July 17th

July 17 is the 198th (one hundred and ninety-eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 199th in leap years. There are 167 days left to end the year.

Events

• 180: twenty inhabitants of Escilio (Scillium, an unidentified city in North Africa), are executed by their status as Christians.
• 1048: In Rome, Damasus II is elected pope.
• 1099: In the present State of Israel—in the framework of the First Crusade—the third day of massacre against the Muslim population in Jerusalem (conquered two days earlier by the Europeans).
• 1203: The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople. The Byzantine Emperor Alejo III Angelo leaves the capital to exile.
• 1242 or 1243: In Spain, Orihuela is reconquered by the Castilian troops in command of King Alfonso X el Sabio.
• 1402: Zhu Di, commonly known as Yongle, assumes the throne of the Ming Dynasty.
• 1429: Charles VII of France is crowned king of France in the Cathedral of Reims after the successful campaign of Joan of Arc in the Hundred Years War.
• 1453: Battle of Castillon, the last battle of the Hundred Years War, in which the French troops under the command of Jean Bureau defeat the troops of the Count of Shrewsbury, who dies after the battle in Gascony.
• 1512: In Spain, the Castilian troops led by Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo and Enríquez began the invasion of the Kingdom of Navarra.
• 1762: In Russia, Catherine II became a zarina after the murder of Peter III.
• 1771: in the Bloody Falls, 15 km before the mouth of the Coppermine River in the Arctic Sea (in Canada), the Cypriot chief Matonabbee, who traveled as a guide to the British explorer Samuel Hearne (1745-1792) in his recognition of Canada, massacres a group of the Inuit ethnicity.
• 1789: King Louis XVI visits Paris and accepts the tricolor flag.
• 1791: members of the National Guard under the command of the Marquis de La Fayette open fire on a radical Jacobin crowd in the Mars Field of Paris during the French Revolution, killing 50 people.
• 1793: In France, Charlotte Corday is guillotine for killing Jean-Paul Marat in the bathroom.
• 1817: In Venezuela, the Second Battle of Angostura War of Independence of Venezuela.
• 1821: The Kingdom of Spain yields the territory of Florida to the United States.,
• 1823: In Peru, the supreme military leader Antonio José de Sucre gave the presidency to José Bernardo de Tagle.
• 1861: Mexico ' s suspension of payments law was enacted
• 1899: The German biologist Christofredo Jakob arrives in Buenos Aires (Argentina). In the specially constructed laboratory it will create the Argentine-Germana Neurobiological School where it will train more than 4000 researchers. Since 1982 it has been commemorated as a Neuroscientific Researcher's Day in that country (Resol. 7/1982 of the Center for Neurobiological Research, Ministry of Health).
• 1906: In the Philippines, President Macario Sacay and Leon is captured by American troops.
• 1917: King George V proclaims the law by which the descending line of the British Royal family will bear the name Windsor.
• 1918: in Ekaterimburg (Russia), Tsar Nicholas II and his family are executed by order of the Bolshevik Party.
• 1918: the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued 705 Titanic survivors, is sunk in Ireland by a German submarine, killing five people.
• 1928: General Alvaro Obregón, a Mexican counterrevolutionary, is killed while attending a meal that celebrated his re-election to the presidency of the republic.
• 1936: A military revolt against the government of the Second Republic begins in Spain. Failure begins the Spanish civil war.
• 1942: In Spain the Constitutional Law of the Courts is enacted.
• 1944: In Coutances, near Saint-Lô (France)—in the framework of the Second World War—American pilots first launched napalm bombs from a P-38 plane over petrol tanks.
• 1945: In the framework of World War II, the U.S. army carried out the largest aerial bombardment of the city of Numazu in Japan. Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, are in the city of Potsdam to decide the future of defeated Germany.
• 1948: The Constitution of South Korea is promulgated.
• 1955: Disneyland is inaugurated in Anaheim (California).
• 1958: In the Enewetak atoll (Marshall Islands, in the Pacific Ocean), the United States detonates its atomic bomb Pisonia255 kt.
• 1966: In Japan, for the first time the acclaimed Ultraman television series created by Eiji Tsuburaya would be the beginning of one of the largest franchises of superheroes worldwide.
• 1968: revolution in Iraq when Abd ar-Rahman Arif is overthrown by the Baath Party to install in the government Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.
• 1975: an American Apollo is attached to a Soviet Soyuz capsule becoming the first union of spacecraft of the two nations. The space race ended.
• 1976: East Timor is annexed as the 27th province of Indonesia.
• 1976: the Montreal Olympics are opened where 25 African nations boycott the New Zealand team.
• 1979: In Nicaragua—in the framework of the Sandinista Revolution—President Anastasio Somoza Debayle fled the country to Miami (United States).
• 1980: In Japan, Zenkō Suzuki is appointed Prime Minister.
• 1980: in Bolivia, General Luis García Meza Tejada leads one of the most bloody coups in the history of that country.
• 1989: first flight of the B-2 Spirit bomber.
• 1991: the European terrestrial observation satellite ERS is launched somewhere in Europe.
• 1992: in Bratislava (Checoslovaquia, present Slovakia), in the context of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak National Council approves the Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Republic.
• 1993: In the Monumental Stadium of Núñez (Buenos Aires), the American band Guns N' Roses, is presented for the last time with the semi-classical formation (formed by Duff McKagan, Slash, Axl Rose, Gilby Clarke and Matt Sorum), before 70,000 spectators.
• 1994: at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena (United States), Brazil is crowned for the fourth time champion of the world of football by beating Italy in the definition for criminals.
• 1998: In Italy, the Rome Statute established by the International Criminal Court is signed.
• 2002: On Perejil Island, Spanish soldiers evict Moroccan soldiers who had occupied the island six days earlier. (Operation Romeo-Sierra).
• 2005: In the Cogolludo (Spain), in the tragic fire of the Riba de Saelices, 11 members of the bra died.
• 2006: another 7.9-degree earthquake shakes the island of Java, Indonesia, causes a tsunami that kills more than 1000 people
• 2007: at the airport of Congonhas (São Paulo, Brazil), TAM Linhas Air Flight 3054 from Porto Alegre spills when landing and crashes with a fuel tank, leaving a balance of 200 dead.
• 2008: In Argentina, the vote for a controversial law of detentions ends in a draw 36 to 36 in the House of Senators. Julio Cobos (vice-President of the Nation) voted against the government he represents.
• 2008: in Spain, he assumes as technical director of this selection Vicente del Bosque, who in South Africa 2010 will be world champion.
• 2014: Malaysia Airlines' MH17 flight is shot down by a missile in eastern Ukraine, leaving a balance of 298 fatalities.

