July 9th

July 9 is the 190th (one hundred and ninetieth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 191st in leap years. There are 175 days left to end the year.

Events

• 585 B.C.: In Greece there is a solar eclipse that had been predicted by the astronomer Tales de Mileto.
• 251: In Crete (Greece), an X-degree earthquake occurs on the Mercalli scale. The number of dead is unknown.
• 253: In Pergam (Turkey, 30 km east of the Aegean Sea) an X-degree earthquake occurs on the Mercalli scale. The number of dead is unknown.
• 455: In Italy, the Roman military commander Avito is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 869: In Sendai, Japan, an 8.6-degree earthquake occurs, causing a tsunami.
• 1357: In Prague (Bohemia), the emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg (the Holy Roman Empire) attends the installation of the fundamental stone of the Charles Bridge.
• 1429: In France, Joan of Arc opened the doors of Troyes to Charles VII, to whom he will consecrate in Reims.
• 1540: In England, Henry VIII cancels his marriage with his fourth wife, Ana de Cleves.
• 1541: In Africa, Estevão da Gama part of Massawa, leaving behind 400 Musketeers and 150 slaves under the orders of his brother Christovão da Gama, to assist the emperor of Ethiopia to defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (1507-1543), who had invaded his empire.
• 1749: In Canada, the British founded the port of Halifax (New Scotland) in response to the French settlement in Louisburg.
• 1755: near Fort Duquesne (Pensilvania), French and indigenous forces ambushed and defeated the British and U.S. militias. General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded, and Colonel George Washington survives.
• 1762: In Russia, Catherine II is appointed as an empress.
• 1789: In Versailles, France, the National Assembly is constituted as a step before the creation of a national Constitution.
• 1790: In the Gulf of Finland, near the current port of Kotka, in the framework of the Russian-South War, the second battle of Svensksund is waged in which the Swedish fleet captures a third of the Russian fleet.
• 1793: In Canada, the law against slavery is established in the north; in the south, more slaves are prohibited.
• 1810: In the Netherlands, Napoleon Bonaparte officially includes the Netherlands in the French Empire.
• 1815: In France, Talleyrand is appointed Prime Minister.
• 1816: In Argentina, the Tucumán Congress proclaims its independence from Spain. (In 1810 the first independent government had been established: the First Board, but in the absence of patriotic military preparation in 1810, the Argentine Independence was recently officially declared in 1816.
• 1846: In the United States, by a law of Congress, the Washington area south of the Potomac River (100 km2) is returned to the state of Virginia.
• 1850: President Zachary Taylor died in the United States and Millard Fillmore became the 13th president of this country.
• 1859: Spain recognizes Argentine independence.
• 1860: In Damascus, Syria, the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire carry out a massacre of Christians.
• 1863: Near the current East Baton Rouge (Luisiana, United States), the site of Port Hudson ends.
• 1867: In Africa the expedition of Edward D. Young ends without success in search of the British missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
• 1877: The first tennis tournament in Wimbledon takes place in London.
• 1882: In Peru, the fight against conception is waged in the framework of the Campaign of Breña (conflict with Chile).
• 1896: In the United States, William Jennings Bryan spoke his speech about the gold crusade.
• 1900: In the UK, Queen Victoria authorizes the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia, uniting the various colonies separated into a single federal government.
• 1903: In France, the cyclist Maurice Garin won the first Tour of France.
• 1909: Spanish workers working in the construction of a railway near Melilla are attacked by local gorillas, starting the Melilla War. The government of Maura gives order to mobilize the reservists, a measure that is very poorly received by the popular classes and which would later trigger the events of the Tragic Week.
• 1916: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the South American Confederation of Football is created.
• 1918: in Nashville (Tennessee), a local train crashes with an express. There are 101 dead and 171 wounded. This is the most serious railway accident in the history of that country.
• 1921: at the Jilafat conference held in Karachi, Pakistan, Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar pronounces his famous seditious speech against the British.
• 1922: in Lima (Peru) the Brotherhood of Knights of St.Martin of Porres and St.
• 1922: in the United States swimmer and actor Johnny Weissmüller nothing 100 meters in free style in 58.6 seconds, beating the world record and breaking the “minute barrister”.
• 1932: at the conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, the cancellation of Germany ' s debt for war compensation is established.
• 1932: In the state of São Paulo, Brazil, the so-called Constitutionalist Revolution begins, which, supported by Mato Grosso, stands against the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas.
• 1933: In the province of Upsala (Sweden) the highest temperature is recorded in the History of that country: 38 °C (100.4 °F). This temperature will be repeated only on 29 June 1947.
• 1940: In the naval battle of Punta Stilo (Italy), the British battleship HMS Warspite attacks the Italian battleship Giulio Césare; the Italian fleet is withdrawn. The Aeronautical Regia attacks the British ships, but gets few results.
• 1941: From Italy the CSIR (Italian Expedition Body) is part of to help Nazi Germany in the invasion of the Soviet Union.
• 1942: In Amsterdam (Netherlands), as part of the holocaust, Anna Frank's family is hiding in a deposit at the attic over the father's office.
• 1943: During the Second World War the German city of Cologne (Köln) is bombarded, producing 4,377 dead; the city burned for 5 days and was bombarded a total of 262 times throughout the war, keeping only 5 per cent of the old town.
• 1943: In Italy—in the framework of the Second World War—allied forces carry out the amphibian invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky).
• 1944: In the battle of Normandy (France), British and Canadian forces capture Caen.
• 1944: U.S. forces take the island of Saipán (North Marianas).
• 1948: The first postal stamps are issued in Pakistan, with images of the Constituent Assembly, Karachi Airport and Fort Lahore.
• 1951: Laos enters the Unesco.
• 1955: in London the philosopher Bertrand Russell presents Russell-Einstein Manifesto on nuclear disarmament.
• 1958: in the closed bay of Lituya (Alaska) a strong earthquake provokes the fall of the Lituya glacier inside the bay, which generates the highest known megatsunami in human history (see the tsunami of Lituya Bay), which stretched the coast to a height of 520 m. Two fishermen die.
• 1958: In Greece, Constantinos Karamanlís re-establishes power.

