January 28

January 28 is the 28th (twenty-eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days to the end of the year and 338 in leap years.

Events

• 1077: In Canossa, Italy, Emperor Henry IV — after spending three days in the snow as atonement — makes Pope Gregory VII raise his excommunication against him (Humillion of Canossa).
• 1193: In Paris Saint John of Mata celebrates his first Mass and receives the inspiration of founding the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.
• 1208: In Cuenca, Spain, San Julián de Cuenca died the second bishop of the diocese.
• 1521: the Diet of Worms begins until May 25.
• 1547: Henry VIII dies in England. His son Edward VI (nine years old) happens; he will be the first Protestant king of the country.
• 1573: in Warsaw (Republic of the Two Nations) the articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.
• 1596: In the Ocean, the Corsario, deputy admiral of the Royal English Navy, Francis Drake, dies.
• 1624: On the island of San Cristobal, explorer Sir Thomas Warner founded the first British colony in the Caribbean Sea.
• 1724: In St.Peter the Great founded the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• 1754: In England, the politician and writer Horace Walpole creates the word serendipia in a letter to writer Horace Mann.
• 1782: in Spain the Royal ordinance of military and provincial mayorswhich divided the Viceroy of the Rio de la Plata into eight mayors.
• 1810: In Spain, Napoleonic armies continue to advance over Andalusia and on this day they enter triumphant in Granada.
• 1813: in England it is published Pride and prejudice.
• 1820: a Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mijail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent and approaches its coasts.
• 1821: Francisco Delgado, Governor of the Province of Maracaibo, declared his independence, an act that becomes the first political decision taken autonomously by the people of Zulia.
• 1823: In Chile, Bernardo O'Higgins abdicates the position of supreme director.
• 1846: In India the British Invading Army (led by Sir Harry Smith) triumphs in the Battle of Aliwal.
• 1855: in Panama, the first locomotive crosses from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in the Panamanian Railway.
• 1871: In the framework of the Franco-Prussian War, France capitulates behind the Paris Site, ending the war.
• 1873: in Mexico, General Ramón Corona defeats the ranch La Mojonera, Jalisco, Manuel Lozada, "El Tigre de Álica", when he was preparing to invade the city of Guadalajara.
• 1878: in the United States, the Yale Daily News becomes the first daily university newspaper.
• 1887: The first stone of the Eiffel Tower is laid in Paris.
• 1887: in Fort Keogh (Montana), the world's largest snowflakes form in a snowstorm of 40 × 20 cm.
• 1896: In East Peckham (Kent County, England), Walter Arnold becomes the first person fined for speeding (13 km/h). At that time, the speed limit was 3.2 km/h (2 mph); the pedestrian pass is 4 km/h.

Picture of "A famous specialist taking out wheels at the great Hotel Europa", premiered on January 28, 1897.

• 1897: Manuel Trujillo Durán inaugurates the Venezuelan cinema in Maracaibo, at the Baralt Theatre, A well-known specialist in the Gran Hotel Europa and Girls bathing in Lake Maracaibo.
• 1902: In Washington, D.C., Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institute, with an initial donation of $10 million.
• 1908: A revolutionary movement begins in Portugal, which will be controlled three days later.
• 1909: In Cuba, the last American invaders leave the island, after being there since the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898; however, they retain the naval base of Guantánamo, which remains invaded.
• 1910: the city of Paris (France) suffers a flood.
• 1912: in Quito, an organized mob murders former president Eloy Alfaro and burns his body, an event known as La Hoguera Barbara.
• 1915: The U.S. Congress creates the U.S. Coast Guard service.
• 1916: In the United States, Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jewish person named a member of the Supreme Court.
• 1917: in San Francisco (California) they begin to circulate municipal trams.
• 1918: In the framework of the Finnish civil war, the rebel Red Guards gain control over the capital, Helsinki, and the members of the Senate hide in subways.
• 1918: the Red Army of the Soviet Union of Trotski was founded.
• 1920: in Spain is founded the Tercio de Extranjeros, later known as the Legion.
• 1930: in Spain, the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera presents his resignation to King Alfonso XIII, thus ending the dictatorship he had maintained since 13 September 1923.
• 1932: In China, the Japanese army begins the occupation of the city of Shanghai.
• 1935: Iceland is the first country to legalize abortion.
• 1946: in Santiago de Chile, the Chilean Government perpetrates the massacre of Plaza Bulnes that left several wounded and six dead people, including Ramona Parra.
• 1949: the members of the European Community create the Council of Europe.
• 1951: at the Nevada test site—as part of the Ranger operation—the United States detonates the atomic bomb Baker. (of 8 kilotons), the ninth in human history.
• 1955: The Puerto Rican Academy of Spanish Language was founded in Puerto Rico.
• 1958: Denmark creates the popular LEGO game, of interconnected plastic blocks.
• 1961: the Diocese of Autlán is erected by Pope John XXIII; who appoints Bishop Mons as the first bishop. Miguel González Ibarra.
• 1985: in the United States the group of artists USA for Africa engrave the song We Are The Worldfor charity purposes.

