September 25th

September 25 is the 268th (two hundred and sixty-eighth) day of the year—the 269th (two hundred and sixty-ninth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days left to end the year.

Events

• 275: In Rome, after the assassination of the Emperor Aureliano, the Senate appoints Claudio Tácito as emperor.
• 1066: The battle of the Stamford Bridge—where the Viking King Harald III dies— marks the end of the Viking invasions in England.
• 1373: Manuel II is crowned co-emperator of the Romans.
• 1396: In Nicopolis, Ottoman king Bayaceto I defeated a cross army.
• 1493: in Cadiz, Spain, the Genoese Christopher Columbus took part in his second trip.
• 1513: In Panama, Vasco Núñez de Balboa is the first known European to see the Pacific Ocean, which he calls the South Sea.
• 1555: The Peace of Augsburg was signed.
• 1625: In Puerto Rico, Balduino Enrico attacked San Juan by sitiando el Castillo San Felipe del Morro and La Fortaleza.
• 1690: In the United States, Benjamin Harris publishes the first American magazine, called Publick Ocurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, whose publication was the first and the last, because its content was considered offensive.
• 1728: In Caracas (Venezuela) the Royal Guipuzcoana Company is created to take care of Venezuelan trade with Spain.
• 1808: in Spain the Supreme Central Government Board is constituted.
• 1821 (domingo): in Tripoli (Greece)—in the framework of the Greek War of Independence—the third and last day of the Tripoli Massacre happens: the Greek army tortures and murders 30 000 men, women and civilian children (the Turkish majority, and a minority of Jews).
• 1828: The Septembrine Conspiracy threatens the life of Simon Bolivar, which influences his resignation as the first president of the Republic of Colombia (or Gran Colombia). They are suspects Francisco de Paula Santander and Mariano Ospina Rodríguez.
• 1846: in Mexico, U.S. forces capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
• 1868: in Geneva, Switzerland, the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy, with anarchist inspiration, is created.
• 1890: In California (United States) the Yosemite National Park, the first modern national park, begins its services.
• 1906: in the presence of the King and a crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrated the invention of the telekine in the port of Bilbao, controlling a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control and remote control.
• 1926: In the United States, Henry Ford announces the five-day working week a week, eight hours a day.
• 1944: Allied defeat in the Market Garden operation:
• 1956: TAT-1, the first transoceanic telephone cable enters operations.
• 1957: In Haiti, the dictator François Duvalier (1907-1971), who made his country the poorest in the world, is elected president of life, and will be succeeded in 1971 by the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier (1951-2014).
• 1959: In Sri Lanka, Buddhist monk Talduwe Somarama mortally wounds Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike, who will die the next day.
• 1962: The People ' s Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed in North Africa. Ferhat Abbas is elected president of the interim government.
• 1962: In the province of Barcelona there are more than 700 deaths due to floods caused by the torrential rains that also affected Castellón and Baleares. The river Besós reached 3000 m3/s and the Rambla de la Viuda 1500 m3/s.
• 1963: in the Dominican Republic, a civil-military board (with the support of the United States) defeats President Juan Bosch and Gaviño.
• 1972: In Norway, the people refuse to enter the European Economic Community in a referendum.
• 1973: the second crew of Skylab Station returns to Earth.
• 1979: On Broadway the opera rocks Evita inspired by the life of the leading Argentine personality Eva Perón.
• 1981: Belize joins the United Nations in New York.
• 1985: In Spain, the GALs, a terrorist organization in the order of the government of Felipe González, perpetrated the attack of the Monbar Hotel, in which they assassinated four Ethra.
• 1991: New York has an agreement to reach peace in El Salvador.
• 1992: The United States launches the Mars Observer probe towards Mars, with which contact will be lost three days before it enters martian orbit.
• 1995: in Mexico – without formal ceremonies or end-of-program celebrations – the last chapter of the series is issued Chespirito (from Roberto Gómez Bolaños).
• 1998: north of the city of Melilla, the BAe-146-100 aircraft crashed.
• 1998: In Argentina, Canal 13 conducted the first high-definition digital television (HDTV) experimental broadcast in the country.
• 2003: In Japan, the Hokkaidō coast is shaken by an earthquake of 8.0 degrees.
• 2003: Queen Mary 2 takes its first trip in the UK.
• 2003: at a controversial press conference, Jorge González—then the singer of the Chilean band Los Prisioneros— throws the microphones, recorders and glasses with water to the ground, following a question related to the departure of his former companion Claudio Narea of the band.
• 2005: In Brazil, the Spanish pilot Fernando Alonso became the world champion of Formula 1 younger in history – until 2008 – and the only Spanish to get it.
• 2005: in Peru, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the Amazon, destroying the city of Lamas.
• 2011: the last bullfight of the Monumental of Barcelona is celebrated, after being banned by the Parliament of Catalonia in 2010; the poster was composed by Juan Mora, José Tomás and Serafín Marín, with bulls of the cattle ranch of El Pilar. The Constitutional Court cancelled the ban in September 2016.
• 2012: in Madrid, Spain takes place a great concentration of protest against the building of the Congress of Deputies convened under the sloganOccupy Congress(to be later calledRound the Congress). The police would have to act to dissolve the demonstrators, producing 35 arrests, and wounding 64 people (28 of whom needed hospitalization).
• 2013: In Arequipa (Peru) an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude occurs.

