September 19th

September 19 is the 262nd (two hundred and sixty-second) day of the year—the 263rd (two hundred and sixty-third) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 103 days left to end the year.

Events

• 335: In Byzantium (Turkey) Dalmacio is made with the title of Caesar.
• 634: On the site of Damascus, the rashidun Arabs led by Jalid ibn al-Walid captured the city of Damascus, which was in the possession of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1356: in Poitiers, France, the English defeat the French (Poitiers' battle).
• 1508: In the northwest of Scotland there is an earthquake of about 7 in the scale of magnitude of the moment, which sits in England and Scotland.
• 1526: In the current state of Guanajuato (Mexico), the Spanish Nicolás de San Luis Montáñez founded the village of San Francisco de Acámbaro (now Acámbaro).
• 1580: In Algiers, Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is released from his captivity.
• 1676: In the United States, the village of Jamestown (Virginia) is set on fire by the forces of the seized British character Nathaniel Bacon (1640-1676).

The farmer Giles Corey (1621-1692) is crushed for two days to confess his witchcraft.

• 1692: In Salem (United States)—in the case of witchcraft trials in Salem—the farmer Giles Corey (71) died after two days of crushing because he did not plead guilty or innocent. Two days later, his wife, who had declared herself innocent, will be killed for not admitting her guilt.
• 1771: In Spain the Order of Carlos III is created, the highest Spanish civil decoration.
• 1777: In Saratoga the first battle of Saratoga is waged.
• 1783: In Versailles (France), Étienne Montgolfier released a balloon loaded with a cage of mine in whose interior a sheep and birds traveled. After rising about 500 meters high, the aerostato descended gently into the forest of Vaucresson and the animals were unharmed.
• 1812: In the context of the Spanish Independence War, the Allied coalition led by the Wellington Marquis begins the siege to Burgos Castle, in the hands of the French.

Siege to the castle of Burgos (1812)

• 1821: In Peru, the Spaniards lose the stronghold of Callao, near Lima, under the attack of Argentine general José de San Martín.
• 1841: In Famaillá (Province of Tucumán, Argentina) the battle of Famaillá is waged.
• 1862: In the framework of the U.S. Civil War, the unionist troops under the orders of General William Rosecrans defeat the confederate forces of General Sterling Price (Iuka Battle).
• 1863: In the framework of the War of Secession the battle of Chickamauga is waged.
• 1868: In the south of Spain the revolt in Cadiz was unleashed against the monarchy of Isabel II of Spain that will lead to the revolution known as La Gloriosa.
• 1870: In the framework of the Franco-Prussian War, the Germans begin the site of Paris. It will last 135 days.
• 1870: After having invaded the papal states, the Italian navy leaves the place of Rome, entering the city the next day.
• 1873: In the United States, after bankruptcy Jay Cooke & Co., the Second Black Friday happens, causing great financial panic.
• 1880: In Logroño (Spain) the Breton Theatre of the Herreros is inaugurated.
• 1891: in Santiago de Chile, the President of the Republic, José Manuel Balmaceda, committed suicide when he was a refugee at the Argentine Embassy.
• 1893: New Zealand promulgates female suffrage.
• 1895: in Jimaguayú (Cuba), the patriots promulgate the Jimaguayú Constitution.
• 1895: at the entrance of the port of Havana (Cuba) the Spanish cruise Sanchez Barcáiztegui sinks; in the shipwreck the General Delgado Parejo perishes.
• 1899: In France, the French Jewish captain Alfred Dreyfus is pardoned.
• 1900: In the United States, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
• 1902: In Mozambique, the Portuguese forces of the colony defeated and imprisoned the native leader Kubi, ending the rebellion initiated in 1895 against the Portuguese domain.
• 1908: In Prague (up to 1919 Austro-Hungarian Empire) the Seventh symphony by Gustav Mahler.
• 1914: In Venezuela the zarzuela Alma Llanera, which included a joropo of the same name, currently considered a second national anthem Venezuelan.
• 1915: In Chile, under the mandate of Ramón Barros Luco, it was declared on 19 September as the Day of the Glories of the Chilean Army.
• 1919: Afghanistan is independent of the British Empire.
• 1921: In Morocco, the rebel leader Abd el Krim proclaims the independence of the Republic of Rif.
• 1923: In Spain, King Alfonso XIII (1886-1941) issued a royal decree prohibiting the independence of the territories invaded by Spain.
• 1926: in Milan (Italy) the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium is opened with a meeting between AC Milan and Inter Milan.
• 1928: In the United States, Walt Disney releases the first animated sound film.
• 1929: in Mexico, José Vasconcelos Calderón, a candidate for the presidency of Mexico, comes from an attack in which there were two deaths.
• 1934: In the United States, Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the abduction and murder of the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
• 1935: In Spain, the scandal of estraperlo produces a government crisis.
• 1939: France and the United Kingdom reject Hitler's proposal for peace, which requires the recognition of German territorial conquests.
• 1940: In Poland, the military Witold Pilecki has stopped and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp to extract information and begin Jewish resistance in concentration camps.
• 1942: in Brody (Ukraine) a holocaust happens; about 2500 Jews are deported and annihilated by the Gestapo in the concentration camp of Belzec.
• 1944: Moscow and Finland celebrate an armistice.
• 1946: at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), Winston Churchill's speech founded the Council of Europe.
• 1950: In Belgium, Luxembourg astronomer Sylvain Arend (1902-1992) discovered the Antilogue asteroid (1583).
• 1952: In the United States—in full Macedonianism—the Government prohibits British actor Charles Chaplin from entering the country after his boat trip to England.
• 1955: In Argentina, President Juan Domingo Perón presents his formal resignation from the presidency after being overthrown.
• 1957: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:59 (local time), the United States detonates for the first time an atomic bomb underground (at 273 m depth), Rainier, 1.7 kiloton. It's the 114 of the 1132 bomb that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1958: In Algeria, the Algerian Liberation Front constitutes an interim Government of the Republic in exile, chaired by Ferhatí Abbas.

