February 1st Events

February 1 is the 32nd (thirty-second) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 333 days left in the year and 334 in leap years .

481: In the ancient city of Carthage (near present-day Tunisia ) the Vandal king Huneric organizes a conference between Arian and Catholic bishops .
1327: In London , the teenager Edward III accedes to the throne of England , but the country is controlled by his mother Isabel of France and her lover, Roger Mortimer.
1329– In Lithuania , the army of King John of Bohemia captures the town of Medvėgalis, a major stronghold of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and forcibly baptizes the 6,000 survivors.
1411: In the town of Thorn (Toruń, in the north of present-day Germany), the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights ( Prussia ) signs the First Peace of Thorn .
1524: In London , some 20,000 townspeople leave their homes and head for higher ground, awaiting the flood that will bring about the end of the world . It was prophesied in June 1523 by England ‘s most prestigious astrologers . ^[1]
1662: In China , General Koksinga invades the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
1724: The village of Calabozo is founded in Guárico ( Venezuela ).
1751: In the general captaincy of Cuba (colony of the Kingdom of Spain), the town of San Isidro de Holguín obtains the title of city.
1771 : The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannicais published in London (United Kingdom) .
1788: Engineers Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
1793: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands .
1814: In the Philippines , the Mayon volcano erupts . More than 1,200 people die. It was the most devastating eruption of that volcano.
1815: In the context of the wars of independence of the American colonies against the Kingdom of Spain, a Spanish army of 10,000 men arrives in Venezuela , under the command of General Pablo Morillo .
1820: At the Military Hospital of the San Ambrosio Barracks in Havana (captaincy general of Cuba, colony of the Kingdom of Spain), the Italian chemist José Tasso teaches the first Chemistry class in Cuba.
1820: In the north of the province of Buenos Aires, 20 km north of the village of Pergamino, the federal army defeats the unitary army in the first battle of Cepeda. The centralized government of Buenos Aires ends.
1835: In the Republic of Mauritius (islands in East Africa) slavery is abolished .
1851: About 12 km south of the village of Chiquimula (183 km east of Guatemala City ), the Guatemalans repel the forces of Honduras and El Salvador , which had invaded that country, in the Battle of La Arada.
1859: In Paris (France) , a commission appointed by the Ministry of Public Works presents its conclusions to establish a pattern for musical tuning fork , which would end up extending beyond that country.
1861: In the context of the American Civil War (1861-1865) , the slave state of Texas separates from the United States.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution .
1870: In the state of South Carolina (United States) ―in the context of Reconstruction (1870-1877) following the American Civil War (1861-1865) ―, the lawyer Jonathan Jasper Wright (1840-1885) is elected as a member of the State Supreme Court, becoming the first black person to reach such a high position in the American judicial system. The discriminatory apartheid that plagued that country only ended a century later, in 1967.
1878: In the captaincy general of Cuba (a colony of the Kingdom of Spain), Arsenio Martínez Campos fails in his attempt to convince Vicente García to order the suspension of the armed struggle.
1881: In Panama, work begins on the construction of the Panama Canal , under the control of the United States Government.
1881: The first issue of the newspaper La Vanguardia, one of the most widely circulated in Spain, is published in Barcelona (Catalonia) .
1884 : The first volume (from A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionaryis published in Oxford (United Kingdom) .
1861: In the context of the American Civil War (1861-1865) , the state of Texas leaves the United States of America and joins the defunct Confederate States of America .
1886: Ignacio Bazán Enriquez, a prominent teacher from Manzanillo, was born. He died on November 25, 1975.
1887: In the recently built city of La Plata (capital of the province of Buenos Aires , 70 km southeast of the city of Buenos Aires) the La Plata Cemetery is inaugurated, whose design replicates the layout of the city. ^[2]
1893: In West Orange, near the city of New Jersey (United States), construction of the Black Maria, the first film studio, created by the inventor Thomas A. Edison , is completed .
1895: Near Pretoria ( South Africa ), the racist president Paul Kruger inaugurates Fountains Valley, the oldest nature reserve in Africa.
1896: General Antonio Maceo leads the battle of Paso Real de San Diego , Pinar del Río , against General Luque’s troops.
1896: At the Teatro Regioin the city of Turin (Italy) , the young conductor Arturo Toscanini premieres La bohème .
1897 : Máximo Gómezsustains a fierce battle with a Spanish column, breaks through and enters Arroyo Blanco .
1897: The oldest bank in the country, the Shinhan Bank, opens in the city of Seoul( South Korea ).
1899: In the Republic of Honduras , Terencio Sierra becomes president.
1900: In Germany, Dr. Robert Koch reiterates his theory that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.
