January 10

January 10 is the 10th (tenth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days to the end of the year and 356 in leap years.

Events

• 49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the river Rubicon, marking the beginning of the second civil war of the Roman Republic.
• 9 d.C.: The Han Occidental dynasty ends when Wang Mang is proclaimed as the Mandate of Heaven, putting an end to the dynasty and giving its beginning, the Xin dynasty.
• 69 AD: Lucio Calpurnio Pisón Liciniano is appointed by Galba his heir as Roman emperor.
• 1072: in Sicily, the Norman Roberto Guiscardo conquers Palermo.
• 1429: In Burgundy the Order of the Golden Toy is created, on the occasion of the wedding of Philip the Good of Burgundy.
• 1475: Stephen III of Moldova defeats the Ottoman Empire in the battle of Vaslui.
• 1503: in Seville, Spain, it is created from the House of Recruitment of Indias, destined to deposit goods imported and exported from America, by royal decrees of 10 January and 14 February.
• 1514: in Spain the Complutense BibleThe first multilingual edition.
• 1544: virrey Blasco Núñez de Vela arrives in Panama, sent by Carlos I to cut off the abuses committed by some conquerors.
• 1601: The Court of Felipe III moves from Madrid to Valladolid, according to an official order of the previous day.
• 1645: In the Tower of London (England), Archbishop William Laud is decapitated after being charged with treason in 1640 by the long Parliament.
• 1776: During the American Revolution, Thomas Paine publishes Common sense.
• 1806: In Cape Town (now South Africa), the Dutch surrender to the British after being defeated at the Battle of Blaauwberg.
• 1810: In France the marriage between Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
• 1840: The Penny Post system begins in London.
• 1847: The city of Los Angeles is occupied for the second and final time by the US forces commanded by Robert F. Stockton and Stephen Kearny during the American Intervention in Mexico, thus being annexed to the United States.
• 1857: in France, writer Julio Verne married Honorine de Viane Morel.
• 1860: In the Venezuelan city of San Carlos (now the capital of the Cojedes state) in the framework of the Federal War, Ezequiel Zamora, the main leader of the Liberals in Venezuela, was murdered.
• 1861: In the American Civil War, Florida separates from the Union.
• 1863: The London Metro is operational in the UK.
• 1870: In the United States, John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil.
• 1877: compulsory military service is established in Spain (four years of active service and four years in reserve).
• 1880: in the mountain of Cucaracha (Panama) it explodes the first load of dynamite that will collapse the mountain ranges of the isthmus to give way to the waters by the interoceanic Panama Canal.
• 1888: in Colombia the newspaper El Espectador is reissued after it was closed by the government of Rafael Núñez.
• 1889: France occupies Côte d'Ivoire.
• 1901: oil is discovered in Beaumont (Texas).
• 1912: In Tucumán, Republic of Argentina, the Club Atlético Santa Lucia is founded.
• 1916: In the framework of the First World War, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire in the offensive of Erzurum.
• 1920: the League of Nations (precursor of the United Nations) meets for the first time and ratifys the Treaty of Versailles. Ends World War I.
• 1922: In Ireland, Arthur Griffith is elected president of the Irish Free State.
• 1923: Lithuania attacks and annexes the city of Klaipėda (Memel in German).
• 1927: the film is released MetropolisFritz Lang.
• 1928: They are expelled from the Soviet Union Leon Trotski and 30 more members of the leftist opposition. Trotski is exiled to Alma-Atá.
• 1929: first appearance of Tintin, the famous character of Hergé.
• 1929: In Mexico the Cuban student Julio Antonio Mella, one of the communist leaders of his country, is mysteriously murdered.
• 1941: In Berlin, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a pact delimiting the new borders between the two countries.
• 1941: In the prefecture Kastoriá (Greece)—in the framework of the Second World War—the Greek army captures Kleisoura (where three years later the Nazis will execute 270 inhabitants).
• 1941: In the United States, Congress introduces the Lend-Lease system.
• 1942: Japan invades Indonesia.
• 1945: in London, King George VI solemnly inaugurates the preparatory work of the United Nations.
