February 7th

February 7 is the 38th (thirty-eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 327 days to the end of the year and 328 in leap years.

Events

• 457: In the Byzantine Empire, Lion I the Matarife becomes emperor.
• 1074: in the battle of Montesarchio (18 km southeast of Benevento, Italy), Pandolfo IV of Benevento dies fighting against the Norman invaders.
• 1236: In the framework of the Christian conquest of Cordoba, King Fernando III "El Santo" arrived in the city, which was weakened by the previous Christian conquest of the Axerquía arrabales.
• 1238: In Russia, the Tatar Mongols set fire to the village of Vladimir (founded in 1108).
• 1301: Eduardo de Caernarvon (who will become King Edward II of England) becomes the first prince of Wales.
• 1461: In Spain, the Catalan Courts rise in arms and send troops to liberate Carlos de Viana.
• 1497: in Florence, Italy, the Catholic monk Girolamo Savonarola and his followers burn thousands of books, musical instruments and works of art in the so-called Hoguera of vanities. Sandro Botticelli throws his original paintings on classic mythological themes.
• 1518: In Valladolid, Charles I, king of Spain, swears the laws of Castile before the Courts of Castile.
• 1569: The Spanish Inquisition is established in America.
• 1632: The Courts are convened in Madrid.
• 1705: In the framework of the Spanish War of Succession, Franco-Spanish forces assault Gibraltar.
• 1765: In England, Horace Walpole (1717-1797) publishes The Castle of Otrantothe first Gothic novel of universal literature.
• 1783: In Soriano Cálabro (Calabria, Italy) the third earthquake (from a series of 5, in 50 days) takes place of an estimated magnitude of 6.6 in the Richter scale. The following earthquakes will be on 1 and 28 March, leaving an estimated 50 000 victims.
• 1792: Austria and Prussia sign an alliance against the French revolutionaries.
• 1793: The French National Convention declares war on Spain for its accession to the already executed monarch Luis XVI.
• 1807: In Eylau (in Poland, currently in Russia, 38 km south of Kalingrad)—in the framework of the Napoleonic Wars—the Battle of Eylau is waged: Napoleon begins his struggle against Russian and Prussian forces.
• 1812: in New Madrid (Misuri) at 9:45, an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 occurs on the seismological scale of Richter. It is the third intense earthquake in less than two months: the first (in magnitude 8.1) was 16 December 1811 on the same site, the second (in magnitude 7.8) was 23 January 1812. Several courses are changed from the Mississippi River channel.
• 1819: in Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves the island just after taking it, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
• 1822: Fernando VII asks for help from the Holy Alliance and the member powers decide to intervene to overthrow the liberals and to replenish the monarch in the use of its full sovereignty.
• 1836: The Battle of Socabaya takes place in the town of Socabaya, Peru between the confederate forces and the restorative forces.
• 1852: in the Camp de Guardias (Madrid) the priest Martin Merino was publicly hanged, who had attacked the life of Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1861: In the waters of Alicante, Narcissus Monturiol performs satisfactory tests of its Icetinian submarine, although it does not obtain official support.
• 1863: On the coast of Auckland (New Zealand) the HMS boat sinks Orpheus. 189 people die.
• 1871: In the United States, dentist James Beall Morrison patents a foot-driven drill, which in a short time finds a wide diffusion.
• 1876: In the United States, Alexander Graham Bell patents the invention of the phone, whose idea had taken of the Italian Antonio Meucci.
• 1884: Pope Leo XIII’s Bull creates the diocese of Madrid-Alcalá.
• 1885: in Spain, the Spanish playwright José de Echegaray estrena Joyful life and sad death.
• 1894: In Cripple Creek (Colorado) an important strike of miners begins.
• 1897: Benito Pérez Galdós enters the Royal Spanish Academy.
• 1898: In France, the writer Émile Zola is judged by apology of the crime for his defense against the anti-Semitism of his J'accuse.
• 1901: In Baku (Russian Empire, present Azerbaijan) fires occur in the oil fields.
• 1901: Queen Guillermina's wedding with Duke Enrique de Mecklemburg is celebrated in The Hague.
• 1902: in Tweebosch (Transvaal)—in the framework of the Wars of the Boeres—the last victory of the Afrikaner happens.
• 1904: In Baltimore, United States, in 30 hours a fire destroys 1500 houses and causes hundreds of deaths.
• 1904: In Valladolid, Spain, women's demonstration asking for "bread and work"; the Guardia Civil attacks them and leaves many wounds.
• 1906: In San Sebastián, Spain, the ceremony of conversion to Catholicism of Princess Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg is celebrated.
• 1906: the Finnish government decides to give the right to vote to men and women over the age of 24, excluding those who have been reduced and those not registered in the tax lists.
• 1907: in Montecarlo Jules Massenet estrena his opera Therése.
• 1907: Honduras and Nicaragua break diplomatic relations.
• 1907: in London (England) the Mud March is held, the first major procession organized by the NUWSS (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies).
• 1910: Belgium, the United Kingdom and Germany mark the borders between their respective African colonies: Congo, Uganda and East Africa.
• 1910: King Edward VII of the United Kingdom arrives on official visit to Paris.
• 1911: The Swiss National Council decides to import frozen meat from the United States to alleviate food shortages.
• 1913: in Spain King Alfonso XIII made a flight in the airship Spain.
• 1916: The Reich Chancellor prohibits the export of iron and steel.
• 1918: Germany and Finland sign a treaty of peace and friendship.
• 1920: in Madrid, the Mauritians win the municipal elections.
• 1921: In France there are requisitions and arrests of communists, the distribution of leaflets and the conduct of anti-militarist meetings.
• 1922: at the Teatro Real de Madrid (Spain), Miguel Fleta is presented at the opera Carmen.
