February 3rd

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February 3 is the 34th (thirty-fourth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 331 days to the end of the year and 332 in leap years.

Events

1377: more than 2000 people are killed in the Italian city of Cesena during the Eight Saints War.
1451: Mehmed II begins his second term as a Sultan of the Ottoman Empire after succeeding Murad II.
1522: the city of Toledo (Spain) surrenders to the troops of Carlos I during the War of Communities.
1536: In the current Argentina, on the banks of the Río de la Plata, Pedro de Mendoza founded the village of Nuestra Señora del Buen Ayre, first settlement in the current location of Buenos Aires. It will be destroyed in a few years, and rebuilt almost half a century later.
1574: In the Russian Empire, the Rise Ivan the Terrible, enters into marriage for the fourth time.
1614: The ballet is represented in the Louvre Palace (in Paris) Don Quichotte dansé par Mme Sautenir.
1651: The Paris Parliament demands the dismissal of Cardinal Jules Mazzarino as Prime Minister.
1783: Britain recognizes the independence of the United States.
1807: An English invasion begins in Montevideo (Uruguay).
1813: In the village of San Lorenzo (Argentina) the battle of San Lorenzo takes place: the Granaderos to Caballo in command of José de San Martín beat a Spanish expedition in command of Commander Juan Antonio Zabala.
1820: In Chile, the British military Thomas Cochrane takes over the city of Valdivia, ending with one of the Spanish bastions of importance on the Pacific coast.
1825: On the German coast of the North Sea, about 800 people die drowned because of a cyclic mare.
1830: Greece is independent of the Ottoman Empire.
1839: The British occupy Karachi.
1843: In Argentina, the Bosnian governor Juan Manuel de Rosas organizes the site of Montevideo (Uruguay).
1852: In Argentina the battle of Caseros is waged, where the forces commanded by Justo José de Urquiza defeat those of Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1867: In Mexico City, the National Preparatory School begins its work.
1870: the king of Italy rejects the crown of Spain for his nephew, Tomás Alberto de Saboya, Duke of Genoa.
1875: During the Third Carlist War there is the Surprise of Lacar, in which King Alfonso XII was about to be captured by the Carlist troops.
1900: In the context of the Anglo-Boer War, Boer sources confirm that in the last week their losses in human lives amount to 1100 troops, while some 600 have been seriously injured.
1900: Mexican War Minister General Bernardo Reyes announces the peace proposal offered to the Yaquis natives to put an end to their independence revolt: the guarantee of maintaining the ownership of their lands and the right to Mexican citizenship.^{[chuckles]required]}
1900: in the Bacatete (Sonora) mountains, Mexican General Lorenzo Torres died, commander of the forces that suffocated the rebellion of the Yaquis natives. Army casualties in this conflict would amount to 358.
1900: the Brazilian government announces the arrest of "several monarchical elements that were conjuring the Republic."^{[chuckles]required]}
1900: In Vienna (Austria), Brussels (Belgium) and Aquisgrán (Germany), there are large strikes of workers in demand for wage and social improvements.
1904: in Murcia the river Segura is over.
1906: the Japanese government increases the tonnage of its marine from 240 000 to 400 000 tons.
1912: In Ferrol, the kings of Spain—Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg—go to the boot of the Spain, new Navy battleship.
1915: The conference of allied finance ministers is held in Paris.
1916: In Germany, confiscation of textile industries begins.^{[chuckles]required]}
1916: Iván Goremykin is replaced by Borís Shtiúrmer in the presidency of the Council of Russian Ministers.
1917: In the context of the Great War, the United States of America breaks diplomatic relations with the German Empire.
1917: in Germany the coal crisis forces the rationing in consumption.^{[chuckles]required]}
1919: Soviet forces occupy Ukraine. A mixed government is formed in Kiev.
1923: Britain recognizes its debt of $4600 million to the United States.
1926: General of brigade is now an infantry colonel Francisco Franco (34 years), at that time, the youngest in Europe.
1926: Czech becomes an official language of Czechoslovakia and the country's minority languages are given great advantages.
1927: In Portugal, opposition to the government of General António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona organizes military uprisings in Lisbon and Porto.
1930: The Royal Spanish Football Federation agrees not to participate in the Montevideo World Championship.
1930: the Communist Party of Vietnam is founded.
