September 21st

September 21 is the 264th (two hundred and sixty-fourth) day of the year—the 265th (two hundred and sixty-fifth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days left to end the year.

Events

• 331 B.C.: 27 km northeast of Mosul (Irak), Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the battle of Gaugamela. In the night before, there was a lunar eclipse that allowed us to date this event.
• 672: In the Vallisolete town of Gérticos, Wamba is elected king of the Visigoths. The village is called Wamba in his honor.
• 1177: In Spain, Alfonso VIII conquers Cuenca by the Islamic invasion, after the siege of the town.
• 1248: in the province of Seville, the Christian hosts of Fernando III conquer the Muslims the village of Alcalá de Guadaíra.
• 1526: To the northwest of the current Republic of Ecuador, a group of Spaniards led by Bartolomé Ruiz founded the village of San Mateo (now the city of Esmeraldas, the capital of the province of Esmeraldas).
• 1561: the city of Valladolid is destroyed by a fire.
• 1697: In Ryswick, the end of the war of the Augsburg League began in 1690 was signed, in which it was intended to bring France back to the borders of the treaties of Westphalia and the Pyrenees, without Louis XIV suffering onerous losses.
• 1676: In Rome, Italy, he is elected Pope Inocencio XI, who during his pontificate will fight against the Jesuits and against absolutism.
• 1706: the Bourbon troops, thanks to their victory in the battle of the Albujón during the Spanish War of Succession, isolate the southern core of Cartagena.
• 1721: In Cuba, the Dominicans founded the University of Havana occupying the place of the old San Juan de Letrán with the name of Real and Pontifical University of San Gerónimo de La Habana.
• 1776: During the New York and New Jersey Campaign, Great Fire begins in New York.
• 1784: in Pennsylvania, United States, the first newspaper in that country began to be published.
• 1792: In France, the Legislative Assembly proclaims the first republic.
• 1810: in Mérida (Venezuela) the patriots founded the first republican university in Latin America, the Royal University of San Buenaventura de Mérida (the current University of Los Andes).
• 1821: In El Salvador the Act of Independence of the Intendence of San Salvador is signed.
• 1843: The Ancud Gulet is in the port of Hambre the Chilean flag and takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of its country.
• 1860: In China, during the Second Opium War, the Anglo-French forces defeated the Chinese troops during the Battle of Baliqiao.
• 1863: in Madrid, the king of Spain recognizes the independence of the Argentine Republic (which he proclaimed 47 years earlier, on July 9, 1816).
• 1866: In the United States the 7th U.S. Army Cavalry Regiment begins its activity.
• 1884: In the corner of the streets Medrano and Rivadavia (in the porteño neighborhood of Almagro) the traditional Las Violetas confectionery is opened.
• 1895: The first automobile factory, Duryea Motor Wagon Company, is opened in the United States.
• 1903: In the United States the first western film is projected, Kit Carson21 minutes long.
• 1913: peace treaty between Turkey and Bulgaria, for which the latter renounces the Adrianopolis area.
• 1922: In the Turkish city of Kayseri (the ancient Cesárea) is founded the Independent Orthodox Turkish Patriarchate.
• 1928: the Russian icebreaker Krassin part of the Spitzberg Islands and reaches 81 degrees, 44', latitude never reached before by any ship.
• 1930: Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flash.
• 1931: Japanese forces begin the occupation of Manchuria, north-eastern territory of China.
• 1934: in Japan, the Typhoon Muroto hits the west of Honshu. The Japanese government confirms 3036 fatalities.
• 1937: The novel is published in London The hobbitJ. R. R. Tolkien.
• 1940: An army of Spanish land explodes, causing more than a hundred deaths south of Valladolid.
• 1947: the government of General Higinio Moriñigo of Paraguay defeats the military uprising on March 7 of that same year.
• 1949: in the city of Salta (Argentina) comes the first copy of the newspaper The Tribune.
• 1951: In the Pampa district of the city of Tarija (Bolivia) the Club Atlético Ciclón is founded.
• 1953: the Hospital de Clínicas "Dr. Manuel Quintela" is founded in Uruguay.
• 1953: The 1st International Film Week of San Sebastian, which will become the first edition of the future San Sebastian International Film Festival.
• 1954: The Nautilus submarine belonging to the United States Navy is launched, the first nuclear propulsion ship in the world that can remain submerged for long periods of time, as its engines do not need air for operation. With a speed exceeding 20 knots you can navigate under water faster than most surface ships. In 1958 he will be the first to cross the perpetual ice of the North Pole.
• 1956: in the city of León, Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García is shot by the poet Rigoberto López Pérez, is fatally wounded and died eight days later in Panama.

