February 5th

February 5 is the 36th (thirty-sixth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days to the end of the year and 330 in leap years.

Events

• 62: in present Italy, the city of Pompeii, at the foot of the Vesuvius volcano, is damaged by a strong earthquake. Fearing an eruption of the volcano, much of its inhabitants are forced to leave their homes in a panic-provoked flight. (17 years later, an eruption will bury Pompeii with all its inhabitants).
• 756: In China, An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes his own dynasty (which will end 7 years later).
• 1146: In Spain, the battle of al-Ludjdj takes place.
• 1323: In Spain, the Hospital de la Herredada gives the village Vega de Doña Olimpa the Foral Charter.
• 1505: is printed in Granada, Spain, the Arabic-Spanish dictionary of Pedro de Alcalá, in the first book printed with Arabic characters and which has made it possible to know the Andalusian dialect accurately.
• 1556: in Spain, King Charles I of Spain signed with the French king Henry II the Truce of Vaucelles.
• 1576: in Tours (France), Enrique de Navarra abjura of Catholicism and joins the Protestant forces in the Wars of Religion of France.
• 1592: In Colombia, Fusagasugá (Cundinamarca) was founded
• 1597: In Japan, on the Nishizaka hill of Nagasaki, the government crucify Jesuit Pablo Miki and 25 other Japanese and foreign religious and lay people known as the 26 martyrs of Japan, being the first collective crucifixion in 15 centuries.
• 1597: In the state of Nuevo León (Mexico) the village of San Nicolás de los Garza is founded.
• 1631: In the United States, Roger Williams emigrated to Boston.
• 1752: In the Mediterranean Sea, Franco-Spanish forces defeat the British and take Menorca.
• 1764: The Holy See condemns the book Justini Febronii juris consulti de Stata Ecclesiæ et legitima potestate Romani Pontificis líber singularis ad reuniendoses in religione christianos compositus "On the State of the Church and the legitimate power of the pontiff Roman" (Bullioni apud Guillelmum Evrardi, 1763) of Julius Febronius (pseudonym of Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim), founder of the febronianism.
• 1778: South Carolina becomes the second state that ratifies the Articles of the Confederation.
• 1783: In Calabria (Italy) at 12:00 noon an earthquake of an estimated intensity of 7.0 degrees on the Richter scale destroys some 180 villages in Calabria and Sicily, causing the death of about 25 000 people. In the next 50 days there will be four intense earthquakes (6 and 7 February, and 1 and 28 March) that will cost 25 000 more lives.
• 1810: after taking over Jaén, Cordoba, Seville and Granada, Napoleonic troops enter Malaga under the command of General Sebastiani.
• 1815: foundation by Royal Order of Fernando VII of the Real Sociedad Económica Extremeña de Amigos del País de Badajoz.
• 1818: In Sweden, the Napoleonic Marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte came to the throne with the name of Charles XIV.
• 1819: treaty between Chile and Argentina to collaborate in the independence of Peru.
• 1824: On the coasts of Lima (Peru) begins the site against the realistic bastion of El Callao.
• 1825: On the German coast of the North Sea, about 800 people die drowned because of a cyclic mare.
• 1852: In St.Petersburg (Russia) the Hermitage Museum is inaugurated.
• 1852: In Nicaragua, the head of the State, Fulgencio Vega, who holds the position internly, decrees the transfer of the government from the city of Granada to the city of Managua, bringing the latter to the rank of capital of the nation, a transfer that will be made effective four days later.
• 1857: Mexico promulgates the Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States.
• 1864: Denmark surrenders in the war against Prussia and Austria.
• 1876: the Abadian Action took place, the last great battle with alphonsian victory before the end of the Third Carlist War.
• 1876: Captain General José Malcampo and Monge departs with the fleet of Manila (Philippines) to Joló Island, to end their independence and their focus of piracy.
• 1877: in Madrid, with the placement of the first stone of the Model Prison, the penal reform in Spain begins.
• 1877: Chile signed the law that empowers women to obtain university degrees.
• 1878: the Ottoman Empire and Russia sign an armistice.
• 1885: the free state of the Congo becomes the personal possession of Leopoldo II, king of Belgium. The Congolese genocide begins (1885-1908), in which the Belgians will murder and torture between 10 and 15 million men, women and children of the Congo.
• 1887: in Milan (Italy), the opera Otello de Giuseppe Verdi is premiered.
• 1888: in Zalamea la Real (province of Huelva, Spain) there is a confrontation between anarchist protesters and the Guardia Civil with the balance of more than twenty dead.
• 1902: in France, the working day of the miners is set in nine hours.
• 1902: troops are used in Spain to collect contributions.
• 1902: London founded the first fan club, in honor of the theatre director Lewis Waller.
• 1903: In Spain, twelve thousand Barcelonans signed a petitioner, directed to the mayor of his city, to undertake a campaign against blasphemy.
• 1905: Mexico's General Hospital opened with four basic specialities.