1931: an earthquake destroys several cities in New Zealand and causes the death of more than a thousand people.
1932: five consecutive earthquakes destroy a considerable portion of Santiago de Cuba.
1933: Nicaragua's civil war concludes with a peace treaty signed by Augusto César Sandino, head of the revolutionary forces, and President Juan Bautista Sacasa.
1935: Astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend discovers a new asteroid, named after Alain.
1939: the head of the Belgian Rexist Party, Léon Degrelle, arrives in Burgos.
1943: Finland engages in negotiations with the Soviet Union to seek peace.
1944: In Spain – in the framework of the Second World War – the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco reaffirms the "strict neutrality" of Spain.
1945: in the United States the film is released The three gentlemen (from Walt Disney).
1945: As part of World War II, American troops enter Manila.
1945: The Allies throw 3000 tons of bombs on the civilian population in Berlin, in revenge for the Nazi bombing of London.
1945: The Spanish Government creates the Tabacalera monopoly by decree.
1950: In London, German physicist Klaus Fuchs, accused of espionage for the benefit of the Soviet Union, is stopped.
1951: In Czechoslovakia, Vladimír Clementis, Minister of Foreign Affairs, are arrested.
1954: in Huelva, Andalusia south of Spain, for the first time in its history.
1957: in Monterrey, Mexico, the Teatro María Tereza Montoya is inaugurated.
1957: in Paraguay the dictator Stroessner founded Puerto Stroessner (current Eastern City, on the Triple Border).
1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper die when they crashed the plane they were traveling on.
1961: The People ' s Republic of China purchases barley and wheat to Canada in the amount of $60 million in order to alleviate the shortage of grain in the country.
1961: in Cienfuegos (Cuba), a group of Cuban leaders—in the framework of the Rebellion of the Escambray—are attacking during the celebration of the feasts of the Virgin of the Candelaria, in which the priest Germán Lence (who was a professor at the University of Pedagogic Sciences of Holguín) was wounded. As they were captured, they said they had Mario Llerena as an "uncommunist ideological referendum."
1962: In Christchurch, New Zealander Peter Snell gets a world record by running 800 m in 1 minute, 44 seconds and 3 tenths.
1963: in Granadilla de Abona (Tenerife) a building collapses when about a thousand people lined up to get the DNI, causing 23 deaths and more than 100 wounded.
1965: There is an 8.7 earthquake in the Rata Islands that causes a tsunami.
1966: on the Moon the Soviet probe lands Moon 9 and emits images from the Sea of Storms. It is the first human ship to descend softly into another star (now the American ship Ranger 4 had crashed on the Moon on 26 April 1962.
1969: In Palestine, the National Congress appoints Yasir Arafat as head of the PLO.
1971: OPEC unilaterally fixes oil prices.
1972: In Sapporo, Japan, the XI Winter Olympics are opened.
1975: in Cali, Colombia, the honorary consul of the Netherlands is kidnapped by the FARC.
1977: in Ethiopia, coup d ' état of the Vice-President of the Provisional Military Administrative Council (CAMP), Mengistu Haile Mariam, in which the head of State, Tafari Benti, is assassinated.
1979: In Madrid, Olof Palme holds a conference in a commemorative event of the centenary of the PSOE.
1980: the kings of Spain begin their first official visit to the Basque Country.
1983: in the Vatican City, Pope John Paul II presents the new Code of Canon Law.
1984: in Caracas (Venezuela), six Spanish-American and Spanish democratic countries—after suffering decades of right-wing military dictatorships—sign the Declaration of Caracasin which democracy is called the best political system for Hispanic America.
1985: in Johannesburg, South Africa, Desmond Tutu became the first Anglican black bishop.
1986: In Costa Rica, the Social Democrat Oscar Arias is elected president.
1987: Spanish Minister of Education, José María Maravall, said he was willing to dialogue with student representatives.
1989: In Paraguay the dictator Alfredo Stroessner is dismissed as a result of a coup led by General Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, who would lead a provincial government thus ending with the longest dictatorship in South America (35 years).
1990: The Supreme Soviet approves the law of secession of the republics of the Soviet Union.
1991: The Italian Communist Party ceases to exist officially after 70 years of history, by approving the XX Congress its conversion into the Democratic Party of the Left.
