Feb. 10

The February 10 is the 41.ᵉʳ (forty-first) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days left to end the year and 325 in leap years.

Events

• 60: Paul of Tarsus travels to Rome, but shipwreck in Malta. He stays there for three months and converts the Roman governor Publio. Although the party is celebrated this day, the exact date of the event is not known.
• 1258: In the present Iraq, after a harsh battle, Baghdad surrenders to the Mongols, ending the Abbasid Caliphate.
• 1306: In front of the great altar of the Greyfriars church, in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn; the wars of independence of Scotland begin.
• 1355: In Oxford (England) the St. Scholastic Day Motin explodes, leaving 63 academics and 30 civilians killed in two days.
• 1519: From the island of Cuba, Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado leave for Mexico with an expedition of 600 men under the orders of Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (governor of Cuba).
• 1542: In London, Queen Catherine Howard is confined to the Tower of London for the charge of adultery; it will be executed three days later.
• 1567: in Edinburgh, Scotland, Henry Stuart, the second husband of Mary, the queen of the Scots, is found strangled after an explosion.
• 1622: in Madrid, the king fined 3000 ducats to the Marquess of Cañete and the exiles of the city for having whipped some servants.
• 1673: in Paris, Molière estrena The imaginary sick.
• 1720: In England, King George I named Edmund Halley his royal astronomer.
• 1763: In Paris the Treaty of Paris is signed, which puts an end to the Seven Years War and in which France and Spain suffer colonial losses in favor of England.
• 1781: In the Villa Real de San Felipe de Austria (Oruro) there is one of the first libertarian shouts of Latin America, against the Spanish crown, revolt led by the Sebastián Pagador leader.
• 1798: Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome. It will be proclaimed by the Roman Republic on 15 February and will take Pope Pius VI prisoner on 16 February.
• 1805: In Spain, the king suppresses bullfighting by decree.
• 1810: King Joseph Bonaparte (imposed by his brother Napoleon Bonaparte) separates Catalonia from the kingdom of Spain under the protectorate of France.
• 1814: In the framework of the Napoleonic Wars, the battle of Champaubert is waged.
• 1821: Mexico produces the Abrazo de Acatempan between Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero, which seals the peace between the virreinal troops and the insurgents.
• 1846: In India, the battle of Sobraon is waged in the context of the First Anglo-Sij War.
• 1862: France, Spain and the United Kingdom signed with Mexican President Benito Juárez the Treaties of La Soledad, for which the military action of the three powers in Mexico is suspended.
• 1863: In the province of Corrientes, Argentina, the village of Alvear is founded.
• 1863: In New York the famous dwarfs Lavinia Warren and General Tom Thumb are married.
• 1870: In New York the YWCA was founded.
• 1874: On the Atlantic coast of the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) the villa of Mar del Plata is founded.
• 1906: in Great Britain the Dreadnoughtthat at that time was the greatest battle in the world.
• 1910: In Spain, José Canalejas holds for the first time the presidency of the Council of Ministers.
• 1910: The car service between Cariñena, Huesca and Fraga is inaugurated in Spain.
• 1912: In Argentina, Law No. 8871 of Secret, Universal and Compulsory Voting, known as Law Sáenz Peña.
• 1914: In Ecuador, the government forces took over the people of Esmeraldas, who had joined the revolt in favor of Colonel Carlos Concha Torres.
• 1915: in Germany—in the framework of World War I—the daily ration of bread per person is 225 g.
• 1915: The U.S. government declares that any attack on a U.S. boat will be regarded as an attack on its neutrality.
• 1918: In Germany, the company of Hugo Junkers patents a low wing monoplane.
• 1920: in the north of Schleswig-Holstein, 75% of the population votes for their membership in Denmark.
• 1921: in Spain the reopening of the Spanish Courts occurs after the change of government.
• 1923: in Sofia (the capital of Bulgaria), a fire completely destroys the National Theatre.
