March 8

March 8 is the 67th (sixty-seventh) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 68th in leap years. There are 298 days left to end the year.

Events

• 415: in Alexandria (Egypt), a raging mob stoned to the philosopher, astronoma and Egyptian-Roman writer Hipatia (65).
• 1126: In Spain, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Leon, after the death of his mother the queen Urraca.
• 1545: In Paraguay, the encomenders sent Spain to the conqueror Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.
• 1576: Diego García de Palacio is the first European to report the existence of the ruins of Copán, at least in writing to his majesty King Felipe II of Spain, in his Copán ' s reports.
• 1576: In the region of Flanders—in the framework of the Eighteen Years War in which the Netherlands freed itself from the invasion of the Spanish Empire—after three days insepult for lack of funds, Spanish governor Luis de Requesens is buried.
• 1610: in Madrid, Spain, King Philip III provides for the establishment of the Catholic Inquisition in Cartagena de Indias (in present Colombia).
• 1678: In the Netherlands, the city of Ghent yields to 40 000 French soldiers.
• 1780: Russian declaration concerning armed neutrality, to limit the intrusion of the British Navy in the European seas.
• 1799: In Paris, France, a fire – apparently intentionally – destroys the Odeon Theatre.
• 1801: In Alexandria, Egypt, the British destroy the French expedition led by Napoleon.
• 1820: in Madrid, Spain, Fernando VII swears Constitution and suppress the Inquisition.
• 1836: in Madrid, Spain, Juan Álvarez Mendizábal has its third decree, which eliminated the religious corporations from regular clerics.
• 1839: In Madrid, Spain, the Normal School of Teachers opened.
• 1844: in Alicante (Spain) there is a liberal uprising known as Rebelión de Boné, which González Bravo will harden. The leader Pantaleón Boné and the rest of the rebels would be shot and known as the Martyrs of Liberty.
• 1856: in Madrid (Spain) the first stone of the Teatro de la Zarzuela is placed.
• 1861: in the Tuileries (France), Pablo Sarasate gives his first concert at the age of 17, before Napoleon III and his court.
• 1862: the eve of the naval battle of the ironclads, armoured ships of the American War of Secession. On the 8th, the confederate battleship Merrimac was presented at the Hampton-Roads rada destroying four conventional warships. The next day the northerners contracted with the battleship Monitor (submarine medium, smaller and faster).
• 1900: The Théatre Français is set on fire at the Universal Exhibition in Paris.
• 1900: German women direct a series of requests to the Reichstag to demand access to the university and the possibility of presenting themselves to oppositions.
• 1904: In Germany, the Bundesrat decides to lift the prohibition of the ministry to the Jesuits.
• 1907: in Austria, landstag decide to establish the general and compulsory vote.
• 1909: In the Vatican, Pope Pius X cancels the ban on mixed marriages in Hungary.
• 1910: at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen, the demand for universal suffrage for all women was reiterated and, on the proposal of Clara Zetkin, the International Women ' s Day was proclaimed on 8 March.
• 1910: in Spain, King Alfonso XIII authorizes Spanish women to undertake higher studies.
• 1910: in Italy, Marinetti publishes the Manifesto della letteratura futurista (‘Manifesto of Futuristic Literature’). The previous year had published in Le Figaro the foundational manifest of futurism.
• 1914: In Germany, Sweden and Russia, the International Day of Working Women is officially commemorated for the first time.
• 1914: In Quillota the Instituto Rafael Ariztía was founded by the Congregation of the Marist Brothers
• 1914: In Spain there are elections of deputies, prodigies in protests, riots, deaths and injuries. The Supreme Court cancels 25 minutes.
• 1917: In Russia, the February Revolution began with a demonstration on the occasion of the International Day of Working Women, and it is considered a precedent for the Russian Revolution (in October of this year).
• 1918: the great headquarters of the German forces moves to Spa (Belgium).
• 1921: At the departure of the Congress of Deputies (in Madrid) the President of the Government, Eduardo Dato, was murdered.
• 1921: In the city of Itá (Paraguay) the Olympic Club is created.