Challenger disintegration

• 1986: In Cape Cañaveral (Florida State), the Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after taking off. They die their seven astronauts.
• 1991: In Maracaibo, (Zulia State, Venezuela), the flag of the Zulia State was first launched. This symbol that identifies the Zulia State was created by the designer, artist, painter, sculptor and sketcher of zuliano origin José Antonio Urdaneta Andrade, who has two horizontal strips of equal size with the blue (above) and black (below), in addition to the image of a radiant yellow sun in the center and a diagonal that is broken in white color that represents the Catatumbo Lightning.
• 1998: Ford announces the purchase of Volvo Car Corporation for 6450 million dollars.
• 1998: In Saint-Denis, France, the Stade de France is inaugurated.
• 2000: the International Forum on the Holocaust of Stockholm, organized for the purpose of remembering and honoring the victims, ends.
• 2002: In the city of Maracaibo, capital of the State Zulia, Venezuela, it is established "El Día de la Zulianidad" by decree No. 272, included in "Official Gazette" Extraordinary on February 6, 2002 by the then Governor of the State Zulia, Manuel Rosales Guerrero to: "...restore the traditions, customs, values, identity and idiosyncras that characterize the inhabitants of the entire Zil region."
• 2007: Sinn Féin recognizes the legitimacy of the Úlster police and judicial authorities, a new step for peace in Northern Ireland.
• 2008: In Santa Fe de Bogotá (Colombia), an aircraft from the Colombian airline Aires from Maracaibo departs from the airstrip and stops in a land located on the outskirts of El Dorado International Airport.
• 2012: In the district of San Juan de Lurigancho, in Lima, Peru, a fire in a rehabilitation center called God is Love (who was without a license), leaves 27 inmates dead and 12 wounded.
• 2013: in Santa María, Rio Grande del Sur, Brazil, a fire at the Kiss disco leaves 231 dead and 116 wounded.

