February 4

February 4 is the 35th (thirty-fifth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days to the end of the year and 331 in leap years.

Events

• 1043: In the present Spain, King of the Taifa of Malaga is appointed to Idris II.
• 1169: a strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
• 1229: in Jaffa (Palestine), the sultan of Egypt and Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen sign the sultan of Egypt Jaffa Agreementfor which he commits himself not to attack Egypt in exchange for the cities of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth.
• 1249: In the Netherlands, a cyclic tide exceeds the coastal dunes in Callantsoog (Den Helder), flooding the villages of the north of Holland, Frisia and Groningen.
• 1454: In the framework of the Thirteen Years War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
• 1493: Christopher Columbus embarks from the island of La Española (which includes the current Haiti and the Dominican Republic) to Spain back from his first American journey on board The girl.
• 1508: In Germany, Maximilian I is crowned emperor.
• 1543: In Asunción, a large fire is unleashed that consumes at least 120 homes. The city would still burn for four more days.
• 1555: John Rogers is burned in the bonfire, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
• 1616: Juan de Silva, governor of the Philippines, part of Malacca with an expedition of 16 ships and 500 soldiers to end the Dutch pirates who, allied with the Muslims, attack the Spanish possessions of the archipelago. Before, De Silva had asked for the collaboration of the Portuguese, who refused it despite guiding them a common interest.
• 1703: in Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the 47 ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as a reward for avenging the death of his teacher.
• 1782: British troops who took over the island of Menorca surrender to the attack of the French-Spanish army.
• 1782: Spanish navy José de Mazarredo makes a series of observations on the marine currents of the Strait of Gibraltar.
• 1783: England officially declares the end of hostilities in the United States.
• 1789: George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the United States Electoral College.
• 1794: In France, in the framework of the French Revolution, the government eliminates slavery.
• 1797: in Riobamba (Ecuador) an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 in the seismological scale of Richter leaves a balance of at least 44,000 victims. Villa del Villar Don Pardo (now Riobamba) is literally swallowed by the land. Several nearby hills collapsed and the geography of the central region of the then Real Audiencia de Quito was modified.
• 1813: In Colombia there is the Independence of Valledupar.
• 1820: The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day Valdivia capture with only 300 men and 2 boats.
• 1825: In the German bay of the North Sea some 800 people die drowned due to a cyclic mare.
• 1859: Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
• 1860: in Tetuán (Morocco)—in the framework of the First War of Morocco—the Spanish Army defeats the Moroccan patriotic forces in the battle of Tetuán.
• 1888: In the province of Huelva there is one of the first popular revolts for the exploitation of children and environmental degradation produced by the mines of Río Tinto.
• 1898: In the province of Neuquén (Argentina) the village of San Martín de los Andes is founded.
• 1899: the Philippine-American War begins when the Manila battle between the First Philippine Republic and the United States erupted.
• 1900: Anglo-Boer War: British troops in command of General Buller are crossing the Tugela River again, starting what appears to be a march to the city of Ladysmith. It is said that the next day could reach the besieged city, where an increase in the Boer troops has been verified. For their part, the latter report that they attacked and took the town of Ngutu in Natal.
• 1900: The United States and the United Kingdom come to a final agreement on the scope of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty on the Rights of Construction and Control of the United States of Nicaragua's Future Channel. The European power waives its right of opinion on the affairs of the channel, eliminates the dual control clause and no compensation is requested.
• 1900: so far, the intense heat wave that has been burning for a week in Buenos Aires has caused the death of 227 people.
• 1906: They are detained in Cadiz, for lack of the complete documentation, 21 Andalusian laborers who were preparing to emigrate to America. The situation of misery is aggravated daily in Spain.
• 1911: a law on literary and artistic property is enacted in Argentina.
• 1913: In the Bolivar Park of San Salvador, three men—possibly sent by the head of the Army—strike to death during a concert to President Manuel E. Araujo, who will die five days later. The murder was never investigated, as the army immediately shot the assassins, obstructing the investigation of the intellectual author of the magnicide.
• 1913: in Barcelona the work promoted by the Institute of Catalan Studies is completed in order to standardize the Catalan language.
