January 6th

January 6 is the 6th (sixth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 359 days to the end of the year and 360 in leap years.

Events

• 1233: Fernando III de Castilla begins the site of the city of Úbeda that culminates with its capitulation.
• 1416: King Fernando I of Aragon abandons obedience to the Popes of Avignon.
• 1492: in Granada, Spain, the Catholic Kings enter triumphantly after the surrender of Boabdil.
• 1494: In the present Dominican Republic, Cristóbal Colón founded La Isabela, the first Spanish population in America.
• 1503: On the Caribbean coast of Veraguas (now Panama), Christopher Columbus founded the second Spanish settlement on American continental territory: the village of Santa Maria de Bethlehem. Three months later it will be destroyed by the natives.
• 1535: In the present Peru the city of Lima (called City of Kings) was founded by Francisco Pizarro and became the new capital of the Governorate of New Castile, after the Viceroy of Peru. It is currently the capital of the Republic of Peru.
• 1537: In Italy they kill Duke Alessandro de Médici.
• 1540: In England, Henry VIII married Ana de Cleves.
• 1542: In Mexico, Francisco de Montejo founded the village of Mérida, now the capital of Yucatan.
• 1550: In Colombia, the village of Valledupar was founded.
• 1641: In the present province of Cautin (Chile), the Parliament of Quilin meets, from which the first treaty of peace between Spaniards and Mapuches (Arucanians) emanates.
• 1763: In Uruguay, without a declaration of war, 11 British and Portuguese ships attack Montevideo, but they cannot take it.
• 1782: the city of Mahón (Menorca), in the power of the British, capitulates after seven months of siege by Spanish-French troops.
• 1809: In the town of Fontioso (Spain), cura Merino (Jeronimo Merino Cob) begins his activity as a guerrilla attacking an email and his escort.
• 1838: Alfred Vail and his co-workers showed a telegraph system that uses points and scripts, considered a precursor to Morse code.
• 1839 (between the 6th and 7th of January): in Ireland, tonight happens "The Night of the Great Wind", a storm with winds of 185 km/h, which caused the destruction of houses throughout the country and in Dublin, and many hundreds of deaths. It was Ireland's most damaging storm in the last 300 years.
• 1848: General Serrano disembarks on the Chafarin Islands.
• 1871: in Peru, the villa of Mollendo is founded.
• 1874: In Spain, during the site of the city of Cartagena, the last epicenter of the cantonal Rebellion, exploits the gunpowder tank of the Artillery Park, 400 people died. The fact would severely demotivate defenders.
• 1875: Alfonso XII departs from Paris to Madrid to occupy the throne of Spain.
• 1876: treaty between Paraguay and Argentina by which this country remains with the province of Misiones and with the strip of the Bermejo and Pilcomayo rivers.
• 1901: The Philippines rejects the American "tutela" (Philippine-American War).
• 1910: the Governments of Argentina and Uruguay sign a protocol concerning the waters of the Rio de la Plata.
• 1911: In Buenos Aires (Argentina) the club Almagro was founded.
• 1911: the German-Russian agreement is signed for the construction of a railway line that will unite Persia with the Berlin-Bagdad axis.
• 1912: New Mexico begins to be part of the United States as forty-seventh State.
• 1914: the company Merrill Lynch was founded in the United States.
• 1914: In the United States, Henry Ford reduces the time of assembly of the T model car and installs the 8-hour day in its factories.
• 1915: In England, the River Thames is experiencing a spectacular flood.
• 1916: In the UK, parliament votes the law on the introduction of compulsory military service for singles.
• 1918: Germany recognizes the republic of Finland.
• 1918: In Costa Rica, in the midst of the uprising against the dictator Pelico Tinoco, the Irazú volcano erupted, filling the entire Central Valley with ashes.
• 1919: In Germany a communist (spartaist) uprising led by Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and Georg Ledebour fails.