Explosion of the atomic bomb Eddy (1958).

• 1958: about the B7b Area of the Nevada Test Site, at 11:00 (local time) United States detonates from an aerostatic balloon to 150 meters high its atomic bomb n.o 162, Eddy, of 0,083 kilotons. (In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb had a power of 13 kilotons.)
• 1959: In the United States, Soviet leader Nikita Jrushchov visits Disneyland.
• 1960: in the city of New York (United States), Fidel Castro and his delegation leave the Shelburne hotel because of the lack of guarantees for their safety, and they are installed at the Theresa hotel in the black neighborhood of Harlem.
• 1964: in Madrid, Spain, a thousand people are concentrated in front of the U.S. Embassy, chanting “Assasinos!” and “Cuba yes, Yankee no!”, due to the CIA’s terrorist attack on the Spanish freighter Sierra Aránzazu (who had confused with the Cuban freighter Sierra Maestra).
• 1968: in Mexico, the rector of UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) protests the military occupation of Ciudad Universitaria and leads a demonstration, the first in which the rectory of UNAM explicitly supports the student movement. The Chamber of Deputies, in the voice of its leader Luis M. Farías, attacks the Rector Barros Sierra, who presents his resignation without being accepted. The Governing Board expressly requests that it remain in the lead of UNAM.
• 1970: in Matteotti Square, in Genoa, Italy, the Greek student of geology Kostas Georgakis committed suicide as a protest for the colonel dictatorship (1967-1974) led by Georgios Papadopulos.
• 1972: In London a bomb card is used for the first time. The objective is the Israeli embassy. A diplomat from that country dies.
• 1973: In Sweden, Carlos XVI Gustavo was crowned.
• 1976: on the outskirts of Karatepe (Turkey), a Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into the Taurus Mountains, killing the 155 passengers on board.
• 1976: In Sweden, a centrist, liberal and moderate coalition defeats the Social Democratic Party for the first time since 1932.
• 1978: Solomon Islands joins the United Nations.
• 1981: In New York Central Park, the Simon and Garfunkel duo meets for a free recital.
• 1982: in Pittsburgh, United States, Scott Fahlman publishes the first emoticonos on the board of advertisements at Carnegie Mellon University: :-) and :-(..
• 1983: Saint Kitts and Nevis—one of the Antilles—is independent of the British Empire.
• 1984: In Caracas, the so-called Tazón Massacre is produced.
• 1985: an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 occurs in Mexico City at 7.19 hours in the scale of time. It destroys the city, leaving a total of more than 10,000 dead.
• 1985: In the Mexican state of Chihuahua, Governor Óscar Ornelas presents his resignation from the political conflicts that had begun in that state in 1983.
• 1985: on the island Mindanao (Philippines), some 60 members of the Ata tribe commit suicide with insecticide by orders of their guru Datu Mangayanon—unexpected because he had not been able to convert tree leaves into bills—which convinced them that they could see the image of the Lord God.
• 1985: Tipper Gore (Al Gore’s wife) and other wives of politicians form the ultra-conservative Center for Musical Resources for Parents, while Frank Zappa and other musicians are forced to testify at the United States Congress about obscenity in rock music.
• 1985: In Costa Rica, the Costa Rican Institute of Railways (INCOFER) was established to manage all railways.
• 1988: At the Olympic Games in Seoul, U.S. classmate Greg Louganis suffers a head injury at the preliminary stages of the 3-metre trampoline specialty.
• 1989: in Chad (Africa), an explosive terrorist attack destroys in the air a French DC-10 (Vuelo 772 de UTA). The 171 occupants die.
• 1991: near Volturno (Italian Alps), German tourists discover the remains of a human being, who will be baptized as Ötzi (who lived around 3300 BC).
• 1991: Argentina, under the chairmanship of Carlos Menem, announced its withdrawal from the Non-Aligned Movement.
• 1991: In the Nevada Evidence Emplacement (about 105 km northwest of Las Vegas), the United States blows up the atomic bomb Distant Zenith, the 1120 atomic bomb that detonated that country between 1945 and 1992.
• 1993: Bolivia ranks the FIFA World Cup in the United States in 1994 as a visitor to Ecuador.
• 1994: Haiti is invaded by more than 24 000 U.S. soldiers under the orders of President George Bush.
• 1995: U.S. terrorist Unabomber gets his manifesto, entitled “The industrial society and its future”, published in the Washington Post and New York Times.
• 1997: In the province of Medea (Algeria), terrorists of the Islamic Salvation Front murder 53 men, women and children (massage of Guelb El-Kebir) for supporting the Armed Islamic Group.
• 1999: The Russian army is preparing to invade Chechnya, with some 30,000 soldiers.
• 2006: In Thailand a military coup is perpetrated, which revokes the Constitution and establishes martial law.
• 2008: in microsoft paint is drawn Trollface by Carlos Ramírez, which would be adopted as the universal symbol of an Internet Trol.
• 2012; United Nations Security Council resolution 2068 on the protection of children in armed conflict is adopted.
• 2015: in Miami (United States) it ends its broadcasts Giant Saturday with Don Francisco, the largest program in the history of world television with 53 years in the air uninterruptedly.
• 2017: Mexico: at 13:14.40 h, local time (18:14.40 h, GMT/UTC time), there is a earthquake of magnitude 7.1 in the scale of moment with epicenter in the border area of Morelos and Puebla, which completely destroyed several buildings in Mexico City. The earthquake occurred on the same day that a drill was held commemorating the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 earthquake.
• 2017: Antonio Echevarría assumes his post as governor of Nayarit.
• 2018: the Japanese company Nintendo Company, Ltd. launches the online Nintendo Switch Online service for Nintendo Switch platforms.
• 2021: a volcanic eruption occurs on the island of La Palma, which will last several months and its lava will occupy hundreds of hectares and destroy thousands of buildings, erasing from the map almost entirely the population of Todoque and part of La Laguna.
• 2022: in Mexico at 13:05 hours, local time (18:05 hours, GMT/UTC time), there is a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in the scale of moment with epicentre close to the town of Coalcomán, Michoacán. The earthquake happened on the day that a drill was held commemorating the 37th anniversary of the 1985 earthquake and the 5th anniversary of the 2017 earthquake.
• 2022: In the UK the funeral of Queen Elizabeth was carried out in which she was transferred to Windsor in the Chapel of St. George with her husband, her parents and her younger sister.

Births

• 86: Antonino Pius, Roman emperor (f. 161).
• 866: Leo VI the Sabio, Byzantine emperor between 886 and 912 (f. 1912).
• 1377: Alberto IV, Austrian aristocrat (f. 1404).
• 1416: Pedro de Cosme de Médici, an Italian politician (f. 1469).

