February 12th Events

February 12 is the 43rd (forty-third) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 322 days left in the year and 323 in leap years .

February 12th Events

881: Pope John VIII crowns Charles III the Fat as King of Italy .
1429: English forces under Sir John Fastolf defeat a convoy of arms to Orleans to attack Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, and John Stewart at the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
1502: Isabella the Catholic issues an edict banning the Islamic religion in the Crown of Castile under penalty of death , forcing all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity (the same as she did with the Jews in 1492). During the seven centuries that the Muslims ruled Spain, they practiced freedom of worship with Catholics and Jews.
1541: In present-day Chile , a large group of Spaniards led by Pedro de Valdivia occupy an indigenous village, massacring or enslaving its inhabitants, and rename it Santiago de la Nueva Extremadura (today Santiago de Chile , the country’s capital).
1542: In present-day Venezuela , 50 Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco de Orellana are the first Europeans to discover the Amazon River . ^[1]
1552: In Chile , Pedro de Valdivia occupies an indigenous village and in its place “founds” the town of Valdivia .
1554: In London, after a year of imprisonment, Joan I of England is beheaded for treason.
1567: On the island of Chiloé , 1200 km south of Santiago de Chile , a large group of Spaniards led by Captain Martín Ruiz de Gamboa occupy an indigenous village, massacring or enslaving its inhabitants, and rename it Castro .
1577: Juan de Austria signs the Perpetual Edict with the rebels of the Netherlands , by which he agrees to withdraw the Spanish troops.
1593: During the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), approximately 3,000 Joseon Dynasty defenders led by General Kwon Yul successfully repel over 30,000 Japanese mercenaries at the Siege of Haengju.
1689: In London, the British Parliament declares war against France in 1688 by James II, the last Catholic king of England, ending in the monarch’s abdication .
1700: The Great Northern War begins in Europe.
1719: Onderlinge, the longest-lasting insurance company in history, is founded in the Netherlands .
1733: In the state of Georgia (United States) , the British James Oglethorpe founded the village of Savannah, capital of the colony of Georgia.
1739: In Madrid (Spain) , King Philip V establishes by “royal decree” (king’s decree), for the first time, cockfighting in the colony Captaincy General of Cuba .
1771: In Sweden , Gustav III becomes monarch.
1804: In Havana ( Capitanía General of Cuba , under the power of the Kingdom of Spain), Dr. Tomás Romay Chacón applies the smallpox vaccine for the first time .
1814: In Venezuela, the Battle of La Victoria is fought for the country’s independence , in which the patriotic generals José Félix Ribas and Vicente Campo Elías, together with troops made up of seminarians and students from the University of Caracas , defeat the royalist troops commanded by José Tomás Boves and his second in command, Francisco Tomás Morales .
1817: In the current village of Los Andes, the army of the Andes under the command of General José de San Martín and after crossing the Andes mountain range defeats the Spanish in the battle of Chacabuco , fundamental in the independence of Chile ―invaded by Spain―.
1818: In Talca (Chile), the Chilean patriot Bernardo O’Higgins Miguel Zañartu, Hipólito de Villegas and José Ignacio Zenteno sign the Act of Independence of Chile .
1825: At the Teatro del Conservatorio di San Sebastiano in Naples (Italian peninsula), Vincenzo Bellini premieres his opera Adelson e Salvini .
1825: In the United States, the Creek Native American tribe cedes its last portion of land to whites and moves east.
1832: Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands .
1847 : The Villanueva Theatreis inaugurated in Havana ( Capitanía General de Cuba ) . A group of Spanish volunteers savagely attack the Cuban public. ^[2]
1853: Cuban patriot José Martí (15 days old) is baptized in the Church of the Holy Guardian Angel in the city of Havana .
1853: In Chile , Vicente Pérez Rosales founds the village of Puerto Montt . It is named in honor of President Manuel Montt.
1855 : MichiganState University is founded in the United States .
1868: In Madrid (Spain), an envoy of Pope Pius IX presents Isabel II with the Golden Rose.
1870: In Utah (United States) women obtain equal voting rights.
1879: The Saltpeter War (or Pacific War) begins, in which Chile takes the maritime strip of the province of Atacama from Bolivia .
1879: Madison Square Garden, the world’s first artificial skating rink, opens in New York .
