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February 28 is the 59th (fifty-ninth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days left to end the year and 307 days in leap years.

Events

202 B.C.: Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, starting four centuries of government by the Han dynasty.
92 B.C.: In Cyprus, Syria, Israel and Egypt there is an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 in the seismological scale of Richter, which generates a tsunami.
364: Valentinian I is appointed Roman emperor.
380: in Zaragoza, a council for the first time condemns Priscilianism.
380: In Thessalonica (Greece) the Roman Emperor Theodosius I decrees the Thessaloniki Edict (also known as Cunctos Populos).
1443: In Naples, Italy, Alfonso V of Aragon brings together General States, in which he makes known Fernando I of Naples as his successor.
1465: the battle of Calaf takes place.
1482: in Spain, the Marquis of Cadiz, Rodrigo Ponce de León, conquest for the Kingdom of Castile the square of Alhama of Granada, (Guerra de Granada).
1525: In Mexico, the Spanish military, Hernán Cortés, executed Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor.
1571: in Spain, Felipe II decrees the organization of the Spanish army.
1574: The first car of faith is performed in Mexico City.
1707: In Spain, the king writes a Royal Council that incorporates to the Crown the confiscated goods to the Granada Moors.
1780: In Iran, an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 in Richter's seismological scale causes 200,000 dead and great material damage. See [[First earthquakes between the century]X and the XIX]].
1788: In Venezuela the village of San Fernando de Apure is founded.
1789: in Spain, a decree of the king allows the trafficking of African slaves in Cuba.
1792: Aranda's count is appointed prime minister of the cabinet of Carlos IV, where he replaces the count of Floridablanca.
1811: In the East Bank (now Uruguay), the patriot Venancio Benavides launches the Asencio shout, starting the Eastern Revolution.
1814: the army of Simon Bolivar defeats the forces of Spanish José Tomás Boves in the First Battle of St.
1827: In the United States, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad becomes the first railway company in that country to offer commercial transport of people and goods.
1844: A weapon at the USS Princeton explodes while the ship is on a cruise along the Potomac River, killing six people, including two members of the United States Cabinet.
1844: at the Teatro de la Cruz (Madrid) theatrical work is premiered Don Juan TenorioJosé Zorrilla.
1847: the Battle of Sacramento is delivered between the forces of the United States and the Second Federal Republic (Mexico), during the U.S. Intervention in Mexico, with a decisive American victory.
1848: The Second Republic is officially proclaimed in France.
1854: In the village of Amotape (in the northern end of Peru) the Venezuelan educator Simon Rodríguez, who was the teacher of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, died exiled.
1870: Bulgaria reaches the level of protectorate according to a decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
1874: One of the longest cases that have been heard in an English court ends when the defendant is found guilty of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir of the Tichborne Barontique.
1900: Second War Boer: 118 days of the "Sirsmith site".
1904: In Lisbon, Portugal founded the Sport Lisboa e Benfica.
1922: Egypt is independent of the British Empire.
1928: Chandrasekhara Raman published the Raman Effect.
1935: Wallace Carothers creates the nylon.
1940: The first basketball game (Fordham University vs. University of Pittsburgh.
1941: In Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia) the football club Santa Fe was founded
1942: the Battle of the Strait of the Sonda was delivered between the forces of Japan and the Allied forces in the framework of the Second World War.
1954: in the Bikini atoll (Marshall Islands), the United States detonates the 15 Mt (megaton) Bravo hydrogen bomb. In comparison, the Soviet Zar Bomb (the most powerful in History, 1961) was 50 Mt, and the Little Boy (launched in 1945 on the civilian population of Hiroshima) was 0.016 Mt. The radioactive rain pollutes the Japanese fishing crew Lucky Dragon Five (of whom one of them will die six months later) and the American soldiers themselves.
1955: the Hanoi-Pekín-Mosco-Berlin railway line is inaugurated.
1959: The first private television station, known as Radio HIN Television (Rahintel), is inaugurated in the Dominican Republic.
1964: in Istanbul, Turkey Turgut Erenerol is appointed second Patriarch of the Turkish Orthodox Church under the name Eftim II.
1969: a 7.8 earthquake on the Richter scale shook Western Andalusia and South Portugal.
1971: In Caracas, Venezuela creates the Rajatabla Theatral Group.
1974: The United States and Egypt reestablish diplomatic relations after seven years.
1974: The first round of elections is held in the United Kingdom.

