February 24th

February 24 is the 55th (fifty-fifth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 310 days to the end of the year and 311 in leap years.

Events

• 1208: In Assisi, Italy, Francis of Assisi states that he listened directly to Jesus Christ by ordering him to begin his mission.
• 1221: in Seville, Andalusia, Governor Almohade, Abù l-Ulà, handed over the Gold Tower to the city at the end of its construction.
• 1503: On the coast of Veraguas (Panama), Christopher Columbus founded Santa Maria de Bethlehem, the first Spanish village on American continental territory. A month later, his men kidnap several indigenous people and on April 16 they are thrown out of the site (which still remains uninhabited today) and return to Spain.
• 1524: Pope Clement VII grants to the Inquisition of Aragon jurisdictional power over sodomy, whether or not it is heresy.
• 1525: In the battle of Pavia, the imperial troops of Carlos I beat the French of Francisco I, thus ending the Four Years War.
• 1527: In Hungary, after the death of Louis II, his brother-in-law Fernando and his wife Ana of Hungary are crowned kings of Hungary and Bohemia.
• 1582: In Rome, Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar.
• 1607: at the Ducal Palace (Mantua) the opera is premiered L'Orfeo of Claudio Monteverdi.
• 1647: next to the Quillén river, in the current province of Cautín (Chile), the Spanish invaders meet with the Mapuche indigenous people in the second Parliament of Quilín.
• 1711: In London the opera Rinaldo by Georg Friedrich Händel is premiered.
• 1808: José Bonaparte institutes the Order of the Two Sicilies.
• 1821: Mexico proclaims the Plan of Iguala, in the process of consolidating independence, a policy proclaimed by Agustín de Iturbide on February 24 in the city of Iguala de la Independencia, Guerrero.
• 1848: In France, after the revolt of 1848, the Bourbon royal family fled and never reigned in that country.
• 1859: foundation in Valencia, Spain, of the Royal Valencian Society of Agriculture and Sports.
• 1868: In the United States, Andrew Johnson became the first president under the process of dismissal.
• 1881: In Chile is founded the fort Recabarren, to continue with the Occupation of Araucanía. This fort will eventually become the current city of Temuco.
• 1891: A Federal Constitution is enacted in Brazil.
• 1895: In Baire (locality of the eastern Cuban department) the village of Baire takes place. The second war of independence of Cuba, called by José Martí as the “Necessary War”, began.
• 1896: French physicist Henri Becquerel announces the discovery of a radiation emitted by uranium.
• 1905: Russian Minister of Agriculture, Alexei Yermolov, submits to the Tsar Nicholas II the idea of a Constitution.
• 1905: the tunnel of the Simplon that connects Italy and Switzerland opens.
• 1908: the bishop of Barcelona published a pastoral against the City Council project to create "bisexual and neutral" schools.
• 1909: In the British town of Brighton, for the first time the film is presented to the public in color.
• 1909: In the Teatro Galdós de Las Palmas the drama is the The sphinx, first dramatic production of Miguel de Unamuno.
• 1911: In Germany, the Reichstag approves the gradual increase of military personnel until reaching the 515 000 men in 1915.
• 1911: In Paris the resignation of French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, to which Ernest Monis happens, receives the support of radicals and radical socialists.
• 1913: In Peru, a new Government, chaired by Federico Luna and Peralta, is constituted.
