March 22

March 22 is the 81st ᵉʳ (eighty-first) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 82nd in leap years. There are 284 days left to end the year.

Events

• 950: In Spain, the caliph Abd al-Rahman III ordered Abu Abd Allah Ibn Abd al-Barr to be involved in a conspiracy against him.
• 1018: In the hot room of the caliphal baths of the Andalusian Alcazar of Cordoba, the caliph Ali ben Hamud al-Násir is killed at the hands of his own servants.

Interior of the hot room of the Caliphal Baths of Córdoba today.

• 1312: in Rome, Italy, Pope Clement V publishes the Vox in excelso, in which he suppresses the Order of the Temple.
• 1369: In Spain, Enrique de Trastámara, assisted by the French warrior Bertrand Du Guesclin, kills his step-brother Pedro I, king of Castile and Leon.
• 1506: In Denia, Fernando the Catholic (53), the widower of Isabel I of Castile married Germana de Foix (17), niece of the French king Louis XII.
• 1508: In Spain, Fernando the Catholic named Américo Vespucio the major pilot of Castilla.
• 1518: In Valladolid, the Portuguese navigator Fernando de Magallanes signs a capitulation by which he is appointed captain general of the Navy and governor of the lands that are discovered.
• 1594: Paris — basing the Catholic League and occupied two years before by the Spanish troops — is delivered and Henry IV of France makes its triumphal entry. The new king of France had been consecrated in his office on 27 February, after having blotted out of Protestantism and embraced Catholicism as a means of achieving the crown of France, as well as its pacification.
• 1618: Pope Paul V grants the cardinal’s cape to the Duke of Lerma, who had requested him as protection in the face of the trial for the murder of Francisco Juara by Rodrigo Calderón, confidant of Lerma.
• 1793: The German Confederation declares war on France.
• 1798: Austria proclaims the Helvetic Republic.
• 1814: The French put the Spanish monarch Fernando VII in the hands of General Copons, who escorts him to Gerona, where he is given the document signed by the Regency on February 2. But the liberals, lacking support from the civilian and military authorities who come into contact with the monarch, soon lose the initiative.
• 1832: A cholera epidemic is unleashed in Paris, causing a large number of victims.
• 1835: in the Teatro del Príncipe (of Madrid) it is Don Alvaro or the strength of theof the Duke of Rivas, which meant the definitive triumph of romance in Spain.
• 1848: in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid the statue of Felipe III is installed.
• 1859: In Ecuador, the Pichincha volcano erupted destroying the capital, Quito.
• 1873: The Law on the Abolition of Slavery is enacted in Puerto Rico.
• 1887: Colombia founded the daily newspaper The Spectator.
• 1895: the Lumière brothers (Auguste and Louis) give the first exhibition of a film.
• 1902: signing an agreement between the UK and Persia to build a telegraphic line between Europe and India.
• 1903: in the vicinity of Galerazamba (Colombia), a volcanic eruption causes significant damage.
• 1903: Theodore Roosevelt's report to the coal commission recommends a reduction in working time and a 10% increase in the wages of American miners.
• 1904: the American newspaper Daily Illustrated Mirror publishes for the first time in history a color photography.
• 1905: British coal miners under the age of 18 get the day of 8 hours.
• 1911: in Kiel (Germany) it proceeds to the boot of the battleship SMS Kaiser, leader of his class of Kaiserliche Marine and first German battleship to use steam turbines. The day of his boot was chosen to coincide with the birthday of the Kaiser William I of Germany.
• 1918: Antonio Maura is elected new president of the Spanish government, which is welcomed throughout Spain with demonstrations of joy.
• 1919: The Soviet Republic is proclaimed in Hungary.
