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October 12 is the 285th (two hundred and eighty-fifth) day of the year—the 286th (two-hundred and eighty-sixth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days left to end the year.

Events

539 a. C.: Gobrias, Persian governor of Gutium, invades Babylon without battle (Ciro arrives several days later).
91 B.C.: In Shanxi, China, an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 is recorded in the seismological scale of Richter (I=7). Leave a balance of “many” victims.
1216: In The Wash (England), King John I of England loses the jewels of his crown.
1279: In Japan, Nichiren — the founding Buddhist message of Nichiren Buddhism — writes Dai-Gohonzon.
1398: Vitautas the Great of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Order sign the peace agreement known as the Treaty of Salynas; for the third time the prince promises the knights the Samogitia.
1492: On Guanahaní Island (Bahamas) the three ships of Christopher Columbus landed. The fact will be known for traditional historiography as the discovery of America, which marks the beginning of the colonization of the continent by the Europeans.
1535: Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Spain by the Royal Section
1570: in New Spain (Mexico) is founded the Villa of our Lady of the Assumption of Zalaya (the current Celaya).
1582: in Spain, Italy, Poland and Portugal, this day is skipped – between Thursday, October 4, 1582 and Friday, October 15 – due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar.
1609: In London the teen Thomas Ravenscroft publishes the song Three Blind Mice (Three blind mice).
1634: In the morning, the coast of Germany and the Netherlands is swept away by a stormy tide (the Burchardi flood). There is a balance of 8,000 to 15,000 people drowned.
1654: In the Netherlands, an explosion devastated the city of Delft. More than 100 people die.
1681: In London (England) a woman is publicly beaten for the crime of engaging in politics.
1709: In Mexico, after a democratic vote, the Villa de San Francisco de Cuéllar (later San Felipe del Real Chihuahua, currently Chihuahua) was founded.
1737: In the early morning, the city of Calcutta (capital of Bengal, in India) receives in the midst of a storm (cayeron 380 mm of water in 6 h) a cyclonic jaw of several meters high, generated by a cyclone. Only in Calcutta—who at that time had 20,000 inhabitants— 3000 people die. The number of 300,000 people who died may be exaggerated, and the wave of "12 m high" (possibly less). Some consider it a tsunami.
1773: In Virginia (United States) the first Asylum for Insane and Disordered Minds is opened.
1780: In the Antilles Islands (Mar Caribe) it is the third day of the Great Hurricane of 1780, the first hurricane with the largest number of fatalities from which data are recorded (22,000 direct deaths, 27,000 total deaths). It will last until October 16.
1792: In New York, Columbus Day is celebrated for the first time (Columbus Day).
1793: At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill the oldest building in an American university is opened.
1810: Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to the first Oktoberfest to celebrate the marriage of Ludwig I of Bavaria with Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1822: in Brazil, Peter I is declared a constitutional emperor.
1823: In Scotland, Charles Macintosh sells the first waterproof.
1825: in Sarandí (Uruguay), the Uruguayan patriots defeat the Brazilian invaders in the battle of Sarandí.
1847: Siemens AG is founded in Germany.
1849: The city of Manizales is founded in Colombia.
1850: The first female medical university is opened in Pennsylvania.
1864: in Mexico, up to the city of Chihuahua President Benito Juárez.
1881: In the southeast of the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, the village of Necochea is founded.
1884: At the southern end of Argentinian Patagonia, Augusto Lasserre founded the village of Ushuaia.
1886: In Argentina, Miguel Juárez Celman assumes the presidency of the nation.
1892: The oath of allegiance to the American flag is held for the first time in U.S. public schools. In Uruguay, the first graduate of Uruguayan engineers at the Teatro Solís.
1899: South Africa's war is declared war on England.
1901: In the United States, President Theodore Roosevelt officially baptized the Executive Mansion as the "White House".
1902: In Venezuela begins the Battle of La Victoria.
1903: In Paraguay the Guaraní football club is founded.
1904: In Buenos Aires the Club Atlético Atlanta is founded.
1910: in Buenos Aires, Roque Sáenz Peña assumes the presidency.
1910: Coritiba Foot Ball Club is founded in Brazil.
1913: In Cordoba the Club Atlético Talleres was founded.
1915: In World War I, British nurse Edith Cavell is shot by the Germans for helping allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
1916: Club América is founded in Mexico.
