February 22

The February 22 is the 53.ᵉʳ (fifty-third) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 days left to the end of the year and 313 in leap years.

Events

• 186 B.C.: In the province of Gansu (Central-North-West of China) there is an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 in the seismological scale of Richter, which leaves a balance of 760 dead.
• 1495: In Naples, King Charles VIII of France enters the city to claim the throne.
• 1530: in Rome, Pope Clement VII crowned Charles I (king of Spain) as emperor of the Holy Roman German Empire.
• 1632: Galileo Galilei publishes his Dialogue on the Two Major Systems of the World.
• 1651: In the North Sea, a cyclic tide floods the coast of Germany. More than 15,000 people die.
• 1689: William III and his wife, Mary II, accept the offer of the English throne.
• 1744: In the framework of the Austrian War of Succession the Battle of Tolon is delivered.
• 1746: In the province of Sonora-Sinaloa, the Apaches looted the hacienda of Tehuachi, belonging to the governor Agustín de Vildósola.
• 1797: In Pembrokeshire (Gales) the French begin their last invasion of Britain.
• 1813: The Spanish Courts abolished the Court of the Holy Office in the American colonies.
• 1819: Through the Treaty of Adams-Onís, Spain sells to the United States the state of Florida for five million US dollars.
• 1822: It is installed in Arizpe, Sonora, the Provincial Council of Sonora and Sinaloa.
• 1847: In the framework of the First American intervention in Mexico, the Battle of Buena Vista is released.
• 1855: State College (Pensilvania) founded the State University of Pennsylvania with the name of the College of Farmers of Pennsylvania.
• 1857: Born in London England, the military Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the scout movement.
• 1857: In Munich the Weißwurst sausage is invented.
• 1882: In the Balkans, the kingdom of Serbia is refounded.
• 1900: In Venice, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari premieres his opera Ceneréntola.
• 1900: Anti-British riots occur in Syria.
• 1900: in the Plaza de San Pedro de la Ciudad del Vaticano, the Pope gives his blessing to more than 15 000 Italian pilgrims.
• 1900: In the framework of the Anglo-Bóer War, General Boer Piet Cronje rejects the requirement of unconditional surrender that is required by British General Horatio Kitchener. Wynne’s Hill battle is recorded.
• 1900: The United States takes the Hawaiian archipelago.
• 1904: On the Antarctic continent, Argentina establishes the Orcadas Base, the first permanent base on the continent.
• 1904: United Kingdom sells to Argentina a weather station in the Orcadas del Sur (which had founded the Scottish William Speirs Bruce a year earlier), 1502 km southeast of the Argentine city of Ushuaia. In 1908, the United Kingdom forcibly claimed possession of the islands (with the station included), but Argentina maintained its base with Argentine scientific personnel.
• 1905: At the Royal Theatre of the Coin of Brussels, Isaac Albéniz triumphs with the opera Pepita Jiménez.
• 1905: the city of Seville is covered with an unusual mantle of snow, the fruit of the cold wave that whips the Iberian peninsula.
• 1911: in the street of Carretas (in Madrid) there is a big scandal for two women with skirt-panel.
• 1913: President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez are assassinated in Mexico.
• 1915: Within the framework of the First World War, Germany unilaterally establishes the unrestricted underwater war.
• 1916: As part of the First World War, Russian forces are fighting in retreat in the region of the Masurian lakes against the German offensive by General Paul von Hindenburg.
• 1916: In the framework of World War I, Germany declares the total underwater war in British waters, in response to the blockade measures of the United Kingdom.
• 1917: In the Reichstag, the left liberals, the social democrats and the liberal nationals demand that the system of parliamentary governments be adopted.
• 1921: In the USSR the Gosplán is created in order to double industrial production.
• 1922: In the French prison of Versailles is guillotin Henri Desiré Landrú, accused of the murder of ten women.
• 1922: the British Empire unilaterally declares the independence of Egypt.
• 1922: the British paquebote sinks Egyptwhich assured the mail between the British Empire and India.
• 1924: in the USA. President Calvin Coolidge is the first to radio from the White House.
• 1925: The French National Assembly votes to remove its embassy to the Holy See.
• 1928: Australian pilot Bert Hinckler, with a plane equipped with a car engine, covers in 16 days the 16 000 km separating London from Port Darwin (Australia).
• 1928: in Barcelona the film Don Quixote de la Mancha, directed by Lau Lauritzen Sr., is premiered..
• 1929: important victory of the Spanish boxer Paulino Uzcudun over Cayo O. Christner in New York.