Births

• 1403: Louis III of Naples, king of Naples (f. 1434).
• 1417: Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, noble and Spanish politician (f. 1479).
• 1525: Steven Borough, British browser and browser (f. 1584).
• 1536: Juan de Mariana, Jesuit, theologian and Spanish historian (f. 1624).
• 1599: Francesco Borromini, architect and Italian sculptor of Swiss origin (f. 1667).
• 1644: Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (f. 1710).
• 1683: Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (f. 1764).
• 1694: Henry Pelham, British politician, UK Prime Minister (f. 1754).
• 1711: Qianlong, Chinese emperor (f. 1799).
• 1718: Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian painter (f. 1801).
• 1744: Frederick William II, Prussian king (f. 1797).
• 1764: Fletcher Christian, British Marine (f. 1793).
• 1765: Etienne Jacques Joseph MacDonald, French military (f. 1840).
• 1766: Richelieu, politician, aristocrat and French Prime Minister (f. 1822).
• 1773: Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (f. 1856).
• 1782: Charles Robert Maturin, Irish novelist and playwright (f. 1824).
• 1796: Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (f. 1875).
• 1799: Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi, a Venezuelan independentist (f. 1866).
• 1801: Eduard Knoblauch, German architect (f. 1865).
• 1821: Juan Isern Battló and Carrera, Spanish botanist (f. 1866).
• 1839: Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist (f. 1904).
• 1862: Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (f. 1897).
• 1862: Billy Hughes, Australian politician, Prime Minister between 1915 and 1923 (f. 1952).
• 1866: Thomas Hunt Morgan, physiologist, American geneticist and embryologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1933 (f. 1945).
• 1867: Yevgeny Miller, Russian General (f. 1938).
• 1875: Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, a Spanish painter (f. 1960).
• 1877: Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican politician, president between 1924 and 1928 (f. 1945).
• 1881: François Pellegrin, French botanist (f. 1965).
• 1881: Lu Xun, Chinese writer (f. 1936).
• 1885: Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (f. 1944).
• 1886: Jesús Guridi, a Spanish musician (f. 1961).
• 1887: Jerome Méndez, a Chilean politician (f. 1959).
• 1890: José Rubén Romero, Mexican writer and diplomat (f. 1952).
• 1891: Mariano Juan María de la Cruz García Méndez, Spanish religious (f. 1936).
• 1893: Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician (f. 1985).
• 1894: Guillermo Barbieri, composer, singer and Argentine guitarist (f. 1935).
• 1896: Sandro Pertini, Italian journalist and politician, 7.o president of Italy (f. 1990).
• 1896: Roberto Gerhard, Spanish composer (f. 1970).
• 1897: William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 (f. 1962).
• 1901: Robert Bresson, French filmmaker (f. 1999).
• 1903: Mark Rothko, an American painter of Lithuanian origin (f. 1970).
• 1906: José Pepe Figueres Ferrer, president of Costa Rica (f. 1990).
• 1906: Dmitri Shostakóvich, Russian composer (f. 1975).
• 1907: Pedro Jesús Rodríguez, Chilean lawyer (f. 1982).
• 1911: Eric Eustace Williams, Trinitense historian, Prime Minister between 1962 and 1981 (f. 1981).
• 1911: Lillian Ngoyi, South African anti-apartheid activist, the first woman in the executive of the African National Congress (f. 1980).
• 1913: Maria Tănase, Romanian singer and actress (f. 1963).
• 1914: Elena Lucena, Argentine actress (f. 2015).
• 1915: Ethel Rosenberg, an American spy (f. 1953).
• 1916: Jessica Anderson, Australian writer (f. 2010).
• 1918: Oscar Blottita Blotta, cartoonist, historietist and Argentine publicist (f. 2007).
• 1920: Serguéi Bondarchuk, actor, filmmaker and Russian-Ukrainian scriptwriter (f. 1994).
• 1921: Jacques Martin, French historietist (f. 2010).