1891: In Bogotá (Colombia), the newspaper El Espectador reappears , after having been suspended in 1888.
1892: In the town of Manzanillo (Oriente province), Cuban citizen José Caimarí Vila donates part of his fortune through his will for the construction and maintenance of the hospital.
1894: At the Café Terminus in Paris , the anarchist Emile Henri detonates a bomb, killing one person and injuring twenty.
1896: In the province of Havana (Cuba) – in the framework of the Necessary War (1895-1898) – the column under the command of General Antonio Maceo enters Havana again , near Artemisa .
1898: In the province of Pinar del Río ―in the context of the Necessary War (1895-1898) ― the infamous Spanish henchmen shot the Cuban nurse and mambisa captain Isabel Rubio (60) in the leg while she was attending the “blood hospital” that she herself had created. They forced her to walk to the town of Pinar del Río, where the martyr would die from the infection three days later .
1899 : The Bacardi Museumis founded in Santiago de Cuba .
1899: The Kingdom of Spain sells the Carolinas, Marianas and Palau archipelagos to Germany .
1905: The Zemstvo (assembly of the Russian aristocracy) asks the Tsar to remain in power and participate in reforms.
1907: In the city of Cienfuegos (Neocolonial Republic of Cuba), a group of drunken US Navy marines attack Cienfuegos families in their own homes.
1907: British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannermanncalls in the Commons for greater autonomy for Ireland .
1908: The first New York – Paris Intercontinental Automobile Race begins in New York , with six drivers taking part. They cross the Pacific Ocean by boat and travel across Russia to Europe. The winner is the American Thomas Flyer, who arrives in Paris on July 30 , 1908 , after traveling 21,470 km in 169 days.
1909: The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is founded in the United States.
1912: In Beijing (China), Emperor Xuantong (of the Qing dynasty ), the last emperor of China, abdicates. The Republic of China is created .
1912: The Republic of Chinaadopts the Gregorian calendar .
1914: The first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is laid in Washington, C.
1921: In Guatemala City , representatives of Guatemala , El Salvador and Honduras approve a union pact that establishes a single sovereignty and representation, under the name of the United Provinces of Central America.
1924: In Washington, Calvin Coolidge becomes the first US president to make a live radio address .
1931: In Vatican City, Pope Pius XI inaugurates Vatican Radio.
1934: The Austrian Civil War in Austria continues until February 16 .
1934: In the Spanish Republic (1931-1939)several fascist groups create the JONS (National-Syndicalist Offensive Boards) and decide to merge with the Spanish Falange .
1941: The country of Peru declares war on the Axis Powers during World War II .
1941 : In the Italiancity of Bordighera, during the Second World War (1939-1945) , the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco meets with the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini .
1942: In Seville (Spain), dictator Franco meets with Portuguese dictator Oliveira Salazar .
1944: In Pereira (Colombia) , after the union of Vidriocol and Deportivo Otún, the Deportivo Pereira team was born.
1946: In northwest Ireland , Operation Deadlight ends with the sinking of the last of the Kriegsmarine submarines captured by the Allies.
1946: African-American U.S. Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolinapolice officer to the point where he loses vision in both eyes. The subsequent incident galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles ‘ film , Touch of Evil .
1948: In Costa Rica , the defeat of the official presidential candidate triggers a civil war.
1949: In the city of Quito (Ecuador) , while the science fiction novel The War of the Worlds was being broadcast on Radio Quito, people thought it was a real news coverage. When they found out about the farce, they set fire to the building, which in addition to the radio station, also housed the newspaper El Comercio . The incident resulted in five deaths.
1951: Wedding of Reza Pahlavi , Shah of Persia, to German-born princess Soraya Esfandiary.
1952: In London (United Kingdom), Elizabeth II is proclaimed queen.
1959: In the former fortress of the Columbia Military Barracks, converted into the Libertad School City, some 200 volunteer teachers began teaching hundreds of rebel soldiers to read and write.
1959: In Havana, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castroannounces the creation of training schools for officers, ranks and soldiers of the Rebel Army .
1959: Seven months after the start of the Cuban Revolution, the US Congress approves not to grant bank loans to Cuba.
1959: Rebel soldiers begin a tour of Latin Americancountries to explain the truths of the Cuban Revolution .
