July 19

July 19 is the 200th (two-hundredth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, and the 201st in leap years. There are 165 days left to end the year.

Events

• 64: In the city of Rome begins the “great fire”.
• 711: In the battle of Guadalete, Tariq ibn Ziyad defeats King Rodrigo (head of the Visigoths), a victory that resulted in the almost total Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula.
• 1068: In Spain, Sancho II de Castilla beats his brother Alfonso VI de León.
• 1195: in Ciudad Real, the absolute defeat of Alfonso VIII of Castile (Alarcos Battle).
• 1333: In Scotland the battle of Halidon Hill is waged, during the last of the wars of Scottish independence.
• 1544: In France, the site begins at Boulogne-sur-Mer, during the invasion of the English king Henry VIII, in the framework of the Italian war of 1542.
• 1545: In front of the port of Portsmouth (England) the Mary Rose warship is plunged from the Tudor period. In 1982 it will be reflected in the most complex project in the History of Maritime Archaeology.
• 1553: Joan of England, "the queen of the nine days", is imprisoned; she would be replaced by Mary I.
• 1747: In Italy the battle of Assietta is waged, in the Valley of Susa, the former Pyamontes troops defeat the French army of Louis XV.
• 1808: in Spain the battle of Bailén is waged.
• 1821: In London, England, George IV of the United Kingdom is crowned king.
• 1824: In Mexico exemperator Agustín de Iturbide was shot (which he had abdicated the previous year); he had returned to his country with the intention of joining the army to repel a European invasion.
• 1843: In England, British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) launches the SS Great Britain, the first passenger ship powered by a propeller, the first transatlantic with iron helmet and the largest ship in the world at the time.
• 1845: in New York, United States, a fire destroys more than 300 buildings and causes a minimum of 30 dead.
• 1848: In Seneca Falls (near New York City) the first Convention for the Rights of Women, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, is held.
• 1849: Spain enacts the law that compels the use of the decimal metric system in all commercial transactions.
• 1863: In the state of Ohio (United States), in the framework of the War of Secession, the campaign to the north of General Confederate John Hunt Morgan is hindered in Buffington Island when most of his men are captured while trying to escape through the Ohio River.
• 1870: France declares war on Prussia. Beginning of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).
• 1873: In Australia, William Gosse is the first European to see Ayers Rock; he renames them in honor of South Australia's premier, Sir Henry Ayers.
• 1875: in Milan (Italy) the opera is premiered The skirt of Alfredo Catalani.
• 1900: in Spain, the zarzuela of the Brothers Álvarez Quintero is very successful. The premiereWith Ruperto Chapí music.
• 1900: In France, the first line of the Paris Metropolitan is inaugurated.
• 1902: in Switzerland the Federal Council concludes with the signature of the Constitution.
• 1903: in France, the first Tour of France, with the victory of the cyclist Maurice Garin, was concluded at Parc des Princes (Paris).
• 1909: In the wick Canal, between France and the United Kingdom, the pilot Hubert Latham failed in the first attempt to cross aeroplane.
• 1912: in Holbrook, County of Navajo, Arizona, a meteorite with a mass estimated at 190 kg explodes over the village causing a rain of approximately 16 000 pieces over the village.
• 1918: Honduras declares war on Germany as a testimony ally at the end of World War I. Three days before Haiti had done it.
• 1919: in the village of La Cruz (northwest of Costa Rica), guerrillas fight against the "tinoists" (followers of the dictator Pelico Tinoco). These fire live the Salvadoran teacher Marcelino García Flamenco (30). Tinoco will be overthrown a month later, August 20.
• 1920: In Petrograd (Soviet Union), at the initiative of Lenin, the Second Congress of the Communist International (founded in 1919 with the name of Komintern) was opened.
• 1923: In Colombia, Law 42 establishes the Comptroller General of the Republic, the highest tax control organ of the Colombian State.
• 1924: In the Napalpi Aboriginal colony, 120 km from the city of Resistance (capital of the province of Chaco, Argentina) a group of stancipals and 130 police murder several hundred people, mostly Aboriginal Tobas and Mocovíes (Masacre de Napalpí).
• 1926: in Saguenay, Canada, opens the world's largest alumina, from Alcoa Power Co.
• 1936: In Spain, the unions rise against the military coup, the Spanish civil war begins.
• 1936: in Spain, General Francisco Franco arrives in Tetuán and stands in front of the subservient Spanish Army of Morocco. In Madrid, the nineteenth republican government, headed by José Giral, is formed, which decides to arm the people and in Barcelona, the uprising in response to the public order forces supported by the CNT-FAI fails.
• 1940: In the Aegean Sea, in the Battle of Cape Spada—in the framework of the Second World War—the Australian cruise Sydney plunges into the Italian light cruise ship Bartolomei Colleoni, leaving 121 dead.