• 1922: in Spain the Maura-Cambó government falls, which is replaced by José Sánchez Guerra.
• 1922: The International Day of Working Women is celebrated for the first time in China.
• 1923: at the Central University of Madrid physicist Albert Einstein is invested Doctor honoris causa.
• 1923: In the Soviet Union, Lenin is forced to definitively abandon power because of his illness.
• 1927: in Hungary, the "new morality" decrees to confiscate the photographs of girls who show their knees.
• 1928: The Council of the League of Nations appeals to Spain and Brazil not to withdraw from the institution.
• 1928: In Italy, Benito Mussolini sends a letter to Parliament, in which he denies the sovereignty of the House.
• 1933: In Austria, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss stands in dictator to avoid the absorption of his country by Nazi Germany.
• 1933: at the Teatro Beatriz de Madrid, Federico García Lorca is his drama Blood balls.
• 1936: The International Day of Working Women is celebrated for the first time in Spain.
• 1937: in Spain, begins the Battle of Guadalajara.
• 1940: in the Dominican Republic he assumes the presidency Manuel Jesús Troncoso de la Concha.
• 1941: In the north of the Netherlands, the Government proclaims martial law because of the continuing disorders.
• 1942: The Japanese enter Rangun (Burma Capital), as part of the Burma campaign.
• 1942: the Dutch East Indies Campaign ends with the capitulation of the Dutch armed forces of Java.
• 1943: from Rome, John of Bourbon and Battenberg, heir to the Spanish throne, writes a letter to General Franco expressing his desire for a quick return to the monarchy, symbolized in his person.
• 1945: in Yugoslavia, the dictator Josip Broz Tito forms a government.
• 1948: In the United States, the Supreme Court declares the teaching of religion in state schools unconstitutional.
• 1950: In Germany, Foreign Minister Konrad Adenauer proposes a Franco-German union.
• 1954: in Spain, Lieutenant General Francisco Franco Salgado-Araujo is appointed new head of the military house of Francisco Franco.
• 1957: Egypt reopen the Suez Canal.
• 1957: In Rome, the First Spanish Film Week was opened with the film Tarde of bulls.
• 1959: in Mexico the poems are published Freedom under wordOctavio Paz.
• 1960: The Guadarrama tunnel project is approved in Spain.
• 1962: in the Goya Theatre of Madrid it is The shirtLauro Olmo.
• 1962: In Palestine, the Gaza region gains relative autonomy from Egypt.
• 1963: in Syria, a military coup takes power to a National Council formed by generals.
• 1963: in Montjuïc (Barcelona), nine people die for a landslide that crushed the barracks where they lived.
• 1965: As part of the Vietnam War, the first American troops arrive in Vietnam.
• 1966: On the beach of Palomares in the province of Almería (Spain), the Minister of Information and Tourism, Manuel Fraga, bathes in the company of the American ambassador, to deny the popular fear of the radioactivity of an American H bomb lost in the sea after an air accident.
• 1968: In Spain, the INI (National Institute of Industry) relies on the Ministry of Industry.
• 1969: In the Israeli and Egyptian Suez Canal, air duels and artillery fire are carried out.
• 1970: In Cyprus, a frustrated attack was carried out against the President, Archbishop Makarios.
• 1971: In New York, Muhammad Ali is defeated by the heavyweight boxing world champion, Joe Frazier.
• 1974: Paris opens Charles de Gaulle Airport.
• 1976: the former secretary of the FAI, Diego Abad de Santillán, returns to Spain.
• 1977: UN proclaimed 8 March Like International Day for the Rights of Women and International Peace.
• 1978: Somali troops leave the Ogden desert.
• 1979: China withdraws its troops from Vietnam.
• 1981: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Justice decrees the bankruptcy of 35 Sasetru group companies and dictates catches for several entrepreneurs.
• 1984: in Mauritania, Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla replaced Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya.
• 1984: in Spain is inaugurated new president of the Junta de Andalucía José Rodríguez de la Borbolla.
• 1986: In Santiago de Chile there is a massive demonstration of women against the dictator Augusto Pinochet, with 101 detainees and many injuries.