1917: the First Battle of Passchendaele began in the First World War.
1923: Costa Rica creates the Costa Rican Academy of Language.
1924: the Colombian Federation of Football is founded.
1925: the University of Guadalajara was founded.
1927: The Dominican Academy of Language is created in the Dominican Republic.
1928: Boston uses an artificial respirator for the first time.
1928: Hippolyte Yrigoyen swears for the second time as president of Argentina.
1929: In the southern end of Chilean Patagonia the village of Coyhaique, capital of the Aysén region, is founded.
1931: in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the statue of Christ Redeemer is inaugurated.
1933: In the United States, the Department of Justice purchases the Army's disciplinary barracks on the island of Alcatraz.
1937: in the farms located along the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the Dominican police perpetrates the Masacre del Perejil, where they died between 20,000 and 37,000 Haitian men, women, children and elderly.
1939: In Campana, Argentina, the Club Atlético Puerto Nuevo is founded.
1941: In Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), this day and the next, the Nazis kill 11,000 Jews.
1942: As part of the Second World War, the Japanese fleet retreats after the defeat of the Battle of Cape Esperanza. Commander Aritomo Gotō dies from the wounds sustained in the front, and two Japanese destroyers are sinned by the allied air strike.
1945: in Paso de los Libres (Argentina) and Uruguayan (Brazil) the new Agustín P. Justo - Getulio Vargas International Bridge is enabled to the public. Two years later, Presidents Juan Domingo Perón (Argentina) and Eurico Gaspar Dutra (Brazil) will officially open it.
1945: on the island of Cuba, a hurricane affects a narrow strip of the provinces of Camagüey and Las Villas.
1946: In Trujillo (Peru) the Mansiche Stadium is inaugurated.
1949: In Pasto, Colombia, the football club is founded.
1951: The National Liberation Party was founded in Costa Rica.
1953: in the Plymouth Theatre (New York) the play is released The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.
1959: in Lima, Peru, a group of leftists are expelled from the APRA party. They will later form the APRA Rebelde.
1960: at UN headquarters (New York, United States), in the framework of the Cold War, Nikita Jrushchov puts a foot on his desk to protest a statement by the representative of the Philippines for the policy of the USSR in Eastern Europe.
1960: In the Hibiya Hall (Tokio), the nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi (17) assassinated with a katana the socialist politician Inejirō Asanuma (42) during a speech. The TV cameras captured the whole scene.
1962: In the United States, Columbus Day storm hits the Pacific Northwest coast, with record-speed winds: 46 dead and over $230 million in damage.
1962: 155 meters underground, in the U9q area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:00 (local time) United States detonates its 7 kiloton Roanoke atomic bomb. At 9:00, the Wolverine bomb is detonated, 73 metres underground, less than 20 kilotons. It is the bombs 291 and 292 of the 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
1963: in Argentina, Arturo Umberto Illia becomes the 35th president.
1963: in Buenos Aires (Argentina), young Peronists steal the sable of José de San Martín.
1964: the Soviet Union places Vosjod 1 in Earth orbit. It is the first ship with crew of several people and the first flight without space suits.
1966: the crisis of Anacoco between Guyana and Venezuela on the sovereignty of the eastern part of the island of Anacoco, a fluvial island of 28 km2 in the Cuyuní River, part of the boundary of the disputed area between the two countries by the Guayana Esquiba.
1967: the city of Tuluá (Colombia), inaugurates its stadium and with it, the first athletic games in the department of Valle del Cauca.
1967: In the United States, Secretary of State Dean Rusk says at a press conference that Congress' peace proposals were useless because of the North Vietnam opposition.
1968: until then Spanish provinces of Fernando Poo and Río Muni are independent, which become the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
1968: The 19th Olympic Games are opened in Mexico.
1968: The rock group El Tri was born in Mexico City.
1969: An anonymous call to DJ Russ Gibb from Dearborn's WKNR-FM radio (Michigan State) states that the beatle Paul McCartney is dead, giving rise to a well-known urban legend.
1970: U.S. President Richard Nixon announced he will withdraw 40,000 U.S. soldiers from Vietnam before Christmas.
1972: in the aircraft carrier USS Kitty HawkOn a trip to the Gulf of Tonkín, more than 100 Marines are braided in a racist fight. On the same day, the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 takes off with 45 people aboard, from the city of Montevideo, to the city of Santiago de Chile; the next day (the 13th day) would begin for passengers a 72-day odyssey of survival.