1960: At the Habana Libre Hotel , during a reception offered by chess player Anastas Mikoyan to the authorities of the Cuban Government, the Cuban-Argentine commander Ernesto Che Guevara meets Paul Keres , a Soviet legend of world chess.
1960: Preparations for the founding of a sports organization ( INDER) begin in Havana.
1961: In Havana , the revolutionary government inaugurates the Ciudad Deportiva Coliseum .
1961: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 1 probe aimed at flying over the planet Venus.
1961: Argentinaholds rigged elections – since on March 13, 1960 , President Arturo Frondizi had banned the Peronist Party again (which had won the elections with 62% of the votes in 1954). The anti-Peronist “socialist” Alfredo Palacios is elected national senator for the Federal Capital.
1962: In the Sahara Desert , French soldiers find the mummified body of British aviator Bill Lancaster, who on April 11, 1933 had taken off from England towards the Cape of Good Hope (the southern tip of Africa), in an attempt to break the speed record, but had never reached his destination.
1966: Mujibur Rahman announces the famous Six Points in Karachi as the manifesto of the Awami League which will be the basis for the formation of Bangladesh .
1970: In Panama , thirteen athletes from Camagüey join the athletics team that represents Cuba at the XI Central American and Caribbean Games .
1973: In Montevideo (Uruguay) , the “president” and tyrant Juan María Bordaberry gives in to pressure from the military and leaves the government. A National Security Council is created to guarantee military control of the country.
1973: During the Vietnam War (1955-1975), the Viet Cong frees the first American prisoners.
1974: The President of the Government of Spain, Carlos Arias Navarro , gives a programmatic speech to the Cortes, considered to be an opening speech; it gave rise to the so-called “Spirit of February 12”.
1979: In Havana , Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson defeats American Phillip Brown in a bilateral “match.”
1980: The IOC (International Olympic Committee) rejects the boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games by the United States, which proposes a change of venue to a country other than the Soviet Union.
1985: In Montevideo (Uruguay) , military dictator Gregorio Álvarez – the last leader of the military regime – gives in to pressure from civilians and leaves the government.
1988: In the Black Sea , the American nuclear-powered missile cruiser USS Yorktown enters Soviet territorial waters. The Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy intentionally rams it to force it to turn back (1988 Black Sea clash incident).
1989: The Summit of Central American Presidents is held in El Salvador .
1989: In Boston, Massachusetts, Barbara Harris (1930-2020), a priestof the Episcopal Church since 1980, is proclaimed the first female bishop in history. Because she is a woman and African-American, she received death threats and obscene messages, so she had to attend the ceremony wearing a bulletproof vest.
1990: In Australia , Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female president in that country’s history.
1993: In Liverpool (United Kingdom) , two children named Robert Thompson (10) and John Venables (10) kidnap and torture James Patrick Bulger (2) to death; once dead, they leave him on the railroad tracks so that a train can destroy him and thus avoid being discovered. Both young men were imprisoned until they were 18 years old and are currently free.
1993: An agreement is reached between the South African government and the African National Congress (ANC) to form an interim government of national unity after elections, which will help smooth the transition from apartheid(racism) to democracy.
1997: Japan launches its Japanese Haruka radio astronomy space observatory .
1997: In Beijing, China, Hwang Jang-yop (secretary of the North Korean Workers’ Party ) seeks asylum in the South Korean embassy .
1999: In the United States, in the Lewinsky case (in which President Bill Clinton committed sexual abuse against a student who was doing an internship), the Senate acquits the president of the charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
2001: The NEAR Shoemaker probe is the first human spacecraft to land on an asteroid (433 Eros).
2002: The UN (United Nations) in New York City celebrates the World Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers. On this day, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, promoted by the UN, which raises the minimum age for recruitment and participation in hostilities from 15 to 18 years, comes into force.
2002: The war crimes trial of Slobodan Milošević(former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) begins at the Hague Tribunal .
2002: A Tupolev Tu-154 of Iran Air crashes in Khorramabad (Lorestan region, Iran ), killing 119 people.
2004: Toy company Mattel announces the divorce of Barbie and Ken, after 43 years of relationship.
2004: The city of San Francisco (California)grants same-sex couples the right to legally marry .
