September 26

September 26 is the 269th (two hundred and sixty-ninth) day of the year—the 270th (two-hundred and seventieth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days left to end the year.

Events

• 46 BC: In Italy, Julius Caesar inaugurates the temple of his mythical ancestor Venus Generatriz at the Forum of Caesar, fulfilling a promise made before the battle of Farsalia.
• 1493: in Rome (the Italian peninsula), Pope Alexander VI dictates the papal bull Dudum siquidem for the Catholic monarchs, in which the cession of lands that granted them in the bull Inter cacatera.
• 1580: In the port of Plymouth (United Kingdom), the British Francis Drake and his 59 seamen end their circumnavigation of the world in the Golden Hind.
• 1591: flee from Spain Antonio Pérez, secretary of King Felipe II.
• 1687: In Athens (Greece) the Parthenon (which was used as an explosive deposit) is partially destroyed by the bombing of the Venetian forces led by Francesco Morosini, who were besieging the Ottoman Turks.
• 1687: the municipal council of the city of Amsterdam (Netherlands) votes to support the invasion of England carried out by William of Orange, which will be called the glorious Revolution.
• 1706: On the Italian peninsula, the Duke of Saboya takes Milan during the Spanish Succession War. In this way the milanesado becomes governed by the Archduke Carlos.
• 1777: In the United States, British troops occupy Philadelphia during the War of Independence.
• 1789: In the United States, Thomas Jefferson is appointed first secretary of state; John Jay is the first president of the Supreme Court; Samuel Osgood is the first general director of the postal service; and Edmund Randolph is the first attorney general.
• 1792: in Paris, France, the politician Marc-David Lasource accuses Maximilien Robespierre of wanting to install a dictatorship in that country.
• 1810: In Sweden, Parliament adopts a new record of succession and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the throne.
• 1812: 150 km west of the village of Buenos Aires (Argentina) is founded the village of Carmen de Areco.
• 1830: Belgium is independent of the Netherlands.
• 1878: in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Francisco Bernabé Madero founded the town of Maipú.
• 1881: in Miyazaki, Japan, the first and most lethal tornado recorded in the history of that country leaves a balance of 16 victims.
• 1892: In Colombia, the government imposes a fine of 200 000 pesos to El Espectador, at the time the largest means of opposition, because it considered subversive one of its articles.
• 1896: The first Antimasonic Congress of Trento takes place.

Antimasonic Congress of Trento (1896).

