October the 17th

October 17 is the 290th (two hundred and ninetieth) day of the year—the 291st (two hundred and ninety-first) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days left to end the year.

Events

• 535 a. C.: Cyrus II the Great King of Persia marches to Babylon, liberating the Jews from nearly 70 years of exile.
• 456 (or 18 October): near Piacenza (now Italy), the soldiers of the Emperor Avito are defeated by the Roman-Iberian military Ricimero, who becomes the de facto leader of the Roman Empire of the West.
• 690: In China, Empress Wu Zetian establishes the ephemeral dynasty Zhou.
• 1091 (or 23 October, according to the Gregorian calendar): the city of London (England) is whipped by an F4 tornado that demonizes the London Bridge, several churches and 600 houses. (London Tornado of 1091).
• 1346: In Calais, Edward III of England captures King David II of Scotland (France's ally) in the battle of Neville's Cross. during the first phase of the 100-year War.
• 1448: the troops of Sultan Murad II defeat the Hungarian army led by Juan Hunyadi in the second battle of Kosovo
• 1456: The University of Greifswald, the second oldest university in northern Europe, opens its doors.
• 1533: The Royal Council is issued in Madrid which orders the construction of roads in New Spain. Thus, the military engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli traces the first transitible route from Mexico City to El Puerto de Veracruz, crossing the Spanish settlements of Puebla, New Córdoba (Today Cordoba), and Orizaba. This route is opened by the Virrey Luis de Velasco (son), in 1590.
• 1604: Astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation of Ofiuco.
• 1610: French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims.
• 1662: Charles II of England sells Dunquerque to France for 40,000 pounds.
• 1737: An earthquake of magnitude estimated at 9.3 shakes the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia
• 1777: U.S. troops defeat the British army in the Battle of Saratoga in the Hudson Valley.
• 1781: in Yorktown (Virginia), General Charles Cornwallis capitulates.
• 1797: the Treaty of Campo Formio between France and the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1800: England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
• 1810: In Yucatan, Mexico, Mexican independentists take over the city of Valladolid.
• 1813: In El Roble (Chile), a realistic column surprises and disperses the rebels.
• 1815: In the South Atlantic Ocean, Napoleon Bonaparte is banished to the island of Santa Helena.
• 1842: the Battle of Holy Water (Peru) occurs where the forces of Juan Francisco de Vidal beat those of General Juan Crisóstomo Torrico in the framework of the military anarchy that was unleashed in Peru after the death of President Agustín Gamarra.
• 1884: The 4th Congress of the Anarchist American Labour Federation resolves that since May 1, 1886 the legal duration of the working day should be 8 hours. This will generate the Crime of Chicago.
• 1888: Thomas Edison patents the optical phonograph (the first film).

Manifestation of 17 October 1905 by Iliá Repin (Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg).

• 1905: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia issues the October Manifesto.
• 1907: Guglielmo Marconi begins the first commercial telegraph service without thread between Glace Bay (Canada) and Clifden (Ireland).
• 1910: The fifth and last day of the five-day hurricane is recorded in Cuba. Kill about 700 people. In Havana, he breaks the trunk. It is considered one of the worst natural disasters in Cuban history. It was very controversial, because the United States Meteorological Service claimed that they were two separate cyclones, while the Cuban meteorologist José Carlos Millás Hernández (1889-1965) said it was only one, which could prove by taking the observations made by several ships. This type of loop was called “Millás Recurve”.
• 1912: Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro declare war on Turkey.
• 1918: Yugoslavia is formed.
• 1919: Madrid Metro is inaugurated.
• 1931: Al Capone, a U.S. gangster, is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evading.
• 1933: the Jewish scientist Albert Einstein escapes from Nazi Germany and arrives in the United States, where he will live the rest of his life as a refugee. He holds a post at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton.
• 1941: The American destroyer USS Kearny is torpedoed by the German submarine U-568 near Iceland, killing 11 sailors who would be the first US casualties of World War II.
• 1943: Holocaust: the concentration camp of Sobibor is closed.
• 1945: a massive popular congregation with military and police support mobilizes to the Plaza de Mayo de Buenos Aires, to demand the release of the Minister of Labour, Juan Domingo Perón, arrested by military forces, starting the Peronist movement.
• 1951: In Buenos Aires he began his broadcasts on the first television channel in Argentina: Canal 7. It transmits the massive political act of the Day of Loyalty Peronist with a speech by Eva Duarte.
• 1952: The University of Navarre was founded in Spain.
• 1956: Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play the famous chess game called "The Game of the Century".
• 1960: In the Cuban fishing village of Boca de Jaruco (province of Mayabeque), a group of Cuban terrorists—in the framework of the terrorist attacks organized by the U.S. CIA—injure the militia Raúl Vega Quintero (who, as a result of the wounds, will die on 9 March 1961) and Juan Trujillo Rivero.
• 1961: In Algeria invaded by France, the French police—under the orders of former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then head of the Police Prefecture—masses a multitude of Algerians.
• 1963: in Plaza Once de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Peronism—proscribed by the dictatorship—is an open lobby. Andrés Framini, Ilda Pineda, Rubén A. Sosa and Julio Antún – within the framework of the Peronist resistance – declare the state of popular mobilization as a revolutionary method for the conquest of their objectives.
• 1966: Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
• 1973: OPEC begins the embargo against countries that help Israel in its war with Syria.
• 1976: in the Argentinian village of Los Surgentes (province of Córdoba), the Rosario police murder seven political prisoners (massage of Los Surgentes), in the framework of the dictatorship of Videla.
• 1977: The Amnesty Law in Spain of 1977 enters into force.
• 1978: Spanish politicians Pablo Iglesias Turrión and Isabel Díaz Ayuso are born in Madrid.
• 1979: Mother Teresa of Calcutta receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1981: Brazilian Formula 1, Nelson Piquet pilot, holds his first title in the world.
• 1986: IOC members designate the city of Barcelona as the stage for the 1992 Olympic Games.
• 1988: Mexico opens the Tampico bridge, which unites the states of Veracruz and Tamaulipas.
• 1989: In the United States an earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) causes 300 deaths in San Francisco.
• 1991: In Spain, the terrorist band ETA mutilated Irene Villa and her mother with a lap bomb in her car.
• 1992: the UN established the "International Day for the Eradication of Poverty."
• 1996: in Nicaragua, Cardinal Miguel Obando and Bravo, Archbishop of Managua, tells during a mass at the Cathedral of Managua the parable of the viper that will influence the defeat of FSLN candidate Daniel Ortega to the candidate of the Alemán Liberal Alliance in the elections to be held three days later.
• 2003: Due to the Bolivian conflict for the export of natural gas, President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada resigns from his post and leaves the country.
• 2004: Valentino Rossi wins the world of MotoGP and Dani Pedrosa becomes the youngest pilot in the world champion of 250 cc.

