September 14

September 14 is the 257th (two hundred and fifty-seventh) day of the year—the 258th (two hundred and fifty-eighth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• 81: In Rome, Domitian became emperor of the Roman Empire by the death of his brother Titus.
• 458: In Antioch (Turkey) an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 in the seismological scale of Richter leaves a balance of 80,000 victims.
• 786: Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph when his brother al-Hadi died.
• 799 (11/8/18 according to the Enryaku calendar): on the coast of the prefecture of Ibaraki, Japan, a tsunami is recorded (the causative earthquake is not mentioned).
• 1099 (27/8/1 according to the Kowa calendar): an earthquake is recorded in Kawachi, Japan.
• 1180: In Japan the battle of Ishibashiyama is waged.
• 1224: On Mount della Verna (Italy) Francis of Assisi says he received the stigmas of Christ.
• 1262: In Spain, Alfonso X el Sabio conquers the city of Cadiz, until then under Andalusian rule.
• 1264: In Spain, Alfonso X el Sabio conquers the important Muslim fortress of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz).
• 1334: In Hebei, China, an earthquake occurs with "many dead."
• 1454: in Basel, Switzerland, at 23:00 local time an earthquake with "some dead".
• 1494: In Baoshan (Yunnan Province, China) an earthquake occurs with "many dead."
• 1509 (perhaps on 10 September): on the coast of the Mar de Marmara, near Istanbul (Turkey) there is an earthquake of magnitude between 7.2 and 7.4 on the seismological scale of Richter (and an intensity of X to XI) and a tsunami, leaving between 1000 and 13 000 fatal casualties.
• 1509: in Regunje (Slovenia), 45 km northwest of Ljubljana an earthquake with an X intensity occurs.
• 1593: In the north of the current Argentina, the Spanish Francisco de Argañaraz and Murguía founded the city of San Salvador de Jujuy.
• 1671: The first Mass is held in Lima in honor of the Lord of the Miracles.
• 1735: 80 km from the present Federal Capital is founded the city of Capilla del Señor, being considered as "First Historical Village".
• 1752: The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, jumping 11 days (the previous day was September 2nd).
• 1771: in Buenos Aires (Virreinato del Río de la Plata) the first mailman is designated.
• 1810: In the city of Cochabamba (now Bolivia), the libertarian uprising against the Spanish crown is recorded, headed by Colonel Francisco del Rivero and the leader Esteban Arze.
• 1812: the great fire of Moscow begins during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia.
• 1813: in Mexico, José María Morelos and Pavón writes the document Sentences of the Nation.
• 1814: In the United States, Francis Scott Key writes the song The Star-Spangled Banner.
• 1823: in Jódar Jaén, Rafael de Riego is defeated in the battle of Jódar against the French troops of the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis.
• 1824: in Mexico, the province of Chiapas is attached to the Federal Covenant.
• 1829: the Russian and Ottoman empires sign the Treaty of Edirne or Adrianopolis, by which peace is made to war (1828-1829).
• 1847: Under the U.S. Intervention in Mexico, Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.

The Stone of Andrés Castro, painting by Chilean painter Luis Vergara Ahumada, in 1964, about the battle of San Jacinto (1856).

