September 23

September 23 is the 266th (two hundred and sixty-sixth) day of the year—the 267th (two hundred and sixty-seventh) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days left to end the year.

Also, along with September 22, this is one of the days when the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere and the spring equinox in the southern hemisphere usually occur.

Events

• 1122: In Worms (Germany) the Concordat puts an end to the Investiture Complaint (from 1073) between Christian kings and Popes.
• 1338: the battle of Arnemuiden is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years War and the first naval battle in which artillery was used, like that of the English ship Christopher, who had three cannons.
• 1409: the battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory of China Ming over the Mongols since 1368.
• 1459: In England the battle of Blore Heath is waged, the first great battle of the War of the Roses.
• 1519: In Mexico, Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés enters Tlaxcala.
• 1551 (possibly 1556): in the port of Malta, the most lethal tornado in European history destroys a fleet of ships.
• 1568: in Mexico, the Spanish Navy forces the change of route of the English fleet under the command of John Hawkins, in the battle of San Juan de Ulúa, near Veracruz.
• 1572: the Belgian city of Mons surrenders to the forces of the Spanish military Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duque de Alba.
• 1728: In Madrid, the king officially approved the foundation of the Royal and Pontifical University of Havana, in the captainship of Cuba (Reino de España).
• 1803: In India—in the framework of the Second Anglo-Maratha War—the British East India company defeats the Maratha Empire in the battle of Assaye.
• 1821 (Friday): in Tripoli (Greece)—in the framework of the Greek War of Independence—from today until Sunday 25 the Greek army tortures and murders 30,000 men, women and civilian children (the Turkish majority, and a Jewish minority).
• 1846: in Europe the astronomers Urbain Le Verrier (French) and John Couch Adams (British) discover the planet Neptune. Johann Gottfried Galle (German) verified the discovery.
• 1868: On the island of Puerto Rico there is the Grito de Lares, which will start the struggle to become independent of the Kingdom of Spain.
• 1889: In Japan, the factory of Nintendo cards is founded (which in the future will develop video games).
• 1899: An American squadron destroys a Philippine battery in the Battle of Olongapo.
• 1905: Norway and Sweden sign the "treated Karlstad", a friendly treaty by which the union between the two countries is dissolved.
• 1909: The novel by fascicles of Gastón Leroux, The Ghost of Opera (Original: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is first published.
• 1910: between Switzerland and Italy, the Peruvian-French rider Jorge Chavez managed to cross the Alps for the first time in a Blériot XI monoplane.
• 1911: The University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez University Campus is founded in Puerto Rico.
• 1913: In Argentina, at the initiative of the socialist legislator Alfredo Palacios, a law against the crime of pimping is passed (the exploitation of prostitutes).
• 1913: Frenchman Roland Garros becomes the first pilot to fly over the Mediterranean Sea.
• 1913: In Mexico, Belisario Domínguez Palencia, a senator for the state of Chiapas, spoke a speech against Victoriano Huerta, fourteen days before being killed (October 7th).
• 1922: in Washington D.C. (United States) the Hughes-Peynado Plan is signed, which puts an end to the US occupation in the Dominican Republic.
• 1923: in the province of Corrientes (Argentina) Law No. 541 gives city status to the Villa Governor Virasoro.
• 1923: the occupation of Constantinople by British and French troops ends.
• 1932: the kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd are renamed under the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• 1938: In Germany, the Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich crisis.
• 1939: In Poland the explosion of a bomb is perpetrated outside the Polish radio, where the famous pianist Władysaw Szpilman worked.
• 1942: As part of the Second World War, Matanikau's action begins in Guadalcanal: American marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
• 1943: in Saló (province of Brescia, in Lombardy), Benito Mussolini forms the first Government of the Italian Social Republic.
• 1947: In Buenos Aires Congress promulgates the law that institutes the female vote, which was promoted by the leader Eva Perón (the wife of the constitutional president Juan Perón).
• 1950: in the south end of the province of Santa Fe (Argentina), the villa constitution is declared a city, with the name of Villa Constitución.
• 1956: in Mexico the army violently takes the boarding of the National Polytechnic Institute.
• 1957: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 4:29 (local time), the United States detonates on an iron tower of 150 meters high its 19 kiloton Whitney atomic bomb. (In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 13 kilotons.) It is the 115th bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1958: 56 meters underground, in the U12f.01 area of the Nevada atomic testing area, at 14:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 0.01 kiloton Mercury atomic bomb.
• 1965: in Ciudad Madera (Mexico), a group of guerrillas led by maestro Arturo Gámiz García successfully attacked a military barracks.
• 1965: Indo-Pakistaní finiva War.
• 1966: in the U7o Area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 19 kiloton Daiquiri atomic bomb to 561 m. It is the 478 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1968: in Mexico the army invades the facilities of the National Polytechnic Institute in the Casco de Santo Tomás, capturing and killing a large number of students.
• 1971: The Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation is signed in Montreal, Canada, which requires the extradition of terrorists.
• 1971: in Chile, the Chilean popular government of President Salvador Allende intervenes the American telephone company ITT. This company will conspire with the CIA and State Secretary Henry Kissinger to overthrow the socialist constitutional president.
• 1973: in Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón, who was constitutional president between 1946 and 1955, and was proscribed since the coup d'etat that defeated him in 1955, is elected president with 62 % of the votes.
• 1981: in Area 12N.15 of the Nevada Test Site, at 16:00 GMT United States simultaneously detonates two atomic bombs: Huron Landing and Diamond Ace, both 20 kilotons. An hour later, in Area 8M of the Nevada Test Site, detonates the 21 kiloton Frisco atomic bomb. It is the bombs n.o 901, 902 and 903 of the 1132 that the United States exploded between 1945 and 1992.
• 1982: in Barcelona, Spain, the Mini Estadi, stadium of the Barcelona Club "B", whose owner is the Barcelona Club Football.
• 1983: In San Martín (Gran Buenos Aires), the nuclear accident of the RA-2 reactor, the most serious in the history of Argentina's nuclear development, occurs within the facilities of the Constituent Atomic Center.
• 1983: the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
• 1985: The Government of France admits the performance of the French Secret Services in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, a flagship of Greenpeace.
• 1986: Born in Mexico City, Augusto Benjamín Martínez de Aguilar Hernández.
• 1991: Armenia is independent of the Soviet Union.
• 1992: on the Nevada Test Site, at 15:04 United States detonates the 5 kiloton Divider atomic bomb. (In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 13 kilotons.) It's the last 1132 bomb that the U.S. exploded between 1945 and 1992.
• 1993: In Monaco, the International Olympic Committee elects Sydney to host the 2000 Olympic Games.
• 1993: in Ecatepec, Mexico, strikes at Sosa Texcoco.
• 1997: Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández, released his sixth studio album titled I'm falling in loveproduced by Emilio Estefan, Jr. and co-produced by Kike Santander.
• 1999: NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter space probe.
• 2002: the first version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix 0.1) is released.
• 2003: Cuban-American singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan launches her tenth studio album and fifth album in English entitled Unwrapped.
• In the same year, the Argentinian band of Cumbia Villera entitled “Supermerk2”, released his first album, “La Lata”.
• 2008: initial launch of the Android operating system for smartphones.
• 2008: the singer-songwriter Franco De Vita, released his tenth studio album entitled Just the truth.