2004: Venezuela, a fire partially destroyed the eastern tower of Torres de Parque Central.

• 2006: In Argentina, during the march in commemoration of the 60 years of the Day of the Loyalty Peronista, the remains of General Juan Domingo Perón are transferred to the fifth 16th of October, in the party of San Vicente (in the southern zone of the Greater Buenos Aires). There were shootings between the Peronist protesters and barrabravas that were present.
• 2011: The San Sebastian Peace Conference concludes with a five-point statement in which international representatives urge the terrorist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) to a definitive cessation of violence.
• 2011: In Chile the so-called 6-month postnatal law is in force, which will allow parents to spend more time with their newborns.
• 2017: begins the Stray Kids survival program that would debut a male group with the same name under the company JYP Entreteiment

Births

Ivo de Kermartin

• 1253: Ivo de Kermartin, religious and holy French (f. 1303).
• 1493: Baccio Bandinelli, sculptor and Italian painter (f. 1560).
• 1500: Alonso de Orozco, religious and Spanish writer (f. 1591).
• 1540: Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian painter and poet (f. 1559)
• 1560: Ernesto Federico I de Baden-Durlach, German governor (f. 1604).
• 1577: Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (f. 1621).
• 1578: Dmitri Pozharski, Russian prince (f. 1642).
• 1587: Nathan Field, English playwright (f.1620).
• 1629: Baltasar Charles of Austria, son of Philip IV (f. 1646).
• 1688: Domenico Zipoli, Italian Baroque composer (f. 1726).
• 1720: Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d’Arconville, a French writer and anatomist (f. 1805).
• 1724: Robert Waring Darwin, British botanist (f. 1816).
• 1725: John Wilkes, a British journalist and politician (f. 1797).
• 1729: Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer (f. 1817).
• 1735: Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the young German sculptor (f. 1803).
• 1740: Lluís Jaume and Vallespir, a Spanish religious (f.1775).
• 1749: Antonio Raimundo Ibáñez Llano and Valdés, aristocrat and Spanish industrialist (f. 1809).
• 1759: Andréi Voronijin, Russian architect (f. 1814).

Henri de Saint-Simon.

• 1760: Henri de Saint-Simon, French philosopher and social theorist (f. 1825).
• 1763: Edward Robson, British botanist (f. 1813).
• 1768: Sophie von Dönhoff, lady of German company (f. 1838).
• 1777: Lucas González Balcarce, Argentine military (f. 1812).
• 1779: Luis Carlos de Orleans, French aristocrat (f. 1808).
• 1779: José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argentine priest (f. 1820).
• 1780: Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (f. 1850).
• 1781: Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist (f. 1833).
• 1784: Fructuoso Rivera, Uruguayan President (f. 1854).
• 1785: Christen Smith, Norwegian doctor (f. 1816).
• 1792: John Bowring, politician, translator, writer and traveler (f. 1872).
• 1793: Manuel Pérez de Uriondo, Chilean military (f. 1851).
• 1797: Juan Lavalle, Argentinean military and political (f. 1841).
• 1803: Francisco Deák, Hungarian politician (f. 1876).
• 1808: Nils Lilja, botanist and Swedish watchmaker (f. 1870).
• 1810: Adolphe-Félix Cals, a French painter (f. 1880).

Georg Büchner.