Births

• 1225: Thomas Aquinas, writer, philosopher and Italian theologian (f. 1274).
• 1311: Joan II, queen navarra between 1328 and 1349 (f. 1349).
• 1444: Francisco de Pazzi, the main cause of the conspiracy of the Pazzi (f. 1478).
• 1457: Henry VII, English king (f. 1509).
• 1507: Ferrante I Gonzaga, Italian condotiero (f. 1557).
• 1540: Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (f. 1610).
• 1582: John Barclay, Scottish writer (f. 1621).
• 1600: Clemente IX, Italian potato (f. 1669).
• 1608: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (f. 1679).
• 1611: Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (f. 1687).
• 1622: Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (f. 1691).
• 1701: Charles Marie de La Condamine, mathematician and French geographer (f. 1774).
• 1706: John Baskerville, British printer and typographer (f. 1775).
• 1712: Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (f. 1761).
• 1717: Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan between 1757 and 1774 (f. 1774).
• 1722: Johann Ernst Bach, German organist (f. 1777).
• 1768: Frederick VI, Danish king(f. 1839).
• 1784: George Hamilton-Gordon, fourth count of Aberdeen, British Prime Minister (f. 1860).
• 1791: Ferdinand Hérold, French composer (f. 1833).
• 1807: Robert McClure, British explorer (f. 1873).
• 1814: Marie Cornélie Falcon, French soprano (f. 1897).
• 1822: Alexander MacKenzie, Canadian Prime Minister (f. 1892).
• 1833: Charles George Gordon, British General (f. 1885).
• 1841: Henry Morton Stanley, British explorer and journalist (f. 1904).
• 1848: Jules Aimé Battandier, French botanist (f. 1922).
• 1853: José Martí, poet, military and hero of Cuban independence (f. 1895).
• 1861: Orestes Pereyra, Mexican military and political (f. 1915).
• 1865: Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish President (f. 1952).
• 1868: Julián Aguirre, Argentine composer (f. 1924).
• 1873: Colette, French novelist (f. 1954).
• 1874: Vsévolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (f. 1940).
• 1875: Julián Carrillo, Mexican composer (f. 1965).
• 1881: Juan José de Amézaga, president of Uruguay (f. 1956).
• 1882: Pascual Orozco, a Mexican revolutionary (f. 1915).
• 1884: Auguste Piccard, Swiss inventor (f. 1962).
• 1886: Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electric engineer (f. 1976).
• 1887: Manuel Aguirre Berlanga, a Mexican lawyer and politician (1953).
• 1887: Arthur Rubinstein, an American pianist of Polish origin (f. 1982).
• 1888: Julián Alarcón, Paraguayan composer and violinist (f. 1957).
• 1889: Ramón Iglesias and Navarri, Spanish bishop (f. 1972)
• 1894: Fidela Campiña Ontiveros, Spanish opera singer (f. 1983).
• 1900: Alice Neel, American artist (f. 1984).
• 1907: Ulyses Petit de Murat, poet, journalist, playwright and Argentine writer (f. 1983).
• 1909: John Thomson, Scottish footballer (f. 1931).
• 1912: Manuel González Hinojosa, Mexican politician (f. 2006).
• 1912: Jackson Pollock, American painter (f. 1956).
• 1913: Frances Yeend, American soprano (f. 2008).
• 1918: Susana March, a Spanish writer (f. 1990).
• 1919: Vicente Asensi, Spanish footballer (f. 2000).
• 1919: Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan political leader (f. 1988).
• 1922: Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, nobel medical prize in 1968 (f. 1993).

Erling Sven Lorentzen.