• 1947: In Burma, the nationalist Aung San and six of his cabinet members are killed.
• 1949: Laos gains independence within the French Union.
• 1951: in Spain, the sixth government of Franco is constituted with two main novelties: the creation of the new Ministry of Information and Tourism and the depopulation of trade and industry.
• 1954: In the United States, Elvis Presley achieves an extraordinary sales success with the song That's all right, mama.
• 1955: in Lima, Peru, the School of Engineers, founded on March 18, 1876, becomes the current National University of Engineering.
• 1957: On the Nevada Test Site, the U.S. Air Force fires the first air-to-air nuclear missile, which detonates at 6000 m high.
• 1961: the newly created Republic of Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base of Bizerta, to regain its sovereignty. However, four days later the French capture the entire city of Bizerta.
• 1961: In Argentina, in the town of Pardo, near the boundary between the Bosnian parties of Azul and Las Flores, the AR644 flight of Argentine Airlines provided by a DC-6, flight started at the airport of Ezeiza and destined to the city of Comodoro Rivadavia, died the 67 people on board between passengers and crew.
• 1963: in the United States, Joseph Albert Walker flies a North American X-15 plane at a record altitude of 106 km. According to the international convention, this height qualifies him as a space flight.
• 1963: in Spain, Spanish boxer Mimoun Ben Ali is proclaimed champion of Europe in the category of rooster weight.
• 1964: in Saigon (Vietnam), Nguy/25070/n Khánh (the prime minister of South Vietnam) calls for the expansion of the war towards North Vietnam.
• 1967: in the American town of Hendersonville (North Carolina), a Cessna 310 jet in the air against a Boeing 727 aircraft from the company Piedmont Airlines (1948-1989). 82 people die, including John McNaughton (Defense Secretary Robert McNamara).
• 1969: U.S. Spacecraft Apollo XI, with astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins on board, is placed in orbit around the Moon. He will announce the next day, July 20.
• 1971: in New York, the Southern Tower of the Twin Towers reaches 415 m, becoming the second highest building in the world.
• 1972: in El Salvador, President Arturo Armando Molina ordered a military intervention against the University of El Salvador to keep it closed for a year.
• 1974: in Spain, dictator Francisco Franco is hospitalized, and temporarily delegates the powers in Prince Juan Carlos.
• 1976: In Nepal the Sagarmatha National Park (where Mount Everest is located).
• 1978: in Spain the law that decriminalizes adultery enters into force.
• 1978: in Germany, the company Volkswagen builds the last beetle produced in that country, with which the number of vehicles of that model produced in Germany was up to 15.8 million.
• 1980: in the Soviet Union, 58 countries boycott the Moscow Olympic Games for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
• 1982: in the bullring of Las Ventas, Madrid, there is the pardon of the bull BeladorVictorino Martin, from the cattle ranch, by the right José Ortega Cano. It's the only unsweetened bull to this day in that bullring.
• 1985: in Italy, the breakage of the dam Val di Stava, Trento, in the north of the country, causes more than 260 dead and disappeared.
• 1985: In the United States, Vice President George H. W. Bush announced that the teacher Christa McAuliffe will be the first civilian to travel on the Challenger space shuttle.
• 1987: In Portugal, the Social Democratic Party of Aníbal Cavaco Silva wins in the legislative elections.
• 1989: in the vicinity of the Atocha Station of Madrid (Spain), a command of the ETA terrorist gang murders two heads of the Land Army's Intendency Corps.
• 1989: in Poland, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, a single candidate, becomes president.
• 1989: in Sioux City, United States, United Airlines flight 232 crashes. 112 of the 296 occupants die.
• 1992: In Vietnam, legislative elections are held for the first time in its history.
• 1992: in Palermo (Sicilia) a car bomb kills the antimafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino, along with 5 members of his escort.
• 1993: In Tuy (Pontevedra), a new international bridge on the Miño River was opened to replace the Tuy International Bridge, which unites Spain and Portugal.
• 1994: in Panama, terrorist attack on Flight 901 of Chirican Wings where 21 people died.
• 1997: In Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army decrees the unconditional ceasefire to promote the peace process.
• 2001: Justice in the United Kingdom sentenced political and novelist Jeffrey Archer four years in prison for perjury and for perverting the course of justice.
• 2005: In Iran, the government executes two 16- and 18-year-olds for homosexuality.
• 2007: NASA's Cassini-Huygens probe discovers a new moon in Saturn: satellite number 60.
• 2012: the conflict in Syrian Kurdistan breaks out.
• 2016: in Spain, the appointment of Ana Pastor Julián as president of the Congress of Deputies in the XII Legislature.

