January 15

January 15 is the 15th (fifteenth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days to the end of the year and 351 in leap years.

Events

• 588 a. C.: Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon Sitia Jerusalem under the reign of Zedekiah. The site will last two years, until July 18, 586 a. C.
• 69: Othon takes power in Rome, proclaiming himself emperor of Rome, but commits suicide three months later.
• 1362 (Saturday): the first day of the storm in the North Sea (second flood of the Day of Saint Marcellus), which in three days rages with the Netherlands, England and northern Germany, causing between 40 000 and 100,000 deaths.
• 1526: from La Coruña sails a maritime expedition led by Diego García de Moguer, which will be the one that discovers the river of la Plata (in the current Argentina and Uruguay).
• 1543: The village of Apopa is founded in El Salvador.
• 1559: In the Westminster Abbey, Owen Oglethorpe (Bishop of Carlisle) — instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury — crowns Isabel I as Queen of England and Ireland.
• 1582: Russia yields Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
• 1724: In Spain, Luis I is proclaimed king.
• 1759: The British Museum, the largest museum in the United Kingdom, is open to the public in London.
• 1777: In present Vermont, New Connecticut declares its independence from the British.
• 1777: On the slope of Chataquilla (in current Bolivia) the Quechua leader Tomás Katari (40) is murdered by the Spanish.
• 1782: In the United States, Robert Morris (superintendent of finance) recommends to Congress the establishment of a national currency (with decimal division).
• 1790: France replaces the provinces by departments and subdivides them in districts, cantons and municipalities.
• 1798: in Madrid (Spain), Francisco de Goya begins painting the frescoes of the church of San Antonio de la Florida.
• 1810: In Andalusia, José Bonaparte, in front of an army of 80,000 men, arrives in Sierra Morena to begin the occupation of the region.
• 1811: In Colombia, the municipality of Abejorral was founded by the master José Antonio Villegas.
• 1822: In the framework of the Greek War of Independence, Demetrius Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
• 1831: in Mexico, President Vicente Guerrero and his collaborators in the Tlacopanocha Beach of Acapulco are apprehended surprisingly, on board the friar Colombo of the mercenary genovés Francisco Picaluga, at the direction of the vice president, Gral. Anastasio Bustamante.
• 1834: In Spain, Francisco Martínez de la Rosa is appointed Minister of State and President of the Council of Ministers.
• 1847: In Mexico, Benito Juárez is initiated, in a hall of the Senate of the Republic enabled as a Masonic temple, as an apprentice in the Lodge "Independence No. 2", of the Mexican National Rite.
• 1865: In the framework of the American Civil War, the Confederation loses Fort Fisher (in North Carolina), its last important port.
• 1870: in the United States, a political cartoon by Thomas Nast (in the Harper's Weekly) symbolizes for the first time the Democratic Party as a donkey: "A stupid donkey kicks a dead lion."
• 1880: In Malaga the Superior Conservatory of Music is inaugurated.
• 1881: In the framework of the Pacific War, the Battle of Miraflores takes place between the forces of the Chilean Army and the Peruvian Army.
• 1885: In the United States, Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a microscopic snow crystal.
• 1892: James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
• 1902: the opera is released Till EulenspiegelEmil von Reznicek.
• 1908: Black female brotherhood Alpha Kappa Alpha is established in the United States.
• 1910: in Madrid the opera is premiered Colomba, with lyrics by Carlos Fernández Shaw and music by Amadeo Vives.
• 1912: In Rosario, Santa Fe, República Argentina, the Argentine Atlético Club is founded known as "Argentine de Rosario".
• 1913: Between New York and Berlin the first wired telephone transmission is made.
• 1916: The German parliament agrees to reduce the age of workers employed from 70 to 65 years.