• 1924: Uruguay adopts a bill that imposes compulsory collective work.
• 1925: Foreign Mongolia is occupied by the Red Army of the Soviet Union.
• 1927: in Barcelona, the civilian governor forbids auditions of sardanas in central places of the city.
• 1928: first air postal expedition Madrid-Barcelona.
• 1931: constitutional guarantees are restored and legislative elections are held in Spain.^{[chuckles]required]}
• 1931: the German bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne warn of the dangers of National Socialism.
• 1932: the Bremen crosses the Atlantic Ocean in 4 days and 17 hours, thus achieving the “blue belt”.
• 1934: in Valencia, Juan de la Cierva performs a proof of descent and takes off with his self-drawn on the deck of the aircraft carrier Give it up..
• 1935: Malcolm Campbell sets a new speed record at 445.49 km/h.
• 1936: the German troops of Adolf Hitler occupy the demilitarized zone of Renania.
• 1937: in Metlaui, Tunisia, the gendarmerie murders 19 miners.
• 1938: in Barcelona the film is released The caste SusanaOne of the few films premiered at the time of war.
• 1939: A conference to resolve the Palestinian problem was opened in London.
• 1940: In the United Kingdom, the Government executes two IRA militants.
• 1941: the first provision of the Reich on protection against X-rays and radioactive substances regulates protective measures against these radiations in the non-medical area.
• 1942: The German offensive in Libya is being held in the Gazale.
• 1944: In Anzio, Italy—in the framework of World War II—the Nazi forces launched a counter-offensive during the Shingle ally operation.
• 1945: in Portugal the toreo is regulated.
• 1946: During the agrarian reform in the Soviet occupation zone, 53,000 agricultural companies have been distributed among new peasants, with a total area of 2.6 million hectares.
• 1946: The U.S. War Secretary supports MacArthur's plans to reactivate Japanese exports.
• 1947: In Antarctica, Chileans establish the Arturo Prat naval base.
• 1948: The Government of Juan Domingo Perón proposes that, at a conference between Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom, the question of the Malvinas be discussed.
• 1950: The United States and the United Kingdom recognize the Vietnamese Government of Bao Dai.
• 1950: Leopoldo III, king of Belgium, refuses to abdicate for his son.
• 1950: Iceland is admitted to the Council of Europe.
• 1951: arrives at the Madrid airport of Barajas the Argentine footballer Roque Olsen, hired by Real Madrid.
• 1953: in Bilbao, the football field of San Mamés is extended.
• 1956: the government of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu announces that the prohibition of religious instruction in the public schools of Argentina continues to apply.
• 1957: Police forces control an attempted strike in Asturian mining promoted by communists.
• 1962: in Germany the gray explosion in the Luisenthal mine (Volklingen) leaves a balance of more than 600 dead miners.
• 1962: The US embargo against Cuba enters into force.
• 1963: the editor of the German weekly Der SpiegelRudolf Augstein is released from his imprisonment.
• 1963: in Argentina they arrest former dictator Isaac Rojas.
• 1964: the diocese of Leon yields to the INI the convent of Saint Mark.
• 1964: the British musical group The Beatles visits the United States for the first time, where they are not yet well known; the tour and the performances The Ed Sullivan Show they are a success and assume their global consecration.
• 1965: U.S. Air Force starts using napalm on North Vietnam.
• 1967: U.S. immunologist Thomas Marchioro reports that the anti-inflammatory serum obtained from horses mitigates the rejection reaction of kidney transplants.
• 1967: a large part (2643 km2) of the Australian island of Tasmania is devastated by a fire, causing 22 deaths.
• 1971: in Switzerland, a popular referendum approves the granting of the right to vote to women by two thirds.
• 1971: in Mexico Melchor Ortega Camarena, former president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is murdered.
• 1972: in Spain, Cardinal Vicente Enrique and Tarancón is elected president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
• 1974: Granada is independent of the British Empire.
• 1975: In Argentina, the wealthiers murder Antonio Muscat, director of the Alba factory.
• 1976: In China, Hua Guofeng succeeds Zhou Enlai as prime minister.
• 1977: In Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto wins in the legislative elections.
• 1978: The IMF grants $300 million to Spain.
• 1978: Spain breaks the consensus on the Spanish Constitution. The PSOE leaves the paper.
• 1979: In the People's Republic of the Congo, Colonel Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the new president.
• 1979: the dwarf planet Pluto moves within the orbit of the planet Neptune.
• 1980: on the coast of Brittany, France, a new black tide happens after the shipwreck of the Malagasy oil tanker Tanio.
• 1983: the first pancreas transplant is performed in Spain.
• 1983: Iran carries out a major offensive against Iraq.
• 1983: Madrid opens the doors of the remodeled Palacio de El Pardo, destined in the future to residence of foreign heads of State on visit to Spain.
• 1984: In the United States, President Ronald Reagan announced the withdrawal of the Marines to the anchored vessels in front of Beirut.
• 1985: in Spain, the terrorist group ETA murders Carlos Díaz Arcocha, head of the Ertzaintza.
• 1986: In Haiti, a popular uprising makes dictator Baby Doc out of the country.
• 1987: in Madrid, at the extraordinary congress of the AP, Antonio Hernández Mancha is proclaimed new president with 1930 votes (against the 729 obtained by Miguel Herrero and Rodríguez de Miñón).
• 1987: In Seoul there is a battle between the demonstrators and the police, with the result of more than 2000 arrests.
• 1988: in Sao Tome and Principe, the National Resistance Front (FNRSTP) gives a coup against President Manuel Pinto da Costa, who will be suffocated.
• 1989: the nationalist conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has caused 91 deaths and 1532 injuries, according to official data.