Births

Ismail I.

• 1474: Ismail I, Iranian king (f. 1524).
• 1499: Mary Salviati, Italian noble (f. 1543).
• 1512: Sibila de Cléveris, a German nobleman (f. 1554).
• 1561: Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (f. 1602).
• 1584: Ines of Brandenburg, German noble (f. 1629).
• 1674: Isaac Watts, English composer and theologian (f. 1748).
• 1676: César Chesneau Dumarsais, grammar and French philosopher (f. 1756).
• 1698: Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (f. 1759).
• 1714: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (f. 1762).
• 1744: Elbridge Gerry, politician and U.S. Vice President (f. 1814).
• 1763: John Jacob Astor, an American merchant of German origin (f. 1848).
• 1766: José Joaquín Camacho Lago, a Colombian politician and journalist (f. 1866).
• 1770: José Canga Argüelles, Spanish politician (f. 1843).
• 1792: Just Briceño Otálora, Venezuelan military (f. 1868).
• 1797: Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (f. 1856).
• 1825: Alvaro Dávila, aristocrat Spaniard (f. 1825).
• 1826: Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (f. 1902).
• 1831: Xianfeng Chinese emperor (f. 1861).
• 1837: B. Lewis Rice, archaeologist and indobritanical linguist (f. 1927).
• 1840: Édouard-François André, landscape architect and French botanist (f. 1911).
• 1843: Julio Argentino Roca, Argentine military, president between 1880 and 1886, and between 1898 and 1904 (f. 1914).
• 1845: Ragna Nielsen, educator and Norwegian politics (f. 1924).
• 1846: Casto Plasencia and Maestro, a Spanish painter (f. 1890).
• 1853: Alexius Meinong, a Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher (f. 1920).
• 1860: Otto Lummer, German physicist (f. 1925).
• 1871: Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (f. 1956).
• 1873: Federico Moyúa Salazar, Spanish politician (f. 1939).
• 1876: Luis Cabrera Lobato, a Mexican lawyer and politician (f. 1954).
• 1877: Hermann Jadlowker, an Israeli tenor of Latvian origin (f. 1953).
• 1878: José María Plans, physicist and Spanish matemáticvo (f. 1934).
• 1883: Mauritz Stiller, Swedish filmmaker (f. 1928).
• 1888: Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli writer (f. 1970).
• 1888: Milan Füst, Hungarian writer (f. 1967).
• 1889: Erle Stanley Gardner, American jurist and lawyer (f. 1970).
• 1894: Georges Lemaître, astrophysical Belgian (f. 1966).
• 1898: Berenice Abbott, American photographer (f. 1991).