• 1918: The general workers' strike extends to Budapest and Prague.
• 1919: In Berlin, the Freikorps torture and murder Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, leaders of the radical wing of the German Social Democratic Party during the First World War and creators of the so-called Spartacist Movement.
• 1919: in central Boston (United States) it operates a tank with a 15 m high and 27 m diameter; leaving a balance of 21 dead and 150 wounded (“Big Melaza flooding” Boston).
• 1919: In Poland, pianist Ignace Paderewski became prime minister.
• 1921: The Italian Socialist Party is split at the Livorno Congress and the Italian Communist Party is born.
• 1925: In Germany, several national Socialist ministers are part of the government.
• 1931: There are almost 5 million stops in Germany, according to the latest figures.
• 1931: Mexico has a strong earthquake.
• 1932: in Madrid, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, president of the Republic, inaugurates the first building of the University City: the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.
• 1933: in Spain, political violence causes nearly 100 deaths.
• 1934: An epicenter earthquake occurs in Nepal 10 km south of Everest (the highest mountain in the world). Leave a balance of about 10 500 dead in this country and in the Indian state of Bijar.
• 1934: A law on the formation of corporations is enacted in Italy.
• 1936: the electoral pact of the Popular Front is signed in Spain, by which Republicans, socialists and communists are united in a single party that will be elected that same year.
• 1936: in Toledo (Ohio), the company Owens-Illinois Glass Company inaugurates its headquarters: the first building completely covered with glass.
• 1938: In the framework of the Spanish civil war, Barcelona is bombarded.
• 1939: Tarragona falls into the hands of the Francoists.
• 1941: in Rome, Alfonso XIII abdicates his rights to the Spanish throne in his son Juan, Count of Barcelona.
• 1943: As part of the Second World War, Japanese military forces are evicted from Guadalcanal.
• 1943: In the framework of the Second World War, in Voronezh the Soviet counteroffensive begins (the Voronezh Battle).
• 1943: In Arlington (Virginia), the world's largest office building is opened: the Pentagon.
• 1944: the city of San Juan (Argentina) is destroyed by an earthquake.
• 1944: the European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany into areas of occupation when war is over (what will happen in 1945).
• 1945: in El Salvador, General Salvador Castaneda Castro is elected president.
• 1945: the channels of communication between China and India are restored.
• 1947: in the Leimert park in Los Angeles (California) a passerby found the tortured body of Elizabeth Short (La Dalia Negra).
• 1948: the government of Peru suspends individual guarantees to combat the accompaniment of essential articles.
• 1950: Sweden establishes diplomatic relations with China.
• 1951: UN forces manage to stop the communist offensive in Korea.
• 1951: In West Germany, Ilse Koch (the Buchenwald Dog), wife of the Buchenwald concentration camp commander, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1955: The Soviet Union declares that it is ready to transmit to third countries its knowledge of the peaceful use of atomic energy.
• 1962: in the north of Greece is the papyrus of Derveni, the oldest manuscript in Europe.
• 1966: in Nigeria the first coup was recorded, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was overthrown.
• 1967: The first Super Bowl is held in the United States. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
• 1969: The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
• 1970: in Nigeria, Biafra surrenders after 32 months of struggle for independence.
• 1970: In Libya, Moammar Al Qadhafi is proclaimed prime minister.
• 1973: As part of the Vietnam War, peace negotiations progress. Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive actions in North Vietnam.
• 1974: General Ernesto Geisel is indirectly elected president of Brazil.
• 1974: In the United States, experts investigating the Watergate Scandal discover that an important tape has been manipulated.