• 1925: in Bilbao, the Credit Bank and the Mining Union announce the suspension of payments.
• 1926: Ramon Franco, at the command of the Plus Ultra, crosses the South Atlantic for the first time.
• 1929: in Spain the first day of the first Spanish League of Football is disputed.
• 1930: in Spain, General Miguel Primo de Rivera leaves the country.
• 1930: In the Vatican City, the new Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (who will later be Pope Pius XII).
• 1930: At the Metropolitan Theatre of Madrid (Spain) the Black American singer and dancer Joséphine Baker acts.
• 1931: In India, the city of New Delhi becomes the capital.
• 1932: In the Vatican City, Pope Pius XI receives the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his ascension to power.
• 1933: in New York's Madison Square Garden, the boxer Primo Carnera knocks on Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
• 1933: in Sportpalast (in Berlin) the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler—10 days after becoming Reichskanzler (January 30)— makes a speech.
• 1938: In Romania the dictatorship of King Karol II began.
• 1939: in Catalonia, the Francoist troops occupy the whole region (except the village of Llívia) and control the French border.
• 1939: Juan Negrín returns from France to Alicante (Spain) to continue the resistance against the Franco dictatorship.
• 1940: The Government of the Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from East Poland to Siberia.
• 1940: Tom and Jerry make their first appearance in Puss gets the boot. However, in the short of The Midnight Snack they already adopt their current names.
• 1942: A Pacific Allied War Council is established in the United States.
• 1942: In India, pacifist leader Mahatma Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest his arrest.
• 1943: In the Soviet Union—in the framework of the Second World War—the Red Army launches the Polar Star Operation with the aim of definitively lifting the Leningrad site and destroying the German North Army Group. That same day the battle of Krasni Bor was waged.
• 1944: In Ankara the secret negotiations between Great Britain and Turkey are interrupted.
• 1945: in the bay of Gdansk, a torpedoed Soviet submarine and hollows the Nazi ship SS General von Steuben4500 Germans die.
• 1947: The Soviet Union incorporates Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1949: In Ireland, unionists get the majority in parliamentary elections.
• 1949: at the Morosco Theatre in New York (United States), Elia Kazan is the work of Arthur Miller Death of a traveler.
• 1951: in Paris, French writer Marguerite Yourcenar publishes her historical novel Memories of Adriano.
• 1953: A three-year Constitution is enacted in Egypt.
• 1953: In Spain, the provisions of the 1930 regulations concerning the weight, age and defences of lidia bulls are restored.
• 1953: Egypt and West Germany break their economic negotiations, because of Egypt ' s contacts with the German Democratic Republic.
• 1954: In the United States, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns of the possible intervention in Indochina, because of the siege to which the French troops are subjected besieged in Dien Bien Phu.
• 1954: The liberation of prisoners from the Blue Division is managed in the Soviet Union.
• 1956: In Spain, in view of the serious university conflicts promoted by socialists and communists, the Government decrees the state of emergency throughout the country.
• 1956: in Spain a decree was issued establishing the Houses of Culture.
• 1958: In Ifni, the Spanish army launched an offensive to expel the Moroccan Liberation Army.
• 1958: in Guatemala, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes is elected president by second ballot.
• 1958: the conversion of the Spanish currency into Moroccan francs begins in Morocco; 10 francs are equivalent to 1 peseta.
• 1959: in Honduras the military coup failed.
• 1963: in Paraguay, General Alfredo Stroessner is re-elected president in fraudulent elections.
• 1965: Spain prepares an edition of Quixote illustrated by Salvador Dalí.
• 1966: in Spain, the Royal Spanish Academy accepts new vocablos, such as alunizar, audiovisual and historicalism.
• 1967: the first vertical takeoff transport plane in the world, the Dornier Do 31-E 1Make your first flight.
• 1968: In New York the strike of the 10-day garbage collection service ends.