• 1813: Georg Büchner, German playwright (f. 1837).
• 1817: Alfred Des Cloizeaux, French mineralogist (f. 1897).
• 1817: Syed Ahmed Khan, a Hindu politician and professor (f. 1898).
• 1821: Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (f. 1882).
• 1821: Pedro Salaverría, Spanish politician (f. 1896).
• 1828: Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, a Spanish scientist (f. 1890).
• 1833: José Eduvigis Díaz, Paraguayan military (f. 1867).
• 1835: Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (f. 1894).
• 1835: Paul Haenlein, engineer and pioneer of German aviation (f. 1905).
• 1840: André Gill, French singer and cartoonist (f. 1885).
• 1844: Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (f. 1929).
• 1847: Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (f. 1935).
• 1847: Alejandro San Martín y Satrústegui, doctor and Spanish politician (f. 1908).
• 1853: Maria Aleksándrovna of Russia, Russian aristocrat (f. 1920).
• 1856: José Villalba Riquelme, a Spanish military officer (f. 1944).
• 1857: Baldomero Bonet and Bonet, a Spanish chemist (f. 1925).
• 1859: Childe Hassam, an American impressionist painter (f. 1935).
• 1860: Henry Campbell Black, American linguist (f. 1927).
• 1864: Elinor Glyn, British novelist and screenwriter (f. 1943)
• 1865: Anselmo Barreto, Peruvian lawyer and magistrate (f. 1950).
• 1867: Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Spanish architect (f. 1956).
• 1871: Second of Chomon, Spanish filmmaker (f. 1929).
• 1873: Florentino Gorleri, an Argentine politician (f. 1963).
• 1876: Hippolyte Aucouturier, French cyclist (f. 1944).
• 1877: Eduardo Arozamena, Mexican actor (f. 1951).
• 1878: Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart and Falcó, aristocrat Spaniard (f. 1953).
• 1880: Chucho Reyes, Mexican painter and collector (f. 1977).
• 1881: Andreas Madsen, Danish-Argentine explorer and writer (f. 1965).
• 1883: Alexander Sutherland Neill, British pedagogue (f. 1973).
• 1883: Thaddeus Shideler, American athlete (f. 1966).
• 1886: Spring Byington, American actress (f. 1971).
• 1889: Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese writer (f. 1988).
• 1890: Carl Buchheister, German artist (f. 1964).
• 1890: Mariano Ozores French, Spanish actor (f. 1976).
• 1892: Theodor Eicke, general of the German SS (f. 1943).
• 1893: Raffaele Bendandi, an Italian astrologer (f. 1979).
• 1894: Renato de Borbón-Parma, an Italian aristocrat (f. 1962).
• 1894: Pablo de Rokha, a Chilean poet (f. 1968).
• 1895: Doris Humphrey, American choreographer and dancer (f. 1958).
• 1895: Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, a Guatemalan politician and military, president of Guatemala between 1858 and 1863 (f. 1982).
• 1896: Román Románov, Russian prince (f. 1978).
• 1897: Luis Custodio Muñoz Muñoz, a Chilean doctor and writer (f. 1982).
• 1898: Tuffy Neugen, Brazilian footballer (f. 1935).
• 1898: Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (f. 1991).
• 1898: Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist (f. 1998).
• 1898: Simon Vestdijk, a Dutch writer (f. 1971).
• 1899: Manuel Droguett Reyes, a Chilean politician (f. 1970).
• 1899: Ernst Friedheim, American doctor (f. 1989).

Jean Arthur.

• 1900: Jean Arthur, American actress (f. 1991).
• 1901: Emma Gamboa Alvarado, a Costa Rican educator (f. 1976).
• 1902: Irene Ryan, American actress (f.1973).
• 1903: Andrés Espinosa, Spanish climber (f. 1985).
• 1903: Andréi Grechko, Soviet military (f. 1976).
• 1903: Nathanael West, American writer and writer (f. 1940).
• 1904: José María Hinojosa, Spanish poet (f. 1936).
• 1904: Prospero Palazzo, Argentine aviator (f. 1936).
• 1905: Andrew Bembel, a Belarusian sculptor (f. 1986).
• 1905: Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat (f. 1996).
• 1907: John Marley, American actor (f. 1984).
• 1908: Kenji Miyamoto, a Japanese politician (f. 2007).
• 1908: Dmitri Ustinov, Soviet military (f. 1984).
• 1909: Cozy Cole, American battery (f. 1981).
• 1909: Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (f. 1962).
• 1909: Joaquín Satrústegui, a Spanish lawyer and politician (f. 1992).
• 1909: Carme Serrallonga, pedagogue and Spanish translator (f. 1997).
• 1910: Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (f. 1995).
• 1911: Pascual Pery, a Spanish military officer (f. 1989).
• 1912: John Paul I, Italian Catholic Pope in 1978 (f. 1978).
• 1912: Toña la Negra, Mexican singer (f. 1982).
• 1913: Robert Lowery, American actor (f. 1971).
• 1913: Marian Marsh, American actress (f. 2006).
• 1914: Jerry Siegel, American hysterist (f. 1996).
• 1915: Guillermo Lohmann, a Peruvian historian and lawyer (f. 2005).

Arthur Miller.