2004: The mortal remains of the young Chilean student Jorge Matute Johns are found on the banks of the Biobío River. He disappeared after a confusing incident that occurred in a nightclub in Talcahuano on November 20 , 1999 .
2005: In the city of Caracas (Venezuela), Venezuelan swimmer Rafael Vidal, bronze medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games , dies when his vehicle is hit.
2005: In Madrid (Kingdom of Spain) the Windsor Towercatches fire .
2007: In Trolley Square Park, in Salt Lake City (Utah), an American assassin opens fire from a wall, killing 5 people.
2008: Bolivia declares a state of emergency after almost 4 months of the La Niña phenomenon , which has caused flooding throughout the country.
2008: In Damascus, Syria, a bomb explosion kills Imad Mugniyeh, a prominent member of the Palestinian group Hezbollah.
2009: Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashes in the suburbs of New York (United States). 50 people die.
2011: At the International Judo Tournament held in the city of Laval (France), the Cuban women’s team won five gold medals and one bronze, thus achieving first place by country.
2012 : The 54th Grammy Awardsare held in the United States .
2012: The primaries of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) are held in Venezuela .
2014: In Venezuela, in the framework of the bicentennial of Youth Day, student protests take place.
2016: In Cuba, meeting and signing of a joint declaration between Pope Francis and the Patriarch of Moscow Kirill
2016: In Mexico, Pope Francisbegins his “pastoral” visit to that country.
2017: Megadeth winsthe Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the song “Dystopia.”
2019 : The trial of Catalanpro-independence leaders begins at Spain’s Supreme Court with defence arguments about possible violations of the defendants’ fundamental rights. ^[3]

Births

1074– Conrad of Lorraine , Italian king (d. 1101).
1218: Kujō Yoritsune , Japanese shogun (d. 1256).
1567: Thomas Campion , English poet and composer (d. 1620).
1637: Jan Swammerdam , Dutch anatomist and zoologist (d. 1680).
1663: Thomas Newcomen , English blacksmith and inventor (d. 1729).
1665: Rudolf Jakob Camerarius , German botanist and physician (d. 1721).
1685– George Hadley , English lawyer and meteorologist (d. 1768).
1706: Johann Joseph Christian , German sculptor (d. 1777).
1728: Étienne-Louis Boullée , French architect (d. 1799).
1746: Tadeusz Kościuszko , Polish general (d. 1817).
1768: Francis I , Austrian Emperor (d. 1835).
1775– Louisa Adams , American woman, wife of President John Quincy Adams (d. 1852).
1777: Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , German writer (d. 1843).
1785: Pierre Louis Dulong , French chemist (d. 1838).
1788: Carl Reichenbach , German chemist (d. 1869).
1794– Alexander Petrov , Russian chess player (d. 1867), first Russian chess master.
1794: Valentín Canalizo, Mexican military officer and politician (d. 1850).
1804: Heinrich Lenz , German physicist (d. 1865).
1809: Charles Darwin , British naturalist (d. 1882), creator of the theory of evolution.
1809: Abraham Lincoln , American politician, 16th president (d. 1865).
1817: Trinidad de la Garza Melo , Mexican lawyer and politician (d. 1879).
1828: George Meredith , British writer (d. 1909).
1830: Pedro León Gallo Goyenechea , Chilean politician (d. 1877).
1830: Stephen Wilcox, American inventor (d. 1893).
1837: Emilia Calé , Spanish writer (d. 1908).
1851: Francisca Saperas , Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (d. 1933).
1853: Carlos Agüero Fundora , Mambí general .
1854: Bernardo Soto Alfaro , 14th Costa Rican president (d. 1931).
1856: José Maurí , Cuban composer born in Spain. His work was the first written with purely Cuban musical content (of the so-called Afro-Cuban style).
1857: Eugène Atget , French photographer (d. 1927).
1860: Telesforo Aranzadi , Spanish scientist (d.1945)
1861: Lou Andreas-Salomé , Russian writer (d. 1937).
1869: Franz Stassen , German painter (d. 1949).
1876: Thubten Gyatso , 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933).
1877: Louis Renault , French industrialist (d. 1944).
1881: Ann Pavlova , Russian ballet dancer (d. 1931).
1884: Max Beckmann , German painter (d. 1950).
1884: Johan Laidoner, Estonian general (d. 1953).