• 1923: Erling Sven Lorentzen, shipowner, shipping and industrial Norwegian-Brazilian (f. 2021).
• 1924: Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian artist (f. 1976).
• 1927: Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese filmmaker (f. 2001).
• 1929: Oldenburg Class, American sculptor.
• 1930: Luis de Pablo, Spanish composer.
• 1930: Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician.
• 1931: Lucia Bosé, Italian actress (f. 2020).
• 1931: Roxana Darín, an Argentine actress (f. 2018).
• 1931: Ezio Flagello, American bass (f. 2009).
• 1933: Patricio Rojas, a Chilean doctor and politician.
• 1935: David Lodge, British writer.
• 1936: Alan Alda, American actor and filmmaker.
• 1936: Ismail Kadare, a Albanian writer.
• 1937: Ken Hill, British composer (f. 1995).
• 1938: Tomas Lindahl, Swedish biologist and geneticist.
• 1940: Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman.
• 1941: King Tubby, an electronic and Jamaican sound engineer (f. 1989).
• 1943: Dick Taylor, British musician, of the band The Rolling Stones.
• 1944: John Tavener, British composer (f. 2013).
• 1945: Alessandro Bianchi, Italian politician.
• 1945: Robert Wyatt, British musician.
• 1946: Carlos Cano, Spanish singer (f. 2000).
• 1946: Juan Verduzco, Mexican actor and comedian.
• 1947: Txetxu Red, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 1948: Charles Taylor, politician and Liberian president.
• 1949: Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach.
• 1950: Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, king of Bahrain.
• 1950: Alejandro Aguinaga, Peruvian politician.
• 1950: Blanca Curi, Argentinian astrologue (f. 2010).
• 1951: Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut (f. 2018).
• 1952: Cándido Méndez, Spanish trade unionist.
• 1954: Rick Warren, American pastor and writer.
• 1955: Nicolas Sarkozy, French politician, President of France between 2007 and 2012.
• 1956: Richard Danielpour, American composer.
• 1957: Germán Castelblanco, Colombian actor (f. 2000).
• 1958: Guillermo Fernández, Argentine singer and musician.
• 1959: Frank Darabont, American filmmaker.
• 1960: Pato Banton, British singer.
• 1960: Mauricio Dayub, Argentine actor.
• 1961: Arnaldur Indridason, Icelandic writer.
• 1963: Dan Spitz, American guitarist, of the Anthrax band.
• 1966: Rafael Furchi, Argentinian football referee.
• 1968: DJ Muggs, American musician, Cypress Hill band.
• 1968: Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1968: Rakim, American rapper.
• 1968: Viviana Saccone, an Argentine actress.
• 1969: Kathryn Morris, American actress.
• 1969: Fernando Cornejo, Chilean footballer (f. 2009).
• 1971: Anthony Hamilton, American singer.
• 1972: Amy Coney Barrett, American lawyer, jurist and academic.
• 1974: Tony Delk, American basketball player.
• 1974: Oscar Henríquez, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1974: Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1975: Hiroshi Kamiya, Japanese actor.
• 1975: Julian Dean, New Zealand cyclist.
• 1975: Pablo Zalba, Spanish politician.
• 1976: Pedro Piquero, pianist and zen Spanish Buddhist teacher.
• 1976: Mark Madsen, American basketball player.
• 1976: Lee Ingleby, British actor.
• 1977: Daunte Culpepper, American football player.
• 1977: Joey Fatone, American actor and singer of the band 'N Sync.
• 1977: Andrés Neuman, a Spanish-Argentine writer.
• 1978: Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer.
• 1978: Jamie Carragher, British footballer.