• 1924: In Estella, Navarre, Spain, the Izarra Sports Club is founded.
• 1927: U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua at the request of the government of Adolfo Díaz Recinos in the context of the constitutional civil war.
• 1928: Pope Pius XI rejects any kind of ecumenical proposal of the evangelical churches for considering them "dangerous intrigues".
• 1929: In Yugoslavia, Alexander I suspends the constitution, dissolves the National Assembly and establishes a dictatorship.
• 1932: In La Paz (Entre Ríos, Argentina) a frustrated attempt to radical revolution is made.
• 1936: Europe renews the Franco-Russian trade treaty, which for the Soviet Union means a credit of 800 million francs.
• 1937: In the United States, Congress establishes the arms embargo for both warring parties.
• 1939: in Spain the last edition of the weekly L'Esquella de la Torratxa.
• 1940: In the winter war General Semion Timoshenko took over the command of the Russian army.
• 1942: In the concentration camp of Buchenwald begin the first Nazi experiments with humans on exantematic typhus.
• 1944: In the framework of the Second World War, the German city of Stettin, today Polish, is bombarded by the allies producing 244 deaths.
• 1945: in Spain, the writer Carmen Laforet receives the first Nadal Prize for her novel Nada.
• 1945: in Poland—in the framework of World War II—Soviet troops occupy the Auschwitz concentration camp and release more than five thousand prisoners.
• 1947: In the United States, George C. Marshall is appointed Secretary of State.
• 1947: Santa Cruz de Tenerife arrives the remains of composer Manuel de Falla, who died in Alta Gracia (Argentina).
• 1947: Miguel Delibes receives the Nadal Prize
• 1953: In Rangun the conference of the socialist parties of Asia was opened.
• 1957: the Soviet Union, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary publish a statement on the "tradition" of Imre Nagy.
• 1963: Brazil becomes the presidential system through a plebiscite and is elected President João Goulart.
• 1967: in Venezuela, President Raúl Leoni inaugurated the bridge of Angostura, on the river Orinoco. At the time of its completion was the ninth hanging bridge in the world and the first in Latin America.
• 1968: The United States launches Surveyor 7.
• 1968: In Argentina the Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina was founded.
• 1973: in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, after two weeks of hard work, the last fires caused by the earthquake of December 23 of the previous year are extinguished.
• 1974: In the United Kingdom, the three-day work week is introduced, due to the energy shortage caused by the strike in mining.
• 1983: The Red Hot Chili Peppers band was founded in the United States.
• 1985: pressures on Sudan forced Israel to suspend “Moses operation”, by which it secretly carried out a massive rescue of Ethiopian Jews.
• 1986: General Samuel Kanyon in Liberia Doe is a state chief.
• 1991: Mali signed a peace agreement with the Tuaregs.
• 1992: in Georgia (Asia), President Zviad Gamsajurdia is overthrown by a military junta.
• 1994: Paraguay enters the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as the member country n.o 115.
• 1998: In Algeria, during the first sacred week of Ramadan, armed fundamentalist groups murder more than five hundred people.
• 1998: In Ecatepec (State of Mexico) the construction of the Cathedral of Ecatepec begins.
• 2002: in Argentina, Eduardo Duhalde devalues the weight. The Convertibility Act is repealed
• 2004: The Coriolis Earth Observation Satellite is launched in the United States of America.
• 2016: at the Punggye-ri atomic test base (northeast of the country), at 9:00 (local time) North Korea detonates a 6 kiloton hydrogen bomb. The bombs used in the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (in 1945) were 13 and 22 kilotons.
• 2021: In Washington D.C., there is an assault on the U.S. Capitol during the certification of the 2020 presidential elections by the Electoral College.
• 2022: In Argentina, for the first time, the 100 000 positive cases of COVID-19 are exceeded.