1973: In the midst of an immense popular party throughout Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón (78) – after returning from exile after his last overthrow (in the coup d’état of September 1955) and winning the elections with 63% of the votes – assumes for the third time the position of president.
1973: 416 meters underground, in the U12n.07 area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:00 (local time) United States detonates its 8 kiloton Roanoke atomic bomb.
1975: The Day of National Unity has been celebrated in the Arab Democratic Republic.
1976: In China, the government announced that Hua Guofeng will be the successor of the late Mao Tse-tung as president of the Communist Party of China.
1976: The new Basilica of Guadalupe was inaugurated at the Tepeyac hill in Mexico City, and the Virgin's limestone was transferred to its current location.
1979: In the Western Pacific, during the Tip typhoon, the world record low pressure 870 hPa.
1983: in Japan, a four-year prison sentence to Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei for accepting a $2 million bribe from the American company Lockheed.
1984: in Brighton (United Kingdom), Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA group bomb that destroyed her bathroom two minutes after she used it.
1986: Isabel II and her husband, Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, visit the People's Republic of China.
1988: In South Yarra (a suburb of Melbourne, Australia) two policemen are executed as revenge.
1988: at the Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco, California), the company NeXT launches its computer.
1991: In Kyrgyzstan, the Supreme Soviet of the Republic confirms Askar Akayev as president.
1992: in the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II visits for the second time to Saint Dominic of Guzman and for the first time to the Basilica of Our Lady of the Altagracia, which is in the city of Higüey.
1992: in Seville the Universal Exhibition is closed.
1994: At Venus, NASA lost radial contact with the Magellan probe (which was probably burned in the atmosphere on 13 or 14 October).
1994: the ancient archbishop of Mérida is restored in a massive religious event held at the scene of the Roman theatre in the city. The temple of Santa Maria recovers its cathedral dignity.
1997: The massacre of Sidi Daoud is taking place in Algeria: 43 killed in a false roadblock.
1998: The Congress of the United States dictates the Law on Digital Rights.
1999: In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf defeats Nawaz Sharif in an unscrupulous coup d ' état.
1999: it is estimated that the inhabitant is born 6 billion of the Earth.
2000: in Aden (Yemen) the U.S. vessel USS Cole is severely damaged by two suicides, killing 17 crew members and wounding 40.
2001: United States television programme America's Most Wanted presents — at the request of President Bush — the photos of the world's 22 most wanted terrorists.
2001: they declare 12 October as the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction.
2002: in Bali, Indonesia, an attack attributed to Al-Qaeda kills 202 people and hurts more than 300.
2003: in the Provincial Route 6 (Buenos Aires), known as the route of death today, four young people suffer a serious accident due to the negligence of the company José Cartellone Construcciones Civiles, which reconstructed the highway.
2003: In Randilovshchina (Bielorrusia), thirty patients died in a psychiatric hospital.
2003: Michael Schumacher achieved in the Japan Grand Prix his sixth Formula 1 world championship, placing himself as the leader of all time in titles.
2004: Canadian band Sum 41 released its fourth album Chuck..
2005: in China takes off the second manned space flight Shenzhou 6taking astronauts Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hăishèng to five days' orbit.
2006: France has a law that makes the denial of the Armenian genocide an offence.
2006: In the west of New York state, the low temperatures of autumn generate a snowstorm (1.5 m high), which cuts power for two weeks and destroys 5 million trees.^{[chuckles]required]}
2011: The United States Congress approves the free trade agreement with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
2013: Nintendo 2DS launch, Nintendo's new laptop console. It is a review of the Nintendo 3DS, group to which the Nintendo 2DS belongs.
2013: World launch of Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, new video games of the Pokémon saga for Nintendo 3DS and 2DS.
2013: Colapso de la Torre 6 del Conjunto Residencial Space, in Medellín, Colombia.
2014: Start the Indian Super League 2014, the new biggest club championship in India.
2016: The Governor of Veracruz of Ignacio de la Llave (Mexico) Javier Duarte de Ochoa resigns from governor for accusations of corruption and illicit enrichment.

Births

1008: Japanese emperor Go-Ichijō (f. 1036).
1490: Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (f. 1548).
1537: Edward VI, English king (f. 1553).