• 1920: in Paris the ambassadors and ministers of foreign affairs of the allied governments meet.
• 1921: In London, Sir Joseph Chamberlain leaves the Ministry of Finance.
• 1923: Mexico has very rigorous measures to prevent the smuggling of opium.
• 1927: A radiotelegraphic service was created between Spain and Argentina.
• 1928: Spain re-enters the League of Nations.
• 1928: in Mexico there is a violent trembling of land.
• 1928: In the Soviet Union there are peasant riots to protest against the shortage of supplies.
• 1932: Ramón Casanellas, one of Eduardo Dato's murderers, is expelled from Spain after being arrested on 19 March.
• 1933: In Dachau (13 km from Munich, in southern Germany) the concentration camp of Dachau, the first camp of Nazi prisoners, was opened.
• 1933: In the U.S.—in the framework of the Great Depression—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead law—known as the Cullen-Harrison Law—which allows the manufacture and sale of "cerveza 3.2" (with 3.2 percent alcohol per weight, which is about 4 percent alcohol per volume) and wines of low alcohol content.
• 1934: Dr. Gabriel Terra is re-elected president of Uruguay.
• 1934: Juan Ramón Jiménez removes his verses from the second edition that Gerardo Diego prepares of his anthology Spanish poetry.
• 1935: the television station Paul Nipkow He started his service from the Berlin radio tower.
• 1936: In the Andes, the Argentine mountaineer Juan Jorge Link makes the first solo recognition of the Aconcagua, the highest peak of the continent.
• 1941: The London professor of internal medicine Eric Bywaters describes, in a systematic way, the "burst syndrome" with mioglobinuria (red urine staining) and kidney failure.
• 1945: the Arab League was founded.
• 1945: Dr. Antonio Vallejo-Nágera published in Madrid the first Spanish psychiatry treaty.
• 1953: in Spain, a decree of the Ministry of Information and Tourism organizes the National Film Library.
• 1954: After more than 14 years, the gold market in London is again operational.
• 1955: The Goethe Institute (Germany) begins to award to date the prestigious Goethe Medal, an annual award in recognition of the spread of German language and culture.
• 1955: On the Nevada Test Site, United States detonates its atomic bomb Bee (‘abeja’), 8 kilotons, the sixth of 14 of Operation Teapot. It is the 57th bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1963: in London (United Kingdom) the first album is released, PleaseBritish band The Beatles, which reaches number one.
• 1965: Mexico and the United States sign an agreement to solve the problem of the salinity of the Colorado River, which destroys Mexican crops.
• 1965: in Romania, Nicolae Ceauşescu is appointed first secretary of the PTR.
• 1966: In the Congo, Mobutu Sese Seko confiscates the legislature.
• 1968: beginning of the movement that would lead to French May, with demonstrations, strikes and occupations.
• 1973: The veto of the United States in the UN Security Council prevents further negotiations on the Panama Canal.
• 1975: in Stockholm, the theme "Ding-A-Dong" from Teach-In wins the XX Edition of Eurovision by the Netherlands.
• 1977: Spain suspends diplomatic relations with Equatorial Guinea after a verbal attack by Francisco Macías Nguema on the government and the king.
• 1979: Juan Carlos I inaugurates the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Galician Language.
• 1983: In Israel the Labourman Jaim Herzog is appointed president.
• 1984: Stop editing Diario de BarcelonaDean of the Spanish daily press.
• 1984: the newspaper ABC Color de Paraguay is closed for defending freedom during the dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner.
• 1984: Chile re-establishes the state of emergency as a result of popular riots.
• 1987: In Greece, the Greek Orthodox Church launched a campaign to oppose the expropriation of its lands by the government.