• 1986: In Iraq, the Islamic Yijad group demands the release of two prisoners, in exchange for the four kidnapped French journalists.
• 1987: in Mondragon (Guipúzcoa) is buried Domingo Iturbe Abasolo, TxominETA leader.
• 1990: In Colombia, the April 19 Movement delivers weapons in its camp in Santo Domingo. It thus ends one of the few successful peace processes in that country.
• 1990: in the German Federal Republic, the Bundestag (legislative assembly) accepts existing borders with Poland.
• 1993: France, Far Taconsby Pedro Almodóvar wins the Caesar award for the best foreign film.
• 1998: on the occasion of the International Day of Working Women, which coincides this year with the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, women from almost all countries go to the streets in many demonstrations.
• 1998: In Colombia, elections are held following a guerrilla offensive that caused at least 200 deaths in the week before the elections. The victory is for Ernesto Samper, who gets a comfortable majority in the Senate.
• 1999: in Ecuador, in full economic crisis, the Government decides to close all banks, and the Banking Board declares the Banking Fair.
• 2000: the network newspaper begins Digital Freedom.
• 2001: In Santiago de Chile, the First Chamber of the Court of Appeal confirms the prosecution against the ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet.
• 2001: in Cabo Cañaveral (Florida), the Discovery space shuttle is heading for the International Space Station (ISS) with three crew members on board to replace Expedition One.
• 2003: In the Czech Republic, 17 people die in a car accident.
• 2003: Interpol issued an international arrest warrant against former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori.
• 2004: In Iraq, the new Council signs a new constitution.
• 2004: In a U.S. prison (in Iraq) Abú Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front (LPF) dies from natural causes.
• 2005: in Fuenlabrada (Madrid), a young Moroccan is accused of collaborating with 11-M terrorists.
• 2005: Five civilian guards were killed when they dismantled an anti-terrorist control in the Burgos motorway, by a large tonnage truck whose driver fell asleep.
• 2005: in Spain, Ricardo Blázquez Pérez, bishop of Bilbao, replaces Cardinal Rouco Varela at the head of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
• 2005: A group of archaeologists ruled that the pharaoh Tutankamon was killed after studying the mummy with modern scanners.
• 2005: in Madrid, the Prince of Asturias inaugurates the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security.
• 2006: Wikipedia in Spanish reaches the figure of 100,000 articles.
• 2006: In Israel, Hamas' victory in Palestinian legislation and Ariel Sharon's hospitalization mark the beginning of the electoral campaign in that country.
• 2006: IAEA leaves in the hands of the UN Security Council the management of the nuclear crisis with Iran.
• 2006: In Spain, the Senate approves without amendment the reform of the Valencian Statute, agreed by the PP and the PSOE.
• 2006: In Valencia, a court finds four million euros in bank accounts of companies allegedly related to the former Pakistani minister, Benazir Bhutto.
• 2006: in Santoña, Spain, the ETA terrorist gang places a bomb at the headquarters of Falange Española without causing any damage to consideration.
• 2011: the centenary of International Women ' s Day is celebrated.
• 2012: in Buenos Aires, 110,000 fans from San Lorenzo de Almagro from all over the country, meet at the Plaza de Mayo to claim the back to Boedo (cf.)
• 2013: Bon Jovi publishes his sixteenth studio album and the last one with his historical guitarist Richie Sambora, What About Now.
• 2014: In the Indian Ocean, Malaysia Airlines flight 370, a Boeing 777-200, which had 227 passengers and 12 crew members, disappear without any trace. Until today, no remains, no bodies or the black box of the aircraft already mentioned have been found.
• 2017: in the Champions League, the Barcelona eliminates the Paris Saint Germain on the return of the eighth finals played in the Camp Nou, after winning it for 6-1, having the French team won for 4-0 in the one game played in Paris, for a 6-5 global in favor of the Catalans, being this the first and only time in the history of the European competition that a team managed to go back a elimination in which the rival had
• 2017: In the municipality of San José Pinula, in the department of Guatemala of the Republic of Guatemala the Tragedia of the Virgen de la Asunción Safe House was an arsonist catastrophe that occurred in this juvenile shelter. 19 girls suffocated in the place and 22 more died for burns.