• 1915: Arthur Miller, American playwright and writer (f. 2005).
• 1915: Concha Pérez Collado, anarcosindicalista española (f. 2014).
• 1916: José López Rega, Argentine politician (f. 1989).
• 1917: Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (f. 2013).
• 1917: Verne Grant, American botanist (f. 2007).
• 1917: Manuel Molina, Spanish poet (f. 1990).

Rita Hayworth.

• 1918: Rita Hayworth, American film actress (f. 1987).
• 1918: Luis Alberto Solari, Uruguayan painter (f. 1993).
• 1919: Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (f. 2005).
• 1920: César Albiñana, Spanish jurist (f. 2007).
• 1920: Montgomery Clift, American actor (f. 1966).

Miguel Delibes.

• 1920: Miguel Delibes, professor, journalist, novelist and Spanish playwright (f. 2010).
• 1920: Alva Day Grant, American botany.
• 1920: Zully Moreno, an Argentine actress (f. 1999).
• 1920: Sauveur Rodríguez, French footballer (f. 2013).
• 1920: Carlos de Rokha, Chilean poet (f. 1962).
• 1921: Enrique Fontana Codina, politician and Spanish businessman (f. 1989).
• 1921: Maria Gorokhovskaya, a Soviet gymnast (f. 2001).
• 1921: Tom Poston, American actor (f. 2007).
• 1921: Samuel Yankelevich, entrepreneur and Argentine television producer (f. 1998).
• 1923: Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (f. 2004).
• 1924: Giacomo Mari, Italian footballer (f. 1991).
• 1924: Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone (f. 2019).
• 1924: António Rosa, Portuguese poet (f. 2013).
• 1926: Beverly Garland, American actress (f. 2008).
• 1926: Julie Adams, American actress (f. 2019).
• 1927: Luis Alberto Acuña Gatillon, a Chilean writer (f. 2005).
• 1927: Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician (f. 2012).
• 1927: Rodolfo Rivademar, Argentine regatist (f. 2013).
• 1928: Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (f. 2013).
• 1928: José María Peralta López, Mexican politician.
• 1928: Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and composer (f. 2007).
• 1928: Alejandro Végh Villegas, a Uruguayan politician and economist (f. 2017).
• 1930: Robert Atkins, American cardiologist and dietitian (f. 2003).
• 1930: Freimut Börngen, German astronomer.
• 1930: Héctor Azar, Mexican writer (f. 2000).
• 1931: José Alencar, a Brazilian politician and businessman (f. 2011).
• 1931: Pierre Dubois, Chilean priest (f. 2012).
• 1931: Anatoli Pristavkin, Russian writer and activist (f. 2008).
• 1931: Gerd Seifert, German trumpet (f. 2019).
• 1932: Paul Edward Anderson, American strongman (f. 1994).
• 1932: Juan Manuel Arza Muñuzuri, Spanish politician (f. 2019).
• 1932: Alfredo Carlino, boxer and Argentine writer (f. 2018).
• 1933: William Anders, American general and astronaut.
• 1933: Sor Sonrisa (Jeannine Deckers), a Belgian nun and singer (f. 1985).
• 1934: Alan Garner, British writer.
• 1934: Johnny Haynes, British footballer (f. 2005).
• 1934: Javier Moscoso, Spanish politician.
• 1934: Rico Rodriguez, American trombonist (f. 2015).
• 1935: Carlos Pairetti, Argentine racing driver.
• 1935: Michael Eavis, English farmer.
• 1936: Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist.
• 1936: Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (f. 1993).
• 1936: Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer and composer (f. 2013).
• 1937: José María Álvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician.

Aída Navarro.