Explosion of the atomic bomb Moon (1958).

• 1957: Perry Mason, the TV show, made his debut on CBS-TV. The show was on the air for 9 years.
• 1958: 150 m underground, in the U3m area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 11:00 (local time) United States detonates its luna atomic bomb (in Spanish), of 0.015 kiloton. It is the 163 of the 1132 bomb that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992. (In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb had a power of 13 kilotons.)
• 1960: In Santiago del Estero (Argentina) the Catholic University of Santiago del Estero is created.
• 1961: the Argentinean Antonio Abertondo nothing the Channel of La Mancha in both directions (round and round) in a time of 43 hours and 10 minutes.
• 1961: in the stretch between the port of Caibarién and the village of Morón (in Cuba), the band of Arnaldo Martínez Andrade—in the framework of the terrorist attacks organized by the U.S. CIA—make a passenger train.
• 1961: The Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter is flying in the United States.
• 1964: Malta is independent of the British Empire.
• 1965: Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
• 1965: In Egypt, due to the construction of the Aswan dam, the face of Ramses II (20 tons) is moved from the temple of Abu Simbel.
• 1966: the Soviet probe Zond 5 is the first to turn around the Moon and return to Earth.
• 1967: 174 meters underground, in the U10ds1 area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 12:45 (local time) United States detonates its 2.2 kiloton Marvel atomic bomb. It's the bomb number 521 of the 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1967: The first flight of a military helicopter AH-56 Cheyenne takes place in the United States.
• 1967: Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco is appointed vice president of the Spanish government by General Franco.
• 1970: in Argentina, the military dictatorship of Alejandro Agustín Lanusse denies permission for the realization of the First Young Music Festival to be held in the city of Lobos (Province of Buenos Aires).
• 1971: Bhutan enters the United Nations.
• 1972: In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos signed the proclamation No. 1081, placing the whole country under martial law.
• 1973: In Washington, United States, the Senate confirms Henry Kissinger as Fifty-sixth Secretary of State. He is the first naturalized citizen to occupy this position.
• 1974: In the United States, Barry White arrives at number 1 in the simple American musicals with the song Can’t get enough of your love, baby.
• 1974: in Rome, Perico Fernández wins the world boxing championship.
• 1976: In Washington, D. C., former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier (who Pinochet had taken away Chilean citizenship eleven days earlier) is murdered along with his secretary Ronni Moffitt for spies of the Chilean dictatorship and anti-Castro Cuban mercenaries led by CIA agent Michael Townley.
• 1979: In Chile the Hualaihué commune was founded.
• 1979: In Buenos Aires, the Argentine civil-military dictatorship abducted the U.S. guerrilla Adriana Lesgart who was the victim of murder in December 1980.
• 1979: in Mendoza, Argentina, heading to Los Andes (Chile) the last passenger train departs from the Trasandino Railway.
• 1981: Belize is independent of the British Empire.
• 1981: The U.S. Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court judge in the United States.
• 1982: In Lebanon, Amin Gemayel is elected president to replace Bashir Gemayel, his brother killed.
• 1984: In the United States, NASA launches the Galaxy-C ship.
• 1984: Brunéi joins the United Nations.
• 1985: North Korea and South Korea open their borders for their family reunion programme.
• 1985: In Peru the district of La Primavera is founded.
• 1991: Armenia officially declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1992: the Holy See and Mexico establish diplomatic relations, interrupted a century ago.
• 1993: In Russia, the coup d ' état of Boris Yeltsin dissolves the Russian parliament.
• 1993: American band Nirvana publishes its fourth album, In Utero.
• 1993: Forty of the 120 IAEA countries signed the first international nuclear safety convention in Vienna.
• 1996: John F. Kennedy Jr. marries Carolyn Bessette at a private ceremony on the island of Cumberland.
• 1998: In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Georges It causes serious damage.
• 1998: Bill Clinton testifies to the U.S. Grand Jury about his relations with Monica Lewinsky.
• 1999: in Taichung (central Taiwan region) the Chichi Earthquake of 1999, of magnitude 7,3, leaving a balance of 11,441 wounded and 2,417 killed.
• 1999: In Japan, the first installment of Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto manga series was launched.
• 2001: In France, the AZF explosion occurs in Toulouse, with 30 deaths and more than 10,000 wounded.
• 2002: The Holy Sudario, after several decades of being kept, is shown to the press by the Cardinal Archbishop of Turin, Severino Poletto. The canvas was seriously damaged.
• 2003: After eight years of exploration of the Jupiter system, the Galileo mission is completed.
• 2004: After 4 years in prison, singer Gloria Trevi is acquitted of corruption charges against minors.
• 2005: at Los Angeles Airport, the pilot of a JetBlue Airways A320 aircraft hits an emergency landing: passengers and crew leave unharmed.
• 2007: In Chile, the Supreme Court approves the extradition to Peru of former President Fujimori.
• 2007: The Government of Guatemala welcomes the arrival in that country of the official replica of the Dresden Codex, an invaluable piece of the ancient Mayan civilization, given by academic authorities in Germany.
• 2009: German archaeologists discover in Syria a mortuary chamber full of human remains and offerings, with an antiquity of more than 3500 years.
• 2009: Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned to Honduras and settled in the Brazilian Embassy.
• 2012: In Acámbaro, Mexico, the Third International Panification Fair was opened, with Belize and Jalisco honored guests.
• 2012: Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai is elected new president of Afghanistan.