Explosion of the Starfish Prime nuclear bomb in outer space.

• 1962: 400 km high on the Johnston atoll (in the Pacific Ocean), the United States detonates the 1450 kt Starfish Prime atomic bomb. In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb explosion was equivalent to 13 kt.
• 1968: In South Bank (London), the Hayward Gallery is opened.
• 1975: In Senegal, the National Assembly adopted a law to develop a multi-party democratic system.
• 1977: On the occasion of the National Youth Day, the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet made the speech of Chacarillas, in which he announced the basis for a new institutionality.
• 1978: In Italy, Sandro Pertini is sworn as seventh president. He had been elected on 8 July with 832 votes on 995.
• 1979: in France a car bomb destroys the Renault car of the famous “Nazi Hunters” Beate and Serge Klarsfeld in their home. In a note, the Nazi group ODESSA is held responsible.
• 1979: American probe Voyager 2 passes to 570,000 km from Jupiter; discovers that the planet has rings and transmits photos of its satellites.
• 1981:
  • In Senegal, the government legally recognizes PIT (Partido por la Independencia y el Trabajo) and LD-MPT (Liga Democrática: en Movimiento para el Partido de Trabajo).
  • In Argentina, the Military Board released former president María Estela Martínez de Perón, who took refuge in Spain. A group of political party leaders forms the Multipartidaria. The alliance of political forces aims to demand institutional normalization and the call for national elections.
  • In Japan, the Donkey Kong video game is released.
• 1982: In Kenner (Luisiana, United States) a Boeing 727 falls carrying the 759 Pan Am flight; its 146 passengers and 8 people on land die.
• 1984: in York (United Kingdom), lightning falls over the York Cathedral; the resulting fire spreads throughout the building. However, the rosette is not destroyed and the priests rescue all the goods.
• 1989: in Mecca (Arabia) two bombs explode, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16.
• 1991: In Canada, the International Federation for Human Rights denounces human rights violations committed by police and military officers during the Mohawk Indian crisis in Oka (near Quebec). The Canadians wanted to build a golf course on a sacred cemetery.
• 1991: South Africa is accepted at the Olympic Games, after 30 years of exclusion from racism.
• 1995: in Soldier Field (Chicago, United States), the rock group Grateful Dead performs the last concert of its 30-year career.
• 1997: In the United States, the license of boxer Mike Tyson is suspended for at least one year, and he must pay a fine of $3 million for having ripped off an ear from a bite to Evander Holyfield during a fight.
• 1997: In Venezuela, 81 people die from an earthquake (scale 7.0) with epicenter on the coast of the country.
• 1997: In Brazil, a Fokker 100 from TAM Airlines launches engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos 2400 meters in free fall after an explosion that depressures the aircraft.
• 1999: In Tehran (Iran) several days of student protest begin after the police attacked a student bedroom at the University of Tehran.
• 2001: In Santiago, Chile, the Court of Appeals states that Augusto Pinochet is not temporarily procedural due to a “moderate dementia”.
• 2002: the African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first president is Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa.
• 2004: In the United States, the Senate commission on intelligence services states that the government's assertions about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were "erroneous" as a motive for the invasion of that country. The commission absolves the White House.
• 2004: In The Hague, the Permanent Court of International Justice (with only the vote against the United States), declares that the wall of containment of Israel is “contrary to international law”. In Israel, Ariel Sharon asserts that the attack on 10 July is "advanced by the International Court of the Hague".
• 2004: In Portugal, after José Manuel Durão Barroso is appointed president of the European Commission, President Jorge Sampaio announced that he will invite the PSD leader Pedro Santana Lopes to form a government.
• 2005: South Sudan declares its independence from Sudan
• 2005: The giant Tai Shan panda was born at the Washington D.C. National Zoo.
• 2006: In Germany, at the end of the FIFA World Championship in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, France and Italy are facing. Italy becomes the champion by winning in 5-3 criminal sludge, after being tied 1-1 in regulatory time.
• 2007: in Argentina, snow in many cities of the country where this weather phenomenon is not frequent. One of them was Buenos Aires, where 89 years ago it did not snow. See Nevadas in Argentina on July 9, 2007.
• 2011: proclamation of the independence of South Sudan, former self-governing region of Sudan formed by 10 states.
• 2014: Bahamas and Nicaragua report their first cases of chikunga epidemic arthritis.