Henry III.

• 1551: Henry III, Polish king between 1573 and 1574 and French between 1574 and 1589 (f. 1589).
• 1683: Lorenz Heister, botanist and German surgeon (f. 1758).
• 1749: Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and French astronomer (f. 1822).
• 1754: Louis Claude Marie Richard, French physician and botanist (f. 1821).
• 1759: William Kirby, British entomologist (f. 1850).
• 1772: Vicente López, a Spanish painter (f. 1850).
• 1774: Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (f. 1849).
• 1775: José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan military, procer de la Independencia (f. 1815)
• 1796: Hartley Coleridge, British poet (f. 1849).
• 1802: Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian politician and journalist (f. 1894).
• 1803: María Ana de Saboya, Austrian Empress and Hungarian Queen and Bohemia (f. 1884).
• 1804: Genaro Berón de Astrada, militar y política argentina (f. 1830).
• 1811: Orson Pratt, American religious leader (f. 1881).
• 1813: Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, German astronomer (f. 1890).
• 1825: Henry Charles Lea, American historian (f. 1909).
• 1826: Antonio Raimondi, geographer, naturalist and Italian explorer (f. 1890).
• 1828: Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss politician (f. 1880).
• 1828: Evaristo Madero Elizondo, a military, businessman and Mexican politician (f. 1911).
• 1844: Rufino José Cuervo, Colombian philologist (f. 1911).
• 1853: Florentino Ameghino, naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and Argentine professor (f. 1911).
• 1858: Lisandro Alvarado, doctor, naturalist, historian, ethnologist and Venezuelan linguist (f. 1931).
• 1867: Arthur Rackham, British book illustrator (f. 1939).
• 1871: Virginia Fábregas, Mexican actress and businesswoman (f. 1950).
• 1873: Rudolf Charousek, Hungarian chess player (f. 1900).
• 1886: Jenaro Sanchez Delgadillo, priest, martyr and Mexican saint (f. 1927).
• 1887: Lynne Overman, an American actor (f. 1943).
• 1889: Sadie Delany, American physicist (f. 1999).
• 1898: Giuseppe Saragat, Italian president (f. 1988).
• 1900: Ricardo Cortez, American actor, singer and director (f. 1977).
• 1901: Joe Pasternak, Hungarian producer (f. 1991).
• 1901: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Austrian biologist (f. 1972).
• 1908: Mika Waltari, Finnish writer (f. 1979).
• 1908: Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese karateka (f. 1975).
• 1908: Robert Lecourt, French politician (f. 2004).
• 1909: Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer (f. 1998).
• 1910: Margaret Lindsay, American actress and singer (f. 1981).

William Golding.