Births

• 1367: Richard II of England, king of England (f. 1400).
• 1412: Juana de Arco, a French hero, canonized by the Catholic Church (f. 1431).
• 1500: Juan de Ávila, monk and Spanish mystical writer (f. 1569).
• 1587: Gaspar de Guzmán (conde-duque de Olivares), aristocrat and Spanish politician (f. 1645).
• 1634: Hugo de Omerique, Spanish scientist (f. 1705).
• 1655: Leonor Magdalena de Palatinado-Neoburg, Austrian aristocrat (f. 1720), wife of Emperor Leopoldo I.
• 1659: José Brasanelli, Italian architect and artist (f. 1728).
• 1702: José de Nebra, Spanish composer (f. 1768).
• 1714: Percivall Pott, British physicist (f. 1788).
• 1745: Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French pioneer of aviation (f. 1799).
• 1766: Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, a pro-independence leader and Paraguayan president (f. 1840).
• 1775: Auguste Jean Ameil, general of French brigade (f. 1822).
• 1795: Anselme Payen, chemist, physicist and French mathematician (f. 1871).
• 1799: Jedediah Smith, hunter, cheater, leather merchant and American explorer (f. 1831).
• 1803: Henri Herz, Austrian composer and pianist (f. 1888).
• 1806: Christian Eduard Langethal, German botanist (f. 1878).
• 1808: Marie Josephine Mathilde Durocher, a Franco-Brazilian midwife (f. 1893).
• 1815: Francisco González de Prada, Peruvian jurist (f. 1863).
• 1820: Juan Zuazua, Mexican military (f. 1860).
• 1822: Heinrich Schliemann, businessman, millionaire and Prussian archaeologist (f. 1890).
• 1832: Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (f. 1883).
• 1838: Max Bruch, director of orchestra and German composer (f. 1920).
• 1839: Joaquín Arcadio Pagaza, Mexican poet (f. 1918).
• 1847: Ricardo Zamacois, Spanish actor and singer (f. 1888).
• 1850: Eduard Bernstein, a German politician (f. 1932).
• 1858: Albert Henry Munsell, American painter (f. 1918).
• 1861: Victor Horta, Belgian architect (f. 1947).
• 1870: Gustav Bauer, a German politician, chancellor between 1919 and 1920 (f. 1944).
• 1871: Regina Pacini, an Argentine soprano born in Portugal, wife of President Marcelo T. de Alvear (f. 1965).
• 1871: Jesús Flores Magón, lawyer, politician, journalist and Mexican activist (f. 1930).
• 1872: Aleksandr Skriabin, Russian composer and pianist (f. 1915).
• 1873: Joaquín Mir, a Spanish painter (f. 1940).

