March 4

The 4th of March is the 63rd.er (sixty-third) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 64th in leap years. There are 302 days left to end the year.

Events

• 51: Nero, who later became a Roman emperor, receives the title princeps iuventutis (Chief of Youth).
• 306: Saint Adrian of Nicomedia becomes martyr.
• 852: Croatian Knez Trpimir who issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of Croats in Croatian sources.
• 938: the relics of martyr Venceslao I, Duke of Bohemia, prince of the Czechs are translated.
• 1152: Federico I Barbarosja is chosen king of Germany.
• 1570: Fundación de la Ciudad Guadalajara de Buga, Located in Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
• 1606: the capital of Spain returns to Madrid after a few years established in Valladolid, ending an operation carried out by the influence of the Duke of Lerma, valid of Felipe III. With the transfer, the Duke of Lerma performed a masterful real estate operation, buying properties at irry prices and selling them after the establishment of the new capital.
• 1651: In the North Sea, a cyclic tide breaks dams on the coast of the Netherlands. Few people die.
• 1789: The new Constitution, declared by the Congress of the Confederation at its tenth meeting, enters into force in the United States.
• 1793: In Chile the third Parliament of Negrete begins between the Mapuches and the Spanish colonial authorities.
• 1809: In the United States, James Madison is elected fourth president, in which he will remain until 1817.
• 1810: to Malaga (Spain) comes King Joseph Bonaparte, after taking the city.
• 1811: On a trip to England through the Atlantic Ocean, Mariano Moreno, a member of the First Board of Buenos Aires, died.
• 1812: first lottery draw instituted by the Courts of Cadiz.
• 1813: in Mexico, Spanish general Felix María Calleja took over the position of virrey.
• 1840: Yucatan is separated from Mexico as a protest against the centralist government of Antonio López de Santa Anna and the Republic of Yucatan is proclaimed.
• 1857: In the United States, Democrat James Buchanan assumes the presidency.
• 1861: In the United States, Abraham Lincoln assumes the presidency.
• 1861: Spain accepts the offer of Santo Domingo to rejoin the monarchy. The annexation lasted four years.
• 1869: In the United States, Ulysses S. Grant assumes the presidency.
• 1877: The ballet work "El Lago de los cisnes" is presented for the first time.
• 1885: In the United States, Grover Cleveland assumes the presidency.
• 1889: In the United States, Benjamin Harrison assumes the presidency.
• 1897: In the United States, William McKinley assumes the presidency.
• 1899: in the Torres Strait (Australia) a cyclic mare (with sustained winds of 205 km/h) floods the coasts and kills more than 400 people.
• 1905: Numerous peasant revolts take place throughout Russia.
• 1906: In Mexico, typhus causes four thousand dead.
• 1908: The French Government sends a note to the signatory powers of the Algeciras Agreement in which it announces that it sends troops to pacify the Chauía region (Morocco).
• 1912: In England, the suffrageists stone the windows of the homes of many politicians.
• 1913: In the United States, Woodrow Wilson assumes the presidency.
• 1914: In France, Dr. Filiatre separated two Siamese sisters.
• 1915: Russia officially announces its territorial claims about the Dardanelos and Constantinople.
• 1916: the German auxiliary cruise "Mowe" returns to Germany after having sunk 16 allied vessels in Atlantic waters.
• 1918: The Spanish flu (also known as the Great Gripe pandemic) started in Kansas, USA, killed approximately 40 million people around the world.
• 1919: The Third Communist International, promoted by the USSR, is inaugurated in Moscow, in which all communist parties are represented in proportion to the number of their members.
• 1923: the dissolution of the sections of the NSDAP is ordered in numerous German cities for considering that they attack the security of the state.
• 1923: The Argentine Government believes it is necessary to free the civil guardianship of married women and to avoid them for certain things to single women, recognizing them with full legal capacity to buy and lease tax lands.
• 1923: At a solemn session held at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Madrid, Alfonso XIII gives the title of German physicist Albert Einstein.
• 1924: The Turkish National Assembly, supported by the head of the State, Mustafa Kemal, approved the abolition of the Caliphate.
• 1926: China calls for a representative place in the Council of the League of Nations, arguing that it houses a quarter of humanity.
• 1927: Endem (Germany) cable connection with New York is opened.
• 1929: Mexico is founded by the Revolutionary National Party (PNR), which will later be called the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
• 1929: founding in the United States of a company for the exploitation of the "La Deer".
• 1929: In the United States, Herbert Hoover assumes the presidency.
• 1930: in Barcelona the first Spanish Chair of Labour Medicine was inaugurated, created by the Provincial Council of Barcelona.
• 1933: In the United States, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as president. In his opening speech he says: "The only thing to be afraid of is fear itself."
• 1934: in Spain the JONS and Falange Española are merged.
• 1936: in Germany, the German airship LZ-129 Hindenburg makes its opening flight.
• 1937: in Spain libraries are created in Spanish secondary schools.
• 1939: In Cartagena (Murcia), in the course of the Spanish Civil War, there is a rebellion against the government of Juan Negrín.
• 1942: the writer Albert Camus publishes Foreign.