• 1921: Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (f. 1992).
• 1922: Hammer DeRoburt, a Nauruan politician, president between 1968 and 1976 (f. 1992).
• 1923: Robert Laxalt, American writer (f. 2001).
• 1923: Sam Rivers, saxophoneist, clarinetist and American composer (f. 2011).
• 1925: Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (f. 2016).
• 1925: Ana Sacerdote, abstract artist ílo-argentina.
• 1927: Colin Davis, director of British orchestra and musician (f. 2013).
• 1927: Tomás Polanco Alcántara, a Venezuelan writer and politician (f. 2002).
• 1929: Ronnie Barker, British actor and screenwriter (f. 2005).
• 1929: Barbara Walters, TV presenter, journalist, producer and American writer.
• 1929: Just Oscar Laguna, Argentine bishop (f. 2011).
• 1929: Pepe Soriano, Argentine actor.
• 1930: Elsa Aguirre, Mexican actress.
• 1930: Isaac Chocrón, Venezuelan writer (f. 2011).
• 1930: Shel Silverstein, American poet (f. 1999).
• 1932: Glenn Gould, a Canadian pianist (f. 1982).
• 1932: Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, President of the Government between 1976 and 1981 (f. 2014).
• 1933: Hubie Brown, basketball player and American coach.
• 1933: Josef Němec, Czech boxer (f. 2013).
• 1936: Jaume Gil Aluja, Spanish professor.
• 1936: Juliet Prowse, a dancer, an indo-African singer and actress.
• 1936: Moussa Traoré, a Malian military and political president from 1974 to 1991 (f. 2020).
• 1938: Santiago Chalar, traumatologist, poet, composer, musician and Uruguayan singer.
• 1938: Ron Hill, marathonist and British textile entrepreneur (f. 2021).
• 1938: Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenish politician, Prime Minister (f. 2010).
• 1939: Feroz Khan, actor, director and Indian producer (f. 2009).
• 1941: Raymundo Gleyzer, filmmaker and Argentine journalist.
• 1942: Oscar Natalio "Ringo" Bonavena, Argentine boxer (f. 1976).
• 1942: Henri Pescarolo, pilot and owner of French motor racing equipment.
• 1943: Robert Gates, American politician.
• 1944: Michael Douglas, American actor and producer.
• 1944: Lucia Topolansky, Uruguayan politician and former guerrilla, wife of President Pepe Mujica.
• 1945: Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (f. 2008).
• 1946: Bryan MacLean, American guitarist, of the Love band (f. 1998).
• 1947: Cheryl Tiegs, American model.
• 1948: Kathi McDonald, American singer (f. 2012).
• 1949: Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker and screenwriter.
• 1949: Jeff Borowiak, American tennis player.
• 1950: Stanisław Szozda, Polish cyclist (f. 2013).
• 1951: Yardena Arazi, Israeli singer.
• 1951: Mark Hamill, American actor.
• 1951: Bernard Le Coq, French actor.
• 1951: Bob McAdoo, basketball player and American coach.
• 1952: Colin Friels, British-Australian actor.
• 1952: Bell Hooks, American writer and activist.
• 1952: Christopher Reeve, American actor (f. 2004).
• 1953: Marigen Hornkohl, Chilean politics.
• 1954: Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (f. 2014).
• 1954: Juande Ramos, Spanish football coach.
• 1955: Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (f. 1985).
• 1955: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer.
• 1955: Steven Severin, British musician, of the Siouxsie band " the Banshees.
• 1955: Zúcchero, Italian musician
• 1956: W. Daniel Hillis, engineer, computer scientist and American writer.
• 1956: Jamie Hyneman, TV presenter and American special effects designer.
• 1956: Kim Thompson, American publicist.
• 1957: Michael Madsen, American actor and producer.
• 1957: Vladimir Popovkin, Russian General (f. 2014).
• 1960: Íhor Belánov, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1960: Eduardo Yáñez, Mexican actor
• 1961: Heather Locklear, American actress and producer.
• 1962:
  • Aida Turturro, American actress.
  • Alés Bialiatski, a Belarusian political activist born Soviet, Nobel Peace Prize 2022.