• 1911: William Golding, novelist, poet and British playwright; nobel prize of literature (f. 1993).
• 1912: Kurt Sanderling, director of orchestra and Polish-German musician (f. 2011).
• 1913: Frances Farmer, American actress and singer (f. 1970).
• 1915: Germán Valdés, actor, singer and Mexican humorist (f. 1973).
• 1916: Terence Tiller, British radio poet and producer (f. 1987).
• 1917: Amalia Hernández, Mexican dancer and choreographer (f. 2000).
• 1919: Edgardo Jarrín Market, Peruvian military and political, prime minister between 1973 and 1975 (f. 2012).
• 1919: Juan Barjola, a Spanish painter (f. 2004).
• 1920: Carmen Lazo, Chilean politics (f. 2008).
• 1921: Paulo Freire, educator, pedagogue and Brazilian writer (f. 1997).
• 1921: Angel Liberal Lucini, Spanish Admiral (f. 2006).
• 1921: Odilio Urfé, director of orchestra and Cuban musician.
• 1922: Damon Knight, editor and critic of American science fiction (f. 2002).
• 1922: Emil Zátopek, Czechoslovak athlete (f. 2000).
• 1923: Rodrigo Riera, guitarist and Venezuelan composer (f. 1999).
• 1926: Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, nobel physics award in 2002.
• 1926: James Lipton, American actor, producer and screenwriter (f. 2020).
• 1926: Duke Snider, American baseball player and locutor (f. 2011).
• 1927: Helen Carter, American singer, from the band The Carter Family (f. 1998).
• 1927: Rosemary Harris, British actress.
• 1928: Elvira Quintillá, a Spanish actress (f. 2013).
• 1928: Adam West, American actor (f. 2017).
• 1930: Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist, composer and American educator.
• 1931: Jean-Claude Carrière, French actor and screenwriter.
• 1931: Genaro Ledesma Izquieta, a Peruvian politician and writer (f. 2018).
• 1932: Anabel Gutiérrez, Mexican film and television actress.
• 1932: Stefanie Zweig, German writer (f. 2014).
• 1933: David McCallum, British actor and singer, Iliá Kuriakin The agent of Cipol.
• 1934: Brian Epstein, British manager, of the band The Beatles (f. 1967).
• 1935: Encarna Sánchez, a Spanish journalist (f. 1996).
• 1936: Al Oerter, an American athlete (f. 2007).
• 1940: Caroline John, British actress (f. 2012).
• 1940: Eduardo Mateo, a Uruguayan musician and composer (f. 1990).
• 1940: Bill Medley, American singer, of the band The Righteous Brothers.
• 1940: Paul Williams, American singer and actor.
• 1941: Umberto Bossi, Italian politician.
• 1941: Mama Cass (Ellen Naomi Cohen), American singer and music, from The Mamas band (f. 1974).
• 1941: Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (f. 2013).
• 1942: Marina Mayoral, Spanish writer and teacher.
• 1943: Joe Morgan, U.S. sportsman and baseball player.
• 1944: Edmund Joensen, Faroese politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
• 1945: David Bromberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• 1945: José María Latorre, writer and Spanish film critic (f. 2014).
• 1946: Brian Henton, British racing pilot.
• 1947: Henry Bromell, American writer and writer (f. 2013).
• 1947: Lol Creme, British musician, bands 10cc and Art of Noise.
• 1947: Tanith Lee, British writer (f. 2015).
• 1948: Jeremy Irons, British actor.
• 1949: Barry Scheck, American lawyer.
• 1949: Twiggy, model, British actress and singer.
• 1951: Carlos Carnicero, Spanish journalist.
• 1951: Daniel Lanois, singer-songwriter, guitarist and Canadian producer.
• 1951: Miguel Torruco Marqués, a Mexican businessman and academic.
• 1952: Rhys Chatham, trumpeter, guitarist and American composer.
• 1952: Nile Rodgers, guitarist, composer and producer.
• 1953: Diana Maffía, politician and Argentine philosopher.
• 1955: Dominique Arnaud, French cyclist (f. 2016).
• 1956: José Ramón Alexanko, Spanish footballer.
• 1956: Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine car pilot.
• 1956: Helios Gómez, painter, posterist and Spanish anti-francist gypsy poet (f. 1901).
• 1956: José Luis Doreste, Spanish sailor.
• 1956: Amparo Grisales, actress, presenter and Colombian model.
• 1958: Lucky Ali, singer-songwriter and Indian actor.
• 1958: Lita Ford, American Anglo singer, The Runaways band.
• 1958: Kevin Hooks, American actor and director.
• 1959: Karmelo C. Iribarren, Spanish poet.
• 1960: Yolanda Saldívar, American killer.
• 1960: Ricardo Monreal Ávila, lawyer, politician and Mexican academic.
• 1963: Silvia Martínez Cassina, an Argentine journalist.
• 1963: Jarvis Cocker, British musician, of the Pulp band.
• 1963: Voro López, Spanish philologist.
• 1963: David Seaman, British footballer.