• 1929: In Venezuela General Arévalo Cedeno triggers a revolution.
• 1931: In New Pompeii, Argentina, is founded Deportivo Riestra Asociación de Fomento Barrio Colón, known as Club Deportivo Riestra.
• 1932: Adolf Hitler is running for the presidency of the German Republic by the German National Socialist Workers Party.
• 1936: serious floods occur in Seville.
• 1938: Germany and Italy accept the British proposal for the withdrawal of volunteers in the Spanish civil war. On the other hand, the nationalist forces of Yagüe and Varela take the city of Teruel, after two days of struggle, and make 14 500 Republicans prisoners.
• 1940: in Tibet is enthroned the new Dalai Lama, Tensing Gyatso, who has five years of age.
• 1942: In the framework of the Second World War, President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines because of the fall of the US defenses.
• 1943: in Germany the Nazis execute the members of the White Rose.
• 1944: During World War II, American planes mistakenly bomb the Dutch cities of Nimega, Arnhem, Enschede and Déventer. Only 800 men, women and children die in Nimega.
• 1946: the "Long Telegram", which proposes how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, comes from the US Embassy in Moscow.
• 1948: In Czechoslovakia the communist revolution happens.
• 1948: in Mexico, the bullfighter Carlos Arruza is fired from the hills.
• 1951: in Spain, Camilo José Cela publishes the novel La himena.
• 1954: in Spain the film is released There's a road to the right., directed by Francisco Rovira Beleta and starring Francisco Rabal and Julia Martínez.
• 1955: On the Nevada Test Site, United States detonates its atomic bomb Moth (‘polilla’), 2 kton, the second of 14 Teapot. It is the 53rd bomb of 1127 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1958: Egypt and Syria join in forming the United Arab Republic.
• 1958: The United States decides to provide the United Kingdom with 60 Thor rockets with nuclear ojiva.
• 1961: In a factory in Madrid Puente de Vallecas there is a fire in which 23 people die.
• 1962: the first part of the COMECON oil pipeline is operational.
• 1966: The Indian government declares 7 of its 16 states as areas of famine.
• 1966: In Uganda, Prime Minister Milton Obote assumes full powers.
• 1966: the Soviet space program launches the modified vessel Vosjod in the mission Cosmos 110.
• 1967: In Indonesia, President Ahmet Sukarno renounces all his powers, giving them to General Suharto.
• 1967: The teaching of the Basque language is authorized in the Navarre schools.
• 1969: 25 000 Asturian miners are on strike.
• 1969: On the XXX anniversary of the death of Antonio Machado, many Spanish poets and writers in exile meet in the cemetery of Collioure.
• 1971: In the United States a false atomic alarm causes panic.
• 1971: in Montevideo the consul general of Brazil is released after 205 days of kidnapping by the Tupamaros.
• 1972: 26 miners, buried by an explosion in Hunosa, are rescued alive on the day before.
• 1972: The Irish Republican Army terrorist gang detonates a car bomb in the Aldershot barracks; 7 killed and 19 injured.
• 1974: Ecuador founded the television channel Teleamazonas, the first television channel in that country to start the images in color.
• 1974: 37 countries and 22 chairpersons of the Organization of the Islamic Conference meet in Lahore, Pakistan. The state of Bangladés is recognized.
• 1974: USA. Samuel Byck tries to kidnap a plane to crash it in the White House and kill President Nixon.
• 1976: The U.S. government recognizes that it has carried out experiments between 1945 and 1947 with humans to study the effect of ionizing radiation on those who manufacture atomic bombs.
• 1977: In Spain, the Register of Political Associations denies the registration of the Communist Party of Spain.
• 1977: The American Rock group "EAGLES", publishes the simple "Hotel California" reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in May 1977.
• 1979: the island of Saint Lucia is independent of the British Empire.
• 1980: Leonid Brézhnev, with the consent of Jimmy Carter, conditioned the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan to foreign non-interference.
• 1983: In Algiers the meeting of the Palestinian National Council ends, with the re-election of Yasir Arafat as President of the PLO.
• 1983: José María Ruiz-Mateos states in a dam wheel that "Rumasa does not need money from the state to subsist".
• 1983: at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York, the play Moose Murders (with Holland Taylor and June Gable) he stoops and closes on the same night. It is considered the most ugly work in history.
• 1985: in Barcelona the film is released The screams of silenceled by Roland Joffé.
• 1986: In the Philippines begins the People's Power Revolution that will overthrow the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