• 1937: Aída Navarro, mezzosoprano venezolana.
• 1937: Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (f. 2011).
• 1937: Yoshio Taniguchi, Japanese architect.
• 1938: António Calvário, Portuguese singer.
• 1938: Evel Knievel, American acrobat (f. 2007).
• 1938: Les Murray, poet, anthologist and Australian critic (f. 2019).
• 1939: Amancio Amaro, Spanish footballer.
• 1940: Stephen Kovacevich, pianist and director of American orchestra.
• 1940: Carlos Heller, politician and Argentine sports leader.
• 1941: Paul Ellison, U.S. bassist.
• 1941: Herón Pérez Martínez, Mexican writer and academic.
• 1942: Mario Emilio Delfino, Argentine guerrilla (f. 1972).
• 1942: Steve Jones, American basketball player (f. 2017)
• 1943: Ignacio Rupérez Rubio, Spanish politician.
• 1944: Angel Christ, a Spanish breeder (f. 2010).
• 1944: Reinaldo Sánchez Olivares, a Chilean businessman and sports director.
• 1944: Juan José Hernández, Argentine writer (f. 2007).
• 1945: Francisco Javier Elorza, aristocrat and Spanish diplomat.
• 1945: Omar Azziman, Moroccan politician.
• 1946: Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez, Mexican humorist.
• 1946: Cameron Mackintosh, British theatrical producer.
• 1946: Adam Michnik, Polish journalist.
• 1946: Julio Miranda, Argentine politician.
• 1946: Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politics.
• 1946: José Perramón Acosta, Spanish basketball player.
• 1946: Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician.
• 1946: Juan Camilo Restrepo, Colombian politician.
• 1946: Rüdiger Wittig, German ecologist and geobotanist.
• 1946: Robert Seagren, American athlete.
• 1947: Osvaldo Castro, Chilean footballer.
• 1947: Michael McKean, American actor.
• 1947: Manuel Pérez Barriopedro, Spanish photographer.
• 1947: Tetango Pouchi, a Costa Rican musician.
• 1948: Robert Jordan, American writer (f. 2007).
• 1948: Margot Kidder, Canadian actress (f. 2018).
• 1948: Akira Kushida, Japanese singer.
• 1949: Owen Arthur, Prime Minister.
• 1949: Renata Schussheim, Argentine plastic artist.
• 1949: James Trussell, American mathematician and economist.
• 1950: Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal.
• 1950: Carlos Pérez Merinero, Spanish writer (f. 2012).
• 1950: Sandra Reemer, a Dutch singer.
• 1951: Dirck Beheydt, Belgian footballer.
• 1951: Marcelo A. Moreno, Argentine journalist.
• 1951: Roger Pontare, Swedish singer.
• 1953: Joseph Bowie, American thrombonist, of the Defunkt band.
• 1953: Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer.
• 1953: Jorge Trasante, Uruguayan percussionist.
• 1955:
  • José Cueto, Peruvian military and political.
  • Mike Bratz, American basketball player.
  • Ulysses Gorini, an Argentine journalist.
• 1956: Mae Jemison, American astronaut.
• 1956: Fran Cosmo, American singer and guitarist.
• 1956: Pat McCrory, American politician.
• 1957: Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player.
• 1957: Lawrence Bender, American producer.
• 1957: Antonio Galdo, Italian writer and journalist.
• 1957: Víctor Lichtinger, Mexican economist.
• 1957: Javier Maté, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 1957: Pino Palladino, American bassist.
• 1958: Howard Alden, American guitarist.
• 1958: Alan Jackson, American singer.
• 1958: Melchor Miralles, Spanish journalist.
• 1958: Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress (f. 1977).
• 1958: Craig Murray, British diplomat.
• 1958: Eleftheria Arvanitáki, Greek singer.
• 1959: Mustafa Aberkan, a Spanish-Marroquí politician.
• 1959: Francisco Flores, Salvadoran politician, president of El Salvador between 1999 and 2004 (f. 2016).
• 1959: Eugenio Hernández Flores, Mexican politician and engineer.
• 1959: Richard Roeper, American film critic.
• 1959: Norm Macdonald, comedian and Canadian actor.
• 1960: Rob Marshall, American filmmaker.
• 1960: Guy Henry, English actor.
• 1960: Bernie Nolan, Irish actress (f. 2013).
• 1962: Laszló Darvasi, Hungarian poet and journalist.
• 1962: Jay Humphries, American basketball player.
• 1962: Mike Judge, producer, animator, and American actor of Ecuadorian origin.
• 1963: Mario Carrillo Inchaústegui, Mexican singer.
• 1963: Raúl Escobar Poblete, Chilean politician.
• 1963: Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer.
• 1963: Beatriz Hernanz, Spanish poet.
• 1963: Norm Macdonald, comic and Canadian actor.
• 1964: Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politics.
• 1965: Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor,
• 1966: Sergio Jaramillo Caro, Colombian philosopher and philologist.
• 1966: Danny Ferry, American basketball player.
• 1966: Mark Gatiss, British actor and writer.
• 1967: Rene Dif, Danish musician, of the Aqua band.
• 1967: Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer.
• 1967: Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player.
• 1968: Alejandra Ávalos, Mexican singer.
• 1968: Graeme Le Saux, British footballer.
• 1968: Ziggy Marley, Jamaican reggae musician.
• 1968: Raúl Ordóñez, Colombian tennis player (f. 2020).
• 1969: Ernie Els, South African golfer.
• 1969: Wyclef Jean, rapper and Haitian composer, of the Fugees band.
• 1969: Wood Harris, American actor.
• 1969: Natalia Lobo, Argentine actress and model.
• 1970: Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, Poison band.
• 1971: Martin Heinrich, American politician.
• 1971: Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer, N’ Sync band.
• 1971: Derrick Plourde, American drummer, Lagwagon and The Ataris (f. 2005).
• 1972: Jorge Arreola, Mexican footballer.
• 1972: Eminem, rapper and American film actor.
• 1972: Musashi, kickboxer and Japanese karateka.
• 1972: Tarkan, Turkish musician of German origin.
• 1972: Sándor Tirpák, Hungarian painter.
• 1973: Rubén Garcés, Panamanian basketball player.

Quique González.

• 1973: Quique González, composer, singer and Spanish rock musician.
• 1974: Obdulio Ávila Mayo, Mexican politician.
• 1974: Ariel Levy, American writer.
• 1974: Matthew Macfadyen, British actor.
• 1974: Barbara Paz, Brazilian actress.
• 1975: Jericho Abramo Masso, Mexican politician.

Viña Morales.

• 1975: Viña Morales, Philippine actress and singer.
• 1975: Macarena Tondreau, Chilean actress and singer.
• 1976: Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1976: Seth Etherton, American baseball player.
• 1976: Carlos Loret de Mola, Mexican journalist and economist.
• 1976: Brooke Richards, American model.
• 1977: Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician.
• 1977: Walter Calderón, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1977: Ryan McGinley, American photographer.
• 1977: Henry Quinteros, Peruvian footballer.
• 1977: André Villas-Boas, Portuguese football coach.
• 1978: Pablo Iglesias, Spanish politician.
• 1978: Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Spanish politics.
• 1978: Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress.