• 1975: Portugal guarantees the independence of Angola.
• 1976: In the United States, Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life imprisonment, who unsuccessfully tried to kill President Gerald Ford.
• 1977: In Kälvesta, Sweden, 22 people die in the clash between two planes, the worst air disaster in the history of that country.
• 1978: A new Constitution is adopted in Ecuador.
• 1981: In Italy, the Red Brigades release Judge Giovanni d’Urso after 34 days of captivity.
• 1981: Pope John Paul II receives a delegation of Polish union Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
• 1983: The Non-Aligned Countries unanimously call on the United States to dialogue with Nicaragua and to contribute to the search for peace in El Salvador.
• 1986: In Walt Disney World (Florida), "The Living Seas" (The Living Seas) is opened in the EPCOT centre.
• 1986: HBO and Cinemax cable television services are opened in the United States.
• 1990: State of emergency is declared in Nagorno Karabakh and other parts of Azerbaijan.
• 1990: The long-distance AT strangerT network suffers from a cascade switch failure.
• 1991: the date of withdrawal of Iraqi troops from occupied Kuwait expires, opening way for the Desert Storm operation.
• 1991: In Saudi Arabia, multinational military forces are deployed to combat Saddam Hussein, leading to the so-called Gulf War.
• 1992: part of the European Economic Community (now the European Union) recognizes Croatia and Slovenia, which means the dismemberment of Yugoslavia.
• 1993: In Sicily, the police arrest the mafia capo Salvatore Riina, the BeastIt's been fugitive for three decades.
• 1996: Mario Vargas Llosa takes over the "L" armchair of the Royal Spanish Academy.
• 1998: Croatia recovers the last territory in the hands of Serbia.
• 1999: in Racak, Kosovo, 45 Albanians are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
• 1999: two of the main Spanish banking entities, Banco Santander and Banco Central Hispano, lead the first merger in the euro era.
• 2000: Serbian Željko Ražnatović, alias Arkan, ally of Slobodan Milošević, dies in a shooting at the Belgrade Intercontinental Hotel.
• 2001: the Wikipedia project officially begins.
• 2005: An intense solar flare shoots X-rays into the solar system.
• 2005: the SMART-1 satellite (of the European ESA), orbiting around the Moon, discovers calcium, aluminum, silica and other elements on the surface of the Moon.
• 2006: Michelle Bachelet is elected president of Chile, the first woman to take this position in the country's history.
• 2007: in Iraq are hanged Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (ex-chief of Iraqi intelligence and half-brother of Saddam Hussein) and Awad Hamed al-Bandar (ex-judge of the Revolutionary Court).
• 2007: comet McNaught comes to perigee after approaching the Sun.
• 2007: Rafael Correa takes office as president of Ecuador and begins the so-called Citizen Revolution.
• 2008: Dr. King's Tree with the plantation of a tree in honor of Martin Luther King and his non-violent methods.
• 2009: Airbus 320 aircraft on the Hudson River, New York, piloted by Chesley Sullenberger.
• 2011: in Turkey, the Galatasaray Spor Kulübü is the reign of its facilities.
• 2016: In Ouagadougou, there is a terrorist attack in a luxury hotel, there is a balance of 29 human losses and 30 injured. The two Al Qaeda terrorist organizations of the Islamic Maghreb and Al Murabitun claim the attacks.
• 2020: Microsoft launches the first stable version of Edge based on Chromium.
• 2022: There is an eruption in the Hunga Tonga volcano, which caused a tsunami in Chile, Japan (Amami Island and a coastal zone that ranges from Hokkaidō to Kyūshū and Okinawa), Peru, Tonga and the western coast of the United States and Canada, the rise in sea level in Mexico (specifically in states such as Baja California, Colima and Guerrero) as well as alerts from New Zealand,
• 2022: Following the eruption in Tonga, In Peru, a Repsol brand vessel suffers a spill of 6 million barrels of oil, due to an abnormal wave, causing the oil spill in Ventanilla. It caused a lot of damage to the beaches of the district of Ventanilla, in Callao.