• 1903: in Ecuador, Balzar is elevated to canton of the province of Guayas.
• 1905: Albert Einstein's first article on the Theory of Special Relativity is published.
• 1907: the colonies of New Zealand and the island of Newfoundland become domains of the British Empire.
• 1910: In Travancore, India, journalist and activist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested and exiled after publishing criticisms against the British Raj.
• 1918: near Verdun (France)—in the framework of the First World War—the Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins. A total of 26,000 Americans, 70,000 French and 120,000 Germans will die.
• 1923: In the Republic of Weimar (Germany), Gustav Stresemann finished paying the awards due to World War I.
• 1933: in Mexico, a hurricane devastated Tampico and leaves more than a thousand dead.
• 1933: in Memphis (Tennessee), the gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to FBI agents. He yells at them: “Don’t shoot, G-Men!” (‘Don’t shoot, government men!’); that name becomes the nickname of FBI agents.
• 1934: in Clydebank (Scotland) is booted in transatlantic Queen Mary.
• 1934: Afghanistan is admitted to the League of Nations.
• 1936: In Spain—in the framework of the Spanish Civil War—, 112.a Division of Queipo de Llano conquers Granja de Torrehermosa.
• 1936: During the Spanish civil war, the destroyer Admiral Ferrándiz (AF) is sunk by almost impossible shooting at the Battle of Cabo Espartel in the struggle for the control of the Strait of Gibraltar.
• 1941: In World War II the Battle of Kiev ends with an overwhelming German victory.
• 1942: In Nazi Germany—in the framework of the Jewish holocaust—Official August Frank (1898-1984) writes a memorandum containing details of how the Jews should be “evacuated”.
• 1944: In World War II, the Market Garden operation fails.
• 1944: in the "Gothic Line" (of Nazi defense in northern Italy), in the framework of the Second World War Brazilian troops managed to control the valley of the Serchio River after 10 days of fighting against the Nazi army.
• 1950: NATO agrees to admit the German Federal Republic as a member.
• 1950: In New York, the United Nations admits Indonesian income.
• 1950: in South Korea, United Nations troops recapture Seoul, who was in the hands of the North Koreans.
• 1954: In the Strait of Tsugaru (Japan), Tōya Maru ferry sinks during a typhoon. 1172 people die.
• 1955: in Ecuador, the National Congress declared on September 26 as the Day of the Ecuadorian Flag.
• 1957: In the United States the musical West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein is premiered.
• 1958: 150 meters underground, in the U3r Area of the Nevada Test Site, at 12:00 (local time), the United States detonates its Valencia atomic bomb, of 0.002 kilotons. (In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 13 kilotons.) It is the bomb number 165 of the 1054 that the United States exploded between 1945 and 1992.
• 1959: In Japan, Typhoon Vera, the strongest in the history of that country, is recorded. 4580 people die and 1.6 million are homeless.
• 1959: Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike is murdered in Sri Lanka.
• 1960: In Chicago, USA, the first televised debate in history takes place, among presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1961: In the United States, the singer Bob Dylan makes his debut in public.
• 1961: in the village Quemado de Güines (province of Las Villas), the men of Jesús Claro Mollinedo, belonging to the band of Thondike (Margarito Lanza Flores) – in the framework of the terrorist attacks organized by the CIA – assault the store of the cooperative Guayabo and the house of the peasant Isidro Machado, from which they subtract values and money in cash.
• 1962: Yemen proclaims the republic.
• 1967: in La Higuera (Bolivia) the guerrillas Coco Peredo, Manuel Hernández and Mario Gutiérrez, compañeros of Che Guevara are ambushed.
• 1968: in Italy, the company Edilnord Sas, owned by Silvio Berlusconi (32 years old) is purchased by Count Bonzi, for 3000 million lire (25 million euros 2005), the area where Milano will emerge2.