1900: In South Africa, in the context of the Anglo-Boer War (1880-1881 and 1899-1902), the British Empire , defeated by the Boers (Afrikaners, descendants of the Dutch), calls upon Field Marshal Frederik Roberts, who is appointed commander of British forces in South Africa, replacing Redvers Buller.
1900: In the city of Frankfort ( state of Kentucky), Governor Taylor takes possession of several government buildings, with the help of armed supporters and state troops.
1900: In the United States, some 8,000 workers at the Great Northern Railway begin a general strike.
1900: In the French”protectorate” of Algeria , the railway line from Aïn Séfra to Djennienbou is inaugurated.
1900: In the modernist tavern Els Quatre Gats (in the city of Barcelona), the painter Pablo Picasso holds his first solo exhibition of drawings.
1901: In Barcelona, the painters Pablo Picasso and F. Soler founded the magazine Arte Joven , of which they published 5 issues.
1902: Liberalizing and Europeanizing measures are adopted in China .
1902: A general student strike breaks out in the Russian Empire .
1905: In the city of Saint Petersburg (capital of the Russian Empire), Tsar Nicholas II receives representatives of the workers of that city.
1907 : The play El intrusoby Vicente Blasco Ibáñez premieres in the city of Bilbao (Basque Country) . The play was a major anticlerical demonstration .
1908: In Lisbon (Portugal), King Charles I and his son Louis Philippe of Braganza (the crown prince of the House of Braganza ) are assassinated in an attack.
1910: The Excursionistas Athletic Club is founded in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
1911: A boat loaded with dynamite explodes at the docks of Jersey City ( New Jersey ) ; 25 people die and more than a thousand are injured.
1912: The Naval Military School is founded in Spain.
1913: The rebuilt Teatro de la Zarzuela is inaugurated in Madrid , after having burned down three years earlier.
1915: In Puerto Padre ( Las Tunas province ) the municipal music band is created.
1915: During the First World War (1914-1918), a German submarine torpedoes four British merchant ships.
1917: In the context of the First World War (1914-1918) , Germany declares total submarine warfare, meaning that any ship can be attacked without warning.
1918: In the State of Yucatan (Mexico) Salvador Alvarado hands over his powers.
1918: The Soviet Unionreplaces the obsolete Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar , which is in use throughout the rest of the world.
1919: After Germany lost the First World War (1914-1918) , Konrad Adenauer , mayor of the city of Cologne , plans the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany (which will exist between 1949 and 1990).
1923: After 18 months of negotiations, the invading Spanish military returned to Spain, under the power of the Moroccan independence leader Abd el-Krim (president of the short-lived Rif Republic, which existed only between 1923 and 1926).
1923: Inflationin Germany seems to be unstoppable: one dollar is exchanged for 47,500 marks.
1924: Civil war breaks out in Honduras .
1924: The Government of the United Kingdomrecognizes the Soviet Union (which had been created in 1917).
1925: The Red Fighters Front (armed organisation of the Communist Party of Germany) meets for the first time in Berlin ( Germany ). It proposes to “unify the proletarian forces” to combat the growing fascism . Its failure will lead to the rise of Adolf Hitler ‘s Nazism .
1925: A 36-hour dance championship is held at the Talía Theatre in Barcelona .
1926: In Germany, the occupation of Cologne ends .
1927: In Mexico, President Plutarco Elías Calles orders all Catholic priests to register with federal authorities.
1930: In Spain, the “soft dictatorship” (a play on words with “dictatorship”) is established, following the appointment in Madrid of General Dámaso Berenguer as head of the Council of Ministers , with the king’s order to prepare the return to the constitutional regime prior to 1923.
1931: In Argentina, the anarchist militant Severino Di Giovanni is shot after a spurious trial.
1932: Puyi, the last emperor of China and traitor to his people, proclaims the ” Independent State of Manchuria ” with the support of Japanese forces, who will end up invading the country.
1935 : The poem The Sun of Ayacuchoby Francisco Villaespesa premieres at the María Guerrero theatre (Madrid) .
1936: Clodomira Acosta Ferrales was born in Cayayal de Yara.
1938: In Salamanca, the radio proclamations of General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano end .
1939: In Czechoslovakia , a decree provides for the expulsion of all foreign Jews within six months.
1940: Soviet troops launch a surprise offensive against Finland in the Summa region.
1940: Belgian artists René Magritteand Raoul Ubac launch the magazine La Invention Collective .
1940: The Balkan states peace conference is held in Belgrade .
1941: Renfe (National Network of Spanish Railways) is established in Spain.
1941: In the Soviet Union,a regular airline to the Bering Sea is inaugurated .
1942: In the Buchenwald concentration camp – as part of the Jewish Holocaust – the German Nazis carry out the first experiments on humans using typhus .