Births

Cesar Augusto.

• 63 a. C.: Augustus, Roman emperor (f. 14).
• 1158: Godofredo II, aristocrat breton (f. 1186).
• 1161: Takakura, Japanese emperor (f. 1181).
• 1215: Kublai Kan, Mongolian ruler (f. 1294).
• 1434: Yolanda de Valois, aristocrat (f. 1478).
• 1466: Sebastiano Mainardi, Italian painter (f. 1513).
• 1519: Francis of Bourbon, French aristocrat (f. 1546).
• 1555: Luisa de Coligny, aristocrat (f. 1620).
• 1596: Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer (f. 1673).
• 1598: Leonor Gonzaga, Italian woman, wife of King Ferdinand II (f. 1655).
• 1642: Giovanni Maria Bononcini, violinist and Italian composer (f. 1678).
• 1650: Jeremy Collier, British bishop (f. 1726).
• 1668: Pompeo Aldrovandi, Italian bishop (f. 1752).
• 1713: Fernando VI, Spanish king (f. 1759).
• 1728: Carlo Allioni, Italian physician and botanist (f. 1804).
• 1740: Go-Sakuramachi, Japanese empress (f. 1813).
• 1759: Clotilde of France, French aristocrat (f. 1802).
• 1771: Kokaku, Japanese emperor (f. 1840).
• 1772: Henri Louis Villaume Ducoudray Holstein, German military (f. 1839).
• 1778: Mariano Moreno, an Argentine politician (f. 1811).
• 1781: Juliana of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld, German aristocrat (f. 1860).

Peter von Cornelius.

• 1783: Peter von Cornelius, German painter (f. 1867).
• 1785: Per Georg Scheutz, Swedish inventor (f. 1873).
• 1788: Bento Gonçalves da Silva, Brazilian politician and military (f. 1847).
• 1791: Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (f. 1865).
• 1819: Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (f. 1896).
• 1820: Charles-François Stallaert, a Belgian writer (f. 1893).
• 1829: Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Müller, a German botanist and zoologist (f. 1883).
• 1835: Alarco Brediñana, a Peruvian doctor and politician (f. 1903).
• 1835: Rafael Gómez, Mexican writer and politician (f. 1908).

Alfred Boucher.