Queen next to Maradona, Argentina 1981.

1975: in London, United Kingdom, a subway train collides with a wall at the Moorgate station in the London metro accident the most serious.
1980: Spain approves in referendum the access of Andalusia to autonomy through the procedure of article 151 of the Spanish Constitution.
1981: at José Amalfitani Stadium, Queen first appeared in Argentina.
1986: In Stockholm, Olof Palme, the former Swedish Prime Minister, was murdered.
1990: In the Soviet Union, private ownership of the means of production and its transmission to the descendants is recognized.
1993: In Waco (Texas), agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms join the siege of the davidian church to try to arrest their leader David Koresh. Four agents and five Davidians die in the first shooting of the siege.
1997: two bank robbers (Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu) heavily armed with among other AK-47s, face the police at the gates of a bank branch Bank of America in what was called North Hollywood Shooting.
1998: in Kosovo—in the framework of the Kosovo War—the Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovar Liberation Army.
2002: the European Convention begins the drafting work of the European Constitution.
2002: in Spain, the peseta (Spanish currency) ceases to be a legal course.
2007: In Peru a helicopter crashed, killing 3 people and wounding 3 others.
2012: India declares a general strike that accumulates 100 million workers.
2013: in Vatican City Pope Benedict XVI resigns, being the first pontiff to do so in the contemporary era and the fourth in the history of the Catholic Church.
2014: the University of Guadalajara receives the recognition of "Benemérita" by the Congress of the State of Jalisco.

Births

1155: Enrique el Joven, aristocrat french (f. 1183).
1261: Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (f. 1283).
1462: Juana la Beltraneja, daughter of Henry IV of Castile and queen consorte of Portugal (f. 1530).

Michel de Montaigne.

1533: Michel de Montaigne, French writer and philosopher (f. 1592).
1552: Joost Bürgi, Swiss watchmaker (f. 1632).
1606: William Davenant, English poet and playwright (f. 1668).
1675: Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (f. 1726).
1683: Rene Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, a French scientist (f. 1757).

Louis Godin.

1704: Louis Godin, French astronomer (f. 1760).
1712: Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military (f. 1759).
1714: Gizziello (Gioachino Conti), singer castrato italiano (f. 1761).
1761: José María España, militar y patriota Venezuela (f. 1799).
1777: Angel Augusto de Monastery, sculptor, military and political Argentinean (f. 1817).
1812: Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author (f. 1882).
1820: John Tenniel, British drawer (f. 1914).
1825: Jean-Baptiste Arban, a French musician (f. 1889).

Antonio Guzmán Blanco.

1829: Antonio Guzmán Blanco, politician and Venezuelan president (f. 1899).
1833: Alfred von Schlieffen, German military (f. 1913).
1840: Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (f. 1892).
1841: Albert de Mun, a French politician (f. 1914).

Francisco Eguiguren Escudero.

1855: Francisco Eguiguren Escudero, dodado, jurist and Peruvian politician (f. 1921).
1871: Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, a Venezuelan modernist writer (f. 1927).
1873: William Murdoch, British Marine (f. 1912).
1878: Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (f. 1929).
1879: Franz Tamayo, Bolivian politician and writer (f. 1956).
1882: Geraldine Farrar, soprano and American actress (f. 1967).
1886: José Gutiérrez-Solana, a Spanish painter (f. 1945).
1889: Victor Sutherland, American actor (f. 1968).
1890: Anatol Gorélik, a Ukrainian anarchist (f. 1956).
1894: Ben Hecht, American screenwriter (f. 1964).
1895: Marcel Pagnol, novelist, screenwriter and French filmmaker (f. 1974).

Philip Showalter Hench.

Linus Pauling.