Births

• 1420: William VIII Paleologist, Italian aristocrat (f. 1483).
• 1680: Filippo Raguzzini, Italian architect (n. 1771).
• 1692: Federico Guillermo Kettler, German aristocrat (f. 1711).
• 1698: Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss policy professor (f. 1783).
• 1744: Heinrich Christian Boie, German writer (f. 1806).
• 1759: Serafín de Sarov, monk and Russian saint (f. 1833).

Juan José Castelli.

• 1764: Juan José Castelli, Argentine politician (f. 1812).
• 1789: John Martin, British painter (f. 1854).
• 1794: José Justo Corro, Mexican politician (f. 1864).
• 1800: Juan José Flores, Venezuelan military, first president of Ecuador (f. 1864).
• 1803: Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, Spanish writer (f. 1882).
• 1814: Samuel Colt, American arms manufacturer (f. 1862).
• 1814: Mariano Téllez-Girón and Beaufort Spontin, a Spanish military officer (f. 1882).
• 1819: Gottfried Keller, a German-language Swiss novelist and poet (f. 1890).
• 1822: Augusta de Cambridge, British aristocrat (f. 1916).
• 1823: George Henry Gordon, American military (f. 1886).

Edgar Degas.

• 1834: Edgar Degas, French Impressionist painter (f. 1917).
• 1835: Just Rufino Barrios Auyón, general and Guatemalan president between 1873 and 1885 (f. 1895).
• 1840: José Manuel Balmaceda, Chilean President (f. 1891).
• 1848: Justin Germain Casimir de Selves, a French politician (f. 1934).
• 1849: François-Alphonse Aulard, French historian (f. 1928).
• 1849: Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and literary critic (f. 1906).
• 1860: Lizzie Borden, suspect of American murder, never convicted (f. 1927).
• 1865: Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon (f. 1939).
• 1868: Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano (f. 1945).
• 1871: Lars Jørgen Madsen, Danish shooter (f. 1925).
• 1874: Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Austrian racist ideologue (f. 1954).
• 1875: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, American writer and activist (f. 1935).
• 1876: Joseph Fielding Smith, American Religious and President of Mormons (f. 1972).
• 1881: Friedrich Dessauer, a German physicist and philosopher (f. 1963).
• 1883: Max Fleischer, animator and producer of Austrian cinema (f. 1972).
• 1885: Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese diplomat (f. 1955).
• 1890: George II, king of the Hellenes (f. 1947).
• 1893: Vladimir Maiakovski, Russian poet (f. 1930).
• 1893: Josep de Togores, a Spanish painter (f. 1970).
• 1894: Jawaya Nazimudín, politician and Pakistani prime minister (f. 1965).
• 1896: A. J. Cronin, British writer (f. 1981).
• 1896: Bob Meusel, American baseball player (f. 1977).

