March 29

March 29 is the 88th (eighty-eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 89th in leap years. There are 277 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1461: War of the Two Roses: Battle of Towton. Edward of York beats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
• 1549: In Brazil is founded the city of Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, which was the first capital of the country.
• 1632: The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is signed, returning Quebec to French control after it was taken by the English in 1629.
• 1638: a group of Swedish settlers establishes their first settlement in Delaware, and they call it New Sweden.
• 1640: Calanda,no

cia of the Virgen del Pilar, will be called the Miracle of Calanda, being the greatest documented miracle of Christianity.

• 1785: In Venezuela, the Spanish religious Juan Ramos de Lora founded the Royal Colegio Seminario de San Buenaventura.
• 1792: King Gustavo III dies in Stockholm (Sweden). Thirteen days before he had been shot in the back at the Royal Opera. It is succeeded by his son Gustavo IV Adolfo.
• 1799: New York adopts a law aimed at the gradual abolition of slavery in the state.
• 1806: In the United States the construction of the Great National Pike, known as Ruta Cumberland, is authorized to become the first motorway in that country.
• 1807: German physician and physicist Heinrich Olbers discovers the asteroid Vesta.
• 1809: in Sweden, King Gustavo IV Adolfo abdicates after a coup d'etat.
• 1823: In the village of San José (Costa Rica), a group of imperialists from the city of Cartago—unless they knew that the Mexican Empire had disappeared ten days ago—take the Arms Headquarters and give the first coup in the history of that country: they proclaim the annexation of Costa Rica to the Mexican Empire.
• 1830: In Spain, King Ferdinand VII promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction by endowing the Sálica Law that excludes women from the throne, so that their eldest daughter, Isabel II, could reign.
• 1847: In Mexico, U.S. forces—led by General Winfield Scott—place the city of Veracruz.
• 1849: The Punyab region is annexed in India.
• 1865: In the American Civil War, the battle of Appomattox culminates.
• 1871: In London (United Kingdom) Queen Victoria opens the Royal Albert Hall.
• 1901: in the province of Río Negro (Argentina) is founded the villa of Rio Colorado.
• 1905: in Rosario, province of Santa Fe (Argentina) is founded the Club Atlético Tiro Federal Argentino.
• 1911: In the United States, the gun M1911.45 ACP becomes the official weapon of the Navy.
• 1913: in the Argentine city of Mar del Plata (Province of Buenos Aires), Argentina, the Club Atlético Aldosivi
• 1930: in Germany, Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor.
• 1936: In Germany, Adolf Hitler received 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify the illegal occupation of Renania (the Rhine area), receiving 44.5 million votes on 45.5 million registered voters.
• 1939: In the context of the Spanish civil war, the rebels took almost without resistance Cuenca, Albacete, Ciudad Real, Jaén, Almería and Murcia, cities that had remained under the authority of the republican government since the beginning of the conflict. Three days later the war would end.
• 1939: in the context of the Spanish civil war, some 15,000 people, among military leaders, Republican politicians, combatants and civilian population, are pitying themselves in the port of Alicante hoping to be rescued by some English or French boat in the face of the impending victory of the subordinate side. The majority will not achieve this and will be apprehended and executed.
• 1941: On the Greek coast of the Peloponnese, in the framework of the Second World War, the British Armed Forces, the British Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy defeat the Italian Navy Regia in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
• 1942: The bombing of the civilian population in Lübeck, Germany, during World War II is the first major success of British aviation against Germany.
• 1945: As part of World War II, this is the last day of the air bombings of V-1 missiles in London.
• 1955: at the Nevada test site, United States detonates its atomic bomb Apple-114 kton, the eighth of 14 Teapot operation. In another area detonates the bomb Wasp Prime3.2 kt. Both are the bombs number 59 and 60 of the 1054 that detonated the United States between 1945 and 1992.
• 1956: Juan Carlos de Borbón accidentally kills his younger brother, Alfonso de Borbón and Borbón of a shot on the forehead with a 22-caliber revolver.
• 1957:Muere Esteban Baca Calderón in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
• 1961: In the United States, the 23rd Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing Washington D.C. residents to vote for presidential elections.
• 1962: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, President Arturo Frondizi is dismissed by a group of soldiers. A civilian, José María Guido, who "to guarantee the republican form of government" cancels by decree the democratic elections of 10 days before in the province of Buenos Aires - which had won the Peronist Andrés Framini by 59.4 % of the votes (compared to 21 % of the frondicism and 19 % of the UCR) -.
• 1971: a jury in Los Angeles (California) recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three of his female followers.
• 1973: In Vietnam, after the American defeat in the Vietnam War, the last American soldier leaves the country.
• 1974: the astronave Mariner 10 (from the United States), overfly Mercury mapping between 40 and 45 percent of the planet.
• 1976: in Argentina, five days after the coup d'etat that began the National Reorganization Process, Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla officially assumes as president de facto.
• 1981: in Argentina the dictator Jorge Videla passed power to Lieutenant General Roberto Eduardo Viola. New Ministers: Oscar Camilión (Foreign Relations), Lorenzo Sigaut (Economy), Jorge Aguado (Agriculture and Livestock), Eduardo Oxenford (Industria). The weight is devalued by 30%.
• 1985: In Chile, in Maipu, the brothers Rafael and Eduardo Vergara Toledo, members of the MIR, are killed by a Carabineros patrol (the uniformed police) and in their memory they are currently celebrating the Day of the Young Combatant. In addition, they are kidnapped, tortured and slaughtered at the hands of Carabineros, the professionals Manuel Guerrero Ceballos, Santiago Nattino and José Manuel Parada Maluenda, known as the Degollados Case.
• 1989: in Paris the Louvre Pyramid is inaugurated as a new entrance to the museum.
• 2006: total solar eclipse, with center in Libya.
• 2009: In Buenos Aires the stadium of the Atlético Atlanta Club is inaugurated.
• 2010: In Moscow, Russia, two terrorist attacks take place at subway stations causing dozens of deaths and injuries.
• 2013: North Korea is declared a state of war.
• 2017: Following the approval of the British parliament, the United Kingdom informs the President of the Council of the European Union of his intention to leave the European Union
• 2017: In Venezuela, the Supreme Court of Justice attributed the functions of the National Assembly, producing a Loss of Powers of the National Assembly of Venezuela, granting extraordinary powers to the head of State.