• 1914: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill obtains additional credits for the Navy.
• 1917: in Petrograd (the tsarist capital of Russia), a revolt becomes a military rebellion that forces Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate. This is how the Russian Revolution begins.
• 1917: The British Intelligence Service intercepts a telegram by Arthur Zimmermann, Secretary of State for German Foreign Affairs, in which he asks Mexico to go into war with the United States.
• 1918: Estonia declares its independence.
• 1920: in Munich, Adolf Hitler changes the name of the German Workers Party to the German National Socialist Workers Party (NSDAP) and proclaims the program of twenty-five points that will govern it until its ban.
• 1922: Germany grants the extradition of Lluís Nicolau, assassin of the president of the Spanish Council Eduardo Dato.
• 1925: in Granada (Spain) the tram is opened to Sierra Nevada (with 14 tunnels and 21 bridges in its 20 km of route), which allows communication between many villages of the province.
• 1926: between Buenos Aires and Montevideo a regular airline is established for passenger transport.
• 1932: at Daytona International Speedway, Malcolm Campbell gets a new record of ground speed by reaching 408,714 km/h with a Napier-Campbell.
• 1933: the Spanish Courts confirm the trust of the government by 173 votes to 130 in the debate of the events of Casas Viejas.
• 1933: the extraordinary meeting of the League of Nations deliberates on the Chinese-Japanese conflict and admonishes Japan for its action.
• 1937: The Soviet Union prohibits the sending of volunteers to the Spanish civil war.
• 1938: In the factory Du Pont de Arlington (New Jersey) the manufacturing of the first nylon product for sale is started: a toothbrush.
• 1942: in the Black Sea, about 16 km north of the Bosphorus Strait, the little Struma boat—which was dragged to that site by a Turkish shuttle, by the orders of the British ambassador— explodes. 781 Jewish refugees died. Years later it will be known that they were torpedoed by the Soviet submarine Shch-213.
• 1942: in Ankara (Turkey) the German ambassador Franz von Papen suffers an attack.
• 1945: In Egypt, Prime Minister Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in parliament after reading a decree.
• 1946: in Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón is elected president. Eva Perón becomes the first lady.
• 1949: On the island of Rhodes is signed the armistice that puts an end to the first Arab-Israeli war.
• 1949: The first two-stage rocket is launched in the United States, up to a height of 392 km.
• 1950: in Barcelona the anarchist Manuel Sabater dies.
• 1955: in Baghdad, Iraq, the Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact), a military alliance between Iraq and Turkey, to which Britain, Pakistan and Iran will later join.
• 1955: in Barcelona the XXIX Hall of the Spanish Fashion is inaugurated.
• 1957: The conference of the heads of State of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Syria takes place in Cairo.
• 1958: in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra (the easternmost province of Cuba), Radio Rebelde begins to broadcast (to date) – the defamatory of the guerrillas led by Fidel Castro.
• 1958: In London, the philosopher Bertrand Russell launched the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
• 1960: in Barcelona, urban transport companies are consolidated.
• 1966: in Ghana, General Joseph A. Ankrah leads a coup d’etat, taking advantage of President Kwame Nkrumah’s travel in Asia.