Scarlett Johansson at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 during the presentation of his film Black Widow.

• 2014: In the Arena Corinthians of Brazil, the second semi-final of the World Cup 2014 was held, where Argentina won the Netherlands for 2-4 in criminals and thus managed to return to a final of the world after 24 years.
• 2015: in La Paz (Bolivia) President Evo Morales gives Pope Francis a replica of the crucifix of the journalist, filmmaker and Marxist priest Luis Espinal (1932-1980), who was killed in La Paz (the previous day, the Pope had prayed on the site where the Jesuit body was found).
• 2021: After being delayed for more than a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Widow premiered worldwide in cinemas and in the Disney+ streaming service. This film marked the farewell of Scarlett Johansson and his character Natasha Romanoff from Marvel's films after 11 years. For much of the popular opinion, this film was considered the 2021 film event.

Births

• 1249: Kameyama Tennō, Japanese emperor (f. 1305).
• 1511: Dorotea de Saxony-Lauenburg, queen consorte de Denmark and Norway (f. 1571).
• 1577: Thomas West, British politician (f. 1618).

Fernando II of Habsburg.

• 1578: Ferdinand II of Habsburg, German emperor (f. 1637).
• 1654: Reigen Tennō, Japanese emperor (f. 1732).
• 1764: Ann Radcliffe, British writer (f. 1823).
• 1766: Johanna Schopenhauer, German writer (f. 1839).
• 1775: Matthew Lewis, British novelist (f. 1818).
• 1786: Sofia Helena Beatriz de France, French princess (f. 1787).
• 1800: Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (f. 1885).
• 1808: Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (f. 1887).
• 1819: Elias Howe, American inventor (f. 1867).
• 1821: Juan Díaz de Garayo, Spanish criminal psychopath (f. 1881).
• 1834: Jan Neruda, Czech writer and poet (f. 1891).
• 1836: Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister and politician (f. 1908).

Wong Fei Hung.