• 1913: The first edition of the Far East Games is held in Manila (Philippines).
• 1914: The U.S. government grants absolute freedom to export weapons and ammunition to Mexico.
• 1914: In Peru, Colonel Óscar Benavides leads an uprising that defeats President Guillermo Billinghurst Angulo.
• 1915: execution of the Serbs convicted of the Sarajevo attack (which caused the first world war) against the Austrian aristocrat Francisco Fernando.
• 1918: In Berlin (the capital of Germany), unauthorised strikers prevent workers from entering the munitions factories.
• 1922: at the Washington Conference, Japan replaces the territory of Shantung with China.
• 1924: In India, the British Government liberates the nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi.
• 1924: a hydroplane crewed by Commander Delgado and Captain Franco makes a flight over the Teide (Canary Islands).
• 1927: In Mexico, the Government lifts the ban on foreign clerics in order to reside in the country (the ban continues for Spanish priests, however).
• 1927: The British Malcolm Campbell bats the world record of car speed with an average of 281.4 km/h.
• 1932: In Lake Placid, Franklin Delano Roosevelt – governor of the state of New York – opens the III Winter Olympics.
• 1933: In Hyde Park (London), 50 000 people manifest themselves against unemployment.
• 1937: In the Spanish Republic, the Ministry of Justice decrees equality of civil rights for both sexes. That law will be repealed by the Francoist dictatorship.
• 1938: Hitler is the supreme commander of the German armed forces.
• 1939: In the United States the film is released One night at the operaof the Marx brothers.
• 1943: In the course of the Second World War, German submarines sank thirteen allied ships from a convoy loaded with weapons.
• 1945: In the framework of World War II, the leaders of Winston Churchill (United Kingdom), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (United States) and Iosif Stalin (of the Soviet Union) celebrate the Yalta Conference in Crimea (Soviet Union) and divide their areas of influence in Europe.
• 1945: the defeated German troops have finished evacuating Belgium.
• 1947: In the United Kingdom, the Government nationalizes electric companies.
• 1948: Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Empire.
• 1949: in Greece, General Markos Vafiadis, communist leader, is "relevated from his political responsibilities."
• 1955: Greek shipowner Stavros Niarchos acquires US$ 400,000 (US$ 3.6 million 2016) the picture The PityEl Greco.
• 1959: After a strong hold and strong protests by the United States, a convoy of the U.S. army, intercepted by a Soviet border checkpoint in East Berlin, is released.
• 1960: a law is passed in France that allows General Charles de Gaulle to legislate by decree.
• 1961: The Soviet Union launches the probe Sputnik 7 towards Venus. The mission will fail by a rocket failure to propel it out of the Earth orbit.
• 1962: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, President Arturo Frondizi – on the orders of U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy – breaks diplomatic and commercial relations with Cuba. On the same day it also prohibits the appointment of former president Juan Domingo Perón (exiliated since 1955) for the nomination of governor of the province of Buenos Aires.
• 1969: Yasser Arafat assumes as president of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 1970: The city of Prípiat was founded in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine.
• 1971: In the United Kingdom, the Rolls-Royce Automobile Company publishes its bankruptcy file before the courts.
• 1972: American probe Mariner 9 transmit photos from Mars.
• 1974: abduction of Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of the American press magnate William Randolph Hearst, who will join his raptors.
• 1976: in Guatemala an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 on the Richter scale and of 30 seconds, affects more than one million people and leaves a balance of 26 000 dead.
• 1978: In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas announced a civil war against the Somoza dictatorship.
• 1981: In the village Chuabajito (Chimaltenango department), 85 km north-west of Guatemala City—in the framework of the Mayan genocide (1981-1983), in which more than 200 000 Maya-quiché indigenous people were killed—60 soldiers of the National Army disguised as guerrillas kidnapped 29 peasants from the Quiché ethnic group, took them to the local school, where they tortured them to kill them. They also kill a 5-year-old girl, because she cried when she saw them taking her father. The dictatorship of Romeo Lucas (between 1978 and 1982) will state that the assassins were from the guerrillas, from peasant extraction.
• 1981: in the Casa de Juntas de Guernica (Spain), twenty members of Herri Batasuna abduct the speech of King Juan Carlos I.
• 1983: At the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Charlie Dauguet discovers particles similar to the HTLV retrovirus discovered by Robert Gallo in 1980 in cultivation with an electronic microscope and compares it negatively. Pasteur's team has discovered a new retrovirus, the AIDS virus. In May of the same year, Luc Montagnier and his collaborators published the discovery in the scientific journal Science.