• 1989: the negotiations between the Spanish government and the trade unions on social measures relating to the demands of the general strike of 14 December 1988 are broken.
• 1989: in Indianapolis (United States), José Manuel Abascal achieves the silver medal in the 1500 meters of the World of Athletics in Sala.
• 1990: In Moscow, the plenary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union approved, with one vote against, the renunciation of its monopoly of power in the Soviet Union.
• 1990: in Brussels the GATT Conference fails, due to discrepancies in the issue of agricultural subsidies.
• 1991: the plenary of the Congress approves the creation of the Cervantes Institute, which aims to disseminate Spanish language and culture abroad.
• 1991: the IRA launches a mortar attack on the government house (10 Downing Street) during a cabinet meeting.
• 1991: on Argentina, at 1:00 (local time) the burning pieces of the Soviet ship Saliut 7, recovered some parts in the mountain range of San Juan, in Captain Bermúdez (at 20 km from Rosario), Venado Tuerto, Firmat, Piedritas and Puerto Madryn.
• 1992: the Maastricht Treaty is signed, establishing the intentions of political union of the European Union.
• 1993: The Spanish Stock Exchange fell by 23 per cent in 1992.
• 1994: in Barcelona, members of the ETA terrorist gang gunned down Colonel Leopoldo García Campos, 59.
• 1995: in Islamabad, Pakistan, U.S. forces arrest and extradite Ramzi Yousef, the ideologist for the bombing of the Twin Towers in 1993.
• 1997: The United States vetoes the draft United Nations Security Council resolution prepared by the EU against Israeli plans to build a Jewish quarter in East Jerusalem.
• 1997: Ecuador dawns with three presidents after the country's political chaos.
• 1998: Chancellor Helmut Kohl offers Bill Clinton the possibility of using American bases in German territory during the Gulf conflict.
• 1998: Winter Games are opened at the Nagano Olympic Stadium, with the presence of the emperor of Japan, Akihito, and the president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch.
• 1998: In Chile, in the midst of the protests of the citizens and the democratic political parties in Chile, the ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet is named "commander in chief benemeritus" of the Army, in recognition of his command of more than 24 years.
• 1999: In Jordan, Abdalah became the new king after the death of his father, King Hussein.
• 1999: The Government of Ukraine decides to launch the third reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with the consequent concern of the West, fearful of a new nuclear disaster.
• 1999: In Equatorial Guinea, the Democratic Party (PDGE) of President Teodoro Obiang has 75 of the 80 seats of the House of Representatives of the People, in the second legislative elections since the country's independence.
• 2000: In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, defense minister Pavle Bulatovic is shot dead in a restaurant.
• 2000: in Croatia, the victory of Stjepan Mesić in the presidential elections is the end of the regime of the late Franjo Tuđman.
• 2000: the Pfizer laboratory (virgin grower) and the Warner-Lambert company merge into a $9 billion operation.
• 2000: the second largest banking entity in the world was born after the merger of German banks Deutsche Bank and Dresdner.
• 2001: in Ecuador, President Gustavo Noboa signs an agreement with Antonio Vargas, leader of the National Indigenous Confederation of Ecuador (CoNaIE).
• 2001: In Israel, the ultra-conservative leader of the Likud, Ariel Sharón, is invested prime minister with the support of 73 of the 120 congressional deputies.
• 2003: Belize, Guatemala and Honduras sign an agreement within the OAS to provide Guatemala with access to the Caribbean Sea.
• 2003: The Spanish Government approves the bill amending the Criminal Code to introduce the full increase and enforcement of sentences for those convicted of terrorism and serious crimes.
• 2003: In Spain, the Ebro River – the most wealthy in the country – floods several municipalities and forces to evict nearly a thousand people.
• 2003: at Club el Nogal, in Bogotá, Colombia, a car bomb explodes. Thirty-three people die. The FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) is accused.
• 2004: In Gaza, the Israeli army kills the military leader of the Islamic jihad.
• 2004: 14 people die in Haiti during the riots against President Aristide.
• 2004: on the northeast coast of Madagascar, a cyclone leaves 43 dead and dozens of disappeared.
• 2005: British Ellen MacArthur establishes in 71 days and 14 hours the record of the return to the world alone on a sailboat.
• 2005: Submersible Kaiko, led by a group of Japanese scientists, finds samples of life in the Fosa de las Marianas, the deepest area of planet Earth.
• 2005: the process of extraordinary regularization of immigrants begins, which tries to legalize the situation of almost a million foreign workers living in Spain.
• 2005: in Bern (Switzerland) three armed men assault the Spanish consulate.
• 2005: Aslán Masjádov, a Czech independence leader, orders a truce to his correspondents and calls for a negotiation of the Kremlin.
• 2005: In the Dominican Republic more than 130 prisoners die in the fire of a prison.
• 2006: In Atlanta, four U.S. presidents come to the funerals of Coretta Scott King, widow of Black leader Martin Luther King murdered.
• 2006: a team of German scientists achieves a historical record by drilling Antarctic ice to 2774 m deep.
• 2006: 21 people die in the city of Benarés, India, in a triple attack on a Hindu pilgrimage sanctuary.
• 2020: Madrid celebrates the National Forestry Day. In 1786, the first National Forestry Agents Corps was created.
• 2020: American rapper Pop Smoke publishes its second mixtape, Meet The Woo 2.
• 2021: In Catar, during the Club World Cup 2020, Tigres becomes the first CONCACAF team to be able to reach the end of the contest, after winning the semifinal to Palmeiras.
• 2021: As part of the Super Bowl LV, Sarah Thomas became the first woman of the Super Bowl.