1896: Philip S. Hench, American physician, nobel medical prize in 1950 (f. 1965).
1898: Molly Picon, American actress (f. 1992)
1900: Wolfram Hirth, German pilot and aviation engineer (f. 1959).
1901: Linus Pauling, American biochemist, nobel chemistry award in 1954 and peace in 1962 (f. 1994).
1902: Marcela Paz, Chilean writer (f. 1985).
1903: Vincente Minnelli, American filmmaker (f. 1986).
1906: Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (f. 1947).
1906: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu, Mexican politician (f. 1997).
1907: Milton Caniff, American hysterist (f. 1988).
1907: Raúl Soulés Baldó, a Venezuelan physician and politician (f. 1976).
1908: William Coldstream, British painter (f. 1987).
1909: Stephen Spender, British poet (f. 1995).
1912: Clara Petacci, an Italian woman, lover of Benito Mussolini, murdered (f. 1945).
1915: Salvador Anania, dentist and Argentine politician (f. 1995).

Peter Brian Medawar.

1915: Peter Brian Medawar, British scientist, nobel prize for physiology in 1960 (f. 1987).
1915: Zero Mostel, American actor (f. 1977).
1917: Ernesto Alonso, Mexican filmmaker (f. 2007).
1917: Evangelista Chavarría, Costa Rican cyclist (f. 1986).
1919: Brian Urquhart, a British diplomat and soldier (f. 2021).
1920: Teodoro Kantor, Argentine writer and journalist (f. 2011).
1921: Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (f. 2006).
1921: Antonio Ferrandis, Spanish actor (f. 2000).
1922: Yuri Lotman, a Russian linguist and semiologist (f. 1993).
1923: Charles Durning, American actor (f. 2012).
1924: Christopher C. Kraft, American engineer (f. 2019).

Louis Nirenberg.

1925: Louis Nirenberg, Canadian mathematician (f. 2020).
1926: Svetlana Alilúyeva, Soviet writer, daughter of Stalin (f. 2011).
1928: Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and producer (f. 1976).
1928: Rex Mossop, Australian rugby player (f. 2011).
1928: Sylvia Del Villard, actress, choreographer and Puerto Rican dancer (f. 1990).
1929: Frank Gehry, American architect.
1930: Leon N. Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972.

Gavin MacLeod.