Herbert Marcuse.

• 1898: Herbert Marcuse, a German-born communist philosopher and sociologist (f. 1979).
• 1898: Joaquín Peinado, Spanish Cubist painter (f. 1975).
• 1899: Roberto Wachholtz, Chilean politician (f. 1980).
• 1900: Arno Breker, sculptor and German architect (f. 1991).
• 1900: Nathalie Sarraute, French novelist (f. 1999).
• 1903: Robert Dalban, French actor (f. 1987).
• 1905: Edgar Snow, American writer and journalist, author of Red Star Over China (f. 1972)
• 1907: Isabel Jewell, American actress and singer (f. 1972).
• 1907: Mestral Georges, Swiss engineer and inventor (f. 1990).
• 1908: Oswaldo Hercelles García, Peruvian doctor (f. 1969).
• 1910: Francisco Coloane, a Chilean writer and novelist (f. 2002).
• 1916: Ildefonso Aroztegui, Uruguayan architect (f. 1988).
• 1919: Patricia Medina, American actress (f. 2012).
• 1920: Aldo Protti, Italian baritone (f. 1995).
• 1921: Harold Camping, American evangelist (f. 2013).
• 1921: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, an American researcher, a nobel medical prize in 1977 (f. 2011).
• 1922: George McGovern, American politician and diplomat (f. 2012).
• 1923: Joseph Hansen, American writer (f. 2004).
• 1923: Alex Hannum, American basketball player (f. 2002).
• 1924: Pat Hingle, American actor (f. 2009).
• 1924: Arthur Rankin Jr., American filmmaker (f. 2014).
• 1924: Guillermo Vázquez Franco, Uruguayan historian (f. 2009).
• 1930: Julio Sánchez Vanegas, entrepreneur, actor, producer, locutor and presenter of radio, television and Colombian cinema.
• 1933: Pedro Rodríguez García, Spanish theologian.
• 1934: Francisco Sá Carneiro, Portuguese Prime Minister (f. 1980).
• 1937: Delfina Guido, actress colomboargentina (f. 2002).
• 1937: Richard Jordan, American actor (f. 1993).
• 1938: Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist.

Vikki Carr

• 1941: Vikki Carr, American music and singer.
• 1941: Václav Klaus, politician and Czech prime minister.
• 1941: Neelie Kroes, Dutch politics.
• 1943: Thomas Sargent, an American economist.
• 1944: Tim McIntire, American actor and singer (f. 1986).
• 1945: Paule Baillargeon, Canadian actress and director.
• 1945: George Dzundza, an American actor of German origin.
• 1945: Richard Henderson, Scottish biologist.
• 1946: Ilie Nastase, Romanian tennis player.
• 1947: Bernie Leadon, American musician, from the band The Eagles.

Brian May.