• 1946: The General Assembly of the United Nations is inaugurated in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
• 1946: Mao Tsé-Dung and Chiang Kai-shek declare the ceasefire in China after the mediation of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
• 1949: RCA introduces 45 RPM discs.
• 1958: in Venezuela, Pedro Estrada, director of the National Security Directorate, is removed from office by General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, accelerating the fall of that regime.
• 1960: Between the hills of Cochuna and El Calao in the province of Tucumán (Argentina), army forces surround an MPL camp (the Peronist Liberation Movement) and arrest three uturuncos.
• 1961: in the Cuban village La Felicidad, in the Jibacoa Valley (the province of Las Villas), the terrorist gang of Blas Nicolás Ortega—in the framework of the terrorist attacks organized by the US CIA—kill peasant Manuel Manuelico Rodríguez Pozo, worker of the cooperative Fernando Urquiza.
• 1962: In the United States, NASA announces plans to build a Saturn V rocket for its Apollo Program.
• 1962: in Pinar del Río (Cuba), Machete's terrorist gang (Francisco Robaina Domínguez)—in the framework of the terrorist attacks organized by the U.S. CIA—attacks a house and hurts a peasant.
• 1966: The Tashkent Declaration is signed, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan that ends the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war.
• 1968: American lunar landing module Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon.
• 1969: launch of the Soviet space probe Venera 6 to Venus, reaching for 51 minutes from its atmosphere.
• 1972: in Bangladés, Mujibur Rahman (after spending nine months in a prison in Pakistan) is appointed first head of Government of the new independent state.
• 1973: in the small town of San Justo, in the north of the province of Santa Fe (Argentina) occurs the Tornado de San Justo, the strongest F5 outside the territory of the United States. Leave 63 dead and several hundred wounded.
• 1973: the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, awarded in Hollywood with the Oscar the best foreign film by The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
• 1974: in the same well, at 343, 342 and 0 meters deep, in the U10as area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:38 (local time), the United States simultaneously detonates its atomic bombs Pinedrops-Sloat-1, Pinedrops-Bayou-2 and Pinedrops-Tawny-3 (the three of less). It is the 812 to 814 of the 1132 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1978: in Managua (Nicaragua) the Somocist dictatorship murders journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, director and owner of the Nicaraguan opposition newspaper The Press.
• 1980: in Mexico a fire, in Mexico City, destroys the historic Tree of Night Triste, under which Hernán Cortés wept his defeat in 1520.
• 1981: In El Salvador civil war begins with the offensive launched by the FMLN guerrillas (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional). In the mountains of the north of the department of Morazán, near the town of Perquín starts its broadcasts the clandestine radio Venceremos.
• 1983: British astronomers discover a new pulpsar with an energy capacity greater than that of the Sun.
• 1984: The United States and the Holy See resume their diplomatic relations after 117 years.
• 1985: In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega took over the presidency.
• 1986: In Basauri (Vizcaya), businessman Juan Pedro Guzmán, kidnapped by ETA 12 days earlier, is rescued by the GEO (Special Working Group).
• 1989: in Mexico, La Quina (Joaquín Hernández Galicia), who was the leader of the Petroleum Workers' Union, is arrested for alleged accusations of money laundering and embezzlement of union funds.
• 1989: in Angola, Cuban troops begin to retreat.
• 1990: In the United States, Time Inc. and Warner Communications are merged, generating Time Warner.
• 1994: In Mexico, the army mobilizes 15,000 soldiers in the offensive against the Zapatista rebels, while the Interior Minister, Patrocinio González Garrido, resigns.
• 1995: the king of Spain, Juan Carlos I and the former American president, Jimmy Carter, get the UNESCO Peace Prize.
• 1997: In Nicaragua, Arnoldo Alemán took over the presidency.
• 2001: In the United States, Nupedia (previous to Wikipedia) is released.
• 2001: in Beachy Head (near Eastbourne City, South of England) a cliff of chalk falls into the sea.
• 2002: in Nicaragua, Enrique Bolaños takes over the presidency.
• 2006: In Ukraine, parliament replaces the government for reprisal for the gas agreement signed with Russia.
• 2007: In Venezuela, the new executive cabinet swears its positions.