1885: La Chelito (Consuelo Portela), Cuban-born Spanish singer and businesswoman (d. 1959).
1885: Julius Streicher, Nazi leader and editor (d. 1946).
1887: Edelmiro Julián Farrell , Argentine military officer (d. 1980).
1888: Angel Maria de Rosa , Argentine sculptor (d. 1970).
1888: Clara Campoamor, Spanish republican politician, advocate of women’s suffrage (d. 1972).
1893: Omar Bradley , American military officer (d. 1981).
1898: Wallace Ford , British actor (d. 1966).
1903: Jorge Basadre , Peruvian historian (d. 1980).
1905: Federica Montseny , Spanish anarchist (d. 1994).
1906: Pepe Guízar , Mexican composer (d. 1980).
1907: Hernán Benítez , Argentine Catholic priest, advisor to Evita Perón (d. 1996).
1907: Joselito Rodríguez , Mexican actor and filmmaker (d. 1985).
1907: José Borobio Ojeda, Spanish architect (d. 1984).
1908: Jacques Herbrand , French mathematician (d. 1931).
1909: Bernabé Ferreyra , Argentine footballer (d. 1972).
1909: Sigmund Rascher, German Nazi SS doctor (d. 1945).
1910: Enrique Anderson Imbert , Argentine writer, essayist and literary critic (d. 2000).
1911: Antonio Guzmán , Dominican president (d. 1982).
1912: Luis Merino Reyes , Chilean writer (d. 2011).
1913: Nicolás Cabrera , Spanish scientist (d. 1989).
1913: Nicolau Casaus, vice president of FC Barcelona between 1978 and 2003 (d. 2007).
1913: José Mallorquí, Spanish writer (d. 1972).
1914: Tex Beneke , American musician (d. 2000).
1915: Lorne Greene , Canadian actor (d. 1987).
1915: Evaristo Acevedo, Spanish writer and humorist (d. 1997).
1916: Eduardo Figueroa Geisse , Chilean economist and politician (d. 2000).
1918: Julian Schwinger , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1965 (d. 1994).
1919: Chol a Luna , Argentine tango singer (d. 2015).
1919: Forrest Tucker, American actor (d. 1986).
1923: Franco Zeffirelli , Italian filmmaker (d. 2019).
1924: Jorge Gaitán Durán , Colombian poet (d.1962).
1928: Chucho Salinas , Mexican actor and comedian (d. 2001).
1929: Gonzalo Figueroa Yáñez , Chilean lawyer and academic (d. 2011).
1929: Dino Ramos, Argentine composer, author and television host (d. 1984).
1932: Julian Lincoln Simon , American economist (d. 1998).
1932: Juan María Bandrés Molet, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 2011).
1934: Annette Crosbie , Scottish actress.
1934: Caroline Worsley, Scottish aristocrat.
1934: Bill Russell, American basketball player.
1936: Joe Don Baker , American actor.
1937: Charles Dumas , American athlete (d. 2004).
1938: Pilar Pellicer , Mexican actress (d. 2020).
1938: Judy Blume , American writer.
1939: Ray Manzarek , American keyboardist, of the band The Doors (d. 2013).
1940: Gilda Cruz-Romo , Mexican soprano.
1940: Richard Lynch , American actor (d. 2012).
1940: Robert Saladrigas, Spanish writer.
1941: José Loyola , Cuban composer and flutist.
1941: Ron Lyle, American boxer (d. 2011).
1942: Ehud Barak , Israeli Prime Minister.
1942: Paula Gales, Argentine tango singer.
1942: Mario Socolinsky, Argentine physician and television presenter (d. 2007).
1945: Maud Adams , Swedish actress.
1945: David Friedman, American economist.
1946: Cliff DeYoung , American actor and musician.
1946: Jean Eyeghe Ndong, Gabonese Prime Minister.
1947: Miguel Delibes de Castro , Spanish biologist.
1947 – Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian religious leader (d. 1984).
1948: Raymond Kurzweil , American inventor and writer.
1948: Alfonso Ussía, Spanish writer.
1949: Enzo Hernández , Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2013).
1949: Joaquin Sabina, Spanish singer-songwriter.
1950: Steve Hackett , British guitarist, of the band Genesis .