• 1969: In the UK the latest album of the British band The Beatles Abbey Road.
• 1969: In the United States the comedy Brady's tribe on the ABC television channel (will last five years).
• 1969: In Viloco, Department of La Paz, Bolivia, there is an aviation accident that causes the death of most players and other people from the Bolivian team Club The Strongest, and other passengers and crew members.
• 1970: in San Diego County (California) begins the Laguna forest fire, which will burn 710 km2.
• 1970: in Managua (Nicaragua), the Cathedral, presently Antigua Cathedral, is taken by students from the Central American University (UCA) in protest against the Somocist dictatorship.
• 1971: in Copenhagen, Denmark, the City of Christiania was founded, an independent community of about 800 people.
• 1973: in France, the Concorde plane makes its first crossing of the Atlantic without scales, in record time.
• 1980: The Oktoberfest terrorist attack occurs in Munich (West Germany): 13 people die, and 211 are wounded.
• 1980: in the Soviet Union, the Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo (38) returns from his journey to space.
• 1983: In the USSR, the Incident of the Autumn Equinox almost caused a thermonuclear war, avoided by Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov.
• 1984: China and the United Kingdom agree to the cession of British sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997.
• 1984: the bullfighter Francisco Rivera Paquirri is mortally wounded by the bull Fixed in the Bullring of Pozoblanco.
• 1985: Tunisia breaks its diplomatic relations with Libya.
• 1988: In South Korea, the Ben Johnson athlete must return his gold medal of the 100-metre smooth obtained at the Seoul Olympics for positive anti-doping control.
• 1991: Birth of Giovanni Michele Catullo
• 1997: near Medan Airport, Indonesia, an Airbus A-300 (Garuda Indonesia) aircraft crashed. 234 people die.
• 1997: in the regions of Umbría and Marcas (Italy) an earthquake collapses part of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (on the day of the birth of the saint).
• 1997: In Russia, President Borís Yeltsin signed the law on freedom of worship, although the Orthodox Church maintained its status of privilege.
• 1999: The Group of 20 or G20 was founded
• 2000: in Prague (Czech Republic), more than 20 000 people protest against globalization during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 2000: Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz launches his sixth studio album and fifth official titled The soul in the air.
• 2002: in Senegal, the overloaded ferry Le Joola It goes down to the Gambian coast. More than 950 people die, including five Spaniards.
• 2003: In the temple of Gandhinagar, India, thirty people are killed in an armed attack.
• 2005: In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi and three Fininvest leaders are acquitted of their positions. The acquittal law (approved the previous day) prohibits appeal.
• 2006: Mexican singer Marco Antonio Solís launches his seventh studio album as a soloist entitled Troops of my soul, vol. 2.
• 2006: Spanish singer Álex Ubago launches his third studio album as a soloist entitled Glass planes.
• 2006: the singer-songwriter Franco De Vita launches his second live album titled A thousand and a story: live.
• 2007: Bungie Studios, together with Microsoft, brings out Halo 3 for XBOX 360.
• 2009: Typhoon Ketsana runs through the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
• 2009: South America is the Bank of the South, composed of seven Latin American countries.
• 2014: Forced disappearance in Iguala (Mexico) of 43 young students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School with involvement of municipal authorities, organized crime and support from federal forces.
• 2016: signing of the peace agreements between the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC, after more than fifty years of conflict in Colombia.
• 2020: Paraguay reaches 200 days of quarantine by the COVID-19 pandemic that affects the world. It had begun on March 11 of the same year.