• 1963: Alexandra Silk, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 1964: Kim Richards, American actress.
• 1964: Trisha Yearwood, American singer and actress.
• 1965: Helen Duval, Dutch porn actress.
• 1965: Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress.
• 1965: Sunita Williams, American astronaut.
• 1966: Eric Rudolph, American evangelical terrorist.
• 1966: Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese fighter.
• 1967: Aleksandr Karelin, Russian fighter and politician.
• 1967: Mamoru Hosoda, Japanese director.
• 1967: Mark Weir, British fighter.
• 1968: Jimmy Bower, American drummer and composer, of the Eyehategod band.
• 1968: Jordi Núñez, Spanish player.
• 1969: Candy Dulfer, Dutch saxophoneist.
• 1969: Conchita Franqui, Cuban lyric singer.
• 1969: Kostia Tsziu, Russian-Australian boxer.
• 1969: Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer.
• 1970: Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer.
• 1970: Victor Williams, American actor.
• 1970: Hilda Hidalgo, Costa Rican filmmaker.
• 1971: Alfonso Reyes Cabanas, Spanish basketball player.
• 1971: Sanaa Lathan, American actress.
• 1972: Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player.
• 1973: Nick Colgan, Irish footballer.
• 1973: Christian da Matta, Brazilian Formula 1 pilot.
• 1973: Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Australian actor.
• 1973: David Zepeda, Mexican actor and singer.
• 1973: Stéphane Porato, French footballer.
• 1974: Jimmy Fallon, American actor, singer and presenter.
• 1974: Francisco Pinoargotti, comedian, actor and Ecuadorian television presenter.
• 1974: Victoria Silvstedt, model, actress and Swedish singer.
• 1976: Raja Bell, American basketball player.
• 1976: Alison Sweeney, American actress.
• 1976: Jim Ward, American musician, at the Drive-In and Sparta bands.
• 1977: Maria Rita, Brazilian singer.
• 1977: Robert Moreno, Spanish football coach.
• 1977: Tommaso Rocchi, Italian footballer.
• 1977: Emil Sutovsky, an Israeli chessman.
• 1978: Michelle Alves, Brazilian model.
• 1978: Nick Johnson, American baseball player.
• 1978: Ramin Karimloo, singer-compositor, producer and Iranian-Canadian actor.
• 1978: Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer.
• 1978: Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player.
• 1978: Waylon Reavis, American musician.
• 1980: Sara and Tegan Quin, Canadian singers, from the duo Tegan and Sara.
• 1980: Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player.
• 1981: Javier Martín Blázquez, Spanish geologo engineer, inventor of the petpercrete.
• 1981: Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist.
• 1982: Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player.
• 1982: Cristina López, athlete and Salvadoran politics.
• 1984: Amber Rayne, American porn actress (f. 2016).
• 1984: Eva Marie, American professional fighter.
• 1984: Angel Reyna, Mexican footballer.
• 1984: Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor.
• 1985: Alun Wyn Jones, British rugby player.
• 1985: Woodrow West, Belizean footballer.
• 1985: Song Joong Ki, South Korean actor.
• 1985: Renee Young, Canadian interviewer.
• 1986: Martin Bravo, Argentine soccer player.
• 1986: Leon Best, Irish footballer.
• 1986: Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist.
• 1986: Omar Khadr, a Canadian terrorist.
• 1986: Mandy Musgrave, American actress.
• 1987: Danielle Panabaker, American actress.
• 1987: Carlos Quintero, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1987: Leonor Lavado, actress, humorist and Spanish imitator.
• 1988: Katrina Bowden, American actress.
• 1988: Faye Reagan, American porn actress.
• 1989: Tyreke Evans, American basketball player.
• 1989: Lorenza Izzo, Chilean actress.
• 1990: Evgeny Novikov, Russian racer.
• 1990: Kieran Trippier, English footballer.
• 1992: Deyver Vega, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1992: Diego Antonio Reyes, Mexican footballer.
• 1992: Brandley Kuwas, Dutch footballer.
• 1993: Andrea Pereira, Spanish footballer.
• 1993: Javier Ramírez, actor, youtuber and Colombian singer.
• 1995: Antonio Cotán, Spanish footballer.
• 1995: Guillermo Fratta, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1996: Dejounte Murray, American basketball player.
• 1997: Giovanny, Brazilian footballer.
• 1997: Erik Jirka, Slovak footballer.
• 1997: Konrad Michalak, Polish footballer.
• 1997: Luis Bonilla, Colombian footballer.
• 1999: Diogo Costa, Portuguese footballer born in Switzerland.