Births

• 1187: Arthur I of Brittany, English aristocrat (f. 1203).
• 1332: Muhammed VI, king of Nazareth between 1360 and 1362 (f. 1362).
• 1553: Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek poet (f. 1613/1614).
• 1561: Santorio Santorio, doctor and Italian physiologist (f. 1636).
• 1602: John Lightfoot, British clergyman (f. 1675).
• 1647: Antonio Teodoro Ortells, Spanish Baroque composer (f. 1706).
• 1746: Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon I (f. 1785).
• 1769: Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French military and political (f. 1851).
• 1783: Mariano Abasolo, Mexican military (f. 1816).
• 1788: Carlos María Isidro de Borbón, a carlist aspirant to the throne of Spain (f. 1855).
• 1790: John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (f. 1862).
• 1799: Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (f. 1869).
• 1816: Tsultrim Gyatso, Tibetan religious, 10.o dalái lama (f. 1837).
• 1825: Francesco Faa di Bruno, Beato Católica (f. 1888).
• 1826: Wilhelm Liebknecht, a German politician (f. 1900).
• 1826: Margarita Maza, first lady of Mexico (f. 1871).
• 1867: Cy Young, American baseball player (f. 1955).
• 1869: Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (f. 1943).
• 1873: Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (f. 1941).
• 1874: Lou Henry Hoover, first lady of the United States (f. 1944).
• 1881: Raymond Hood, American architect (f. 1934).
• 1885: Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian writer (f. 1936).
• 1889: Warner Baxter, American actor (f. 1951).
• 1891: Yvan Goll, a French-German writer (f. 1950).
• 1891: Alfred Neubauer, director of German squidry (f. 1980).
• 1892: József Mindszenty, a Hungarian Catholic cardinal (f. 1975).
• 1895: Ernst Jünger, German philosopher (f. 1998).
• 1896: Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (f. 1962).
• 1899: Lavrenti Beria, Soviet politician (f. 1953).
• 1899: José S. Vivanco, Mexican politician (f. 1979).
• 1900: Chilean physician and politician (f. 1969).
• 1902: William Walton, British composer (f. 1983).
• 1902: Marcel Aymé, French writer (f. 1967).
• 1905: Philip Ahn, American actor (f. 1978).
• 1905: Raúl González Tuñón, Argentine poet (f. 1974).
• 1906: Edward George Power Biggs, American organist (f. 1977).
• 1907: Braguinha, Brazilian composer (f. 2006).
• 1908: Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (f. 1968).
• 1911: Brigitte Horney, German actress (f. 1988).
• 1911: Krishna Venta (Francis Pencovich), leader of American sect and religious (f. 1958).
• 1911: Mario Pani Darqui, Mexican architect (f. 1993).
• 1912: Hanna Reitsch, German aviator (f. 1979).
• 1913: R. S. Thomas, British poet (f. 2000).
• 1914: Phil Foster, an American actor (f. 1985).
• 1915: Antonio Hernández Gil, Spanish politician (f. 1994).
• 1916: Peter Geach, a British philosopher (f. 2013).
• 1918: Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (f. 1990).
• 1918: Sam Walton, American magnate, founder of Wal-Mart (f. 1992).
• 1919: Eileen Heckart, American actress (f. 2001).
• 1919: José Antonio Balseiro, Argentinean physicist (f. 1962).
• 1922: Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Spanish philologist (f. 2020).