• 1987: In Argentina the Final Point Act enters into force, thus ending complaints against the military of the dictatorship (for genocide and sale of babies).
• 1989: Arnaldo Forlani is elected new secretary of Italian Christian Democracy.
• 1990: The Ariane 4 space rocket explodes with two Japanese satellites.
• 1991: The United States gives Iraq an ultimatum to withdraw from Kuwait, under the threat of an immediate offensive, in what came to be called the Persian Gulf War.
• 1993: UN approves the establishment of an International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
• 1994: USA Aldrich Ames and his wife are condemned for spying on the USSR.
• 1994: The Synod of the Anglican Church approves the new canons for the ordination of women.
• 1995: in Spain, the Senate approves the Statutes of Autonomy of Ceuta and Melilla, thus enclosed the Spanish Autonomous Map.
• 1995: USA The US declassifies the program of the Corona reconnaissance satellite, which was in force between 1959 and 1972.
• 1997: in Roslin, Scotland, a group of scientists announces that an adult sheep Dolly has been successfully cloned.
• 1998: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has an agreement with the Iraqi President, Saddam Husein, for which a possible U.S. attack is paralyzed.
• 1998: In Colombia, President Ernesto Samper made a surprising offer of resignation to improve his country's relations with the United States.
• 1998: In London, the Ministers of Finance and Labour of the seven most industrialized countries in the world and Russia (G-8) approve an action plan to boost employment creation.
• 1999: In Brussels, some 40 000 farmers protest the reduction of aid following the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
• 2000: in Spain the spokesman of the socialist group in the Basque Parliament, Fernando Buesa, and his escort die in the second attack of the terrorist group ETA after the truce broke.
• 2000: in Barcelona and Tarragona, the Spanish police arrest seven people for their relationship with the allegedly illegal activities of the Universal and Human Energy Association, one of the "proscribed and dangerous sections of the European Union".
• 2001: The Catholic group Heralds of the Gospel receives approval by the Holy See as a religious order.
• 2001: in San Sebastián, Spain, José Ángel Santos and Josu Leonet, employees of the Elektra company, died in a car bomb attack perpetrated by ETA.
• 2001: By legislative decree, the Prayer to the Salvadoran Flag is officially recognized as a patriotic symbol of El Salvador.
• 2002: British authorities authorize the birth of a genetically selected baby to try to save the life of his sick brother.
• 2002: In Angola, guerrilla Jonas Savimbi dies in a military ambush.
• 2003: The French Film Academy awards seven Caesar Awards The pianist, by Roman Polański, while Pedro Almodóvar collects the award to the best European film for Talk to her..
• 2003: in Seville (Spain) the Spanish athlete Alberto García bats the record of Europe of the 3000 meters smooth on covered track (7 m, 32,98 s).
• 2004: In Haiti, the rebels led by the insurgent commander Guy Phillipe, take Cap-Haïtien, the second city of the country.
• 2004: At several points in Colombia, the clashes between soldiers of the army, guerrillas and paramilitaries cost the lives of half a hundred people.
• 2005: in China, the government announces the construction of eco-edifices with which it expects to save 65% of energy and thus help to comply with the Kyoto Protocol.
• 2005: the European Parliament approved by majority the imposition of sanctions to curb hydrocarbon discharges.
• 2005: Roberto Bolaño wins Salambó Prize with his posthumous work 2666.
• 2006: in Samarra (Irak), bombing in the Golden Great Mosque.
• 2006: in Tonbridge (Kent, UK) six men steal 53 million pounds (about 78 million euros) from a Securitas security company deposit.
• 2006: In Bilbao, the ETA terrorist gang explodes a bomb in a company without causing a victim, but it does material damage.
• 2011: in New Zealand, an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 on the Richter scale hits the city of Christchurch leaving a balance of several deaths and injuries.
• 2012: In the Eleven Station (Buenos Aires) there is a railway accident that leaves 51 dead and 703 wounded.
• 2014: Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as the "Chapo" Guzmán was captured by elements of the Mexican Navy, at 6:40 hours (UTC/GMT -7), in Mazatlan, Sinaloa
• 2017: 7 exoplanets are discovered very similar to Earth.
• 2018: an agent of the Ertzaintza dies outside the St.Mamés Stadium while facing the ultras of the Moscow FC Spartak before the Moscow Spartak vs Athletic Club.
• 2021: The historic Fox Channel TV channel officially changed its name to Star Channel.
• 2021: After 28 years of career, the legendary electronic music duo Daft Punk announced its separation.