• 1947: Brian May, British guitarist, Queen band.
• 1949: Kgalema Motlanthe, South African politician, South African president between 2008 and 2009.
• 1949: Ivar Kants, Australian actor.
• 1951: Abel Ferrara, American filmmaker.
• 1952: Allen Collins, American musician, of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band (f. 1990).
• 1953: René Orlando Houseman, Argentine footballer (f. 2018).
• 1953: Zitto Segovia, cantautor chamamecero argentina (f. 1989).
• 1954: Alvan Adams, American basketball player.
• 1954: Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (f. 2012).
• 1954: Steve O'Donnell, American playwright and producer.
• 1954: Alfonso Perales, Spanish historian and politician (f. 2006).
• 1955: Ali Laarayedh, Tunisian politician.
• 1955: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japanese filmmaker.
• 1955: Dalton McGuinty, Canadian politician.
• 1955: Silvia Pérez, an Argentine actress.
• 1956: K. A. Applegate, American writer.
• 1958: Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player (f. 2013).
• 1959: Juan José Campanella, Argentine filmmaker.
• 1960: Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker.
• 1961: Hideo Nakata, Japanese filmmaker.
• 1961: Campbell Scott, American actor.
• 1962: Aya Kitō, Japanese author (f. 1988).
• 1962: Anthony Edwards, American actor and director.
• 1964: Tom Gabriel Fischer, Swiss musician of the Hellhammer and Celtic Frost bands.
• 1965: Evelyn Glennie, British percussionist.
• 1966: Nancy Carell, American actress.
• 1966: Blue Demon, Jr., Mexican professional fighter.
• 1968: Robb Flynn, American musician, of the Machine Head band.
• 1968: Pavel Kuka, Czech footballer and coach.
• 1968: Adam Matysek, Polish footballer.
• 1970: Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish policy, Chief Minister of Scotland.
• 1971: Russell Allen, American vocalist, of the Symphony X band.
• 1971: Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor of the Quartet Il Divo.
• 1971: Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer.
• 1972: Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer.
• 1973: Aílton Gonçalves da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 1973: Martin Powell, British band musician Cradle of Filth.
• 1974: King Bucanero, Mexican fighter.
• 1974: Malcolm O'Kelly, Irish rugby player.
• 1974: Noel Schajris, Argentine singer.
• 1974: Vincent Spadea, American tennis player
• 1975: Luca Castellazzi, Italian footballer.
• 1975: Kamijo, Japanese singer.
• 1976: Eric Prydz, DJ and Swedish producer.
• 1976: Benedict Cumberbatch, British actor.
• 1976: Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1976: Vinessa Shaw, American actress.
• 1976: Oleksandr Radchenko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1977: Tony Mamaluke, American fighter.
• 1978: Dolores Fonzi, Argentine actress.
• 1978: Jonathan Zebina, French footballer.
• 1979: Joshua Announced of Oliveira, Brazilian footballer.
• 1979: Bruno Cabrerizo, Brazilian footballer.
• 1979: Luke Young, British footballer.
• 1979: Zvonimir Vukić, Serbian footballer.
• 1979: Pedro Vega, Spanish footballer.
• 1979: Laura de la Calle, Spanish actress.
• 1979: Henri Antchouet, Gabonese footballer.
• 1979: Roger Torrent, Spanish politician.
• 1979: Ellen Rocche, Brazilian actress and model.
• 1980: Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player.
• 1980: Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing pilot.
• 1980: Mark Webber, American actor.
• 1980: Queco Piña, Spanish footballer.
• 1981: Nené, Brazilian footballer.
• 1981: Grégory Vignal, French footballer.