• 1847: Wong Fei Hung, doctor and master of Chinese martial arts (f. 1924).
• 1848: Roberto I de Parma, an Italian aristocrat (f. 1907).
• 1858: Franz Boas, an American anthropologist (f. 1942).
• 1868: Alexandre Promio, French filmmaker (f. 1927).
• 1871: Miguel Arroyo Diez was a politician, diplomat, journalist and Colombian historian who served as Minister of State and appointed the Presidency of the Republic. (f. 1935).
• 1876: Honorio Pueyrredon, a professor and an Argentine politician (f. 1945).
• 1879: Carlos Chagas, a Brazilian physician and hygienist (f. 1934).
• 1879: Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (f. 1936).
• 1887: Emilio Mola, a Spanish military officer (f. 1937).
• 1887: Saturnino Herrán, Mexican painter (f. 1918).
• 1890: Efrén Núñez Mata, a Mexican doctor and writer (f. 1974).
• 1893: Mimí Derba, Mexican singer and actress (f. 1953).
• 1899: Cirilo Cánovas García, Spanish politician (f. 1973).

Barbara Cartland.

• 1901: Barbara Cartland, British novelist (f. 2000).
• 1905: Clarence Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player (f. 1984).
• 1907: Eddie Dean, American musician and actor (f. 1999).
• 1908: Paul Brown, American football coach (f. 1991).
• 1908: Minor White, American photographer (f. 1976).
• 1909: Manolo Caracol, Spanish flamenco singer (f. 1973).
• 1911: Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (f. 1968).
• 1911: John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist (f. 2008).
• 1914: Willi Stoph, a German politician (f. 1999).
• 1915: David Diamond, American composer (f. 2005).
• 1916: Julio Romero, Argentine politician (f. 2011).
• 1916: Edward Heath, politician and British Prime Minister (f. 2005).
• 1918: Ali Chumacero, Mexican poet and editor (f. 2010).
• 1924: José Luis Alonso Mañés, director of Spanish theatre (f. 1990).
• 1924: Julio Elías Musimessi, Argentine footballer (f. 1996).
• 1925: Guru Dutt, an Indian actor and filmmaker (f. 1964).
• 1926: Ben Roy Mottelson, Danish physicist, of American origin, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975.
• 1926: Pedro Dellacha, Argentine footballer (f. 2010).
• 1926: Mathilde Krim, American medical researcher, amfAR co-founder (f. 2018)
• 1927: Susan Cabot, American actress (f. 1986).

Federico Martín Bahamontes.

• 1928: Federico Martín Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist.
• 1928: Adolfo García Grau, Argentine actor (f. 1993).
• 1929: Hassan II, Moroccan king (f. 1999).
• 1929: Lee Hazlewood, American composer (f. 2007).
• 1931: Valentina Borok, Ukrainian mathematics (f. 2004)
• 1932: Roberto Goizueta, a Cuban American businessman (f. 1997).

Donald Rumsfeld.

• 1932: Donald Rumsfeld, American diplomat and politician (f. 2021).
• 1933: José Libertella, Argentine bandoneonist (f. 2004).
• 1933: Elem Klímov, Soviet filmmaker

Oliver Sacks.

• 1933: Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist and writer (f. 2015).
• 1934: Michael Graves, American architect (f. 2015).
• 1935: Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician (f. 2005).
• 1935: Isabel Sarli, an Argentine actress (f. 2019).
• 1935: Mercedes Sosa, Argentinean singer (f. 2009).
• 1936: Richard Wilson, Scottish actor and director.
• 1936: James Hampton, American actor, director and screenwriter (f. 2021).
• 1937: David Hockney, British pop art artist.
• 1938: Brian Dennehy, American actor (f. 2020).
• 1939: Domingo Siazon, Filipino diplomat (f.2016).
• 1940: María Cristina Laurenz, Argentine singer and actress.
• 1942: Johnny Laboriel, Mexican singer (f. 2013).
• 1943: Soledad Miranda, a Spanish actress (f. 1970).
• 1945: Dean Koontz, American novelist.
• 1945: Gonzalo Morales Sáurez, a Costa Rican hyperrealist painter (f. 2017).

Bon Scott.