• 1984: in Long Beach (California), a sterile woman gives birth after the implantation of a fertilized egg in another woman.
• 1984: In Spain, the terrorist group ETA murders an ex-member of that terrorist organization, engineer and builder Miguel Francisco Solaun.
• 1984: in the Vatican City – in the framework of the cold war – Pope John Paul II suspended a divinis from the exercise of the priesthood to Nicaraguan priests Ernesto Cardenal (59), Fernando Cardenal (50, brother of the former), Miguel d'Escoto (51) and Edgard Parrales, due to their adscription to theology of liberation. Thirty years later, on August 4, 2014, Pope Francis will dismantle that decision.
• 1985: Spain signs the UN convention against torture.
• 1987: in the waters of the Jiao River, south of China, there is the shipwreck of a ferry with 120 passengers, with a final balance of 31 dead and more than 60 disappeared.
• 1988: The U.S. Congress, by 219 votes to 211, rejects President Ronald Reagan's proposal to grant $26 million to Nicaragua.
• 1989: Spanish surgeon and urologist Aurelio Usón has successfully completed the integral change of sex to a woman through the "Shanghai technique", a new surgical method.
• 1991: In the UK the Innuendo album of the British band Queen is released for sale, which would be the last published in life with the deceased vocalist Freddie Mercury 9 months after the AIDS release
• 1991: in Rimini, Italy, the Congress of the Italian Communist Party agrees to change the name of the organization by the Democratic Party of the Left.
• 1991: localities for the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona (1992) are on sale. The most requested are the tickets for the opening ceremony.
• 1992: In Venezuela, the failed coup d’état of February 1992 led by army officers Hugo Chávez, Francisco Arias Cárdenas, Yoel Acosta Chirinos, Jesús Urdaneta and José Miguel Ortiz Contreras, members of the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement - 200 took place.
• 1992: A significant decline in the level of the ozone layer is detected in the Arctic and North European countries.
• 1993: the Znamya-2 experiment was conducted in the Earth orbit. In space, the solar candle was first deployed, and the artificial illumination of the Earth was realized through the reflected sunlight.
• 1996: in the city of Mariano Roque Alonso (Paraguay) a cargo plane is rushed to land; the 25 people who traveled on the plane and 17 people on the ground die.
• 1997: the governments of the United States, France and the United Kingdom decide to set up a fund to compensate the victims of the Holocaust, whose basis is $68 million in lyngotes.
• 1998: the new flag of Bosnia-Herzegovina disappears national or religious symbols.
• 1998: Amnesty International announces the closure of its office in the Colombian capital, given the growing threats received by human rights enemies.
• 1998: a combination of three drugs, used in adults with successful AIDS virus control, is successfully tested in children.
• 2002: In Spain, the Ministry of Education announces that the reform of secondary education will include a review to obtain the bachelor's degree.
• 2002: In Caracas (Venezuela), President Hugo Chávez decrees the legalization of the property rights of the marginal settlements.
• 2003: the Constitutional Charter enters into force in Serbia and Montenegro.
• 2004: In the United States, Spanish President José María Aznar defends armed intervention in Iraq before Congress.
• 2004: the Facebook social network, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, enters online.
• 2005: In Ukraine, Parliament confirms as the first minister to Yulia Timoshenko, an architect of the Orange Revolution.
• 2006: In Damascus, Muslim demonstrators protesting the reproduction of Mohammed's caricatures in western newspapers set fire to the embassies of Denmark and Norway.
• 2006: in (Madrid, Spain), President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero inaugurates the fourth terminal of Barajas airport, which increases its capacity to seventy million passengers a year.
• 2008: In a Dimona (Israel) shopping centre, two terrorists killed an Israeli woman; seven others were injured. The Al Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigade and the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigade of the People ' s Resistance Front were attributed to the perpetrator of the attack.
• 2008: in different cities of the world—and mainly in Colombia— popular demonstrations are produced to veto acts of terrorism against the civilian population by the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).
• 2008: Thomas S. Monson is ordained president of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Last Day Saints in Salt Lake City (Utah).
• 2008: ipv6 records are added to network root servers, which allows interaction between computers using ipv6 without mediating ipv4 technology.
• 2009: In the city of Ancud (Chile) there is a fire that completely destroys its shopping centre.
• 2022: Rockstar Games confirms the active development of 'a new delivery of the Grand Theft Auto saga (Grand Theft Auto VI)