1992: in Cartagena the protests for the serious industrial crisis that was suffered lead to the burning of the Regional Assembly. It was the first time since 1933 that the civilian population set fire to a democratically elected parliament.
1993: A new case of female genital mutilation was discovered in a hospital inspection in Bañolas (Gerona, Spain) in the daughter of an immigrant from the Gambia.
1994: launch of the Discovery Space Shuttle with a Russian astronaut on board, first in an American space vehicle.
1995: recovered the works of Picasso and Braque stolen from a Stockholm museum in 1993.
1998: In the United States, Karla Faye Tucker—condemned to death for double murder—has become the second woman justice in that country since the restoration of the death penalty in 1976.
1999: The UN decides to withdraw all U.S. and British personnel installed in Iraq.
2000: The German telecommunications group Mannesmann agrees to merge with the British Vodafone.
2000: the Russian army takes Grozni, the Chechen capital.
2000: Austrian federal president, Thomore Klestil, is responsible for the formation of a new government with the popular Wolfgang Schüssel (ÖVP) and the ultra right wing of Jörg Haider (FPÖ).
2002: in Turkey, a strong earthquake causes 44 deaths and hundreds of wounded.
2003: Venezuela concludes the oil strike begun in December.
2003: Nigerian authorities impose a curfew on the south of the country to curb a wave of ethnic violence.
2003: On the Spanish coasts of Tarifa (Cádiz) 163 immigrants were arrested on the road after crossing the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar.
2003: On the Spanish coasts in Galicia and Cantabria continued to arrive the fuel spilled by the Prestige oil ship.
2003: In his mansion in Los Angeles, California, USA, the music producer Phil Spector (1939-) kills the actress and model Lana Clarkson (1962-2003). In 2009 he will be sentenced to 19 years in prison.
2004: The UN announces the urgent need to regulate the commercial exploitation of Antarctica.
2004: In Brazil the heavy rains since last December leave 84 dead.
2004: In Haiti groups of students call for the resignation of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
2005: the magazine Nature publishes a study carried out in a fossil of Antarctica, which shows for the first time accurately that the diversification of birds occurred in the Cretaceous.
2005: The Israeli Government announced the release of 900 Palestinian prisoners and the withdrawal of its troops from five cities, including Jericho.
2005: Instituto Cervantes signed an agreement with the Royal Gallega Academy (RAG) to promote the presence of the language and culture of Galicia in all centers of the Institute.
2006: After a complaint from the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE), the Frikipedia is temporarily removed from the web.
2006: The Spanish Government authorizes the Natural Gas OPA over Endesa, although it imposes some conditions on the operation.
2007: In Valparaiso (Chile) 8 people die for an explosion and fire.
2012: bankruptcy of the Hungarian Malév airline.
2019: in El Salvador the presidential elections were held, giving as the winner to the candidate Nayib Bukele of the GANA party, ending the bipartisanism that ARENA and the FMLN held for 30 years in the Central American country.
2021: In Chile the process of mass vaccination begins after 11 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Births

1689: Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (f. 1741).
1721: Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, a Prussian military (f. 1773).
1736: Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian musician and theorist (f. 1809).
1754: Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, the former virrey of New Spain (f. 1835).
1778: José María Carbonell, procer de la independencia de Colombia (f. 1816).
1790: Gideon Mantell, British paleontologist (f. 1852).
1795: Antonio José de Sucre, politician, statesman and military Venezuelan and Bolivian president between 1825 and 1828 (f. 1830).
1807: Jenaro Pérez Villaamil, a Spanish painter (f. 1854).
1809: Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (f. 1847).
1811: Horace Greeley, an American journalist (f. 1872).
1815: Manuel Moreno López, a Spanish journalist and politician (f. 1868).
1821: Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (f. 1910).
1826: Manuel Castellano, a Spanish painter (f. 1880).
1830: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, British politician (f. 1903).
1843: William Cornelius Van Horne, Canadian railway executive (f. 1915).
1849: Ricardo Magdalena, Spanish architect (f. 1910).
1859: Hugo Junkers, German aircraft builder (f. 1935).
1861: Blas Mora, singer of Aragonese jota (f. 1938).
1862: Nicolás Victoria Jaén, professor, journalist and conservative politician from Panama (f. 1950).
1874: Gertrude Stein, American writer (f. 1946).
1878: Ramón María Aller Ulloa, astronomer, mathematician and Spanish priest (f. 1966).