• 1907: in Madrid temperatures of −13 °C are recorded during the cold wave.
• 1909: In the United States, Belgian Leo Baekeland (winner of the Nobel Prize) announced the creation of a cheap and non-flammable plastic, which denominated baquelita.
• 1912: in Spain the battleship is launched Spain, first of the warships built after the destruction of the Spanish Navy in the wars of Cuba and the Philippines.
• 1915: In Mexico, Pancho Villa assumes full military and civilian powers.
• 1916: the international cabaret created by the Dadaist movement is celebrated for the first time.
• 1917: In the city of Querétaro (Mexico) the Constituent Congress promulgates the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, which appoints General Venustiano Carranza as the first constitutional president of the country.
• 1918: in Madrid the zarzuela The Jewish child, with lyrics by Antonio Paso and Enrique García Álvarez and music by Pablo Luna.
• 1919: After the dismissal of eight workers, the company staff Barcelona Traction (known as the Canadian) is on strike. La Huelga de la Canadiense would end up paralysing the city and industry of Barcelona for 44 days, being one of the greatest successes of the Spanish workers' movement and the National Labor Confederation.
• 1919: In the United States, David W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, form United Artists.
• 1920: at the National Opera Theatre in Paris it is premiered The Song of the NightingaleIgor Stravinski.
• 1923: In Italy, Benito Mussolini ordered the arrest of hundreds of socialist militants.
• 1923: in the Sarre, Germany, there is a general strike caused by the reduction of wages.
• 1927: The Conference of Ambassadors in Paris accepts that Germany strengthens its southern and eastern borders, provided that its disarmament is effective.
• 1929: an Iberian necropolis is discovered in Barcelona in Montjuich.
• 1930: in Mexico there is an attack on President Pascual Ortiz Rubio.
• 1931: the National Literature Award is awarded to Mauritius Bacarisse.
• 1933: In the Dutch East Indies, mutineed sailors kidnap the battleship De Zeven Provinciën.
• 1936: a company is formed to exploit the bituminosa board in the Ronda (Malaga) serra.
• 1936: In the United States the film is released Modern timesCharles Chaplin.
• 1938: in Zacatepec de Hidalgo (Mexico) General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (President of the Republic) inaugurates Emiliano Zapata.
• 1939: the president of the Generality, Lluis Companys, and the president of the Basque autonomous government, José Antonio Aguirre, cross the French border in the direction of exile.
• 1940: In India, Mahatma Gandhi meets with the British viceroy.
• 1943: In New York, boxer Jake LaMotta gets to beat Sugar Ray Robinson.
• 1946: In Mexico City, the Monumental Plaza de Toros Mexico, a project of the Yucatecan entrepreneur of Lebanese origin Neguib Simón, was inaugurated.
• 1947: In Poland the Parliament elects President of the Republic to Bolesław Bierut who, until then, had served the post provisionally.
• 1947: Lola Flores and Manolo Caracol act at the Teatro Poliorama in Barcelona.
• 1948: the Franco-Spanish border is reopened.
• 1949: In Iran, the Tudeh Party, of communist orientation, is dissolved.
• 1949: Alberto Larraguibel and his Huaso horse beat the world record high jump on horseback, exceeding 2.47 meters.
• 1953: in Mexico, a violent earthquake seriously affects the southern region of the country: Tila, Yajalón and Chilón.
• 1954: Viet Minh near Dien Bien Phu.
• 1955: the French government of Pierre Mendès France falls due to the situation in North Africa.
• 1955: The first meeting of Josip Broz, Tito, and Gamal Abdel Nasser took place on a boat in the Mediterranean.
• 1958: In Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser is appointed the first president of the newly established United Arab Republic.
• 1958: in front of the mouth of the Savannah River (state of Georgia), during a practice exercise at 2:00 a.m., a B-47 bomber carrying a Mark 15 hydrogen bomb of 3500 kg rode into the air a F-86 fighter aircraft. To protect the crew from a possible explosion, the nuclear bomb was thrown into the shallow waters—where they believed it could be easily recovered—a few kilometres from the town of Tybee Island (United States). He never got back.
• 1960: In Meyrin, near Geneva, the largest accelerator of global particles, a 25 GeV power synchrotron, built by the CERN, is inaugurated.
• 1964: in Cuba, Fidel Castro cuts the supply of drinking water from the US base in Guantánamo, Cuba. On the eve, four Cuban fishing boats had been seized by the United States.
• 1965: In the United States, Martin Luther King is released four days after his arrest in Selma (Alabama) along with five hundred anti-Segregation protesters.
• 1966: The United States confirms the sale of Patton-type combat cars to Israel.
• 1966: In the violent anti-American demonstrations held in front of the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, protesters call for the evacuation of military bases in Spain.
• 1969: In the cave of Altamira, Spain, a new protective system is applied to prehistoric paintings, which were degraded due to artificial light.