• 2007: In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega takes over the presidency for the second time.
• 2007: In Argentina the educational satellite Pehuensat-1 is launched.
• 2008: In Colombia, in Operation Emmanuel the FARC liberate Clara Rojas and Consuelo González de Perdomo.
• 2010: the 2010 autonomous referendum of French Guiana was held, and the autonomic proposal was defeated.
• 2012: In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega takes over the presidency for the third time.
• 2013: In Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez – who was reelected on October 7, 2012 – cannot take over his second term for health complications.
• 2013: more than 100 people die and 270 are injured in a series of attacks in Pakistan.
• 2016: In Barcelona, Carles Puigdemont was interviewed as 130.o President of the Generality of Catalonia.
• 2022: In the Province of Corrientes, the first spotlights of forest fires are beginning to burn more than 10% of the province and kill dozens of animals, including extinct species.

Births

• 1209: Möngke Khan, fourth Grand Khan of the Mongol Empire. Nieto de Gengis Khan (f. 1259)
• 1392: Johanna van Polanen, a Dutch nobleman (f. 1445).
• 1480: Margaret of Austria, widow princess of Asturias and Gerona, duchess consort of Saboya and governor of the Netherlands (f. 1530).
• 1538: Luis de Nasáu, a Dutch general (f. 1574).
• 1573: Simon Marius, German astronomer (f. 1624).
• 1607: Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (f. 1646).
• 1628: George Villiers, aristocrat and British politician (f. 1687).
• 1644: Louis François de Boufflers, French general (f. 1711).
• 1715: Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (f. 1775).
• 1729: Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (f. 1799).
• 1738: Ethan Allen, American military (f. 1789)).
• 1747: Abraham Louis Breguet, physicist, watchmaker and Swiss businessman (f. 1823).
• 1748: Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (f. 1814).
• 1769: Michel Ney, French Marshal (f. 1815).
• 1797: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, a German writer and poet (f. 1848).
• 1813: August Fendler, German botanist (f. 1885).
• 1815: John Alexander Macdonald, Canadian politician, 1st Prime Minister (f. 1891).
• 1834: Lord Acton, British historian (f. 1902).
• 1836: Charles Ingalls (f. 1902), father of the American novelist Laura Ingalls.
• 1854: Conception of Estevarena, Spanish poet.
• 1854: Ramón Corral, Mexican politician (f. 1912).
• 1858: Heinrich Zille, a German artist and photographer (f. 1929).
• 1859: Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish anarchist pedagogue (f. 1909).
• 1880: Manuel Azaña, politician, writer and Spanish journalist (f. 1940).
• 1880: Grock, clown and Swiss circus artist (f. 1959).
• 1883: Alekséi Tolstói (Camarada Conde), Russian writer of science fiction (f. 1945).
• 1893: Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (f. 1948).
• 1897: Gonzalo N. Santos, Mexican military, governor of San Luis Potosí between 1943 and 1949 (f. 1978).
• 1898: Katherine Blodgett, Physics and U.S. Chemistry Engineer (f. 1979).
• 1899: Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (f. 1931).
• 1902: Gonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan lawyer and politician (f. 1993).
• 1902: Jorge Saelzer, Chilean politician (f. 1984).
• 1903: Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (f. 1975).
• 1904: Ray Bolger, American actor, singer and dancer (f. 1987).
• 1908: Paul Henreid, Austro-Hungarian actor (f. 1992).
• 1908: Bernard Lee, British actor (f. 1981).
• 1911: Carlos Bernadotte, Swedish aristocrat (f. 2003).
• 1912: Maria Mandel, German military, Nazi leader in the concentration camp of Auschwitz (f. 1948).
• 1913: José Manuel Blecua, Spanish philologist (f. 2003).
• 1913: Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovak President (f. 1991).
• 1913: Mehmet Shehu, a Albanian politician (f. 1981).
• 1915: Dean Dixon, director of American orchestra and musician (f. 1976).
• 1916: Sune Karl Bergström, Swedish scientist (f. 2004).
• 1916: Dante Emiliozzi, an Argentine motor racing pilot (f. 1989).