• 1856: near Tipitapa (Nicaragua), at the San Jacinto hacienda 160 members of the Northern Army under the command of Colonel José Dolores Estrada Vado defeat 300 American filibusters in the battle of San Jacinto. The “pedado de Andrés Castro” happens.
• 1886: the tape of the typewriter is invented.
• 1890: in the Italian magazine Il Sécolo Illustrato della Doménica the second world crossword (the first was published in 1873, in New York). It didn't succeed, so no new version was released again.
• 1901: In the United States, Theodore Roosevelt assumes the presidency after the murder of William McKinley.
• 1910: Uruguay founded the Sporting Club Uruguay.
• 1911: at the Kiev Opera Theatre (Russian Empire) the socialist Dmitri Bogrov shot Prime Minister Piotr Stolypin, who died four days later.
• 1917: Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
• 1923: in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes a dictator.
• 1923: In the United States, in the so-called "Century Fight", Argentine boxer Luis Angel Firpo throws American champion Jack Dempsey out of the ring for 17 seconds, but the referee does not consider him a nocaut.
• 1925: in Bolivia, the airline Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano began its activities.
• 1927: In the city of San Francisco (California) she died in an unusual accident – hanged by her long handkerchief wrapped in a tire – American dancer Isadora Duncan.
• 1930: in Germany, the Nazi party obtains 18 % of the votes and 107 seats in the Reichstag (it becomes the second party of the country).
• 1933: in Managua (Nicaragua) Archbishop José Antonio Lezcano and Ortega hand over the ashes of the national hero José Dolores Estrada Vado to officials of the National District to deposit them in the crypt of the Cathedral, presently Antigua Cathedral of Managua, on the 77th anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto.
• 1936: In Germany, the Government enacted the four-year plan to prepare for war.
• 1944: As part of the Second World War, the city of Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
• 1944: American marines land on the island of Peleliu.
• 1954: on the polygon of Tótskoye (about 1050 km east of Moscow) a Soviet bomber Tu-4 dropped from 8,000 m high a 40 kiloton atomic bomb, which explodes at 350 m. In the experiment, about 45,000 people (military and civilian) are exposed.
• 1956: in Nicaragua, dictator Anastasio Somoza García celebrates with a public ceremony the Centenary of the battle of San Jacinto in the hacienda of this name and the statue of Andrés Castro, made by Edith Gron, at the entrance of the place, by students of the National Central Institute Ramírez Goyena.
• 1957: in the T3b Area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:44 (local time), the United States detonates its 11 kiloton Fizeau atomic bomb to 150 m underground. It's the bomb. 112 of the 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1958: In Germany, two rockets designed by engineer Ernst Mohr (the first German post-war rockets) reached the stratosphere.
• 1959: the Soviet probe Moon 2 crashes against the Moon and becomes the first object made by the man who reaches it.
• 1960: In Baghdad (Irak), OPEC is founded, which brings together oil-exporting countries.
• 1962: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada, at 9:10 (local time), the United States detonates its 5 kiloton Hyrax atomic bomb to 217 m underground. It's the bomb. 287 of the 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1964: the third cycle of the Second Vatican Council opens.
• 1965: the fourth and last cycle of the Second Vatican Council is opened.
• 1968: The Soviet Union launches the Zond Moon Probe 5.
• 1968: in San Miguel Canoa (Mexico), the population lynchs five workers from the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla. The film will take place in 1975 Canoa: memory of a shameful factthat will recognize the facts.
• 1974: Leda, a satellite from Jupiter, is discovered by Charles Thomas Kowal.
• 1975: Pope Paul VI canonizes Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American saint.
• 1977: Colombian Civic Paro, with demonstrations and strikes on the roads of the territory.
• 1978: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 12 space probe for Venus.
• 1981: In Vatican City, John Paul II publishes his third encyclical: Laborem exercens.
• 1982: A Maronite Christian murders Bachir Gemayel (elected President of Lebanon).
• 1984: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, three young drug addicts enter the department of the cartoonist and historietist Lino Palacio (80 years old) to rob him, and murder him and his wife.
• 1984: Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone in a hot air balloon.
• 1984: presentation of the Renault Supercinco at the Elisha Palace with French President François Miterrand.
• 1988: Hurricane Gilberto affects the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) with sustained winds of 295 km/h and 350 km/h streaks, leaving a trail of destruction at its pace.
• 1989: in an artificial well at 260 m underground, in the U12p.03 Area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 10 kiloton Disko Elm atomic bomb. It is the 1098 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1995: in Mexico, 5 days before the 10th anniversary of Mexico's 1985 Earthquake, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale hits Mexico City. The epicenter took place 29 km northwest of Ometepec (Guerrero).
• 1998: MCI Communications and WorldCom telecommunications companies join US$37 billion and form MCI WorldCom.
• 1998: Pope John Paul II publishes the encyclical Fides et Ratio about the relations between faith and reason.
• 1999: Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
• 1999: the album is released to the market Love you is a pleasureMexican singer Luis Miguel.
• 2000: in the United States the Windows ME operating system is released.
• 2000: Juan Antonio Samaranch leaves the IOC presidency after 20 years.
• 2000: In Peru, the first Vladivideo is publicly presented, where the presidential adviser Vladimiro Montesinos appears to bribe an opposition congressman. The ten years of high-level corruption that had held President Alberto Fujimori in power are highlighted. In a few weeks the scandal will lead to the resignation from Japan of the president.