Births

• 1329: Anna de Bavaria, Czech queen, second wife of Charles IV of Luxembourg (f. 1353).
• 1406: Thomas de Ros, baron, soldier and English politician (f. 1430).
• 1711: Richard Grenville-Temple, British count and politician (f. 1779).
• 1750: Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron and British Admiral (f. 1810).
• 1754: Louis Proust, a French chemical (f. 1826).
• 1758: Cosme Argerich, an Argentine physician (f. 1820).
• 1774: Johnny Appleseed, American botanist (f. 1845).
• 1791: Théodore Géricault, French painter (f. 1824).
• 1792: William Hobson, New Zealand politician, first governor (f. 1842).
• 1798: Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, was a Colombian military, diplomat and statesman, adept for the Colombian Liberal Party. (f. 1878).
• 1809: Philipp von Jolly, German physicist and mathematician (f. 1884).
• 1823: Marcelino Menéndez Pintado, Spanish professor (f. 1899).
• 1825: Pedro Gamboni, Chilean chemical and industrial engineer (f. 1895).
• 1849: Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1904 (f. 1936).
• 1867: Winsor McCay, American illustrator and animator (f. 1934).
• 1869: Komitas, American composer of Armenian origin (f. 1935).
• 1870: Cristián X, Danish king (f. 1947).
• 1871: Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (f. 1934).
• 1872: Emile Henry, a Franco-Spanish anarchist (f. 1894).
• 1873: Wacław Berent, a Polish novelist and translator (f. 1940).
• 1873: Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (f. 1949).
• 1874: Lewis Hine, a social activist and an American photographer (f. 1940).
• 1883: Manuel Chao, Mexican military (f. 1924).
• 1886: Archibald Vivían Hill, British physiologist, nobel medical prize in 1922 (f. 1977).
• 1887: Barnes Neville Wallis, a British scientist, engineer and inventor (f. 1979).
• 1888: J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and columnist (f. 1964).
• 1888: T. S. Eliot, poet, playwright, philosopher, British-American writer and editor, nobel prize of literature in 1948 (f. 1965).
• 1889: Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and scholar (f. 1976).
• 1891: Charles Munch, director of orchestra and French violinist (f. 1968).
• 1891: Hans Reichenbach, German philosopher, of the Vienna Circle (f. 1953).
• 1892: Émile Dewoitine, a French engineer (f. 1979).
• 1893: Gladys Brockwell, American actress (f. 1929).
• 1893: Mauricio Cravotto, Uruguayan architect (f. 1962).
• 1895: Jürgen Stroop, German Nazi officer, SS (f. 1952).
• 1897: St. Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini), Catholic, Pope and Holy Religious between 1963 and 1978 (f. 1978).
• 1897: Arthur Rhys Davids, British pilot (f. 1917).
• 1898: George Gershwin, American composer (f. 1937).
• 1900: Suzanne Belperron, French jewellery designer (f. 1983).
• 1900: Vito Dumas, Argentine navigator (f. 1965).
• 1901: George Raft, American actor, singer and dancer (f. 1980).
• 1903: Santiago Gómez Cou, Uruguayan actor (f. 1984).
• 1905: Max Bulla, Austrian cyclist (f. 1990).
• 1905: Millito Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player (f. 2011).
• 1905: Karl Rappan, footballer and Austrian coach (f. 1996).
• 1907: Anthony Blunt, a British art historian and Soviet spy (f. 1983).
• 1914: Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (f. 2009).
• 1914: Jack LaLanne, American naturist (f. 2011).
• 1918: Eric Morley, TV presenter and British businessman, creator of the Miss World contest (f. 2000).
• 1918: Diego Salas Pombo, a Spanish lawyer and politician (f. 1977).
• 1919: Barbara Britton, American actress (f. 1980).
• 1919: Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (f. 2012).
• 1919: José Gobello, Argentine writer (f. 2013).
• 1922: Armando Barbeito, Argentine producer (f. 2017).
• 1923: Dev Anand, film producer and Indian actor (f. 2011).
• 1924: Lágrima Ríos, Uruguayan singer of tango and candombe (f. 2006).
• 1925: Joe Holland, American basketball player (f. 2010).
• 1926: Julie London, American actress and singer (f. 2000).
• 1927: Enzo Bearzot, footballer and Italian coach (f. 2010).
• 1927: Roman Mussolini, Italian jazz pianist (f. 2006).
• 1928: Robert D. Ray, American lawyer and politician (f. 2018).
• 1929: Alberto Gironella, Mexican painter (f. 1999).
• 1930: Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (f. 1966).
• 1930: Michele Giordano, Italian cardinal (f. 2010).
• 1930: Tito Fernández, Spanish filmmaker (f. 2006).
• 1931: Stanislas Dombeck, French footballer (f. 2013).
• 1932: Donna Douglas, American actress (f. 2015).
• 1932: Alicia Hermida, Spanish actress (f. 2022).
• 1932: Richard Herd, American actor (f. 2020).
• 1932: Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister.
• 1932: Vladimir Voinóvich, a Soviet dissident writer and poet (f. 2018).
• 1936: Winnie Madikizela, a South African social worker (f. 2018).
• 1936: Luis Fernando Veríssimo, Brazilian writer.
• 1936: Pedro Antonio Urbina, poet, writer, film critic and Spanish translator (f. 2008).
• 1937: Pávlov, a politician and a Soviet banker, the premier of the Soviet Union (f. 2003).
• 1937: Jerry Weintraub, film producer and U.S. agent (f. 2015).
• 1938: Lucette Aldous, New Zealand-Australian dancer and educator (f. 2021).