• 1966: In the framework of the Vietnam War (1955-1975), Japanese photographer Kyoichi Sawada (1936-1970) records the image (which will win a World Press Award) of an M113 armored U.S. soldiers dragging the body of a Vietcong fighting child to kill him. For this photograph, four years later Sawada will be killed in Cambodia.
• 1968: The U.S. Ministry of Defense suspends the foresight flights made by aircraft loaded with atomic bombs.
• 1968: In the course of the Vietnam War, U.S. forces carried out the first bombing of the river port of Hanoi.
• 1968: the channel Multimedios Televisión is founded.
• 1973: the Argentine dictator, General Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, arrives in Madrid in an official visit to the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
• 1974: In Lahore, 36 Islamic countries gathered decide to grant aid to developing countries.
• 1975: British band Led Zeppelin publishes the album Physical Graffiti.
• 1976: In Cuba, the constitution, adopted a year earlier by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, enters into force.
• 1976: in Madrid, the World Tourism Organization has established its headquarters.
• 1978: Enrique Fuentes Quintana, second vice president and minister of economic affairs of Spain, presents his resignation, which takes advantage of Adolfo Suárez to make other changes in the Cabinet formed a year ago.
• 1981: Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero, after keeping the Spanish government and deputies kidnapped for almost 20 hours, surrenders to government forces. He is also arrested, General Jaime Milans del Bosch and other collaborators in the failed coup d'etat.
• 1981: north of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece) a violent earthquake causes 16 dead and 400 wounded.
• 1981: at the Berlin Film Festival, the film Hurry, hurry (from Spanish Carlos Saura) gets the Gold Bear.
• 1983: the Spanish government approves the bill of incompatibility for the high-ranking officials.
• 1984: Brunéi is independent of the United Kingdom.
• 1985: in Cardedeu (Barcelona) the first congress of the Spanish "green movement" ends.
• 1987: the cardinal archbishop of Madrid-Alcalá, Ángel Suquía, is elected president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
• 1988: in Madrid, the terrorist group ETA kidnapped the businessman Emiliano Revilla.
• 1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Jomeini offers $3 million reward for the death of the author The Satanic versesSalman Rushdie.
• 1989: in Algeria, a broad majority approves the new Constitution that gives way to multipartyism.
• 1989: In Spain, the Council of Ministers approves the full incorporation of women into all weapons, bodies and scales of the Armed Forces, although it has no obligation to perform military service.
• 1990: In the parliamentary elections of Lithuania, the Sajudis independence movement is overwhelming.
• 1991: The U.S. launches a ground offensive against Iraq, within the so-called Persian Gulf War, with the largest attack since World War II.
• 1994: In Nicaragua, the Sandinista government and the heads of the “contras” agree to disarm the latter.
• 1998: The FBI and the U.S. police uncover a network dedicated to the sale of human organs from Chinese prisoners executed in their country.
• 1998: The National Assembly of Popular Power (Parliament) unanimously elects Fidel Castro as president of the Council of State, the highest power organ in Cuba.
• 1999: Madonna and Céline Dion are the winners of the 41st edition of the Grammy Awards.
• 2000: a group of Spanish researchers from the CSIC and UNED make paraplegic rats walk again.
• 2003: Serbian ultra-nationalist Vojislav Šešelj is handed over to the Hague Criminal Court to respond for war crimes and against humanity.
• 2003: Mexican writer and journalist Xavier Velasco wins the Alfaguara novel award with the work Devil guard..
• 2003: the musician Robert Trujillo occupies the bass player in the thrash metal metallic band.
• 2004: a group of Iraqi archaeologists announces that water leaks from an artificial channel built by Saddam Hussein endanger the ancient ruins of ancient Babylon.
• 2005: the Iraqi insurgency murders 15 policemen in Tikrit.
• 2005: in São Paulo, Brazil, the princes of Asturias inaugurate the largest headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes in Ibero-America.
• 2005: Chemicals Laura Gagliardi (Universidad de Palermo) and Björn Roos (University of Lund) publish in the magazine Nature the discovery of a new type of chemical link that consists of 10 electrons, the equivalent of five covalents.
• 2006: Spain decides to open permanent embassies in New Zealand, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago and Yemen.
• 2006: the Italian writer Claudio Magris is an honorary doctor of the Complutense University of Madrid.
• 2011: In the United States, the Discovery space shuttle is launched on its last mission, the STS-133.
• 2009: initial launch of WhatsApp.
• 2012: in the Colombian city of Bucaramanga at 8:43 in the morning there is a strong earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale.
• 2022: In the public mirror program of the Spanish television network Antena 3, videogame images are broadcast ARMA 3 making them go through real recordings of the conflict in Ukraine.
• 2022: Invasion of Russia to Ukraine:
  • At the dawn of the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin said there was “the decision of a military operation”. After that message, Russia attacked with Kiev and Kharkov missiles (Ukraine).
  • Huge economic downfalls on Wall Street. International bags fall into the biggest drop since the global closure by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The Russian bag collapses. The price of raw materials (commodities) such as soy, wheat, oil and corn rise considerably.
  • In the evening of Ukraine, after a skirmish on radioactive soil, the Russian army took control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a fundamental bastion to invade the Ukrainian capital.