1950: Michael Ironside, Canadian actor.
1952: Patricia Dal (Teresa Dal Maso), Argentine actress, dancer, former model and former vedette.
1952: Michael McDonald, American singer, of the band The Doobie Brothers.
1952: Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (d. 2010).
1953: Marcelo Alfaro , Argentine actor (d. 2012).
1953: Joanna Kerns, American actress.
1954: Phil Zimmermann , American inventor, creator of PGP .
1955: Arsenio Hall , American television presenter.
1958: Javier Gurruchaga , Spanish singer.
1959: Larry Nance , American basketball player.
1961: David Graeber , American anarchist anthropologist (d. 2020).
1961: Angeles Alvarez, Spanish politician.
1962: Alberto Plaza , Chilean singer-songwriter and composer.
1968: Josh Brolin , American actor.
1968: Christopher McCandless, American traveler and hippie, died in 1992 after getting lost in the woods while trying to live a natural life without studying survival.
1969: Darren Aronofsky , American filmmaker.
1969: Carlos PalitoCerutti , Argentine basketball player (d. 1990).
1969: Meja, Swedish singer-songwriter.
1969: Hong Myung-bo, South Korean footballer.
1969: Byron Stroud, American bassist, of the band Fear Factory.
1970: Adrian Yospe , Argentine actor (d. 2011).
1973: Victor Montero , Chilean actor.
1973: Tara Strong, American actress
1974: Toranosuke Takagi , Japanese Formula 1 driver.
1974: Fonzworth Bentley, Japanese hip-hop artist.
1975: Scot Pollard , American basketball player.
1976: Silvia Saint , Czech porn actress.
1977: Jimmy Conrad , American soccer player.
1977: Kimiko Saitō, Japanese seiyū.
1979: Jesse Spencer , Australian actor.
1979: Patricio Ormazábal, Chilean footballer.
1979: Sergio Matabuena, Spanish footballer.
1979: Gerard Amoukou Gnanhouan, Ivorian footballer.
1980: Juan Carlos Ferrero , Spanish tennis player.
1980: Christina Ricci, American actress.
1980: Sarah Lancaster, American actress.
1981: Raúl Entrerríos , Spanish handball player.
1981: Miguel Ángel Corona, Spanish footballer.
1983: Iko Uwais , Indonesian martial artist.
1984: Peter Vanderkaay , American swimmer.
1984: Alo Bärengrub, Estonian footballer.
1985: Saskia Burmeister , Australian actress.
1987: Argenis Díaz , Venezuelan baseball player.
1987: Asami Tano, Japanese seiyū and actress.
1988: Mike Posner , American musician.
1988: Nicolás Otamendi, Argentine footballer.
1988: Nana Eikura, Japanese actress and model.
1993: Jennifer Stone , American actress.
1993: Rafinha Alcántara, Brazilian footballer.
1993: Paolo Faragò, Italian footballer.
1993: Chuty, Spanish rapper.
1995: Daniela Aedo , Mexican actress.
1995: Rina Kawaei, Japanese singer and actress.
1997: Hina Kino , Japanese seiyū.

Deaths

821: Benedict of Aniane , French monk (b. 747).
1483: Francis I of Foix , King of Navarre (b. 1469).
1517: Catherine I of Navarre , Queen of Navarre (b. 1468).
1538: Albrecht Altdorfer , German painter, engraver, draughtsman and architect.
1554: Lady Jane Grey , successor to the English throne (b. 1537).
1590: François Hotman , French lawyer and writer (b. 1524).
1612: Christopher Clavius , German Jesuit (b. 1539).
1689: María Luisa de Orleans , Spanish aristocrat (“queen”) (b. 1662), wife of the king between 1679 and 1689.
1763: Pierre de Marivaux , French playwright (b. 1668).
1771: Adolf Frederick , Swedish king (b. 1710).
1779: Jacobo Sedelmayer , Jesuit missionary and explorer of New Spain (b. 1703).
1789: Ethan Allen , American soldier (b. 1738).
1799: Lazzaro Spallanzani , Italian biologist (b. 1729).
1804: Immanuel Kant , German philosopher (b. 1724).
1819: Francisco Javier Balmis , Spanish doctor (b. 1753).
1834: Friedrich Schleiermacher , German theologian (b. 1768).