• 1917: Hilde Krahl, Austrian actress (f. 1999).
• 1917: Jerry Wexler, American music producer (f. 2008).
• 1918: Arthur Chung, a Guyanese politician, president between 1970 and 1980 (f. 2008).
• 1920: Roberto Marcelo Levingston, Argentine military, dictator between 1970 and 1971 (f. 2015).
• 1921: Rodger Ward, American Formula 1 pilot (f. 2004).
• 1922: Juan Antonio Villacañas, Spanish poet (f. 2001).
• 1924: Eduardo Chillida, Spanish sculptor (f. 2002).
• 1925: Raúl Astor, actor, producer, director and Argentinean announcer (f. 1995).
• 1925: Max Roach, American jazz composer and drummer (f. 2007).
• 1926: Jesús Loroño, Spanish cyclist (f. 1998).
• 1927: Otto Stich, Swiss politician (f. 2012).
• 1928: Manuel Alcántara, Spanish writer (f. 2019).
• 1928: Carlos Büsser, militar y delinquent Argentinian (f. 2012).
• 1928: Gonzalo Sobejano, Spanish teacher and poet (f. 2019).
• 1930: Paco Urondo, Argentine writer, politician and revolutionary (f. 1976).
• 1930: Roy E. Disney, executive of The Walt Disney Company (f. 2009)
• 1931: Peter Barnes, British writer (f. 2004).
• 1931: Gonzalo Payo Subiza, politician, geographer, topographer and Spanish mathematician (f. 2002).
• 1932: Louis Rwagasore, nationalist leader and prime minister of Burundi (f. 1961).
• 1934: Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, president of Ukraine between 1991 and 1995.
• 1935: Werner Andreas Albert, German orchestra director (f. 2019)
• 1935: Sherrill Milnes, American baritone.
• 1936: Stephen Ambrose, American historian (f. 2002).
• 1936: Robert Woodrow Wilson, American astronomer and physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1978.
• 1938: Donald Knuth, American mathematician.
• 1938: Willie McCovey, American baseball player (f. 2018).
• 1939: Scott McKenzie, American singer (f. 2012).
• 1939: Sal Mineo, American actor (f. 1976).
• 1939: Edmundo Pérez Yoma, Chilean politician.
• 1940: Yesudas, Hindu musician.
• 1940: Javier Ruán, first Mexican actor and screenwriter (f. 2021).
• 1942: Walter Hill, American filmmaker.
• 1943: Jim Croce, American singer and composer.
• 1944: Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer (f. 2016).
• 1945: Rod Stewart, Scottish singer and musician.
• 1945: Gunther von Hagens, German sculptor and scientist.
• 1946: Aynsley Dunbar, British musician.
• 1947: Afeni Shakur, American activist, member of the Black Panthers and mother of the rapper Tupac Shakur (f. 2016).
• 1948: Teresa Graves, American singer and actress (f. 2002).
• 1948: Mischa Maisky, an Israeli cellist of Latvian origin.
• 1948: Guillermo Montesinos, Spanish actor.
• 1948: Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist.
• 1949: George Foreman, American boxer.
• 1950: Roy Blunt, American politician.
• 1950: Raúl Zurita, Chilean poet.
• 1951: Gónzalo Gálvan Castillo, Mexican bishop.
• 1951: Ronni Moffitt, American activist (f. 1976).
• 1952: Daniel Solsona, Spanish footballer.
• 1953: Pat Benatar, American singer.
• 1953: Bobby Rahal, pilot and owner of U.S. motor racing equipment.
• 1953: Dennis Cooper, American writer.
• 1955: Michael Schenker, German guitarist, Scorpions band.
• 1955: Yasmina Khadra, Algerian writer.
• 1956: Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer.
• 1958: Eddie Cheever, American motor racing pilot.
• 1960: Gurinder Chadha, British filmmaker of Indian origin.
• 1960: Samira Saïd, Moroccan singer.
• 1960: Brian Cowen, head of Irish government.
• 1965: Butch Hartman, American animator.
• 1967: Ernesto Benjumea, a Colombian actor, son of the veteran actor Carlos Benjumea and brother of Marcela Benjumea.