• 1989: in Lebanon, more than one hundred thousand people leave Beirut, a city subjected to continuous bombing by the Syrian army and its allies of the Druze Muslim factions, in struggle with the Christian forces of General Michel Aoun.
• 1989: Once the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner has fallen, the newspaper ABC Color de Paraguay restates its editions after being closed on 22 March 1984.
• 1990: In Anchorage (Alaska), the captain of the Superpetrolean ship Exxon Valdez is only sentenced to a fine in cash. After a breakdown, the ship at its command triggered a black tide on the coast of Alaska on March 24, 1989.
• 1993: In Spain, the judge of the Supreme Court, Marino Barbero, received the report of some experts from the Treasury regarding the Filesa scandal, in which it is alleged that this company received more than one billion pesetas for non-existent reports and that it apparently made payments to finance the PSOE.
• 1993: The United Nations General Assembly declares this day as World Water Day.
• 1994: In the Vatican City, John Paul II issues a new papal document that prohibits priests from political and trade union militancy.
• 1994: U.S. metal group Pantera publishes its acclaimed studio album Far Beyond Driven.
• 1997: the Polish parliament adopted by majority the first democratic constitution since the country began its process of political and economic transformation seven years ago.
• 1998: Kosovo Serb province holds elections in an unauthorized manner, with a massive voter presence (85 per cent). Obtains the independentist victory of the Kosovar Democratic League (LDK), led by Ibrahim Rugova.
• 1999: NATO Secretary General Javier Solana receives full powers from the Alliance to intervene militarily in Belgrade if Serbian President Milosevic rejected Rambouillet's peace plan.
• 2001: Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski announced his government’s goal of “neutralizing and eliminating Albanian extremists” who, weeks ago, had launched an offensive against the country’s army and threatened to unleash a new war conflict in the Balkans.
• 2002: A British judge authorizes passive euthanasia to be applied to a patient.
• 2002: In Mexico, the Government diplomatically faces the Cuban Government for the first time in history since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, leading to a breakthrough of relations between the two nations.
• 2003: In Madrid, police and a minority of rioters face the end of a new march against the war in Iraq.
• 2004: Spanish police arrest four new suspects for their alleged involvement in the 11-M attacks.
• 2004: World Water Day is celebrated, according to UN resolution No. 47. The theme chosen for this year is “Water and Disasters”.
• 2005: In Minesota, United States, a young American — Hitler’s Admiral — kills his grandparents, five schoolmates, a teacher and a vigilante before he commits suicide.
• 2005: the International Decade of Water, established by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) is inaugurated.
• 2006: In Spain, the terrorist group ETA declares a permanent ceasefire.
• 2006: in Peru, justice condemns Victor Polay, leader of the guerrilla Tupac Amaru, 32 years in prison.
• 2013: the rock band, My Chemical Romance, announces its separation through its official website.
• 2014: The Marches of Dignity or 22M in Madrid, one of the most massive demonstrations in Spain's history and the latest mass mobilization of the protest cycle in Spain in 2011-2015
• 2015: There was a 5.2-degree earthquake that felt in the center and north of Colombia. The epicenter was at the Table of Saints (Santander).
• 2016: In Belgium, the attacks of Brussels took place in March 2016.
• 2017: In London, an attack occurs in the Westminster Palace area with the result of 4 people killed and 20 injuries.
• 2020: in Croatia, there is an earthquake of magnitude 5.3.