• 1968: Boeing's 737-100 commercial plane model is introduced for the first time with Lufthansa
• 1970: in France an alud reaches the winter sports center of Val d'Isère and causes 39 dead.
• 1970: In Spain, the Franco dictatorship buys 30 Mirage III planes.
• 1975: in Buenos Aires, the government of Isabel Perón decides that the army intervenes against the guerrillas.
• 1976: Miguel Enrique Martinez Cotto was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1979: Hundreds of people die in Bolivia after catastrophic floods.
• 1980: Adolfo Suárez, Spanish President, begins a trip to Iraq and Jordan to discuss Spanish-Arab oil and economic relations.
• 1981: In Luxembourg, Anwar el-Sadat (President of Egypt) addressed the Parliament of the European Economic Community (now the European Union).
• 1981: in Spain, King Juan Carlos I ordered Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo to form a new cabinet.
• 1982: Spain approves the regulations governing the functioning of the Spanish Congress.
• 1985: In South Africa, Black movement leader Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, renounces the freedom offered by the White Government if he abandons the armed struggle.
• 1985: In Syria, Hafez al-Asad is re-elected president for seven more years.
• 1986: in Palermo, Italy, the process against the Mafia is initiated.
• 1987: in Spain, a hundred thousand teachers from private centers strike, affecting two and a half million students.
• 1988: NATO accepts the model proposed by the Spanish Government to cooperate in defending the territory of the Alliance.
• 1989: in Jamaica, Social-Democratic Michael Manley gains wide margin in the elections.
• 1990: In South Africa, President Frederik of Klerk announced that Black leader Nelson Mandela will be released the next day.
• 1990: Volkswagen obtains the award of the Czechoslovak factories of Škoda.
• 1991: Lithuania holds a popular referendum—which Russia's President Mikhail Gorbachev declared illegal—in which 90.47 percent of the population votes in favour of independence from Russia.
• 1992: In Germany, an airlift is organized from Frankfurt to send aid to the former Soviet republics in which many Western European states and the United States intervene.
• 1993: in Spain, Mario Conde agrees with the US bank J. P. Morgan the expansion of capital of Banesto.
• 1994: Brazil, Portugal and five African nations constitute the Portuguese Language Community in Brasilia.
• 1995: As part of the Cenepa war, the Ecuadorean Air Force dropped two Peruvian Air Force aircraft in the third air combat in South America.
• 1996: In the United States, IBM Deep Blue Supercomputer first defeats Garry Kasparov (World Chess Champion).
• 1997: in Madrid, the terrorist group ETA murders the Supreme Court magistrate, Rafael Martínez, and in Granada the civil barber of the military base of Armilla, Domingo Puente Marín.
• 1998: From the U.S. Embassy in Japan, it is reported that Washington will respect the Olympic Truce requested by the hosts of the Winter Olympic Games, before an eventual attack on Iraq.
• 1998: In France, the National Assembly approved the 35-hour workweek project presented by the government of the Socialist Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin.
• 1998: In Guatemala, the first execution of lethal injection has been carried out since a law of 1966 left the firing squad, Manuel Martínez Coronado is executed.
• 1998: In the state of Maine (United States), voters reject the law on LGBT rights passed in 1997, becoming the first state of that country to abandon that law.
• 1998: in Argentina, President Carlos Menem signed the concession of 33 national airports for a period of 30 years to the consortium Airports Argentina 2000.
• 1998: In China, two paleontologist teams find signs of ancient marine animals and embryos perfectly preserved in fossil deposits.
• 1998: Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin released his fourth studio album to the market Come back..
• 1999: In Syria, Hafez al-Asad is re-elected as president.
• 2001: U.S. Nuclear Submarine USS Greeneville, by mistake, crashes into the Japanese school ship Ehime Maru
• 2002: in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, they murder Ramon Arellano Félix, former leader of the criminal organization Cártel de Tijuana in an armed confrontation with the ministerial police of that city.^{[chuckles]required]}
• 2003: Germany, Belgium and France block the U.S. request to NATO to plan the eventual military defense of Turkey, a border country with Iraq.