1887: Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (f. 1914).
1889: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish filmmaker (f. 1968).
1889: Risto Ryti, Finnish President (f. 1956).
1892: Juan Negrín, physiologist and Spanish politician (f. 1956).
1893: Gaston Juliá, French mathematician (f. 1978).
1893: Emma Roldán, Mexican actress (f. 1978).
1894: Norman Rockwell, American photographer and painter (f. 1978).
1895: Milagros de la Vega, Argentine actress (f. 1980).
1898: Alvar Aalto, furniture designer and Finnish architect (f. 1976).
1898: Pável Uryson, Russian mathematician (f. 1924).
1899: Lao She, a Chinese writer (f. 1966).
1901: Ramón J. Sender, Spanish writer (f. 1982).
1902: Martin Agüero Ereño, Spanish bullfighter (f. 1977).
1903: Carlos Cossio, jurist, lawyer, philosopher of law, university reformist militant and Argentine professor. (f. 1987).
1904: Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer and pianist (f. 1975).
1906: Albino Barra Villalobos, a Chilean politician and trade unionist (f. 1993).
1906: Arturo Fernández Meyzán, Peruvian footballer (f. 1999).
1907: Rafael Lorente Escudero, Uruguayan architect (f. 1992).
1907: James A. Michener, American writer (f. 1997).
1909: Simone Weil, a French philosopher and writer (f. 1943).
1910: Blas Galindo, Mexican composer (f. 1993).
1911: Jehan Alain, French composer and organist (f. 1940).
1912: Jacques Soustelle, anthropologist and French politician (f. 1990).
1913: Eduardo Kingman, Ecuadorian painter (f. 1997).
1914: Mary Carlisle, American actress (f. 2018).
1915: José Jabardo, Spanish cyclist (f. 1986).
1918: Joey Bishop, American artist and humorist (f. 2007).
1918: Helen Stephens, American athlete (f. 1994).
1920: Henry Heimlich, American doctor (f. 2016).
1923: Maurice Jouvet, Franco-Argentine actor (f. 1999).
1925: Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (f. 2012).
1926: Hans-Jochen Vogel, a German politician (f. 2020).
1927: Kenneth Anger, filmmaker, writer and American painter.
1928: José Comas Quesada, Spanish watercolor painter (f. 1993).
1929: Evaristo Márquez Contreras, Spanish sculptor (f. 1996).
1929: Camilo Torres Restrepo, a Catholic priest and a Colombian guerrilla (f. 1966).
1930: Antonio Martínez Cobos "el Cobijano", Spanish novillero. (f. 2009).
1932: Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (f. 1984).
1932: Stuart Hall, a British sociologist of Jamaican origin (f. 2014).
1934: Juan Carlos Calabró, actor and Argentine humorist (f. 2013).
1934: Alfred Lucchetti, Spanish actor (f. 2011).
1935: Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American musician (f. 1996).
1935: Estanislao Zuleta, Colombian philosopher (f. 1990).
1938: Victor Buono, American actor (f. 1982).
1939: Michael Cimino, American filmmaker (f. 2016).
1942: Francisco Javier Elzo, a Spanish journalist and professor.
1943: Patricio Achurra, Chilean actor and politician.
1943: Blythe Danner, American actress.
1947: Paul Auster, American poet and novelist.
1947: Dave Davies, British musician, The Kinks band.
1947: Soledad Puértolas, Spanish writer.
1948: Henning Mankell, Swedish writer (f. 2015).
1948: Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, Timorese bishop, Nobel Peace Prize in 1996.
1949: Jorge Guinzburg, journalist, producer and Argentine humorist (f. 2008).
1949: Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist.
1949: Amancio Prada, Spanish singer.
1949: Ernesto Bertani, Argentine painter (f. 2021).
1950: Juan Alberto Belloch, Spanish politician.
1950: Morgan Fairchild, American actress.
1950: María Jiménez, Spanish singer.
1951: Felipe Muñoz Kapamas, Mexican swimmer.
1952: Eduardo Ulibarri, a Cuban journalist of Costa Rican nationality.
1953: Kenneth Gaspar, (known worldwide as Boom Gaspar), Hawaiian key player of Pearl Jam, among other bands.
1955: Bruno Pezzey, Austrian footballer (f. 1994).
1956: Hernán Darío Gómez, Colombian football coach.