Births

• 841: Bernard III of Tolosa, French aristocrat (f. 886).
• 875: William I of Aquitaine, French aristocrat (f. 918).
• 1212: Go-Horikawa, Japanese emperor (f. 1235).
• 1394: Ulugh Beg, timid ruler (f. 1449).
• 1459: Maximilian I of Habsburg, Emperor of the Holy Roman German Empire and Archduke of Austria (f. 1519).
• 1599: Anton van Dyck, a painter of Flemish origin in England (f. 1641).
• 1609: John II, Polish aristocrat (f. 1672).
• 1759: Carlotta de Holstein-Gottorp, queen sueca (f. 1818).
• 1785: Adam Sedgwick, British geologist (f. 1873).
• 1797: William I, German emperor (f. 1888).
• 1799: Friedrich Argelander, German astronomer (f. 1875).
• 1806: Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst, German botanist (f. 1881).
• 1817: Braxton Bragg, general American confederate (f. 1876).
• 1826: Victoriano Cepeda, professor, military and Mexican politician (f. 1892).
• 1833: Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Spanish politician (f. 1895).
• 1838: Leopoldo Laussat, Spanish politician (f. 1895).
• 1842: Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (f. 1912).
• 1857: Paul Doumer, a French politician (f. 1932).
• 1865: Alfredo Javaloyes López, Spanish musician (f. 1944).
• 1866: Acquileo Echeverría, writer, journalist and Costa Rican politician (f. 1909).
• 1868: Robert Andrews Millikan, U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 (f. 1953).
• 1869: Emilio Aguinaldo, first president of the Philippines (f. 1964).
• 1872: Salvador Toscano, pioneer of Mexican cinema (f. 1947).
• 1877: Jorge Anckerman, pianist, director of Cuban orchestra and composer (f. 1941).
• 1885: Margarete Depner, painter, sculptor and Romanian patrons (f. 1970).
• 1887: Chico Marx, American actor and comedian (f. 1961).
• 1890: Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, aristocrat, lawyer and German conservative politician (f. 1945).
• 1891: Pedro Bosch Gimpera, Spanish prehistor (f. 1974).
• 1894: Osvaldo Licini, painter (f. 1958).
• 1896: Pierre Jeanneret, Swiss architect and designer (f. 1967).
• 1897: Pierre de Gaulle, a French politician (f. 1959).
• 1901: Francisco Íñiguez, Spanish architect (f. 1982).
• 1904: Joaquín de Entrambasaguas, Spanish philologist (f. 1995).
• 1907: James Gavin, General and American Ambassador (f. 1990).
• 1907: Lucia dos Santos, Portuguese nun (f. 2005).
• 1907: Oskar Rudolf Schlag, psychotherapist, grapher, writer and esoteric Swiss-German (f. 1990).
• 1908: Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (f. 1991).
• 1908: Louis L'Amour, American writer (f. 1988).
• 1909: Nathan Rosen, Israeli physicist (f. 1995).
• 1909: Gabrielle Roy, Canadian writer (f. 1983).
• 1912: Karl Malden, American actor (f. 2009).
• 1912: Agnès Martin, an American painter (f. 2004).
• 1918: Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician (f. 1997).
• 1918: Edward Van Dijck, Belgian cyclist (f. 1977).
• 1919: Isidora Aguirre, Chilean writer (f. 2011).
• 1920: Ross Martin, American actor (f. 1981).
• 1921: Nino Manfredi, an Italian actor (f. 2004).
• 1923: Marcel Marceau, actor and French mime (f. 2007).
• 1926: Franca Falcucci, Italian politics (f. 2014).
• 1927: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, director of Spanish cinema (f. 2017).
• 1928: Ed Macauley, American basketball player (f. 2011).
• 1930: Pat Robertson, American television evangelist.
• 1930: Stephen Sondheim, American composer and litrist.
• 1930: Eythor Thorlaksson, Icelandic guitarist (f. 2018).
• 1931: Carlos Ferrer Salat, Spanish entrepreneur (f. 1998).
• 1931: Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 (f. 2018).
• 1931: William Shatner, Canadian actor.
• 1933: Abolhassan Banisadr, Iranian president.
• 1933: May Britt, Swedish actress.
• 1933: Linden Chiles, an American actor (f. 2013).
• 1933: Evaristo Macedo, Brazilian footballer.
• 1934: Orrin Hatch, American politician.
• 1936: Roger Whittaker, British singer.
• 1937: Angelo Badalamenti, American composer.
• 1937: Armin Hary, German athlete.
• 1939: Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician.
• 1940: Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (f. 1996).
• 1941: Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (f. 2019).
• 1942: Leo Dan, Argentine singer.
• 1943: George Benson, American jazz guitarist.
• 1943: Keith Relf, British musician, of the band The Yardbirds (f. 1976).
• 1943: Vittorio Corbo, Chilean economist.
• 1944: Francisco Huenchumilla, Chilean lawyer.