• 2018: in Spain the first feminist general strike took place on the occasion of International Women's Day, which was highly secondary (5.3 million workers) and resulted in massive demonstrations throughout Spain.
• 2021: the Central Bank of Venezuela begins the circulation of three new monetary denominations: B$200 thousand, B$500 thousand and B$1 million. The latter, with a balance (at the date of its issue) of 52 cents of dollars.

Births

• 1286: John III, aristocrat breton.
• 1293: Beatriz de Castilla, queen consorte de Portugal y Algarve (f. 1359).
• 1495: John of God, a Spanish religious canonized by the Catholic Church (f. 1550).
• 1566: Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer.
• 1712: John Fothergill, British doctor.
• 1714: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German musician and composer.
• 1736: Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert, a French military and aristocrat (f. 1794).
• 1745: José de Mazarredo, Spanish navy (f. 1812).
• 1748: William V of Orange-Nassau, the Dutch aristocrat (f. 1806).
• 1761: Jan Potocki, a Polish scientist, historian and novelist (f. 1815).
• 1789: Miguel Barragán, Mexican military and political (f. 1836).
• 1803: Juan Manuel de Manzanedo, a Spanish merchant and banker (f. 1882).
• 1806: Antonio María Esquivel, Spanish painter (f. 1857).
• 1807: Juan Bautista Thorne, Argentine-American marine and military (f. 1885).
• 1815: Juan María Acebal and Gutiérrez, an Asturian writer.
• 1822: Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor.
• 1827: Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (f. 1875).
• 1838: Francisco Romero Robledo, Spanish politician (f. 1906).
• 1839: Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (f. 1913).
• 1841: Valentin Almirall, politician and Spanish journalist (f. 1904).
• 1847: Cesáreo Guillermo y Bastardo, Dominican President.
• 1859: Kenneth Grahame, British writer.
• 1867: Gregorio de Laferrère, politician and Argentine playwright (f. 1913).
• 1872: Anna Held, Polish actress.
• 1875: Franco Alfano, Italian composer and pianist.
• 1877: Luis Caballero, Mexican military and political (f. 1932).
• 1879: Otto Hahn, German chemist.
• 1879: Ernesto Laroche, Uruguayan painter (f. 1940).
• 1883: Nemesio García Naranjo. lawyer, politician, journalist, writer and Mexican professor (f. 1962).
• 1885: Juan de Dios Filiberto, Argentine musician (f. 1964).
• 1886: Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, nobel medical prize in 1950 (f. 1972).
• 1891: Sam Jaffe, American actor (f. 1984).
• 1892: Mississippi John Hurt, American blues guitarist and singer (f. 1966).
• 1892: Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (f. 1979).
• 1897: Josep Pla, Catalan writer and journalist (f. 1981).
• 1905: Aleksandr Rodímtsev, Soviet military (f. 1977)
• 1907: Plácido Domingo Ferrer, Spanish baritone (f. 1987).
• 1907: Constantinos Karamanlís, Greek politician (f. 1998).
• 1909: Beatrice Shilling, aeronautical engineer and British motorcycle pilot (f. 1990).
• 1910: Claire Trevor, American actress (f. 2000).
• 1910: Gabriel Paris, a Colombian military and president (f. 2008).
• 1911: Alan Hovhaness, American composer (f. 2000).
• 1911: María Bonita (Maria Gomes de Oliveira), Brazilian outlaw (f. 1938).
• 1915: Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, singer and Finnish actor (f. 1979).
• 1916: Jeanette Campbell, Argentine swimmer (f. 2003).
• 1917: Ernst von Glasersfeld, German philosopher (f. 2010).
• 1921: Sergio Onofre Jarpa, a Chilean diplomat and politician (f. 2020).
• 1921: Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (f. 2008).
• 1922: Ralph H. Baer, engineer, pioneer of video games and German-American engineer (f. 2014).
• 1923: José María Forqué, Spanish film director and producer (f. 1995).