• 1967: Johan Laats, Belgian yudoca.
• 1971: Ana Barbara, Mexican singer.
• 1971: Theuns Jordaan, South African singer-songwriter (f. 2021).
• 1972: Brian Lawler, American professional fighter.
• 1973: Ryan Drummond, American voice actor.
• 1973: Lorena Álvarez, Mexican actress.
• 1973: Iker Jiménez, Spanish journalist.
• 1973: Glenn Robinson, American basketball player.
• 1973: Felix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer.
• 1974: Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor.
• 1975: Raúl Fernández de Pablo, Spanish actor.
• 1976: David Muñoz, Spanish singer, from the Estepa band.
• 1977: Joris van Hout, Belgian footballer.
• 1977: Rafael Clavero, Spanish footballer.
• 1978: Brent Smith, American singer, Shinedown band
• 1979: Luis Eduardo Schmidt, Brazilian footballer.
• 1979: Geraldo dos Santos Júnior, Brazilian footballer.
• 1979: Alessandro Mori Nunes, Brazilian footballer.
• 1980: Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1980: Sarah Shahi, American actress and model.
• 1980: Jonas Olsson, Swedish cyclist.
• 1981: Jared Kushner, American businessman.
• 1981: David Aganzo, Spanish footballer.
• 1981: Hayden Roulston, New Zealand cyclist.
• 1982: Ana Layevska, Russian-Mexican actress.
• 1983: David Elm, Swedish footballer
• 1984: Inaxio Perurena, Spanish sportsman.
• 1984: David Zibung, Swiss footballer.
• 1985: Martiño Rivas, Spanish actor.
• 1985: Chaker Zouagi, Tunisian footballer.
• 1985: Guro Knutsen Mienna, Norwegian footballer.
• 1986: Saleisha Stowers, American model.
• 1986: Jiří Hochmann, Czech cyclist.
• 1987: Mohammed Al-Sahlawi, Saudi footballer.
• 1988: Anderson Bamba, Brazilian footballer.
• 1988: Felipe Ramos Sánchez, Spanish footballer.
• 1988: Cecilia Östlund, Swedish curling player.
• 1988: Maximilian Munski, German reverberate.
• 1989: Zuria Vega, Mexican actress.
• 1989: Emily Meade, American actress.
• 1990: Pape Maly Diamanka, Senegalese footballer.
• 1990: Adri Cuevas, Spanish footballer.
• 1992: Šime Vrsaljko, Croatian footballer.
• 1992: Michele Scartezzini, Italian cyclist.
• 1993: Jens Jønsson, Danish footballer.
• 1994: Tim Payne, New Zealand footballer.
• 1994: Jonas Omlin, Swiss footballer.
• 1996: David Nwolokor, Nigerian footballer.
• 1996: Kevin Méndez, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1997: Ablaijan Zhusipov, Kazakh boxer.
• 1997: Adrien Salenc, French bullfighter.
• 1998: Stefano Oldani, Italian cyclist.
• 1998: Saturday Erimuya, Nigerian footballer.
• 1998: Divita Rai, Indian model.
• 1999: Mason Mount, British footballer.
• 1999: Manuel Wintzheimer, German footballer.
• 1999: Lara Della Mea, Italian Alpine skier.
• 1999: Antonio Serradilla, Spanish basketball player.
• 1999: Clara Ycart, Spanish grass hockey player.
• 1999: Joselyn Espinales, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1999: Sthefany Gutiérrez, Venezuelan model.
• 1999: Javier Gómez Castroverde, Spanish footballer.
• 1999: Natalia Lacunza, Spanish singer.
• 1999: Mitsuki Saitō, Japanese footballer.
• 1999: Millicent Tanner, British cyclist.
• 1999: Aude Clavier, French athlete.
• 1999: David Kenny, Irish athlete.
• 1999: Elijah Childs, American basketball player.
• 2000: Sōta Yamamoto, Japanese ice skater.
• 2000: Erik Botheim, Norwegian footballer.
• 2000: Pirmin Werner, Swiss acrobatic skier.
• 2000: Antoni Plichta, Polish athlete.
• 2002: Andri Baldursson, Icelandic footballer.