• 1970: In The Hague, the International Court of Justice rejects the demand of the Belgian Government against Spanish in the dispute they hold on the matter of the company Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company.
• 1971: American astronauts Alan Bartlett Shepard and Edgar D. Mitchell sit on the Moon with the Antares descent module and walk the Fra Mauro crater. It was the sixth manned mission to the Moon and the third one to join.
• 1971: In Guipúzcoa, Spain, the state of emergency is lifted.
• 1972: In Vitoria, 3500 workers on strike lead to the closure of the Michelin tire factory.
• 1972: in Spain, the Madrid newspaper announces the sale of its heritage.
• 1972: in Colombia, the television program Saturdays Felices emits its first air chapter under the name Rise Champions.
• 1975: in Lima (Peru) the police strike results in looting and disorders in several areas of the city (Lima).
• 1978: In Costa Rica, Rodrigo Carazo Hate, a right-wing coalition candidate, wins in presidential elections.
• 1979: returns to Tehran the statesman and head of the Iranian Shia community Ruhollah Jomeini.
• 1980: In Grenoble, German physicist Klaus von Klitzing discovered the so-called Hall effect.
• 1982: In Vizcaya, Spain, the terrorist group ETA released the Basque businessman José Lipperheide, after receiving 20 million pesetas of rescue.
• 1984: in Spain, Duke Alfonso de Borbón and Dampierre suffers a serious car accident, in which his eldest son, Francisco, perishes.
• 1985: in Cadiz, Spain, the civilian governor opened the fence of Gibraltar for the transit of persons, vehicles and goods, in application of the agreement signed by Spain and the United Kingdom in November 1984.
• 1985: an alleged evasion of capital that affects the high society and whose brain would be the diplomat Francisco Javier Palazón.
• 1987: the Soviet Union launches the astronave Soyuz TM-2 with two cosmonauts aboard, whose objective is to launch a permanent space station.
• 1988: The Soviet Supreme Court claims the memory of Nikolái Bujarin and Alekséi Rýkov, executed by Stalin's order in 1938.
• 1990: in Galicia, Manuel Fraga Iribarne swears his position as new president of the Board of Galicia.
• 1990: the results of the Costa Rican presidential elections give the social Christian Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier the winner.
• 1991: In Colombia, the National Constituent Assembly was set up, which aimed to shape the Colombian Constitution.
• 1994: A Serbian attack occurs in the central market in Sarajevo; 69 civilians are killed and 197 injured.
• 1997: In New York, stock market firms Morgan Stanley Group and Dean Witter Reynolds announce their merger, thus creating the stock market society Morgan Stanley with funds of $270 billion.
• 1998: In the new financial zone of Caracas, a fire destroys the Europe tower, 14 floors high.
• 1999: Ecuador lives a day of widespread protests against the regime of President Jamil Mahuad.
• 2000: south of Grozni (Capital of Chechnya), the Russian Army perpetrates the Novye Aldi massacre.
• 2001: In Spain, the power companies Endesa and Iberdrola announced the breakdown of the merger process, which began in October 2000.
• 2002: The Italian Senate approves a decree to allow the return to Italy of the descendants of the last king of the country, Humberto II, who had vetoed their entry for 56 years.
• 2002: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the provisional president, Eduardo Duhalde, announced general elections for 14 September 2003.
• 2002: Judge Baltasar Garzón decrees the wrongfulness of Segi and Askatasuna because they are structures that form part of the terrorist organization ETA and which perform "the same criminal activity as their predecessors Jarrai and Gestoras Pro Amnesty".
• 2003: In The Hague the International Court of Justice orders the United States to temporarily suspend the execution of three Mexican prisoners.
• 2004: In Nayaf (Irak), Ayatollah Ali Sistani—the leader of the Shiite community—is illustrated by an attack.
• 2004: In Beijing, 37 people die from a bridge when they participated in the traditional "feast of the lanterns".
• 2004: near Kabul (Afghanistan) there are the remains of an airplane, in which 104 people traveled during a strong snowstorm.
• 2004: On the coast of Tenerife (Canarias) arrives a boat with 227 sub-Saharan immigrants on board.
• 2004: In Japan, nine Japanese die in two vehicles after committing suicide online.
• 2006: in Beirut—as part of the protests for the spread of cartoons by Mohammed—radical Muslim groups burn the Danish consulate. In Europe, protests continue.
• 2006: in the cave of Vilhonneur (West of France), French researchers find prehistoric parietal engravings of 27 000 years old.
• 2006: In Switzerland, Spain's men's basketball team gets the silver medal at the European Championships after losing the final against France by 23-31 in Zurich.
• 2007: "Ruby" is published as the first single of the second album of the Kaiser Chiefs band.
• 2008: In Rafah, Gaza, the Israeli army killed two Hamas followers during a raid.
• 2014: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a fire in a warehouse in the Barracas district, leaves 10 dead, including firefighters and rescuers. Iron Mountain Fire in Buenos Aires (2014)
• 2020: in Washington D.C. (United States), the House of Senators absolves President Donald Trump of a political trial against him.