Births

• 5 a. C.: Liu Xiu, Chinese emperor (f. 57).
• 1292: Juana II de Borgoña (Jeanne II de Bourgogne), 15 January 1292 - 21 January 1330), queen de France, wife of Philip V de France, daughter of Oton IV, Count of Burgundy, and Mahaut de Artois;
• 1342: Philip II of Burgundy, French aristocrat (f. 1404).
• 1432: Alfonso V, the African, the Portuguese king (f. 1481).
• 1481: Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (n. 1511).
• 1538: Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (f. 1599).

Molière.

• 1622: Molière, French playwright (f. 1673).
• 1674: Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French poet and playwright (f. 1762).
• 1747: John Aikin, a British doctor and writer (f. 1822).
• 1759: Ramón Ortiz Otáñez, aristocrat Spaniard (f. 1843).
• 1785: William Prout, chemist, physicist and English theologian (f. 1850).
• 1791: Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (f. 1872).
• 1795: Alexandr Griboyédov, Russian playwright (f. 1829).

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

• 1809: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, writer, philosopher and French anarchist political theorist (f. 1865).
• 1814: Pierre-Jules Hetzel, French editor (f. 1886).
• 1824: Marie Duplessis, French courtesan, model of The lady of the camelias (f. 1847).
• 1842: Josef Breuer, Austrian physiologist and psychologist (f. 1925).
• 1842: Paul Lafargue, a French physician and politician (f. 1911).
• 1849: Ángel Ortiz Monasterio, marine and Mexican politician (f. 1922).
• 1850: Mihai Eminescu, a Romanian poet (f. 1889).
• 1850: Sofia Kovalévskaya, Russian mathematics (f. 1891).
• 1858: Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (f. 1899).
• 1863: Wilhelm Marx, German chancellor (f. 1946).
• 1866: Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Peace Prize in 1930 (f. 1931).
• 1869: Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright (f. 1907).
• 1872: Arsén Kotsóyev, Soviet poet (f. 1944).
• 1874: Fructuós Gelabert, Spanish photographer (f. 1955).
• 1875: Tom Burke, American athlete (f. 1929).
• 1878: André Georges Corap, French military (f. 1953).
• 1882: Margarita de Connaught, Swedish princess (f. 1920).
• 1882: Daniel Vázquez Díaz, a Spanish painter (f. 1969).
• 1886: Jenő Károly, Hungarian footballer (f. 1936).
• 1887: Carmen Lyra (María Isabel Carvajal Quesada), writer, pedagogue and Costa Rican leftist politics (f. 1949).
• 1891: Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (f. 1938).
• 1893: Ivor Novello, Welsh actor and composer (f. 1951).
• 1894: José Luis Bustamante and Rivero, Peruvian diplomat and jurist, president of Peru between 1945 and 1948 (f. 1989).
• 1895: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish scientist, nobel chemistry award in 1945 (f. 1973).
• 1896: Victor de la Serna Espina, a Spanish journalist (f. 1958).
• 1897: Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet and writer (f. 1931).
• 1899: Floren Delbene, an Argentine actor (f. 1978).
• 1900: William Heinesen, a ferocious writer (f. 1991).
• 1902: Mauro Núñez Cáceres, Bolivian musician and charanguist (f. 1973).

Aristotle Onassis.

• 1906: Aristotle Onassis, armor and billionaire Greek (f. 1975).
• 1908: Edward Teller, Hungarian physicist (f. 2003).
• 1909: Gene Krupa, American drummer (f. 1973).
• 1912: Michel Debré, a French politician (f. 1996).
• 1913: Lloyd Bridges, American actor (f. 1998).
• 1914: Etty Hillesum, a nurse and Dutch Jewish writer murdered in Auschwitz (f. 1943).
• 1914: Hugh Trevor-Roper, British historian (f. 2003).
• 1914: Alberto Ullastres, Spanish politician (f. 2001).
• 1916: Hugh Gibb, drummer and British orchestra director, father of British musicians Barry, Robin, Maurice and Andy Gibb (f. 1992).
• 1918: Vicente de la Mata, Argentine footballer (f. 1980).
• 1918: João Baptista Figueiredo, Brazilian military, president of Brazil between 1979 and 1985 (f. 1999).
• 1918: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian military and statesman, President of Egypt between 1954 and 1970 (f. 1970).
• 1919: Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer, the first to ascend to a peak of more than 8000 m (the Annapurna) in 1950 (f. 2012).
• 1919: George Cadle Price, Prime Minister of Belize (f. 2011).
• 1919: Augusto Ferrando, Peruvian rider and rider (f. 1999).
• 1923: Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese economist and politician, president of Taiwan between 1988 and 2000 (f. 2020).
• 1924: Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, philosopher, psychoanalyst and French writer (f. 2013, same day).
• 1925: Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor.
• 1926: Maria Schell, Austrian actress (f. 2005).
• 1927: Armando Morales, a Nicaraguan painter (f. 2011).

Martin Luther King.

• 1929: Martin Luther King, a Baptist pastor and U.S. activist, Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 (f. 1968).
• 1929: Faure Chomon, a Cuban military and revolutionary (f. 2019).
• 1933: Patricia Blair, American actress (f. 2013).

Werner Winsemann.