• 1923: Mario Franco, journalist and Argentine politician (f. 2013).
• 1924: Poty Lazzarotto, engraver, designer, ceramist, lithograph and Brazilian muralist (f. 1998).
• 1926: Inda Ledesma, an Argentine actress (f. 2010).
• 1927: John Robert Vane, British researcher, nobel prize for physiology and medicine in 1982 (f. 2004).
• 1929: Richard Lewontin, American biologist and geneticist (f. 2021).
• 1929: Lennart Meri, a Estonian politician, president between 1992 and 2001 (f. 2006).
• 1929: Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (f. 1993).
• 1930: Francisco de Moxó and Montoliu, Spanish historian (f. 2007).
• 1930: Anerood Jugnauth, a Mauritanian politician (f. 2021).
• 1930: Lima Duarte, Brazilian filmmaker.
• 1934: Paul Crouch, an American evangelist journalist (f. 2013).
• 1936: Richard Rodney Bennett, British composer (f. 2012).
• 1936: Stanislav Govorujin, Russian film director (f. 2018).
• 1937: Smarck Michel, Prime Minister and Haitian politician (f. 2012).
• 1939: Terence Hill, an Italian actor.
• 1940: Astrud Gilberto, singer of bossa nova and Brazilian samba.
• 1940: Godfrey Reggio, American filmmaker.
• 1941: Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., American astrophysicist, nobel physics award in 1993.
• 1941: Julio César Cortés, ex-futbolist and Uruguayan coach.
• 1942: Cristina del Valle, an Argentine actress.
• 1942: Scott Wilson, American actor (f. 2018).
• 1943: José Pablo Feinmann, philosopher and Argentine historian (f. 2021).
• 1943: Eric Idle, British actor and humorist.
• 1943: John Major, British politician.
• 1943: Vangelis, Techlist and Greek composer.
• 1944: Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, The Poppy Family.
• 1945: Walt Frazier, American basketball player.
• 1946: Rigo Tovar, Mexican musician (f. 2005).
• 1946: Robert J. Shiller, American economist.
• 1947: Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto and Yoso).
• 1947: Alberto de la Rosa, Mexican musician, of the group Tlen-Huicani.
• 1949: Michael Brecker, American saxophoneist (f. 2007).
• 1949: Pauline Marois, Canadian politician.
• 1951: Roger B. Myerson, American economist, Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics in Memory in 2007.
• 1952: Theophile Stevenson, Cuban boxer (f. 2012).
• 1954: Karen Ann Quinlan, American patient (f. 1985).
• 1955: Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor.
• 1955: Patricia Miccio, model and presenter of Argentine television (f. 2011).
• 1955: Marina Sirtis, Anglo-American actress.
• 1957: Christopher Lambert, American actor.
• 1958: Victor Salva, American director.
• 1959: Perry Farrell, American musician, of the bands Jane's Addiction, and Porno for Pyros.
• 1959: Michael Hayes, American fighter and musician.
• 1959: Nouriel Roubini, an American economist.
• 1959: Guillermo Quintanilla, Mexican actor, director and producer.
• 1959: Raúl de Molina, presenter of Cuban-American television.
• 1960: Beto Casella, Argentine television driver.
• 1960: Jo Nesbø, Norwegian writer and musician.
• 1960: Annabella Sciorra, American actress.
• 1961: Gary Brabham, Australian racing pilot.
• 1961: Michael Winterbottom, British filmmaker.
• 1962: Santiago Feliú, Cuban singer (f. 2014).
• 1963: Joan Garriga, Spanish bike rider (f. 2015).