1930: Gavin MacLeod, American Christian actor and activist (f. 2021).
1931: Dean Smith, American basketball coach.
1932: Luis Vinício, footballer and Brazilian coach.
1934: Mandolino, a Chilean comedian.
1939: Daniel Chee Tsui, a Chinese-American physicist, a nobel physics award in 1998.
1939: Kamel Lemoui, Algerian footballer (f. 2022).
1940: Mario Andretti, American motor racing pilot.
1941: Tristan Garel-Jones, British politician (f. 2020).
1942: Ántero Flores-Aráoz, Peruvian lawyer and politician.
1942: Brian Jones, British musician, of the band The Rolling Stones (f. 1969).
1942: Dino Zoff, Italian footballer.
1943: Octavio Ocampo, Mexican painter.
1943: Rodrigo Martínez Morilla, Spanish footballer (f. 2021).
1943: Álvaro López Miera, Cuban military.
1943: Pilar Brabo, Spanish politics (f. 1993).
1944: Kelly Bishop, American actress.
1944: Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (f. 1983).
1944: Sepp Maier, German footballer.
1945: Bubba Smith, American football actor and player (f. 2011).
1945: Zygmunt Hanusik, Polish cyclist (f. 2021).
1946: Mirtha Ibarra, writer, playwright and Cuban actress.
1947: Stephanie Beacham, British actress.
1947: Włodzimierz Lubański, Polish footballer.
1947: Salvador Flamenco, Salvadoran footballer.
1948: Steven Chu, American scientist, nobel Prize for Physics in 1997.
1948: Mike Figgis, British filmmaker.
1948: Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer.
1948: Mercedes Ruehl, American actress.
1948: Kjell Isaksson, Swedish athlete.
1950: Imanol Uribe, Spanish filmmaker of Salvadoran origin.
1950: Andrés Roldán, Cuban footballer.
1951: Salvador Escrihuela Quiles, Spanish footballer (f. 2021).
1953: Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian pilot.
1953: Paul Krugman, an American economist.
1953: Levir Culpi, footballer and Brazilian coach.
1953: Luther Burden, American basketball player (f. 2015).
1955: Gilbert Gottfried, American comic (F. 2022).
1956: Mimí Ardú, an Argentine actress.
1956: Guy Maddin, Canadian filmmaker
1956: Adrian Dantley, American basketball player.
1956: Tommy Remengesau, president of Palao.
1957: Ainsley Harriott, British cook.
1957: John Turturro, American actor.
1958: Eduardo Blanco, Argentine actor.
1958: María Casal, Spanish actress.
1958: Hendrika Vegter, Dutch sailor.
1959: Marcia Mitzman Gaven, American actress.
1960: Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model (f. 1980).
1961: Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian actress.
1962: Kitarō Kōsaka, animator and Japanese filmmaker.
1963: Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist.
1963: Mauricio Saldívar, Argentine meteorologist.
1963: César Flores Maldonado, a Mexican politician and lawyer.
1963: Pepe Mel, footballer and Spanish coach.
1964: Dzhamolidin Abduzhaparov, Uzbek cyclist.
1964: Pierre Hantaï, director of French orchestra and filmmaker.
1965: Monika Wagner, German curling player.
1966: Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer.
1966: Antonio Delli, TV actor, theater, cinema and Venezuelan bent.
1967: Alberto Camargo, Colombian cyclist.
1968: Jorge Enrique Abello, Colombian actor.
1968: José Ordóñez Jr., humorist, pastor and Colombian comedian.
1968: Eric Van Meir, Belgian footballer.
1969: Robert Sean Leonard, American actor.
1969: U. Srinivas, an Indian musician (f. 2014).
1970: Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), American writer.
1970: Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete.
1970: Karlo Kuret, Croatian sailor.
1971: Junya Nakano, Japanese composer.
1972: Rory Cochrane, American actor.
1972: Jan Boven, Dutch cyclist.
1973: Nicolas Minassian, French racing pilot.
1973: Diego Reinhold, actor, comedian and Argentine television driver.
1973: Masato Tanaka, Japanese professional fighter.
1973: Raúl Rodrigo Lara, Mexican footballer.
1973: Zigor Aranalde, Spanish footballer.
1973: Xavi Valero, Spanish footballer.
1973: João Batista Da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
1974: Lee Carsley, Irish footballer and coach.
1974: Alexander Zickler, German footballer.
1974: Amanda Abbington, British actress.
1974: Alekséi Poliakov, Russian-Uzbek footballer.