Births

• 1292: Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, Muslim Sunni jurist (f. 1350).
• 1575: Pierre de Berulle, French cardinal and ascetic writer (f. 1628).
• 1677: Johann Ludwig Bach, German organist and composer (f. 1731).
• 1688: Pierre de Marivaux, playwright and French novelist (f. 1763).
• 1740: Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet (f. 1795).
• 1749: Josefa Amar and Borbon, pedagogue and Spanish writer (f. 1833).
• 1763: Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (f. 1813).
• 1778: Augustin Pyrame de Candolle, Swiss botanist (f. 1841).
• 1799: Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer and politician (f. 1854).
• 1817: Francisco de Cárdenas Espejo, a Spanish politician (f. 1898).
• 1833: Andrés Avelino Cáceres, the Peruvian military and political (f. 1923).
• 1840: Blai Maria Colomer, Spanish composer (f. 1917).
• 1840: Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (f. 1916).
• 1845: Regino Martínez Basso, Spanish violinist (f. 1901).
• 1848: Jean Aicard, French writer (f. 1921).
• 1862: Édouard Estaunié, a French writer and engineer (f. 1942).
• 1863: Pauline de Ahna, German soprano (f. 1950).
• 1871: Friedrich Ebert, German politician (f. 1925).
• 1878: Giuseppe Adami, Italian writer and writer (f. 1946).
• 1880: Louis Halphen, French historian (f. 1950).
• 1880: Nikolái Podvoiski, Russian revolutionary (f. 1948).
• 1881: Fernand Léger, French Cubist painter (f. 1955).
• 1882: Luisa de Orleans, aristocrat (f. 1958).
• 1892: Andrés Nin, Spanish translator and trade unionist (f. 1937).
• 1895: Nigel Bruce, British actor (f. 1953).
• 1896: Friedrich Hund, German physicist (f. 1997).
• 1897: Ludwig Erhard, a German politician and economist (f. 1977).
• 1900: Jacques Prévert, French writer (f. 1977).
• 1902: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer (f. 2002).
• 1902: Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (f. 1974).
• 1903: Román Fresnedo Siri, Uruguayan architect (f. 1975).
• 1905: Hylda Baker, British actress and comedian (f. 1986).
• 1906: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (f. 1945).
• 1906: Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (f. 1997).
• 1908: Gwili Andre, Danish actress (f. 1959).
• 1910: Alberto J. Armando, Argentine sports leader (f. 1988).
• 1912: Erich Leinsdorf, director of Austrian orchestra and musician (f. 1993).
• 1912: Ola Skjåk Bræ, a Norwegian banker and politician (f. 1999).^{[chuckles]required]}
• 1913: Rosa Parks, an American civil rights activist (f. 2005).
• 1913: Sabina Olmos, an Argentine actress and singer (f. 1999).
• 1914: Alfred Andersch, German writer (f. 1980).
• 1915: Ray Evans, American composer (f. 2007).
• 1915: Norman Wisdom, British comic actor (f. 2010).
• 1917: Elena Soriano, Spanish writer (f. 1996).
• 1917: Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, president of Pakistan between 1969 and 1971 (f. 1980).
• 1918: Ida Lupino, British actress (f. 1995).
• 1921: Betty Friedan, American feminist and writer (f. 2006).
• 1923: Conrad Bain, a Canadian actor (f. 2013).
• 1923: Belisario Betancur, politician and Colombian lawyer, president of Colombia between 1982 and 1986 (f. 2018).
• 1923: Tincho Zabala, an Argentine actor of Uruguayan origin (f. 2001).
• 1925: Russell Hoban, American writer (f. 2011).
• 1927: Tony Fruscella, American jazz trompetist (f. 1969).
• 1929: Fernando González Ollé, linguist, researcher and Spanish writer.
• 1929: Carlos Alonso, Argentine painter.