• 1939: Ricky Tomlinson, British actor and screenwriter.
• 1939: Adelardo Rodríguez, Spanish footballer.
• 1940: Walter Benjamin, Marxist literary critic and German philosopher (n. 1892)
• 1941: Salvatore Accardo, director of orchestra and Italian violinist.
• 1941: Martine Beswick, model and Jamaican-British actress.
• 1942: Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Spanish filmmaker.
• 1942: Kent McCord, American actor.
• 1943: Tim Schenken, Australian pilot.
• 1944: Jan Brewer, U.S. policy, governor of Arizona between 2009 and 2015.
• 1945: Gal Costa, Brazilian singer.
• 1945: Bryan Ferry, British rock singer.
• 1946: Andrea Dworkin, American activist and writer (f. 2005).
• 1946: Louise Simonson, American writer.
• 1947: Lynn Anderson, American singer and music (f. 2015).
• 1948: John Foxx, singer, guitarist and British key player.
• 1948: Olivia Newton-John, British Australian singer and actress (f. 2022).
• 1948: Valeri Shevlyuk, Ukrainian footballer (f. 2015).
• 1948: Stuart Tosh, British musician.
• 1949: Clodoaldo, Brazilian footballer.
• 1949: Jane Smiley, American writer and novelist.
• 1949: Eduardo Gatti, singer and Chilean musician.
• 1949: Minette Walters, British journalist and writer.
• 1953: Xabier Azkargorta, Spanish football coach.
• 1953: Guillermo Yunge, a former student and Chilean deputy, Ambassador to Costa Rica during the attack on the embassy.
• 1954: Alice, Italian singer.
• 1954: Craig Chaquico, American guitarist.
• 1955: Lorenzo Jaramillo, was an artist born in Germany, of Colombian parents. (f. 1992).
• 1955: Carlene Carter, American singer and guitarist.
• 1956: Linda Hamilton, American actress.
• 1957: Klaus Augenthaler, German footballer.
• 1958: Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter (f. 1980).
• 1958: Robert Kagan, American historian.
• 1959: Deborah Warren, an Argentine actress (f. 2014).
• 1960: Uwe Bein, German footballer.
• 1961: Jordi González, Spanish journalist.
• 1962: Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress.
• 1962: Steve Moneghetti, Australian runner.
• 1962: Al Pitrelli, American guitarist, of the Megadeth band.
• 1962: Tracey Thorn, British singer and composer.
• 1962: Jacky Wu, singer, TV host and Taiwanese actor.
• 1963: Lysette Anthony, British actress and producer.
• 1964: Raquel Mancini, Argentine model.
• 1964: John Tempesta, American drummer.
• 1965: Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress.
• 1965: Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian politician, president of Ukraine between 2014 and 2019.
• 1966: Dean Butterworth, British-American drummer.
• 1967: Shannon Hoon, American singer, composer and guitarist (f. 1995).
• 1968: Jim Caviezel, American actor.
• 1969: David Slade, British director and producer.
• 1970: Marco El Diablo Etcheverry, Bolivian footballer.
• 1970: Vicente Luis Mora, Spanish writer.
• 1970: Sheri Moon Zombie (Sheri Lyn Skurkis), American fashion designer and actress
• 1971: Alejandro Fantino, television driver and Argentine sports journalist.
• 1972: Ras Kass, American rapper.
• 1972: Alfonso Pérez Muñoz, Spanish footballer.
• 1972: Shawn Stockman, American singer, of the Boyz II Men band.
• 1974: Gary Hall Jr., American swimmer.
• 1974: Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player.
• 1975: Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer.
• 1975: Jake Paltrow, American filmmaker and screenwriter.
• 1975: Chiara Schoras, German actress.
• 1976: Michael Ballack, German footballer.
• 1976: Dean Butterworth, British drummer, The Used and Good Charlotte bands.
• 1976: Sami Vanska, Finnish bassist, of the Nightwish band.
• 1977: Kaylynn, American actress.
• 1979: Jon Harley, British rugby player.
• 1979: Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese fighter.
• 1979: Taavi Rõivas, Estonian politician, 16th Prime Minister of his country.
• 1979: Jacob Tierney, actor, actor, filmmaker and Canadian screenwriter.
• 1980: Patrick Friesacher, Austrian pilot.
• 1981: Christina Milian, singer, dancer and American actress.
• 1981: Serena Williams, American tennis player.
• 1982: Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer.
• 1982: John Scott, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1983: Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer.
• 1984: Nev Schulman, TV presenter and American producer.
• 1986: Eileen Roca, is an actress, model, singer, exreina de belleza and Colombian-Brazilian actress.
• 1985: Lenna Kuurmaa, singer and Estonian music by the band Vainilla Ninja.
• 1987: Kim Yo-jong, North Korean politics.
• 1987: Cyril Gautier, French cyclist.
• 1988: James Blake, British singer, composer and producer.
• 1988: Guillermo Burdisso, Argentine footballer.
• 1989: Emma Rigby, British actress.
• 1989: Ciaran Clark, Irish footballer.
• 1989: Débora Lyra, Brazilian model.
• 1990: Roman Bezus, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1992: Filip Bednarek, Polish footballer.
• 1992: Annes Elwy, British actress.
• 1993: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, American basketball player.
• 1994: Lucas Gafarot, Spanish footballer.
• 2012: Kim Ji-yoo, South Korean actress.