James Cagney.

• 1899: James Cagney, American actor (f. 1986).
• 1900: Marcel Dalio, French actor (f. 1983).
• 1901: Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (f. 1938).
• 1902: Christina Stead, Australian writer (f. 1983).
• 1905: Jacinto Quincoces, Spanish footballer (f. 1997).
• 1906: John Carroll, American actor (f. 1979).
• 1910: Frank Olson, American biologist (f. 1953).
• 1913: Roger Garaudy, a French philosopher and writer (f. 2012).
• 1914: Eleanor Steber, American soprano (f. 1990).
• 1915: Oberdan Salustro, an Italian-Argentine industrialist (f. 1972).
• 1917: Phyllis Diller, American actress (f. 2012).
• 1917: Kenan Evren, general and Turkish politician, 7th president of his country (f. 2015).
• 1917: Generoso Jiménez, Cuban trombonist (f. 2007).
• 1917: Isang Yun, Korean composer (f. 1995).
• 1918: Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, a Guatemalan politician, president of his country (f. 2003).
• 1919: Alberto Barajas Celis, mathematician and Mexican physicist (f. 2004).
• 1920: Gordon Gould, American physicist, laser inventor (f. 2005).
• 1920: Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish entrepreneur and politician (f. 2010).
• 1921: Pio Corcuera, Argentine footballer (f. 2011).
• 1921: Louis Lachenal, French alpineist (f. 1955).
• 1922: Donald Davie, British poet and literary critic (f. 1995).
• 1925: Carla Boni, Italian singer (f. 2009).
• 1925: Carlos Paris, professor of Spanish philosophy and writer (f. 2014).
• 1925: Jimmy Scott, American singer (f. 2014).
• 1926: Edouard Carpentier, Canadian fighter (f. 2010).
• 1927: Juan Miguel Lope Blanch, Spanish philologist (f. 2002).
• 1928: Joe Morello, American jazz drummer, The Dave Brubeck Quartet (f. 2011).
• 1932: Johnny Kerr, American basketball player and coach (f. 2009).
• 1932: Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (f. 2013).

Quino.

• 1932: Quino, historietist and Argentine humorist, creator of Mafalda (f. 2020).
• 1933: Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, politician and Maltese Prime Minister.
• 1935:
  • Diahann Carroll, American actress (f. 2019).
  • Peter Schickele, American composer and educator.
  • Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor.
• 1938: Franz Alt, German journalist and theologian.
• 1938: Hermann Huppen, a Belgian writer and illustrator.
• 1938: Juan Bernal Ponce, architect and Chilean-costarricense artist (f. 2006).
• 1939:
  • María Ilva Biolcati, Italian singer and actress (f. 2021).
  • Spencer Davis, British guitarist, Spencer Davis Group (f. 2020).
  • Ali Khamenei, Iranian politician, 2.a supreme leader of Iran.
• 1940: Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter (f. 2019).
• 1942: Connie Hawkins, American basketball player and coach (f. 2017).
• 1943: LaVyrle Spencer, American writer.
• 1944: Jean-Claude Brisseau, French filmmaker (f. 2019).
• 1944: Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (f. 2016).
• 1945: Alexander, Yugoslav prince.
• 1947: Camila, queen consort of the United Kingdom and second wife of King Charles III.
• 1947: Wolfgang Flür, German musician, Kraftwerk.
• 1949: Geezer Butler, British musician and composer, of the Black Sabbath band.
• 1950: Derek de Lint, German actor.
• 1950: Phoebe Snow, American guitarist, from the band Sisters of Glory (f. 2011).
• 1950: P. J. Soles, German-American actress.

Irene Bianchi.

• 1951: Irene Bianchi, journalist, theatrical criticism, actress and Argentine translator.
• 1952: Alcides, Argentine singer.
• 1952: Carmen Balagué, Spanish actress.

David Hasselhoff.

