January the 8th

January 8 is the 8th (eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days to the end of the year and 358 in leap years.

Events

• 307: In China, Emperor Jin Huidi is poisoned by his son Jin Huaidi.
• 871: Alfredo the Great leads the Western Saxon army (of the Wessex kingdom) to repel an invasion of the Vikings of Danelaw.
• 1198: Cardinal Lotario de Segni is elected Pope and adopts the name of Inocencio III.
• 1297: On the Mediterranean coast of France, François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress that protects the Rock of Monaco, and establishes his family as heads of Monaco.
• 1455: in Rome, Italy, Pope Nicholas V writes the Bull Romanus Pontifexgranted to the Portuguese monarch Alfonso V.
• 1499: Louis XII of France married Anne of Britania.
• 1537: The diocese of Cuzco, the first of South America, is created in Peru.
• 1558: The English surrender the square of Guines, near Calais, to the German mercenaries of the French army of Francisco de Guisa.
• 1735: at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) it is serene AriodanteGeorge Frideric Handel.
• 1766: In the Falkland Islands, a British flotilla takes over the port of Egmont, in power of Spain.
• 1815: Last British attempts to dominate the insurrections of their colonies in North America, which they failed to retain.
• 1820: In the post of Arequito (Argentina), the unitary army's porteños officers are subordinated not to be forced to participate in the civil war against the Argentinean feds (Arequito riot).
• 1824: In Spain, Fernando VII sanctioned a Royal Clause creating the General Police of the Kingdom, a precursor of the Spanish National Police.
• 1856: in California (United States) Dr. John Veatch discovers the axle.
• 1870: in Malaga, Spain, the first issue of the satellite newspaper The Broomsled by the Republican Teobaldo Nieva.
• 1877: in Wolf Mountain (Montana), Crazy Horse and his warriors wage the last battle against the American cavalry.
• 1885: Treaty of peace and friendship between Spain and the Republic of Ecuador.
• 1889: Dr. Herman Hollerith patents a calculating machine with tabulators.
• 1898: Chile founded the commune of Puente Alto.
• 1909: Cuban politician José Miguel Gómez, leader of the liberal party of his country, is elected president of the Republic.
• 1909: In Paris, France, the National Assembly rejects the proposal to abolish the death penalty.
• 1912: In Bloemfontein, South Africa, the African National Congress was founded.
• 1913: The London Conference was held which drew the borders of Albania, leaving almost half of its population and territories outside, which became part of Kosovo in the present Yugoslavia and the northern part of Greece.
• 1914: The Middlesex Hospital in London begins to use the radio to treat cancer.
• 1916: In the Ottoman Empire—in the framework of the First World War—allied forces leave the peninsula of Galípoli.
• 1918: The 14 points of Wilson, the germ of the League of Nations, are published.
• 1920: in the United States the strike of 1919 ends.
• 1924: a royal decree suspends parliamentary immunity in Spain.
• 1926: Ibn Saud, proclaimed king of the former independent kingdom of Hedjaz, currently incorporated into Saudi Arabia.
• 1929: In Nicaragua, the U.S. invasion ends and the occupation forces are repatriated.
• 1937: The third Law on Neutrality enters into force in the United States.
• 1938: In the framework of the Spanish civil war, Colonel Domingo Rey d'Harcourt, at the head of the Francoist forces besieged in Teruel, surrenders to the Republican troops.
• 1941: In Spain the film Raza, by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, is premiered.
• 1949: In the UN (New York), most South American countries call for the repeal of the condemnation of the Franco dictatorship.
• 1949: in Chile, President Gabriel González Videla promulgated Act No. 9292, which granted the political vote to women.
• 1956: in Ecuador the Huaorani Indians kill five evangelical missionaries (Operation Auca) hours after entering for the first time in contact with them.
• 1958: In the United States, the 14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the National Chess Championship.
• 1958: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France
• 1959: in France, Charles de Gaulle is appointed president of the Fifth Republic.
• 1959: in Cuba, Fidel Castro enters Havana with his troops, consolidating the victory of the Cuban Revolution.
• 1962: In El Salvador, the Constituent Legislative Assembly sanctioned the new Constitution.
• 1966: in the Dominican Republic, the Armed Forces declare a general strike.
• 1968: the Cordobés municipality of Belmez (Spain) wins the contest “Un million para el mejor”.
• 1973: in Mexico, Telesystem Mexicano and Televisión Independiente de México merge, creating the Televisa Group.
• 1974: In Geneva, OPEC decides to stabilize oil prices, provided that industrialized countries contain inflation and the benefits of large enterprises.
• 1976: The political will of former Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón is published in Buenos Aires.
• 1979: 50 people die in Irish waters when a French superpetroler explodes.
• 1979: in Montevideo (Uruguay), Argentina and Chile sign, before the papal envoy Cardinal Antonio Samoré, an agreement requesting the mediation of the Vatican.
• 1979: in Buenos Aires, the massive driving makes known a statement about the dispute with Chile: they offer the Argentine dictatorship the forces of the Montonero Army to collaborate in defending national sovereignty.
• 1981: in Montevideo (Uruguay) the World Champions Gold Cup, known as World Cup, ends.
• 1982: In the Principality of Andorra for the first time in history he is elected a president of Government: Oscar Ribas Reig.
• 1985: in Colombia, President Belisario Betancur and the guerrilla movement M-19 sign a ceasefire agreement that ends, in principle, with the fighting in the southwest of the country.
• 1986: The Academy of Arts and Film Sciences (AACCE) is created in Spain.
• 1986: Loyd Blankenship writes the brief essay “The Conscience of a Hacker” (“Hacker Manifesto”).
• 1993: armed clashes between Somalis and the United States Marine Corps.
• 1994: Russia launches the Soyuz ship for the Mir space station.
• 1996: in Kinshasa (Zaire), an Antonov 32 plane crashes in the central market; some 350 people die.
• 1996: In the United States, Unicef calls for urgent explanations for the death of thousands of children in orphanages.
• 1997: In Madrid, ETA murders Lieutenant Colonel Jesus Cuesta after announcing Herri Batasuna "a future of suffering".
• 2005: South of the island of Guam, the USS San Francisco nuclear submarine clashes with a submarine mountain. He dies a crewman, but the submarine returns to the surface and is repaired.
• 2009: In the Basque Country he sits on the bench of the Supreme Court as a first-time accused of an autonomous president, Juan José Ibarreche, together with Patxi López, accused of dialogue with the illegalized Batasuna.
• 2009: In Cinchona (a zone close to the Poás Volcano in Costa Rica) an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 in the Richter scale is only 4.5 km deep; leaving a balance of 42 dead.
• 2011: in Tucson (Arizona)—A sniper named Jared Lee Loughner (22) perpetrates the Tucson massacre: kills 6 people—including Judge John McCarthy Roll (1947-2011) and a girl—and wounds 13—including her target: Democratic congressman Gabrielle Giffords (1970-)—.
• 2016: the drug dealer Chapo Guzmán is recaptured in the Mexican city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa after his escape from prison in the summer of 2015.
• 2020: Flight 752 of Ukraine International Airlines is shot down by a missile caused by Iran in Tehran; the air wreck left 176 dead.
• 2020: in Spain, Pedro Sánchez took office before King Felipe VI as President of the Government.
• 2021: in Spain the Borrasca Filomena is unleashed leaving numerous cities incommunicado.
• 2022: In Cyprus, the variant "Deltacron" is confirmed that combines the variants of COVID-19 "Delta" and "Omicron".
• 2023: In Brazil, pro-Bolsonarists assault the Congress of the Latin Country