Births

• 100: Annia Galeria Faustina, wife of Antonino Pío (f. 140).
• 1415: Frederick III, German Romanesque emperor (f. 1493).
• 1428: Jingtai, seventh emperor of the Ming dynasty, China (f. 1457)
• 1452: Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Dominican friar (n 1498).
• 1525: Pedro Enríquez de Acevedo, noble, military and Spanish politician (f. 1610).
• 1706: Richard Dick Turpin, British bandit (f. 1739).
• 1713: Miguel de Olivares, historian, Jesuit priest and Chilean Christian missionary among the Mapuche people (f. 1786).
• 1720: Sarah Scott, British writer and translator (f. 1795).
• 1726: Jovan Rajić, Serbian writer and historian (f. 1801)

Mateo Pumacahua.

• 1740: Matthew Pumacahua, Peruvian military (f. 1815).
• 1756: John Loudon McAdam, Scottish road builder (f. 1836).
• 1760: Peter Olof Swartz, botanist, micrologue, algologist, proteryologist, and Swedish briologist (f. 1818).
• 1788: Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, first verified supercentennial man (f. 1899).
• 1804: Manuel Cantero de San Vicente, economist and Spanish politician (f. 1876).

Louis Paul Cailletet.

• 1832: Louis-Paul Cailletet, French physicist and inventor (f. 1913).
• 1840: Murad V, Ottoman sultan in 1876 (f. 1904).

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.

• 1853: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 (f. 1926).
• 1857: Étienne Terrus, a French painter (f. 1922).
• 1859: Luis Monteverde, an Argentine politician (f. 1925).
• 1859: Francesc Macià, Spanish politician (f. 1933)
• 1864: Elena Văcărescu, a Romanian-French writer (f. 1947).
• 1866: H. G. Wells, British writer (f. 1946).
• 1866: Charles Nicolle, French doctor, nobel medical prize in 1928 (f. 1936).
• 1867: Henry L. Stimson, American politician (f. 1950).
• 1869: Carlo Airoldi, an Italian athlete (f. 1929).
• 1870: Julián Besteiro, Spanish politician (f. 1940).
• 1870: Sascha Schneider, German painter and illustrator (f. 1927).

Gustav Holst.