• 1945: Agustín Mario Cejas, Argentine footballer (f. 2015).
• 1948: Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer.
• 1949: Fanny Ardant, French actress.
• 1949: John Toshack, British football coach.
• 1953: Isadora, Colombian singer.
• 1954: Alvaro García Hurtado, Chilean economist and politician.
• 1955: Lena Olin, Swedish actress.
• 1955: Tuqui, artist, television conductor and Argentine humorist (f. 2019).
• 1955: Valdis Zatlers, politician and former Latvian president.
• 1956: Maria Teresa Mestre, Luxembourg aristocrat.
• 1959: Carlton Cuse, Mexican-American scriptwriter.
• 1959: Matthew Modine, American actor.
• 1959: Roberto Ballesteros, Peruvian actor.
• 1960: Julián Gorospe, Spanish cyclist.
• 1962: Francesco Quinn, an Italian-American actor (f. 2011).
• 1963: Martín Vizcarra, Peruvian politician, president of Peru between 2018 and 2020.
• 1966: Brian Shaw, American basketball player.
• 1967: Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist.
• 1967: Pepe Monje, Argentine actor.
• 1968: Euronymous, Norwegian guitarist, from the Mayhem band (f. 1993).
• 1969: Emmanuel del Real, keyboardist, singer, guitarist, and Mexican producer, member of Café Tacvba.
• 1970: Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer.
• 1970: Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist.
• 1972: Shawn Bradley, American basketball player.
• 1972: Cory Lidle, American baseball player (f. 2006).
• 1973: Beverley Knight, British singer.
• 1973: Mauro Szeta, Argentine journalist.
• 1974: Marcus Camby, American basketball player.
• 1974: Ricardo Harris, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1975: Eugenia Guerty, an Argentine actress.
• 1975: Cole Hauser, American actor.
• 1975: Jiří Novák, Czech tennis player.
• 1975: Bea Segura, Spanish actress.
• 1975: Sandra Daviú, Spanish presenter.
• 1976: Iker Garai, Spanish footballer.
• 1976: Reese Witherspoon, American actress.
• 1976: Marbelys Zamora, Cuban dancer and actress.
• 1977: Owusu Benson, Ghanaian footballer.
• 1978: Angela Prieto, Chilean actress
• 1979: Aldo Duscher, Argentine footballer.
• 1979: Aaron North, American guitarist, of the Nine Inch Nails band.
• 1979: Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player.
• 1981: Karina Jelinek, Argentine model.
• 1981: Mims, American rapper.
• 1982: Alinne Rosa, Brazilian singer.
• 1982: Hugo Catalán, Mexican actor.
• 1983: Miriam Benoit, Spanish actress.
• 1984: Piotr Trochowski, German footballer.
• 1984: Saidou Panandétiguiri, footballer.
• 1987: Jessi Uribe, Colombian singer and musician.
• 1988: Tania Raymonde, American actress.
• 1989: J.J. Watt, American football player.
• 1989: Joselito Adame, Mexican bullfighter.
• 1992: Nao Eguchi, Japanese footballer.
• 1993: Leila Ouahabi, Spanish footballer.
• 1994: Ha Sung-woon, South Korean singer.
• 1994: Jean-Paul Boëtius, Dutch footballer.
• 1995: Nick Robinson, American actor.
• 1997: María Herazo, Colombian tennis player.
• 1997: Alex Meret, Italian footballer.
• 1997: Luiz Felipe Ramos Marchi, Brazilian footballer.
• 1997: Harry Wilson, Welsh footballer.
• 1997: Eliza Ibarra, American pornographic actress.
• 1997: Daniel Amador, Mexican footballer.
• 1998: Paola Andino, Puerto Rican actress.
• 1998: Miłosz Szczepański, Polish footballer.
• 1998: George Bourne, British Remero.
• 1999: Mick Schumacher, German motor racing driver.
• 1999: Sebastiaan Bornauw, Belgian footballer.
• 1999: Timo Bichler, German cyclist.
• 1999: Antonín Růsek, Czech footballer.
• 1999: Matías Esquivel, Argentine soccer player.
• 1999: RJ Nembhard, American basketball player.
• 1999: Iván Angulo, Colombian footballer.
• 1999 Lee Jung-joon, South Korean actor.
• 1999: Diane van Es, a Dutch athlete.
• 1999: Sara Martín, Spanish cyclist.
• 1999: Gavin MacIntosh, American actor and model.
• 1999: Oscar Solomon, Argentine soccer player.
• 1999: Alessandro Mallamo, Italian footballer.
• 1999: Oliver Christensen, Danish footballer.
• 1999: Dávid orienteduriš, Slovak footballer.
• 1999: Ivan Cazal, Paraguayan footballer.
• 2000: Antonio Galeano, Paraguayan footballer.
• 2000: Luca Orellano, Argentine footballer.
• 2000: Alexander Díaz, Argentine soccer player.
• 2000: Rocío Correa, Argentine soccer player.
• 2000: Momo Watanabe, Japanese professional fighter.
• 2000: Erna Gunnarsdóttir, Icelandic athlete.
• 2000: Leandro Emiliani, Colombian baseball player.
• 2000: Eugenio López-Chacarra, Spanish golfer.
• 2003: Sergio García, Spanish motorcycling pilot.
• 2004: Andrey Salmerón, Costa Rican footballer.