Carl Sandburg

• 1877: Rodolfo Lehmann, doctor and governor of the province of Santa Fe (f. 1936)
• 1878: Nicanor Piñole, a Spanish painter (f. 1978).
• 1878: Carl Sandburg, American poet, novelist and historian (f. 1967).
• 1880: Tom Mix, American actor (f. 1940).
• 1883: Yibrán Jalil Yibrán, a writer, painter and Lebanese thinker (f. 1931).
• 1897: Anton Lopatin, Soviet military (f. 1963).
• 1900: Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (f. 1936).
• 1905: Mariano Castillo, a Chilean chess player (f. 1970).
• 1912: Celso Emilio Ferreiro, Spanish poet (f. 1979).
• 1912: Jacques Ellul, philosopher, sociologist and French Christian anarchist (f. 1994).
• 1913: Edward Gierek, Polish Communist politician (f. 2001).
• 1913: Loretta Young, American actress (f. 2000).
• 1915: Alan Watts, a British philosopher and writer (f. 1973).
• 1916: Mario Cabré, Spanish bullfighter (f. 1990).
• 1920: John Maynard Smith, British biologist (f. 2004).
• 1920: Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist, leader of the Moon sect (f. 2012).
• 1920: Anna Maslóvskaya, Soviet partisan and Heroin of the Soviet Union (f. 1980)
• 1922: Eusebio Tejera, Uruguayan footballer (f. 2002).
• 1923: Santiago Grisolía, biochemical and Spanish aristocrat.
• 1923: Jacobo Timerman, an Argentine journalist (f. 1999).
• 1924: Kim Dae-jung, South Korean politician, South Korea President from 1998 to 2003 (f. 2009)
• 1925: Enrique Carreras, director of Peruvian-Argentine cinema (f. 1995).
• 1925: John De Lorean, a car entrepreneur (f. 2005).
• 1925: Alfonso Grosso, Spanish writer (f. 1995).
• 1926: Kid Gavilán (Gerardo González), Cuban boxer (f. 2003).
• 1926: Mickey Hargitay, physicist and Hungarian actor (f. 2006), father of actress Mariska Hargitay.
• 1926: Gaspar Henaine, Mexican actor and comedian (f. 2011).
• 1926: Armando Silvestre, Mexican actor.
• 1930: Mélido González, general of the Dominican Army (f.2000)
• 1931:
  • Aquilino Duque, Spanish poet and writer (f. 2021).
  • Enrique Hormazábal, Chilean footballer (f. 1999).
• 1933: Justo Tejada, Spanish footballer (f. 2021).
• 1934: Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician, president between 2003 and 2008 (f. 2008).
• 1934: Sylvia Syms, British actress.
• 1935: Margarita Gómez-Acebo, queen consorte Bulgarian.
• 1936: Julio María Sanguinetti, Uruguayan politician, president of Uruguay between 1985-1990 and 1995-2000.
• 1936: Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre, a Guatemalan politician and lawyer, president of Guatemala between 2015 and 2016.
• 1936: Antonio López, Spanish painter.
• 1937: Paolo Conte, Italian singer.
• 1937: Lou Holtz, American football coach.
• 1937: Doris Troy, American singer, of the band The Sweet Inspirations (f. 2004).
• 1937: Harri Holkeri, a Finnish politician (f. 2011).
• 1938: Adriano Celentano, singer and Italian actor.
• 1938: Mario Rodríguez Cobos, Argentine writer (f. 2010).
• 1939: Valeri Lobanovski, footballer and Ukrainian coach (f. 2002).
• 1940: Van McCoy, American musician and composer (f. 1979).
• 1942: Aleksandr Beliáyev, Russian writer of science fiction.
• 1942: Rosa María Mateo, presenter of Spanish television.
• 1943: Osvaldo Soriano, Argentine writer and journalist (f. 1997).
• 1943: Gregorio Badeni, Argentine jurist and constitutionalist (f. 2020).
• 1943: Terry Venables, ex-player and British football coach.
• 1944: Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunopathologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1996.
• 1946: Syd Barrett, British musician, founding member of the Pink Floyd band (f. 2006).
• 1946: Claudio Levrino, Argentine actor (f. 1980).
• 1947: Luis Hierro López, Uruguayan politician, vice president between 2000 and 2005.
• 1947: Efraín Camargo Ruiz, journalist and Colombian presenter (f. 2003).
• 1948: Javier Tejada Palacios, Spanish physicist.
• 1949: Juan Carlos Bello, Peruvian swimmer.
• 1949: Fernando Elizondo Barragán, politician, lawyer and Mexican businessman.
• 1950: Eloy Arenas, Spanish humorist.
• 1950: Carmelo Cabrera, Spanish basketball player.
• 1952: Sefer Halilović, Bosnian politician.
• 1953: Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist, AC/DC (f. 2017).
• 1954: Anthony Minghella, British filmmaker and screenwriter (f. 2008).
• 1954: Pedro Olaechea, economist, businessman and Peruvian politician.
• 1954: Salvador Bernardez, Honduran footballer (f. 2011).
• 1955: Rowan Atkinson, British actor and comedian.