Elle Macpherson.

• 1964: Elle Macpherson, Australian model and actress.
• 1965: Paraskevi Patoulidou, Greek athlete.
• 1966: Pablo Lizaso, Argentine actor (f. 2001).
• 1967: Michel Hazanavicius, French filmmaker.
• 1968: Esther Arroyo, Spanish model, Miss Spain 1990.
• 1968: Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress.
• 1969: María Fernanda Martínez, Colombian singer and actress.
• 1970: Patricio Vega, Argentine writer.
• 1971: José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, Panamanian writer and photographer.
• 1971: Attila Csihar, Hungarian extreme metal singer.
• 1972: Rui Costa, Portuguese footballer.
• 1972: Michel Ancel, French designer of games.
• 1973: Scott Stapp, vocalist of the metal glam band, Creed.
• 1973: Sebastiano Siviglia, Italian footballer.
• 1974: Marc Gené, a Spanish motor racing pilot.
• 1974: Pedro Iarley, Brazilian footballer.
• 1976: Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist.
• 1976: Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player.
• 1978: Jeffrey Parazzo, Canadian actor.
• 1978: Francisco Javier Farinós, Spanish footballer.
• 1978: Igor Rakocevic, Serbian basketball player.

Scott Stapp

• 1979: Estela Giménez, a gymnast and a Spanish presenter.
• 1979: Koichi Kawai, Japanese footballer.
• 1980: Natalia Avelon, German actress and singer.
• 1980: Amy Mathews, Australian actress.
• 1980: Bruno Silva, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1980: Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress and model.
• 1981: Jlloyd Samuel, British footballer.
• 1982: Paulo César Motta, a Guatemalan footballer.
• 1983: Paloma Moreno, Chilean actress.
• 1983: Luiza Sá, Brazilian guitarist, from the Cansei band of Being Sexy.
• 1983: Ryōhei Suzuki, Japanese actor.
• 1983: Guillermo Rojas Rumilla, Mexican footballer.
• 1984: Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian activist (f. 2011).
• 1984: Juan Monaco, Argentine tennis player.
• 1985: Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan footballer.
• 1985: Edwin Valencia, Colombian footballer.
• 1986: Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, British footballer.
• 1987: Georg Listing, bassist and pianist/teacher of the Tokyo Hotel band.
• 1987: Luciano Lollo, Argentine soccer player.
• 1987: Lucas Viatri, Argentine soccer player.
• 1987: Dimitri Payet, French footballer.
• 1988: Jesús Molina, Mexican footballer.
• 1988: Jürgen Zopp, Estonian tennis player.
• 1990: Timothy Chandler, American footballer.
• 1990: Carlos Peña, Mexican footballer.
• 1990: Ovidio Guzmán López, Mexican drug dealer.
• 1991: Hayley McFarland, American actress.
• 1991: Fabio Borini, Italian footballer.
• 1991: N'Golo Kanté, French footballer.
• 1991: Irene, South Korean singer and rapper, group leader Red Velvet.
• 1992: Chris Massoglia, American actor.
• 1993: Sebastián Pérez, Colombian footballer.
• 1994: Sulli, South Korean actress and singer (f. 2019).
• 1996: Juanpa Zurita, Internet celebrity, Mexican model and actor.
• 1997: Arón Piper, Spanish-German actor and musician.
• 1997: Tidjani Anaane, Beninese footballer
• 1997: Bram Welten, Dutch cyclist.
• 1997: Leah Williamson, English footballer.
• 1998: Shealeigh, American singer and composer.
• 1998: Tashi Choden, Bhutanese model.
• 1998: Klara Thormalm, Swedish swimmer.
• 1999: Stefano Manzi, Italian bike rider.
• 1999: Bartosz Slisz, Polish footballer.
• 1999: Estequiel Barco, Argentine footballer.
• 1999: Franco Rebussone, Argentine soccer player.
• 1999: Fantu Worku, Ethiopian athlete.
• 1999: Alessandro Canales, Panamanian footballer.
• 1999: Davide Nardini, Italian swimmer.
• 1999: Napaporn Charanawat, Thai taekwondista.
• 1999: Hana Hayes, American actress.
• 1999: Nikol González, Venezuelan footballer.
• 2000: Arietta Adams, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 2000: Juan Manuel Sanabria, Uruguayan footballer.
• 2000: Gonzalo Córdoba, Argentine soccer player.
• 2004: Juan Esteban Aponte, Colombian actor.
• 2006: Haven Coleman, an American climate activist.
• 2012: Elizabeth Phillips Island, a member of the British royal family.