Jared Padalecki

• 1982: Jared Padalecki, American actor.
• 1982: Stuart Parnaby, British footballer.
• 1982: Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer.
• 1983: Craig Vye, British actor.
• 1983: Sabrina Garciarena, actress and Argentine model.
• 1984: Andrea Libman, Canadian actress and singer.
• 1984: Adam Morrison, American basketball player.
• 1985: LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player.
• 1985: Marina Kuzina, Russian basketball player.
• 1986: Afërdita Dreshaj, American singer and model.
• 1986: Leandro Greco, Italian footballer.
• 1986: Khampheng Sayavutthi, a Laosian footballer.
• 1987: Luz del Sol Neisa, Colombian actress.
• 1987: Jon Jones, American fighter.
• 1987: Takanori Chiaki, Japanese footballer.
• 1988: Shane Dawson, American comic and actor.
• 1988: Joe Tracini, British actor and singer.
• 1988: Trent Williams, American football player.
• 1989: Luis Avilán, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1989: Norberto Murara, Brazilian footballer.
• 1990: Rosie Jones, British model.
• 1991: Jean Michaël Seri, Ivorian footballer.
• 1991: Jun Amano, Japanese footballer.
• 1991: Viljormur Davidsen, a ferocious footballer.
• 1991: Nathalie Hagman, Swedish basketball player.
• 1994: Luan Peres, Brazilian footballer.
• 1994: Eugeni Valderrama, Spanish footballer.
• 1994: Derwin Martina, Dutch-curazole footballer.
• 1995: Romee Strijd, a Dutch model.
• 1995: Manuel Akanji, Swiss footballer.
• 1995: Marko Rog, Croatian footballer.
• 1995: Matt Miazga, American footballer
• 1996: Jonathan Araujo, Dominican basketball player.
• 1997: Amita Suman, a Nepalese actress.
• 1998: Luca Zanimacchia, Italian footballer.
• 1998: Carla Díaz, Spanish actress.
• 1998: Diego Vicente, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1999: Mizuki Ando, Japanese footballer.
• 1999: Samuele Birindelli, Italian footballer.
• 1999: David Mota Veiga Teixeira Carmo, Portuguese footballer.
• 1999: Juan Manuel Cruz, Argentine soccer player.
• 1999: Marijn van den Berg, Dutch cyclist.
• 1999: Matis Louvel, French cyclist.
• 1999: Rosalyn Sphinx, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 2000: David Čolina, Croatian footballer.
• 2000: Tomás Gómez Colloca, Argentine basketball.
• 2000: Etienne Green, English footballer.
• 2000: Owen Joyner, American actor.

Deaths

• 514: Sicily, religious and holy Christian, 51st Pope between 498 and 514 (n. 450).

Francesco Petrarca.