• 1952: David Hasselhoff, American actor and singer.
• 1952: Nicolette Larson, American singer (f. 1997).
• 1952: Robert R. McCammon, American writer.
• 1954: Angela Merkel, politics and Foreign Minister of Germany between 2005 and 2021.
• 1954: J. Michael Straczynski, American writer.
• 1955: Paul Stamets, American micrologist.
• 1956: Julie Bishop, Australian poetics.
• 1957: Julián Infante, Spanish guitarist, by the band Los Rodríguez (f. 2000).
• 1958: Wong Kar-wai filmmaker hongkonés.
• 1960: Francisco ''Pancho'' Serra, Argentine singer of cumbia (f. 2022), leader of the band Pancho and La Sonora Colorada.
• 1960: Robin Shou, a Dutch actor.
• 1960: Dawn Upshaw, American soprano.
• 1960: Jan Wouters, Dutch footballer and manager.
• 1961: Guru, rapper and American actor (f. 2010).
• 1961: Jeremy Hardy, British comedian (f. 2019).
• 1961: Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor.
• 1962: Lokman Slim, Lebanese activist and politician (f. 2021).
• 1963: Suha Arafat, Palestinian policy.
• 1963: Regina Belle, American songwriter.
• 1963: Letsie III, king lesotés.
• 1963: John Ventimiglia, American actor.
• 1964: Andy Abraham, British singer.
• 1964: Heather Langenkamp, American actress, producer and director.

Santiago Segura.

• 1965: Santiago Segura, actor, screenwriter, director and Spanish producer.
• 1966: Lou Barlow, American musician, Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh bands.
• 1966: Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, Mexican drug dealer.
• 1968: Beth Littleford, American actress.
• 1968: Andre Royo, American actor.
• 1969: Jaan Kirsipuu, Estonian cyclist.
• 1971: F. Gary Gray, American filmmaker.
• 1971: Joan Frank Charansonnet, actor, screenwriter and Spanish filmmaker.
• 1971: Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player.
• 1971: Cory Doctorow, Canadian writer.
• 1971: Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist.
• 1972: Donny Marshall, American basketball player.
• 1972: Jason Rullo, American drummer, Symphony X.
• 1972: Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer.
• 1972: Eric Williams, American basketball player.
• 1974: Claudio "Piojo" López, Argentine soccer player.
• 1974: Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor (f. 2011).

Elena Anaya.

• 1975: Elena Anaya, Spanish actress.
• 1975: Robert Andrzejuk, Polish teacher.
• 1975: Darude, DJ and Finnish producer.
• 1975: Cécile de France, Belgian actress.
• 1975: Carey Hart, American biker.
• 1975: Terence Tao, Chinese-Australian mathematician.
• 1976: Luke Bryan, American singer and guitarist.
• 1976: Matthew Holmes, Australian actor.
• 1976: Marcos Senna, Spanish-Brazilian footballer.
• 1976: Anders Svensson, Swedish footballer.
• 1976: Eric Winter, American actor.
• 1977: Leif Hoste, Belgian cyclist.
• 1978: Ricardo Arona, Brazilian martial artist.
• 1978: Panda Bear, American musician, of the bands Animal Collective and Jane.
• 1978: Mike Knox, American fighter.
• 1978: Émilie Simon, French singer.
• 1979: Mike Vogel, American actor.
• 1979: Rudolf Skácel, Czech footballer.
• 1979: Fred Hale, salomonian footballer.
• 1980: Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer.
• 1980: José Sand, Argentine soccer player.
• 1980: Masato Yoshino, Japanese fighter.
• 1982: Travis Browne, American wrestler of mixed martial arts.
• 1983: Ryan Guettler, Australian biker.
• 1983: Joker Xue, Chinese singer.
• 1983: Christian Grindheim, Norwegian footballer.
• 1983: Marco Né, Ivory footballer.
• 1984: Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer.
• 1984: Alberto Serrán Polo, Spanish footballer.
• 1985: Miguel Britos, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1985: Tom Fletcher, vocalist, composer, guitarist and pianist, of the McFly band.
• 1985: Henning Hauger, Norwegian footballer.
• 1986: Brando Eaton, American actor.
• 1986: Lacey Von Erich, American fighter.
• 1987: Daniel Brands, German tennis player.
• 1987: Tigran Hamasyan, an Armenian jazz pianist.
• 1987: Ivan Strinić, Croatian footballer.
• 1987: José Ramón Rodríguez Gómez, Spanish footballer.
• 1988: Daniel Brosinski, German footballer.
• 1990: Klæmint Olsen, a ferocious footballer.
• 1991: Danny Mwanga, Congolese footballer.
• 1992: Bartosz Bereszyński, Polish footballer.
• 1992: Igor Bubnjić, Croatian footballer.
• 1994: Aldjon Pashaj, Albanian footballer.
• 1994: Kali Uchis, Colombian-American singer and composer.
• 1994: Jesús Tamayo Tapia, Spanish footballer.
• 1994: Victor Lindelöf, Swedish footballer.
• 1994: Diamantis Chouchoumis, Greek footballer.
• 1995: Stian Rode Gregersen, Norwegian footballer.
• 1996: Ulrik Jenssen, Norwegian footballer.
• 1996: Jeffrey Wahlberg, American actor.
• 1996: Natascha Ausma, Dutch yudoca.
• 1996: Feliciano Brizuela, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1997: Amadou Diawara, footballer from Guinea-Italian.
• 1998: Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar and Borbon, first grandson of Juan Carlos I and Sofia of Greece.
• 1998: Clément Davy, French cyclist.
• 1998: Alexander Gabler, German Yudoca.
• 1998: Arilena Ara, Albanian singer.
• 1999: Tomoya Fukumoto, Japanese footballer.
• 1999: Antani Ivanov, Bulgarian swimmer.
• 2000: Alejandro Pachón, Spanish footballer.
• 2000: Nico Liersch, German actor.
• 2000: Axana Gataulina, a Russian athlete.
• 2000: Wataru Morishige, Japanese speed skater.
• 2005: Conrad Laursen, a Danish motor racing pilot.
• 2007: Charlie Shotwell, American actor.