Deaths

• 87 B.C.: Wu de Han, emperor of China (n. 156 B.C.).
• 1058: Stephen IX, Pope of the Catholic Church (n.?).
• 1368: Emperor Go-Murakami, emperor of Japan (n. 1328).
• 1628: Jacob de Gheyn II, a Dutch painter (n. 1565).
• 1675: Juana de la Cruz, beata española (n. 1597).
• 1692: Nicolaus Bruhns, German composer (n. 1665).
• 1721: Charles Vane, courtier and pirate captain (n. 1680).
• 1751: Thomas Coram, captain and British philanthropist (n. 1668).
• 1772: Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (n. 1688).
• 1788: Charles Wesley, British Methodist Pastor (n. 1707).
• 1792: Gustavo III, king of Sweden (n. 1746).
• 1800: Marc-René de Montalembert, French military engineer (n. 1714).
• 1803: Gottfried van Swieten, Austrian diplomat (n. 1733).
• 1818: Alexandre Pétion, Haitian military and political, the first president of the Republic of Haiti from 1806 to 1818 (n. 1770).
• 1825: Roberto Cofresi, Puerto Rican pirate (n. 1791).
• 1826: Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (n. 1751).
• 1829: Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine military and president of the first patriotic government (n. 1759).
• 1848: John Jacob Astor, American businessman (n. 1763).
• 1886: Matea Bolivar, an Afro-descendant Venezuelan woman, who lived part of her life as a slave of Bolivar (n. 1773).
• 1888: Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (n. 1813).

Georges Pierre Seurat.