• 1946: Bon Scott, Australian singer, AC/DC band (f. 1980).
• 1946: Héctor Aguilar Camín, journalist, writer and Mexican historian.
• 1947: Rubén Basoalto, Argentine drummer (f. 2010).
• 1947: Donald, Argentine singer.
• 1947: Mitch Mitchell, American drummer, of the band The Jimi Hendrix Experience (f. 2008).
• 1947: O. J. Simpson, American football actor and player.
• 1948: Gloria Muñoz, Spanish actress.
• 1949: Jesse Duplantis, American preacher.
• 1950: Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player.
• 1950: Víktor Yanukóvich, Ukrainian politician.
• 1951: Chris Cooper, American actor.
• 1952: John Tesh, American composer.
• 1953: Thomas Ligotti, American poet and writer.
• 1955: Lindsey Graham, American lawyer and politician.
• 1955: Jimmy Smits, American actor.
• 1955: Lisa Banes, American actress (f. 2021).

Tom Hanks.

• 1956: Tom Hanks, American actor.
• 1957: Tim Kring, American writer and producer.
• 1957: Kelly McGillis, American actress.
• 1957: Freddie Medina, Puerto Rican martial arts practitioner.
• 1957: Jim Paxson, American basketball player.
• 1959: Kevin Nash, American professional fighter.
• 1960: Marc Mero, American fighter and boxer.
• 1960: Eduardo Montes Bradley, journalist and Argentine writer.
• 1961: Raymond Cruz, American actor.
• 1961: Jorge Seré, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1963: Raúl Patricio Solanas, Argentine politician (f. 2011).

Courtney Love.

• 1964: Courtney Love, American singer and music.
• 1964: Gianluca Vialli, footballer and Italian coach (f. 2023).
• 1965: Frank Bello, American musician, of the Anthrax band.
• 1966: Eric Melvin, American guitarist, NOFX band.
• 1966: Manuel Mota, Spanish modisto (f. 2013).
• 1966: Marco Pennette, American writer and producer.
• 1966: Chichí Peralta, percussionist and Dominican producer.
• 1968: Álex Aguinaga, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1968: Paolo Di Canio, Italian footballer.
• 1968: Eduardo Santamarina, Mexican actor.
• 1971: Marc Andreessen, American computer.
• 1971: Scott Grimes, American singer and actor.
• 1971: Vitali Klichkó, Ukrainian boxer.
• 1972: Simon Echeverría, producer and Chilean musician (f. 2006)
• 1972: Simon Tong, British musician and producer, of the bands The Verve, Blur and Gorillaz.
• 1973: Enrique Murciano, American actor of Latin origin.
• 1975: Shelton Benjamin, American professional fighter.
• 1975: Damián Szifron, writer and Argentine filmmaker.

Jack White.

• 1975: Jack White, American musician and guitarist, from the band The White Stripes.
• 1976: Fred Savage, American actor.
• 1976: Fran Noguerol, Spanish footballer.
• 1978: Mark Medlock, German singer.
• 1978: Alvaro Cámara, Spanish footballer.
• 1979: Rodrigo Díaz, Chilean dancer.
• 1980: Udonis Haslem, American basketball player.
• 1982: Boštjan Cesar, Slovenian footballer.
• 1982: Alecko Eskandarian, American football player.
• 1982: Toby Kebbell, British actor.
• 1982: Maggie Ma, Canadian actress.
• 1982: Andrew St. John, American actor.
• 1982: Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese Formula 1 pilot.
• 1983: Miguel Montero, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1984: Sachi Kokuryū, Japanese voice actress.
• 1985: Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer.

Ashley Young.

• 1985: Ashley Young, British footballer.
• 1985: Gustavo Dávila, Colombian footballer (f. 2014).
• 1986: Sébastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer.
• 1986: Severo Meza, Mexican footballer.
• 1986: Jesús Navarro, Mexican singer, of the band Reik.
• 1986: Kiely Williams, American actress and singer.
• 1986: Kevin Thornton, Irish footballer.
• 1987: Gert Jõeär, Estonian cyclist.
• 1987: Rebecca Sugar, producer, screenwriter, American cheerleader and composer.
• 1988: Raul Rusescu, Romanian footballer.
• 1990: Fábio da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 1990: Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 1991: Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer.
• 1991: José Manuel Urcera, a driver of motorcycling and motor racing.
• 1991: Jony Rodriguez, Spanish footballer.
• 1991: Guillermo Chavasco, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1992: Douglas Booth, British actor.
• 1993: Jake Vargas, Filipino actor.
• 1993: DeAndre Yedlin, American footballer.
• 1994: Akiane Kramarik, American painter and poet.
• 1994: Samuel George Lewis, British musician.
• 1995: Georgie Henley, British actress.
• 1995: Sandro Ramírez, Spanish footballer.
• 1995: João Palhinha, Portuguese footballer.
• 1995: Marko Janković, a Montenegrin footballer.
• 1996: Ivan Zotko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1997: Christian Rivera Hernández, Spanish footballer.
• 1997: Luca Clemenza, Italian footballer.
• 1998: Pelayo Suárez, Spanish footballer.
• 2000: Kliment Kolesnikov, Russian swimmer.
• 2000: Ana Marcos, Spanish footballer.