• 1924: Anthony Caro, British sculptor (f. 2013).
• 1925: Marta Lynch, an Argentine writer (f. 1985).
• 1926: Josefina Aldecoa, writer and Spanish pedagogue (f. 2011).
• 1926: Thelma del Río, actress and vedette argentina (f. 1998).
• 1926: Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (f. 2001).
• 1927: Hugo Avendaño, baritone and Mexican actor (f. 1998).
• 1927: Stanisław Kania, Polish politician (f. 2020).
• 1931: Neil Postman, American cultural critic (f. 2003).
• 1932: Silvia Derbez, Mexican actress (f. 2002).
• 1933: Fernando González Bernáldez, Spanish ecologist (f. 1992).
• 1933: Luca Ronconi actor, director of theatre and Italian opera of Tunisian origin (f. 2015).
• 1934: Martí Vergés, Spanish footballer.
• 1935: José Segú, Spanish cyclist (f. 2010).
• 1936: Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (f. 1982).
• 1937: Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda between 1973 and 1994 (f. 1994).
• 1939: Robert Tear, British tenor (f. 2011).
• 1940: Manuel Núñez Encabo, a Spanish jurist and politician.
• 1940: Johnny Ventura, Dominican singer and politician (f. 2021).
• 1941: Palito Ortega, Argentinean singer and politician.
• 1942: Ann Packer, British athlete.
• 1943: Lynn Redgrave, an American actress of British origin (f. 2010).
• 1943: Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Italian writer
• 1944: Gilbert Chauny de Porturas-Hoyle, diplomat, architect and Peruvian genealogist (f. 2021).
• 1944: Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist.
• 1945: Micky Dolenz, American actor and musician, of the band The Monkees.
• 1945: Anselm Kiefer, German painter.
• 1946: José Manuel Lara Bosch, Spanish entrepreneur (f. 2015).
• 1947: Florentino Pérez, entrepreneur and Spanish football leader.
• 1947: Carole Bayer Sager, American singer.
• 1947: Michael S. Hart, American writer, businessman and philanthropist (f. 2011).
• 1949: Teofilo Cubillas, Peruvian footballer.
• 1951: John McTiernan, American filmmaker.
• 1953: Armando José Sequera, Venezuelan writer.
• 1954: Bob Brozman, American guitarist (f. 2013).
• 1955: Mónica Gutiérrez, an Argentine journalist.
• 1955: Carmen Santos, Spanish writer.
• 1955: Carlos Vera, journalist and Ecuadorian political activist.
• 1956: Laurie Cunningham, British footballer.
• 1957: Clive Burr, British drummer, of the Iron Maiden band.
• 1957: Cynthia Rothrock, American martial artist and actress.
• 1957: Helga Schauerte-Maubouet German organist.
• 1958: Gary Numan, British musician.
• 1959: Aidan Quinn, American actor.
• 1961: Camryn Manheim, American actress.
• 1961: Roberto Blandón, Mexican actor.
• 1964: Silvia Marsó, Spanish actress.
• 1965: Hamed Bakayoko, a Moroccan politician.
• 1967: Udo Quellmalz, yudoca German.
• 1968: Michael Bartels, German motor racing pilot.
• 1971: Gabriela Frías, journalist and Mexican economist.
• 1971: Wilmer López, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1973: Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer, exvocalist of the band The Gathering.
• 1974: Carlos Baute, Venezuelan singer.
• 1975: Jenny Cavallo, Chilean actress.
• 1975: Ana Karina Casanova, Venezuelan television model and actress.
• 1976: Gaz Coombes, British musician, of the Supergrass band.
• 1976: Freddie Prinze, Jr., American actor.
• 1977: James Van Der Beek, American actor.
• 1977: Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer.
• 1977: Nuria C. Botey, fantasy writer, science fiction and Spanish terror.
• 1977: Petar Angelov, Macedonian basketball player.
• 1977: René Pinochet, Chilean actor.
• 1978: Anaílson Brito Noleto, Brazilian footballer.
• 1979: Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer.
• 1979: Tom Chaplin, British singer, of the Keane band.