Births

• 572: Shotoku, Japanese aristocrat (f. 622).
• 1080: Edith of Scotland, queen consort english (f. 1118).
• 1102: Matilde of England (f. 1167) first woman to be queen of England by her own right (disputed with Stephen I).

Thomas Moro.

• 1478: Thomas Moro, politician, philosopher, humanist and English writer (f. 1535).
• 1487: Dangyeong, Korean consort queen (f. 1557).
• 1500: João de Castro, Portuguese navigator (f. 1548).
• 1612: Thomas Killigrew, British playwright (f. 1683).
• 1622: Victoria della Rovere, noble Italian (f. 1694).
• 1655: Jean-François Regnard, French playwright (f. 1709).
• 1693: Ana Ivanovna, Russian empress (f. 1740).
• 1741: Henry Fuseli, Swiss painter (f. 1825).
• 1758: Benedikt Schack, Czech composer (f. 1826).
• 1772: Miguel Ricardo de Álava, a Spanish politician (f. 1843).
• 1786: Antonio José de Irisarri, Chilean military (f. 1868).
• 1804: John Deere, American manufacturer (f. 1886).

Charles Dickens.

Ricardo Palma.

• 1812: Charles Dickens, British writer (f. 1870).
• 1822: Joaquín Gaztambide, Spanish composer (f. 1870).
• 1824: William Huggins, British astronomer (f. 1910).
• 1825: Cristóbal Oudrid, pianist, composer of zarzuelas and director of Spanish orchestra (m. 1877).
• 1833: Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer (f. 1919).
• 1834: Estanislao del Campo, militar y escritor argentina (f. 1880).
• 1837: James Murray, Lexicographer and Scottish Philologist (f. 1915).
• 1841: Auguste Choisy, French architect (f. 1909).
• 1842: Alexandre Ribot, a French politician (f. 1923).
• 1859: Emma Nevada, American soprano (f. 1940).
• 1864: Ricardo Castro Herrera, Mexican composer (f. 1907).
• 1867: Laura Ingalls, American novelist (f. 1957).
• 1870: Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (f. 1937).
• 1871: Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish composer (f. 1927).
• 1873: Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder (f. 1912).
• 1873: Magdalena Santiago Fuentes, pedagogue and Spanish writer (f. 1922).
• 1877: Godfrey Harold Hardy, British mathematician (f. 1947).
• 1885: Romualdo Galdós, religious, publicist and Spanish writer (f. 1953).