1974: Kevin Abrams, American football player.
1975: Elijah Tana, Zambian footballer.
1975: Mette Nielsen, Danish swimmer.
1975: Josep Sucarrats Miró, Spanish journalist.
1976: Monica Farro, vedette and Uruguayan actress.
1976: Ali Larter, American actress.
1976: Geri Çipi, Albanian footballer.
1976: Francisco Elson, Dutch basketball player.
1976: José Manuel Roca Cases, footballer and Spanish coach.
1977: Jason Aldean, American singer.
1977: Rafael Amaya, Mexican actor.
1977: Jean-François Rivière, French footballer.
1977: Janne Saarinen, Finnish footballer.
1977: Lance Archer, American professional fighter.
1977: Aaron Aguilera, American professional fighter.
1977: Richard Naylor, English footballer.
1977: Mirza Džomba, Croatian basketball player.
1977: Chris Wooding, British writer.
1977: Rodrigo Sopeña, Spanish television director.
1977: Tatiana Levina, Russian athlete.
1977: Sandrine Paquier, Swiss swimmer.
1977: Pierre Mignoni, French rugby player.
1977: Tarik El Taib, a Libyan footballer.
1977: Gabriel Ortega Sanz, actor, screenwriter, singer and Spanish politician.
1977: J. T. Petty, American film director.
1977: Kehinde Wiley, American painter.
1978: Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player.
1978: Mariano Zabaleta, Argentine tennis player.
1978: Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier.
1978: Jefferson Fredo Rodrigues, Brazilian footballer.
1978: Rowen Fernández, South African footballer.
1978: Mira Luoti, Finnish singer.
1979: Sébastien Bourdais, a French motor racing driver.
1979: Ivo Karlović, Croatian tennis player.
1979: Sander van Doorn, DJ and Dutch music producer trance and house.
1979: Andriy Nesmachniy, Ukrainian footballer.
1979: Stefan Wessels, German footballer.
1979: Remco van der Schaaf, Dutch footballer.
1979: Alberto Zapata, Panamanian footballer.
1979: Michael Bisping, English martial art fighter.
1979: Balomenos Spyros, Greek basketball player.
1979: Levi Cash, American pornographic actor.
1979: Chris Hayes, American journalist.
1980: Piotr Giza, Polish footballer.
1980: Christian Poulsen, Danish footballer.
1980: Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player.
1980: Omar Pouso, Uruguayan footballer.
1980: Alberto Batun Chulim, Mexican politician.
1981: Florent Serra, French tennis player.
1981: Roberto Trashorras, Spanish footballer.
1981: Jordi López, Spanish footballer.
1981: Kazuhisa Hamaoka, Japanese footballer.
1981: Marco Tulio, Brazilian footballer.
1981: Mark Brown, Scottish footballer.
1981: Mopsi Veromaa, Finnish shooter.
1982: Martin Galmarini, Argentine soccer player.
1982: Natalia Vodiánova, Russian model.
1982: Jonathan Aspas, Spanish footballer.
1983: Jorge Pina Roldán, Spanish footballer.
1983: Ferran Pol, footballer andorrano.
1983: Thiago dos Santos Costa, Brazilian footballer.
1984: Karolin Kurková, Czech model.
1984: Fredrik Stoor, Swedish footballer.
1984: Raúl Cámara, Spanish footballer.
1984: Gergely Boros, Hungarian penguinist.
1984: Deyan Gueorguiev, Bulgarian penguinist.
1984: Noureen DeWulf, American actress.
1985: Diego Ribas, Brazilian footballer.
1985: Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer.
1985: Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player.
1985: Víctor Casadesús, Spanish footballer.
1985: Marco Cusin, Italian basketball player.
1985: Becky Kim, American swimmer.
1985: Esther Lofgren, American shirt.
1986: Grenddy Perozo, Venezuelan footballer.
1986: David Blumer, Swiss footballer.
1986: Jakson Coelho, Brazilian footballer.
1986: Brendan Neufeld, Canadian curling player.
1987: Kerrea Gilbert, British footballer.
1987: Sabrina Vega Gutiérrez, a Spanish chess player.
1987: Stephanie Sigman, Mexican actress.
1987: Antonio Candreva, Italian footballer.
1988: Markéta Irglová, singer-songwriter and Czech actress.
1988: Candela Márquez, Spanish actress.
1988: Jonas Elmer, Swiss footballer.
1988: Gerardo Vonder Putten, Uruguayan footballer.
1988: Kalú Gastelum, Mexican footballer.
1988: Victor Hugo Melgar, Bolivian footballer.
1988: Jumma Genaro, Sudanese footballer.
1989: Zhang Li Yin, Chinese singer and artist.
1989: César González (poet), Argentine poet and filmmaker.