• 1942: The island of Marcus suffers from an American air strike.
• 1944: In Japan, all students mobilize; all public and fun centres are closed.
• 1947: in Seville, Spain, floods take on storms.
• 1948: Argentina and Chile sign an agreement on the sovereignty of Antarctica, whereby both countries undertake to act together in defense of the territory.
• 1949: United Nations Security Council resolution 69 is adopted.
• 1951: In New Delhi, India, Asian Games begin.
• 1952: Near Rio de Janeiro, more than 120 people die in a rail accident.
• 1955: at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (in Madrid) the Rosary Chair of Castro is created for the study of Galician language, literature and history.
• 1959: Soviet Prime Minister Jruschov announced a separate peace treaty with the GDR.
• 1964: in the United States, a federal jury jails Jimmy Hoffa, president of the transport union (Teamsters Union), for having bribed another federal jury in 1962.
• 1966: in Barcelona the Graphispack-66 (Monographic Hall of Graphic Arts and Envase, Packing and Bottled) is inaugurated.
• 1968: in Barcelona, Pablo Picasso donates to the museum that bears its name its extraordinary series of canvases inspired by The mens.
• 1968: In New York, American pugile Joe Frazier becomes, after winning Buster Mathis for nocaut, a world champion of all weights, in WBC version.
• 1971: in Ecuador, the Club Deportivo Cuenca is founded, professional football team of first division A.
• 1973: in France, after the first round in the legislative elections, the first place is occupied by the United Left, ahead of the gaullists.
• 1974: In the UK, the laborer Harold Wilson replaces conservative Edward Heath as prime minister.
• 1974: Spain and Nicaragua signed an economic cooperation agreement.
• 1975: first meeting of the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization, held in Madrid, a city designated as the headquarters of the institution.
• 1977: Supercomputer Cray-1 comes out of the factory.
• 1979: in Spain the first total strike of footballers takes place.
• 1980: in Spain, the National Court handed down a conviction against those involved in the massacre of labor lawyers on Atocha Street. The material authors of the multiple murder are sentenced to 193 years each and the accomplices and inducers to sentences ranging from 1 to 73 years in prison.
• 1984: in Murcia, the bribery of journalists forces the resignation of Hernández Ros as an autonomous president.
• 1987: in Washington, President Ronald Reagan recognizes that the United States sold weapons to Iran in exchange for hostages and endorses “all responsibility” of the Irangate to the public.
• 1989: An international conference of more than 100 countries was opened in London to study drastic measures against the use of CFCs (chlorofluocarbons) in aerosols.
• 1990: in Spain a new Law on Circulation was adopted, with much more severe penalties.
• 1991: In Latvia and Estonia, the independentists beat the corresponding plebiscites to separate from the USSR.
• 1991: After 186 weeks of leading the list of the world's tennis category, Steffi Graf is broken down by Yugoslav Monica Seles.
• 1998: In Israel, President Ezer Weizmann is re-elected for a second term of five years.
• 1998: Microsoft, the company led by Bill Gates, decides to modify contracts that compel many Internet providers to offer in exclusivity the navigation software manufactured by their company.
• 1999: in Ireland the peace process is blocked by the IRA's refusal to deliver the weapons.
• 1999: In Arizona, 37-year-old German Walter LeGrand is executed in the gas chamber, in which he died after 18 minutes of agony for lethal gases. This news scandalizes Germany and the rest of Europe.
• 1999: in Argentina, Racing Club football club is doomed to bankruptcy.
• 2000: The Interactive Mirador Museum (MIM) is inaugurated in Chile.
• 2000: Sony Computer Entertainment releases the PlayStation 2 console.
• 2001: in Portugal, at least 70 people die when a bridge over the river Duero collapses.
• 2001: in Andorra, the Liberal Party candidate and head of government, Marc Forné, achieves the absolute majority in the legislative elections.
• 2002: Canada authorizes human embryo research, although it prohibits cloning.
• 2003: Spanish writer Juan Manuel de Prada wins the Spring Prize with the novel Invisible life.
• 2004: The European Union approves a common health card to cater to tourists.
• 2005: In his home in Kiev, the Ukrainian ex-minister of the Interior, linked to the murder of journalist Gueorgui Gongadze in 2000.
• 2006: The Czech parliament appoints pro-Russian Prime Minister Ramzán Kadírov.
• 2006: the anti-nationalist platform Ciutadans de Catalunya initiates the process of becoming a political party.
• 2009: In The Hague, the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant against the President of Sudan, Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir, for crimes against humanity in Darfur.
• 2010: an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 shakes Taiwan injuring 96 people.
• 2010: a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the seismological scale of Richter shakes the Chilean city of Calama, without leaving damage or victims.
• 2011: In Texas, United States, a jury condemns the krisnaist guru Prakashanand Sáraswati for abusing minors in the 1980s and 1990s.
• 2018: the former spy of MI6 Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a nervous agent of Novichok in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic disturbance resulting in massive expulsions of diplomats from all the countries involved.
• 2019: debuts South Korean buoy TXT (Tomorrow X Together).