• 2004: north of Bordeaux, France, the police arrest two officers of the ETA logistics apparatus.
• 2004: In the Arab Emirates, 35 people die in an air accident.
• 2004: The College Dropout debut album by American rapper Kanye West
• 2005: In Gaza, the Palestinian organization Hamas breaks the truce agreed two days earlier in Egypt by Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and launches 50 missiles against Jewish settlements.
• 2005: In England, Prince Charles of Wales announced his wedding with Camila Parker.
• 2006: In Rabat, 100,000 Muslims manifest themselves against the spread of Mohammed's caricatures in the European press.
• 2007: In Santiago de Chile, the Transantiago public transport plan is launched.
• 2009: in the space on Siberia (Russia), communications satellites are in orbit Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251. Both are destroyed, generating a lot of space trash.
• 2011: Ray Allen passes to the history of the NBA by getting his triple 2561, thus surpassing Reggie Miller and becoming the most triple player he made in the history of the NBA.
• 2013: in Prayagraj (India), a stool occurs during the Hindu festival Kumbha Mela, which brings together hundreds of thousands of people on the banks of the sacred river Ganges. Leave a balance of 36 dead and 39 wounded.
• 2021: In Argentina, in a dark day, the two million cases of COVID-19 are exceeded.
• 2021: Queen + Adam Lambert announces the new dates of the tour "The Rhapsody Tour"proposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Births

• 1606: Cristina de France, French aristocrat (f. 1663).
• 1609: John Suckling, English poet (f. 1642).
• 1696: Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and German composer (f. 1765).
• 1775: Charles Lamb, British writer (f. 1834).
• 1766: Benjamin Smith Barton, American physician and botanist (f. 1815).
• 1767: Luis Daoíz, Spanish military (f. 1808).
• 1773: Francisco Tadeo Calomarde, Spanish politician (f. 1842).
• 1785: Claude-Louis Navier, French engineer and scientist (f. 1836).
• 1795: Ary Scheffer, French painter (f. 1858).
• 1818: Guillermo Prieto, Mexican writer (f. 1897).
• 1824: Eugenio Lucas, a Spanish painter (f. 1919).
• 1846: Ira Remsen, American chemical (f. 1927).
• 1859: Alexandre Millerand, French politician, 12th president of his country (f. 1943).
• 1860: Valère Bernard, poet, sculptor and French engraver. (f. 1936)
• 1864: Karl Pohlig, director of German orchestra and musician (f. 1928).
• 1875: Gaston-Henri Billotte, French military (f. 1940).
• 1879: Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (f. 1932)
• 1881: Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and filmmaker (f. 1954).
• 1886: Luis Aguirre Benavides, Mexican military (f. 1976).
• 1886: Guillermo García Aragón, Mexican military (f.?).
• 1888: Giuseppe Ungaretti, soldier, journalist, scholar and Egyptian-Italian poet (f. 1970).
• 1890: Fanny Kaplan, a Russian revolutionary activist (f. 1918).
• 1890: The Girl of the Peines, Spanish flamenco singer (f. 1969).
• 1890: Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 (f. 1960).
• 1891: Tomás Borrás Spanish writer and journalist (f. 1976).
• 1891: Juan Guillermo Villasana, Mexican aviator (f. 1959).
• 1893: Jimmy During, American actor (f. 1980).
• 1893: Bill Tilden, American tennis player (f. 1953).
• 1894: Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister (f. 1986).
• 1897: Judith Anderson, American actress (f. 1992).
• 1897: John Franklin Enders, American scientist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1954 (f. 1985).
• 1898: Bertolt Brecht, playwright and German writer (f. 1956).
• 1898: Joseph Kessel, adventurer, journalist and French novelist (f. 1979).
• 1901: Stella Adler, American actress (f. 1992).
• 1902: Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 (f. 1987).