• 1963: Tate Donovan, American actor and director.
• 1963: Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor.
• 1964: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Spanish writer (f. 2020).
• 1964: Kikuko Inoue, seiyū and Japanese singer.
• 1965: Rafael Martín Vázquez, Spanish footballer.
• 1965: Scottie Pippen, American basketball player.
• 1965: Rob Schmidt, American director and writer.
• 1965: Rafael Martín Vázquez, Spanish footballer.
• 1966: Jason Flemyng, British actor.
• 1966: Bong Revilla, Filipino actor and politician.
• 1968: Merlina Licht, Argentine lawyer and journalist (f. 2010).
• 1968: Will Smith, American actor and musician.
• 1968: Augusto Jordan Rodas Andrade, was Procurator of Human Rights of the Republic of Guatemala (2017-2022).
• 1968: Orange-Nassau frieze, Dutch prince (f. 2013).
• 1969: Hal Sparks, American actor.
• 1969: Ron Bumblefoot Thal, American guitarist, composer and producer, of the band Guns N' Roses.
• 1969: Catherine Zeta-Jones, British actress.
• 1970: Dean Ween, American musician, of the band The Desert Sessions.
• 1971: Nikos Boudouris, basketball player and Greek coach.
• 1971: Axel Kicillof, an Argentine economist and politician.
• 1971: Jessie Wallace, British actress.
• 1973: Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer.
• 1973: Bridget Marquardt, American model.
• 1973: Bridgette Wilson, American actress.
• 1974: Olivier Dacourt, French footballer.
• 1974: Daniel Kessler, British guitarist, Interpol band.
• 1974: Alejo Ortiz, Argentine actor.
• 1974: Mara Torres, a Spanish journalist and novelist.
• 1976: Charlotte Ayanna, Puerto Rican actress, Miss Teen USA 1993.
• 1976: Chauncey Billups, American basketball player.
• 1976: Armando Petit, Portuguese footballer.
• 1976: Santigold, American singer-songwriter and producer of the Stiffed band.
• 1976: Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer.
• 1976: Frank Lobos, Chilean footballer.
• 1977: Tempo (David Sánchez Badillo), Puerto Rican rapper.
• 1977: Clea DuVall, American actress.
• 1977: Joel David Moore, American actor, director and producer.
• 1978: Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer.
• 1978: Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer.
• 1978: Rossif Sutherland, Canadian actor.
• 1978: Rafael de Medina Abascal, the XX Duke of Feria and XVII Marquis de Villalba, belonging to the house of Feria and the house of Medinaceli.
• 1979: Rashad Evans, American martial artist.
• 1979: Jean-René Lisnard, French tennis player.
• 1979: Michele Scarponi, Italian cyclist.
• 1980: Ainhoa, Spanish singer.
• 1980: Olivia Molina, Spanish actress.
• 1980: T.I., rapper, producer and U.S. actor, from the P$C band.
• 1980: Nikola Žigić, Serbian footballer.
• 1980: Matías Pavoni, Argentine footballer.
• 1981: Sarah Jayne Dunn, British actress.
• 1981: Angelo Palombo, Italian footballer.
• 1982: Hyun Bin, South Korean actor and singer.
• 1982: Kany García, Puerto Rican singer.
• 1983: Donald Glover, actor, singer, screenwriter, TV director and American comedian.
• 1984: Matías Silvestre, Argentine soccer player.
• 1984: Annabelle Wallis, British actress.
• 1985: Jessica Gomes, Australian model.
• 1985: Calvin Johnson, American football player.
• 1985: Marvin Matip, Cameroonian footballer of German origin.
• 1986: Albert Subirats, Venezuelan swimmer.
• 1987: Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player.
• 1988: Tamaryn Payne, British actress.
• 1988: Mariya Ise, Japanese actress and vocal actress.
• 1990: Sam Clucas, British footballer.
• 1991: Emmy Clarke, American actress.
• 1992: Rosalía, Spanish singer.
• 1994: Jansen Panettiere, American actor.
• 1994: Thomas Foket, Belgian footballer.
• 1995: Sofia Reyes, Mexican singer and composer.
• 1995: Ana Estefanía Lago, Mexican gymnast.
• 1995: Joy Sunday, American actress.
• 2004: Julia Benedetti, skater Spanish.