Births

• 1103: Toba, Japanese emperor (f. 1156).
• 1304: Ibn Battuta, Arab explorer (f. 1368).
• 1463: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (f. 1494).
• 1500: Charles of Habsburg, Spanish king and emperor of Germany (f. 1558).
• 1519: Francisco I de Lorena, French duke (f. 1563).
• 1536: Clement VIII, Roman pope since 1592 (f. 1605).
• 1545: John of Austria, Spanish military (f. 1578).
• 1557: Matías de Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman German Empire (f. 1619).
• 1597: Vincent Voiture, French writer (f. 1648).
• 1619: Charles Le Brun, French painter (f. 1690).
• 1645: Johann Ambrosius Bach, German musician (f. 1695).
• 1709: Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (f. 1782).
• 1722: John Burgoyne, general and British playwright (f. 1792).
• 1767: José Matías Delgado, ecclesiastical and political Salvadoran (f. 1832).
• 1771: Johann Baptist Cramer, German composer (f. 1858).
• 1774: Adolfo de Hannover, aristocrat and British military (f. 1850).
• 1786: Wilhelm Grimm, linguist and German mythologist (f. 1859).
• 1818: Francisco Jareño and Alarcón, Spanish architect (f. 1892).
• 1830: Narcissus Serra, Spanish poet and playwright (f. 1877).
• 1831: Leo von Caprivi, German chancellor (f. 1899).
• 1832: Juan Clemente Zenea, a Cuban poet and journalist (f. 1871).
• 1836: Winslow Homer, American naturalist painter (f. 1910).
• 1837: Matías Romero Avendaño, a Mexican politician and diplomat (f. 1898).
• 1842: Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (f. 1918).
• 1852: Francisco Javier Ugarte Pagés, a Spanish politician (f. 1919).
• 1863: Franz von Stuck, German sculptor.
• 1864: José Pardo and Barreda, a Peruvian politician and president (f. 1947).
• 1866: Piotr Lébedev, Russian physicist (f. 1912).
• 1874: Honus Wagner, American baseball player (f. 1955).
• 1885: Modesto López Otero, Spanish architect (f. 1962).
• 1885: Chester Nimitz, American military (f. 1966).
• 1885: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, writer, photographer, philosopher and Polish painter (f. 1939).
• 1891: Matías Ramos, Mexican military and political (f. 1962).
• 1896: Carlos Pérez Maldonado, Mexican writer, historian and academic (f. 1990).
• 1897: Hernán Figueroa Anguita, Chilean politician (f. 1985).
• 1897: Yang Xiufeng, Chinese politician (f. 1983).
• 1898: Kurt Tank, aeronautical engineer and German test pilot (f. 1983).
• 1904: Chano Urueta, Mexican filmmaker (f. 1979).
• 1905: La Jana, an Austrian actress and dancer (f. 1940).
• 1909: August Derleth, American writer (f. 1971).
• 1912: André Greck, a French sculptor born in Algeria (f. 1993).
• 1914: Zachary Scott, American actor (f. 1965).
• 1916: Jaime Sarlanga, Argentine footballer (f. 1966).
• 1921: Abe Vigoda, American actor (f. 2016).
• 1922: Richard Hamilton, British painter (f. 2011).
• 1922: Steven Hill, American actor (f. 2016).
• 1923: Fred Steiner, American composer (f. 2011).
• 1924: Bartolomé Escandell, Spanish historian (f. 2012).
• 1926: Erich Loest, German writer (f. 2013).
• 1927: Gabriel Muñoz López, was a Colombian speaker, a pioneer of the Colombian radio (f. 2019).
• 1927: Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (f. 2017).
• 1927: Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, activist and Mexican politics (f. 2022).
• 1929: Luis Carandell, Spanish writer and journalist (f. 2002).
• 1931: Eladia Blázquez, singer and composer of Argentina (f. 2005).
• 1932: Michel Legrand, composer, pianist and French singer (f. 2019)
• 1933: Judah Folkman, American biologist and oncologist (f. 2008).
• 1934: Frank Braña, Spanish actor (f. 2012).
• 1934: Dominic Chianese, an American actor.
• 1934: Bettino Craxi, Italian Prime Minister (f. 2000).
• 1934: Renata Scotto, Italian soprano.
• 1934: Bingu wa Mutharika, president of Malawi (f. 2012).
• 1936: Luis Aguilé, Argentine singer and humorist (f. 2009).
• 1936: Guillermo O'Donnell, an Argentine polytologist (f. 2011).
• 1938: James Farentino, American actor (f. 2012).
• 1938: Libertad Leblanc, an Argentine actress.
• 1938: Phil Knight, American businessman, founder of Nike.
• 1940: Denis Law, Scottish footballer.
• 1942: Joseph Lieberman, American politician.
• 1942: Lorenzo Meyer, Mexican historian.
• 1942: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, philosopher and Indian literary criticism.
• 1943: Pablo Milanés, Cuban composer and singer of the New Trova (f. 2022).