1942: In China, Mao Zedongdelivers a speech on “reform in learning, party and literature,” which launches the Yan’an Rectification Movement.
1942: In the framework of the Second World War (1939-1945), the United States Navy carries out the attacks on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, the first offensive action of that country against the forces of Japan in the Pacific Theater .
1942: In the United States, during the Second World War (1939-1945), Voice of America, the official radio and television service for foreign countries produced by the federal government of that country, begins broadcasting. Its programs were dedicated to the areas controlled by the Axis forces (Germany, Italy and Japan).
1942: In Norway, Josef Terboven, Reich Commissioner for Occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling as puppet prime minister.
1944 : In the Soviet Union, the first Constitution of 1918is modified .
1946: In Hungary , Parliament abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries and proclaims the Hungarian Republic (1946-1949). Zoltán Tildy is appointed president.
1946: In Spain, the Franco dictatorshipauthorizes the recovery of nationality to Republican citizens who survived the revenge after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) .
1946: In New York City (United States), Norwegian Trygve Lieis elected the first Secretary General of the UN .
1947: In post-war Italy , Alcide de Gasperi forms a government with Christian Democrats, Communists and Socialists.
1948: In the United States, three physicists invent the transistor , applicable to radio, communications and the manufacture of computers.
1949: The Bank of Mexico links the peso to the dollar , with the aim of consolidating it and reducing the difference between the representative value of the currency and its purchasing power.
1950: In Finland , Urho Kekkonen is elected President of the Council.
1951 : At the NevadaTest Site (about 105 km northwest of Las Vegas ) , the United States government detonates the Easy atomic bomb (1 kiloton), the tenth in human history.
1952 : The film La niña de la venta, starring Lola Flores and Manolo Caracol, is released in Spain .
1952: In Milan(Italy), Enrico Baj and Sergio Dángelo publish the Manifesto of Nuclear Painting .
1952: In New York City (United States), the UN General Assemblycondemns the Government of the Soviet Union for violating the Russian-Chinese treaty of friendship, signed in 1945.
1953: In the Netherlands , after a storm of rain and wind lasting several days, the tide rises enormously, causing the failure of several dikes and causing 1,835 deaths and 300,000 homeless. (The most tragic flood in the country’s history was the St. Felix Flood in 1530.)
1954: In Spain, the Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalism and the JONS organization forms the National Board of the Old Guard.
1955: In Bogotá , Colombia , the National Women’s Pedagogical University was founded (called the National Pedagogical University of Colombia since 1962).
1956: In Colombia , university professors José Chaus and Álvaro Angulo publish the pamphlet Opinions on Institutional Normalization in that Country.
1956: Europeexperiences a severe cold wave that affects the entire continent.
1957: The mayor of Sabadell (near Barcelona ), J. M. Marcet, presents a report to dictator Franco on the economic discrimination suffered by Catalonia.
1958: From Cape Canaveral (state of Florida), at 3:48 UTC , NASA puts into orbit the first American satellite , Explorer 1. (The first artificial satellite in history was the Soviet Sputnik 1 , launched on October 4 , 1957 ).
1958: In the city of Cairo , Egyptand Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic , later dissolved.
1959: In Guayabal de Nagua, near the Estrada Palma sugar mill (now the Bartolomé Masó sugar mill ) ―in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra― , Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz speaks to more than 15,000 assembled peasants. ( Fidel Castro’s return to the Sierra Maestra ).
1959: The United States Government begins its air raids on Cuba: American Allen Robert Maller is arrested aboard a small plane.
1959: Nine hikers die near Otorten Peak in the Ural Mountains( Soviet Union ). The cause of their deaths is unknown. This tragedy is known as the Dyatlov Pass accident.
1960: In Havana, the revolutionary government publishes Law No. 723 in the Official Gazette , which in its article 1 establishes the “postgraduate rural medical service” in Cuba.
1960: In the city of Greensboro, in the racist state of North Carolina(USA), four black students sit at a lunch counter and organize the first of the “Greensboro sit-ins.” The discriminatory apartheid that plagued that country only ended seven years later, in 1967.
1960: In Algeria, independence rebels surrender to French invaders .
1960: Ministers of the European Economic Community(EEC) consider the admission of Greece .
1961: In Centeno ( Sancti Spíritus province ), a gang of rebels led by Arnoldo Martínez Andrade attacks the Joaquín Paneca cooperative, taking five M-52 rifles .
1961: The United Stateslaunches the LGM-30 Minuteman , the first solid-fuel intercontinental missile.
1962: In Santa Clara , Che , as Minister of Industries, inaugurates a technical training school for workers.
1963: The first 1,017 instructors from the National Defense School graduate in Havana.
1964: The British group The Beatles reaches number one on the US charts with their song I Want to Hold Your Hand .