Deaths

Anastasio I.

• 518: Anastasy I, Byzantine emperor between 491 and 518 (n. 430).
• 981: Ramiro Garcés de Viguera, king of Viguera (n. 945).
• 1228: Stephen Langton, English religious, Archbishop of Canterbury (n. 1150).
• 1386: Leopoldo III, Austrian aristocrat (n. 1351).
• 1441: Jan van Eyck, a flamenco painter (n. 1390).
• 1549: Diego Centeno, Spanish conqueror (n. 1516).
• 1553: Mauritius of Saxony, German politician (n. 1521).
• 1654: Fernando IV of Hungary, Austrian king (n. 1633).
• 1706: Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, a Canadian military and explorer (n. 1661).
• 1737: Juan Gastón de Médici, aristocrat Tuscan (n. 1671).
• 1746: Philip V, king of Spain (n. 1683).
• 1747: Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer and cellist (n. 1670).
• 1797: Edmund Burke, statesman, philosopher and British politician (n. 1729).
• 1828: Gilbert Stuart, American painter (n. 1755).
• 1848: Jaime Balmes, Spanish philosopher and theologian (n. 1810).
• 1850: The Báb, Persian prophet, founder of the Babi religion (n. 1819).
• 1850: Jean-Pierre Boyer, Haitian president (n. 1776).
• 1850: Zachary Taylor, 12th American President (n. 1784).
• 1852: Manuel Lavalleja, Uruguayan military, officer of General Artigas and one of the Treinta and Tres Orientales (n. 1797).
• 1854: Antonio Neira de Mosquera, a Spanish journalist and writer (n. 1818).
• 1855: William Edward Parry, British explorer and admiral (n. 1790).
  

  William Edward Parry.
• 1855: FitzRoy Somerset, British Marshal (n. 1788).
• 1856: Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemical (n. 1776).
• 1880: Paul Broca, anatomist and French doctor (n. 1824).
• 1883: Filippo Pacini, Italian doctor (n. 1812).
• 1894: Juventino Rosas, Mexican musician and composer, creator of the waltz "On the waves" (n. 1868).
• 1897: Augustine Tolton, American Catholic priest (n. 1854).
• 1925: Rene Quinton, pioneer of French self-taught aviation and naturalist (n. 1866).
• 1932: King Camp Gillette, American inventor of the shaver (n. 1885).
• 1937: Oliver Law, first African American commander, killed in the Spanish civil war (n. 1899).
• 1938: Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (n. 1870).
• 1943: Francisco Rodríguez Marín, poet, folklorist, paremiologist, lexicologist and Spanish cervantist (n.1855).
• 1944: Aleksandr Min, a Soviet military of Korean origin (n. 1915).
• 1951: Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (n. 1894).
• 1955: Adolfo de la Huerta, politician and Mexican president in 1920 (n. 1881).
  

  Adolfo de la Huerta.
• 1958: Sofia Bozán, an Argentine actress (n. 1904).
• 1959: Felix Quesada, footballer and Spanish coach (n. 1902).
• 1962: Georges Bataille, anthropologist, sociologist and French philosopher (n. 1897).
• 1967: Eugen Fischer, German anthropologist (n. 1874).
• 1974: Earl Warren, American politician (n. 1891).
• 1977: Alice Paul, American feminist activist (n. 1885).
• 1979: Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and writer (n. 1899).
• 1980: Juan Larrea, Spanish poet (n. 1890).

Vinícius de Moraes.