1956: Nathan Lane, American actor.
1956: Lee Ranaldo, American musician, from the Sonic Youth band.
1957: Antonio Lara Ramos, Spanish historian and writer.
1957: José Luis Villarreal "Ponychoche", Mexican musician and drummer of the group Bronco (f. 2012).
1959: Oscar Iván Zuluaga, a Colombian economist, businessman and politician.
1959: Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine filmmaker (f. 2006).
1959: Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician, from the Pizzicato Five band.
1959: Laurence Tolhurst, British musician, of the band The Cure.
1960: Kerry Von Erich, American professional fighter (f. 1993).
1960: Joachim Loew, footballer and German coach.
1961: Mercedes Abad, Spanish writer and journalist.
1961: Jay Adams, American skater and surfer.
1963: José Biriukov, Spanish basketball player.
1965: Maura Tierney, American actress.
1966: Fani Grande, a writer and writer from Valencia.
1967: Jason Morris, American york.
1967: Mixu Paatelainen, Finnish soccer player and coach.
1968: Vlade Divac, Yugoslav basketball player.
1969: Retief Goosen, South African golfer.
1969: John Spence, American musician, of the No Doubt band.
1970: Óscar Córdoba, Colombian footballer.
1970: Warwick Davis, British actor.
1972: Mart Poom, Estonian footballer.
1972: Sergio Blass, Puerto Rican singer, a former member of many.
1973: Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist.
1975: Markus Schulz, DJ and producer of German origin.
1976: Fisher Island, Australian actress.
1976: Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer.
1977: Mario Valles, yudoca colombiano.
1978: Fátima Flórez, humorist and Argentine imitator.
1978: Adrian R'Mante, American actor.
1978: Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer.
1978: Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer.
1979: M'balia Marichal, Mexican actress and singer, from the band OV7.
1981: Mariana Cadiccio Italian actress and singer
1981: Maurice Ross, Scottish footballer.
1982: Manuela da Silveira, television presenter and Uruguayan humorist.
1982: Roland Schwegler, Swiss footballer.
1983: Carlos Berlocq, Argentine tennis player.
1984: Sara Carbonero, Spanish sports journalist.
1985: Oleksandr Aliyev, Ukrainian footballer.
1987: Vanesa González, an Argentine actress and singer.
1988: Cho Kyuhyun, South Korean singer, Super Junior band.
1989: Ryne Sanborn, American actor.
1989: Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer.
1990: Sean Kingston, American singer.
1994: Rougned Odor, Venezuelan baseball player.
1997: Florence de Ondarra, politógola and juvenile Argentinean reference.
1995: Tao Tsuchiya, Japanese actress.
1999: Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese idol.

Deaths

316: Blas de Sebaste, Armenian bishop of Sebaste (Turkey).
865: Saint Oscar, a Christian saint of German origin (n. 801).
1399: John of Ghent, noble English (n. 1340).
1468: Johannes Gutenberg, German printer (n. 1398).
1558: Alfonso de Castro, a Spanish religious and royal counselor (n. 1495).
1802: Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes, politician, economist and Spanish historian (n. 1723).
1814: Mariano Matamoros, Mexican priest and military (n. 1770).
1832: George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (n. 1754).
1847: Marie Duplessis, French courtesan, model of The lady of the camelias (n. 1824).
1862: Jean Baptiste Biot, physicist, astronomer and French mathematician (n. 1774).
1874: Lunalilo, Hawaiian king (n. 1835).
1889: Juan Manuel Montalbán, Spanish jurist (n. 1806).
1892: Antonio Machado Álvarez, writer, father of Spanish poets Antonio and Manuel (n. 1848).
1899: Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, first verified supercentennial man (n. 1788).
1900: Ottokar Novacek, Hungarian composer (n. 1866).
1919: Miguel F. Martínez, engineer, educator and Mexican musician (n. 1850).
1924: Woodrow Wilson, American President (n. 1856).
1925: Oliver Heaviside, British physicist (n. 1850).
1929: Agner Krarup Erlang, mathematician, statistical, and Danish engineer (n. 1878).
1935: Hugo Junkers, German aircraft builder (n. 1859).
1938: Manuel Linares Rivas, Spanish comediagraph (n. 1866).
1941: Jorge Ánckermann, pianist, director of Cuban orchestra and composer (n. 1877).