Births

• 1040: Rashi, French rabbi (f. 1105).

Charles VII of France.

• 1403: Charles VII, French king (f. 1461).
• 1440: Ladislaus the Postum, king Bohemian and Hungarian (f. 1457).

George Washington.

• 1732: George Washington, American politician and president (f. 1799).
• 1741: José Esteve Bonet, Spanish sculptor (f. 1802).

Arthur Schopenhauer.

• 1788: Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (f. 1860).
• 1796: Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet, astronomer and Belgian mathematician (f. 1874).
• 1817: Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish composer (f. 1890).
• 1819: James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (f. 1891).
• 1824: Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (f. 1907).
• 1837: Pedro Varela, Uruguayan President (f. 1906).
• 1840: August Bebel, German politician (f. 1913).

Viscount of Taunay.

• 1843: Viscount of Taunay, noble, writer, military sociologist, historian and Brazilian politician (f. 1899).
• 1857: Robert Baden-Powell, British military, creator of the scout movement (f. 1941).

Heinrich Hertz.

• 1857: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (f. 1894).
• 1861: Nicéforo Zambrano, Mexican politician (f. 1940).
• 1863: Pedro Morales Pino, a Colombian musician and painter (f. 1926).
• 1864: Magdalena Cruells and Comas, a Spanish religious (f. 1943).
• 1864: Jules Renard, French writer (f. 1910).
• 1870: Alejandro Pérez Lugín, Spanish novelist (f. 1926).
• 1879: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemical and physical (f. 1947).
• 1882: Eric Gill, British sculptor and sculptor (f. 1940).

Marguerite Clark.

• 1883: Marguerite Clark, American actress (f. 1940).
• 1886: Hugo Ball, German writer and Dadaist poet (f. 1927).
• 1887: M. N. Roy, revolutionary, activist and Bengali theorist (f. 1956).
• 1887: Ksawery Tartakower, Franco-Polish Chessor (f. 1956).
• 1889: Olave Saint Claire Soames, British personality (f. 1977).
• 1890: Benno Moiseiwitsch, a Ukrainian pianist (f. 1963).
• 1890: Leonor Serrano Pablo, a Spanish jurist and writer (f. 1942).
• 1892: José Fernández Nonídez, Spanish genetic (f. 1947).
• 1892: Jan Wils, a Dutch architect (f. 1972).
• 1892: Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (f. 1950).
• 1893: Peadar O'Donnell, Irish politician and writer (f. 1986).
• 1894: Benno Moiseiwitsch, a Ukrainian pianist (f. 1963).

Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre.

• 1895: Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian thinker and politician (f. 1979).
• 1897; Leonid Góvorov, Soviet military (f. 1955).
• 1898: Anton de Kom, soldier and activist of Suriname (f. 1945).
• 1900: Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker (f. 1983).
• 1901: Sara Insúa, a Spanish writer and journalist (f. 1985).
• 1903: Ain-Ervin Mere, a Estonian Nazi (f. 1969).
• 1903: Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician and philosopher (f. 1930).
• 1903: César González Ruano, a Spanish writer and journalist (f. 1965).
• 1905: Luis Sandrini, Argentine actor (f. 1980).
• 1907: Robert Young, American actor (f. 1998).
• 1907: Sheldon Leonard, American actor (f. 1997).

Rómulo Betancourt.

• 1908: Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician and journalist, president of Venezuela between 1959 and 1964 (f. 1981).

• 1908: John Mills, British actor (f. 2005).
• 1909: Rafael Agustín Gumucio, Chilean politician (f. 1996).
• 1910: Baltasar Lobo, a Spanish anarchist painter and sculptor (f. 1993).
• 1911: Margarita Palacios, composer and singer of Argentine folklore (f. 1983).
• 1914: Renato Dulbecco, American virologist of Italian origin, nobel prize of medicine in 1975 (f. 2012).
• 1914: Paco Malgesto, locutor and Mexican television animator (f. 1978).
• 1915: Tomás Cuartero Gascón, beato española (f. 1936).
• 1917: Jane Bowles, American writer (f. 1973).
• 1918: Robert Wadlow, the highest man in history (f. 1940).