Births

• 1188: White of Castile, queen consorte Francia (f. 1252).
• 1383: Eugene IV, Italian pope (f. 1447).
• 1394: Enrique el Navegante, prince Portuguese (f. 1460).
• 1537: Longqing, Chinese emperor (f. 1572).
• 1634: Kazimierz Liszinski, an atheist writer Belarusian, burned alive by heretic (f. 1689).
• 1678: Antonio Vivaldi, composer, violinist and Italian priest (f. 1741).
• 1702: Jack Sheppard (22), British thief (f. 1724).
• 1741: Casimiro Gómez Ortega, Spanish botanist and pharmacist (f. 1818).
• 1761: Juan María Muñoz y Manito, a Spanish military man (f. 1848).
• 1786: Agustina de Aragón, Spanish heroin (f. 1857).
• 1793: Karl Lachmann, German philologist (f. 1851).
• 1811: John Laird Mair Lawrence, British diplomat (f. 1879).
• 1855: Emilio R. Coni, Argentine physician (f. 1928).
• 1864: Alejandro Lerroux, Spanish politician (f. 1949).
• 1869: Eugénio de Castro, Portuguese poet and writer (f. 1944).
• 1875: Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer and politician (f. 1961).
• 1876: Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet and essayist (f. 1947).
• 1879: Bernhard Kellermann, German writer (f. 1951).
• 1881: Richard Tolman, American physicist (f. 1948).
• 1882: Nicolae Titulescu, a Romanian diplomat (f. 1941).
• 1889: Francisco Asorey, Spanish sculptor (f. 1961).
• 1889: Pearl White, American actress (f. 1938).
• 1898: Vasili Glagolev, Soviet military and Hero of the Soviet Union (f. 1947).
• 1898: Georges Dumézil, a French philologist and historian (f. 1986).
• 1898: Hans Krebs, German military. (f. 1945).
• 1899: Emilio Prados, a Spanish poet (f. 1962).
• 1899: Adam Rainer, Austrian personality, suffered from dwarfism and gigantism (f. 1950).
• 1903: Dorothy Mackaill, American actress (f. 1990).
• 1904: Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish politician (f. 1973).
• 1904: George Gamow, Ukrainian physicist and astronomer (f. 1968).
• 1904: Joseph Schmidt Romanian tenor (f. 1942).
• 1907: María Branyas Morera, a Spanish supercentenary born American.
• 1913: John Garfield, American actor (f. 1952).
• 1914: Al Koran, British magician and mentalist (f. 1972).
• 1914: José Barragán Rodríguez, Spanish sculptor (f. 2009).
• 1916: Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (f. 2000).
• 1916: Hans Eysenck, a British psychologist of German origin (f. 1997).
• 1916: Nexhmedin Zajmi, Albanian painter and sculptor (f. 1991).
• 1920: Jean Lecanuet, French politician (f. 1993).
• 1921: Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (f. 1986).
• 1923: Patrick Moore, British astronomer (f. 2012).
• 1923: Cristóbal Zaragoza, Spanish writer (f. 1999).
• 1924: José Antonio de la Loma, Spanish filmmaker (f. 2004).
• 1925: Paul Mauriat, director of French orchestra and pianist (f. 2006).
• 1925: Jorge Medina Vidal, Uruguayan writer and semiologist (f. 2008).
• 1927: Dick Savitt, American tennis player.
• 1928: Alan Sillitoe, British writer (f. 2010).
• 1929: Columba Domínguez, Mexican actress (f. 2014).
• 1929: Bernard Haitink, director of Dutch orchestra and musician.
• 1929: Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny, Spanish composer.
• 1930: Federico García Moliner, physicist and Spanish researcher.