Births

• 1081: Henry V, German king between 1098 and 1111, and emperor between 1111 and 1125 (f. 1125).
• 1556: Uesugi Kagekatsu, samurai and Japanese landlord (f. 1623).
• 1583: Simon Episcopius, the Dutch theologian (f. 1643).
• 1587: Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (f. 1616).
• 1601: Baltasar Gracián, a Spanish writer (f. 1658).
• 1628: François-Henri de Montmorency, French general (f. 1695).
• 1632: Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist and historian (f. 1694).
• 1635: Luis Fernández Portocarrero, ecclesiastics and Spanish archbishop (f. 1709).
• 1805: Orson Hyde, American religious leader (f. 1878).
• 1812: Sigismond Thalberg, pianist and Swiss composer (f. 1871).
• 1820: Leonardo Márquez, Mexican military (f. 1913).
• 1821: James Longstreet, general American confederate (f. 1904).
• 1823: Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist, geographer and a British social critic (f. 1913).
• 1824: Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and playwright (f. 1861).
• 1824: William Wilkie Collins, British novelist (f. 1889).
• 1830: Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (f. 1902).
• 1830: Hans Guido von Bülow, director of German orchestra, composer and pianist (f. 1894).
• 1836: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, a Dutch painter (f. 1912).
• 1843: Frederick George Abberline, British police inspector (f. 1929).
• 1852: James Milton Carroll, American pastor and writer (f. 1931).
• 1854: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, a British occultist and magician (f. 1918).
• 1865: Winnaretta Singer, American patrons (f. 1943).