Sinclair Lewis.

• 1885: Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, nobel literature award in 1930 (f. 1951).
• 1885: Hugo Sperrle, German military of the Luftwaffe (f. 1953).
• 1887: Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer (f. 1983).
• 1887: Nestor Martin-Fernández de la Torre, painter and Spanish artist (f. 1938).
• 1889: Claudia Muzio, Italian soprano (f. 1936).
• 1889: Harry Nyquist, an American engineer of Swedish origin (f. 1976).
• 1895: Anita Stewart, American actress (f. 1961).
• 1898: Luis Tejada Cano, was a Colombian journalist and chronicler. Considered one of the best chroniclers in Colombia. (f. 1924).
• 1903: Feliciano Brunelli, musician, pianist, bandoneonist, accordionist and director of Argentine orchestra (f. 1981).
• 1905: Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist (f. 1983).
• 1905: Paul Nizan, French writer (f. 1940).
• 1906: Puyi, Chinese emperor (f. 1967).

Oleg Antonov.

• 1906: Oleg Antonov, Soviet aeronautical designer (f. 1984).
• 1908: Buster Crabbe, swimmer and American actor (f. 1983).
• 1909: Hélder Câmara, a Brazilian priest (f. 1999).
• 1909: Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (f. 1995).
• 1909: Amedeo Guillet, Italian military (f. 2010).
• 1909: Anna Świrszczyńska, Polish poet (f. 1984).
• 1909: Silvio Zavala, Mexican historian (f. 2014).
• 1912: Russell Drysdale, an Anglo-Australian painter (f. 1981).
• 1913: Ramón Mercader, Spanish murderer of Leon Trotsky (f. 1978).
• 1914: George Barrows, an American actor (f. 1994).
• 1915: Teoctist Arăpașu, Romanian patriarch (f. 2007).
• 1916: Alba Mujica, an Argentine actress (f. 1983).
• 1922: Hattie Jacques, English actress (f. 1980).
• 1922: Jan Skácel, Czech poet (f. 1989).
• 1923: George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, aristocrat and British businessman (f. 2011).
• 1923: Liudmila Kravets, Soviet military physician and Heroin of the Soviet Union (f. 2015)
• 1925: Marius Constant, Romanian composer (f. 2004).

Juliette Gréco.

• 1927: Juliette Gréco, French singer (f. 2020).
• 1927: Vladimir Kuts, Soviet corridor (f. 1975).
• 1931: Sebastián Martín-Retortillo, Spanish professor and politician (f. 2002).
• 1931: Tran, historietist and Spanish painter.
• 1932: Gay Talese, American writer.
• 1932: Jaime Hurtado, Ecuadorian politician and deputy, leader of the Popular Democratic Movement (f. 1999).
• 1934: Eddie Fenech Adami, President Maltese.
• 1934: King Curtis, American saxophoneist (f. 1971).
• 1934: Javier Hervada, philosopher of law, iustheric and Spanish canonist (f. 2020)
• 1938: Cayetano Ré, Spanish footballer of Paraguayan origin.
• 1940: Fernando Fernández, Spanish cartoonist and illustrator specialized in comics (f. 2010).
• 1940: Toshihide Maskawa, Japanese physicist, nobel physics award in 2008.

Little Tony.

• 1941: Carlos Ferrero Costa, Peruvian lawyer and politician.
• 1941: Little Tony, Italian actor and singer (f. 2013).
• 1942: Allan Wagner Tizón, a Peruvian diplomat and politician.
• 1943: Jorge Ledo, Argentine sports leader (f. 2011).
• 1944: Samuel Gelblung, an Argentine journalist.
• 1946: Cepillin, clown and presenter of Mexican television (f. 2021).
• 1946: Hector Babenco, Brazilian filmmaker (f. 2016).
• 1946: Ricky Maravilla, Argentine singer.
• 1947: Wayne Allwine, American actor (f. 2009).
• 1947: Oscar Maúrtua de Romaña, diplomat, jurist and Peruvian politician.
• 1947: Joaquín López-Dóriga, Mexican nationalized Spanish journalist.
• 1948: Jorge Halperín, Argentine journalist.
• 1949: Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer.
• 1949: Alan Lancaster, British musician and composer (f. 2021).
• 1951: Mayte Mateos, Spanish singer.
• 1952: Vasco Rossi, Italian singer and musician.
• 1954: Dieter Bohlen, German musician of the Modern Talking band.
• 1954: Ricardo Silva, singer and double artist (f. 2021)
• 1955: Miguel Ferrer, an American actor (f. 2017).
• 1956: José Ortega Heredia, Spanish singer (f. 2004).
• 1956: Yuri Slezkine, Russian American historian and translator.
• 1956: Mark St. John, American musician, Kiss band (f. 2007).
• 1958: Manuel Mijares, Mexican singer.
• 1958: Matt Ridley, British scientific writer.