• 1874: Gustav Holst, British composer (f. 1934).
• 1875: Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta, politician and Spanish lawyer (f. 1950).
• 1876: Julio González, Spanish sculptor (f. 1942).
• 1879: Pedro Manini Rios, Uruguayan politician (f. 1958).
• 1885: Juan M. García, Mexican politician (f. 1957).
• 1891: George Kay, British footballer (f. 1954).
• 1891: Manuel Romero, playwright, litrist and Argentine filmmaker (f. 1954).
• 1893: Varelito, Spanish bullfighter (f. 1922).
• 1894: James Ashmore Creelman, American screenwriter (f. 1941).

Serguéi Yesenin.

• 1895: Serguéi Yesenin, Russian poet (f. 1925).
• 1895: Juan de la Cierva, inventor, scientist and Spanish aeronautics, inventor of autogiro (f. 1936).
• 1897: Felix Fernandez, a Spanish actor (f. 1966).
• 1899: José Pedroni, Argentine poet (f. 1968).
• 1901: Vicente Solano Lima, Argentine conservative politician (f. 1984).
• 1902: Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (f. 1963).
• 1903: Jorge Cuesta, a Mexican chemist and writer (f. 1942).
• 1907: Juan Alcaide, Spanish poet (f. 1951).
• 1907: Edward Bullard, British geophysicist (f. 1980).

Kwame Nkrumah.

• 1909: Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician (f. 1972).
• 1911: José Alvarado Santos, Mexican writer and journalist (f. 1974).

Chuck Jones.

• 1912: Chuck Jones, American animator, director and producer (f. 2002).
• 1912: György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (f. 2005).
• 1916: Françoise Giroud, a French journalist and politics (f. 2003).
• 1917: Mateo Zapata, Mexican activist (f. 2007).
• 1918: Juan José Arreola, Mexican writer (f. 2001).

Mario Bunge.

• 1919: Mario Bunge, Argentinean physicist and philosopher (f. 2020).
• 1920: Carmen Jiménez, Spanish sculptor (f. 2016).
• 1924: Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (f. 1957).
• 1926: Donald Arthur Glaser, an American physicist nobel of physics in 1960 (f. 2013).
• 1926: Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (f. 2000)
• 1927: Yuri Yappa, Soviet theoretical physicist (f. 1998)
• 1928: Édouard Glissant, French writer (f. 2011).
• 1928: Enrique Montoya, Spanish singer (f. 1993).
• 1929: Héctor Alterio, an Argentine actor.
• 1929: Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (f. 1979).
• 1929: Cipe Lincovsky, an Argentine actress (f. 2015).

Larry Hagman.

• 1931: José María Silvero, Argentine footballer (f. 2010).
• 1931: Larry Hagman, American actor (f. 2012).
• 1931: Syukuro Manabe, Japanese meteorologist and climatologist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2021.

David Thouless.

• 1934: Augusto Ramírez Ocampo, was a lawyer, economist, diplomat and Colombian politician. (f. 2011).
• 1934: David J. Thouless, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 (f. 2019).
• 1934: Leonard Cohen, poet, novelist and Canadian singer (f. 2016).
• 1934: María Rubio, Mexican actress (f. 2018).
• 1934: Sigrid Valdis, American actress (f. 2007).
• 1937: Amparo Baró, Spanish actress (f. 2015).
• 1938: Eduardo Úrculo, painter and Spanish sculptor (f. 2003).
• 1938: Nicolás Cotugno, Uruguayan Archbishop.
• 1938: Jaime Torres, Argentine musician (f. 2018).
• 1941: Nuria Feliú, Spanish singer and actress.
• 1942: Luis Mateo Díez, a Spanish writer.
• 1942: Juan Cruz Alli, Spanish politician.
• 1943: Oscar Safuán, Paraguayan composer and arranger (f. 2007).
• 1943: Buddy Richard, Chilean singer.
• 1943: Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer.
• 1944: Fannie Flagg, American writer.
• 1946: Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss politician.
• 1947: Edward Ishita, Japanese opera singer.
• 1947: Stephen King, American writer.
• 1947: Don Felder, American guitarist, of the band The Eagles.
• 1947: Marcelo Oxenford, Argentine actor.
• 1948: Artis Gilmore, American basketball player.

Bill Murray.

• 1950: Bill Murray, American actor.
• 1953: Lars Saabye Christensen, Norwegian writer.
• 1953: Arie Luyendyk, a Dutch driver of motorism.