• 1903: Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (f. 1939).
• 1904: John Farrow, director, screenwriter and Australian film producer (f. 1963).
• 1905: Walter A. Brown, American businessman (f. 1964).
• 1905: José Muñoz Molleda, Spanish musician (f. 1988).
• 1905: Chick Webb, director of American band and drummer (f. 1939).
• 1906: Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (f. 1973).
• 1906: Erik Rhodes, American actor and singer (f. 1990).
• 1908: Pablo Serrano, Spanish sculptor (f. 1985).
• 1910: Modesto Higueras, actor and stage director (f. 1985).
• 1910: Dominique Pire, a Belgian religious, Nobel Peace Prize in 1958 (f. 1969).
• 1913: Oreste Macrì, Italian hypnist (f. 1998).
• 1913: Mikel Usatorre, Spanish military and marine.
• 1914: Larry Adler, American composer and harmonicist (f. 2001).
• 1915: Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (f. 2016).
• 1917: Aída Luz, an Argentine actress (f. 2006).
• 1917: Elvira Dávila Ortiz, a Colombian nurse (f. 2008).
• 1918: Golde Flami, an Argentine actress of Ukrainian origin (f. 2007).
• 1919: Syria Poletti, an Argentine writer of Italian origin (f. 1991).
• 1919: Ioannis Charalambopoulos, colonel and Greek politician (f. 2014)
• 1920: Guillermo Rico, Argentine actor and humorist (f. 2013).
• 1920: José Manuel Castañón, Spanish writer (f. 2001).
• 1921: Grigori Sivkov, Soviet military aviator (f. 2009)
• 1922: Árpád Göncz, politician and Hungarian president (f. 2015).
• 1923: Cesare Siepi, under Italian (f. 2010).
• 1925: Pierre Mondy, French actor and filmmaker (f. 2012).
• 1926: Danny Blanchflower, Irish footballer (f. 1993).
• 1926: Carmen Romano, first Mexican lady (f. 2000).
• 1927: Leontyne Price, American soprano.
• 1927: Luis Escobar Cerda, Chilean economist and politician.
• 1928: Nelson Pinedo, a Colombian singer. It was nicknamed the Admiral of the Ritmo and the Barranquillero Chicken. (f. 2016).
• 1929: Jerry Goldsmith, composer of American soundtracks (f. 2004).
• 1930: Sergio Villarruel, Argentine journalist (f. 1997).
• 1930: Robert Wagner, American actor.
• 1931: Thomas Bernhard, Austrian writer (f. 1989).
• 1933: Faramarz Payvar, a Santurist and Iranian composer (f. 2009).
• 1934: Fleur Adcock, a New Zealand poet.
• 1934: Salvador Giner, sociologist and Spanish teacher (f. 2019).
• 1935: Ámbar La Fox, an Argentine actress and vedette (f. 1993).
• 1937: Roberta Flack, American singer.
• 1939: Emilio Walter Álvarez, Uruguayan footballer (f. 2010).
• 1939: Adrienne Clarkson, Canadian general governor between 1999 and 2005.
• 1939: Peter Purves, British actor.
• 1940: Manuel Suárez, a Peruvian footballer (f. 2012).
• 1941: Michael Apted, American filmmaker (f. 2021).
• 1943: Walter B. Jones, American politician (f. 2019, same day).
• 1944: Vernor Vinge, American writer.
• 1947: Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist.
• 1947: Pilar Bayona Sarriá, Spanish actress.
• 1947: Aurora Bayona Sarriá, Spanish actress.
• 1947: Butch Morris, a cornetist, an American orchestra director and composer (f. 2013).
• 1948: Mariano Fernández Bermejo, Spanish politician.
• 1949: Harold Sylvester, American actor.
• 1950: Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (f. 1994).
• 1950: Mark Spitz, American swimmer.
• 1951: Roque Narvaja, Argentinean musician.
• 1952: Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean politician, Prime Minister since 2004.