1558: Maximilian III, Austrian governor (f. 1618).
1558: Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (f. 1651).
1580: Hortensio Félix Paravicino, speaker and Spanish poet of the Golden Age (f. 1633).
1656: Juan de Goyeneche, editor, journalist and Spanish politician (f. 1735).
1719: Ignaz Franz, German theologian (f. 1790).
1745: Felix Maria Samaniego, a Spanish writer (f. 1801).
1792: Christian Gmelin, German chemist (f. 1860).
1794: José María Luis Mora, priest, politician, ideologist and Mexican historian (f. 1850).
1798: Peter IV of Portugal, Portuguese king (in 1826), first emperor of Brazil between 1826 and 1831 (f. 1834).
1810: Nísia Floresta, a Brazilian writer (f. 1885).
1822: María Josefa Zozaya de Garza, a Mexican patriot (f. 1858).
1827: George Lawson, botanist and Canadian proteryologist (f. 1895).
1855: Arthur Nikisch, director of Hungarian orchestra and musician (f. 1922).
1860: Daniela von Bülow, a German pianist and designer (f. 1940).
1860: Émile Pouget, a French communist anarchist (f. 1931).
1865: Arthur Harden, British biochemical, nobel chemistry award in 1929 (f. 1940).
1866: Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (f. 1937).
1872: Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer (f. 1958).
1873: Federico Tedeschini, an Italian archbishop (f. 1959).
1875: Aleister Crowley, writer, poet, philosopher and British occultist (f. 1947).
1880: Louis Hemon, French novelist (f. 1913).
1880: Artémides Zatti, an Italian-Argentine religious, a Catholic Blessed (f. 1951).
1881: Carlos López Buchardo, Argentine composer (f. 1948).
1881: Carl Friedrich Roewer, German botanist (f. 1963).
1884: Luis López de Mesa, a Colombian scientist and humanist (f. 1967).
1885: Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer (f. 1957).
1890: Luís de Freitas Branco, Portuguese composer (f. 1955).
1891: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, philosopher, mystical, Carmelite religious, martyr and holy German of Jewish origin. (f. 1942).
1891: Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese soldier and politician (f. 1945).
1896: Antenor Patiño, Bolivian businessman (f. 1982).
1896: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975 (f. 1981).
1898: Félix Sesúmaga, Spanish footballer (f. 1925).
1900: Luis Alberto Sánchez, lawyer, jurist, philosopher, historian and Peruvian politician (f. 1994).
1902: André Prudhommeaux, anarchist French editor (f. 1968).
1904: Ding Ling, Chinese writer (f. 1986).
1904: Ivan Piatyjin, Soviet military pilot (f. 1971)
1906: Francis Hong Yong-ho, North Korean cardinal (disappeared after 1949).
1909: Philip Hershkovitz, American zoologist (f. 1997).
1910: Margot Moles Piña, Spanish sportsman specializing in athletics, hockey, swimming and skiing. (f.1987)
1911: Enrique Cahen Salaberry, Argentine filmmaker (f. 1991).
1912: Dionisio Ridruejo, Spanish writer and politician (f. 1975).
1913: Leo Fleider, Argentine filmmaker (f. 1977).
1917: Roque Gastón Maspoli, Uruguayan porter (f. 2004).
1918: Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Spanish architect (f. 2000).
1918: William Thayer, Chilean lawyer, academic and political (f. 2018).
1919: André Casanova, French composer (f. 2009).
1920: Emilio Vieyra, Argentine filmmaker (f. 2010).
1920: Antonina Zubkova, Soviet aviator (f.1950).
1921: Jaroslav Drobný, Czech tennis player (f. 2001).
1925: Ernesto Schoo, writer, journalist, critic and Argentine writer (f. 2013).
1926: César Pelli, Argentine architect (f. 2019).
1928: Türkân Akyol, Turkish politics, medical and academic (f. 2017).
1931: Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist; one of the parents of object-oriented programming (f. 2002).
1932: Ned Jarrett, a pilot and a U.S. motorist journalist.
1933: Guido Molinari, Canadian painter of the abstract current (f. 2004).
1934: Richard Meier, American architect.
1935: Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (f. 2007).
1939: Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (f. 2019).
1939: Clément Rosset, French philosopher (f. 2018).
1941: Frank Alamo, French singer (f. 2012).