Emily Greene Balch.

• 1867: Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (f. 1961).
• 1870: Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator and military (f. 1930).
• 1871: James Craig, British politician (f. 1940).
• 1873: Iuliu Maniu, a Romanian politician and prime minister (f. 1953).
• 1873: Elena Petrovich Niegos, Italian queen (f. 1956).
• 1876: Antonio Palacios, Spanish architect (f. 1945).
• 1882: Luciano Pérez Platero, Spanish bishop (f. 1963).
• 1885: John Curtin, Australian Prime Minister (f. 1945).
• 1888: Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (f. 1972).
• 1888: Matthew Moore, Irish actor (f. 1960).
• 1891: Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 (f. 1957).
• 1891: Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (f. 1972).
• 1894: Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan friar and Polish saint (f. 1941).
• 1896: Manuel Rojas, an Argentine-Chinese writer (f. 1973).

Dennis Wheatley.

• 1897: Dennis Wheatley, British writer (f. 1977).
• 1899: Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Canada (f. 1959).
• 1900: Alfredo Espino, Salvadoran poet (f. 1928).
• 1900: François de Menthon, French jurist and politician (f. 1984).
• 1902: Gueorgui Malenkov, Soviet politician (f. 1988).
• 1902: Carl Rogers, American psychologist (f. 1987).
• 1903: Igor Kurchatov, Soviet physicist (f. 1960).
• 1904: Karl Brandt, German SS officer (f. 1948).
• 1904: Tampa Red, American blues musician (f. 1981).
• 1905: Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (f. 1988).
• 1905: Franjo Šeper, Croatian cardinal (f. 1981).
• 1906: Igor Moiséyev, Russian choreographer and dancer (f. 2007).
• 1908: William Hartnell, British actor (f. 1975).

José Ferrer.

• 1910: Galina Ulánova, Russian dancer (f. 1998).
• 1911: Alicia Vignoli, actress and vedette argentina (f. 2005).
• 1912: José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and filmmaker (f. 1992).
• 1920: Abbey Simon, American musician (f. 2019).
• 1921: Hertha Bothe, Nazi warder of concentration camp (f. 2000).
• 1921: Leonardo Sciascia, Italian political writer (f. 1989).
• 1923: Giorgio Tozzi, American bass (f. 2011).
• 1923: Joseph Weizenbaum, German scientist (f. 2008).
• 1923: Larry Storch, American actor (f. 2022).
• 1925: Helmuth Hubener, a German activist (f. 1942).
• 1925: Bernardo Ruiz, Spanish cyclist.
• 1926: Evelyn Lear, American soprano (f. 2012).
• 1925: Kerwinew Maths, American actor (f. 2007).
• 1928: Jaim Kanievsky, Israeli rabbi (f. 2022).
• 1931: Jorge Marchesini, Argentine actor (f. 2012).
• 1932: Enrique Krauss, Chilean lawyer and politician.
• 1933: Juan Marsé, a Spanish writer (f. 2020).
• 1933: Charles Osgood, American journalist.
• 1933: Jean-Marie Straub, French filmmaker.
• 1934: Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (f. 1987).
• 1934: Roy Kinnear, British actor (f. 1988).

Elvis Presley.

• 1935: Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (f. 1977).
• 1937: Shirley Bassey, British singer.
• 1939: Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan fashion designer.
• 1939: Walter Ciccione, Italian journalist.
• 1939: John LaMotta, American actor (f. 2014).
• 1940: Juan Paulik, Argentine military.
• 1941: Graham Chapman, British actor and comedian (f. 1989).
• 1941: Boris Vallejo, Peruvian drawer.
• 1941: Severino Andreoli, Italian cyclist.

Stephen Hawking.