• 1931: María Estela Martínez de Perón, Argentine policy, president of Argentina between 1974 and 1976.
• 1932: Andrés Landero, Colombian musician and composer (f. 2000).
• 1933: Carlo Flamigni, doctor and Italian writer (f. 2020).
• 1935: Martti Talvela, Finnish opera singer (f. 1989).
• 1937: Felix Grande, a Spanish writer (f. 2014).
• 1940: George Romero, American filmmaker (f. 2017).
• 1941: Guillermo Carrillo Arena, Mexican architect and politician (f. 2010).
• 1941: John Steel, British musician, of the band The Animals.
• 1942: Edda Díaz, an Argentine actress.
• 1942: Ovidi Montllor, singer and Spanish actor (f. 1995).
• 1942: Joaquim Rifé, Spanish footballer.
• 1943: Ken Thompson, American computer.
• 1945: Mónica Sánchez Navarro, Mexican actress.
• 1947: Dan Quayle, American politician.
• 1948: Vincent Furnier, American rocker and producer, of the Alice Cooper band.
• 1948: Marisol (Pepa Flores), Spanish singer and actress.
• 1949: Rasim Delić, Bosnian general (f. 2010)
• 1951: Román Felones, politician and Spanish historian.
• 1952: Abdalá Bucaram, Ecuadorian politician.
• 1953: José María Barreda, Spanish politician.
• 1953: Kitarō, Japanese composer.
• 1954: José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, Spanish economist.
• 1955: Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak Prime Minister.
• 1956: Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich, fonoaudiologa and Argentine politics.
• 1959: Juan Manuel López Iturriaga, Spanish basketball.
• 1960: Tim Booth, British vocalist, of the James band.
• 1960: Jonathan Larson, American composer and lyricist, musical creator Rent (f. 1996).
• 1963: Noodles, American guitarist, from the band The Offspring.
• 1965: Juan Curuchet, Argentine cyclist.
• 1966: Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist.
• 1966: Luisa Fernanda Giraldo, Colombian actress.
• 1967: Alejo García Pintos, Argentine actor.
• 1967: Serguéi Grinkov, Soviet skater (f. 1995).
• 1968: Guillermo Andino, Argentine journalist.
• 1970: Gabrielle Anwar, British actress.
• 1971: Eric Garcetti, American politician.
• 1973: Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-American boxer.
• 1974: Rocío Monasterio, arquitecta, businessman and Spanish-Cuban politics.
• 1975: Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer.
• 1975: Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian writer and activist (f. 2011).
• 1976: Cam'ron, American rapper.
• 1976: Christian Ledesma, pilot of Argentine motor racing.
• 1977: Andrés Gertrúdix, Spanish actor.
• 1978: Danna García, Colombian actress.
• 1979: Giorgio Pantano, Italian Formula 1 pilot.
• 1980: Roberto García Cabello, Spanish footballer.
• 1981: Sérgio Marone, Brazilian actor.
• 1981: Paul de Lange, Dutch footballer.
• 1982: Chris Sabin, American professional fighter.
• 1982: Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer, of the Pussycat Dolls band.
• 1985: Ignacio Piatti, Argentine footballer.
• 1986: Leonardo Moreira, Japanese footballer.
• 1987: Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player.
• 1988: Carly Patterson, American gymnast.
• 1988: Pablo De Blasis, Argentine footballer.
• 1990: Nairo Quintana, Colombian cyclist.
• 1993: Mirko Gori, Italian footballer.
• 1994: Miguel Ángel López, Colombian cyclist.
• 1998: Eray Cömert, Swiss footballer.
• 1998: Alex Plat, Dutch footballer.
• 1998: Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer.
• 2000: Vincent Thill, Luxembourg footballer.