1941: Jovita Díaz, singer, litrist, composer and Argentine actress (f. 2015).
1942: Rosaura Barahona, Mexican journalist and writer (f. 2017).
1943: Lin Shaye, American actress.
1944: Angela Rippon, British journalist and presenter.
1947: Manuel Asur, Spanish poet.
1949: Carlos "el Chacal", mercenario (exaggerant KGB) and Venezuelan revolutionary.
1952: Gonzalo Santonja, writer and Spanish literary critic.
1954: Xuacu Amieva, Spanish gaitero.
1955: Ante Gotovina, Croatian military.
1956: David Vanian, British singer, The Damned band.
1960: Hiroyuki Sanada, martial artist, Japanese actor and singer.
1961: Miguel Porlán Chendo, Spanish footballer.
1961: Reynaldo Sevencase, Argentine journalist.
1962: Carlos Bernard, American actor.
1962: Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian politician, president between 2004 and 2009.
1963: Satoshi Kon, Japanese filmmaker.
1963: Hilda Lizarazu, Argentine singer.
1964: Francisco Gattorno, Cuban actor.
1965: Gerardo Ingaramo, Argentine lawyer and politician (f. 2011).
1965: Oscar Passet, Argentine footballer.
1966: Wim Jonk, Dutch footballer.
1966: Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish singer.
1966: Roberto Sensini, player and Argentine football coach.
1968: Hugh Jackman, Australian actor.
1969: Judit Mascó, Spanish model.
1970: Kirk Cameron, American actor.
1970: Pilar Castro, Spanish actress.
1970: Origa, Russian singer.
1970: Charlie Ward, American pro basketball player.
1972: Juan Manuel Silva, Argentine racing pilot.
1975: Marion Jones, American athlete.
1976: Kajsa Bergqvist, Swedish athlete.
1977: Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer.
1978: Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist.
1980: Soledad Pastorutti, Argentine singer.
1980: Ledley King, British footballer.
1981: Jack Michael Martínez, Dominican basketball player.
1981: Shola Ameobi, Nigerian and British footballer.
1982: Jossimar Mosquera, Colombian footballer.
1983: Gastón Fernández, Argentine footballer.
1985: Ilson Pereira Dias Júnior, Brazilian footballer.
1986: Tyler Blackburn, American actor.
1986: Christhian Stuani, Uruguayan footballer.
1987: Annie Oliv, Swedish model.
1989: Paulo Henrique Ganso, Brazilian footballer.
1990: Melody, Spanish singer.
1990: Javiera Errázuriz, Chilean athlete.
1992: Taylor Horn, American singer and actress.
1992: Josh Hutcherson, American actor.
1993: Ketel Mars, Dominican baseball player.
1995: Antonio Romero Boza, Spanish footballer.
1996: Miku Itō, Japanese seiyū.
1996: Otis Livingston II, American basketball player.
1997: Nikola Milenković, Serbian footballer.
1997: Agustín Loser, Argentine volleyballist.
2001: Raymond Ochoa, American actor.

Deaths

632: Edwin de Northumbria, king of Deira and Bernicia between 616 and 633 (n. c. 586).
638: Honorius I, Roman pope.
1320: Miguel Paleologist, the Roman co-emperator of the East (n. 1277).
1492: Piero della Francesca, Italian painter and mathematician (n. c. 1415).
1600: Luis de Molina, priest, theologian and Spanish jurist (n. 1535).
1812: Juan José Castelli, politician and Argentine journalist (n. 1764).
1840: Francisco das Chagas Santos, Brazilian military and political, destroyer of Jesuit missions (n. 1763).
1866: Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, German botanist (n. 1794).
1869: Julián Sanz del Río, philosopher, jurist and Spanish pedagogue (n. 1814).
1875: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (n. 1827).
1875: Charles Henri Pellegrini, Argentine engineer (n. 1800).
1880: Severo Chumbita, a Argentinean large guerrilla (n. 1820).
1890: Gumersindo Laverde, writer, journalist and Spanish philosopher (n. 1835).
1904: Nicasio Oroño, jurist and Argentine politician (n. 1825).
1914: Oleg Románov, Russian prince (n. 1892).
1915: Edith Cavell, British nurse (n. 1865).
1916: Gabino Ezeiza, musician and Argentine payer (n. 1858).
1924: Anatole France, a French writer, nobel literature award in 1921 (n. 1844).