Kimi Räikkönen.

• 1979: Kimi Räikkönen, a Finnish motor racing pilot.
• 1979: Deanna Russo, American actress.
• 1979: Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player.
• 1979: Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist.
• 1979: Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek sportsman of taekwondo.
• 1980: Ekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player.
• 1980: Marina Glezer, Argentine actress.
• 1980: Noemí Jordana, Spanish basketball player.
• 1980: Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1980: Angel Parker, American actress.
• 1980: Justin Shenkarow, American actor.
• 1981: Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer.
• 1981: Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer.
• 1981: Tsubasa Imai, Japanese actor and singer.
• 1981: Nate Lawrie, American football player.
• 1981: Ben Rothwell, American professional fighter.
• 1982: Rubén Ramírez, Argentine soccer player.
• 1982: Marion Rolland, French skier.
• 1982: Ahmed Daher, Djiboutian footballer.

Felicity Jones.

• 1983: Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
• 1983: Felicity Jones, British actress.
• 1983: Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer.
• 1983: Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer.
• 1984: Michelle Ang, Australian actress.
• 1984: Elias Kozas, Greek singer.
• 1984: Chris Lowell, American actor.
• 1984: Randall Munroe, American hysterist.
• 1984: Luke Rockhold, American fighter.
• 1984: Gottfrid Svartholm, Swedish hacker.
• 1984: Jared Tallent, Australian athlete
• 1984: Asami Usuda, actress, model and Japanese talent.
• 1984: Giovanni Marchese, Italian footballer.
• 1985: Jennifer Colino, Spanish gymnast.
• 1985: Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1985: Max Irons, British actor.
• 1985: Collins John, Dutch footballer.
• 1985: Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer.
• 1985: Baran Kosari, Iranian actress.
• 1985: Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer.
• 1986: Alexandre Bonnet, French footballer.
• 1986: Chris Motionless, Scranton sewer, Pennsylvania
• 1986: Toni Bou, a Spanish trial pilot.
• 1986: Constant Djakpa, Ivory footballer.
• 1986: Nicolás Richotti, Argentine basketball player.
• 1987:
  • Elliot Grandin, French footballer.
  • Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer.
  • Priscila Trejo, model and presenter of Mexican television.
  • Manuel Huber, Swiss footballer.
• 1988: Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player.
• 1988: Marina Salas, Spanish actress.
• 1988: Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model.
• 1988: Yūko ⋅shima, idol, Japanese singer and actress.
• 1988: Dami Im, South Korean singer of Australian nationality.
• 1988: Martin Solar, Hall Of Famer zamudio.
• 1989: Débora García, Spanish footballer.

Sophie Luck.

• 1989: Sophie Luck, Australian actress.
• 1989: David Timor, Spanish footballer.
• 1989: Ritvars Rugins, Soviet footballer.
• 1990: Maica García, Spanish water polo player.
• 1990: Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer.
• 1990: Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player.
• 1990: Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer.
• 1991: Brenda Asnícar, an Argentine actress and singer.
• 1991: Rachel Watson, Australian actress.
• 1992: Sam Concepción, Filipino actress and singer.
• 1993: Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer.
• 1993: Norran Jno Hope, Dominican footballer (f. 2013).
• 1996: Oleh Kudryk, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1997: Václav Černý, Czech footballer.

Deaths

• 33: Agripina the Major, the Roman woman, the wife of Germánico (n. 14 B.C.).

Bonifacio II.

• 532: Bonifacio II, Italian potato (n.?).
• 866: Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (n. 836).
• 1346: Maurice de Moravia, French soldier (n.?).
• 1346: John Randolph, Scottish aristocrat (n. 1306).
• 1404: Caterina Visconti, an Italian aristocrat (n. 1361).
• 1553: Andreas Osiander, theologian and German editor (n. 1498).
• 1575: Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (n. 1511).

Philip Sidney.

• 1586: Philip Sidney, British poet and soldier (n. 1554).
• 1590: Ana de Habsburg-Jagellón, Austrian aristocrat (n. 1528).
• 1612: Juan Felipe Mey, a Spanish humanist (n. 1542).
• 1637: Marcello Mastrilli, an Italian missionary (n. 1603).
• 1644: Mendo de Benavides, aristocrat and Spanish religious (n. 1569).
• 1649: Alonso Messia Venegas, Spanish religious (f. 1557).
• 1690: Margarita María Alacoque, Italian religious (n. 1647).
• 1705: Ninon de Lenclos, writer, patron and French courtier (n. 1615).
• 1744: Giuseppe Guarneri, Italian violet (n. 1698).

René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur.

• 1757: Rene Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French physicist (n. 1683).
• 1768: Louis VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt, German aristocrat (n. 1691).
• 1780: Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (n. 1721).
• 1786: Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter (n. 1723).
• 1806: James I of Haiti, Haitian leader (n. 1758).
• 1828: Ana María Campos, a Venezuelan patriot (n. 1796).
• 1828: Matías de Córdova, Mexican religious and political (n. 1766).
• 1829: José María Córdova, Colombian military (n. 1799).
• 1836: Orest Kiprenski, Russian painter (n. 1782).
• 1837: Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer and pianist (n. 1778).