• 1891: Georges Pierre Seurat, French painter (n. 1859).
• 1911: Alexandre Guilmant, French composer (n. 1837).
• 1912: Henry Robertson Bowers (n. 1883), Robert Falcon Scott (n. 1868) and Edward Adrian Wilson (n. 1872), British polar explorers, the last three members of the Terra Nova Expedition (to the south pole).
• 1924: Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer (n. 1852).
• 1929: Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu, Romanian aviator (n. 1887).
• 1935: Clément Duval, a French anarchist (n. 1850).
• 1937: Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (n. 1882).
• 1939: Gerardo Machado, General of the War of Independence and 5th President of Cuba (n. 1869).
• 1940: Angela Graupera, writer and Spanish war correspondent (n. 1876).
• 1956: Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, Infante de España (n. 1941).
• 1957: Joyce Cary, Irish writer (n. 1888).
• 1957: Esteban Baca Calderón, Mexican military and political (n. 1876).
• 1960: Antònia Guitart Orriols, resistant Spanish anti-franctory (n.?).
• 1964: Willen Andriessen, Dutch composer and pianist (n. 1887).
• 1969: Renato Cesarini, ielo-Argentine footballer (n. 1906).
• 1970: Anna Louise Strong, American journalist (n. 1885).
• 1980: Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, Italian composer (n. 1905).
• 1980: William Cochran, Scottish statistician (n. 1909).
• 1981: Eric Eustace Williams, Trinitense historian, Prime Minister between 1962 and 1981 (n. 1911).
• 1982: Walter Hallstein, German politician (n. 1901).
• 1982: Carl Orff, German composer (n. 1895).
• 1984: Dino Ramos, actor, humorist, composer, author and animator of Argentine television (n. 1929).
• 1985: Sor Sonrisa (Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers), a Belgian nun and singer (n. 1933).
• 1987: Felix Ortega Arce, a Peruvian doctor and politician (n. 1930).
• 1989: Nicolae Steinhardt, Romanian writer (n. 1912).
• 1989: Chico Che (Francisco José Hernández Mandujano), Mexican musician and composer (n. 1940).
• 1991: Lee Atwater, American political consultant (n. 1951).
• 1992: Paul Henreid, American actor (n. 1908).
• 1994: Bill Travers, British actor and director (n. 1922).
• 1995: Jimmy McShane, British vocalist, of the Baltimora band (n. 1957).
• 1995: Ricardo Ceratto, Argentinean singer (n. 1939).
• 1999: Joe Williams, American singer (n. 1918).
• 1999: Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (n. 1915).
• 2001: Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (n. 1899).
• 2001: John Lewis, American jazz pianist (n. 1920).
• 2003: Kerim Kerimov, Soviet space scientist (n. 1917).
• 2004: Simone Renant, French actress (n. 1911).
• 2006: Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (n. 1932).
• 2009: Maurice Jarre, American composer of French origin (n. 1924).
• 2009: Helen Levitt, American photographer (n. 1913).
• 2011: Robert Tear, British tenor (n. 1939).
• 2011: Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet and writer (n. 1922).
• 2011: Angelo de Sousa, Portuguese artist (n. 1938).
• 2011: José Alencar, a Brazilian politician and businessman (n. 1931).
• 2012: Jorge Villalmanzo, Spanish writer (n. 1960).
• 2012: Juan Echecopar, Argentine footballer (n. 1946).
• 2013: Ralph Klein, Canadian politician (n. 1942).
• 2013: Lawrence Auster, American blogger and essayist (n. 1949).
• 2013: Enzo Jannacci, singer, actor, doctor and Italian comedian (n. 1935).
• 2013: Reid Fliehr, American fighter (n. 1988).
• 2013: Richard Griffiths, British film, television and theatre actor (n. 1947).
• 2014: Marc Platt, American dancer and actor (n. 1913).
• 2016: Patty Duke, American actress (n. 1946).
• 2017: Alekséi Alekséyevich Abrikósov, Russian physicist, nobel prize of physics in 2003 (n. 1928).
• 2019: Agnès Varda, director of French cinema (n. 1928).
• 2020: Krzysztof Penderecki, composer and director of Polish orchestra (n. 1933).
• 2020: Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, nobel physics award in 1977 (n. 1923).
• 2020: Patrick Devedjian, a French politician (n. 1944).
• 2022: Miguel Van Damme, Belgian footballer (n. 1993).

Celebrations

• ChileChile: Day of the Young Combatant, day of commemoration in Chile, where events are held in memory of the brothers Rafael and Eduardo Vergara Toledo, killed by officials of Carabineros de Chile, during the military dictatorship (Chile).
• International Day of the Piano

Catholic saints list

• St. Eustasy of NaplesBishop (f. s. III).
• San Marcos de Aretusa, bishop (f. 364).
• saints Arquinimo and Saturnmartyrs (f. c. 462).
• Blessed Bertoldo of Mount Carmel, prior (f. v. 1188).
• San Guillermo TempierBishop (f. 1197).
• San Ludolfo de RatzeburgBishop and martyr (f. 1250).
• Blessed Juan Hambley, priest and martyr (f. 1587).