1927: Bernardino Nozaleda, Dominican religious and Spanish archbishop (n. 1844).
1944: Ramón S. Castillo, an Argentine politician (n. 1873).
1946: Joseph Stilwell, American General (n. 1883).
1952: Marceliano Santa María, a Spanish painter (n. 1866).
1956: Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (n. 1872).
1957: Arie de Jong, a Dutch linguist (n. 1865).
1958: Gordon Griffith, filmmaker, producer and American actor (n. 1907).
1965: Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1948 (n. 1899).
1969: Sonja Henie, Olympic champion of ice skating and film actress (n. 1912).
1971: Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (n. 1893).
1971: Gene Vincent, American musician (n. 1935).
1972: Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, a Colombian writer and journalist (n. 1926).
1978: Lluís Pericot García, Spanish archaeologist (n. 1899).
1978: Nancy Spungen, groupie and muse of the punk movement, Sid Vicious's girlfriend (n. 1956).
1980: Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan politician, de facto president in 1976 (n. 1896).
1981: Antonio Romañá Pujó, Spanish mathematician and priest (n. 1900).
1987: Gustavo Baz, doctor, politician and Mexican revolutionary (n. 1894).
1996: Rene Lacoste, a tennis player and a French businessman (n. 1904).
1996: Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (n. 1911).
1997: John Denver, American country musician (n. 1943).
1998: Julio Saraceni, Argentine filmmaker (n. 1912).
1998: Matthew Shepard, an American university student murdered for being gay (n. 1976).
1999: Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (n. 1936).
2001: Vittorio Sicuri, choir director and Argentine musician (n, 1938).
2002: Ray Conniff, director of American orchestra and musician (n. 1916).
2002: Carolina Fadic, Chilean actress (n. 1974).
2003: Bill Shoemaker, American rider (n. 1931).
2005: Ghazi Kanaan, Syrian political and military (n. 1942).
2006: Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian filmmaker (n. 1919).
2006: Carlo Acutis, a British-Italian student and programmer, Blessed of the Catholic Church (n. 1991).
2007: Kishō Kurokawa, Japanese architect (n. 1934).
2007: Manuela Vargas, figure of flamenco dance (n. 1937).
2009: Enrique Miret Magdalena, Spanish theologian and chemist (n. 1914).
2009: Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (n. 1974).
2009: Mildred Cohn, American Biochemistry (n. 1913)
2010: Manuel Alexandre, Spanish actor (n. 1917).
2010: José Casas Gris, Spanish footballer (n. 1931).
2011: Dennis Ritchie, creator of C language and Unix operating system (n. 1941).
2012: Bretislav Pojar, animator, puppeteer and Czech filmmaker (n. 1923).
2014: Roberto Telch, Argentine footballer (n. 1943).
2016: Dylan Rieder, professional skater and American model (n. 1988)
2019: Horacio Pechi Quiroga, Argentine politician (n. 1954).
2020:
- Guillermo Soberón Acevedo, Mexican doctor, rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1973 to 1981 (n. 1925).
- Yehoshua Kenaz, Israeli novelist (n. 1937).
2022: Lucious Jackson, American basketball player (n. 1941).
2022: Konstantin Landa, Russian chess player (n. 1972).
2022: Osmo Pekonen, mathematician, historian and Finnish writer (n. 1960).
2022: Rafa Verdú, Spanish footballer (n. 1927).
2022: Bernardo Adam Ferrero, articulist, composer, conductor and Spanish musicologist (n. 1942).

Celebrations

Observances related to the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus:
- Race Day (Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Chile).
- Argentina: Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity
- BahamasBahamas: Discovery Day
- BelizeBelize: Pan American Day
- BoliviaBolivia: Day of Decolonization
- Costa RicaCosta Rica: Culture Day
- EcuadorEcuador: Day of Interculturality and Plurinationality
- SpainSpain: Fiesta Nacional de España
- GuatemalaGuatemala: Hispanic Day
- Mexico Mexico: Pluricultural Nation Day
- Peru Peru: Indigenous Peoples Day and Intercultural Dialogue
- Dominican RepublicDominican Republic: Day of Identity and Cultural Diversity
- Uruguay Uruguay: Day of Cultural Diversity
- Venezuela Venezuela: Indigenous Resistance Day
BrazilBrazil:
- Child Day
Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea:
- Independence Day