• 1956: Justin Welby, British Archbishop.
• 1957: Nyamaagiin Enkhbold, a Mongolian politician and diplomat.
• 1960: Nigella Lawson, British cook.
• 1962: Andrea Tenuta, actress and Argentine singer.
• 1963: Gonzalo Bonadeo, Argentine sports journalist.
• 1964: Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan swimmer (f. 2005).
• 1964: Yuri, Mexican singer.
• 1965: Bjørn Lomborg, Danish writer, teacher and environmentalist (Skeptic ecologist).
• 1966: Sharon Cuneta, Filipino actress and singer.
• 1966: A.R. Rahman, composer, producer and Indian musician.
• 1968: John Singleton, American filmmaker (f. 2019).
• 1968: Miguel Iza, Peruvian actor.
• 1969: Norman Reedus, American actor.
• 1970: Leonardo Astrada, Argentine footballer.
• 1970: Rubén Capria, Argentine footballer.
• 1971: Francisco Cerezo, Spanish cyclist.
• 1971: Kay Rush, American presenter.
• 1972: Nek, Italian singer.
• 1972: Oleksandr Golovko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1974: Carlos Cordone, Argentine soccer player.
• 1974: Nicole DeHuff, American actress (f. 2005).
• 1974: Tiaré Scanda, Mexican actress.
• 1975: Josico, Spanish footballer.
• 1975: Daniela Krukower, Argentinian Yudoca.
• 1976: Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor.
• 1977: Quequé (Héctor de Miguel), Spanish humorist.
• 1978: David García Cubillo, Spanish footballer.
• 1978: Cédric Roussel, Belgian footballer.
• 1978: Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo, Spanish tennis player.
• 1979: Juris Laizāns, Latvian footballer.
• 1979: Cristela Alonzo, American actress.
• 1981: Mike Jones, American rapper.
• 1981: Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress.
• 1981: Lyudmyla Pekur, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1982: Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player.
• 1982: Eddie Redmayne, British actor.
• 1983: Fabien Laurenti, French footballer.
• 1984: Guillermo Santa Cruz, Argentine actor.
• 1984: Matteo Montaguti, Italian cyclist.
• 1984: Patrícia Kimberly, porn actress and Brazilian prostitute.
• 1985: Abel Aguilar, a Colombian footballer. Play a midfielder.
• 1986: Irina Shayk, Russian actress and model.
• 1986: Alex Turner, British musician, Arctic Monkeys.
• 1986: Alvaro Brachi, Spanish footballer.
• 1988: Piotr Wyszomirski, Polish basketball player.
• 1988: Jefferson Andrade Siqueira, Brazilian footballer.
• 1988: Marco Benfatto, Italian cyclist.
• 1989: Olha Boichenko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1989: Sergio León, Spanish footballer.
• 1991: Marta Carro, Spanish footballer.
• 1991: Michael O'Halloran, Scottish footballer.
• 1991: Daniel Høegh, Danish footballer.
• 1993: Vitaliy Buyalskyi, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1994: JB, leader of the Got7, dancer, singer, model, painter and South Korean photographer.
• 1996: Courtney Eaton, Australian actress and model.
• 1996: Miki Núñez, Spanish singer.
• 1997: Michel Aebischer, Swiss footballer.
• 1997: Angelo Araos, Chilean footballer.
• 1997: Rey Ortiz, Mexican-American footballer.
• 1998: Aimery Pinga, Swiss footballer.
• 1998: Ivan Martinović, Croatian player.
• 1998: Madelynn Bernau, American shooter.
• 1998: Yūka Yano, Japanese actress.
• 1998: Lee Seung-woo, South Korean footballer.
• 1998: Daniel Villegas, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1998: Íñigo Vicente, Spanish footballer.
• 1999: Esteban Glellel, Argentine soccer player.
• 1999: Guillem Jaime, Spanish footballer.
• 1999: Lazar Mutic, Bosnian basketball player.
• 1999: Javier Romo, Spanish cyclist.
• 1999: Kacper Stokowski, Polish swimmer.
• 1999: Eliza Scanlen, Australian actress.
• 1999: Luis Klein, German farmer.
• 1999: Mac McClung, American basketball player.
• 1999: Polo G, American rapper.
• 1999: Kiira Vänänen, Finnish athlete.
• 2000: Jann-Fiete Arp, German footballer.
• 2000: Shuhua, Taiwanese singer, member of the group (G)I-dle.
• 2000: Eunbin, South Korean singer and actress, member of CLC.
• 2000: Lev Gonov, Russian cyclist.
• 2000: Benji Kikanović, Bosnian-American footballer.
• 2000: Iker Lecuona, Spanish motorcycling pilot.
• 2000: Miquel Travé, Spanish penguinist.
• 2000: Leon Kaiser, German cyclist.
• 2000: Mohamed Camara, a Malian footballer.
• 2000: Aleksandra Stach, Polish penguinist.
• 2000: Cyrielle Duhamel, French swimmer.
• 2000: Nele Bayn, German penguin.
• 2000: Adem Zorgane, Algerian footballer.
• 2000: Artūr Dolžnikov, Lithuanian footballer.
• 2003: MattyBRaps, American rapper.