• 1932: Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish writer and journalist (f. 2007).
• 1932: Miriam Makeba, South African singer and activist (f. 2008).
• 1934: Barbara McNair, American actress and singer (f. 2007).
• 1935: Bent Larsen, a Danish chess player (f. 2010).
• 1936: Jim Clark, British Formula 1 pilot (f. 1968).
• 1937: José Araquistáin, Spanish footballer.
• 1937: Barney Wilen, jazz musician and French saxophoneist (f. 1996).
• 1937: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Italian anarchist.
• 1938: Juan Incháustegui, Peruvian mechanical and political engineer (f. 2019).
• 1939: Paty Cofré, Chilean comedian.
• 1941: Adrian Lyne, British filmmaker.
• 1943: Aldo Rico, a military and a politician.
• 1943: Joan Martínez Vilaseca player and Spanish football coach (f. 2021).
• 1943: Lucio Dalla, Italian singer (f. 2012).
• 1944: Bobby Womack, American singer and musician (f. 2014).
• 1945: Tara Browne, a Irish socialite (f. 1966).
• 1946: Paloma Cela, Spanish actress.
• 1946: Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
• 1947: Jan Garbarek, Norwegian saxophoneist.
• 1948: James Ellroy, American writer.
• 1948: Chris Squire, bassist and British vocalist, from the Yes band (f. 2015).
• 1948: Ramón Alfonseda, Spanish footballer.
• 1949: Francisco Ruiz Miguel, Spanish bullfighter.
• 1949: Karel Loprais, Czechoslovak rally pilot (f. 2021).
• 1949: Sergei Bagapsh, President of Abkhazia (f. 2011).
• 1950: Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress.
• 1950: Rick Perry, American politician.
• 1951: Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer.
• 1951: Chris Rea, British singer and composer.
• 1952: Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer.
• 1953: Emilio Estefan, Cuban musician.
• 1953: Scott Hicks, Ugandan filmmaker.
• 1953: Paweł Janas, Polish football coach.
• 1953: Ramón Soto Vargas, Spanish banderillero (f. 1992).
• 1954: François Fillon, French politician.
• 1954: Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress.
• 1958: Patricia Heaton, American actress.
• 1960: Eduardo Fraile, Spanish poet and editor.
• 1962: Cash Luna, evangelical pastor and Guatemalan writer.
• 1962: Simon Bisley, British hysterist.
• 1962: Miriam Díaz Aroca, Spanish actress.
• 1962: Friðrik Erlingsson, Icelandic musician and writer.
• 1963: Jason Newsted, American bassist, of the Metallica band.
• 1963: Daniel Roebuck, American actor.
• 1964: Paolo Virzì, writer and Italian director.
• 1965: Hernán Cattáneo, DJ and Argentine music producer.
• 1965: Paul W. S. Anderson, British filmmaker.
• 1965: Pepa Fernández, a Spanish journalist.
• 1965: Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist.
• 1966: Dav Pilkey, American writer and illustrator.
• 1966: Grand Puba, American rapper.
• 1966: Kevin Johnson, American basketball player.
• 1966: Ruslan Jaqsylyqov, Kazakh military, Minister of Defence of Kazakhstan.
• 1967: Evan Dando, American musician, of the band The Lemonheads.
• 1967: Monserrat Brugué, Peruvian actress.
• 1968: Jorge Celedón, Colombian singer and composer.
• 1969: Chastity Bono, American actress and activist.
• 1970: Álex Crivillé, a Spanish bike rider.