• 2002: Floriane Bascou, French model.
• 2003: Cesare Casadei, Italian footballer.
• 2003: Matteo Spagnolo, Italian basketball player.
• 2003: Lara-Noelle Steinbrecher, German athlete.
• 2003: Jeison Fuentealba, Chilean footballer.
• 2005: Pei Xinyi, Chinese halterophile.
• 2006: Angelina Jordan, Norwegian singer and composer.

Deaths

• 1 a. C.: Herod the Great, Jewish king (n. 74 B.C.).
• 314: Melquíades, Catholic Pope between 311 and 314 (n. ?).
• 417: John II of Jerusalem, Christian bishop (n. 319).
• 681: Agaton, Pope and Saint Sicilian (n. 577).
• 976: John I Tzimisces, Byzantine emperor (n. 925).
• 987: Peter Orseolo, dux of Venice (n. 928).
• 1094: Al-Mustansir Billah, Egyptian caliph (n. 1029).
• 1276: Gregory X, Pope and Holy Italian (n. 1276).
• 1662: Honorate II, Monegasque aristocrat (n. 1597).
• 1706: Luisa Roldán, Spanish sculptor (n. 1652).
• 1754: Edward Cave, British writer and editor (n. 1691).
• 1778: Carlos Linneo, Swedish botanist (n. 1707).
• 1794: Georg Forster, naturalist and ethnologist German (n. 1754).
• 1811: Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (n. 1764).
• 1824: Victor Manuel I, Italian king (n. 1759).
• 1829: dean Funes (Gregorio Funes), a priest, journalist and Argentine politician (n. 1749).
• 1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (n. 1752).
• 1855: Mary Russell Mitford, British writer and playwright (n. 1787).
• 1859: James Esdaile, British physician, father of hypnotic anesthesia (n. 1808).
• 1860: Ezequiel Zamora, Venezuelan politician, leader of the liberals in the Federal War (n. 1817).
• 1862: Samuel Colt, American inventor and businessman (n. 1814).
• 1873: Juan Bravo Murillo, politician and Spanish jurist (n. 1803).
• 1883: Fray Mamerto Esquiú, a priest and an Argentine politician (n. 1826).
• 1889: Antonio Bachiller y Morales, historian, professor and Cuban bibliographer (n. 1812).
• 1895: Benjamin Godard, French composer (n. 1849).
• 1895: Eli Whitney Blake Jr., chemist, physicist and American academic (n. 1836).
• 1901: Sir James Dickson, Australian politician and ruler (n. 1832).
• 1904: Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (n. 1824).
• 1917: Buffalo Bill, American showman (n. 1845).
• 1925: António Sardinha, poet, essayist and Portuguese politician (n. 1888).
• 1929: Julio Antonio Mella, a Cuban revolutionary (n. 1903).
• 1934: Marinus van der Lubbe, an albañil and a Dutch communist activist (n. 1909).
• 1935: Teddy Flack, Australian athlete (n. 1873).
• 1941: Frank Bridge, British composer (n. 1879).
• 1941: Victorino Márquez Bustillos, Venezuelan president (n. 1858).
• 1951: Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930 (n. 1885).
• 1951: Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (n. 1890).
• 1955: David Blair, British Marine (n. 1874)
• 1957: Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945 (n. 1889).
• 1959: Şükrü Kaya, a Turkish jurist and politician (n. 1883).
• 1961: Dashiell Hammett, American writer (n. 1894).
• 1970: Mario Fortunato, footballer and Argentine coach (n. 1904).
• 1971: Arturo Manrique, engineer, locutor, Mexican actor and comic (n. 1910).
• 1971: Gabrielle Cocó Chanel, a French designer (n. 1883).
• 1971: Carlos García Cuervas, Argentine military (n. 1915).
• 1973: Claudio de la Torre, novelist, poet, playwright and Spanish filmmaker (n. 1895).
• 1976: Alfredo Fortabat, Argentine businessman (n. 1894).
• 1976: Howlin' Wolf, American blues musician (n. 1910).
• 1976: Stith Thompson, American folklorist (n. 1885).
• 1978: Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a Nicaraguan journalist (n. 1924).