• 1979: Carolina Varleta, Chilean actress.
• 1979: Elexis Monroe, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 1980: Deili Custodio da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 1980: Stephen Milne, Australian footballer.
• 1981: Joost Posthuma, Dutch cyclist.
• 1981: Pablo Aurrecochea, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1982: David Lorenzo Magariño, Spanish writer.
• 1982: Kat Von D, Mexican tattooist.
• 1983: André Santos, Brazilian footballer.
• 1984: Sasha Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player.
• 1985: Ewa Sonnet, Polish singer and model.
• 1987: Milana Vayntrub, American actress and comedian of Uzbek origin.
• 1987: Daniel Quintana Sosa, Spanish footballer.
• 1988: Diego Biseswar, Dutch footballer.
• 1989: Ander Iturraspe, Spanish footballer.
• 1989: Radosav Petrović, Serbian footballer.
• 1990: Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player.
• 1990: Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer.
• 1990: Pietro Terracciano, Italian footballer.
• 1991: Devon Werkheiser, American actor.
• 1991: Axel Sjöberg, Swedish footballer.
• 1991: Róbert Mak, Slovak footballer.
• 1991: Mika, Portuguese footballer.
• 1992: Charlie Ray, American actress.
• 1992: Cedric Mabwati, Congolese footballer.
• 1993: José Antonio Caro Martínez, Spanish footballer.
• 1994: Chris Philipps, Luxembourg footballer.
• 1994: Duncan Watmore, English footballer.
• 1994: Pablo Dyego, Brazilian footballer.
• 1994: Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (f. 2014).
• 1995: Keita Baldé, Spanish-English footballer.
• 1998: Dylan Andrade, Honduran footballer.
• 1999: Ibrahima Diallo, French footballer.
• 1999: Josep Puerto, Spanish basketball player.
• 1999: Luis Ureta, Chilean footballer.
• 1999: David Ledesma, Argentine soccer player.
• 1999: Nazareno Bazán, Argentine soccer player.
• 1999: Stacey-Ann Williams, Jamaican athlete.
• 2000: Jonas David, German footballer.
• 2000: Alan Souza, Brazilian footballer.
• 2000: Rekeem Harper, British footballer.
• 2000: Keyvan Andres, German-Iranian motor racing pilot.
• 2002: Tatsuru Saito, Japanese yudoca.
• 2004: Kit Connor, British actor.

Deaths

• 415: Hipatia of Alexandria, philosopher, astronomer and Egyptian-Roman writer (n. 355).
• 819: Li Shidao, lord of the Chinese war.
• 1126: Urraca I de León, queen of lion (n. 1081).
• 1223: Wincenty Kadłubek, bishop and Polish historian (n. 1161).
• 1365: Noguk, Korean queen.
• 1441: Margaret of Burgundy Dampierre, French aristocrat, daughter of Philip II of Burgundy.
• 1550: John of God, a Portuguese religious founder of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God (n. 1495).
• 1641: Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer and explorer (n. 1587).
• 1702: William III of Orange, British king (n. 1650).
• 1723: Christopher Wren, English architect (n. 1632).
• 1771: Louis August le Clerc, sculptor and Franco-danese academic (n. 1688).
• 1824: Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, a French lawyer and politician (n. 1753).
• 1844: Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, French Marshal, King of Sweden and Norway.
• 1869: Hector Berlioz, French composer (n. 1803).
• 1874: Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President (n. 1800).
• 1888: William I, German emperor (n. 1797).
• 1889: John Ericsson, Swedish engineer and inventor.
• 1898: Frascuelo (Salvador Sánchez Povedano), Spanish bullfighter.
• 1917: Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (n. 1838).
• 1920: Rafael Obligado, Argentine poet and writer (n. 1851).
• 1921: Eduardo Dato Iradier, Spanish politician (n. 1856).
• 1923: Johannes Diderik van der Waals, a Dutch physicist, a nobel prize of physics in 1910 (n. 1837).
• 1924: Mathilde von Rothschild, composer, patron and German baroness (n. 1832).