• 2001: in Japan, the Nintendo GameCube is on sale
• 2002: Tim Montgomery bats the world record of 100 meters with 9.78 seconds.
• 2002: in Milan, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi took over the archdiocese of that city.
• 2003: Estonia approves by referendum its integration into the European Union.
• 2004: Mexican singer and songwriter Reyli Barba launches his solo album titled On the moon.
• 2004: Disk published Funeral of the Arcade Fire band.
• 2005: in Baghdad, Iraq, a series of attacks resulted in 154 deaths and more than 500 wounded, mostly Shia. The Al Qaeda terrorist gang is awarded the attacks.
• 2005: Italy operates the headquarters of the provincial command of the carabineros. I'll die a cop.

After an epic battle, Del Potro was dedicated champion of the Us Open.

• 2007: begins to rule around the world, the provisions of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI concerning the release of the use of liturgical books prior to the reforms that followed the Second Vatican Council.
• 2007: in Japan the lunar probe SELENE is launched (SELenological and ENgineering Explorer).
• 2009: In the United States, Argentine tennis player Juan Martín del Potro defeated in the end the Swiss Roger Federer and became a champion of Us Open, this being his first and only title Grand-Slam
• .2009: Chile chooses the Brazilian digital television standard ISDB-Tb, adaptation of the Japanese standard.

An electronic classic, SHM Don't You Worry Child.

• 2010: release of the album A Thousand Suns from the American rock band Linkin Park.
• 2010: the last episode of the animated series K-ON is released!
• 2012: The acclaimed Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia was released worldwide. Considered an hymn of electronic music and one of the best songs of all time.
• 2014: In Indonesia, during the passage of Hurricane Odile, 14 people die on a boat between the Célebes and the Moluccas Islands.
• 2015: first direct observation of a gravitational wave by the LIGO experiment.
• 2017: In Singapore, Halimah Yacob assumes the presidency and becomes the first female head of state in that country.

Births

• 1169: Alejo II Comneno, Byzantine emperor (f. 1183).
• 1486: Enrique Cornelio Agripa de Nettesheim, a German philosopher (f. 1535).

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

• 1547: Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (f. 1619).
• 1580: Francisco de Quevedo, a Spanish writer (f. 1645).
• 1618: Peter Lely, British painter (f. 1680).
• 1632: Francisco Jacinto de Saboya, French aristocrat (f. 1638).
• 1737: Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (f. 1806).
• 1748: Joseph Collyer, English engraver (f. 1827).
• 1760: Luigi Cherubini, Italian musician and composer (f. 1842).

Alexander von Humboldt.

• 1769: Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and German geographer (f. 1859).
• 1774: William Bentinck, British politician (f. 1839).
• 1804: John Gould, a British naturalist and ornithologist (f. 1881).
• 1808: Rodolfo Amando Philippi, German naturalist (f. 1904).
• 1831: Benjamin Victorica, Argentinean lawyer and military (f. 1913).
• 1846: Joaquín Costa, a Spanish politician (f. 1911).
• 1850: Indalecio Gómez, jurist, politician and Argentine diplomat (f. 1920).
• 1851: Octave Uzanne, French writer and journalist (f. 1931).