Deaths

• 690: Tarsus Theodore, English Archbishop (n. 602).
• 1309: Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, a Spanish military and aristocrat (n. 1256).
• 1356: Peter I, French aristocrat (n. 1311).
• 1356: Walter VI of Brienne, French accountant (n. 1304).
• 1591: Alonso de Orozco, religious and Spanish writer (n. 1500).
• 1692: Giles Corey, American farmer murdered (n. 1611).
• 1710: Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (n. 1644).
• 1761: Pieter van Musschenbroek, a Dutch physicist (n. 1692).
• 1812: Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (n. 1744).
• 1818: Peter Olof Swartz, Swedish botanist (n. 1760).
• 1843: Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis, French engineer and scientist (n. 1792).
• 1866: Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant theologian (n. 1801).
• 1876: Donate Guerra, Mexican military and political (n. 1832).
• 1881: James A. Garfield, military, political and 20th American President (n. 1831).
• 1891: José Manuel Balmaceda, Chilean President (n. 1840).
• 1893: Alexander Tilloch Galt, a French politician (n. 1817).
• 1905: Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (n. 1845).
• 1906: Maria Georgina Grey, British writer (n. 1816).
• 1908: José Manuel Marroquín, former president, writer and Colombian statesman (n. 1827).
• 1914: Charles de Vendeville, French swimmer (n. 1882).
• 1920: Adrienne van Hogendorp-s' Jacob, a Dutch painter (n. 1857).
• 1927: Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (n. 1849).
• 1935: Konstantin Tsiolkovski, rocket scientist and Russian engineer (n. 1857).
• 1936: Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian Hindu musicologist and singer (n. 1860).
• 1938: Pauline Frederick, American actress (n. 1883).
• 1942: Condé Nast, American publicist (n. 1873).
• 1944: Guy Gibson, British aviator (n. 1918).
• 1949: George Shiels, Irish playwright (n. 1886).
• 1949: Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (n. 1901).
• 1951: José Ribelles Comín, bibliographer and Valencian journalist (n. 1872).
• 1956: Helios Gómez, Spanish artist and anarcho-syndicalist (n. 1905).
• 1958: Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (n. 1873).
• 1961: Juan Cristóbal González Quesada, Spanish sculptor (n. 1897).
• 1964: Caracciolo Parra Pérez, a Venezuelan politician (n. 1888).
• 1965: Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (n. 1921).
• 1967: Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (n. 1884).
• 1968: Chester Carlson, physicist, inventor and businessman (n. 1906).
• 1968: Red Foley, American singer, composer and actor (n. 1910).
• 1969: Rex Ingram, American actor (n. 1895).
• 1972: Robert Casadesus, pianist and French composer (n. 1899).
• 1973: Gram Parsons, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, by The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers (n. 1946).
• 1973: Luis Marcelo Zelarayán, Argentine physician (n. 1914).
• 1974: Tránsito Cocomarola, Argentine musician (n. 1918).
• 1974: Mikhail Sharojin, Soviet military, Hero of the Soviet Union (n. 1898).
• 1975: Pamela Brown, British actress (n. 1917).
• 1978: Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (n. 1884).
• 1980: Ventura Gassol, Spanish poet and politician (n. 1893).
• 1983: Angel Labruna, footballer and Argentine coach (n. 1918).
• 1985: Italo Calvin, Italian writer (n. 1923).
• 1985: Rafael Hernández Piedra, Mexican politician (n. 1919); earthquake victim.