David Bryan

• 1960: Gabriel Calderón, Argentine coach and footballer.
• 1960: Luis Cresencio Sandoval, Mexican military.
• 1960: James Spader, American actor.
• 1960: Steve Bronski, British musician and composer (f. 2021).
• 1960: Yasunori Matsumoto, Japanese actor and seiyū
• 1961: Alfred Zijai, Albanian footballer (f. 2013).
• 1962: Garth Brooks, American singer.
• 1962: David Bryan, American musician, of the Bon Jovi band.
• 1962: Eddie Izzard, British actor and comic.
• 1965: Chris Rock, American actor.
• 1966: Michael Lepond, American bassist, Symphony X.

Kristin Otto.

• 1966: Kristin Otto, German swimmer.
• 1967: Samuel Trigueros, poet, reporter, theatre director and Honduran actor.
• 1968: Diego Olivera, Argentine actor.
• 1968: Sully Erna, American singer, of the Godsmack band.
• 1969: Fernando Cáceres, Argentine soccer player.
• 1970: Stanley Roberts, American basketball player.
• 1970: Arnaldo Samaniego, Paraguayan economist and politician.
• 1972: Amon Tobin, Canadian-Brazilian musician.
• 1973: Juwan Howard, American basketball player.
• 1973: Mie Sonozaki, Japanese seiyū.
• 1974: J Dilla, American hip hop producer (f. 2006).
• 1974: Danny Goffey, British musician and drummer, Supergrass and Babyshambles bands.
• 1974: Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player.
• 1974: Nujabes, DJ and Japanese producer (f. 2010).
• 1975: Wes Borland, American guitarist, from the band Limp Bizkit.
• 1975: Rémi Gaillard, comic and French actor.
• 1976: Felipe Peláez, singer-songwriter of Vallenato and other musical genres.
• 1976: Mr. Ristic, German footballer.
• 1977: Georgios Alexopoulos, Greek footballer.
• 1977: Luigi Consonni, Italian footballer.
• 1977: Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish weight lifter.
• 1977: Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, soccer player and Japanese coach.
• 1978: Daniel van Buyten, Belgian footballer.
• 1978: Endy Chávez, Venezuelan baseball player.

Ashton Kutcher.

• 1978: Ashton Kutcher, American actor.
• 1978: Gonzalo Molina, Peruvian actor.
• 1979: Daniel Bierofka, German footballer.
• 1979: Tawakul Karman, Yemeni activist, Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
• 1979: Cerina Vincent, American actress.
• 1979: Eliezer Alfonzo, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1980: Gisela Van Lacke, actress, driver and Argentine model.
• 1980: Cecilia Navia, Colombian actress.
• 1981: Darcy Dolce Neto, Brazilian footballer.
• 1982: Mickael Pietrus, French basketball player.
• 1983: Georgios Gougoulias, Greek footballer.
• 1983: Christian Klien, Austrian Formula 1 pilot.
• 1983: Federico Marchetti, Italian footballer.
• 1984: Juanlu Hens, Spanish footballer.
• 1985: Tina Majorino, American actress.
• 1985: Deborah Ann Woll, American actress.
• 1985: David Mateos Rocha, Spanish footballer.
• 1986: Michael Orozco, American footballer.
• 1986: Martin Fillo, Czech footballer.
• 1987: Joel Freeland, British basketball player.

Kerli.