• 1943: Jorge Hugo Fernández, Argentine footballer.
• 1943: Gilberto Correa, locutor, journalist and Venezuelan presenter.
• 1944: Nicky Hopkins, British musician (f. 1994).
• 1944: David Wineland, American physicist.
• 1946: Ratomir Dujković, Serbian football coach.
• 1946: Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician.
• 1947: Edward James Olmos, American actor.
• 1947: Fernando Barrachina, Spanish footballer (f. 2016).
• 1947: Harold Orozco, Colombian singer (f. 2017).
• 1947: Elena Solovéi, Soviet actress
• 1950: Miguel Arias Cañete, Spanish politician.
• 1950: Daniel Txopitea, Spanish painter and sculptor (f. 1997).
• 1950: George Thorogood, American musician.
• 1950: Steve McCurry, American photographer.
• 1951: Debra Jo Rupp, American actress.
• 1951: Helen Shaver, Canadian actress.
• 1951: Laimdota Straujuma, first Latvian minister.
• 1955: Néstor Grindetti, actuario and politician.
• 1955: Steve Jobs, American businessman and magnate (f. 2011).
• 1955: Alain Prost, French Formula 1 pilot.
• 1956: Hevzi Nuhiu, Albanian sculptor.
• 1956: Judith Butler, American philosopher.
• 1957: Rafael Gordillo, Spanish footballer.
• 1959: Beth Broderick, American actress.
• 1959: Alexander Belostenny, Soviet basketball player (f. 2010).
• 1959: Inma de Santis, Spanish actress and presenter (f. 1989).
• 1961: Erna Solberg, politics, sociologist, political scientist, statesman and Norwegian economist, first Minister of Norway between 2013 and 2021.
• 1961: Patricia Sarán, exmodelo, actress, conductor and Argentine singer.
• 1964: Todd Field, American filmmaker.
• 1965: Fernando Tejero, Spanish actor.
• 1965: Kristin Davis, American actress.
• 1966: Alain Mabanckou, Congolese writer.
• 1966: Ben Miller, actor, comic and British writer.
• 1966: Billy Zane, American actor.
• 1967: Maricarmen Alva, Peruvian lawyer and policy.
• 1967: Brian P. Schmidt, American astrophysicist.
• 1969: Alejandro González, American drummer of the Mexican band Maná.
• 1970: Luciano Galende, TV presenter and Argentine journalist.
• 1971: Leda Battisti, Italian singer.
• 1971: Pedro Martínez de la Rosa, a Spanish Formula 1 pilot.
• 1972: Sergio Tiempo, Argentine pianist.
• 1973: Chris Fehn, American drummer of the Slipknot band.
• 1973: Fernando Hernández, Spanish player.
• 1973: Martha Julia, Mexican actress.
• 1974: Chad Hugo, American band musician The Neptunes.
• 1976: Eric Griffin, American band guitarist Wednesday 13.
• 1976: Jorge Matute Johns, a Chilean student (f. 1999).
• 1976: Bradley McGee, Australian cyclist.
• 1976: Matt Skiba, American singer and guitarist of the Alkaline Trio band.
• 1977: Bronson Arroyo, American baseball player.
• 1977: Alberto Valdivia Baselli, Peruvian writer.
• 1977: Libero De Rienzo, actor, director and screenwriter of Italian cinema (f. 2021).
• 1977: Floyd Mayweather, Jr., American boxer.
• 1978: Mariano Herrón, Argentine soccer player.
• 1978: John Nolan, American guitarist and vocalist of the Taking Back Sunday band.
• 1978: Shinya, Japanese musician.
• 1979: Ainhoa Arbizu, a Spanish journalist.
• 1980: Anton Maiden, Swedish singer (f. 2003).
• 1980: Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional fighter.
• 1981: Felipe Baloy, Panamanian footballer.
• 1981: Timo Bernhard, German motor racing pilot.
• 1981: Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player.
• 1981: Carolina de Moras, model and presenter of Chilean television.
• 1981: Mauro Rosales, Argentine soccer player.
• 1982: Klára Koukalová, Czech tennis player.
• 1982: Gustavo Molina, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1983: Javier Horacio Pinola Futbolista Argentino
• 1983: Ingemar Teever, Soviet footballer.
• 1984: Clivio Piccione, a Monegasque motor racing pilot.
• 1984: Peaches, pornographic actress and Hungarian erotic model.
• 1984: Filip Šebo, Czechoslovak footballer.
• 1984: Desmond Fa'aiuaso, Samoan footballer.
• 1985: William Kvist, Danish footballer.
• 1985: Oleksandr Yatsenko, Soviet footballer.
• 1987: Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese actress and Gravure idol.
• 1987: Chieko Kawabe, singer, model and Japanese radio worker.
• 1992: Oleksiy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1994: Shun Nakamura, Japanese footballer.
• 1995: Marko Pejić, Croatian footballer.
• 1997: César Montes, Mexican footballer.
• 1997: King Manaj, Albanian footballer.
• 2000: Antony Matheus dos Santos, Brazilian footballer.