Robert Cecil.

• 1864: Robert Cecil, British politician and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize in 1937 (f. 1958).
• 1870: Vicente Lecuna, a historian and a Venezuelan banker (f. 1954).
• 1879: Margaret Sanger, American feminist (f. 1966).
• 1880: Archie Hahn, American athlete (f. 1955).
• 1880: John Halliday, American actor (f. 1947).
• 1885: María Grever, Mexican composer (f. 1951).
• 1886: Erich Hoepner, German military (f. 1944).
• 1889: María Heredia Lecaro, supercentenaria ecuatoriana (f. 2006).
• 1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradv, Russian mathematician (f. 1983).
• 1895: Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Argentine writer (f. 1964).
• 1897: Eduardo Blanco Amor, a Spanish writer and journalist (f. 1979).
• 1904: Dhimiter Çani, Albanian sculptor (f. 1990).
• 1909: Peter Scott, ornithologist, conservationist and British painter (f. 1989).
• 1910: Jack Hawkins, British actor (f. 1973).
• 1910: Rolf Liebermann, director of Swiss orchestra and composer (f. 1999).
• 1910: Daniel Tinayre, Argentine filmmaker (f. 1994).
• 1913: Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, president of Guatemala (f. 1971).
• 1913: Severino Varela, Uruguayan footballer (f. 1995).
• 1915: John Dobson, British astronomer, astronomer of amateur astronomy, inventor of the Dobson telescope (f. 2014).
• 1918: Georges Berger, Belgian pilot of Formula 1 (f. 1967).
• 1920: Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (f. 2009).
• 1920: Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (f. 1998).
• 1920: Lawrence Klein, American economist (f. 2013).
• 1921: Darío Vittori, an Italian-Argentine actor (f. 2001).
• 1923: Fabián Estapé, Spanish economist (f. 2012).
• 1926: Miguel Brascó, Argentine writer and journalist (f. 2014).
• 1926: Michel Butor, French writer (f. 2016).
• 1926: Carmen Franco and Polo, Spanish personality, daughter of dictator Francisco Franco (f. 2017).
• 1928: Humberto Maturana, biologist, philosopher and Chilean writer (f. 2021).
• 1929: Larry Collins, American writer and journalist (f. 2005).
• 1930: Allan Bloom, American philosopher (f. 1992).
• 1931: Horace Lannes, costumer and Argentinean modisto.
• 1933: Harve Presnell, an American actor (f. 2009).
• 1934: Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (f. 1994).
• 1934: Kate Millett, American feminist writer (f. 2017).
• 1934: Fernanda Mistral, an Argentine actress.
• 1934: Kate Millett, writer, teacher, artist and radical American feminist activist (f. 2017).
• 1935: Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (f. 2008).
• 1936: Walter Koenig, American actor.
• 1936: Ferid Murad, American Doctor, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1998.
• 1936: Hernán Figueroa Reyes, Argentine singer (f. 1973).
• 1937: Renzo Piano, Italian architect.
• 1940: Larry Brown, American basketball coach.
• 1940: María Teresa Forero, university professor, writer, translator and Argentine playwright.
• 1941: Santiago Carlos Oves, Argentine filmmaker (f. 2010).
• 1942: Felix Pons, Spanish politician (f. 2010).
• 1944: Marián Farías Gómez, Argentine singer.
• 1945: Socrates Rizzo, Mexican economist and politician.
• 1945: Claudio Parra, Chilean musician, composer and pianist, founder of the group Los Jaivas.
• 1947: Sam Neill, New Zealand actor.
• 1947: Philippe Vorbe, Haitian footballer.
• 1948: Mario Conde, financial and Spanish lawyer.
• 1950: Marita Ballesteros, Argentine actress.
• 1950: Matías Prats Luque, Spanish journalist.
• 1951: Duncan Haldane, British physicist.
• 1952: Amina Lemrini, Moroccan politics.
• 1952: César Antonio Molina, writer, translator, university professor, Spanish cultural and political manager.
• 1954: Otto Serge, Colombian singer of the Vallenato.
• 1954: Nubia Martí, Mexican film, theatre and television actress.