Shinzō Abe.

• 1954: Shinzō Abe, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan between 2006 and 2007 and between 2012 and 2020 (f. 2022).
• 1955: Mercedes Morán, an Argentine actress.
• 1956: Celeste Carballo, Argentine singer of rock and blues.
• 1956: Marta Kauffman, American producer (creator of Friends).
• 1957: Ethan Coen, American filmmaker.
• 1957: Sidney Moncrief, basketball player and American coach.
• 1957: Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister.
• 1959: Corinne Drewery, British singer, Swing Out Sister.
• 1959: Eulalia Ramón, Spanish actress.
• 1960: Sikandar Sanam, Pakistani actor and singer (f. 2012)
• 1961: Diego Capusotto, Argentine actor and humorist.
• 1962: Fernando Larraín, Chilean actor.
• 1964: Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan musician.

David Wenham.

• 1965: David Wenham, an Australian actor.
• 1965: Markus Grosskopf, German musician, of the Helloween band.
• 1965: Cheryl Hines, American actress.
• 1966: Nechirvan Barzani, Kurdish politician.
• 1966: Tab Ramos, American naturalized Uruguayan footballer.
• 1967: Faith Hill, American country singer.
• 1967: Suman Pokhrel, poet, translator and Nepalese artist
• 1968: Alex Amaral, Brazilian Spanish actor.
• 1968: Juan Andrés Salfate, Chilean film critic.
• 1969: Pablo Echarri, Argentine actor.
• 1970: Samantha Power, American politics.
• 1971: Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor and singer.
• 1971: Luke Wilson, American actor.
• 1971: Barbara Tissier, actress and director of French bedding.
• 1972: Liam Gallagher, British musician.
• 1972: David Silveria, American drummer, of the Korn band.
• 1973: Virginia Ruano, Spanish tennis player.
• 1973: Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer.
• 1974: Martín Liberman, Argentine sports journalist.
• 1974: Diego Martín, Spanish actor.
• 1974: Luis Robson, Brazilian footballer.
• 1974: Giuliano Giannichedda, Italian footballer.
• 1975: Marcelo Goux, Argentine footballer.
• 1975: Ronny Deila, footballer and Norwegian coach.
• 1975: Lil Rob, Mexican-American rapper.
• 1975: Catherine Murphy, British athlete.
• 1975: Kaisa Varis, a Finnish-funded skier.
• 1975: Anna Marissa de Leon, Philippine taekwondista.
• 1975: Gorka Villar, Spanish lawyer.
• 1975: Craig Thompson, American hysterist.
• 1976: Jonas Bjerre, Danish musician, from the Mew band.
• 1978: Nerviozzo (Eduardo Sánchez), master of ceremonies and Spanish musical producer.
• 1978: Alexandre Quennoz, Swiss footballer.
• 1980: Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress.
• 1980: Aleksa Palladino, American actress.
• 1981: Nicole Richie, American actress.
• 1981: Phoenix Marie, American actress.
• 1981: Luciano Pereyra, Argentine singer and composer.
• 1982: Marat Izmailov, Russian footballer.
• 1982: Marco Navas, Spanish footballer.
• 1983: Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentine footballer.
• 1983: Joseph Mazzello, American actor.
• 1983: Maggie Grace, American actress.
• 1983: Cristian Hidalgo, Spanish footballer.
• 1983: Éder Monteiro Fernandes, Brazilian footballer.
• 1985: Carolina Bang, Spanish actress.
• 1985: Melvin Ayala, singer of urban music and composer of Christian Reguetón.
• 1985: Elena Guido Chaves, Coruja Costarricense and Culturist.
• 1986: Faris Badwan, British musician.
• 1986: Lindsey Stirling, a violinist and American performance artist.
• 1986: Elvis Onyema, Nigerian footballer.
• 1987: Femke Heemskerk, a Dutch swimmer.
• 1988: Bilawal Bhutto, Pakistani politician.
• 1988: Daniela Camaiora, Peruvian actress and singer.
• 1988: Jenny Patricia Muñoz Lombo, Colombian infectologist.
• 1989: Jason Derülo, singer, actor and American dancer.
• 1989: Ben Mee, British footballer.
• 1990: Allison Scagliotti-Smith, American actress.
• 1990: Christian Serratos, American actress.
• 1990: Danny Batth, English footballer.
• 1991: Daniele Ragatzu, Italian footballer.
• 1992: Chen (single), singer, dancer and South Korean model.
• 1992: Matías Tellechea, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1994: Benjamin Proud, British swimmer.
• 1995: Neveal Hackshaw, footballer trinitense.
• 1996: Kristine Froseth, Norwegian-American actress and model.
• 1996: Thilo Kehrer, German footballer.
• 1996: Mariya Skora, Ukrainian Yudoca.
• 1997: Victoria Georgieva, Bulgarian singer.
• 1998: Tadej Pogačar, Slovenian cyclist
• 1999: Alexander Isak, Swedish footballer.
• 2007: Noah of Nassau, prince of Nassau.