• 1980: Vinícius de Moraes, poet, letrist and Brazilian singer of bossa nova (n. 1913).
• 1983: Margarita Palacios, singer and composer of Argentina (n. 1911).
• 1984: Randall Thompson, American composer (n. 1899).
• 1984: Paulo Valentim, Brazilian footballer (n. 1932).
• 1985: Carlotta, Luxembourg aristocrat (n. 1896).
• 1985: Pierre-Paul Grassé, French paleontologist (n. 1895).
• 1991: José Salazar López, Mexican Catholic Cardinal (n. 1911).
• 1992: Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta, Spanish politician (n. 1896).
• 1994: Christian-Jaque, French filmmaker (n. 1904).
• 1996: Aurora Redondo, Spanish actress (n. 1900).
• 1998: José de Molina, Mexican anarchist singer (n. 1938).
• 2002: Rod Steiger, American actor (n. 1925).
  

  Rod Steiger.
• 2002: Tele (Juan José Palacios), Spanish musician, Triana band (n. 1943).
• 2003: Winston Graham, British novelist (n. 1908).
• 2004: Jean Lefebvre, French actor (n. 1919).
• 2004: Juan Manzano and Manzano, Spanish historian (n. 1911).
• 2006: Roberto Fiore, Argentine actor (n. 1936).
• 2006: Milan Williams, American musician, of the band The Commodores (n. 1948).
• 2007: Charles Lane, American actor (n. 1905).
• 2007: Joaquín Casellas, engineer and Spanish university professor (n. 1925).
• 2007: Eligio Rodríguez, intellectual and Spanish politician (n. 1910).
• 2008: Enrique Alejandro Mancini, Argentine journalist (n. 1929).
• 2008: Sergio Algora, Spanish poet and musician (n. 1969).
• 2008: David Ausubel, American psychologist and pedagogue (n. 1918).
• 2010: Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist (n. 1916).
• 2010: Nobuyoshi Tamura, Japanese martial artist (n. 1933).
• 2011: Don Ackerman, American basketball player (n. 1930).
• 2011: Facundo Cabral, Argentine singer (n. 1937).
• 2011: Würzel (Michael Burston), English musician, Motörhead guitarist (n. 1949).
• 2012: Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal (n. 1920).
• 2012: Terepai Maoate, sixth Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (n. 1934).
• 2012: Denise René, French gallerist (n. 1913).
• 2013: Bernardo Duque, was a locutor, bent actor, television presenter and Colombian arranger. (n. 1973).
• 2013: Arturo Cruz Porras, Nicaraguan economist and politician (n. 1923).
• 2013: Dora Özer, Turkish shemale prostitute.
• 2013: Kiril de Varna, Bulgarian bishop (n. 1954).
• 2014: Lorenzo Álvarez Florentín, Paraguayan violinist (n. 1926).
• 2014: John Spinks, English musician and composer, The Outfield guitarist (n. 1953).
• 2015: Christian Audigier, fashion designer and French businessman (n. 1958).
• 2015: Jim Bede, American aircraft designer (n. 1933).
• 2015: David M. Raup, American paleontologist (n. 1933).
• 2016: Victor Barrio, Spanish bullfighter (n. 1987)
• 2017: Paquita Rico, Spanish actress and singer (n. 1929).
• 2018: Peter Carington, British diplomat and politician (n. 1919).
• 2019: Fernando de la Rúa, Argentine politician, president of Argentina between 1999 and 2001 (n. 1937).
• 2019: Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (n. 1930).
• 2020: Agustín Alezzo, Argentine theatre director (n. 1935).

Celebrations

• Argentina: Independence Day of Argentina, commemoration of the Declaration of National Independence (1816).
• South Sudan: Independence Day (2011).
• ChileChile: Banner Day, in memory of the Combat of Conception. Swear to the Flag in the Army units.
• Palaes: Constitutional Day.
• Bahai Cult: martyrdom of El Bab (1819-1850).
• Old Roman festival: Caprotinia, party (exclusive for women) of the goddess Juno Caprotina, for the slaves.
• ColombiaColombia: Day of the Virgin of Chiquinquirá.
• Template:MA: Gacela Day

Catholic saints list

• St. Nicholas Pieck and colleagues
• Santa Verónica Giuliani
• Blessed Adriano Fortescue