Births

• 976: Sanjō, Japanese emperor (f. 1017).
• 1626: Madame de Sévigné, French writer (f. 1696).
• 1786: Jorge Torino, Argentine military (f. 1851).
• 1788: Robert Peel, politician and British Prime Minister between 1834 and 1835 and between 1841 and 1846 (f. 1850).
• 1804: Johan Ludvig Runeberg, a Finnish poet (f. 1877).
• 1808: Carl Spitzweg, German painter (f. 1885).
• 1810: Ole Bull, a Norwegian violinist (f. 1880).
• 1837: Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (f. 1899).
• 1837: Francisco de Paula Loño y Pérez, militar y política español (f. 1907).
• 1840: John Boyd Dunlop, veterinarian and British inventor (f. 1921).
• 1846: Johann Most, German anarchist (f. 1906).
• 1848: Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean military (f. 1882).
• 1848: Joris-Karl Huysmans, French writer (f. 1907).
• 1862: Felipe Villanueva, Mexican composer (f. 1893).
• 1875: Ricardo Viñes, pianist and Spanish composer (f. 1943).
• 1878: André Citroën, pioneer of the automobile industry and French engineer (f. 1935).
• 1882: Felice Lattuada, Italian composer (f. 1962).
• 1887: Rene Cassin, French jurist, Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 (f. 1976).
• 1891: Monta Bell, American filmmaker (f. 1958).
• 1896: Joaquín Meade, Mexican historian (f. 1971).
• 1897: Eduardo Arias Suárez, a Colombian writer and journalist (f. 1958).
• 1897: Jorge Herrán, Uruguayan architect (f. 1969).
• 1900: Adlai Stevenson, American politician (f. 1965).
• 1905: Juan García "El peralvillo", Mexican actor and argumentist (f. 1973).
• 1906: Mariano Cañardo, Spanish cyclist (f. 1987).
• 1906: John Carradine, American actor (f. 1988).
• 1909: Grażyna Bacewicz, pianist and Polish violinist (f. 1969).
• 1910: Felipe Rosas, Mexican footballer (f. 1986).
• 1910: Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (f. 2010).
• 1911: Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (f. 1960).
• 1913: María Luisa Zea, Mexican actress (f. 2002).
• 1913: Oscar Flores Tapia, Mexican politician (f. 1998).
• 1913: Norma Castillo, an Argentine actress (f. 2004).
• 1914: Manolita Saval, Spanish-French-Mexican actress and singer (f. 2001).
• 1914: William Burroughs, American writer (f. 1997).
• 1914: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 (f. 1998).
• 1915: Gabriel Vargas Bernal, Mexican hysterist (f. 2010).
• 1915: Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961 (f. 1990).
• 1915: Carlos Rinaldi, Argentine filmmaker (f. 1995).
• 1916: Daniel Santos, Puerto Rican singer (f. 1992).
• 1919: Red Buttons, American actor (f. 2006).
• 1919: Tim Holt, American actor (f. 1973).
• 1919: Andreas Papandreu, Greek politician (f. 1996).
• 1920: Carlos Quintero Arce, ecclesiastical and Mexican archbishop (f. 2016).
• 1921: John Pritchard (director), British orchestra director (f. 1989).
• 1929: Luc Ferrari, French composer (f. 2005).
• 1931: Vicente Parra, Spanish actor (f. 1997).
• 1932: Cesare Maldini, footballer and Italian coach.
• 1933: Miguel d’Escoto, diplomat, Catholic priest and Nicaraguan politician (f. 2017).
• 1933: Milos Milutinovich, footballer and Serbian coach (f. 2003).
• 1934: Hank Aaron, American baseball player (f. 2021).