• 1942: Stephen Hawking, British physicist and cosmologist (f. 2018).
• 1942: Jun'ichirō Koizumi, a Japanese politician.
• 1942: Yvette Mimieux, American actress (f. 2022).
• 1942: Robin Ellis, British actor.
• 1943: Víctor Pérez Vera, Chilean rector.
• 1944: Terry Brooks, American writer.
• 1946: Robby Krieger, American guitarist, of the band The Doors.
• 1946: Juan Antonio Deusto, Spanish footballer (f. 2011).

David Bowie.

• 1947: David Bowie, singer, composer and British actor (f. 2016).
• 1947: José Antonio Martínez Soler, Spanish journalist.
• 1947: Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician.
• 1951: John McTiernan, American filmmaker.
• 1952: Rafael Rullán, Spanish basketball player.
• 1953: Damián Alcázar, Mexican actor.
• 1953: Roberto Mouzo, Argentine footballer.
• 1957: Nacho Duato, dancer and Spanish choreographer.
• 1957: Miquel Barceló, a Spanish painter.
• 1957: Fabio McNamara, Spanish singer.
• 1957: Calvin Natt, American basketball player.
• 1958: Ignacio Solozábal, Spanish basketball player.
• 1959: Paul Hester, an Australian musician, of the Crowded House band (f. 2005).
• 1961: Calvin Smith, American athlete.
• 1961: Javier Imbroda, Spanish basketball and political coach (f. 2022).
• 1962: Rosario Lufrano, an Argentine journalist.
• 1962: Chris Marion, American musician, Little River Band and Western Flyer bands.
• 1962: Anatoli Serdiukov, Russian politician.
• 1964: Martin Jauregui, writer, journalist, film director, Argentine documentaryist.
• 1964: Ron Sexsmith, Canadian singer.
• 1965: Michelle Forbes, American actress.
• 1965: Maria Pitillo, American actress.
• 1965: Denise Maerker, Mexican journalist.
• 1966: Andrew Wood, American singer, of the Mother Love Bone and Malfunkshun bands (f. 1990).
• 1966: Paula de Luque, Argentine filmmaker.
• 1967: Willie Anderson, American basketball player.
• 1967: R. Kelly, American singer.
• 1968: Keith Mullings, American boxer.
• 1968: Hiroki Ioka, Japanese boxer.
• 1969: Salva Esquer, Spanish basketball player.
• 1969: Laura Novoa, an Argentine actress.
• 1970: Rachel Friend, Australian actress.
• 1971: Jason Giambi, American baseball player.
• 1971: Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer.
• 1971: Javier Sanguinetti, footballer and Argentine coach.
• 1971: Géraldine Pailhas, French actress.
• 1972: Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer.
• 1972: Serhiy Atelkin, Ukrainian footballer (f. 2020).
• 1973: Henning Solberg, Norwegian rally driver.
• 1974: Nicholas White, South African cyclist.
• 1974: Massimiliano Mori, Italian cyclist.
• 1974: Nobuhisa Isono, Japanese footballer.
• 1974: Deborah McCormick, American curling player.
• 1975: Mariana Fabbiani, actress, singer and radio presenter and Argentine television.
• 1975: Geremi González, Venezuelan baseball player (f. 2008).
• 1976: Jenny Lewis, American actress and singer, Rilo Kiley band.
• 1976: Alexandre Pires, Brazilian composer and singer, from the band Só Pra Contrariar.
• 1976: Marta Solaz, Spanish actress.
• 1977: Amber Benson, American actress.
• 1977: Francesco Coco, Italian footballer.
• 1977: Manuela Arcuri, Italian actress.
• 1978: Leonardo Bertagnolli, Italian cyclist.
• 1979: Torry Castellano, American musician, of the band The Donnas.
• 1979: David Civera, Spanish singer.

Sarah Polley.