Jean-Bédel Bokassa.

• 1921: Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African emperor (f. 1996).
• 1921: Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (f. 1994).
• 1922: Jesus Churches, Argentine pilot of Formula 1 (f. 2005).
• 1922: Jesus was Alvarez, a Spanish writer and essayist (f. 1993).
• 1923: Jaime Escudero Etxebarria, Spanish footballer (f. 2012).
• 1923: Gigliola Frazzoni, Italian soprano (f. 2016).
• 1924: Alfredo Travia, Italian footballer (f. 2000).
• 1925: Edward Gorey, American drawer (f. 2000).
• 1925: Rupert Riedl, Austrian zoologist (f. 2005).
• 1926: Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican historian and archaeologist (f. 2019).
• 1926: Kenneth Williams, British actor (f. 1988).
• 1929: James Hong, American actor.
• 1930: Alfredo Sadel, Venezuelan singer (f. 1989).
• 1930: Giuliano Montaldo, Italian filmmaker.
• 1930: Jean Bobet, cyclist and French sports journalist (f. 2022).

Ted Kennedy.

• 1932: Ted Kennedy, American politician (f. 2009).
• 1933: Bobby Smith, British footballer (f. 2010).
• 1934: Blasco Peñaherrera Padilla, politician, lawyer and Ecuadorian journalist.

John Michael Bishop.

• 1936: John Michael Bishop, American immunobiologist, nobel medical prize in 1989.
• 1938: Claudio García Satur, Argentine actor.
• 1938: Manuel Martínez Carril, film critic, journalist and Uruguayan professor (f. 2014).
• 1940: Jon Elster, Norwegian philosopher.
• 1941: Hipólito Mejía, Dominican agronomist engineer, president of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004.
• 1942: Christine Keeler, British model and cabaretera (f. 2017).
• 1943: Terry Eagleton, British literary critic.

Horst Köhler.

• 1943: Horst Köhler, German economist and politician, president of Germany between 2004 and 2010.
• 1944: Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker (f. 2017).
• 1944: Gerald Martin, British biographer and literary critic of Latin American fiction.
• 1944: Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player.
• 1946: Cristina Alberdi, Spanish lawyer and politician.
• 1948: Joaquín Luqui, Spanish radio announcer (f. 2005).

Niki Lauda.

• 1949: Niki Lauda, Austrian Formula 1 pilot (f. 2019).

Julius Erving.

• 1950: Julius Erving, American basketball player.
• 1950: Lenny Kuhr, a Dutch singer.
• 1950: Miou-Miou, French actress.
• 1950: Genesis P-Orridge, British artist, musician and writer.
• 1950: Julie Walters, British actress.
• 1952: Bill Frist, American politician.
• 1953: René Morales, a Guatemalan footballer.
• 1954: Ricardo Ferretti, Brazilian footballer.
• 1955: David Axelrod, American political consultant.
• 1958: Kaïs Saied, Tunisian politician, president of Tunisia since 2019.
• 1958: Jesús Álvarez Cervantes, a Spanish journalist.
• 1959: Mikhail Naumóvich Gurévich, Soviet chess.
• 1959: Kyle MacLachlan, American actor.
• 1959: Gerardo Salorio, Argentinian physical preparer.
• 1961: Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist, from the Loudness band.
• 1962: Steve Irwin, ecologist and Australian television star (f. 2006).
• 1963: Pedro Jaro, Spanish footballer.
• 1963: Cristina Masoller, Uruguayan physics.
• 1963: Vijay Singh, a Fijian golfer.
• 1964: Gigi Fernández, Puerto Rican tennis player.
• 1965: Chris Dudley, American basketball player.
• 1965: Kieren Fallon, Irish rider.
• 1966: Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedian.
• 1966: Luca Marchegiani, Italian footballer.
• 1967: Jorge Bosch, Spanish actor.
• 1967: Alf Poier, Austrian comedian.
• 1968: Shawn Graham, Canadian politician.
• 1968: Bradley Nowell, American musician, of the Sublime band (f. 1996).
• 1968: Jeri Ryan, American actress.
• 1968: Kazuhiro Sasaki, Japanese baseball player.