• 1935: Saturnino García, Spanish actor.
• 1936: José Name Terán, Colombian lawyer and politician (f. 2011).
• 1939: Miguel Boyer, Spanish economist and politician (f. 2014).
• 1940: H. R. Giger, graphic artist and Swiss sculptor (f. 2014).
• 1942: Fernando Sustaita: Argentine singer, songwriter and musician, from Barbara and Dick (f. 2006).
• 1942: Janine Pommy Vega, American poet of the beat generation (f. 2010).
• 1943: Nolan Bushnell, American video game designer.
• 1943: Michael Mann, American filmmaker.
• 1944: Yōsuke Akimoto, Japanese seiyū.
• 1944: Al Kooper, musician, record producer and American composer.

Charlotte Rampling

• 1946: Charlotte Rampling, British actress.
• 1947: Darrell Waltrip, American motor racing pilot.
• 1947: Jenny Gröllmann, German actress.
• 1947: Benoît Jacquot, French filmmaker.
• 1948: Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football coach.
• 1948: Christopher Guest, American actor.
• 1949: Francisco Maturana, Colombian football coach.
• 1949: Kurt Beck, German politician.
• 1950: Rafael Puente, Mexican footballer.
• 1951: Rubén Cano, Spanish-Argentine footballer.
• 1951: Ryūsei Nakao, Japanese seiyū.
• 1953: Jorge Briceño Suárez, Colombian guerrilla (f. 2010).
• 1954: Cliff Martínez, American composer.
• 1955: Antonio Herrero, Spanish journalist (f. 1998).
• 1956: Héctor Rebaque, Mexican Formula 1 pilot.
• 1958: Stuka, Argentine musician, of the band Los Violadores.
• 1959: Francisco, Spanish singer.
• 1959: Armando Husillos, footballer and Argentine coach.
• 1960: Mario Zaragoza, Mexican actor.
• 1961: Ana Celia Urquidi, producer and director of Mexican television.
• 1962: Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress.
• 1962: Gary, Argentine singer.
• 1963: Steven Shainberg, American filmmaker.
• 1964: Laura Linney, American actress.
• 1964: Duff McKagan, American musician, Guns N Roses.
• 1965: Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer.
• 1965: Mayumi Shō, Japanese seiyū.
• 1966: José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer.
• 1967: Sergio Galliani, Peruvian actor.
• 1968: Marcus Grönholm, Finnish rally driver.
• 1968: Roberto Alomar, Puerto Rican baseball player.
• 1969: Bobby Brown, American singer.
• 1969: Michael Sheen, British actor.
• 1969: Hidenobu Kiuchi, Japanese seiyū.
• 1972: María Isabel de Denmark, Princess Consorte of Denmark.
• 1974: Ciro Nieli, British cartoonist.
• 1975: Adam Carson, American drummer, AFI band.
• 1975: Ana Lúcia Menezes, Brazilian bent actress (f. 2021).
• 1975: Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer.
• 1976: John Aloisi, Australian footballer.
• 1976: Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor.
• 1976: Tony Jaa, martial artist and Thai actor.
• 1976: Martin Alejandro Scelzo, Argentinian rugby player.
• 1978: Samuel Sánchez, Spanish cyclist.
• 1979: Paulo Gonçalves, a Portuguese bike rider (f. 2020).
• 1980: Manaf Abushgeer, Saudi footballer.
• 1981: Nora Zehetner, American actress.
• 1982: Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer.
• 1982: Diego Ruiz, Spanish athlete.
• 1982: Evelyn Salgado Pineda, Mexican politics.
• 1982: Yū Kobayashi, Japanese seiyū.
• 1984: Carlos Tévez, Argentine soccer player.