Deaths

• 752: Zechariah, Pope of Rome between 741 and 752 (n. 679).
• 1018: Ali ben Hamud al-Nasir, Spanish caliph.
• 1090: García de Galicia, king of Galicia (n. 1042)
• 1144: William of Norwich (12), an English child whose murder was attributed (erroneously) to the Jews (n. 1132).
• 1282: Saint Welcome, Italian religious (n. 1188).
• 1369: Peter I, Spanish king (n. 1334).
• 1544: Johannes Magnus, the last Catholic bishop of Sweden (n. 1488).
• 1602: Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (n. 1557).
• 1685: Go-Sai, Japanese emperor (n. 1638).
• 1687: Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (n. 1632).
• 1727: Francesco Gasparini, Italian musician (n. 1661).
• 1758: Jonathan Edwards, American theologian and missionary (n. 1703).
• 1772: John Canton, British physicist (n. 1718).
• 1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, philosopher, playwright and German poet (n. 1749).
• 1851: Göran Wahlenberg, Swedish botanist (n. 1780).
• 1855: Carl Sigismund Kunth, German botanist (n. 1788).
• 1863: Nicomedes Pastor Díaz, a Spanish writer (n. 1811).
• 1896: Thomas Hughes, British novelist (n. 1822).
• 1904: Karl Moritz Schumann, German botanist (n. 1851).
• 1924: Vladimir Arnoldi, a Russian biologist (n. 1871).
• 1927: Charles Sprague Sargent, American botanist (n. 1841).
• 1946: Werner von Blomberg, German military (n. 1878).
• 1953: Jesus Augustine Castro, Mexican military and political (n. 1887).
• 1956: Eduardo Lonardi, Argentine military (n. 1896).
• 1960: José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish politician (n. 1904).
• 1961: Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsov, Soviet military (n. 1898).
• 1962: Fidel Dávila Arrondo, a Spanish military officer (n. 1878).
• 1964: Gregorio Jover, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (n. 1891).
• 1974: Peter Revson, American pilot (n. 1939).
• 1980: Luis Espinal, Jesuit religious, journalist, poet and Spanish filmmaker murdered in Bolivia (n. 1932).
• 1982: Jacinto Castillo, Argentine painter (n. 1910).
• 1986: Michele Sindona, Italian banker (n. 1920).
• 1987: Eugen Relgis, philosopher, anarchist and Romanian pacifist (n. 1895).
• 1990: Geoffrey Ostergaard, an English pacifist anarchist (n. 1926).
• 1990: Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, Colombian leader of the Patriotic Union (n. 1956).
• 1990: Odorico D'Andrea, Franciscan friar (n. 1916).
• 1992: Rafael Lorente Escudero, Uruguayan architect (n. 1907).
• 1994: Dan Hartman, musical producer (n. 1950).
• 1994: Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator, creator of Crazy Bird (n. 1899).
• 1995: Hugo Gálvez, Chilean lawyer (n. 1920).
• 1999: David Strickland, American actor (n. 1969).
• 2001: William Hanna, American producer and director, co-founder (with Joseph Barbera) of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio (n. 1910).
• 2003: Harry Fisher, American trade unionist and politician (n. 1911).
• 2004: Germán Gómez Gómez, Spanish footballer (n. 1914).
• 2004: William H. Pickering, New Zealand astronomer (n. 1910).
• 2005: Clemente Domínguez, leader of Spanish sect, self-proclaimed Pope as Gregorio XVII (n. 1946).
• 2005: Antonio Millán-Puelles, Spanish writer (n. 1921).
• 2005: Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (n. 1913).
• 2006: Pierre Clostermann, World War II pilot (n. 1921).
• 2009: Jade Goody, entrepreneur and British television celebrity (n. 1981).
• 2011: Artur Agostinho, journalist, editor and Portuguese actor (n. 1920).
• 2011: José Eusebio Soriano, Peruvian footballer (n. 1917).
• 2013: Gerardo Gandini, pianist, composer and Argentine musical director (n. 1936).
• 2013: Joaquín González Echegaray, Spanish archaeologist (n. 1930).
• 2013: Bebo Valdés, pianist, composer, arranger and director of Cuban orchestra (n. 1918).
• 2016: Rob Ford, Canadian politician (n. 1969).
• 2018: Daryush Shayegan, Iranian philosopher, writer and cultural theorist (n. 1935).
• 2019: Frans Andriessen, a Dutch jurist and politician (n. 1929).
• 2021: Elgin Baylor, American basketball player (n. 1934).

Celebrations

• World Water Day

Catholic saints list

• Saint Philippi (f. s. I).
• Saint Paul of Narbonne, bishop and martyr (f. s. III).
• saints Calinico and Basilisa de Galacia, martyrs.
• St. Basil of Ancira, priest and martyr (f. 362).
• Saint Leah of Rome (f. c. 383).
• San Welcome Scotivoli, Bishop (f. 1282).
• Saint Nicholas Owen, religious and martyr (f. 1606).
• Beato Francisco Chartier, priest and martyr (f. 1794).
• Blessed Mariano Górecki and Bronislao Komorowski, priests and martyrs (f. 1940).