• 1979: Sarah Polley, Canadian actress.
• 1979: Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer.
• 1979: Hanna Ljungberg, Swedish footballer.
• 1979: Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer.
• 1979: Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer.
• 1979: Maya Ford, American bassist.
• 1979: Torry Castellano, American drummer.
• 1979: Goran Marinković, Serbian footballer.
• 1980: Rachel Nichols, American actress.
• 1980: Stefano Mauri, Italian footballer.
• 1980: Lee Jung-soo, South Korean footballer.
• 1981: Sebastián Eguren, footballer and Uruguayan-Swedish coach.
• 1983: Felipe Colombo, Mexican actor and singer.
• 1983: Kim Jong-un, North Korean leader.
• 1983: Chris Masters (Chris Mordetzky), American professional fighter.
• 1983: Jamaal Levy, Panamanian basketball player.
• 1983: Jonan García, Spanish footballer.
• 1984: Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player.
• 1984: Miriam Cabeza, Spanish actress.
• 1984: Carlos Alberto Souto Pinheiro Júnior, Brazilian footballer.
• 1984: Boris Rieloff, Chilean footballer.
• 1984: Peter Latham, New Zealand cyclist.
• 1985: Sergio Hernández, American cyclist.
• 1985: Elisabeth Pähtz, German chess player.
• 1986: Cees Keizer, Dutch footballer.
• 1986: Christian Vaquero, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1986: Gaston Filgueira, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1986: David Silva, Spanish footballer.
• 1986: Jorge Claros, Honduran footballer.
• 1986: Ernesto Garín, Argentine footballer.
• 1987: Everson Lins Ferreira, Brazilian footballer.
• 1988: Joel Amoroso, Argentine footballer.
• 1988: Jean Carlos Solórzano, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1988: Lasse Nielsen, Danish footballer.
• 1988: Carlos Borja, American footballer.
• 1989: Fabian Frei, Swiss footballer.
• 1989: Luis Miño, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1989: Marcel Meisen, German cyclist.
• 1990: Robin Olsen, Swedish footballer.
• 1990: Alvaro González Soberón, Spanish footballer.
• 1990: Fausto Tienza, Spanish footballer.
• 1990: Diego Riolfo, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1990: Pablo Pírez, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1990: Chou Tien-Chen, Taiwanese Bavarian player.
• 1991: Asuka Hinoi, Japanese pop singer.
• 1991: Jimin, South Korean singer and dancer, from the AOA band.
• 1991: Diego Martín Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1991; Camilo Mayada, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1991: Angel Cayetano, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1991: Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer.
• 1991: Sean Morrison, English footballer.
• 1991: Ri Yong-chol, North Korean footballer.
• 1991: Stefan Savić, futbolosta montenegrino.
• 1992: Patrik Carlgren, Swedish footballer.
• 1992: Shahdon Winchester, footballer trinitense (f. 2019).
• 1992: Yevgueni Shalunov, Russian cyclist.
• 1992: Paulo Oliveira, Portuguese footballer.
• 1993: Jade Fraser, Mexican actress.
• 1994: Kosei Wakimoto, Japanese footballer.
• 1994: Riza Durmisi, Danish footballer.
• 1994: Noah Korczowski, German footballer.
• 1996: Julián Sancho, yudoca costarricense.
• 1996: Niklas Castro, a Chilean-Norway footballer.
• 1997: Max Llovera, Andorran footballer.
• 1997: Ronaldo Cisneros, Mexican footballer.
• 1997: Julen Arellano, Spanish footballer.
• 1997: Fran Brodić, Croatian footballer.
• 1997: Jack Andraka, American inventor.
• 1997: Andreja Leški, Slovenian Yudoca.
• 1998: Jean Borg, Maltese footballer.
• 1998: Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer.
• 1998: Tony Bradley, American basketball player.
• 1998: Rocío Gómez Sordo, football player Spanish room.
• 1999: Kamil Grabara, Polish footballer.
• 1999: Dino Radončić, Montenegrin basketball player.
• 1999: Damiano David, Italian singer.
• 1999: Ignas Brazdeikis, Lithuanian basketball.
• 1999: Nicolas Cozza, French footballer.
• 1999: Reinaldo Fontalvo, Colombian footballer.
• 1999: Carlos Daniel Castro, Colombian footballer.
• 1999: Arne Maier, German footballer.
• 1999: Austin Wiley, American basketball player.
• 1999: Kevin Lewis, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1999: Lautaro López, Argentine soccer player.
• 1999: Shy Melomano, Dominican musician.
• 1999: Joel Roth, Swiss cyclist.
• 1999: Elzan Bibić, Serbian athlete.
• 1999: Brandon Austin, British footballer.
• 2000: Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer.
• 2000: Dani Albiar, Spanish footballer.
• 2000: Tre Jones, American basketball player.
• 2000: Cheick Doucouré, Malian footballer.
• 2000: Julián Alejo López, Argentine soccer player.
• 2000: Santiago Rodríguez Molina, Uruguayan footballer.
• 2000: Celeste Vidal, Mexican footballer.
• 2000: Juliette Bossu, French art gymnast.
• 2000: Matthias Phaëton, French footballer.
• 2000: Keyla Alves, Brazilian volleyballist.
• 2002: Kevin Lomonaco, Argentine soccer player.
• 2003: Anastasiya Makárova, Russian swimmer.
• 2011: Josefina and Vicente de Denmark, members of the Danish Royal Family.