• 1985: Rockdrigo (Rodrigo González), Mexican composer (n. 1950); earthquake victim.
• 1987: Einar Gerhardsen, politician and Norwegian Prime Minister (n. 1897).
• 1987: Américo Tomás, politician and military Portuguese (n. 1894).
• 1988: Carlos León Alvarado, Chilean writer (n. 1916).
• 1990: Hermes Pan, American choreographer (n. 1909).
• 1994: Alberto Closas, an Argentine actor born in Spain (n. 1921).
• 1995: Orville Redenbacher, American botanist (n. 1907).
• 1996: Néffer Kröger, Uruguayan musicologist and concertist (f. 1925).
• 1997: Rich Mullins, American singer (n. 1955).
• 1998: Patricia Hayes, British actress (n. 1909).
• 1998: Mariano Martín, Spanish footballer (n. 1919).
• 1999: José J. Veiga, Brazilian writer and journalist (n. 1915).
• 2000: Ricardo J. Bermúdez, a Panamanian writer (n. 1914).
• 2000: Ann Doran, American actress (n. 1911).
• 2002: Robert Guéï, Ivory politician, 3rd president of Ivory Coast (n. 1941).
• 2002: Duncan Hallas, British Trotskyist activist (n. 1925).
• 2003: Slim Dusty, singer, guitarist and Australian producer (n. 1927).
• 2004: Skeeter Davis, American singer, of the band The Davis Sisters (n. 1931).
• 2004: Eddie Adams, American photographer (n. 1933).
• 2006: Danny Flores, American singer, composer and saxophoneist, from the band The Champs (n. 1929).
• 2006: Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (n. 1950).
• 2006: Mario Villanueva, Chilean footballer.
• 2006: Elizabeth Allen, American actress (n. 1929).
• 2007: Antoine Ghanem, Lebanese politician (n. 1943).
• 2009: Adam Goldstein, American DJ (n. 1973).
• 2010: Domingo Biojó (Sixto Antonio Cabana Guillén), Colombian guerrilla (n. 1965).
• 2010: Buddy Collette, saxophoneist, clarinetist, flautist and American jazz composer (n. 1921).
• 2010: José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo, a Mexican lawyer and jurist (n. 1943).
• 2010: Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and statistician (n. 1928).
• 2010: José Antonio Labordeta, singer, teacher, writer, presenter and Spanish politician (n. 1935).
• 2010: László Polgár, Hungarian lyric singer (n. 1947).
• 2011: Dolores Hope, and American singer and philanthropist (n. 1909).
• 2012: Victor Cabedo, Spanish cyclist (n. 1989).
• 2012: Rino Ferrario, Italian footballer (n. 1926).
• 2012: Cecil Gordon, American racing pilot (n. 1941).
• 2012: Itamar Singer, Romanian-Israeli writer and historian (n. 1946).
• 2013: Amidou, Moroccan actor (n. 1935).
• 2013: Gerrie Mühren, Dutch footballer (n. 1946).
• 2013: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman, former Nintendo president (n. 1927).
• 2017: José Salcedo Palomeque, Spanish film assembler (n. 1949).
• 2019: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia (n. 1936).
• 2019: María Rivas, Venezuelan Latin jazz singer (n. 1960).
• 2020: Donald M. Kendall, CEO of Pepsi Cola and PepsiCo. American businessman and political advisor (n. 1921).
• 2021:
  • Jimmy Greaves, British footballer (n. 1940).
  • Joan Martínez Vilaseca player and Spanish football coach (n. 1943)
  • John Challis, British theatre actor and television (n. 1942).
  • María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar, philosopher, historian, essayist, teacher and Spanish researcher (n. 1923).
  • Richard Lachmann, American sociologist (n. 1956).
  • Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer (n. 1931).
• 2022: Valeri Poliakov, Russian cosmonaut (n. 1942).