Deaths

• 303: Fermin of Amiens, Bishop and Saint Navarre (n. 272).
• 744: Yazid III, Muslim caliph (n. 701).
• 1066: Harald III Hardrada, Norwegian Viking King (n. 1015).
• 1066: Tostig Godwinson, Harold Godwinson's brother-in-law (n. 1026).
• 1392: Sergio de Rádonezh, Russian religious, the most important monastic reformer of medieval Russia, canonized by Christianity (n. 1314).
• 1396: Jean de Vienne, general and French admiral (n. 1341).
• 1496: Piero Capponi, soldier and Italian politician (n. 1447).
• 1506: Philip I, king of Spain, called "the Beautiful" (n. 1478).
• 1534: Clemente VII, Italian potato between 1523 and 1534 (n. 1478).
• 1536: Johannes Secundus, a Dutch poet (n. 1511).
• 1617: Francisco Suárez, Spanish theologian (n. 1548).
• 1617: Go-Yōzei, Japanese emperor (n. 1572).
• 1626: Théophile de Viau, a French writer (n. 1590).
• 1690: Pieter van Lint, flamenco painter (n. 1609).
• 1777: Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, physicist and German astronomer of French origin (n. 1728).
• 1792: Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish politician (n. 1710).
• 1840: Etienne Jacques Joseph MacDonald, French military (n. 1765).
• 1849: Johann Strauss, Austrian composer (n. 1804).
• 1865: Andrés de Santa Cruz, Bolivian politician and president between 1829 and 1839 and Peruvian president in 1827 (n. 1792).
• 1878: August Petermann, German cartographer and geologist (n. 1822).
• 1885: Pierre Edmond Boissier, Swiss botanist (n. 1810).
• 1898: Candido Gómez Carreño, a Spanish Franciscan priest, died of Berberi during the site of Baler (Philippines) (n.?).
• 1928: Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist and historietist (n. 1863).
• 1929: Alberto Weisbach, Uruguayan writer (n. 1883).
• 1933: Ring Lardner, American journalist and writer (n. 1885).
• 1940: Marguerite Clark, American actress (n. 1883).
• 1954: Vitaliano Brancati, Italian writer (n. 1907).
• 1954: Eugenio d’Ors, writer, journalist and Spanish critic (n. 1881).
• 1958: John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (n. 1878).
• 1965: Felipe Acedo Colunga, Spanish politician (n. 1896).
• 1968: Cornell Woolrich, American writer (n. 1903).
• 1970: Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (n. 1898).
• 1970 Develop Inez Haynes Irwin, American feminist author (n. 1873).
• 1971: Hugo Black, captain, American jurist and politician (n. 1886).
• 1972: Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet and translator (n. 1936).
• 1973: José Ignacio Rucci, Argentine trade union leader; assassinated (n. 1924).
• 1976: Gonzalo Arango, a Colombian writer and poet (n. 1931).
• 1977: Ernesto Pinto Lagarrigue, Chilean engineer and politician (n. 1918).
• 1979: Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, singer and Finnish actor (n. 1915).
• 1980: John Bonham, British drummer, of the Led Zeppelin band (n. 1948).
• 1980: Lewis Milestone, Russian American filmmaker (n. 1895).
• 1983: Leopoldo III, Belgian king (n. 1901).
• 1984: Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor and singer (n. 1897).
• 1985: Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, Spanish art historian (n. 1898).
• 1986: Nikolái Semiónov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956 (n. 1896).