Deaths

• 19 a. C.: Virgilio, Italian poet, author of the Eneida (n. 70 BC).
• 454: Flavio Aecio, a prestigious Roman general; assassinated by the Emperor Valentinian III (n. 396).
• 687: Conon, Italian religious, Pope between 686 and 687 (n. 1630).
• 1327: Edward II, King of English; assassinated (n. 1284).
• 1542: Juan Boscán, a Spanish poet (n. 1492).
• 1558: Charles I, Spanish king between 1516 and 1556 (n. 1500).

Girolamo Cardano.

• 1576: Jerome Cardano, philosopher, doctor, astrologer and Italian mathematician (n. 1501).
• 1591: Ambrosio de Morales, a Spanish writer (n. 1513).
• 1626: François de Bonne, French aristocrat (n. 1543).
• 1827: Francisco Abad Moreno, Spanish guerrilla (n. 1788).
• 1832: Walter Scott, British writer (n. 1771).
• 1849: Manuel de Sarratea, Argentine diplomat, politician and military (n. 1774).
• 1860: Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (n. 1788).
• 1870: José Loreto Arismendi, politician and military Venezuelan (n. 1825).
• 1875: Alexandra de Bavaria, German princess (n. 1826).
• 1878: Thomas Belt, British geologist and naturalist (n. 1832).
• 1880: Manuel Montt, Chilean President (n. 1809).
• 1901: Tulio Varón, a Colombian guerrilla, one of the liberal leaders of the Mil Days War in Colombia (n. 1860).
• 1905: Francisco García Calderón, Peruvian politician, president (n. 1834).
• 1905: Francisco Navarro Ledesma, journalist and Spanish cervantist (n. 1869).
• 1921: Amala, autistic Bengali girl, allegedly raised by wolves (n. 1919).
• 1921: Eugen Dühring, professor of mechanics, lawyer, philosopher and German economist, criticized by Friedrich Engels in the Anti-Dühring (n. 1933).
• 1923: Fidel Pagés, a Spanish surgeon (n. 1886).
• 1926: Leo Charles Thevenin, a French telegraph engineer (n. 1857).
• 1939: Guillermo G. Cano, an Argentine politician (n. 1884).
• 1947: Vasili Glagolev, Soviet military and Hero of the Soviet Union (n. 1896).
• 1949: Jorge Cáceres, Chilean poet and dancer (n. 1923).
• 1956: Rigoberto López Pérez, a Nicaraguan poet (n. 1929).
• 1957: Norma Giménez, an Argentine actress (n. 1930).
• 1957: Haakon VII, Norwegian king (n. 1872).
• 1959: Abraham Flexner, American educator (n. 1866).
• 1962: Francisco de Arteaga, Argentine aeronautical engineer. (n. 1883)
• 1963: Paulino Masip, film writer and Spanish writer (f. 1899).
• 1965: Eusterio Buey Alario, Spanish writer (n. 1889).
• 1970: Lídiya Serguiyévskaya, Russian botany and biologist (n. 1897).
• 1971: Bernardo Houssay, doctor and Argentine pharmacist. (n. 1887).
• 1974: Walter Brennan, American actor (f. 1894).
• 1976: Orlando Letelier, politician, economist and Chilean ambassador (n. 1932).
• 1976: Ronni Moffitt, American activist (n. 1951).
• 1982: Ivan Bagramyan, Soviet commander (n. 1897).
• 1983: Xavier Zubiri, Spanish philosopher (n. 1898).
• 1987: Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (f. 1951).
• 1991: Baltazar R. Leyva Mancilla, Mexican military and political (n. 1896).
• 1995: Delfy de Ortega, actress italo-argentina (n. 1920).
• 1997: Jennifer Holt, American actress (n. 1920).
• 1997: Miguel Schweitzer, Chilean jurist (n. 1908).
• 1998: Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (n. 1959).
• 1999: Norman Rossington, American actress (n. 1928).
• 2000: Leonid Rógozov, a Soviet doctor who practiced self-surgery (n. 1934).
• 2005: Rosa María Aranda, a Spanish writer (n. 1920).
• 2006: María Esther Gamas, an Argentine actress (n. 1910).
• 2008: Carlos González Cruchaga, Chilean bishop, brother cousin of San Alberto Hurtado (n. 1921).
• 2011: Paulette Dubost, French actress. (n. 1910).
• 2013: Elena Tasisto, actress of theater, cinema and Argentine television (n. 1948).
• 2014: Cecilia Cenci, an Argentine actress (n. 1942).
• 2016: Miguel Angel Gambier, Argentine footballer (n. 1959).
• 2016: Guido Vallejos, a Chilean sketch artist (n. 1929).
• 2018: Trorion Đ kidnappedi Quang, Vietnamese politician, President of Vietnam between 2016 and 2018 (n. 1956).
• 2019: Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut (n. 1937).
• 2020:
  • Arthur Ashkin, American physicist, nobel physics award in 2018 (n. 1922).
  • Jackie Stallone, American astrologue and television personality, Sylvester's mother and Frank Stallone (n. 1921).
  • Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer (n. 1928).
• 2021: Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Egyptian military and political president of Egypt between 2011 and 2012 (n. 1935).