Celebrations

• International Day of Speaking as a Pirate
• Argentina:
  • Preceptor Day.
  • Surgical Instrumenter Day.
• ChileChile:
  • Army Glory Day.
• EcuadorEcuador:
  • Ecuadorian Migrant Day.
• Slovakia Slovakia:
  • Day of the First Public Apparition of the Slovak National Council.
• Mexico Mexico
  • Commemoration of the 1985, 2017 and 2022 earthquakes.

Catholic saints list

• San Jenaro de Naples, bishop and martyr (s. IV)
• San Trófimo de Sinada, martyr
• Holy Peleo, Nile, Elijah and Patermucio of Palestine, martyrs (310)
• St. Eustoquius of Tours, Bishop (461)
• San Sécuano de Cestre, presbyter and abad (s. VI)
• San Mariano de Bourges, eremita (s. VI)
• San Goerico de Metz, bishop (642)
• San Teodoro de Canterbury, Bishop (690)
• Santa Pomposa de Córdoba, virgin and martyr (853)
• San Lantberto de Frisinga, bishop (957)
• San Ciríaco de Buonvicino, abad (1030)
• San Arnulfo de Gap, Bishop (1075)
• Santa Maria de Cervelló, virgin (1290)
• San Alonso de Orozco, Presbyter (1591)
• San Carlos Hyon Song-mun, martyr (1846)
• Santa María Guillerma Emilia de Rodat, virgin and founder (1852)
• Beato Jacinto Hoyuelos González, martyr (1936)
• Beata Francisca Cualladó Baixauli, virgin and martyr (1936)
• Blessed Mary of Jesus of the Yglesia and of Varo, María Dolores Aguiar-Mella and Díaz and Consuelo Aguiar-Mella and Díaz, virgins and martyrs (1936)
• Virgin of the Salette