1989: Fábio Aguiar, Brazilian footballer.
1989: Giovani Luiz Neitzke, Brazilian footballer.
1989: Alberto Escassi, Spanish footballer.
1989: Leandro Montagud, Spanish footballer.
1989: Erick Téllez, a Nicaraguan footballer.
1989: Besar Musolli, footballer kosovar.
1989: Shaun Cummings, English footballer.
1989: Angelababy, Chinese actress and model.
1989: David Louhoungou, French footballer.
1989: Rodolfo González Aránguiz, Chilean footballer.
1990: Georgina Leonidas, British actress.
1990: Pablo Acosta, Uruguayan footballer.
1990: Morten Nielsen, Danish footballer.
1990: Fábio da Conceição Amorim, Brazilian footballer.
1990: Daniel Pérez Otero, Spanish basketball player.
1990: Sebastian Rudy, German footballer.
1990: Naomi Broady, British tennis player.
1990: Julian Guillermo Rojas, Colombian footballer.
1990: Javi Cabezas, Spanish footballer.
1990: Diego Chavarría, Salvadoran footballer.
1990: Felix Wimberger, German plumber.
1991: Alejandro Valencia, Mexican actor and model.
1991: Sarah Bolger, Irish actress.
1992: Lucie Vonkova, Czech footballer.
1992: Cristian Brolli, a Sanmarinian footballer.
1993: Álvarez Balanta, a Colombian footballer.
1993: Emmelie de Forest, Danish winner of the Eurovision Festival 2013.
1993: Néstor Salinas Alonso, Spanish footballer.
1993: Andre Hoffmann, German footballer.
1994: Jake Bugg, British singer.
1994: Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer.
1994: Ghailene Chaalali, Tunisian footballer.
1994: Ibrahima Cissé, Belgian footballer.
1994: Rodrigo Senattore, Uruguayan tennis player.
1995: Javi Muñoz Jiménez, Spanish footballer.
1995: Jon Guridi, Spanish footballer.
1995: Serigne Abdou Thiam, a Catalan footballer (f. 2016).
1995: Madisen Beaty, American actress.
1995: Randy Arozarena, Cuban baseball player.
1995: Sholto Carnegie, British Remero.
1995: Piotr Johansson, Swedish footballer.
1995: Alesha Zappitella, American fighter.
1996: Danilo Barbosa da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
1996: Lucas Boyé, Argentine footballer.
1996: Karsten Warholm, Norwegian athlete.
1996: Marcos Bolados, Chilean footballer.
1996: Dhea Annisa, an Indonesian actress and singer.
1996: Niels Van Zandweghe, Belgian Remero.
1997: Kyōko Yoshine, Japanese actress.
1997: Mady Camara, a Guinean footballer.
1997: Michael Storer, Australian cyclist.
1997: Kathleen Baker, American swimmer.
1997: Brock Anderso, American fighter.
1997: Ace Austin, American fighter.
1997: Brayan Caicedo, Colombian footballer.
1997: Andrea Falcón, Spanish footballer.
1997: Jordan Murphy, American basketball player.
1997: Mustapha Bundu, Sierra Leonean footballer.
1997: Erec Bruckert, German bobsleigh pilot.
1998: Teun Koopmeiners, Dutch footballer.
1998: Roman Babyak, Ukrainian footballer.
1998: Cassius Winston, American basketball player.
1998: Jimmy Congo, Colombian footballer.
1998: Brian Orosco, Argentine soccer player.
1998: Barthélémy Chinenyeze, French volleyballist.
1998: Edmilsa Governo, Mozambican athlete.
1998: Karl Vallner, Estonian footballer.
1999: Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player.
1999: Patricio Gregorio, Uruguayan footballer.
1999: Eric Cantú, Mexican footballer.
1999: Keyshawn Davis, American boxer.
1999: Johan Lara, Ecuadorian footballer.
1999: James Mitri, British cyclist.
1999: Sebastian Adamczyk, Polish volleyballist.
1999: Nedim Bajrami, Swiss-Albanian footballer.
1999: Aaron Cole, American rapper.
2000: Moise Kean, Italian footballer.
2000: Paula del Rio, Spanish actress.
2000: Maksym Ahapov, Ukrainian footballer.
2000: Ismael Corraliza, Spanish basketball player.
2000: Jordan Rezabala, Ecuadorian footballer.
2000: Josip Šutalo, Croatian footballer.
2000: Yuki Ogaki, Japanese footballer.
2000: Gonzalo Crettaz, Spanish-Argentine footballer.
2000: Ramiro Balbuena, Argentine soccer player.
2000: Bartłomiej Koziejko, Polish swimmer.
2000: Lucia Sánchez Laguna, Spanish football player.
2001: Jorge Herrando, Spanish footballer.
2002: Marin Ljubičić, Croatian footballer.
2003: Brodie Young, British athlete.
2003: Cian Uijtdebroeks, Belgian cyclist.
2003: Tarik Muharemović, Bosnian footballer.
2005: Vitor Roque, Brazilian footballer.
2007: Lalla Khadija, Moroccan princess.