1889: Manuel Villacampa del Castillo , Spanish military officer (b. 1827).
1894: Hans von Bülow , German pianist and composer (b. 1830).
1896: Ambroise Thomas , French opera composer (b. 1811).
1897: Jesús Jiménez Zamora , 4th and 6th President of Costa Rica (b. 1823).
1901: Ramón de Campoamor , Spanish writer and politician.
1901: Jose Rafael Egon Jimenez , Mambicolonel ; assassinated.
1905: Edward Dannreuther , German pianist and musicologist (b. 1844).
1907: Muriel Robb , British tennis player (b. 1878).
1915: Émile Waldteufel , French composer (b. 1837).
1916: Richard Dedekind , German mathematician (b. 1831).
1929: Lillie Langtry , British actress and singer (b. 1853).
1933: Henri Duparc , French composer (b. 1848).
1935: Auguste Escoffier , French chef (b. 1846).
1937: Christopher Caudwell , British writer and politician (b. 1907).
1939: Carl Herlitz , German businessman (b. 1867).
1939: SPL Sørensen, Danish chemist (b. 1868).
1945: (possibly) Margot Frank , Anne Frank ‘s older sister (b. 1926).
1947: Kurt Lewin , Polish psychologist (b. 1890).
1954: Dziga Vertov , Russian film director (b. 1896).
1959: George Antheil , American musician (b. 1900).
1960: Jean-Michel Atlan , French painter (b. 1913).
1962: Indalecio Prieto , Spanish journalist and politician (b. 1883).
1963: Martín Ramírez , Mexican painter (b. 1895).
1967: Jesús Delgado Álvarez , Spanish Augustinian religious and writer (b. 1872).
1970: Julio Palacios , Spanish physicist (b. 1891).
1976: Sal Mineo , American actor (b. 1939).
1979: Jean Renoir , French film director (b. 1894).
1981: Tomás García Figueras , Spanish military officer and writer (b. 1892).
1983: Isabel de Orleans , French noblewoman (b. 1900).
1984: Anna Anderson , pretender to the Russian throne (b. 1896).
1984: Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (b. 1914).
1984: Carlos González Bueno, Spanish physician (b. 1898).
1985: Nicholas Colasanto , American actor (b. 1924).
1989: Thomas Bernhard , Austrian writer (b. 1931).
1994: Rafael Durán , Spanish actor (b.1911).
1996: Rosamel Araya , Chilean singer (b. 1936).
2000: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins , American musician (b. 1929).
2000 – Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924).
2000: Charles M. Schulz, American comic book artist (b. 1922).
2000: Juan Carlos Thorry, Argentine actor (b. 1908).
2002: Traudl Junge , personal secretary of Adolf Hitler (b. 1920).
2003: Emilio Romero , Spanish writer and journalist (b. 1917).
2004: Albeiro Usuriaga , Colombian footballer (b. 1966).
2005: Rafael Vidal , Venezuelan swimmer (b. 1964).
2006: Juan Sánchez-Navarro , Mexican businessman (b. 1913).
2007: Pepe Díaz Lastra , Argentine actor of Cuban origin (b. 1928).
2007: Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1905).
2010: Nodar Kumaritashvili , Georgian luger (b. 1988). ^[4]
2010: Luis Molowny, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1925). ^[5]
2011: Peter Alexander , Austrian actor, singer, presenter and showman (b. 1926).
2011: Fedor den Hertog, Dutch cyclist (b. 1946).
2011: Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower.
2011: Kenneth Mars, American actor (b. 1936).
2011: Gilberto Rey, Argentine actor, poet, librettist and author (b. 1936).
2012: David Kelly , Irish actor (b. 1929).
2012: German Sanchez Ruipérez, Spanish publisher and patron of literature (b. 1926).
2014: Santiago Feliú (51), Cuban singer-songwriter (b. 1962); heart attack.
2016: Juan Carlos Godoy , Argentine tango singer (b. 1922).
2017: Al Jarreau , American jazz singer (b. 1940).
2019: Gordon Banks , British former footballer (b. 1937).
2020: Rajendra K. Pachauri , Indian academic and engineer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2007 (b. 1940).
2022: Aurelio de la Vega (96), Cuban composer, university professor and essayist expatriated in the United States (b. 1925).

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