Frédéric Chopin.

• 1849: Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (n. 1810).
• 1873: Robert McClure, British explorer (n. 1807).
• 1877: Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German researcher (n. 1803).
• 1878: Jean Baptiste Ripart, a French biologist (n. 1814).
• 1879: John Miers, British botanist (n. 1789).
• 1887: Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (n. 1824).
• 1889: Nikolái Chernishevski, Russian philosopher and revolutionary (n. 1828).
• 1890: Manuel Peredo, Mexican writer and doctor (n. 1830).
• 1890: Prosper Sainton, French violinist (n. 1813).
• 1893: Patrice de Mac-Mahon, politician and French president (n. 1808).
• 1896: Jacinto Mariano de Villegas, an Argentine politician (n. 1819).
• 1898: Vicente Barrantes, Spanish poet and Bible (n. 1829).
• 1899: Amand-Joseph Fava, French bishop (n. 1826).
• 1908: José del Perojo, philosopher, journalist and Spanish writer (n. 1850).
• 1909: Manuel Florencio Mantilla, jurist and Argentine politician (n. 1853).

Julia Ward Howe.

• 1910: Julia Ward Howe, American poet and abolitionist (n. 1819).
• 1910: Kurd Lasswitz, German writer, scientist and philosopher (n. 1848).
• 1911: José López Domínguez, a Spanish military and politician (n. 1829).
• 1912: Antonio Menéndez de la Peña, Mexican pedagogue (n. 1844).
• 1914: Theodor Lipps, German philosopher and psychologist (n. 1851).
• 1914: Adolfo Saldías, historian, lawyer, politician and Argentine military (n. 1829).
• 1914: Peyo Yavorov, Bulgarian poet (n. 1878).
• 1916: Silvio Pettirossi, pioneer of Paraguayan aviation (n. 1887).
• 1920: Reginald John Farrer, British botanist (n. 1880).
• 1920: Juan Sarabia, Mexican journalist and politician (n. 1882).
• 1924: Rafael Núñez, an Argentine politician (n. 1875).
• 1931: Ferdinand Ebner, Austrian philosopher (n. 1882).
• 1931: Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (n. 1884).
• 1931: Ovid Rebaudi, Paraguayan chemical (n. 1860).
• 1933: Fulgencio R. Moreno, journalist, economist, diplomat and Paraguayan historian (n. 1872).
• 1934: Otto Vernon Darbishire, British botanist (n. 1870).

Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

• 1934: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1906 (n. 1852).
• 1934: Arthur Schuster, German-British physicist (n. 1851).
• 1936: Fidel Fuedio, Spanish archaeologist (n. 1880).
• 1936: Andrés Figueroa Figueroa, Mexican military and political (n. 1884).
• 1937: J. Bruce Ismay, British businessman (n. 1862).
• 1938: Karl Kautsky, Austrian socialist theorist (n. 1854).
• 1940: Lucien Linden, Belgian explorer and botanist (n. 1853).
• 1941: Friedrich Marx, German Philologist (n. 1859).
• 1944: Pavel Haas, Czech composer (n. 1899).
• 1944: César Silió y Cortés, politician and Spanish journalist (n. 1865).

John Halliday.

• 1947: John Halliday, American actor (n. 1880).
• 1949: Fiódor Tolbujin, Soviet military (n. 1894).
• 1951: Bernhard Kellermann, German writer (n. 1879).
• 1954: Francisco Santarini Tognoli, Italian aeronautical engineer (n. 1883).
• 1956: Roberto Gómez Pérez, Chilean politician (n. 1889).
• 1959: Henri Gavel, French hypnist (n. 1880).
• 1960: Minnie Woolsey, circus artist (n. 1880).
• 1960: Henri Crolla, Italian guitarist (n. 1920).
• 1962: Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (n. 1882).
• 1963: Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (n. 1865).
• 1966: Sidney Hatch, American athlete (n. 1883).
• 1966: Cléo de Mérode, Belgian dancer (n. 1875).
• 1966: Wieland Wagner, German stage director (n. 1917).

Puyi.