• 1987: Kerli, pianist and Estonian singer.
• 1987: Gustav Svensson, Swedish footballer.
• 1988: Matthew Stafford, American football player.
• 1988: Hans van Themsche, skinhead and Belgian racist killer.
• 1988: Sandro Foschini, Swiss footballer.
• 1989: Alejandro González (tenist), is a professional Colombian extenist.
• 1989: Nick Calathes, American basketball player of Greek origin.
• 1989: Louisa Lytton, English actress.
• 1989: Alexis Rolín, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1990: Anna Abreu, Finnish singer.
• 1990: Neil Etheridge, Anglofilipino footballer.
• 1990: Hua Chenyu, Singer and composer
• 1990: Matthieu Saunier, French footballer.
• 1990: Gianluca Lapadula, ílo-peruano footballer.
• 1992: Pipe Bueno is a Colombian singer and songwriter, his musical genres are popular music and ranchera.
• 1992: Sergi Roberto, Spanish footballer.
• 1992: Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer and actress.
• 1993: David Dorfman, American actor.
• 1994: Rui Tiago Dantas Silva, Portuguese footballer.
• 1996: Pierre Gasly, a French motorist pilot.
• 1997: Nicolò Barella, Italian footballer.
• 1997: Anhelina Kalinina, Ukrainian tennis player.
• 1997: Sami Al-Najei, Saudi footballer.
• 1998: Sofia Meakin, Swiss shirt.
• 1999: Bea Miller, American singer.
• 1999: Nerea Rodríguez, Spanish singer.
• 1999: Jonas Wind, Danish footballer.
• 1999: Erick Ferigra, Spanish-Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1999: Omar Marmoush, Egyptian footballer.
• 1999: Thomas Randolph, British athlete.
• 1999: Misael Llantén, Chilean footballer.
• 1999: Anna Polinari, Italian athlete.
• 2000: Oumar Solet, French footballer.
• 2000: Simon Ehammer, Swiss athlete.
• 2000: Bianka Pap, Hungarian swimmer.
• 2000: Kira Lipperheide, German bobsleigh pilot.
• 2001: Pedro de la Vega, Argentine soccer player.
• 2003: Ulysses Ciccioli, Argentine footballer.
• 2005: Bobby Clark, British footballer.
• 2005: Ilya Kharun, Canadian swimmer.

Deaths

• 199: Lü Bu, a Chinese general (n. 161).
• 999: Boleslaus II, Prince Bohemian (n. c. 920).
• 1045: Go-Suzaku, Japanese emperor (n. 1009).
• 1127: Ava, German poet (n. 1060).

Roberto de Clermont.

• 1317: Roberto de Clermont, a French aristocrat, founder of the house of Bourbon (n. 1256).
• 1520: Alfonsina Orsini, Italian noble (f. 1472).
• 1560: Baccio Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (n. 1493).
• 1603: Bartholomäus Sastrow, German general (n. 1520).
• 1626: William V, Bavarian aristocrat (n. 1548).
• 1652: Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (n. 1582).
• 1693: Paul Pellisson, French writer (n. 1624).
• 1736: Stephen Gray, British astronomer (n. 1666).
• 1749: André Cardinal Destouches, French Baroque composer (n. 1672).
• 1779: William Boyce, British composer (n. 1711).
• 1799: Qianlong, Chinese emperor (n. 1711).
• 1823: Juan Antonio Llorente, politician and Spanish ecclesiastical (n. 1756).

Ann Radcliffe.

• 1823: Ann Radcliffe, a British writer and novelist (n. 1764).
• 1830: Marcos Antonio Portugal, Portuguese composer (n. 1762).
• 1837: Gustavo IV Adolfo, Swedish king (n. 1778).
• 1859: Agustín Codazzi, Italian military engineer (n. 1793).
• 1862: Francisco Martínez de la Rosa, poet, playwright and Spanish politician (n. 1787).
• 1864: Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian philologist and linguist (n. 1787).
• 1867: José Eduvigis Díaz, Paraguayan military (n. 1833).
• 1871: Leopoldina of Braganza, Brazilian princess (n. 1847).
• 1871: Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, German piano manufacturer (n. 1797).
• 1873: Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (n. 1814).
• 1878: Pius IX, Italian Catholic Pope (n. 1792).
• 1890: Claudio Moyano, Spanish politician (n. 1809).
• 1894: Adolphe Sax, manufacturer of musical instruments (n. 1814).
• 1897: Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (n. 1847).
• 1916: Josep Torras i Bages, Spanish bishop, promoter of Catalanism (n. 1846).
• 1920: Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian military (n. 1874).
• 1921: Lucas Mallada, geologist, paleontologist and Spanish writer (n. 1841).
• 1921: John J. Gardner, American politician (n. 1845).
• 1923: Julio Flórez, Colombian poet (n. 1867).
• 1934: Rogelio Vigil de Quiñones, a doctor and a Spanish military officer (n. 1862).
• 1937: Elihu Root, American politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1912 (n. 1845).
• 1937: Leonor Sánchez López, Mexican martyr (n. 1918)

Harvey Firestone.