• 1955: Greg Norman, Australian golfer.
• 1957: Briony McRoberts, British actress (f. 2013).
• 1958: Ernesto Livacic Rojas, Chilean economist.
• 1958: Galy Galiano, Colombian singer of romantic and tropical music.
• 1958: Gustavo Ballas, Argentine boxer.
• 1958: Ricardo Gareca, Argentine coach.
• 1959: John Calipari, American basketball coach.
• 1959: Amadou Gon Coulibaly, a Moroccan politician (f. 2020).
• 1959: Lisa McPherson, American scientist (f. 1995).
• 1961: Alexander Payne, American filmmaker and screenwriter.
• 1961: George Stephanopulos, U.S. political adviser.
• 1962: Cliff Burton, American bassist, of the Metallica band (f. 1986).
• 1962: Bobby Czyz, American boxer.
• 1962: Ricardo Caruso Lombardi, Argentine coach.
• 1963: Philip Glenister, British actor.
• 1963: Diego Peretti, Argentine actor
• 1964: Glenn Beck, journalist, producer and American writer.
• 1964: Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (f. 1989).
• 1964: Francesca Neri, Italian actress.
• 1967: Laura Dern, American actress.
• 1967: Jacky Durand, French cyclist.
• 1967: Vince Gilligan, writer, screenwriter and U.S. executive producer, creator X-Files and Breaking Bad.
• 1969: Daniel Ambrosino, Argentine journalist.
• 1969: Campi (Martín Campilongo), Argentine actor and humorist.
• 1970: Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer.
• 1970: Myrea Pettit, British illustrator.
• 1970: Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist.
• 1971: Victoria (Lisa Marie Varon), American professional fighter.
• 1971: Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress (f. 2015).
• 1973: Nuria Añó, Spanish writer.
• 1974: Elizabeth Banks, actress, filmmaker and American producer.
• 1974: María Botto, Spanish actress.
• 1974: Juan Pablo Geretto, actor, humorist, screenwriter and director of Argentine theatre.
• 1974: Ivri Lider, Israeli singer and composer.
• 1975: Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player.
• 1976: Keeley Hawes, British actress.
• 1976: Carmelo Imbriani, Italian footballer (f. 2013).
• 1976: Vedran Runje, Croatian footballer.
• 1977: Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer.
• 1978: Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer.
• 1979: Gabri (Gabriel García), Spanish footballer.
• 1979: Joey Hand, American racing pilot.
• 1979: Jumaine Jones, American basketball player.
• 1980: César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1980: Vincenzo Maresca, Italian footballer.
• 1980: Bruno Sundov, Croatian basketball player.
• 1980: Martín Vassallo Argüello, Argentine tennis player.
• 1980: Naty Botero, Colombian singer.
• 1981: Andrew Johnson, British footballer.
• 1981: Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer.
• 1981: Eric Dill, American singer.
• 1981: Uzo Aduba, American actress.
• 1981: Stephanie Beatriz, American actress.
• 1982: Justin Gatlin, American athlete.
• 1982: Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer.
• 1983: Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian gymnast.
• 1983: Vic Fuentes, American singer and guitarist, of the band Pierce the Veil.
• 1983: Taiji Ishimori, Japanese professional fighter.
• 1986: Jeff Adrien, American basketball player.
• 1986: Josh Akognon, Nigerian-American basketball player.
• 1986: Radamel Falcao García, Colombian footballer.
• 1986: Alejandra Pinzon, model, Colombian actress and presenter.
• 1986: Roberto Jiménez Gago, Spanish footballer.
• 1986: Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player.
• 1986: Nahuel Guzmán, Argentine footballer
• 1987: Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine soccer player.
• 1988: Jade Ramsey, English actress.
• 1988: Luli Fernández, model and conductor of Argentine television.
• 1988: Jeanmar Gómez, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1989: Scarlet Gruber, Venezuelan actress and model.
• 1990: Sooyoung, South Korean singer.