Morten Harket

• 1955: Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Italian writer (f. 1991).
• 1956: Kostas Karamanlis, politician and Greek Prime Minister since 2004.
• 1956: Ray Wilkins, British footballer and coach (f. 2018).
• 1959: Morten Harket, Norwegian singer, A-ha band.
• 1959: Ashlyn Gere, American porn actress.
• 1960: Melissa Leo, American actress.
• 1960: Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor.
• 1965: Mariana Briski, Argentine actress (f. 2014).
• 1965: Dmitri Medvédev, Russian President.
• 1966: Mike Cooley, American guitarist.
• 1966: Carlos Fuentealba, Argentine teacher killed by the police (f. 2007).
• 1968: Alvaro Morales, Chilean actor.
• 1969: Bong Joon-ho, South Korean filmmaker and screenwriter
• 1970: Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist.
• 1970: Kavita Seth, Indian singer.
• 1971: Andre Matos, musician, singer and Brazilian producer (f. 2019).
• 1971: Malena Gracia, Spanish actress and model.
• 1971: Kimberly Williams, American actress.
• 1973: Andrew Lincoln, British actor.
• 1973: Nas, American rapper.
• 1973: Linvoy Primus, British footballer.
• 1974: Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete.
• 1974: Catalina Olcay, Chilean actress.
• 1974: Catalina Pulido, Chilean actress.
• 1974: Raúl Gordillo, Argentine soccer player.
• 1976: Agustín Calleri, Argentine tennis player.
• 1977: Eneko Atxa, Spanish cook.
• 1978: Silvia Navarro, Mexican actress.
• 1978: Carmen Kass, Estonian model.
• 1979: Ivica Olić, Croatian footballer.
• 1979: Jesse Marunde, American athlete (f. 2007).
• 1979: Matías Oviedo, Chilean actor
• 1980: Luis Horna, Peruvian tennis player.
• 1980: Pedro Moreno, actor and Cuban model.
• 1980: Prakriti Maduro, actress, director and writer from Venezuela.
• 1981: Elisa Zulueta, Chilean actress.
• 1981: Miyavi, Japanese musician and singer.
• 1981: Ashley Roberts, American singer, dancer and actress, Pussycat Dolls.
• 1982: Rolando Martínez, presenter and Mexican journalist.

Amy Winehouse

• 1983: Amy Winehouse, British singer and composer (f. 2011).
• 1983: Wilson Tiago, Brazilian footballer.
• 1983: Cristina Hurtado, model, presenter and Colombian businessman.
• 1983: Mike Muñoz, American footballer.
• 1984: André de Vanny, an Australian actor.
• 1984: Fernanda Vasconcellos, actress and Brazilian model.
• 1984: Adam Lamberg, American actor.
• 1985: Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist, of the Trivium band.
• 1985: Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer.
• 1985: Alex Clare, British singer and composer.
• 1986: Michelle Jenner, Spanish actress.
• 1986: Steven Naismith, Scottish footballer.
• 1987: Iván Macalik, Argentine soccer player.
• 1988: Shizuka Ishigami, Japanese seiyū.
• 1989: Lee Jong-suk, South Korean actor and model.
• 1989: Logan Henderson, American actor and singer, Big Time Rush band.
• 1990: Santiago "Morro" García, Uruguayan footballer (f. 2021).
• 1991: Nana, actress, singer and South Korean model.
• 1991: Roberto Crivello, Italian footballer.
• 1991: Ronnie Hillman, American football player (f. 2022).
• 1991: Shayne Topp, American actor.
• 1992: Karl Toko Ekambi, Cameroonian footballer.
• 1994: Oumar Tourade Bangoura, footballer from Guinea (f. 2014).
• 1994: Franco Soldano, Argentine footballer.
• 1997: Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer and composer.
• 2000: Han, composer, South Korean rapper member of straykids
• 2000: Ethan Ampadu, British footballer.
• 2007: Heo Jung-eun, South Korean actress.