• 1971: Satoshi Motoyama, a Japanese motor racing pilot.
• 1972: Jorge Rojas, Argentine singer.
• 1972: Jos Verstappen, Dutch Formula 1 pilot.
• 1972: Nocturno Culto, a Norwegian black metal musician from the Darkthrone band.
• 1973: José María Listorti, actor, humorist and Argentine television driver.
• 1973: Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader and Honduran environmental activist (f. 2016).
• 1974: ICS Vortex, Norwegian vocalist, Arcturus band.
• 1974: Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player.
• 1974: Ariel Ortega, Argentine soccer player.
• 1974: Mladen Krstajić, footballer and Serbian coach
• 1975: Patrick Femerling, German basketball player.
• 1976: Sabrina Sabrok, model and presenter of Argentine television.
• 1977: Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete.
• 1977: Jeremiah Green, American drummer of the Modest Mouse band (f. 2022).
• 1977: Migue García, Argentine singer, son of Charly García.
• 1977: Rubén Martínez Caballero, Spanish footballer.
• 1978: Betty Monroe, Mexican actress.
• 1979: Ariel Carreño, Argentine soccer player.
• 1979: Viacheslav Malaféyev, Russian footballer.
• 1980: Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer.
• 1980: Sebastián Boscán, Colombian actor (f. 2021).
• 1982: Mariano Altuna, Argentine motor racing pilot.
• 1982: Landon Donovan, American footballer.
• 1982: Rodrigo de Souza Cardoso, Brazilian footballer.
• 1983: Julieta Zylberberg, an Argentine actress.
• 1984: Tomás de las Heras, actor, screenwriter and Argentine director.
• 1984: Zak Whitbread, American footballer.
• 1984: Artiom Rebrov, Russian footballer.
• 1985: Angela White, actress, Australian model.
• 1985: Whitney Port, designer, presenter and American model.
• 1986: Tom de Mul, Belgian footballer.
• 1986: Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1986: Park Min-young, South Korean actress
• 1987: Elmar Bjarnason, Icelandic footballer.
• 1990: Andrea Bowen, American actress and singer.
• 1990: Draymond Green, American basketball player.
• 1992: Erik Lamela, Argentine soccer player.
• 1992: Bernd Leno, German footballer.
• 1995: Bill Milner, British actor.
• 1996: Maverick López, Spanish singer
• 1996: Antonio Sanabria, Paraguayan footballer
• 1997: Xabier Santos, Chilean footballer.
• 1997: Freddie Woodman, English footballer.
• 1997: Martin Terrier, French footballer.
• 1997: Ali Al-Hassan, Saudi footballer.
• 1998: Giorgi Arabidze, Georgian footballer.
• 1998: Cristian Zabala, Argentine footballer.
• 1999: Brooklyn Beckham, British model.
• 1999: Bo Bendsneyder, a Dutch pilot.
• 1999: Michele Gazzoli, Italian cyclist.
• 1999: Enrique Clemente Maza, Spanish footballer.
• 1999: Dara O'Shea, Irish footballer.
• 1999: Juan Antonini, Argentine footballer.
• 1999: Valentin Gondouin, French athlete.
• 1999: Brooke Forde, American swimmer.
• 1999: Marc Echarri, Spanish footballer.
• 2000: Jorge Yriarte, Venezuelan footballer.
• 2000: Zhang Boheng, Chinese art gymnast.
• 2000: Kevin Rodriguez, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 2002: Tursunoy Jabborova, Uzbek halterophile.
• 2003: Park Sa-rang, South Korean actress.
• 2003: Leonardo Cerri, Italian footballer.
• 2003: Miki Juanola, Spanish footballer.