• 1991: Emma Roberts, American actress and singer.
• 1992: Misha B, British rapper.
• 1993: Mia Khalifa, Lebanese pornographic actress.
• 1994: José Abella, Mexican footballer.
• 1994: Seulgi, member of the Red Velvet group.
• 1994: Makenzie Vega, American actress.
• 1995: Haruna Kawaguchi, Japanese actress and model.
• 1997: Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress and model.
• 1997: Lilly King, American swimmer.
• 1998: Candy Hsu, singer-songwriter and Taiwanese actress.
• 1999: Tiffany Espensen, American Chinese actress.

Deaths

• 1126: Guillermo de Poitiers, aristocrat Provezal, first known trouber (n. 1071).
• 1162: Balduin III, king of Jerusalem (n. 1130).
• 1242: Shijō Tennō, emperor of Japan (n. 1231).
• 1307: Timur Kan, or Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, emperor of China (n. 1265)
• 1606: Gaspar de Zúñiga Acevedo y Velasco, 9° virrey de la Nueva España y 10° virrey del Perú (n. 1560).
• 1660: Judith Leyster, a Dutch painter (n. 1609).
• 1722: Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (n. 1682).
• 1755: Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat), a French philosopher and writer (n. 1689).
• 1782: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (n. 1702).
• 1798: John Paul Vizcardo, a Peruvian writer (n. 1748).
• 1837: Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and writer (n. 1799).
• 1854: José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican military and political (n. 1792).
• 1856: Juan Manuel Cagigal and Odoardo, a Venezuelan mathematician (n. 1803).
• 1857: David Thompson, a British Canadian explorer (n. 1770).
• 1865: Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (n. 1804).
• 1878: Claude Bernard, French physiologist (n. 1813).
• 1879: Honoré Daumier, French painter and cartoonist (n. 1808).
• 1891: Sofia Kovalévskaya, Russian mathematics (n. 1850).
• 1906: Ezra Butler Eddy, a Canadian businessman and politician (n. 1827).
• 1910: Barata Ribeiro, doctor, politician and Brazilian writer, first prefect of the city of Rio de Janeiro (n. 1843).
• 1912: Joseph Lister, British surgeon (n. 1827).
• 1913: Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long leap athlete (n. 1888).
• 1917: John William Waterhouse, Italian painter (n. 1849).
• 1918: Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (n. 1842).
• 1918: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian editor and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize in 1907 (n. 1833).
• 1923: Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, X-ray discoverer, and Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 (n. 1845).
• 1931: Rocío Bermúdez Contreras, acrobat dancer (n. 1892).
• 1932: Edgar Wallace, British writer and writer (n. 1875).
• 1934: Aloisia Kirschner, Czech writer (n. 1854).
• 1939: Pius XI, Italian pope (n. 1857).
• 1944: Eugène Michel Antoniadi, a French astronomer (n. 1870).
• 1950: Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (n. 1872).
• 1952: Macedonio Fernández, Argentine writer (n. 1874).
• 1956: Emmanouil Tsouderos, banker and Greek politician, 132.o primer minister (n. 1882).
• 1957: Laura Ingalls, American novelist, author of The house in the meadow (n. 1867).
• 1959: Arturo Duperier, Spanish physicist (f. 1886).

The trial against the Croatian Nazi religious Aloysius Stepinac.

• 1960: Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal, Nazi collaborator, declared "martyr" by John Paul II (n. 1898).
• 1973: Fidel García, Spanish bishop (n. 1880).
• 1975: Nikos Kavvadías, Greek poet (n. 1910).
• 1979: Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav economist and politician (n. 1910).
• 1980: Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo, Mexican military and political (n. 1892).
• 1985: Genaro Lahuerta López, Spanish painter and retratist (n. 1905).
• 1990: Bill Sherwood, American filmmaker and composer (n. 1952).
• 1992: Alex Haley, American writer (n. 1921).