• 1978: Sheamus, Irish professional fighter.
• 1978: Jasmin Handanović, Slovenian footballer.
• 1978: Pope Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer (f. 2020).
• 1979: Ali Boulala, Swedish skater.
• 1979: Eduardo Navarro Soriano, Spanish footballer (f. 2022).
• 1979: Maximum Lucas, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1980: Nick Carter, American singer, from the Backstreet Boys band.
• 1980: Yasuhito Endo, Japanese footballer.
• 1980: Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer.
• 1981: Elijah Wood, American actor.
• 1981: Marko Babić, Croatian footballer.
• 1982: Martín Cárdenas Ochoa, a Colombian bike rider.
• 1982: Camila Sosa Villada, French actress.
• 1982: Sébastien Puygrenier, French footballer.
• 1983: Gianvito Plasmati, Italian footballer.
• 1984: Andre Iguodala, American basketball player.
• 1984: Jordan Harvey, American footballer.
• 1984: Issam Jemâa, Tunisian footballer.
• 1985: Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer.
• 1985: Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer.
• 1985: Keiji Watanabe, Japanese footballer.
• 1985: J. Cole, American rapper.
• 1985: Hugo Souza, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1985: Alvaro Navarro, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1986: Jessica Ennis-Hill, British athlete.
• 1986: Fabio Pisacane, Italian footballer.
• 1986: Antonis Petropoulos, Greek footballer.
• 1987: Mikhail Kerzhakov, Russian footballer.
• 1988: Shogo Sakai, Japanese footballer.
• 1989: Shinta Fukushima, Japanese footballer.
• 1990: Maksym Drachenko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1991: Calum Worthy, Canadian actor.
• 1991: Wan Zack Haikal, Malaysian footballer.
• 1991: Wellington Appeared Martins, Brazilian footballer.
• 1991: Ryota Nakamura, Japanese footballer.
• 1992: William Henrique, Brazilian footballer.
• 1993: Richmond Boakye, Ghanaian footballer.
• 1993: John Anthony Brooks, American footballer.
• 1993: Brandon Mechele, Belgian footballer.
• 1994: Maluma, Colombian singer.
• 1994: Santiago Charamoni, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1994: Ema Horvath, American actress.
• 1995: Diego Coelho, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1996: Andrea Rán Snæfeld Hauksdóttir, Icelandic footballer.
• 1997: Dries Wouters, Belgian footballer.
• 1997: Kerry Blackshear, American basketball player.
• 1998: Ariel Winter, American actress and singer.
• 1998: Renato Solís, Peruvian footballer.
• 1998: Adrià Guerrero Aguilar, Spanish footballer.
• 1998: Dani de Wit, Dutch footballer.
• 1998: Jorge Daniel Alvarez, a Honduran footballer.
• 1998: Patricio Boolsen, Argentine footballer.
• 1998: Javier Acevedo, Canadian swimmer.
• 1999: Queen Kondō, Japanese seiyū.
• 1999: Sittichok Paso, Thai footballer.
• 1999: Hiroki Abe, Japanese footballer.
• 1999: Marijke Groenewoud, Dutch ice speed skater.
• 1999: Nurdaulet Zhumagali, Kazakh swimmer.
• 1999: Yevgueni Somov, Russian swimmer.
• 1999: Nikita Tretiakov, Russian swimmer.
• 1999: Hrvy, British singer.
• 1999: Abubakr Abakarov, Azerbaijani fighter.
• 1999: Vladislav Pozdniakov, Russian steward.
• 1999: Nemanja Mićević, Serbian footballer.
• 2000: Aaron Connolly, Irish footballer.
• 2000: Christian Früchtl, German footballer.
• 2000: Abel Ruiz, Spanish footballer.
• 2000: Dušan Vlahović, Serbian footballer.
• 2000: Yu Hanaguruma, Japanese swimmer.
• 2000: Nicolás Gutiérrez Contreras, Chilean footballer.
• 2000: Vicente Bellmunt, Spanish footballer.
• 2003: Samuel Edozie, British footballer.