Deaths

• 1468: Juan de Torquemada, Spanish cardinal, uncle of the inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada (n. 1388).
• 1620: Taichang, Chinese emperor (n. 1582).
• 1626: Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (n. 1554).
• 1736: Luisa Diana of Orleans, aristocrat and French regent (n. 1716).
• 1763: John Byron, British Admiral (n. 1692).
• 1764: Benito Jerónimo Feijóo and Montenegro, Spanish scholar and religious (n. 1767).
• 1800: William Billings, American composer of coral music (n. 1746).
• 1802: Jurij Vega, artillery officer, mathematician and Slovenian physicist (n. 1754).
• 1820: Daniel Boone, American pioneer and colonizer (n. 1734).
• 1826: Alexander Gordon Laing, Scottish explorer (n. 1794).
• 1863: José Venancio López, jurisconsulto y política guatemalteco (n. 1791).
• 1867: James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (n. 1797).
• 1868: August Möbius, mathematician and German astronomer (n. 1790).
• 1873: William Wheelwright, American businessman (n. 1798).
• 1873: Salustiano Olózaga, a Spanish politician (n. 1805).
• 1877: Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician (n. 1809).
• 1888: Modesto Inacayal, cacique tehuelche that lived in Argentinian Patagonia (n. 1833).
• 1902: Levi Strauss, American textile industrialist, trouser manufacturer (n. 1829).
• 1904: Lafcadio Hearn, a Japanese writer of Greek-Greek origin (n. 1850).
• 1923: Luis Tezza, beato italiano (n. 1841).
• 1929: Agustín Riancho, a Spanish painter (n. 1841).
• 1937: Bessie Smith, American blues singer (n. 1894).
• 1941: Ugo Augustni, Italian cyclist (n. 1893).
• 1944: Alime Abdenánova, Soviet scout and partisan, hero of the Russian Federation (n. 1924)
• 1945: Bela Bártok, Hungarian composer (n. 1881).
• 1947: Hugh Lofting, British writer (n. 1886).
• 1949: Blanca Estela Pavón, Mexican actress (n. 1924).
• 1952: George Santayana, philosopher, novelist and Spanish poet (n. 1863).
• 1959: Leslie Morshead, Australian General (n. 1889).
• 1967: Luis Ceballos and Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish engineer and naturalist (n. 1896).
• 1967: Rafael Fernández-Shaw, Spanish writer (n. 1905).
• 1970: Josep Maria Millàs Vallicrosa, Spanish historian (n. 1897).
• 1972: Charles Correll, American actor and screenwriter (n. 1890).
• 1973: Anna Magnani, Italian actress (n. 1908).
• 1976: Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ružička), a Croatian-Swiss chemical, a nobel chemistry award in 1939 (n. 1887).
• 1976: Alberto Mechoso Méndez, anarcosindicalista uruguayo (n. 1936).
• 1978: Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1924 (n. 1886).
• 1979: Philippe Erulin, French military officer (n. 1932).
• 1979: Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (n. 1910).
• 1982: Luis Custodio Muñoz Muñoz, a Chilean doctor and writer (n. 1897).
• 1983: Tino Rossi, French actor and singer (n. 1907).
• 1984: Francisco Rivera Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (n. 1948).
• 1985: Yona Wallach, Israeli poet (n. 1944).
• 1987: Sergio Santander, Chilean Formula 3 pilot (n. 1954).
• 1987: Victoria Kent, Spanish Policy (n. 1898).
• 1987: Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (n. 1912).
• 1988: Guillermo Battaglia, Argentine actor (n. 1899).
• 1988: Branko Zebec, Yugoslav footballer (n. 1929).
• 1989: Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer, composer and producer (n. 1920).
• 1990: Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (n. 1907).
• 1993: Nina Berbérova, Russian writer (n. 1901).
• 1996: Nicu Ceausescu, a Romanian politician (n. 1951).
• 1996: Geoffrey Wilkinson, British chemist, nobel chemistry award in 1973 (n. 1921).
• 1998: Aurelio Miró Quesada Sosa, a Peruvian journalist and historian (n. 1907).
• 2000: Richard Mulligan, American actor (n. 1932).
• 2000: Baden Powell, Brazilian guitarist and songwriter (n. 1937).
• 2001: Miguel Dante, Argentine actor (n.?).
• 2003: Shawn Lane, American guitarist, composer and producer (n. 1963).
• 2003: Robert Palmer, British singer and composer (n. 1949).
• 2004: Manuel Agud, Argentine philologist (f. 1914).
• 2006: Byron Nelson, American golfer (n. 1912).
• 2006: Luis Adaro Ruiz-Falcó, Spanish entrepreneur (n. 1914).
• 2008: Marc Moulin, musician, key player and Belgian journalist (n. 1942).
• 2008: Paul Newman, actor, filmmaker, producer and businessman (n. 1925).
• 2010: Constantino Kochifas, shipowner and Chilean businessman (n. 1931).
• 2010: Gloria Stuart, film, theatre and television actress and American centenary, the old woman Titanic (n. 1910).
• 2010: Jimi Heselden, British businessman (n. 1948).
• 2011: Jerry Haynes, American actor (n. 1927).
• 2012: Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian physics and politics, 17th governor of Saskatchewan (n. 1927).
• 2012: Maya Naser, a Syrian journalist (n. 1979).
• 2013: Azizan Abdul Razak, a Malay politician (n. 1944).
• 2013: Sos Sargsyan, actor and Armenian filmmaker (n. 1929).
• 2013: Adriana Vignoli, an artist and an Argentine photographer (n. 1966).
• 2019: Jacques Chirac, French politician, President of France between 1997 and 2005 (n. 1932).
• 2021: Alan Lancaster, British singer and bassist (n. 1949).
• 2021: Aracely Galdamez,