• 1933: Werner Winsemann, Canadian football referee.
• 1934: Leopoldo Flores, Mexican painter (f. 2016).
• 1937: Margaret O'Brien, American actress.
• 1937: Pepe Parada, actor, businessman and Argentine producer (f. 2003).
• 1939: Gabriela Hernández Chilean actress.
• 1939: Perez Celis, Argentine plastic artist (f. 2008).
• 1940: Luis Racionero, Spanish writer (f. 2020).
• 1941: Captain Beefheart, rock musician and American painter (f. 2010).
• 1943: Margaret Beckett, British politics.
• 1944: Francisco Anguita, Spanish geologist and vulcanologist.
• 1945: María Antonia Iglesias, a Spanish journalist (f. 2014).
• 1947: Martin Chalfie, American scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008.
• 1948: Alberto Cardín, a Spanish activist and anthropologist (f. 1992).
• 1949: Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (f. 2001).
• 1950: Marius Trésor, French footballer.
• 1951: Charo, guitarist and Spanish singer.
• 1952: Skay Beilinson, guitarist and Argentine singer.
• 1952: Boris Blank, Swiss musician.
• 1953: Hugo Soto, an Argentine actor and artist (f. 1994).
• 1955: Alberto Fernández Blanco, Spanish cyclist (f. 1984).
• 1955: José Montilla, Spanish politician.
• 1956: María Zavala Valladares, Peruvian judge and policy.
• 1957: Mario Van Peebles, American actor.
• 1957: Tabaré Rivero, musician, actor, Uruguayan writer.
• 1958: Luis Pescetti, writer, musician and Argentine singer.
• 1958: Boris Tadić, Serbian president.
• 1959: Jordi Bertomeu, executive director of Euroleague Basketball.
• 1964: Saul Hernández, Mexican composer, singer and musician, of the Caifanes and Jaguares bands.
• 1965: Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist.
• 1965: Bernard Hopkins, American boxer.
• 1965: Adam Jones, American musician, of the Tool band.

James Nesbitt.

• 1965: James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor.
• 1965: María San Gil, Spanish politics.
• 1966: Virginia Innocenti, actress, author and Argentine singer.
• 1968: Chad Lowe, American actor.
• 1968: Iñaki Urdangarin, Spanish basketball player.
• 1969: Armando Alanís Pulido, Mexican poet.
• 1969: Viacheslav Gladkov, Russian politician.
• 1970: Shane McMahon, American executive and professional fighter.

Regina King.

• 1971: Regina King, American actress.
• 1973: Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer.
• 1973: Miguel Joven, Spanish child actor.
• 1973: Tomáš Galásek, Czech footballer.
• 1975: Mary Pierce, French tennis player of Canadian origin.
• 1975: Diego Lombardi, Peruvian actor.
• 1976: Andreas Klier, German cyclist.
• 1976: Virginia Tola, soprano argentina.
• 1978: Eddie Cahill, American actor.
• 1978: Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist.
• 1978: Pablo Amo, Spanish footballer.
• 1979: Drew Brees, American football player.
• 1979: Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer.
• 1979: Antonio Núñez Tena, Spanish footballer.
• 1980: Lydia Rodríguez Fernández, Spanish singer.
• 1980: Matt Holliday, American baseball player.
• 1980: David Muñoz, Spanish cook.

Pitbull.

• 1981: Pitbull (Armando Pérez Acosta), American singer, songwriter and musical producer.
• 1981: The Hadji Diouf, a Senegalese footballer.
• 1981: Alexis Weisheim, Argentine soccer player.
• 1981: Manuel Carrasco, Spanish singer.
• 1982: Armando Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1983: Jermaine Pennant, British footballer.
• 1983: Hugo Viana, Portuguese footballer.
• 1985: Rene Adler, German footballer.
• 1986: Cholponbek Esankul Uulu, Kyrgyz footballer.

Kelly.

• 1987: Kelly Kelly Kelly, American professional fighter.
• 1987: Michael Seater, Canadian actor.
• 1988: Darwin Atapuma, Colombian cyclist.
• 1988: Skrillex, American electronic music producer, band From First to Last.
• 1988: Ana María Polvorosa, Spanish actress.
• 1989: Rednek, American bass music producer.
• 1989: Martin Dúbravka, Slovak footballer.
• 1990: Chris Warren Jr., American actor.
• 1991: Marc Bartra, Spanish footballer.
• 1991: Kevin Malget, Luxembourg footballer.
• 1992: Joël Veltman, Dutch footballer.
• 1993: Ben Gibson, British footballer.
• 1994: Monika Jagaciak, Polish model.
• 1996: Romano Fenati, Italian bike rider.

Dove Cameron

• 1996: Dove Cameron, American actress and singer.
• 1997: Valentina Zenere, Argentinean actress and singer
• 1997: El Noba, Cantante de Cumbia y Compositor Argentino (f. 2022)
• 2004: Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter.

Deaths

Galba.

• 69: Servio Sulpicio Galba, Roman emperor (n. 3 B.C.).
• 570: Ite of Killeedy, an Irish nun and saint (n. 475).
• 936: Raúl I, French king (n. 890).
• 1149: Berenguela de Barcelona, queen consorte de León (n. 1116).
• 1208: Pierre de Castelnau, French pontifical legacy (n. ?).