Joaquin Cortés.

• 1969: Joaquín Cortés, dancer and Spanish choreographer.
• 1969: Hans Klok, Dutch actor and illusionist.
• 1969: Marc Wilmots, Belgian footballer.
• 1969: Shaka Hislop, footballer trinitense.
• 1969: Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Mexican doctor.
• 1971: Lea Salonga, Filipino singer and actress.
• 1972: Michael Chang, American tennis player.
• 1972: Claudia Pechstein, German skater.
• 1972: Rolando Villazón, Mexican singer.
• 1973: Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer.
• 1973: Daniel Löble, Swiss drummer, of the Helloween band.
• 1974: James Blunt, British singer.

Drew Barrymore.

• 1975: Drew Barrymore, American actress.
• 1975: Fele Martínez, Spanish actor.
• 1977: Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer.
• 1979: Brett Emerton, Australian footballer.
• 1981: Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer.
• 1981: Dênis Marques, Brazilian footballer.
• 1982: Kelly Johnson, American baseball player.
• 1982: Siaka Tiéné, Ivory footballer.
• 1984: Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer.
• 1984: Giorgos Printezis, Greek basketball player.
• 1985: Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer.
• 1985: Larissa Riquelme, model and Paraguayan actress.
• 1986: Enzo Pérez, Argentine footballer.
• 1986: Rajon Rondo, American basketball player.
• 1986: Catalina García, Colombian actress and singer.
• 1986: Tatiana Arango, Colombian actress and model.

Ximena Navarrete.

• 1988: Ximena Navarrete, Mexican model.
• 1990: Márkó Futács, Hungarian footballer.
• 1991: Robin Stjernberg, Swedish singer.
• 1993: Taron Voskanyan, Armenian footballer.
• 1993: Elisa Tenaud, Peruvian actress and singer.
• 1994: Andrias Eriksen, a ferocious footballer.
• 1996: Pablo Fornals, Spanish footballer.
• 1997: Jerome Robinson, American basketball player.
• 1998: Juliana Velásquez, actress, singer, presenter and Colombian dancer.
• 2005: Linda Caicedo, Colombian footballer.
• 2006: Enes Sali, Romanian nationalized Canadian footballer.
• 2007: Ana Paula Martínez, Mexican film and television actress.

Deaths

• 970: García Sánchez I of Pamplona, king of Nájera, king of Pamplona and count of Aragon (n. 919).
• 1371: David II, Scottish king (n. 1324).

Américo Vespucio.

• 1500: Gerardo VI, noble German (n. 1430).
• 1512: Américo Vespucio, Italian navigator (n. 1454).
• 1523: Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar and Mendoza, the firstborn son of Cardinal Mendoza (n. 1466).
• 1550: Michimalonco, toqui mapuche (n. ca. 1500).
• 1556: Humayun, second Mogol emperor (n. 1508).
• 1627: Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (n. 1558).
• 1674: Jean Chapelain, French writer (n. 1595).

Charles Le Brun.

• 1690: Charles Le Brun, French painter (n. 1619).
• 1727: Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (n. 1661).
• 1731: Frederik Ruysch, a Dutch physician and anatomist (n. 1638).
• 1756: Pehr Löfling, Swedish naturalist and botanist (n. 1729).
• 1760: Anna Magdalena Bach, soprano and German composer, wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (n. 1701).

Baron de Münchhausen.

• 1797: Baron de Münchhausen, German writer (n. 1720).
• 1799: Heshen, Chinese official infamous of the Qing Dynasty Court (n. 1750).
• 1810: Charles Brockden Brown, American writer (n. 1771).
• 1845: Enrique Gil and Carrasco, a Spanish romantic writer (n. 1815).
• 1875: Camille Corot, a French painter (n. 1796).
• 1875: Charles Lyell, British geologist (n. 1797).
• 1891: Luis Hernández-Pinzón Álvarez, Spanish admiral (n. 1816).
• 1892: José Velarde, a Spanish poet (n. 1848).
• 1903: Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (n. 1860).
• 1904: Leslie Stephen, British writer and critic (n. 1832).
• 1913: Francisco I. Madero, businessman, politician and Mexican president between 1911 and 1913 (n. 1873).
• 1913: José María Pino Suárez, Mexican politician (n. 1869).
• 1913: Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (n. 1857).
• 1923: Théophile Delcassé, a French politician (n. 1852).
• 1930: Mabel Normand, American actress (n. 1895).
• 1938: Miguel Llobet, Spanish composer (n. 1878).