• 1850: Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (f. 1934).
• 1850: Richard Hertwig, German botanist and zoologist (f. 1937).
• 1852: William Halsted, American physician (f. 1922).
• 1853: Konstantin Stoilov, Bulgarian politician (f. 1901).
• 1854: Jules Visseaux, French sculptor (f. 1934).
• 1855: Abel Botelho, Portuguese politician (f. 1917).
• 1861: Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman (f. 1942).
• 1864: Draga Mašin, Serbian woman, wife of Alexander I (f. 1903).
• 1865: Carlos Fernández Shaw, a Spanish writer and journalist (f. 1911).
• 1865: Emma Orczy, a British writer and aristocrat of Hungarian origin (f. 1947).
• 1866: Rafael Gasset Chinchilla, journalist and Spanish politician (f. 1927).
• 1867: Suzanne Valadon, French painter (f. 1938).
• 1869: María Tifoidea (Mary Mallon), an Irish cook carrying typhoid fever (f. 1938).
• 1871: František Kupka, Czech painter (f. 1957).
• 1873: Gustavo Bacarisas, gibraltareño painter (f. 1971).
• 1877: Teodoro Rojas, botanical and scientist Paraguay (f. 1954).
• 1877: Leo Sée, French teacher (f. 1960).
• 1879: Carlos Greene Ramírez, Mexican military (f. 1924).
• 1880: John Boyd Orr, Scottish biologist and politician (f. 1971).
• 1883: Grigori Zinoviev, a Soviet communist politician (f. 1936).
• 1885: Luis Acevedo Acevedo, aviator and Chilean cyclist (f. 1913).
• 1889: Luis Bayón Herrera, Argentine filmmaker of Spanish origin (f. 1956).
• 1889: Walter Lippmann, American journalist (f. 1974).

Friedrich Paulus.

• 1890: Friedrich Paulus, German general (f. 1957).
• 1891: Jules Humbert-Droz, a Swiss priest and journalist (f. 1971).
• 1892: Geneviève Tabouis, French historian and journalist (f. 1985).
• 1893: Carles Riba, Catalan writer (f. 1959).
• 1894: Cesáreo Galíndez, entrepreneur and Spanish sports leader (f. 1990).
• 1894: Albert Lewin, American filmmaker
• 1895: Joaquín Loriga, a Spanish military and aviator (f. 1927).
• 1897: Enrico Carzino, Italian footballer (f. 1965).
• 1897: Paul Delvaux, a Belgian painter (f. 1994).
• 1897: Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (f. 1984).
• 1897: Alejandro Velasco Astete, Peruvian aviator (f. 1925).
• 1898: Heitor dos Prazeres, composer, singer and Brazilian painter (f. 1966).
• 1899: Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (f. 1988).
• 1901: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovak writer, Nobel Literature Prize in 1984 (f. 1986).
• 1902: Carlos Schlieper, Argentine filmmaker (f. 1957).
• 1902: Montagu Slater, British writer (f. 1956).
• 1904: Gilda Abreu, actress, singer and Brazilian filmmaker (f. 1979).

Francisco Fiorentino.

• 1905: Francisco Fiorentino, singer of Argentine tangos (f. 1955).
• 1907: Albert Ammons, American pianist (f. 1949).
• 1907: Dominique Aury, French writer (f. 1998).
• 1907: Duarte I Nuño de Braganza, aristocrat Portuguese (f. 1976).
• 1907: Jarmila Novotna, soprano and Czech actress (f. 1994).
• 1907: Rodrigo de Santiago, Spanish musician (f. 1985).
• 1908: Eusebio Cimorra, journalist and Spanish writer (f. 2007).
• 1908: Raymonde Vincent, French writer (f. 1985).
• 1909: Alberto Cuello, Argentine soccer player.
• 1912: Tony Smith, American visual artist and sculptor (f. 1980).
• 1913: Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter (f. 2007).
• 1914: Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Sultan of Brunéi (f. 1986).
• 1915: Sergio Bertoni, Italian footballer (f. 1995).
• 1915: Clifford Glenwood Shull, American physicist (f. 2001).
• 1916: Aureliano Lima, Portuguese sculptor (f. 1984).
• 1916: José María Méndez Calderón, Salvadoran writer (f. 2006).

Aldo Moro.

• 1916: Aldo Moro, an Italian politician (f. 1978).
• 1916: Anna Yegorova, Soviet military (f. 2009).
• 1917: El Santo (Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta), a Mexican fighter and actor (f. 1984).
• 1917: Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemistry (f. 2006).
• 1918: Asym Ahmed Amin, Egyptian sculptor (f. 1989).
• 1919: Hyman Minsky, an American economist (f. 1996).
• 1919: Madhav Prasad Ghimire, Nepalese poet and scholar (f. 2020)
• 1920: Rafael Revelles, a Spanish painter (f. 2017).

Mickey Rooney.

• 1920: Mickey Rooney, American actor (f. 2014).
• 1921: Arlindo Rocha, Portuguese sculptor (f. 1999).
• 1922: Joannis Avramidis, Greek-Austrian sculptor (f. 2016).
• 1922: Aldo Braibanti, an Italian writer (f. 2014).
• 1923: José Ricardo De León, footballer and Uruguayan coach (f. 2010).
• 1924: Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a Nicaraguan businessman and journalist (f. 1978).
• 1924: Enrique González Bethencourt, Spanish musician and murguero (f. 2010).
• 1924: Olga Kirsch, a South African writer (f. 1997).
• 1925: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress (f. 2007).
• 1926: John Coltrane, American saxophoneist (f. 1967).
• 1926: Jimmy Woode, American bassist (f. 2005).
• 1927: Jorge Camet Dickmann, Peruvian entrepreneur (f. 2013).
• 1928: Frank Foster, Saxophonist and American composer (f. 2011).
• 1928: Julio Le Parc, Argentine artist.
• 1929: Viktor Sarianidi, Russian archaeologist (f. 2013).

Ray Charles.