Vasco Núñez de Balboa.

• 1519: Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (n. 1475).
• 1595: Murat III, Ottoman sultan (n. 1546).
• 1597: Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect, author together with Juan Bautista de Toledo of the Monastery of El Escorial (n. 1530).
• 1568: Catherine Carey, English aristocrat, first daughter of Mary Bolena and William Carey (n. 1524).
• 1623: Paolo Sarpi, a Venetian writer and religious (n. 1552).
• 1775: Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian composer (n. 1700 or 1701).
• 1781: Tomas Katari (40), Quechua leader (n. 1740).
• 1788: Gaetano Latilla, Italian composer (n. 1711).
• 1790: John Landen, English mathematician and theorist (n. 1719).
• 1801: Matvéi Plátov, Russian military (n. 1753).
• 1804: Dru Drury, British entomologist (n. 1725).
• 1835: Teresa Cabarrús, a Spanish revolutionary (n. 1773).
• 1855: Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (n. 1780).
• 1859: José María Raygada, militar y política peruano (n. 1795).
• 1879: Daniel Delgado Paris, Colombian military and political (n. 1838).
• 1896: Mathew B. Brady, American photographer (n. 1823).
• 1909: Arnold Janssen, a German Catholic religious, founder of the Congregation of the Divine Word (n. 1837).
• 1909: Ernest Reyer, French composer (n. 1823)
• 1911: Carolina Coronado, Spanish poet (n. 1821).
• 1916: Modest Ilich Chaikovski, playwright, opera writer and Russian translator (n. 1850).
• 1919: Karl Liebknecht, a German socialist leader (n. 1871).

Rosa Luxemburg.

• 1919: Rosa Luxemburg, a German revolutionary (n. 1870).
• 1919: Fidel Cano Gutiérrez, a Colombian journalist (n. 1854).
• 1926: Enrico Toselli, Italian composer (n. 1883).
• 1944: Zinaída Portnova, Soviet partisan, Heroin of the Soviet Union (n. 1926).
• 1945 (approximate date): Richard Fall, director of Czech orchestra and composer (n. 1882).
• 1947: Elizabeth Short, the Black Dalia (n. 1924).
• 1948: Ralph Nelson Elliott, American economist (n. 1871).
• 1950: Henry Hap Arnold, American General (n. 1886).
• 1950: Petre Dumitrescu, Romanian military (n. 1882).
• 1951: Rafael L. Hernández, Mexican lawyer and politician (n. 1877).
• 1955: Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter (n. 1900).
• 1956: Bartolomé Pérez Casas, Spanish composer (n. 1873).
• 1960: J. Scott Smart, American actor (n. 1902).
• 1964: Jack Teagarden, a thrombonist and jazz singer, American (n. 1905).
• 1970: Azucena Maizani, singer and Argentine tango (n. 1902).
• 1970: Leonel Rugama, seminarian, poet and guerrilla Nicaraguan (n. 1949).
• 1974: Ruth Berlau, actress and theatre director, Danish (n. 1906).
• 1976: Higinio Ruvalcaba, violinist and Mexican composer (n. 1905).
• 1983: Meyer Lansky, a Jewish-American mafia (n. 1902).
• 1984: Fazıl Küçük, Cypriot politician (n. 1906).
• 1985: Salvador Cardona, Spanish cyclist (n. 1901).
• 1987: Ray Bolger, American actor, singer and dancer (n. 1904).
• 1988: Seán MacBride, Irish politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 (n. 1904).
• 1992: Manuel Broseta, a Spanish politician killed by ETA (n. 1932).
• 1993: Sammy Cahn, American singer (n. 1913).
• 1993: Pedro Masaveu Peterson, Spanish businessman and financial officer (n. 1939).
• 1994: Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (n. 1921).

Harry Nilsson.