• 1374: Francesco Petrarca, Italian poet (n. 1304).
• 1415: Felipa de Lancaster, wife of Juan I of Portugal, who died of the plague (n. 1359).
• 1543: María Bolena, an English aristocrat (n. 1499).
• 1631: Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (n. 1550).
• 1687: Laura Martinozzi, Italian woman, wife of Alfonso IV de Este (n. 1637).
• 1702: Federico IV, Danish aristocrat (n. 1671).
• 1782: Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, French composer (n. 1699).
• 1800: José de Rezabal and Ugarte, a Spanish jurist and politician (n. 1747).
• 1810: Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Prussian queen (n. 1776).
• 1814: Matthew Flinders, a British navy and explorer (n. 1774).
• 1824: Augustine de Iturbide, Mexican emperor (n. 1783).
• 1837: Augustine de Eyzaguirre, trader, politician and Chilean president (n. 1768).
• 1838: Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemical (n. 1785).
• 1850: Margaret Fuller, American writer (n. 1810).
• 1855: Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (n. 1787).
• 1866: Elizardo Aquino, Paraguayan general, hero of the War of the Triple Alliance (n. 1825).
• 1868: Okita Sōji, captain of the first division of Shinsengumi (n. 1842).
• 1878: Yegor Zolotariov, Russian mathematician (n. 1847).
• 1882: Francis Maitland Balfour, Scottish biologist (n. 1851).
• 1886: Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (n. 1855).
• 1891: Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, a Spanish writer (n. 1833).
• 1897: Ambrosio López Pinzón, artisan and Colombian politician (n. 1809).
• 1911: Manuel Iradier, Spanish explorer (n. 1854).
• 1913: Clímaco Calderón, a Colombian politician (n. 1852).
• 1919: Walter Brack, German swimmer (n. 1880).
• 1919: Marcelino García Flamenco (30), a Salvadoran teacher who was burned alive by the dictatorship of Pelico Tinoco (n. 1888).
• 1936: Apel·les Mestres writer, historietist and Spanish musician (n. 1854).
• 1943: Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet military aircraft (n. 1916).
• 1943: Raisa Beliáieva, Soviet military aircraft (n. 1912).
• 1945: Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (n. 1864).
• 1947: Aung San, a Burmese nationalist (n. 1915).
• 1957: Curzio Malaparte, Italian writer and journalist (n. 1898).
• 1965: Syngman Rhee, South Korean politician, first president between 1948 and 1960 (n. 1875).
• 1966: Anselmo Albareda, Spanish cardinal (n. 1892).
• 1969: Stratis Myrivilis, Greek writer (n. 1890).
• 1975: Lefty Frizzell, American singer and guitarist (n. 1928).
• 1976: Mario Roberto Santucho, Argentine revolutionary leader (n. 1936).
• 1977: José Cuneo Perinetti, Uruguayan painter (n. 1887).
• 1977: José Magdalena, Spanish cyclist (n. 1889).
• 1980: Hans Morgenthau, German jurist and philosopher (n. 1904).
• 1981: José María Pemán, Spanish writer (n. 1897).
• 1982: Hugh Everett, American physicist (n. 1930).
• 1984: Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (n. 1896).
• 1985: Janusz Zajdel, Polish writer (n. 1938).
• 1986: Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (n. 1902).
• 1992: Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (n. 1940).
• 1994: Angel Salas Larrazábal, military and Spanish historian (n. 1906).
• 1995: Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Mexican actor (n. 1913).
• 1997: Kurt Land, Austrian filmmaker (n. 1913).
• 1998: Diogenes de la Rosa, leftist politician, diplomat and Panamanian essayist (n. 1904).
• 2002: Danilo Devizia, an Argentine actor (n. 1948).
• 2002: Alan Lomax, U.S. activist, collector of folk songs (n. 1915).
• 2003: Bill Bright, American Evangelist (n. 1921).
• 2003: Maruchi Fresno, Spanish actress (n. 1916).
• 2004: Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister (n. 1911).
• 2005: Edward Bunker, American writer and actor (n. 1933).
• 2006: Jack Warden, American actor (n. 1920).
• 2007: Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist, writer and humorist (n. 1944).
• 2009: Frank McCourt, Irish-American novelist (n. 1930).
• 2009: Henry Surtees, British motor racing pilot (n. 1991).
• 2010: Cécile Aubry, French actress and director (n. 1928).
• 2010: Luis Ignacio Sánchez, Spanish professor and jurist (n. 1948).
• 2010: Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (n. 1975).
• 2011: Carlos Sentís, journalist and Spanish politician (n. 1911).
• 2012: Carlos Hayre, Peruvian composer (n. 1932).
• 2012: Omar Suleiman, Egyptian politician (n. 1936).
• 2013: Simon Pimenta, an Indian archbishop (n. 1920).
• 2013: Mel Smith, British actor and director (n. 1952).
• 2013: Bert Trautmann, footballer and German coach (n. 1923).
• 2013: Phil Woosnam, footballer and Welsh coach (n. 1932).
• 2017: Miguel Blesa, Spanish entrepreneur (n. 1947).
• 2019: Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (n. 1944).
• 2021: Arturo Armando Molina, Salvadoran military and political president of El Salvador between 1972 and 1977 (n. 1927).
• 2022: Franco Frassoldati, Argentine footballer of the Chacarita Atlético Club Juniors First Division champion 1969.

Celebrations

• Roman festivals: first day of Lucaria.
• Games: Francos, fifth day.
• NicaraguaNicaragua: National Liberation Day.
• BurmaBurma: Martyrs' Day.
• ColombiaColombia: Day of the Heroes of the Homeland and its Families.

Catholic saints list

• Santa Áurea de Córdoba
• San Bernoldo de Utrech
• San Dio el Taumaturgo
• San Epafras
• San Juan Bautista Zhou Wurui
• San Juan Plessington
• Santa Macrina de Annesis
• Saint Simachus of Rome
• Santas Justa and Rufina
• Blessed Pedro Crisci
• Beata Stilla de Marienburg