Deaths

• 1198: Celestino III, Italian potato between 1191 and 1198 (n. 1106).
• 1324: Marco Polo, Italian explorer (n. 1254).
• 1337: Giotto, Italian painter (n. 1267).
• 1570: Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (n. c. 1510).

Galileo Galilei.

• 1642: Galileo Galilei, mathematician, physical, astronomer, inventor and Italian intellectual (n. 1564).
• 1634: Joan Sala i Ferrer, Spanish bandolero (n. 1594).
• 1704: Lorenzo Bellini, physiologist, anatomist and Italian pathologist.
• 1713: Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist (n. 1653).
• 1775: John Baskerville, British printer and typographer (n. 1706).
• 1789: Jack Broughton, British boxer (n. c. 1703).
• 1822: Geronimo Zelarayán, warrior of the Argentine Independence (n. v. 1780)
• 1825: Eli Whitney, American inventor (n. 1765).
• 1872: Manuela León, Ecuadorian indigenous leader (n. 1844).
• 1879: Baldomero Espartero, militar y política liberal española (n. 1793).
• 1880: Joshua A. Norton, a U.S. citizen who in 1859 declared himself “the United States emperor and protector of Mexico” (n. 1815).

Paul Verlaine.

• 1890: Giorgio Ronconi Italian baritone (n. 1810)
• 1896: Paul Verlaine, French poet (n. 1844).
• 1907: Gabriela Laperrière de Coni, a writer, journalist, socialist and Franco Feminist (n. 1866).
• 1911: Pietro Gori, Italian writer and anarchist (n. 1865).
• 1916: Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (n. 1884).
• 1918: Johannes Päsuke, photographer and Estonian filmmaker (n. 1892).
• 1919: Joaquín Agrasot, a Spanish painter (n. 1836).
• 1919: Peter Altenberg, Austrian writer (n. 1859).
• 1925: Fernand Sanz, French cyclist (n. 1881).
• 1925: George Wesley Bellows, American painter (n. 1882).
• 1928: Juan B. Justo, doctor, writer and politician of Argentina (n. 1865).
• 1934: Andréi Bely, Russian poet and novelist (n. 1880).
• 1934: Pedro Ibarra Ruiz, archaeologist, researcher, writer and Spanish painter (n. 1858).
• 1941: Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British military, founder of sculptism (n. 1857).
• 1942: Joseph Franklin Rutherford, witness of the American Jehovah (n. 1869).
• 1946: Dion Fortune, a British occultist and writer.
• 1948: Kurt Schwitters, German painter (n. 1887).
• 1948: Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (n. 1891).
• 1950: Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Austrian-American economist (n. 1883).
• 1952: Antonia Maury, American astronomer (n. 1866)
• 1956: Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (n. 1928).
• 1963: Kay Sage, American artist and poet (n. 1898).
• 1963: Bimal Roy cineasta indio (n. 1909).
• 1971: Armando Discépolo, playwright and Argentine tango poet (n. 1887).
• 1975: John Gregson, British actor (n. 1919).
• 1975: Richard Tucker, American tenor (n. 1913).
• 1976: Zhou Enlai, Chinese Prime Minister (n. 1898).
• 1977: Dardo Cabo (36), journalist and Argentine politician, murdered (n. 1941).
• 1979: Yuen Siu-tien, Chinese actor (n. 1912).
• 1980: John Mauchly, American physicist (n. 1907).
• 1982: Alvaro Yunque, Argentine writer (n. 1889).
• 1983: Gerhard Barkhorn, German pilot (n. 1919).
• 1986: Pierre Fournier, French chelist (n. 1906).

Jaime Gil de Biedma.