Cristiano Ronaldo

• 1985: Eric O'Flaherty, American baseball player.
• 1985: Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer.
• 1985: Antonio Sánchez Cabeza, Spanish footballer.
• 1986: Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer.
• 1986: Carlos Villanueva Rolland, Chilean footballer.
• 1986: Sebastián Pinto, Chilean footballer.
• 1987: Darren Criss, American actor and singer.
• 1988: Jaime Astrain Aguado, Spanish footballer.
• 1989: Jeremy Sumpter, American actor.
• 1990: Lars Gerson, Luxembourg footballer.
• 1991: Johan Arango, Colombian footballer.
• 1992: Neymar Jr, Brazilian footballer.
• 1992: Stefan de Vrij, a Dutch footballer.
• 1993: Adam Ondra, Czech climber.
• 1995: Adnan Januzaj, Belgian footballer.
• 1997: Marcy Avila, actress, musician and LGBT activist from Venezuela.
• 1997: Françoise Abanda, Canadian tennis player.
• 1997: Takumi Kamijima, Japanese footballer.
• 1997: Senna Miangue, Belgian footballer.
• 1998: Daniel Morer Cabrera, Spanish footballer.
• 1999: Towa Yamane, Japanese footballer.
• 2000: Jordan Nagai, an American voice actor.
• 2000: Viktor Örlygur Andrason, Icelandic footballer.
• 2000: Katarina Zavatska, Ukrainian tennis player.
• 2000: Esmé Creed-Miles, British actress.
• 2002: Jisung, member of the NCT group.
• 2002: Taehyun, South Korean singer member of the TXT buoy.
• 2002: Davis Cleveland, American actor
• 2004: Paula Gallego, Spanish actress.
• 2011: Luna Fulgencio, Spanish actress.
• 2016: Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Prince Bhutanese.

Deaths

• 1520: Sten Sture the Young, Swedish regent (n. 1493).
• 1590: Bernardino de Sahagún, Spanish Franciscan friar (n. 1499).
• 1679: Joost van den Vondel, a Dutch poet and playwright (n. 1587).
• 1807: Pasquale Paoli, patriot and military corso (n. 1725).
• 1818: Charles XIII, Swedish king (n. 1748).
• 1825: Pierre Gaveaux, tenor and French composer (n. 1761).
• 1858: Alvaro Dávila, aristocrat Spaniard (n. 1808).
• 1867: Serafín Estébanez Calderón, a Spanish writer (n. 1799).
• 1881: Thomas Carlyle, historian, social critic and Scottish essayist (n. 1795).
• 1882: José Selgas, Spanish writer and journalist (n. 1822).
• 1888: Anton Mauve, a Dutch realistic painter, cousin of the painter Vincent van Gogh (n. 1838).
• 1894: Auguste Vaillant, French anarchist (n. 1861).
• 1905: Lizardo Montero Flores, politician, military and Peruvian president (n. 1832).
• 1909: Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, occultist and French writer (n. 1842).
• 1917: Édouard Drumont, an anti-Semitic French journalist (n. 1844).
• 1926: Gustavo Eberlein, German sculptor (n. 1847).
• 1927: Inayat Khan, sufi Hindu (n. 1882).
• 1937: Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian writer (n. 1861).
• 1943: W. S. Van Dyke, American director (n. 1889).
• 1946: Max González Olaechea, Peruvian doctor and professor (n. 1867).
• 1946: George Arliss, British actor (n. 1868).
• 1953: Iuliu Maniu, a Romanian politician (n. 1873).
• 1959: Gwili Andre, Danish actress (n. 1908).
• 1959: Curt Sachs, German musicologist (n. 1881).
• 1962: Jacques Ibert, French composer (n. 1890).
• 1967: Violeta Parra, Chilean singer (n. 1917).
• 1969: Thelma Ritter, American actress (n. 1905).
• 1972: Marianne Moore, American writer and poet (n. 1887).
• 1973: Hernán Figueroa Reyes, Argentine singer (n. 1936).
• 1984: The Holy (Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta), Mexican fighter and actor (n. 1917).
• 1987: Anxelu, Spanish poet and monologuist (n. 1899).
• 1990: Sylvia del Villard, actress, choreographer and Puerto Rican dancer (n. 1928).
• 1991: Pedro Arrupe, Spanish Jesuit (n. 1907).
• 1991: Dean Jagger, American actor (n. 1903).
• 1992: Sergio Méndez Arceo, Mexican socialist bishop (n. 1907).