• 1938: Harvey Firestone, American industrialist (n. 1868).
• 1942: Iván Bilíbin, Russian illustrator (n. 1876).
• 1949: Guillermo Rubio Navarrete, Mexican military (n. 1877).
• 1950: Sebastián Chiola, Argentine actor (n. 1902).
• 1959: Napoleon Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (n. 1874).
• 1959: Daniel Malan, a South African politician (n. 1874).
• 1959: Guitar Slim, American blues guitarist (n. 1926).
• 1960: Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (n. 1903).
• 1963: Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (n. 1902).
• 1964: Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician (n. 1894).
• 1968: Nick Adams, American actor (n. 1931).
• 1972: Walter Lang, American filmmaker (n. 1896).
• 1978: Blas Pérez González, a Spanish jurist and politician (n. 1898).
• 1979: Josef Mengele, German Nazi doctor (n. 1911).
• 1984: Claire Bauroff, dancer, choreographer, ballet teacher, actress, model and German writer (n. 1895).
• 1985: Matt Monro, British singer (n. 1932).
• 1986: Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (n. 1923).
• 1988: Renzo Pecchenino (Lukas), Italian cartoonist and cartoonist (n. 1934).
• 1993: Nicolas Broca, a Belgian historietist (n. 1932).
• 1994: Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (n. 1913).
• 1998: Lawrence Sanders, American writer (n. 1920).

Hussein from Jordan.

• 1999: Hussein I, Jordanian king (n. 1935).
• 1999: Antonio Pacenza, Argentine boxer (n. 1928).
• 1999: José Silva, American parapsychologist (n. 1914).
• 1999: Bobby Troup, actor, pianist and American composer (n. 1918).
• 2000: Domingo Di Núbila, journalist, historian and Argentine film critic (n. 1924).
• 2000: Doug Henning, Canadian magician (n. 1947).
• 2000: Big Pun, Puerto Rican rapper (n. 1971).
• 2000: Dave Peverett, British singer and guitarist, from the band Foghat (n. 1943).
• 2000: Shiho Niiyama, Japanese seiyū (f. 1970).
• 2001: Dale Evans, American singer and actress (n. 1912).
• 2002: Elisa Bridges, American model (n. 1973).
• 2002: Cacho Bustamante, Argentine actor (n. 1938).
• 2003: Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan writer (n. 1921).
• 2004: Rebeca Martínez, Dominican twin, born with diprosopia (n. 2003).
• 2006: Alberto Terry, Peruvian footballer (n. 1929).
• 2007: Antonio Enríquez Savignac, Mexican politician (n. 1931).

Beatriz Thibaudín.

• 2007: Beatriz Thibaudin, an Argentine actress (n. 1927).
• 2007: Gerardo Vallejo, Argentine filmmaker (n. 1942).
• 2009: Blossom Dearie, American singer and pianist (n. 1924).
• 2009: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, Mexican poet and painter (n. 1932).
• 2010: Franco Ballerini, Italian cyclist (n. 1964).
• 2011: Helenita Vargas, Colombian singer (n. 1934).
• 2012: Sergio Larraín, Chilean photographer (n. 1931).
• 2013: Juan Carlos Méndez, acronym, economist, businessman, academic, and Chilean consultant (n. 1947).
• 2015: Rene Lavand, Argentinian illusionist (n. 1928).
• 2017: Tzvetan Todorov Bulgarian philosopher (n. 1939).
• 2017: Richard Hatch American actor (n. 1945).
• 2018: John Barlow, American cyberactivist (n. 1947).
• 2019: Legarda (single), was a Colombian singer, composer and youtubero. (n. 1989).
• 2019: Frank Robinson, American baseball player (n. 1935).
• 2020: Li Wenliang, Chinese ophthalmologist (n. 1986).

Ron Wright.

• 2021: Ron Wright, American politician (n. 1953).
• 2021: Pedro Gomez, American sports journalist (n. 1962).
• 2022: Douglas Trumbull, director of American film and producer (f. 2022).

Celebrations

• Granada: Independence Day.

Catholic saints list

• Saint Maximus of Nola, Bishop (s. III)
• San Partenio de Lampsaco, bishop (s. IV)
• St. Moses of Sinai, bishop (f. c. 389)
• Saint Juliana of Florence, widow (s. IV)
• San Lorenzo de Siponte, bishop (f. c. 545)
• San Ricardo de Wessex (f. c. 720)
• St. Luke the Young, Eremite (f. 955)
• Beato Ricerio de Mucia (f. 1236)
• Beato Antonio de Stronconio, religious (1461)
• Blessed Thomas Sherwood, martyr (f. 1578)
• Blessed James Salès and William Saultemouche, martyrs (f. 1593)
• San Gil María de San José, religious (f. 1812)
• Saint John of Triora, priest and martyr (f. 1816)
• Blessed Rosalía Rendu, virgin (f. 1856)
• Blessed Mary of Providence Smet, virgin and founder (f. 1871)
• Blessed Pius IX, Pope (f. 1878)
• Blessed Anselmo Polanco and Felipe Ripoll, martyrs (f. 1939)
• Beato Adalberto Nierychlewski, priest and martyr (f. 1942)
• Blessed Pedro Verhun, priest and martyr (f. 1957)