Deaths

• 521: Enodio de Pavia, a Galician religious and poet, Father of the Church (n. 473).
• 656: Uthman Ibn Affan, third Islamic caliph (n. 579).
• 924: Edward the Old, English King (n. 877).
• 1070: Balduino VI, aristocrat flamenco (n. 1030).
• 1085: Roberto Guiscardo, aristocrat Norman of Apulia (n. 1015).
• 1399: Eduviges I, Polish queen (n. 1374).

Bartolome de las Casas.

• 1566: Bartolomé de las Casas, a Spanish Dominican religious (n. 1474 or 1484).
• 1588: Mimar Sinan, architect and Ottoman engineer (n. 1489).

Adam Smith.

• 1790: Adam Smith, British economist and philosopher (n. 1723).
• 1791: Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary (n. 1717).
• 1793: Charlotte Corday, French murderer (n. 1768).
• 1821: Fulgencio Yegros, Paraguayan military (n. 1780).
• 1837: Juan Pedro Aguirre, military and political Argentinean (n. 1781).
• 1845: Charles Grey, British politician (n. 1764).
• 1852: Salvatore Cammarano, Italian poet and opera writer (n. 1801).
• 1860: Salvador Sanfuentes, politician and Chilean poet (n. 1817).
• 1879: Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (n. 1856).
• 1881: Jim Bridger, American explorer (n. 1804).
• 1887: Dorothea Dix, American nurse (n. 1804).
• 1894: Leconte de Lisle, French poet (n. 1818).
• 1903: James McNeill Whistler, American painter (n. 1834).
• 1906: Carlos Pellegrini, Argentine politician, president between 1890 and 1892 (n. 1846).
• 1907: Hector Malot, a French writer (n. 1830).
• 1911: Rufino José Cuervo, Colombian Philologist and Humanist (n. 1844).
• 1912: Jules Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (n. 1854).
• 1918: The last Russian imperial family, composed of:
  • Emperor Nicholas II (50), Russian Tsar between 1894 and 1917.
  • The Empress Alejandra Románova (46).
  • The great duchess Olga (22)
  • The great duchess Tatiana (21)
  • The Grand Duchess Mary (19)
  • The Grand Duchess Anastasia (17)
  • The Zarévich Alekséi (13).
• 1921: Julio Benítez Benítez, a Spanish military officer (n. 1878).
• 1925: Juan Bautista Castagnino, entrepreneur and Argentine patron (n. 1884).
• 1928: Giovanni Giolitti, politician and Italian Prime Minister (n. 1842).
• 1928: Alvaro Obregón, Mexican military, president between 1920 and 1924 (n. 1880).
• 1935: George William Russell, Irish writer, poet and painter (n. 1867).
• 1938: Robert Wiene, German filmmaker (n. 1873).
• 1944: William James Sidis, American mathematician (n. 1898).
• 1945: Ernst Busch, German Marshal (n. 1885).
• 1946: Draža Mihailović, Yugoslav general (n. 1893).