• 1930: Ray Charles, American singer and pianist (f. 2004).
• 1930: Rene Jolivet, actor, animator and Argentinean locutor (f. 1997).
• 1930: Albert Manent, Spanish writer (f. 2014).
• 1930: Irene Reid, American blues singer (f. 2008).
• 1932: Jorge Glusberg, Argentine architect (f. 2012).
• 1932: Maruxa Vilalta, director of Mexican theatre and playwright (f. 2014).
• 1933: Alberto Asor Rosa, writer, historian and Italian politician.
• 1934: Per Olov Enquist, Swedish journalist and writer (f. 2020).
• 1934: Gino Paoli, Italian musician.
• 1934: Franc Rodé, Slovenian cardinal.
• 1935: Les McCann, American singer and pianist.
• 1935: Juan Adolfo Singer, Uruguayan politician.
• 1936: Valentin Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, transitional president between 2000 and 2001 (f. 2006).
• 1938: Wilbert Chi Góngora, Mexican politician.
• 1938: Manuel Calvo Pumpido, entrepreneur and Spanish sports leader (f. 2007).
• 1938: Jean-Claude Mézières, French historietist.
• 1938: Romy Schneider, German actress (f. 1982).
• 1938: Tom Lester, American actor.

Roy Buchanan.

• 1939: Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (f. 1988).
• 1939: Luis Manuel Cosculluela Montaner, Spanish politician.
• 1939: Raúl Portal, Argentine radio and television driver.
• 1940: Eduardo Bähr, a Honduran writer.
• 1940: María Victoria Llamas, Mexican communicator (f. 2008).
• 1940: Alberto Miralles, Spanish playwright (f. 2004).
• 1940: William Miranda Marin, a Puerto Rican politician (f. 2010).
• 1940: Cristián Precht, Chilean priest.
• 1940: Mohammad Reza Shayarián, Iranian singer.
• 1940: Michel Temer, Brazilian lawyer and politician, president of Brazil between 2016 and 2018.
• 1941: Renato Curcio, Italian revolutionary.
• 1941: Luis Durnwalder, Italian politician.
• 1941: George Jackson, American activist (f. 1971).
• 1941: Navanethem Pillay, South African jurist.
• 1941: César Saucedo, a Peruvian military politician.
• 1942: Sila Calderón, Puerto Rican policy.

Julio Iglesias.

• 1943: Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer.
• 1943: Lino Oviedo, general and politician Paraguay (f. 2013).
• 1943: Ivan Zulueta, designer and Spanish filmmaker.
• 1944: Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (f. 2011).
• 1944: Norbert Walter, German economist (f. 2012).
• 1945: Ron Bushy, American drummer, Iron Butterfly.
• 1945: Igor Ivanov, Russian politician.
• 1946: Franz Fischler, Austrian politician.
• 1946: John Woo, Chinese filmmaker.
• 1947: Mary Kay Place, American actress and singer.
• 1947: Neal Smith, American drummer, Alice Cooper.
• 1948: Javier Bedoya de Vivanco, a Peruvian politician.
• 1948: Don Grolnick, American pianist and composer (f. 1996).
• 1949: Juan Manuel Asensi, Spanish footballer.
• 1949: Quini, Spanish footballer. (f. 2018)

Bruce Springsteen.

• 1949: Bruce Springsteen, American musician.
• 1950: Miguel Caillaux Zazzalli, a Peruvian businessman and politician.
• 1950: Edgardo Di Meola, Argentine footballer (f. 2005).
• 1951: Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Colombian lawyer and politician (f. 2021).
• 1951: Steven Springer, American guitarist (f. 2012).
• 1954: Charlie Barnett, American actor and comedian (f. 1996).
• 1954: George C. Wolfe, American filmmaker.
• 1955: David Hammerstein, American politician and environmentalist.
• 1955: Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer. (f. 2020).
• 1956: Lilli Carati, Italian actress.
• 1956: Peter David, American writer.
• 1956: Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer.
• 1956: Iñaki Perurena, Spanish sportsman.
• 1957: Mikel Cabieces, Spanish politician.
• 1957: Rosalind Chao, American actress.
• 1957: Emilia Contessa, Indonesian singer.
• 1957: Ignacio Gil Lázaro, Spanish politician.
• 1957: Elías Moreno Brizuela, Mexican politician.
• 1957: Kumar Sanu, Indian singer.
• 1957: Mercedes Vigil, Uruguayan writer.
• 1957: Adam Zeman, British neurologist.
• 1958: Tito Alcedo, Spanish writer.
• 1959: Jason Alexander, American actor.
• 1959: Adelaide Ferreira, Portuguese singer.
• 1959: Pablo Iturralde, Uruguayan politician.
• 1959: Carlos Ramos Rivas, Venezuelan politician.
• 1959: Fernando Romay, Spanish basketball player.
• 1959: Lina Ron, Venezuelan anarchist (f. 2011).
• 1960: Ariel Basteiro, Argentine politician.
• 1960: Santiago Cueto Caballero, Peruvian psychologist.
• 1960: Luis Moya, Spanish racing copilot.
• 1960: Luis Ernesto Videla, Chilean businessman (f. 2010).
• 1961: Chi McBride, American actor.
• 1961: William McCool, American astronaut (f. 2003).
• 1961: Elizabeth Peña, American actress.
• 1962: Alberto Estrella, Mexican actor.
• 1962: Paulo Ricardo, Brazilian singer.
• 1963: Anne-Marie Cadieux, Canadian actress.
• 1963: Sonia Martínez, Spanish actress and presenter (f. 1994).
• 1963: Alex Proyas, Australian filmmaker.
• 1963: Luis Arce: Bolivian politician.
• 1964: Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer.
• 1964: Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player.
• 1965: Juan Ricardo Lozano, is a Colombian actor and humorist.
• 1965: Fabián Nardozza, former footballer and technical director of Argentina.
• 1965: Aleqa Hammond, Greenland politics.
• 1965: Mark Woodforde, Australian tennis player.
• 1966: Jonathan Coleman, a New Zealand politician.
• 1966: Tony Gómez, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1966: Yoshinori Kitase, creator of Japanese viedeogames.
• 1968: Kazushige Abe, Japanese writer.
• 1968: Chango Spasiuk, musician, composer and Argentine accordionist.
• 1968: Wendelin Werner, German mathematician.
• 1969: Patrick Fiori, French singer.
• 1969: Gerhard Poschner, German footballer.