Deaths

• 1083: Ramiro de Pamplona, Infante de Pamplona, Señor de Calahorra, Torrecilla en Cameros y Ribafrecha (n. 1038).
• 1083: Sancho Garcés, infants of Pamplona, lord of Uncastillo and Sangüesa (n. 1038).
• 1275: Raimundo de Peñafort, Dominican and Barcelonian jurist (n. 1180).
• 1361: Jean Birelle, French monk, "general" of the order of the Carthusians (n.?).
• 1373: Andrés Corsini, a Florentine Carmelite religious, canonized by the Catholic Church (n. 1302).
• 1428: Ruy López Dávalos, noble, political and military Spanish (n. 1357).
• 1492: Pedro Fernández III de Velasco, a Spanish military officer (n. 1425).
• 1536: Baldassarre Peruzzi, Italian painter and architect (n. 1481).
• 1567: Alessandro de Médici, aristocrat florentino (n. 1510).
• 1598: Teodoro I, Russian tsar (n. 1557).
• 1611: Juan de Ribera, arzobispo and virrey valenciano (n. 1532).
• 1670: Carlos de Sezze, Italian religious, canonized by the Catholic Church (n. 1613).
• 1752: Pompeo Aldrovandi, Italian bishop (n. 1668).
• 1803: Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the young German sculptor (n. 1735).
• 1827: Francisco de Eguía. Spanish military (n. 1750).
• 1831: Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist, director of French orchestra and composer (n. 1766).
• 1840: Frances Burney, British writer (n. 1752).
• 1852: Louis Braille, French inventor, creator of the main reading system for the blind (n. 1809).
• 1876: Manuel María Mallarino, politician and Colombian writer (n. 1808).
• 1884: Gregor Mendel, botanist and Augustinian Austrian monk (n. 1822).
• 1888: Manuel Fernández and González, a Spanish writer (n. 1821).
• 1905: José María Gabriel and Galán, a Spanish poet (n. 1870).
• 1918: Georg Cantor, German mathematician (n. 1845).
• 1919: Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, president between 1901 and 1909 (n. 1858).
• 1921: Devil Anse Hatfield, American leader of the Hatfield family during the conflict between the Hatfields and the McCoys in the United States (n. 1839).
• 1925: Ferdinand Löwe, director of Austrian orchestra and arranger (n. 1865).
• 1925: Rafaela Porras and Ayllón, a Spanish religious and founder of the Slaves of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (n. 1850)
• 1931: Ethel Grey Terry, American actress (n. 1882).
• 1934: Raymundo Jardon, Mexican priest (n. 1887).
• 1945: Edith Frank-Holländer, a Dutch citizen (n. 1899), mother of Anne Frank.
• 1947: Adolfo d'Empaire Andrade, Venezuelan physician (n. 1873).
• 1949: Victor Fleming, American filmmaker (n. 1889).
• 1952: José Antonio Lezcano, Archbishop of Nicaragua (n. 1866).
• 1966: Jean Lurçat, painter, ceramist and upholstery French (n. 1892).
• 1974: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (n. 1896).
• 1976: Óscar Esplá, Spanish composer (n. 1886).
• 1978: Burt Munro, New Zealand biker (n. 1899).
• 1979: Nicanor Villalta, Spanish bullfighter (n. 1897).
• 1979: Giorgio Colli, Italian philosopher (n. 1917).
• 1981: A. J. Cronin, British novelist (n. 1896).
• 1981: Antonio Suárez, Spanish cyclist (n. 1932).
• 1984: Brígido Iriarte, multiatleta Venezuela (n. 1921)
• 1990: Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958.
• 1991: Antonio Blanco Freijeiro, Spanish archaeologist (n. 1923).
• 1993: Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpetist (n. 1917).
• 1993: Rudolf Nuréyev, Russian dancer and choreographer (n. 1938).
• 1995: Agustin Gaínza, Spanish footballer (n. 1922).
• 1995: Joe Slovo, a South African Jewish Communist politician of Lithuanian origin (n. 1926).
• 1999: Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (n. 1962).
• 2004: Chany Mallo, an Argentine actress.
• 2004: Gaston Pons Muzzo, Peruvian chemical (n. 1922).
• 2006: Lou Rawls, American singer (n. 1933).
• 2006: Comandanta Ramona (47), Mexican military, representative of the Zapatista Army (n. 1959).
• 2007: Frederic Etsou, Congolese cardinal (n. 1930).
• 2007: Peter Kleinow, American country music guitarist (n. 1934).
• 2008: Fernando Beorlegui, a Spanish painter (n. 1928).
• 2008: Luis D'Jallad, Argentine writer (n. 1922).
• 2008: María Victoria Llamas, Mexican communicator (n. 1940).
• 2010: Manuel Falces, Spanish photographer (n. 1952).
• 2012: Anilda Leão, poetess, writer, feminist activist, actress and Brazilian singer (n. 1923).
• 2013: Reginald Dean, British Supercentennial (n. 1902).
• 2013: Enrique Meneses, journalist, writer and Spanish photographer (n. 1929).
• 2013: Bart Van den Bossche, TV presenter and Belgian singer (n. 1964).
• 2014: Aitizaz Hasán, a Pakistani student victim of Islamic terrorism (n. 1998).
• 2014: Marina Ginestà, journalist, translator and communist activist Catalan (n. 1919)
• 2014: Mónica Spear, Venezuelan actress and model, former Miss Venezuela (No. 1984).
• 2014: Todd Williams, American football player (n. 1978).
• 2015: Vlastimil Bubník, ice hockey player and Czech footballer (n. 1931).
• 2016: Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (n. 1925).
• 2017: Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician (n. 1923).
• 2017: José Luis García Rúa, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist philosopher (n. 1923).
• 2019: Eucario Bermúdez, was a journalist, listener and Colombian television presenter. (n. 1934).
• 2021: Antonio Valdés, Mexican actor and humorist (n. 1928).
• 2021: Antonio Sabàto Sr., actor italiano (n. 1943).
• 2022: Peter Bogdanovich, director of American cinema (n. 1939).
• 2022: Sidney Poitier, an American actor of Bahamian origin (n. 1927).