Billie Holiday.

• 1953: Maude Adams, American actress (n. 1872).
• 1959: Billie Holiday, American singer (n. 1915).
• 1961: Ty Cobb, American baseball player (n. 1886).
• 1967: John Coltrane, American jazz saxophoneist (n. 1926).
• 1968: Sindo Garay (101), composer, guitarist and Cuban troubadour (n. 1867).
• 1974: Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (n. 1910).
• 1975: Konstantin Gamsajurdia, a Georgian writer (n. 1893).
• 1976: Marcos Redondo, Spanish lyric singer (n. 1893).
• 1980: Don Red Barry, American actor; suicide (n. 1912).
• 1984: Karl Wolff, German SS officer (n. 1900).
• 1986: Luis de Castresana, Spanish writer (n. 1925).
• 1994: Jean Borotra, French tennis player (n. 1898).
• 1994: Sebastián Piana, composer of Argentine tangos (n. 1903).
• 1995: Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine pilot of Formula 1 (n. 1911).
• 1996: Chas Chandler, American musician and producer, of the band The Animals (n. 1938).
• 1997: Hugo Gunckel Luer, Chilean botanist (n. 1901).
• 2000: Zhao Lirong, Chinese actress (n. 1928).
• 2001: Katharine Graham, American journalist (n. 1917).
• 2001: Morris, Belgian historietist, creator of Lucky Luke (n. 1923).
• 2003: Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist (n. 1914).
• 2004: Pat Roach, British fighter and actor (n. 1937).
• 2005: Laurel Aitken, a Jamaican musician (n. 1927).

Geraldine Fitzgerald.

• 2005: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish actress (n. 1913).
• 2005: Edward Heath, British politician (n. 1916).
• 2005: Joe Vialls, Australian writer (n. 1944).
• 2006: Mickey Spillane, American writer (n. 1918).
• 2007: Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (n. 1956).
• 2007: Rodrigo Uría Meruéndano, Spanish jurist (n. 1941).
• 2009: Walter Cronkite, radio and television broadcaster (n. 1916).
• 2009: Ulalume González de León, poet, translator, essayist and Uruguayan-Mexican editor (n. 1932).
• 2009: Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (n. 1927).
• 2009: Micky Rospigliosi, sports commentator on television and radio (n. 1965).
• 2009: Gordon Waller, British singer and guitarist (n. 1945)
• 2011: Juan Arza, footballer and Spanish coach (n. 1923).
• 2011: Juan María Bordaberry, president and Uruguayan dictator (n. 1928).
• 2011: Angélica López Gamio, an Argentine actress (n. 1922).
• 2011: Salvador Rocha Díaz, Mexican lawyer and politician (n. 1937).
• 2011: Wilna Saavedra, Chilean politics (n. 1930).
• 2011: Mariano Vega, Spanish journalist and writer (n. 1941).
• 2011: Taiji Sawada, Japanese Musician (n. 1966).
• 2012: Enio Garrote, Esperantoist, Argentine translator and writer (n. 1928).
• 2013: Briony McRoberts, British actress (n. 1957).
• 2014: Johnny Winter, American blues and rock guitarist (n. 1944).
• 2014: Joep Lange, doctor, infectologo, Dutch researcher (n. 1954).
• 2015: Jules Bianchi, a French motorist pilot (n. 1989).
• 2019: Andrea Camilleri, screenwriter, film director and Italian novelist (n. 1925).
• 2020: Silvio Marzolini ex-futbolist and Argentine coach (n. 1940).
• 2021: Robby Steinhardt, violinist and American rock singer (n. 1950).

Celebrations

• South Korea: Constitutional Day.
• Slovakia: Independence Day.
• Orihuela (Spain): Festival de la Reconquista (from the year 1400).
• Nicaragua: National Joy Day (from the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979).
• Unofficial celebration: Emoji Day (since 2014)

• Uruguay: National Football Arbitrator Day

• Argentina: National Day of Sports Automobile.
• Venezuela: National Child Day

Catholic saints list

• San Alejo (mendigo)
• San Colmano de Ireland
• Santa Eduvigis de Poland
• San Ennodio
• San Frede Gan
• San Jacinto de Amastris
• San Kenelmo
• Saint Leo IV (papapa)
• Santa Marcelina de Milan
• San Pedro Liu Ziyu
• San Theodosio de Auxerre
• Blessed Paul Gojdich
• Blessed Teresa of Saint Augustine Lindoine and compañeras