Deaths

• 616: Ethelbert, king of Kent (n.h. 560).
• 1588: Johann Weyer, a Dutch physician and demonologist (n. 1515 or 1516).
• 1695: Johann Ambrosius Bach, German musician (n. 1645).
• 1704: Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (n. 1643).
• 1777: Joseph I, Portuguese king (n. 1714).
• 1799: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a German scientist and writer (n. 1742).
• 1810: Henry Cavendish, British scientist (n. 1731).
• 1815: Robert Fulton, American engineer and inventor (n. 1765).
• 1825: Thomas Bowdler, a British physician and chessist (n. 1754).
• 1856: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevski, Russian mathematician (n. 1792).
• 1874: Anselmo Clavé, poet, politician, composer and director of Spanish music (n. 1824).
• 1883: José María Espinosa, a Procer of Independence, a Colombian painter and chronicler. (n. 1796).
• 1894: Canuto Berea Rodríguez, director of orchestra, violinist and Spanish composer (n. 1836).
• 1911: Jules Joseph Lefebvre, French painter (n. 1834).
• 1925: Hjalmar Branting, Swedish politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (n. 1860).
• 1929: André Messager, director of French orchestra and composer (n. 1853).
• 1938: Thomas Gann, German archaeologist (n. 1867).
• 1947: Pierre Janet, French psychologist and psychiatrist (n. 1859).
• 1948: Alfredo Baldomir, military, political and Uruguayan president between 1938 and 1942 (n. 1884).
• 1953: Gerd von Rundstedt, German military (n. 1875).
• 1960: Antonio Vallejo-Nágera, Spanish psychiatrist (n. 1889).
• 1964: Alexander Archipenko, Russian sculptor, American nationalized (n. 1887).
• 1967: Franz Waxman, German composer (n. 1906).
• 1973: Manolo Caracol, Spanish flamenco singer (n. 1909).
• 1975: Nikolái Bulganin, Soviet President between 1955 and 1958 (n. 1895).
• 1978: Alma Thomas, an expressionist painter and professor of American art (n. 1891).
• 1983: Agapito Marazuela, Spanish musician (n. 1891).
• 1988: Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (n. 1921).
• 1990: Sandro Pertini, Italian politician (n. 1896).
• 1991: Hector Rial, Spanish-Argentine footballer (n. 1928).
• 1991: John Charles Daly, American journalist (n. 1914).
• 1993: Bobby Moore, British footballer (n. 1941).
• 1993: Hernando Viñes, a Spanish painter (n. 1904).
• 1994: Jean Sablon, French singer (n. 1906).
• 1994: Dinah Shore, American singer (n. 1917).
• 2001: Claude Elwood Shannon, American mathematician and electric engineer (n. 1916).
• 2002: Leo Ornstein, Russian composer and pianist (n. 1893).
• 2003: Antoni Torres García, Spanish footballer (n. 1943).
• 2005: Eduardo A. Elizondo Lozano, a Mexican lawyer and politician (n. 1922).
• 2006: Don Knotts, American actor (n. 1924).
• 2006: Dennis Weaver, American actor (n. 1924).
• 2006: Carlos Martínez Sotomayor, lawyer, diplomat and Chilean politician (n. 1929).
• 2007: Bruce Bennett, American actor and singer (n. 1906).
• 2008: Rui Torres, Mexican TV presenter (n. 1976).
• 2010: Antonio Alegre, Argentine sports leader (n. 1924).
• 2012: Jorge Swett, muralist, painter, lawyer and Guatemalan writer (n. 1926).
• 2014: Harold Ramis, actor, screenwriter and American film director (n. 1944).
• 2020: Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist (n. 1919).
• 2020: Katherine Johnson, U.S. Physics, Space Science and Mathematics (n. 1918).
• 2020: Baby Peggy, American actress (n. 1918).
• 2021: Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss French-speaking poet and translator (n. 1925).

Celebrations

• Mexico: Mexican Flag Day.
• Paraguay: Paraguayan Women ' s Day

Psychology day

Catholic saints list

• Saint Evecio of Nicomedia (f. 303)
• San Sergio de Capadocia
• San Pedro Palatinomartyr (f. 303)
• San Modesto de Tréveris, bishop (f. c. 480)
• San Etelberto de KentKing of Kent (f. 616)
• Beato Contancio de Fabriano Servioli, presbyter (f. 1481)
• Beato Marcos de Marconi(f. 1510)
• Blessed Josefa Naval Girbés(f. 1510)
• Blessed Thomas Mary Fusco, presbyter (f. 1891)