Deaths

628: Khosrow II, king of the Sassanian Empire (n. ?).
911: Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i, Muslim Shiite magnet.
1510: Juan de la Cosa, navigator and Spanish cartographer.
1525: Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor.
1572: Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (n. 1505).
1589: Diego Pérez de Valdivia, Spanish religious.
1613: Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and chronist (n. 1559).
1621: Cosme II de Médicis, an Italian aristocrat (n. 1590).
1648: Christian IV, Danish king (n. 1577).
1746: Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (n. 1660).
1854: Simon Rodriguez, a Venezuelan philosopher and educator (n. 1769).
1869: Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet and politician (n. 1790).
1881: Jesús González Ortega, Mexican military and political (n. 1822).
1903: Laureano Figuerola, a Spanish politician and economist (n. 1816).
1914: Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, Cuban politician, President of the Republic of Cuba in Arms (n. 1828).
1916: Henry James, American writer and literary critic (n. 1843).
1917: Almafuerte, Argentine poet.
1925: Friedrich Ebert, German chancellor (n. 1871).
1932: Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (n. 1851).
1935: Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (n. 1847).
1936: Charles Nicolle, French doctor, nobel medical prize in 1928.
1941: Alfonso XIII, king of Spain (n. 1886).
1956: Carlo Gnocchi, Italian priest (n. 1902).
1959: Maxwell Anderson, American playwright (n. 1888).
1962: Julio Camba, Spanish journalist and writer (n. 1884).
1963: Rajendra Prasad, first Indian president (n. 1884).
1967: Henry Luce, American journalist (n. 1898).
1968: Nikolái Vóronov, Soviet military (n. 1899)
1973: Tito Rodríguez, singer, orchestra director and Puerto Rican musician (n. 1923).
1973: Cecil Kellaway, British actor (n. 1893).
1974: Carlos Keller, Chilean politician (n. 1897).
1977: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor (n. 1905).
1977: José Luis Romero, Argentine historian (n. 1909).
1978: Philip Ahn, American actor (n. 1905).
1978: Eric Frank Russell, British writer (n. 1905).
1981: Tono Andreu, an Argentine actor (n. 1915).
1981: Alvaro Cunqueiro, writer and Spanish chronist (n. 1911).
1981: Virginia Huston, American actress (n. 1925).
1984: Osvaldo Pacheco, an Argentine actor (n. 1932).
1985: David Byron, British singer, of the Uriah Heep band (n. 1947).
1986: Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister.
1986: Liudmila Rudenko Soviet Chess (n. 1904).
1988: Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese writer (n. 1889).
1991: Abel Quezada, writer, historietist and Mexican cartoonist (n. 1920).
1993: Ruby Keeler, actress, singer and Canadian dancer (n. 1909).
1994: Enrico Maria Salerno, Italian actor and filmmaker (n. 1926).
1998: Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (n. 1930).
1998: Antonio Quarracino, Argentine cardinal (n. 1923).
2002: Aldo Cammarota, writer and Argentine humorist (n. 1930).
2002: Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (n. 1920).
2003: Manuel Ferrol, Spanish photographer (n. 1923).
2003: Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran politician and military.
2004: Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer.
2004: Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian (n. 1914).
2005: Francisco Cabrero, Spanish architect (n. 1912).
2006: Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, nobel physics award in 1959 (n. 1920).
2007: Charles Forte, a British businessman and magnate of Italian origin.
2007: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian (n. 1917).
2008: Joseph Juran engineer and expert in Romanian quality control (n. 1904).
2008: Mike Smith, band keyman The Dave Clark Five (n. 1943).
2010: Jorge Villamil, a Colombian composer and traumatologist. (n. 1929).
2010: Carlos Montemayor, Mexican writer and translator (n. 1947).
2011: Annie Girardot, French actress (n. 1931).
2011: Jane Russell, American actress (n. 1921).
2013: Donald A. Glaser, American physicist (n. 1926).
2015: Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer (n. 1923).
2016: George Kennedy, American actor (n. 1925).
2017: Alfonso Baella Tuesta, journalist, lawyer and politician (n. 1926).
2018: Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (n. 1936).
2019: André Previn, pianist, director of American orchestra and composer (n. 1929).
2020: Freeman Dyson, American physicist and mathematician (n. 1923).
2021: Jorge Oñate was a Colombian musician, singer and composer of Vallenata music. (n. 1950).
2021: Milan Bandić, Croatian politician (n. 1955).