• 1992: Father Llanos, The Red Cura, Spanish priest (n. 1906).
• 1993: Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, a French politician (n. 1914).
• 1993: Fred Hollows, New Zealand Ophthalmologist (n. 1929).
• 1995: Jesus Garay Neighbor, Spanish footballer (n. 1930).
• 1998: Juan Martínez Moreno, Spanish chemist (n. 1919).
• 2000: Jim Varney, American actor (n. 1949).
• 2001: Abraham Beame, American politician, mayor of New York (n. 1906).
• 2002: Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora, Spanish diplomat (n. 1924).
• 2002: Traudl Junge, German woman, secretary of Adolf Hitler (n. 1920).
• 2002: Dave Van Ronk, American singer and guitarist (n. 1936).
• 2003: Curt Hennig, American professional fighter.
• 2003: Edgar de Evia, Mexican American photographer (n. 1910).
• 2003: Curt Hennig, a professional fighter and an American manager (n. 1958).
• 2004: Ginamaría Hidalgo, Argentine singer (n. 1927).
• 2004: Vittorio Vettori, writer, poet and critic of Italian art (n. 1920).
• 2005: Paco Gandía, Spanish humorist (n. 1930).
• 2005: Arthur Miller, American writer (n. 1915).
• 2005: Jean Cayrol, French poet (n. 1911).
• 2006: Juan Soriano, Mexican painter and sculptor (n. 1920).
• 2006: J Dilla, American rapper and producer (n. 1974).
• 2008: Roy Scheider, American actor (n. 1932).
• 2010: Carl Braun, American basketball player and coach (n. 1927).
• 2010: Eduardo Kímel, journalist and Argentine writer (n. 1952).
• 2010: Orlando Peçanha de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer (n. 1935).
• 2010: Fred Schaus, basketball player and American coach (n. 1925).
• 2010: José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, a Costa Rican politician (n. 1916).
• 2010: Charles Wilson, American politician (n. 1933).
• 2013: Ikuzo Sakurai, Japanese politician (n. 1944).
• 2013: Francisco Stastny, Peruvian nationalized Czech historian (n. 1933).
• 2013: Eugenio Trías, Spanish philosopher (n. 1942).
• 2013: Zhuang Zedong, Chinese table tennis player (n. 1940).
• 2014: Shirley Temple, American actress and politics (n. 1928).
• 2016: Cristián Hernández Larguía, director of choir and Argentine musician (n. 1921).
• 2018: Alan Battersby, British organic chemist (n. 1925).
• 2019: Walter B. Jones, American politician (n. 1943).
• 2021: Larry Flynt, American editor (n. 1942).
• 2022: Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer, Spanish writer (n. 1946).
• 2022: Mane Nett, Chilean Singer (n. 1948).
• 2022: Evgeniya Brik, Russian Actress (n. 1981).
• 2022: Henry Danton, British dancer and ballet master (n. 1919).
• 2022: Erwan Vallerie, French economist and cultural activist (n. 1944).
• 2022: Manuel Esquivel, Belizean politician (n. 1940).

Celebrations

• United Nations and FAO: World Legume Day.
• BoliviaBolivia: Oruro Libertary and anniversary of the department of Oruro.
• Mexico Mexico: Mexican Air Force Day (FAM).
• Norway Norway: Mother's Day.
• ItalyItaly: National Day of Exiles and Foibe, to commemorate the exiles in Istria and Dalmatia and the Massacre of the foibe.
• EcuadorEcuador: Day of Combat Aviation

Catholic saints list

• San José Sánchez del Río mártir
• Santa Austreberta
• San Dante or San During
• St. Scholastic
• Santa Sotera
• San Troyano, bishop
• Beata Clara de Rimini, Byzantine widow.
• Beata Eusebia Palomino Yenes
• Beato Hugo, abad
• Blessed Louis Stepinac (1898-1960), Croatian Cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb, during the Second World War; in 1998 St. John Paul II appointed him “martyr».