Deaths

• 814: Charlemagne, French king from 768 and then emperor from 800 to his death (n. 742).
• 1271: Isabel de Aragón, French queen since 1270 (n. 1247).
• 1547: Henry VIII, English king between 1509 and 1547 (n. 1491).
• 1578: Francisco Hernández de Toledo, doctor and Spanish botanist (n. 1517).
• 1596: Francis Drake, an English navy and explorer (n. 1543).
• 1621: Paulo V, Pope between 1605 and 1621 (n. 1550).
• 1672: Pierre Séguier, French Foreign Minister (n. 1588).
• 1687: Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (n. 1611).
• 1688: Ferdinand Verbiest, astronomer, mathematician and Jesuit flamenco (n. 1623).
• 1754: Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (n. 1684).
• 1761: Francesco Feo, Italian composer (n. 1691).
• 1825: Bernardo de Monteagudo, Argentine lawyer and journalist (n. 1789).
• 1838: Sophie von Dönhoff, lady of German company (n. 1768).
• 1853: Joseph Eusebio Caro, was a Neo-Great poet and writer of the post-independence generation. (n. 1817).
• 1859: Frederick John Robinson, British Prime Minister (n. 1782).
• 1864: Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (n. 1799).
• 1865: Felice Romani, Italian poet and libretist (n. 1788).
• 1873: Henry Hugh Pierson, British composer (n. 1815).
• 1876: Francisco Deák, Hungarian politician (n. 1803).
• 1891: Felipe Poey, a Cuban naturalist (n. 1799).
• 1896: Joseph Barnby, British composer (n. 1838).
• 1903: Augusta Holmès, pianist and French composer (n. 1847).
• 1903: Robert Planquette, French composer (n.1848).
• 1912: Eloy Alfaro, Ecuadorian President (n. 1842).
• 1912: Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (n. 1819).
• 1913: Segismundo Moret, a Spanish politician (n. 1833).
• 1914: A member of Bavaria, an Italian aristocrat (n. 1823).
• 1924: Theophile Braga, Portuguese writer and politician, president between 1910 and 1911 (n. 1843).
• 1927: M. Maryan, French writer (n. 1847).
• 1928: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, a Spanish writer (n. 1867).
• 1930: Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (n. 1878).
• 1930: Manuel Antonio Pérez Sánchez, Galician poet (n. 1900).
• 1935: Mikhail Ipolítov-Ivánov, Russian composer (n. 1859).
• 1938: Bernd Rosemeyer, German motor racing pilot (n. 1909).
• 1939: William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, Nobel Literature Prize in 1923 (n. 1865).
• 1942: Pablo Luna, Spanish composer (n. 1879).
• 1946: Ramona Parra, Chilean political activist (n. 1926).
• 1947: Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (n. 1875).
• 1948: Hans Aumeier, officer of Nazi Germany, Lagerführer of the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz; executed in the gallows (n. 1906).
• 1951: Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish military and political, president between 1944 and 1946 (n. 1867).
• 1955: Enrique Hermitte, Argentine engineer (n. 1871).
• 1960: Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (n. 1891).
• 1963: John Farrow, director, screenwriter and Australian producer (n. 1904).
• 1963: Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (n. 1884).
• 1965: Maxime Weygand, French military (n. 1867).
• 1971: Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (n. 1896).
• 1971: Cesáreo L. Berisso, Uruguayan aviator (n. 1887).
• 1972: José Riquelme and López-Bago, Spanish military (f. 1880).
• 1972: Dino Buzzati, Italian writer (n. 1906).
• 1974: José García-Siñeriz, Spanish politician (n. 1886).
• 1976: Lamberto Quintero, Mexican drug dealer (n. unknown).
• 1976: Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian artist (n. 1924).
• 1977: Benito Quinquela Martín, Argentine painter (n. 1890).
• 1978: Julio Pereira Larraín, attorney, businessman and Chilean politician (n. 1907).
• 1983: Billy Fury, British singer (n. 1940).
• 1983: Edward Lawry Norton, American engineer and scientist (n. 1898).
• 1986: Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (n. 1944).
• 1986: Christa McAuliffe, American astronaut (n. 1948).
• 1986: Ronald McNair, American astronaut (n. 1950).
• 1986: Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (n. 1946).
• 1986: Judith Resnik, American astronaut (n. 1949).
• 1986: Francis Scobee, American astronaut (n. 1939).
• 1986: Michael Smith, American astronaut (n. 1945).
• 1988: Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (n. 1911).
• 1988: Curro Girón, Venezuelan bullfighter (n. 1938).
• 1995: Aldo Gordini, French racing pilot (n. 1921).
• 1995: Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italian tenor (n. 1913)
• 1996: Jerry Siegel, American hysterist (n. 1914).
• 1996: Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (n. 1940).
• 1996: Burne Hogarth, American hysterist (n. 1911).
• 1996: Jesús Nieto, actor of Spanish bent (n. 1927).
• 1997: Carlos Encinas González, a Spanish painter (n. 1907).
• 2002: Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist (n. 1913).
• 2002: Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (n. 1907).
• 2003: Miloš Milutinović, footballer and Serbian coach (n. 1933).
• 2004: Don Cholito, Puerto Rican locutor (n. 1923).
• 2004: Joe Viterelli, American actor (n. 1937).
• 2005: Lucien Carr, muse of the Beat Generation (n. 1925)
• 2005: Karen Lancaume, French actress; suicide (n. 1973).
• 2005: Jacques Villeret, French actor (n. 1951).
• 2007: Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (n. 1929).
• 2007: Yelena Románova, a Russian athlete (n. 1963).
• 2007: Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (n. 1938).
• 2009: Billy Powell, American musician (n. 1952).
• 2011: Margaret Price, soprano galesa (n. 1941).
• 2012: José María Moro, Spanish sculptor (n. 1933).
• 2013: Julio Aróstegui, Spanish historian (n. 1939).
• 2014: Gudō Wafu Nishijima, Buddhist monk and Japanese Zen master (n. 1919).
• 2021: Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch scientist, a nobel chemistry award in 1995 (n. 1933).
• 2023: Lisa Loring, American actress (n. 1958).

Celebrations

• Data Privacy Day
• Argentina: Ferroficionado Day.
• SpainSpain: Bibliobus Day.
• European Union: European Data Protection Day.
• Venezuela Venezuela: Venezuelan Film Day.
• Venezuela Venezuela: All over Zulia State. Zulianity Day.

Catholic saints list

• Saint John of Reome, priest (c. 554).
• Saint James of Palestine, Eremite (s. VI).
• San Julián de Cuenca, bishop (c. 1207).
• Blessed Bartolomé Aiutamicristo, religious of the Order of the Camaldules (1224).
• Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest of the Order of Preachers and Doctor of the Church (1274).
• Beato Julián Maunoir, priest of the Society of Jesus (1683).
• Saints Agatha Lin Zhao, Jerome Lu Tingmei and Lorenzo Wang Bing, martyrs (1858).
• Blessed Joseph Freinademetz, priest of the Society of the Divine Word (1908).
• Blessed Maria Luisa Montesinos Orduña, virgin and martyr (1937).
• Blessed Olimpia Bidà (Olga), virgin and martyr, of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph (1952).