• 1981: Richard Boone, American actor (n. 1917).
• 1983: Alexandre Cirici, Spanish writer (n. 1914).
• 1984: Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister Laosian (n. 1901).
• 1984: Luis Rius, Spanish writer (n. 1930).
• 1985: José Luis Salinas, Argentine illustrator (n. 1908).
• 1986: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovak writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984 (n. 1901).
• 1989: Herbert Morrison, American radio journalist (n. 1905).
• 1995: Gaby, Spanish clown (n. 1920).
• 1995: Xavier Soto, Spanish politician (n. 1961).
• 1996: Juan González Moreno, Spanish sculptor (n. 1908).
• 1997: Alexander Robert Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1957 (n. 1907).
• 1998: Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Mexican poet (n. 1953).
• 1999: Mario Grasso, filmmaker and director of Argentina (n. 1938).
• 2003: Ramón Sabatés i Massanell, Spanish hysterist (n. 1915).
• 2007: Jane Bolin, first American black judge (n. 1908).
• 2007: Richard Horne, writer of British children's books (n. 1960).
• 2007: Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (n. 1912).
• 2007: Sixto Rojas, Paraguayan footballer (n. 1982).
• 2007: Bradford Washburn, American explorer (n. 1910).
• 2008: Andrés Henestrosa, writer, politician and Mexican historian (n. 1906).
• 2008: Maila Vampira Nurmi, Finnish actress (n. 1921).
• 2010: Moses Saba, Mexican businessman (n. 1963).
• 2011: Juanito Navarro, Spanish actor (n. 1924).
• 2011: María Elena Walsh, poetess, writer, music, songwriter, playwright and Argentine composer (n. 1930).
• 2011: Margaret Whiting, American singer (n. 1924).
• 2012: Manuel Suárez, a Peruvian footballer (n. 1940).
• 2012: Guevork Vartanián, spy and hero of the Soviet Union during the Second World War (n. 1924).
• 2014: Ian Redford (53), British footballer (n. 1960).
• 2015: Jorgelina Aranda, actress, model and vedette argentina (n. 1942).
• 2015: Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer of Vfl Wolfsburg (n. 1994).
• 2016: David Bowie, musician, composer, arranger, musical producer and British actor (n. 1947).
• 2016: Gerardo Unzueta Lorenzana, Mexican social leader and essayist (n. 1925).
• 2016: Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and coach (n. 1930).
• 2017: Clare Hollingworth, journalist and British war correspondent (n. 1911).
• 2018: Eddie Clarke, American musician (n. 1950).
• 2020: Qabus bin Said Al Said, Sultan of Oman between 1970 and 2020 (n. 1940).
• 2023: Constantine II, Greek aristocrat, king of Greece between 1964 and 1973 (n. 1940).
• 2023: Jeff Beck British guitarist and composer of Rock, Jazz and Blues.

Celebrations

• Argentina: Migrant Women's Day
• BeninBenin: Vodun Traditional Day.
• BoliviaBolivia: Fiesta de Ajira (Aimara).
• Peru Peru: Fiesta de Ajira (Aimara).

Catholic saints list

• Saint Melchiades, Pope (314).
• St. Paul of the Tebaida, Eremite (s. IV).
• Saint Gregory of Nisa, bishop (before 400).
• Saint John of Jerusalem, bishop (417).
• Saint Petronio de Die, bishop (after 463).
• Saint Martian of Constantinople, priest (471).
• San Valerio de Limoges (s. VI).
• Saint Domitian of Melitene, Bishop (c. 602).
• St. Agaton, Pope (681).
• Saint Arconte de Viviers, bishop (c. 740-745).
• Saint Peter Urseolo (c. 987/988).
• Blessed Benincasa de Cava, Abbot (1194).
• Saint William of Bourges, Bishop (1209).
• Beato Gonzalo de Amarante, priest (c. 1259).
• Blessed Gregorio X, Pope (1276).
• Beato Egidio Di Bello, religious (1518).
• Blessed Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo, virgin (1686).
• Blessed Francisca de Sales Aviat, virgin (1914).
• Blessed María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña, virgin (1918).