Celebrations

• Argentina: Day of the Magi
• BoliviaBolivia Day of the Magi.
• ColombiaColombia:
  • Day of the Magi.
  • Fifth day of the Carnival of Black and White, carnival in Pasto.
• Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Day of Kings Magos.
• EcuadorEcuador: Day of the Magi.
• SpainSpain: Day of the Magi.
• ItalyItaly: Befana Witch Day (equivalent to Kings Day).
• Mexico Mexico:
  • Day of the Holy Kings
  • Sick day.
• NicaraguaNicaragua: Day of the Magi.
• Panama Panama Magis Day.
• Peru Peru: Bajada de Reyes
• Puerto RicoPuerto Rico: Holy Kings Day.
• Ukraine Ukraine: Christmas in some Orthodox Christian countries (see also 7 January)
• Uruguay Uruguay: Day of the Magi.
• Venezuela Venezuela:
  • Sport Mass.
  • Kings' Day.

Catholic saints list

• Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord in Europe, Asia and Oceania:
  • Worship of the Magi;
  • Cana weddings.
• Saints Julian and Basilisa of Antinoe, martyrs (s. IV).
• Saint Felix of Nantes, bishop (582).
• Beato Macario de Würzburg, abad (1153).
• San Raimundo de Peñafort (1275).
• Saint Peter Thomas, Bishop (1366).
• Saint Andrew Corsini, bishop (1373).
• Saint John of Ribera, bishop and viceroy (1611).
• Saint Charles de Seze, religious (1670).
• Santa Rafaela María del Sagrado Corazón Porras Ayllón, virgin and founder (1925).
• beato Andrés Bessette, religious (1937).