Ani DiFranco.

• 1970: Ani DiFranco, American singer.
• 1970: Götz Heinrich Loos, German geographer and botanist.
• 1970: Toto Vega, Colombian actor (f. 2022).
• 1971: Lara Dibildos, actress and presenter of Spanish television.
• 1971: Eric Montross, American basketball player.
• 1971: Sean Spicer, American political consultant, White House Press Secretary.
• 1971: Paco Luna, Spanish footballer.
• 1972: Francisco González, Chilean musician.
• 1972: Galit Gutman, Israeli model.
• 1972: Jermaine Dupri, rapper and American musical producer.
• 1972: Mateo Gil, director and Spanish writer.
• 1972: Sarah Bettens, Belgian singer and guitarist, of the K's Choice band.
• 1973: Layzie Bone, American rapper, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
• 1973: Ingrid Fliter, Argentine pianist.
• 1973: Cristián Ariel Morales, Argentine soccer player.
• 1973: José Luiz Drey, Brazilian footballer.
• 1974: Claudio Elías, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1974: Matt Hardy, American professional fighter.
• 1974: Cecilia Pérez Jara, Chilean writer.
• 1974: Andrey Gustavo dos Santos, Brazilian footballer.
• 1975: Laurent Batlles, French footballer.
• 1975: Jaime Bergman, American model and actress.
• 1975: Demetrio Lozano, Spanish basketball player.
• 1975: César Mateos, Mexican politician.
• 1975: Kip Pardue, American actor and model.
• 1975: Walid Regragui, footballer and Franco-Marroquí trainer.
• 1976: Ricardo Ciciliano, Colombian footballer (f. 2020).
• 1976: Rob James-Collier, British actor and model.
• 1976: Anya Marina, American singer.
• 1977: Rachael Yamagata, American musician.
• 1977: Marcos Aurélio, Brazilian footballer.
• 1978: Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress.
• 1978: Anthony Mackie, American actor.
• 1979: Norma Nivia, a Colombian actress and model.
• 1979: Ricky Davis, American basketball player.
• 1979: Mirela Mendoza, Venezuelan actress and model.
• 1979: Fábio Simplício, Brazilian footballer.
• 1979: Cynthia Urías, Mexican actress and presenter.
• 1980: Marcinho Guerreiro, Brazilian footballer.
• 1981: Robert Doornbos, Dutch Formula 1 pilot.
• 1981: Chano Moreno Charpentier, Argentine singer, of the band Tan Biónica.
• 1981: Natalie Horler, Anglo-German singer of the Cascada band.
• 1981: Giovanni Roselli, American professional fighter.
• 1981: Martin Ferrario, American footballer.
• 1981: Masahiro Iwata, Japanese footballer.
• 1982: Eduardo Nascimento da Costa, Brazilian footballer.
• 1982: Aina Clotet, Spanish actress.
• 1982: Carlos Alvarenga, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1983: Leinier Domínguez, a Cuban chess player.
• 1983: Ryan Seaman, American battery, from the Falling in Reverse band.
• 1983: Demar Phillips, Jamaican footballer.
• 1983: Richard Spong, Swedish footballer.
• 1984: Ana María Aguilera, Colombian actress.
• 1984: Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker, German footballer.
• 1984: Matt Kemp, American baseball player.
• 1984: Michael Sotillo, Peruvian footballer.
• 1984: Anneliese van der Pol, a neerlando-American actress.
• 1984: CariDee English, American model.
• 1985: Alisa Ganíyeva, Russian writer.
• 1985: Nahomi Kawasumi, Japanese footballer.
• 1985: Hidenori Ishii, Japanese footballer.
• 1985: Evi Van Acker, Belgian sailor.
• 1985: Ariel Rebel, pornographic actress and Canadian erotic model.
• 1985: Maki Gotō, Japanese actress and singer.
• 1985: Cush Jumbo, British actress.
• 1985: Dayenne Mesquita, Brazilian actress.
• 1985: Fernando Martínez Arrieta, Peruvian footballer.
• 1985: Samper, Colombian singer.
• 1985: Antonio Cairoli, Italian bike rider.
• 1985: Yashira Jordan, Bolivian film director.
• 1985: Yevgueni Natsvin, Russian swimmer.
• 1985: Hasan Minhaj, American actor and humorist.
• 1985: Hossein Kaebi, Iranian footballer.
• 1986: Martin Cranie, British footballer.
• 1986: Gina-Lisa Lohfink, German model.
• 1987: Skylar Astin, American actor.
• 1987: Maria Gonllegos, Mexican actress.
• 1988: Nicolás Gaitán, Argentine soccer player.