1943: Refugio Reyes Rivas, Mexican architect (n. 1862).
1945: Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (n. 1893).
1945: José Rolón, Mexican composer (n. 1876).
1947: José Luis Hidalgo, Spanish poet (n. 1919).
1948: Celedonio Junco de la Vega, Mexican writer and journalist (n. 1863).
1949: Carlos Obligado, Argentine poet (n. 1889).
1951: Abel Tarride, French actor and playwright (n. 1865).
1952: Pedro Muguruza, Spanish architect (n. 1893).
1959: Buddy Holly, American singer (n. 1936).
1959: Jiles Perry Richardson, The Big Bopper, American singer (n. 1930).
1959: Ritchie Valens, American singer (n. 1941).
1969: Al Taliaferro, American hysterist (n. 1905).
1970: Pompoff, Spanish clown (n. 1886).
1972: Ramón Prieto Bances, politician and Spanish jurist (n. 1889).
1974: Rafael García and García de Castro, Spanish bishop (n. 1895).
1974: Juan de Orduña, actor and director of Spanish cinema (n. 1900).
1975: Umm Kalzum, Egyptian singer (n. 1898).
1977: Jorge Di Pascuale, an Argentine trade unionist who was murdered (n. 1930).
1977: Marta Taboada, Argentinean lawyer and activist (n. 1942).
1978: Otto Maria Carpeaux, essayist, literary critic and Brazilian nationalized Austrian journalist (1900).
1981: Isabel Garcés, Spanish actress (n. 1901).
1982: Antenor Patiño, Bolivian businessman (n. 1896).
1982: Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet and journalist (n. 1914).
1983: Felipe Boso, Spanish poet (n. 1924).
1987: Manuel Díez-Alegría, Spanish military (n. 1905).
1989: John Cassavetes, American filmmaker (n. 1929).
1989: Juan Manuel Fanjul Sedeño, Spanish politician (n. 1915).
1994: Raúl "Chato" Padilla, Mexican actor and comedian (n. 1918).
1996: Audrey Meadows, American actress (n. 1922).
1997: Bohumil Hrabal, Czech novelist (n. 1914).
1998: Juan García Iranzo, Spanish hysterist (n. 1918).
2002: Aglaja Veteranyi, Swiss actress and writer of Romanian origin (n. 1962).
2003: Fulgencio Berdugo, Colombian footballer (n. 1918).
2003: Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (n. 1962).
2003: Natalia Medvédeva, poet, writer and Russian musician (n. 1958).
2003: João César Monteiro, Brazilian actor and filmmaker (n. 1939).
2003: Albin Waczyński, psychiatrist, specialist in hospital construction and Polish painter (n. 1929).
2004: Antonio Vaquero Poblador, Spanish painter and illustrator (n. 1933).
2005: Ernst Mayr, German evolutionary biologist (n. 1904).
2005: Zurab Zhvania, Georgian Prime Minister (n. 1963).
2006: José María Langlais, Argentine actor (n. 1934).
2006: Al Lewis, American actor (n. 1923).
2006: Roman Mussolini, painter and pianist of jazz, Italian (n. 1927).
2007: Angel Luis Welcome, Spanish bullfighter (n. 1924).
2007: Pedro Knight, Cuban trumpetist (n. 1921).
2007: Carlos Mayolo, Colombian filmmaker (n. 1945).
2011: Édouard Glissant, French writer (n. 1924).
2011: Maria Schneider, French actress (n. 1952).
2011: Neil James Young, English footballer (n. 1944).
2012: Ben Gazzara, American actor (n. 1930).

Ben Gazzara

2012: Samuel Youd, British writer (n. 1922).
2013: Ichikawa Danjūrō XII, Japanese actor (n. 1946).
2014: Louise Brough, American tennis player (n. 1923).
2016: Joe Alaskey, comedian and American voice actor (n. 1952).
2017: Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, first Brazilian lady (n. 1950).
2019: Julie Adams, American actress (n. 1926).
2020: George Steiner, French philosopher and writer (n. 1929).
2022: Christos Sartzetakis, Greek politician, president of Greece between 1985 and 1990 (n. 1929).
2022: Abu Ibrahim al Hashemi al Qurash, an Iraqi terrorist (n. 1976).
2023: Paco Rabanne, a fashion designer and a Spanish entrepreneur (n. 1934).