• 1990: Jaime Gil de Biedma, Spanish poet (n. 1929).
• 1990: Terry-Thomas, British actor and comedian (n. 1911).
• 1991: Steve Clark, British guitarist, from the Def Leppard band (n. 1960).
• 1994: Pat Buttram, American actor (n. 1915).
• 1995: Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (n. 1942).
• 1996: Carmen Conde, Spanish poet (n. 1907).

François Mitterrand.

• 1996: François Mitterrand, a French politician (n. 1916).
• 1997: Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961 (n. 1911).
• 1998: Michael Tippett, British composer (n. 1905).
• 2001: Néstor Scotta, Argentine footballer (n. 1948).
• 2003: José María Gutiérrez, actor of cinema, theater and Argentine television (n. 1921).
• 2003: Antonio Palenzuela, Bishop of the diocese of Segovia between 1969 and 1995 (n. 1919).
• 2006: Elson Becerra, Colombian footballer (n. 1978).
• 2006: Garrafa (José Luis Sánchez), Argentine footballer (n. 1974).
• 2007: Jane Bolin, first American judge of black skin (n. 1908).
• 2007: Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress (n. 1922).
• 2007: Iwao Takamoto, American animator (n. 1925).
• 2008: Lluís Coll, Spanish footballer (n. 1937).
• 2009: Richard John Neuhaus, a Canadian-American writer (n. 1936).
• 2010: Blanca Sánchez, Mexican actress (n. 1946).
• 2010: Otmar Suitner, director of Austrian orchestra (n.1922).
• 2011: Jiří Dienstbier, a Czech politician and journalist (n. 1937).
• 2011: Oleg Grabar, French historian and archaeologist (n. 1929).
• 2011: John McCarthy Roll, U.S. Federal Judge (n. 1947).
• 2011: Angel Pedraza, player and Spanish football coach (n. 1962).
• 2011: Juan Piquer Simón, filmmaker, producer and Spanish screenwriter (n. 1935).
• 2011: John Roll, U.S. Federal Judge (n. 1947).
• 2011: Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (n. 1924).
• 2012: Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian pianist (n. 1929).
• 2012: Stefano Scodanibbio, Italian composer and counter-bajist (n. 1956)
• 2013: Raúl Araiza, director, producer and Mexican actor (n. 1931).
• 2013: Bernard Delcampe (80), French footballer (n. 1932).
• 2013: Antonio Frasconi, Argentine nationalized Uruguayan artist and teacher (n. 1919).
• 2013: Jeanne Manford, American teacher and human rights activist gais (n. 1920).
• 2013: Manuel Mota, Spanish fashion designer (n. 1966).
• 2013: Cornel Pavlovici, Romanian footballer (n. 1943).
• 2014: Payo Grondona, singer and Chilean guitarist (n. 1945).
• 2015: Andraé Crouch, American Gospel singer (n. 1942).
• 2017: Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor (n.1925).
• 2018: George Maxwell Richards, trinitense politician, president of Trinidad and Tobago between 2003 and 2013 (n. 1931).
• 2020: Pilar de Borbón, Spanish aristocrat, Infanta de España and Duchess of Badajoz (n. 1936).
• 2021: Ed Bruce, American singer and actor (n. 1939).
• 2022: Michael Lang, American record producer and art manager (n. 1944).

Celebrations

• United States of America: Jackson Day
• Northern Mariana IslandsNorthern Mariana Islands: Commonwealth Day
• MoldovaMoldova: Christmas party (7 December) in the section Culture of Moldova).
• Niue: Takai National Day.

Catholic saints list

• St. Apollonius of Hyeropolis (s. II).
• Saints Theophilus and Eladio de Lybia, martyrs (s. III).
• Saint Luciano, Maximiano and Juliano de Beauvais, martyrs (c. 290).
• Patient of Metz, bishop (s. IV).
• San Severino of Nórica, priest and monk (c. 482).
• Saint Maximus of Pavia, Bishop (c. 514).
• Saint George of Choziba, monk and Eremite (c. 614).
• Saint Nathan of Aberdeen, bishop (c. 678).
• Saint Erhardo of Regensburg, Bishop (707).
• Santa Gúdula de Moorsel, virgin (c. 712).
• Saint Albert of Cashel, bishop (c. s. VIII).
• Saint Lawrence Giustiniani, bishop (1456).
• Beato Eduardo Waterson, priest and martyr (1593).