (n. 1876).
• 1917: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, British doctor (n. 1836).
• 1927: Hubert Harrison, American activist and freethinker (n. 1883).
• 1933: Thubten Gyatso, religious dalái lama and former Nepalese (n. 1876).
• 1935: Juan Vicente Gómez, militar, politician and Venezuelan president (1908-1913, 1922-1929 and 1931-1935) (n. 1857).
• 1944: Carlos Concha Cárdenas, a Peruvian politician (n. 1888).
• 1947: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemical and physical (n. 1879).
• 1957: Dorothy L. Sayers, a British writer (n. 1893).
• 1962: Thomas Mitchell, American actor (n. 1892).
• 1964: Victor Franz Hess, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 (n. 1883).
• 1965: María Teresa Vera, singer, composer and Cuban guitarist (n. 1895).
• 1974: Luis Almarcha Hernández, politician and Spanish clergy (n. 1885).
• 1978: María del Rio, Argentine actress (n. 1917).
• 1978: Don Ellis, trumpetist and composer of American big band (n. 1934).
• 1982: Leonid Kogan, Soviet violinist (n. 1924).
• 1986: Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist (n. 1925).
• 1987: Marguerite Yourcenar, French writer and translator (n. 1903).
• 1987: Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch Cardinal (n. 1900).
• 1992: Dana Andrews, American actor (n. 1909).
• 1997: Ana Orantes, victim of gender-based violence
• 1999: Rex Allen, American actor and singer (n. 1920).
• 1999: Chela Ruiz, Argentine actress (n. 1921).
• 2001: Martha Mödl, German soprano (n. 1912)
• 2004: Dietrich Schwanitz, philologist, professor and German writer (n. 1940).
• 2006: Luis García-San Miguel, Spanish jurist (n. 1929).
• 2008: Luis Félix López, Ecuadorian writer and politician (n. 1932).
• 2008: Héctor Malamud, Argentine actor (n. 1943).
• 2009: Albert Ràfols-Casamada, Spanish painter and writer (n. 1923).
• 2010: Captain Beefheart, American painter and musician (n. 1941).
• 2010: Eugenio Heiremans, a businessman and a Chilean union leader (n. 1923).
• 2010: María Jesús San Segundo, Spanish politics (n. 1958).
• 2010: Mikhail Umansky, Russian chess player (n. 1952).
• 2011: Kim Jong-il, North Korean military and political, the supreme leader of North Korea between 1994 and 2011 (n. 1942).
• 2012: Daniel Inouye, American military and political (n. 1924).
• 2014: Maurice Duverger, French scholar and jurist (n. 1917).
• 2018: Penny Marshall, American actress and producer (n. 1943).
• 2020: Pierre Buyoya, Burundian military and political, president of Burundi between 1987-1993 and 1996-2003 (n. 1949).
• 2020: Hennadiy Kernes, Ukrainian businessman and politician (n. 1959).
• 2021: José Pablo Feinmann, philosopher, historian, journalist, Argentine writer (n. 1943).

Celebrations

• International Day for the End of Violence against Sexual Workers

• BaréinBaréin: Day of Accession
• BhutanBhutan: National Day
• Argentina: Public Accounting Day

Catholic saints list

• St Modest of Jerusalem, Bishop (634).
• holy fifty soldiers of Eleuteropolis (638).
• St. Judicael of Brittany (c. 650).
• Saint Bega of Andenne, widow (693).
• St. Sturmium of Fulda, Abbot (779).
• Saint Christopher of Collesano, monk (s. XI).
• Saint Vivina of Brussels, Abbey (1170).
• Saint John of Mata, priest (1213).
• beato José Manyanet y Vives, presbyter (1901).
• Beato Jacinto Cormier, priest (1916).