Nicomedes Santa Cruz

• 1992: Nicomedes Santa Cruz, singer, journalist and Peruvian poet (n. 1925).
• 1993: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American filmmaker (n. 1909).
• 1994: Tiana Lemnitz, German lyric soprano (n. 1897).
• 1996: Antonio Ruiz Soler, Spanish dancer and choreographer (n. 1921).
• 1996: Gianandrea Gavazzeni, director of Italian orchestra (n. 1909).
• 1999: Carmen Kurtz, Spanish writer (n. 1911).
• 1999: Wassily Leontief, US economist of Russian origin, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1973 (n. 1905).
• 2000: Pablo Elvira, Puerto Rican baritone (n. 1937).
• 2000: Barbara Pentland, Canadian composer (n. 1912).
• 2000: Göran Tunström, Swedish writer (n. 1937).
• 2003: René Cardona Jr., Mexican actor and filmmaker (n. 1939).
• 2003: Alvaro Galmés de Fuentes, filologist, dialectologist and Spanish arabist (n. 1924).
• 2004: Nuto Revelli, Italian writer (n. 1919).

Gnassingbé Eyadéma

• 2005: Gnassingbé Eyadéma, a Togolese politician, president of Togo between 1967 and 2005 (n. 1937).
• 2010: Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer and politician (n. 1924).
• 2013: Reinaldo Gargano, politician and Uruguayan journalist (n. 1934).
• 2013: Leda Mileva, writer, translator and Bulgarian diplomat (n. 1920).
• 2013: Juan Gallardo Muñoz, Spanish writer (n. 1929).
• 2014: Robert Alan Dahl, American professor of political science (n. 1915).

Val Logsdon Fitch

• 2015: Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist, nobel physics award in 1980 (n. 1923).
• 2020: Kirk Douglas, American actor (n. 1916).
• 2020: Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, nobel medical prize in 1986 (n. 1922).
• 2020: José Agustín de la Puente Candamo, historian, professor and Peruvian lawyer (n. 1922).
• 2021: Christopher Plummer, a Canadian actor (n. 1929).
• 2022:
  • Don Johnston, Canadian politician (n. 1936).
  • Fernando Marías Amondo, a Spanish writer, screenwriter and editor (n. 1958).

Celebrations

• Mexico Mexico: Anniversary of the Enactment of Mexican Constitution.

Catholic saints list

• Santa Agueda de Catania, virgin and martyr. Lawyer of the breast diseases of the woman and Patrona of Sorihuela del Guadalimar (Jaén).
• Santa Adelaida de Vilich
• Saint Albuino, Austrian bishop.
• San Avito de Vienna, Italian theologian.
• Santa Calamanda, virgin and Spanish martyr, Patron of Calaf
• Saint Philip of Jesus
• Santa Francisca Mézière
• San Ingenuino
• San Bernabé de Jesús Méndez Montoya
• Saint Luke (abad)
• Holy Martyrs of the Ponto
• San Sabas el Joven