Celebrations

• World Day for the Beginning of Spring Equinox
• International Day Against Tree Monoculture
• International Alzheimer’s Day
• International Day of Peace
• World Paid Pride Day
• Argentina:
  • Economist Day
  • Student Day
  • Health Day
  • Photographer Day
  • Air Engineer Day
  • Plastic Artists Day
  • Progressive Rock Day
• ArmeniaArmenia:
  • Independence Day
• BelizeBelize:
  • Independence Day
• BoliviaBolivia:
  • Student Day
  • Doctor's Day
  • Day of Love and Friendship
  • Youth Day
• BrazilBrazil:
  • Day of the Tree
• ChileChile
  • Radial Worker Day
• GhanaGhana:
  • Founder's Day
  • National Volunteer Day
• MaltaMalta:
  • Independence Day
• Mexico Mexico:
  • National Day of Free Fight and Professional Fighter
• PolandPoland:
  • Customs Service Day

Festivities

• SpainSpain: fiestas of St Matthew in Esplugas de Llobregat (Barcelona), Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), Monzón (Huesca), Pinsoro (Zaragoza), Oviedo (Principado de Asturias), Logroño (La Rioja), Reinosa (Cantabria), Cuenca (Cuenca), Buñola (Islas Baleares), Ráfol de Salem (Valencia), Lorca

Catholic saints list

• St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
• St. Jonah, prophet
• St. Square of Greece, disciple of the apostles (s. II)
• Saint Pencil of Rome, martyr
• San Alejandro de Baccano, martyr
• Santos Eusebio, Nestabi and Zenón de Gaza, martyrs (362)
• San Cástor de Apta Julia, bishop (420)
• San Cadoc de Lan-Carvan, abad (s. VI)
• St. Landelino of Ettenheim, monk (s. VII)
• San Gerulfo de Tronchiennes, martyr (750)
• Santa Maura de Troyes, virgin (850)
• Beato Marcos de Mútina Scalabrini, priest (1498)
• Santos Francisco Jaccard and Tomás Tramm Van Thiên, martyrs (1838)
• Santos Lorenzo Imbert, Pedro Maubant and Jacobo Chastan, martyrs (1839)
• Blessed Vincent Galvis Gironés and Manuel Torró García, martyrs (1936)