Juan Martín del Potro.

• 1988: Juan Martín del Potro, Argentine tennis player.
• 1988: Juan Sebastián Quintero, Colombian presenter.
• 1988: Manfred Russell, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1988: Romário Pinto de Oliveira Goulart, Brazilian footballer.
• 1989: Brandon Jennings, American basketball player.
• 1989: Mara Scherzinger, German actress.
• 1989: Sui He, Chinese model.
• 1990: Çağatay Ulusoy, actor and Turkish model.
• 1991: Melanie Oudin, American tennis player.
• 1991: Zia Quizon, Filipino singer.
• 1991: Mohammad Ansari, Iranian footballer.
• 1991: Bakhtiar Rahmani, Iranian footballer.
• 1991: Kōki Arita, Japanese footballer.
• 1991: Keiya Nakami, Japanese footballer.
• 1991: Nick van der Lijke, Dutch cyclist.
• 1991: Lee Alexander, Scottish footballer.
• 1991: Key, South Korean singer and model, member of the SHINee group.
• 1992: Pere Milla, Spanish footballer.
• 1992: Farshad Ahmadzadeh, Iranian footballer.
• 1992: Antonio Nibali, Italian cyclist.
• 1994: Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer.
• 1995: Patrick Criado, guitarist and Spanish actor.
• 1995: Masato Furukawa, Japanese footballer.
• 1996: Yevgueni Rylov, Russian swimmer.
• 1996: Mo Adams, English footballer.
• 1998: Orest Lebedenko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1998: Joël Schmied, Swiss footballer.
• 1998: Jane Wilde, pornographic actress and American erotic model.
• 1998: Jack Woolley, Irish taekwondista.
• 1998: Facundo Bruera, Argentine footballer.
• 1998: Solène Ndama, a French athlete.
• 1998: Nicholas Paul, cyclist trinitense.
• 1998: Alexis Bartolomé, Andean basketball player.
• 1998: Teitur Örn Einarsson, Icelandic basketball player.
• 1999: Tomas Jantzon, Argentine comic.* 1999: Ellie Roebuck, English footballer.
• 1999: Mille Gejl, Danish footballer.
• 1999: Naveen-ul-Haq, Afghan cricket player.
• 1999: Eteri Liparteliani, Georgian Yudoca.
• 1999: Franco Pulicastro, Argentine footballer.
• 1999: Axaule Yerkassimova, taekwondista kazaja.
• 1999: Nuraly Alip, Algerian footballer.
• 1999: Terry Taylor, American basketball player.
• 1999: Iker Casas, Mexican taekwondista.

Deaths

• 965: Al-Mutanabbi, poet of the Abbasid caliphate (n. 915).
• 1193: Robert de Sablé, French knight (n. 1150).
• 1241: Snorri Sturluson, lagman, writer, poet and Icelandic historian (n. 1178).
• 1350: Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, Muslim Sunni jurist (n. 1292).
• 1386: Dan I of Valaquia, ruler of Valaquia (n. 1354).
• 1390: John I of Lorraine, French aristocrat (n. 1346).

Carlos de Viana.

• 1461: Carlos de Viana, Infante de Aragón y Navarra, Príncipe de Viana y Gerona (n. 1421).
• 1463: Juan de Cosme de Médici, banker and Italian patrons (n. 1421).
• 1508: Beatrice of Naples, queen consort of Hungary (n. 1457).
• 1527: Carlos de Lannoy, aristocrat Borgoñón (n. 1487).
• 1535: Catherine of Saxony-Lauemburg, Swedish queen (n. 1513).
• 1582: Louis III of Montpensier, French aristocrat (n. 1513).
• 1598: Jacob Mahu, a Dutch navigator (n.?).
• 1604: Gabriel Vázquez, Jesuit and Spanish theologian (n. 1549 or 1551).
• 1605: Pontus de Tyard, bishop and French poet (n. 1521).
• 1633: Gregorio Arce de Sevilla, a Spanish colonial official (n.?).
• 1633: Juan de Torres Osorio, Spanish religious (n. 1562).

Joachim Jung.

• 1657: Joachim Jung, German philosopher and mathematician (n. 1587).
• 1666: François Mansart, French architect (n. 1598).
• 1675: Valentin Conrart, French writer (n. 1603).
• 1706: Ana Francisca de Borja and Doria, aristocrat of Spain (n. 1640).
• 1728: Christian Thomasius, German philosopher and writer (n. 1655).
• 1738: Sister Boerhaave, a Dutch humanist and physical (n. 1668).
• 1773: Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (n. 1718).
• 1820: François Christophe Kellermann, French military (n. 1735).
• 1828: Richard Parkes Bonington, British painter (n. 1802).
• 1830: Elizabeth Monroe, American woman, wife of President James Monroe (n. 1768).
• 1832: José Félix de Restrepo, was an educator, writer and neo-Great lawyer. (n. 1760).
• 1835: Georg Adlersparre, Swedish politician, writer and military (n. 1760).
• 1835: Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (n. 1801).