Antonio Machado.

• 1939: Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (n. 1875).
• 1942: Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (n. 1881).
• 1942: Vera Timanova, a Russian pianist (n. 1855).
• 1943: Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (n. 1919).
• 1943: Hans Scholl, member of the Rosa Blanca movement (n. 1918).
• 1943: Sophie Scholl, leader and anti-Nazi activist of the Rosa Blanca movement (n. 1921).
• 1944: Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi (n. 1869).
• 1945: Osip Brik, Russian writer (n. 1888).
• 1946: Vasili Volski, Soviet military (n. 1897).
• 1958: Abul Kalam Azad, leader of the independence movement of India (n. 1888).
• 1960: Samuel Alfred Mitchell, Canadian astronomer (n. 1874).
• 1961: Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (n. 1889).
• 1963: Manuel Moreno Barranco, Spanish writer (n. 1932).
• 1973: Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (n. 1900).
• 1974: Samuel Byck, material author of an attack on Richard Nixon (n. 1930).
• 1976: Angela Baddeley, British actress (n. 1904).
• 1976: Florence Ballard, American singer of the band The Supremes (n. 1943).
• 1980: Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (n. 1886).
• 1981: Eva Dongé, an Argentine actress (n. 1929).
• 1983: Sir Adrian Boult, director of British orchestra and musician (n. 1889).
• 1983: Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (n. 1913).
• 1985: Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (n. 1913).
• 1985: Efrem Zimbalist, violinist, composer and director of Russian orchestra (n. 1890).

Andy Warhol.

• 1987: Andy Warhol, American pop-art artist (n. 1928).
• 1988: Carlos Lemos, Spanish actor (n. 1909).
• 1989: Sándor Márai, Hungarian writer (n. 1900).
• 1992: Sudirman Arshad, Malay singer (n. 1954).
• 1993: Jean Lecanuet, French politician (n. 1920).
• 1995: Ed Flanders, American actor (n. 1934).
• 1998: José María de Areilza, a Spanish politician (n. 1909).
• 1999: Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (n. 1964).
• 2000: Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (n. 1946).
• 2002: Chuck Jones, American animator, director and producer (n. 1912).
• 2002: Jonah Savimbi, Angolan guerrilla (n. 1934).
• 2003: Alberto Ramón Vilanova, Argentine psychologist (n. 1942).
• 2004: Roque Gastón Maspoli, Uruguayan footballer (n. 1917).
• 2005: Simone Simon, French actress (n. 1910).
• 2007: Dennis Johnson, basketball player and American coach (n. 1954).
• 2011: Joan Colomines, Spanish writer and politician (n. 1922).
• 2011: Chari Gómez Miranda, a Spanish journalist and presenter (n. 1930).
• 2012: Marie Colvin, American War Reporter (n. 1956).
• 2013: Luis Cella, Argentine television producer (n. 1949).
• 2013: Wolfgang Sawallisch, German orchestra director (n. 1923).
• 2015: Raquel Tibol, critique and scholar of Mexican art (n. 1923).
• 2016: Sonny James, American singer and composer of country music (n. 1928).
• 2018: Richard Edward Taylor, Canadian scientist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 (n. 1929).
• 2018: Forges, Spanish graphic humorist (n. 1942).
• 2020: Thích Qu marginng Đѕ, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (n. 1928).
• 2021: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, painter and editor (n. 1919).

Celebrations

• World Encephalitis Day.
• European Day for Salarial Equality between Men and Women.
• Scout Thought Day.
• Argentina: Argentine Antarctic Day.
• Mexico: Agricultural Engineer Day.

Catholic saints list

• Chair of Saint Peter
• St. Papies of Hyeropolis, bishop (s. II)
• San Pascasio de Vienne, bishop (s. IV).
• San Maximiano de Ravena, bishop (f. 556)
• San Pedro Damiani (f. 1072)
• Blessed Isabel de Longchamp(f. 1270)
• Santa Margarita de Cortona (f. 1297)
• beato Diego Carvalho, priest and martyr (f. 1624)
• Blessed Mary of Jesus d’Outremont (f. 1878)