• 1967: Puyi, last Chinese emperor (n. 1906).
• 1970: Jan Syrový, Czech military and political (n. 1888).
• 1971: José Manuel Isla, Chilean politician (n. 1916).
• 1972: Prince George of Yugoslavia (n. 1887).
• 1972: Johannes Iversen, Danish biologist (n. 1904).
• 1973: Ingeborg Bachmann, German writer (n. 1926).
• 1973: Bernt Balchen, Norwegian-American geography and aviator (n. 1899).
• 1974: Rene de Rooy, writer of Suriname (n. 1917).
• 1976: Enrique Soladrero, Spanish footballer (n. 1913).
• 1977: Ivan Fediúninski, Soviet military (n. 1900).
• 1978: Jean Améry, Austrian writer (n. 1912).
• 1978: Ricardo Espinosa Osete, Spanish actor (n. 1925).
• 1978: Giovanni Gronchi, Italian politician, president between 1955 and 1962 (n. 1887).
• 1978: Ernesto Miranda, Chilean workers' leader (n. 1911).
• 1979: Lil Milagro Ramírez, Salvadoran writer and activist (n. 1945).
• 1980: Harold Emery Moore, American botanist (n. 1917).
• 1981: Albert Cohen, Swiss writer (n. 1895).
• 1981: Santiago González de Paz, Spanish Civil Guard (n. 1951).
• 1983: Raymond Aron, philosopher, sociologist and French political commentator (n. 1905).
• 1984: Georges Thill, French tenor (n. 1897).
• 1989: Mark Krein, Soviet mathematician (n. 1907).
• 1990: Rolando Cárdenas, Chilean poet (n. 1933).
• 1991: Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (n. 1919).
• 1991: Jorge Yarur Banna, Chilean businessman (n. 1918).
• 1993: Criss Oliva, American musician, of the Savatage band (n. 1963).
• 1994: George Barrows, American actor (n. 1914).
• 1994: Dmitri Jólodov, Russian journalist (n. 1967).
• 1996: Berthold Goldschmidt, German composer (n. 1903).
• 1997: Patricio Phillips Peñafiel, Chilean politician (n. 1922).
• 1997: Montecristo, Colombian humorist (n. 1924).
• 1998: Antonio Agri, violinist, director of orchestra and Argentine composer (n. 1932).
• 1998: Germán List Arzubide, Mexican poet and revolutionary (n. 1898).
• 1999: Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (n. 1915).
• 2000: Paál Jakucs, Hungarian biologist (n. 1928).
• 2000: Leo Nomellini, American football player and American fighter (n. 1924).
• 2000: Horacio Ranieri, Argentine actor (n. 1952).
• 2001: Jay Livingston, American composer (n. 1915).
• 2001: Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and pianist (n. 1922).
• 2001: Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli general and political (n. 1926).
• 2002: Derek Bell, Irish pianist and composer, of the band The Chieftains (n. 1935).
• 2002: Fred Scolari, American basketball player (n. 1922).
• 2003: Ramón Antonio Cereijo, Argentine economist (n. 1913).

Janice Rule.

• 2003: Janice Rule, American actress (n. 1931).
• 2004: Celio González, Cuban singer (n. 1924).
• 2004: Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (n. 1952).
• 2005: Julián Alfaro, Argentine racing pilot (n. 1976).
• 2005: Luis Ferrero Acosta, essayist and humanist costarricense (n. 1930).

Ba Jin.

• 2005: Ba Jin, Chinese anarchist writer (n. 1904).
• 2006: Daniel Emilfork, a French actor (n. 1924).
• 2006: Megan Meier, American student and adolescent (n. 1992).
• 2007: Joey Bishop, American artist and humorist (n. 1918).
• 2007: Teresa Brewer, American singer (n. 1931).
• 2007: Germán Espinosa, novelist, cuentist, Colombian poet and essayist (n. 1938).
• 2008: Andrew Gleason, American mathematician (n. 1921).
• 2008: Marco Aurelio Odio, Bolichista costarricense (n. 1962).
• 2008: Angel Uribe, Peruvian footballer (n. 1943).
• 2008: Ben Weider, Canadian magnate (n. 1923).
• 2008: Nick Weatherspoon, American basketball player (n. 1950).
• 2009: Carla Boni, Italian singer (n. 1925).
• 2009: Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (n. 1939).
• 2009: Brian Vickery, American chemical (n. 1918).

Vincent Batbedat.

• 2010: Vincent Batbedat, French sculptor (n. 1932).
• 2010: Teresa Carbó Comas, a Spanish activist (n. 1908).
• 2010: Guillermo Carrillo Arena, Mexican architect and politician (n. 1941).
• 2011: Manfred Gerlach, a German politician (n. 1928).
• 2011: Osvaldo Guidi, Argentine actor (n. 1964).
• 2012: Frank Cross, American professor (n. 1921).
• 2012: Harry E. Luther, American botanist (n. 1952).
• 2012: Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist (n. 1922).
• 2018: Carlos Boloña, Peruvian economist and politician (n. 1950).
• 2019: Alicia Alonso, Cuban dancer (n. 1920).
• 2021: Robin Wood, writer of Paraguayan comics (n. 1944).

Celebrations

• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

• World Day Against Pain
• BoliviaBolivia:
  • National Dignity Day
• HaitiHaiti:
  • Dessalines Day
• India:
  • Digital Society Day
• Venezuela Venezuela:

Day of the Dignification of the Motorized

• Argentina:
  • Peronist Loyalty Day

Catholic saints list

• San Florencio de Orange
• San Gilberto de Toulouse
• San Ignacio de Antioquía
• San Isidoro Gagelin
• San Juan de Licópolis
• St. Hosea (prophet)
• San Ricardo Gwyn
• Beato Baltasar Ravaschieri de Clavario
• Beato Contardo Ferrini
• Blessed Jacobo Burin
• Beata María Natalia de San Luis Vanot and compañeras
• Blessed Pedro de la Natividad de Santa María Virgen Casani
• Beato Raimundo Esteban Bou Pascual
• Beata Tarsila Córdoba Belda