Maria Malibrán.

• 1836: María Malibrán, a Spanish French opera singer (n. 1808).
• 1836: Andréi Razumovski, aristocrat and Russian diplomat (n. 1752).
• 1849: Juan Casacuberta, an Argentine actor (n. 1798).
• 1850: José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan procer, «Jefe de los Orientales» and «Protector de los Pueblos Libres» (n. 1764).
• 1851: Jorge Torino, Argentine military (n. 1786).
• 1852: John Vanderlyn, American painter (n. 1776).
• 1863: Juan Francisco de Vidal La Hoz, a Peruvian military and politician (n. 1800).

Portrait of Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano (1800 - 1867)

• 1867: Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano, Chilean politician (n. 1800).
• 1869: Johann Georg von Hahn, Austrian diplomat and philologist (n. 1811).
• 1870: Prosper Mérimée, French writer and historian (n. 1803).
• 1870: Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer, a Spanish painter (n. 1833).
• 1871: Anselmo Llorente and La Fuente, a Costa Rican bishop (n. 1800).
• 1871: Louis-Joseph Papineau, a Canadian politician (n. 1786).
• 1873: Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (n. 1823).
• 1874: Santiago Arcos, essayist and Chilean politician (n. 1822).
• 1877: Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (n. 1811).
• 1882: Friedrich Wöhler, a chemist and German pedagogue (n. 1800).

Carl Spitzweg.

• 1885: Carl Spitzweg, German painter (n. 1808).
• 1888: François Achille Bazaine, French Marshal (n. 1811).
• 1889: William Wilkie Collins, British novelist (n. 1824).
• 1891: Andrés Lamas, Uruguayan writer (n. 1817).
• 1896: Ivar Aasen, Norwegian philologist (n. 1813).
• 1896: Ricardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian surgeon and poet (n. 1836).
• 1900: Arsenio Martínez Campos, a Spanish military and politician (n. 1831).
• 1902: John Wesley Powell, American explorer (n. 1834).
• 1904: Émile Gallé, a French artist (n. 1846).
• 1905: Giuseppe Sacconi, Italian architect (n. 1854).
• 1912: María Teresa de Borbón, Infanta de España y Princesa de Baviera (n. 1882).
• 1913: Donato Álvarez, Argentine general (n. 1825).
• 1915: Frederick Hamilton Davey, British botanist (n. 1868).
• 1917: Werner Voss, German aviator (n. 1897).
• 1919: Seth Bullock, merchant, rancher and U.S. sheriff (n. 1849).
• 1920: Juan Manuel Cafferata, Argentine politician (n. 1852).
• 1928: María Larraín de Vicuña, activist and Chilean writer (n.?).
• 1929: Richard Zsigmondy, Austrian chemist, nobel prize in 1925 (n. 1865).
• 1930: Manuel Sebastián Campos Sánchez, Chilean politician (n. 1853).
• 1932: Jules Chéret, French painter (n. 1836).
• 1936: Rafael Salazar Alonso, Spanish politician (n. 1895).
• 1937: Cleto González Víquez, a Costa Rican politician (n. 1858).

Sigmund Freud.

• 1939: Sigmund Freud, neurologist and Austrian psychiatrist (n. 1856).
• 1939: Floyd Gibbons, American journalist (n. 1887).
• 1939: Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician (n. 1863).
• 1939: Jimmy Windridge, British footballer (n. 1882).
• 1940: Fusajiro Yamauchi, Japanese businessman, founder of Nintendo (n. 1859).
• 1941: Delfín Lévano, a Peruvian revolutionary (n. 1885).
• 1942: Alfredo Carricaberry, Argentine footballer (n. 1900).
• 1943: Salvo D'Acquisto, Italian military (n. 1920).
• 1943: Ernst Trygger, Swedish politician (n. 1857).
• 1945: Honorio Pueyrredon, a professor and an Argentine politician (n. 1876).
• 1950: Sam Barry, basketball player and American coach (n. 1892).
• 1953: Carlos Haverbeck Richter, Chilean politician (n. 1894).
• 1959: George Padmore, trinitense politician (n. 1902).
• 1962: Patrick Hamilton, British writer (n. 1904).
• 1967: Giovanni Barrella, Italian writer and painter (n. 1884).
• 1968: Pius of Pietrelcina, Capuchin and Saint Italian (n. 1887).
• 1970: Esteban de Bilbao Eguía, a Spanish politician (n. 1879).
• 1970: Bourvil, French actor and singer (n. 1917).
• 1970: Mariano Castillo, a Chilean chess player (n. 1905).
• 1970: John Gawsworth, British writer (n. 1912).
• 1971: Billy Gilbert, American actor and humorist (n. 1894).
• 1972: Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, Mexican businessman (n. 1895).
• 1972: Nikolái Turovérov, Russian writer (n. 1899).

Pablo Neruda.