Deaths

• 9 a. C.: Druso el Mayor, militar roman (n. 38 B.C.).
• 258: Cyprian of Carthage, Carthaginian bishop (n. c. 200).
• 407: John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople (now Istanbul) and Holy Catholic (n. 347).
• 585: Bidatsu, Japanese emperor (n. 538).
• 775: Constantine V, Byzantine emperor (n. 718).
• 786: Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid's brother (n. 764).
• 891: Stephen V, Roman pope (n. ?).
• 1146: Zengi, Syrian governor (n. 1087).
• 1164: Sutoku, Japanese emperor (n. 1119).
• 1214: Albert of Jerusalem, Italian bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem (n. c. 1149).
• 1321: Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (n. v. 1265).
• 1404: Albert IV of Austria, Austrian king (n. 1377).
• 1435: John of Lancaster, French regent, son of King Henry IV of England (n. 1389).
• 1523: Adriano VI, Catholic Pope (n. 1459).
• 1538: Henry III of Nassau-Breda, the Dutch aristocrat (n. 1483).
• 1560: Anton Fugger, German merchant (n. 1493).
• 1638: John Harvard, American theologian (n. 1607).
• 1709: Luis Fernández Portocarrero, ecclesiastical and Spanish politician, Archbishop of Toledo (n. 1635).
• 1712: Giovanni Cassini, astronomer and engineer ílo-francés (n. 1625).
• 1715: Pierre Pérignon, a French monk (n. 1638).
• 1730: Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish writer (n. 1659).
• 1743: Nicolas Lancret, a French painter (n. 1690).
• 1759: Louis-Joseph of Montcalm, French commander (n. 1712).
• 1767: José de Iturriaga militar y política español (n. 1699).
• 1800: Juan Ignacio González del Castillo, Spanish comediographer (n. 1763).
• 1812: Juan José Crespo and Castillo, comes from the Independence of Peru (n. 1747).
• 1836: Aaron Burr, U.S. Vice President (n. 1756).
• 1851: James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (n. 1789).
• 1852: Augustus Pugin, British architect (n. 1812).
• 1852: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, General and British Prime Minister (n. 1769).
• 1867: Diego José de Rejas Peralta, Augustinian religious and Mexican preacher (n. 1807).
• 1901: William McKinley, 25th American President; assassinated (n. 1843).
• 1904: Manuel Ossorio and Bernard, a Spanish journalist (n. 1839).
• 1905: Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, French explorer (n. 1852).
• 1916: José Echegaray, engineer, playwright and Spanish politician, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1904 (n. 1832).
• 1918: Eduardo Torroja and Caballé, Spanish mathematician (n. 1847).
• 1927: Hugo Ball, German Dadaist poet (n. 1886).
• 1927: Isadora Duncan, American dancer (n. 1877).
• 1936: Irving Thalberg, American Film Producer (n. 1899).
• 1937: Thomas Masaryk, a Moravian politician, founder of Czechoslovakia (n. 1850).
• 1951: Fritz Busch, director of German orchestra and musician (n. 1890).
• 1960: Eloy Vaquero Cantillo, Spanish politician (n. 1888).
• 1969: James Anderson, American film and television actor (n. 1921).
• 1970: Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (n. 1891).
• 1970: Maria Ros, Spanish soprano (n. 1891).
• 1971: Manuel Cisneros Sánchez, journalist and Peruvian politician (n. 1904).
• 1977: Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress (n. 1958).
• 1979: Pastora Empire, Spanish singer and dancer (n. 1889).
• 1981: Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (n. 1899).

Grace Kelly.