Deaths

• 1193: Saladin, Egyptian Sultan.
• 1370: Joan of Evreux, queen widow French.
• 1615: Hans von Aachen, German painter and educator (n. 1552).
• 1811: Mariano Moreno, journalist and Argentine patriot.
• 1811: Rafael Menacho, Spanish military.
• 1814: Carlos Spano, Spanish military at the service of Chile.
• 1814: Marcos Gamero, Chilean military.
• 1832: Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptian.
• 1838: José Simeón Cañas, ecclesiastical and political Salvadoran.
• 1852: Nikolai Vasílievich Gógol, a Ukrainian writer in Russian.
• 1858: Benoît Jules Mure, a naturalist and anarchocommunist French (n. 1809).
• 1858: Matthew Calbraith Perry, American naval officer.
• 1882: Alphonse Poitevin, French chemical
• 1884: Francisco Dueñas, Salvadoran politician.
• 1894: Arístides Rojas, a Venezuelan writer (n. 1826).
• 1916: Franz Marc, German painter.
• 1925: Moritz Moszkowski, Polish composer and pianist.
• 1926: Pedro Morales Pino, a Colombian musician and painter (n. 1863).
• 1927: Ira Remsen, American chemical.
• 1941: Ludwig Quidde, a German historian and pacifist, a Nobel Peace Prize in 1927.
• 1944: Ina Konstantínova, partisan and Soviet diarist (n. 1924).
• 1948: Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright.
• 1950: Rogelio Yrurtia, Argentine artist.
• 1950: Pablo González Garza, Mexican military and political (n. 1879).
• 1952: Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, nobel medical prize in 1932.
• 1957: Eloy Bullón Fernández, Spanish philosopher (n. 1879).
• 1960: Leonard Warren, American baritone (n. 1911).
• 1962: Matías Ramos, Mexican military and political (n. 1891).
• 1963: William Carlos Williams, American writer.
• 1974: Adolph Gottlieb American painter and sculptor.
• 1976: Antonio Iturmendi Bañales, Spanish carlist (n. 1903).
• 1977: Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (n. 1951).
• 1986: Ding Ling, Chinese writer.
• 1986: Richard Manuel, Canadian musician, of the band The Band.
• 1990: Hank Gathers, American basketball player (n. 1967).
• 1991: Pepe Iglesias, an Argentine actor (n. 1915).
• 1992: Néstor Almendros, director of Spanish photography.
• 1993: Miguel de Molina, Spanish flamenco artist (n. 1908).
• 1993: Thomas de Antequera, Spanish singer (n. 1920).
• 1994: John Candy, Canadian actor.
• 1997: Robert Henry Dicke, American astronomer.
• 1997: Carey Loftin, an American actor.
• 2002: Ugné Karvelis, writer, literary criticism, translator and Lithuanian diplomat; former wife of Julio Cortázar (n. 1935).
• 2003: Fedora Barbieri, mezzosoprano Italian (n. 1920).
• 2003: Dzhaba Ioseliani, a Georgian politician and criminal (n. 1926).
• 2003: Sébastien Japrisot, French writer, argumentist and director (n. 1931).
• 2003: Oliver Paynie Pearson, American zoologist and ethologist (n. 1915).
• 2003: Aníbal Ramos, a Spanish politician (n. 1945).
• 2004: Fernando Lazaro Carreter, Spanish philologist, director of the Royal Spanish Academy (n. 1923).
• 2004: Jean-Pierre Garen, a French doctor and writer (n. 1932).
• 2004: Wálter Gómez, Uruguayan soccer player.
• 2004: John McGeoch, British musician, of the Siouxsie band " the Banshees (n. 1955).
• 2004: Claude Nougaro, French singer.
• 2005: Rafael Montesinos, Spanish writer.
• 2006: Anzo (José Iranzo), Spanish painter.
• 2008: Gary Gygax, role-player and American writer.
• 2011: Eduardo Ferro, Argentine graphic humorist (n. 1917).
• 2011: Simon van der Meer, Dutch scientist, nobel physics award in 1984 (n. 1925).
• 2011: Ålenush Teriān, astronoma and Iranian-Armenian physics (n. 1920).
• 2013: Michael D. Moore, American actor and filmmaker of Canadian origin (n. 1914).
• 2018: Davide Astori, Italian footballer (n. 1987).
• 2019: Luke Perry, American actor (n. 1966).
• 2019: Keith Flint, British singer, musician and dancer (n. 1969).
• 2020: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat and lawyer, UN Secretary General between 1982 and 1991 (n. 1920).

Celebrations

• World Day of Obesity

Catholic saints list

• St. Casimir of Poland, Prince (1484)
• Saints Focio, Arquelao and Quirino of Nicomedia and seventeen companions, martyrs (s. III/IV)
• St Basin of Tréveris, bishop (705)
• San Apiano de Comacchio, monk (s. VIII)
• Saint Peter of Cava (1123).
• Beato Humberto III de Saboya, Count (1188)
• Blesseds Cristóbal Bales, Alejandro Blake and Nicolás Horner, martyrs (1590)
• Blessed Plácida Viel, virgin (1877)
• Blessed Juan Antonio Farina, bishop (1888)
• Blessed Miecislao Bohatkiewick, Ladislao Mackowiak and Estanislao Pyrtek, Priests and Martyrs (1942)