• 1987: Mary Astor, American actress (n. 1906).
• 1987: Emlyn Williams, British actor and playwright (n. 1905).
• 1990: Francisco Ruiz-Jarabo, Spanish jurist and politician (n. 1901).
• 1991: Klaus Barbie, German Nazi genocidal military (n. 1913).
• 1991: Viviane Romance, French actress and producer (n. 1912).
• 1992: César Manrique, Spanish artist (n. 1919).
• 1994: Guido Santórsola, musician, composer, orchestra director and Brazilian professor born in Italy and based in Uruguay (n. 1904).
• 1995: Dorothy Dickson, American actress and singer (n. 1893).
• 1997: Jean Françaix, director of orchestra, composer and French pianist (n. 1912).
• 1999: Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (n. 1930).
• 2000: R. S. Thomas, a British priest and poet (n. 1913).
• 2003: Franco Modigliani, an Italian economist (n. 1918).
• 2003: Edward Said, philosopher, critic and Palestinian activist (n. 1935).
• 2005: Don Adams, American actor, director and writer, Agent 86 (n. 1923).
• 2005: Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian psychologist (n. 1917).
• 2006: John M. Ford, American writer and poet (n. 1957).
• 2008: Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President (n. 1932).
• 2009: Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (n. 1923).
• 2010: Vincent Floissac, a saintly jurist and politician (n. 1928).
• 2010: Bernardino Landete, rejoiner and Spanish rider (n. 1925).
• 2011: Wangari Maathai, Kenyan activist, Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (n. 1940).
• 2011: Julio Cozzi, Argentine footballer (n. 1922).
• 2012: Neset Ertas, bağlama performer, Turkish singer and composer (n. 1938).
• 2012: Alonso Lujambio, Mexican polytologist (n. 1962).
• 2012: Andy Williams, American singer and actor (n. 1927).
• 2013: Choi In-ho, South Korean writer (n. 1945).
• 2013: Ron Fenton, football player, coach and British manager (n. 1940).
• 2013: José Montoya, American poet and educator (n. 1932).
• 2013: Pablo Verani, an Argentine politician born in Italy, governor of Río Negro (n. 1938).
• 2015: Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, Mexican poet (n. 1934).
• 2019: Mariano Figueres Olsen, a Costa Rican politician (n. 1960).
• 2021:
  • Dean Berta Viñales, Spanish motorcycling pilot (n. 2006).
  • Patricio Manns, a Chilean singer and writer (n. 1937).

Celebrations

• International Ataxia Day
• World Pharmaceutical Day
• United States:
  • National Day of Research Managers
• France:
  • Harkis National Recognition Day
• MozambiqueMozambique:
  • Armed Forces Day or Revolution Day
• NauruNauru:
  • National Youth Day

Catholic saints list

• St. Nicholas of Flüe, patron of Switzerland.
• St. Cleopas, disciple
• Saint Fermin of Amiens, bishop and martyr
• Saints Paul, Tata, Sabinian, Maximum, Rufo and Eugenio de Damascus, martyrs (s. IV)
• San Solemne de Chartres, Bishop (511)
• Saint Principle of Soissons, bishop (s. VI)
• San Finbarro de Cork, bishop (s. VI)
• San Aunacario de Auxerre, bishop (605)
• San Ermenfrido de Cusance, abad (670)
• San Sergio de Radonez, abad (1392)
• San Cristobal de La Guardia, martyr (1490)
• Beato Marcos Criado, priest and martyr (1569)
• Blessed John Peter Bengon Aranguren, Paul Mary Leoz and Portillo and Jesus Hita Miranda, martyrs (1936)