Guatemalan teacher and businesswoman (b.1959).

Celebrations

• International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
• World Day of Contraception
• World Day of Prevention of Unplanned Pregnancy in Adolescents
• European Language Day
• Argentina:
  • Trade Employee Day
• EcuadorEcuador:
  • National Flag Day
• United States:
  • National Day of Good Neighborhood
• Mexico Mexico:
  • National Day of Donation and Transplantation of Organs and Fabrics
• New ZealandNew Zealand:
  • Dominion Day
• YemenYemen:
  • Revolution Day

Catholic saints list

• Santos Cosme and Damián, martyrs (s. III);
• Saint Gideon of Manasseh, judge of Israel;
• San Senator of Albano, martyr (s. III);
• St. Eusebius of Bologna, bishop (s. IV);
• St. Stephen of Rossano, monk (f. 1001);
• St. Nile the Young, Abbot (f. 1004);
• Blessed Lucia de Caltagirone, virgin (f. 1400);
• Santos Sebastián Nam I-gwan, Lucia Kim, Catalina Yi, Magdalena Cho, and eight martyrs (f. 1839);
• Saint Teresa Couderc, virgin and founder (f. 1885);
• Blessed Gaspar Stanggassinger, priest (f. 1899);
• Blessed Luis Tezza, priest and founder (f. 1923);
• Blessed María del Refugio Rosat Balasch and María del Calvario Romero Clariana, virgins and martyrs (f. 1936);
• Blessed Rafael Pardo Molina and José María Vidal Segú, religious and martyrs (f. 1936);
• Beata Cresce Valls Espí, virgin and martyr (f. 1936);
• Beata María del Olvido Noguera Albelda, virgin and martyr (f. 1936);
• Blessed Bonaventure Esteve Flors, priest and martyr (f. 1936);
• Blessed Maria Jordá Botella, virgin and martyr (f. 1936);
• Blessed Leo Legua Martí, priest and martyr (f. 1936).