• 1927: Manuel Gondra, Paraguayan politician (n. 1871).
• 1930: William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President (n. 1857).
• 1935: Hachikō, Japanese dog that was the inspiration of the film Always beside you, Hachiko (n. 1923).
• 1938: Manuel García Prieto, Spanish politician.
• 1941: Sherwood Anderson, American narrator and writer (n. 1876).
• 1941: José Serrano, Spanish composer.
• 1942: José Raúl Capablanca, a Cuban chessist (n. 1888).
• 1945: Frederick Bligh Bond, archaeologist and English architect (n. 1864).
• 1957: Othmar Schoeck, director of Swiss orchestra and composer.
• 1961: Thomas Beecham, director of British orchestra and musician (n. 1879).
• 1962: Adrián Recinos, a Guatemalan historian (n. 1886).
• 1971: Harold Lloyd, American comic actor (n. 1893).
• 1973: Benjamin of Arriba and Castro, Spanish cardinal (n. 1886).
• 1975: George Stevens, American filmmaker (n. 1904).
• 1980: Francisco Gaona, educator, social activist, trade unionist and Paraguayan historian (n. 1901).
• 1982: Walter Plunkett, American designer of cinema costumes (n. 1912).
• 1983: Chabuca Granda, Peruvian composer and singer (n. 1920).
• 1983: William Walton, British composer (n. 1902).
• 1987: Manuel Viola, a Spanish painter (n. 1916).
• 1989: Yelizaveta Býkova, a Soviet chessist (n. 1913).
• 1993: Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (n. 1914).
• 1995: Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer, from the Helloween band (n. 1965).
• 1997: Niel Steenbergen, a Dutch artist (n. 1911).
• 1997: Carlos Palenque, singer, television presenter and Bolivian politician (n. 1944).
• 1999: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (n. 1914).
• 1999: Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (n. 1914).
• 2001: Ninette de Valois, British dancer (n. 1898).
• 2003: Karen Morley, American actress (n. 1909).
• 2003: Juan José Vega, historian, university professor and Peruvian journalist (n. 1932).
• 2005: César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (n. 1924).
• 2006: Jorge Eielson, Peruvian poet of the 50th Generation (n. 1924).
• 2009: Hank Locklin, American singer (n. 1918)
• 2010: Salvador Cardenal, Nicaraguan singer (n. 1960).
• 2011: Mike Starr, American bassist, of the Alice in Chains band (n. 1966).
• 2012: Luz Méndez de la Vega, writer, journalist, actress and Guatemalan poetess (n. 1919).
• 2013: Peter Banks, British guitarist, from the Yes band (n. 1947).
• 2015: Sam Simon, screenwriter, and American television producer (n. 1955).
• 2015: Gerardo Sofovich, driver, screenwriter and Argentine producer (n. 1937).
• 2016: George Martin, producer, musician and British composer (n. 1926).
• 2018: Kate Wilhelm, American writer (n. 1928).
• 2020: Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor (n. 1929).
• 2021: Cepillin, clown, television presenter and Mexican singer (n. 1946).
• 2022: Tomás Boy, retired footballer and Mexican coach (n. 1951).

Celebrations

• International Women ' s Day
• Hospital Employee Day
• International Women ' s Beer Development Day

Catholic saints list

• Our Lady of Tears
• Saint John of God(f. 1550)
• San Poncio de Cartagodeacon (s. III)
• Saints Apollonius and Antinoo Philemonmartyrs (f. 287)
• San Provin de Como, bishop (f. c. 420)
• San Senano de Cathaigabad (s. VI)
• San Felix de Domnoc, bishop (f. c. 646)
• San Teofilacto de Nicomedia, bishop (f. c. 840)
• San Humfrido de Thérouanne, bishop (f. 871)
• San Litifredo de Pavia, bishop (f. 874)
• St. Dutaco of Ross, bishop (f. c. 1065)
• San Veremundo de Iracheabad (f. c. 1095)
• San Esteban de Obazinaabad (f. 1159)
• beato Vicente Kadlubek, bishop (f. 1223)
• Beato Faustino Míguez(f. 1925)