• 1982: Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic politician (n. 1916).
• 1982: Christian Ferras, French violinist (n. 1933).
• 1982: Bashir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (n. 1947).
• 1982: Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (n. 1929).
• 1983: Alberto Dalbes, Argentine actor (n. 1922).
• 1984: Janet Gaynor, American actress (n. 1906).
• 1984: Lino Palacio, historietist and Argentine cartoonist (n. 1903).
• 1985: Joselito Rodríguez, Mexican actor and filmmaker (n. 1907).
• 1989: Dámaso Pérez Prado, a Cuban musician and composer (n. 1916).
• 1989: Nicolás Cabrera, Spanish scientist (n. 1913).
• 1995: María Matilde Almendros, radio broadcaster and Spanish actress (n. 1922)
• 1996: Juliet Prowse, an Anglo-American dancer and actress (n. 1936).
• 1998: Yang Shangkun, Chinese President (n. 1907).
• 1999: Charles Crichton, British filmmaker (n. 1910).
• 1999: Eddy Gaytán, accordionist, composer, musical producer and Argentine-Cuban arranger (n. 1929).
• 1999: André Kostolany, American speculator (n. 1906).
• 2000: Mauricio Wacquez, a Chilean writer and philosopher (n. 1939).
• 2002: LaWanda Page, American actress (n. 1920).
• 2002: Lolita Torres, Argentinean actress and singer (n. 1929).
• 2003: John Serry Mr. accordionist, organist, composer, teacher, italo-American (n. 1915).
• 2004: Carlos Coda, Argentine marine (n. 1918).
• 2005: Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (n. 1932).
• 2005: Robert Wise, American filmmaker (n. 1914).
• 2005: Frances Newton, American criminal, first Afro-descendant woman to be executed in Texas since the 19th century (n. 1965).
• 2006: Mickey Hargitay, physicist and Hungarian actor (n. 1926).

Patrick Swayze

• 2006: José Antonio Nieves Conde, filmmaker and Spanish journalist (n. 1911).
• 2007: Emilio Ruiz del Río, Spanish filmmaker (n. 1923).
• 2007: Benny Vansteelant, Belgian athlete (n. 1976).
• 2007: Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin, Mexican muralist painter (n. 1922).
• 2009: Patrick Swayze, actor, dancer and American singer (n. 1952).
• 2010: Jorge Vidal, Argentine tango singer (n. 1924).
• 2011: Jorge Lavat, Mexican actor (n. 1933).
• 2011: Theodosio Aguirre, Chilean footballer (n. 1910).
• 2012: Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet (n. 1923).
• 2013: Jorge Pedreros, Chilean actor and comedian (n. 1942).
• 2018: Carlos Rubira Infante, Ecuadorian composer (n. 1921).
• 2020: Gregorio Badeni, Argentine jurist and academic (n. 1943).
• 2022: Irene Papas, Greek actress (n. 1926)

Celebrations

• Argentina:
  • Portfolio Day
  • National Day of the Rosarina Cola
• BoliviaBolivia
  • Anniversary of the department of Cochabamba
• Costa RicaCosta Rica:
  • National Day of Community Water Management
• India:
  • Hindi Day (speakers)
• Mexico Mexico:
  • National Day of the Charro
  • National Locutor Day
• NicaraguaNicaragua:
  • San Jacinto Day
• Romania Romania:
  • Engineer Day
• Ukraine Ukraine:
  • Mobilized Military Day

Catholic saints list

• Exaltation of the Holy Cross
• Lord of the Miracles
• San Cornelioand martyr (252)
• San Cipriano de CartagoBishop (258)
• San Materno de Colonia Agripina, bishop (314)
• Saint John Chrysostom, bishop (407)
• San Pedro de Tarantasia, bishop (1174)
• San Alberto de Castro GualteriBishop (1215)
• Santa Notburga de Ebenvirgin (1313)
• Blessed Claudio Laplace, priest and martyr (1794)
• San Gabriel Taurino DufresseBishop and martyr (1815)