• 1973: Pablo Neruda, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 (n. 1904).
• 1973: Alexander Sutherland Neill, British pedagogue (n. 1883).
• 1974: José Alvarado Santos, Mexican writer and journalist (n. 1911).
• 1974: Cliff Arquette, American actor (n. 1905).
• 1976: Raúl Soulés Baldó, Venezuelan physician and politician (n. 1907).
• 1981: Chief Dan George, Canadian actor and writer (n. 1899).
• 1981: Francisco Labbé Labbé, Chilean politician (n. 1897).
• 1984: Octavio Suárez, Argentine racing pilot (n. 1932).
• 1984: Tilsa Tsuchiya, Peruvian painter (n. 1929).
• 1987: Homer Expósito, Argentine poet and Latvian of tangos (n. 1918).
• 1987: Bob Fosse, actor, choreographer and American filmmaker (n. 1927).
• 1988: Luis Losada, Spanish journalist (n. 1929).
• 1988: Tibor Sekelj, Yugoslav writer and explorer (n. 1912).
• 1989: Julio Corzo, an Argentine politician (n. 1927).
• 1992: Arístides Bastidas, a Venezuelan journalist (n. 1924).
• 1992: Roberto Rodríguez Luna, American guitarist and singer (n. 1927).
• 1992: Mary Santpere, Spanish actress (n. 1913).

Robert Bloch with his wife Marion and his children.

• 1994: Robert Bloch, American writer (n. 1917).
• 1994: Madeleine Renaud, French actress (n. 1900).
• 1995: Booker T. Laury, American singer and pianist (n. 1914).
• 1996: Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese mangaka (n. 1933).
• 1998: Thelma del Río, an Argentine actress (n. 1926).
• 2000: Aída Poblete, Chilean painter (n. 1914).
• 2000: Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player (n. 1947).
• 2001: Elton Hayes, guitarriasta and British actor (n. 1915).
• 2001: Eugenio Hirsch, Austrian artist (n. 1923).
• 2001: Emilio Saraco, Argentinean artist (n. 1912).
• 2002: Eduard Gufeld, a Ukrainian chess player (n. 1936).
• 2003: Paul Almásy, Hungarian photographer (n. 1906).
• 2004: André Hazes, a Dutch singer (n. 1951).

Filiberto Ojeda Rios.

• 2005: Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, a revolutionary Puerto Rican independenceist (n. 1933).
• 2006: Malcolm Arnold, British composer (n. 1921).
• 2006: Tommy Olivencia, a proto Rican musician (n. 1938).
• 2006: Tim Rooney, American actor (n. 1947).
• 2007: Renzo Barbieri, Italian writer and painter (n. 1940).
• 2007: Pepe Marchena (bailaor), Spanish flamenco dancer (n. 1941).
• 2008: Pedro Masó, director and producer of Spanish cinema (n. 1927).
• 2010: Stephen Pace, American painter (n. 1918).
• 2010: Fernando Riera, a Chilean footballer and coach (n. 1920).
• 2011: Josep Maria Sarriegui, Spanish journalist (n. 1961).
• 2011: José Miguel Varas, locutor, journalist and Chilean writer (n. 1928).
• 2012: Alberto González, Cuban humorist (n. 1928).
• 2012: Pável Grachov, Soviet military and political (n. 1948).
• 2014: Antònia Fontanillas Borràs, anarcosindicalista española (n. 1917).
• 2017: Charles Bradley, American singer of Soul, Funk and R fakeB, known worldwide as The Screaming Eagle Of Soul (n. 1948).
• 2018: Charles K. Kao, electrical engineer, Chinese professor and researcher, nobel physics award in 2009 (n. 1933).
• 2020: Juliette Gréco, French singer (n. 1927).

Celebrations

• International Day of Bisexuality
• International Day of Sign Language
• Peru Peru:
  • Spring Day
  • Youth Day
• Argentina:
  • Popular Library Day
  • National Day for Women ' s Political Rights
  • National Politologist Day
• BoliviaBolivia
  • National Day of the Afro-Bolivian People
• BrunéiBrunéi:
  • Master's Day
• Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan:
  • Kyrgyz Language Day
• LithuaniaLithuania:
  • Holocaust Memorial Day

Catholic saints list

• Saint Pius of Pietrelcina Forgione, priest (1968)
• Santos Zacarías and Isabel
• Santa Tecla de Iconio, virgin and martyr
• San Lino, papa (s. I)
• San Sosso de Misena, deacon and martyr (305)
• San Constancio de Ancona, mansionario (s. V)
• San Adamnano de Hy, Presbyter and Abbot (704)
• Santos Andrés, Juan, Pedro and Antonio de Siracusa, martyrs (881)
• Blessed Pedro Acotanto, monk (1187)
• Blessed Elena Duglioli Dall’Olio (1520)
• Beatos Cristóbal, Antonio and Juan, martyrs (1527-1529)
• Beato Guillermo Way, priest and martyr (1588)
• Blessed Maria Emilia Tavernier, religious (1851)
• Blessed Vicente Ballester Far, priest and martyr (1936)
• Beatas Sofia Ximénez Ximénez, María de la Purificación de San José Ximénez and María Josefa del Río Mesa, martyrs (1936)
• Blessed Bernardina Jablonska, virgin and founder (1940)
• Blessed Joseph Stanek, priest and martyr (1944)