• 1994: Harry Nilsson, American musician (n. 1941).
• 1996: Moshoeshoe II, supreme leader of Lesoto (n. 1938).
• 1998: Gulzarilal Nanda, an Indian economist and politician (n. 1898).
• 1998: Junior Wells, American musician (n. 1934).
• 2000: Arkan (Željko Ražnatović), Serbian paramilitary leader (n. 1952).
• 2002: Lucho Argain (Luis Pérez Cedrón), Mexican naturalized Colombian composer and singer (n. 1927)
• 2003: Eduardo Alquinta, Chilean musician of the Los Jaivas band (n. 1945).
• 2003: Luis Enrique Bracamontes, Mexican engineer and politician (n. 1923).
• 2003: Jeanette Campbell, Argentine swimmer (n. 1916).
• 2003: Ernesto Foldats, botanist, biologist, Venezuelan-Leton orchidologist (n. 1925).
• 2004: Valfar, Norwegian singer, of the Windir band (n. 1978).
• 2005: Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (n. 1923).
• 2006: Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti emir (n. 1926).
• 2007: Awad Hamed al-Bandar, ex-judge of the Iraqi revolutionary court (n. 1945).
• 2007: Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former chief of Iraqi intelligence, half-brother of Saddam Hussein (n. 1951).
• 2007: David Vanole, American footballer (n. 1963).
• 2007: Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (n. 1908).
• 2008: Brad Renfro, American actor (n. 1982).
• 2009: Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist and politician (n. 1917).
• 2010:
  • José Juste, Spanish military (n. 1918).
  • Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemical and geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (n. 1927).
• 2011: Sun Axelsson, Swedish writer and pardoner (n. 1935).
• 2011: Nat Lofthouse, British footballer (n. 1925).
• 2011: Susannah York, British actress (n. 1939).

Manuel Fraga

• 2012: Manuel Fraga, politician, diplomat and Spanish law professor (n. 1922).
• 2013:
  • Juan José Catalán, Argentine lawyer and politician (n. 1932).
  • Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, philosopher, psychoanalyst and French writer (n. 1924, same day).
• 2014: John Dobson, American divulner of amateur astronomy, inventor of the Dobson telescope (n. 1915).
• 2014: Roger Lloyd-Pack, British actor (n. 1944).
• 2014: Fernando Jaramillo Paredes, Colombian musician, director of the Los Tupamaros orchestra (n. 1951).
• 2017: Isidro Baldenegro, Mexican environmental leader (n. 1966).

Dolores O'Riordan

• 2018: Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer of the group The Cranberries. (n.1971).
• 2018: Mathilde Krim, American Medical Researcher, Co-founder Foundation for AIDS Research (n. 1926).
• 2018: Oscar Alberto Pérez, actor, police and Venezuelan dissident (n. 1981).
• 2019: Mónica Galán, Argentine actress (n. 1950).
• 2021: Gerardo Malla, actor and director of Spanish theatre.

Celebrations

• BoliviaBolivia: Charango Days
• CubaCuba: Cuban Science Day.
• NigeriaNigeria: Armed Forces Remembrance Day.
• Mexico Mexico: Composer Day.
• Venezuela Venezuela: Master's Day.
• North KoreaNorth Korea: Korean Alphabet Day.
• Roman Empire: Second Day of Carmentalia, in honor of Carmenta.
• India:
• * Sabarimala (state of Kerala): Makaravilakku or "Mákara Sankranti".
• * Jallikattu.
• * Tamil Nadu: Ponl (in 2007).
• MalauiMalaui: John Chilembwe Day.
• GuatemalaGuatemala: Day of the Black Christ of Esquipulas.
• Peru Peru: Fiesta del Niño Perdido in Huancavelica.
• ChileChile: Melon Day with Wine.

Catholic saints list

• Our Lady of Banneux
• Saint Secundina of Anagni, virgin and martyr.
• San Juan Calibita (s. V).
• Santa Ita de Hibernia, virgin and founder (570).
• Saint Probe of Rieti, bishop (c. 570).
• San Mauro de Glanfeuil, abad (s. VI/VII).
• Saint Tarsicia of Rodez, virgin and martyr (s. VI/VII).
• Saint Ableberto or Emeberto de Hamme, bishop (c. 645).
• Saint Malardo de Chartres, bishop (c. 650).
• beato Romedio de Thaur, anacoreta (c. s. VIII).
• St. Nice of Clermont, bishop (c. 710).
• San Arsenio de Armo, eremita (904).
• Blessed Pedro de Castalnau, priest and martyr (1208).
• Blessed James the Limosnero (c. s. XIII).
• Blessed Angel of Gualdo Tadino, Eremite (1325).
• San Francisco Fernández de Capillas, priest and martyr (1648).
• Blessed Arnold Janssen, priest (1909).
• Blessed Luis Variara, missionary (1923)
• Blessed Nicholas Gross, martyr (1945).