Deaths

• 211: Septimius Severo, Roman emperor (n. 146).
• 708: Sisino, Catholic Pope.
• 856: Rabbi Mauro, German philosopher and theologian (n. 776).
• 1189: Gilberto de Sempringham, saint, priest and English philosopher, creator of the order of gilbertines (n. 1083).
• 1498: Antonio del Pollaiolo, sculptor and Italian painter (n. 1432 or 1433).
• 1534: Alonso III de Fonseca, ecclesiastical, bishop and Spanish patrons (n. 1475).
• 1555: John Rogers, English clergyman and translator (n. 1505).
• 1590: Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (n. 1517).
• 1615: Giovanni Battista della Porta, scientist, philosopher and Italian writer (n. 1538).
• 1624: Vicente Espinel, Spanish poet and musician (n. 1550).
• 1713: Anthony Ashley Cooper, politician, philosopher, aristocrat and British writer (n. 1671).
• 1774: Charles Marie de La Condamine, mathematician and French geographer (n. 1701).
• 1781: Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (n. 1737).
• 1799: Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (n. 1728).
• 1847: Henri Dutrochet, doctor, botanist and French physiologist (n. 1776).
• 1852: Martín de Santa Coloma, militar argentina (n. 1800).
• 1890: Antonio de Orleans, French aristocrat (n. 1824).
• 1893: Concepción Arenal, penalist and Spanish writer (n. 1820).
• 1926: İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, author and Turkish scholar (n. 1875).^{[chuckles]required]}
• 1928: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, a Dutch physicist and mathematician, a nobel physics award in 1902 (n. 1853).
• 1932: Luis Menéndez Pidal, a Spanish painter (n. 1861).
• 1937: Tomás Seguí, a Spanish politician (n. 1891).
• 1944: Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (n. 1867).
• 1944: Arsén Kotsóyev, Soviet poet (n. 1872).
• 1957: Miguel Covarrubias, painter, cartoonist and Mexican cartoonist (n. 1904).
• 1958: Monta Bell, American filmmaker (n. 1891).
• 1958: Henry Kuttner, American writer (n. 1915).
• 1967: Karp Sviridov, Soviet military (n 1896)
• 1968: Neal Cassady, American writer (n. 1926).
• 1968: José Pedroni, Argentine poet (n. 1899).
• 1970: Louise Bogan, American poet and criticism (n. 1897).^{[chuckles]required]}
• 1973: Rolando Alarcón, Chilean singer (n. 1929).
• 1974: Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (n. 1894).
• 1975: Louis Jordan, American musician (n. 1908).
• 1976: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río, militar y político mexicano (n. 1896).
• 1980: David Whitaker, British screenwriter (n. 1928).
• 1983: Karen Carpenter, American singer of the duo The Carpenters (n. 1950).
• 1987: Carl Rogers, American psychologist (n. 1902).
• 1987: Wladziu Valentino Liberace, pianist "Liberace" and American showman (n. 1919).
• 1993: Marta Rocafort and Altuzarra, model and Spanish aristocrat, second wife of Alfonso de Borbón, Conde de Covadonga (n. 1913).
• 1995: Patricia Highsmith, American novelist (n. 1921).
• 1995: Abel Santa Cruz, writer and writer from Argentina (n. 1915).
• 1996: Manolo Fábregas, a Spanish-Mexican actor (n. 1921).
• 1998: Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, Spanish doctor (n. 1922).
• 2001: J.J. Johnson, American thrombonist (n. 1924).
• 2001: Iannis Xenakis, French composer and architect of Romanian origin (n. 1922).
• 2002: George Nader, American actor (n. 1921).
• 2003: Benyoucef Benkhedda, Algerian politician (n. 1920).
• 2003: Héctor Luis Gradassi, Argentine motorist (n. 1933).
• 2003: Jerome Hines, American singer (n. 1921).
• 2003: Sergio Schulmeister, Argentine footballer (n. 1977).
• 2004: Hilda Hilst, Brazilian writer (n. 1930).
• 2004: Valentina Borok, Ukrainian mathematics (old USSR) (n. 1931).
• 2006: Betty Friedan, American feminist and writer (n. 1921).
• 2007: Barbara McNair, American actress and singer (n. 1934).
• 2008: Bertha Moss, Mexican actress of Argentine origin (n. 1919).
• 2009: Lux Interior, American singer of the group The Cramps (n. 1946).
• 2011: Lena Nyman, Swedish actress (n. 1944).
• 2011: César Loustau, Uruguayan architect (n. 1926).

Donald Byrd.

• 2013: Donald Byrd, American jazz and funk trompetist and educator (n. 1932).
• 2016: Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (n. 1930).
• 2018: John Mahoney, American actor (n. 1940).
• 2019: Leonie Ossowski, German writer (n. 1925).
• 2020: Daniel Arap Moi, Kenyan politician, President of Kenya between 1978 and 2002 (n. 1924).
• 2020: José Luis Cuerda, director of Spanish cinema (n. 1947).
• 2021: Lokman Slim, Lebanese activist and politician (n. 1962).
• 2021: Jaime Murrell, singer of Panamanian Christian music (n. 1949).
• 2021: Santiago Damián García, Uruguayan footballer (n. 1990).

Celebrations

• International Day of Human Fraternity.
• World Day Against Cancer.
• AngolaAngola: Armed Fight Day.
• Argentina: Day of the Coast Guard (water rescuers).
• United States: (California and Missouri): Rosa Parks Day.
• Sri Lanka: Independence Day.
• Venezuela Venezuela: National Dignity Day.

Catholic saints list

• San Andrés Corsini
• San Aventino de Chartres
• San Aventino de Troyes
• St. Eutiquio of Rome
• San Fileas de Thmuis
• San Filoromo de Alexandria
• San Gémino (confessor)
• San Gilberto de Sempringham
• San Isidoro de Pelusio
• San José de Leonisa
• San Juan de Brito, martyr
• San Rabano Mauro, Bishop
• Santa Juana de Valois (1464-1505)
• San Nicolás Estudita
• San Remberto
• Beato Juan Speed
• Beata Isabel Canori Mora, Roman Trinitarian Tertiary