1965: Australian athlete Ron Clarke breaks the world record for the 5000 metres with a time of 13 minutes and 33.6 seconds.
1965: In the province of Labrador , Canada, the Hamilton River is renamed the Churchill River in honour of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill .
1966: In the United States, President Lyndon B. Johnson demands from Congress a concession of 917 million dollars for “military aid” and 2.469 billion dollars for loans (which put various third world countries in debt ).
1968: During the Vietnam War , South Vietnamese police chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan (1930-1998) executes a North Vietnamese prisoner . The improvised execution is recorded on film by NBC, and in an iconic photograph taken by journalist Eddie Adams (1933-2004). In the United States, this image increased opposition to the American invasion. ^[3]
1968: In Cape Town( South Africa ), surgeon Christiaan Barnard successfully performs the second heart transplant.
1968: In Canada, the three military services – the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force – are unified into the Canadian Forces.
1969: The International Red Cross resumes shipments to the former Republic of Biafra (now a region of Nigeria ).
1970: In the Argentine city of Benavídez (in Greater Buenos Aires , 40 km northwest of downtown Buenos Aires), two trains collide, leaving 236 dead. It is the country’s worst railway tragedy to date.
1970: Serious clashes occur in Colombiabetween supporters of candidate Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and pro-government supporters, as the presidential election campaign approaches.
1972: In Malaysia , Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by an order issued by King Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
1973: In Franco’s Spain, a “court martial” is held against six students accused of setting fire to the French consulate; five are sentenced to 30 years in prison and the sixth is acquitted.
1973: American airlines cancel orders for the Franco-British Concordeaircraft .
1974: In Cuba, boxer Luis Echaide defeats then champion Orlando Palacios, and is proclaimed “National Boxing Champion” in the 60-kilogram division.
1974: In the city of São Paulo (Brazil), a fire on the 25 floors of the Joelma building kills 189 people and injures 293.
1979: In Tehran ( Iran ), after the success of the revolution and the exile of the Shah of Persia , the political-religious leader Ruhollah Khomeini enters triumphantly after 15 years of exile.
1980: In Guatemala City , police torture to death Mayan peasant Gregorio Iujá-Yoná, who had been the only survivor – albeit with serious burns – of the Massacre at the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala .
1981: The Fifth American Parliamentary Conference is held in Bogotá (Colombia) .
1981: Francesupplies Iraq with 60 Mirage type aircraft .
1982: In Spain, the provinces of Oviedo and Santander become the single-province autonomous communities of Asturias and Cantabria , respectively.
1983: At the Victoria de Girón Stadium , Matanzas native Fernando Sánchez , facing a pitch from Lázaro de la Torre , becomes the 16th player to hit 1,000 hits in Cuban baseball.
1985: The trial for the assassination of Benigno Aquino begins in the Philippines .
1986: In New Delhi (India), Pope John Paul II is greeted with popular protests and tight security measures.
1990: The West German government adopts a resolution to enter into negotiations with East Germany for the establishment of a monetary union.
1991: In Pakistan , an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale shakes the north of the country, causing more than 300 deaths, around 500 injuries and destroying numerous towns.
1992: In the city of Bhopal (India), a chief judicial magistrate of the court of that city declares Warren Anderson, former CEO (executive director) of the Union Carbide company , a fugitive for failing to appear in the case of the Bhopal disaster .
1992: In Spain, the Ministry of Economy and Finance agrees to retain 25% of the cash prizes awarded in televisioncontests that exceed 100,000 pesetas.
1993: The governments of Ecuador and Venezuela put into effect an agreement providing for a free trade zone between the two countries.
1993: The Autonomous Police is established in the Community of Valencia .
1995: The IMF (International Monetary Fund) approves a loan of 17.8 billion dollars to Mexico , unprecedented in history.
1996: In Washington (United States), Congress approves the Communications Decency Act.
1998: In Sri Lanka, the army kills more than 3,000 Tamil rebels during a battle in the north of the country.
1998: In the United States, Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first African-American woman to be named commodore.
1998: In the United Kingdom,possession of handguns becomes a crime.
1999: In France, Société Générale (SG) and Banque Paribas, two of France’s leading financial institutions, announce their merger. The new entity, SG Paribas, becomes the third largest bank in Europe and the fourth largest in the world.
2000: The new Immigration Law comes into force in Spain.
2002: In Pakistan , Muslim terrorist Khalid Sheikh Muhammad beheads Daniel Pearl (American journalist and director of the South Asia Bureau of the Wall Street Journal ), who had been kidnapped a week earlier .
2003 : The space shuttle Columbiadisintegrates upon re-entry to Earth . Its seven astronauts on board die.
2003: The Treaty of Nicecomes into force in France .
2003: 40 people die in a train crash in Zimbabwe .
2004: A team of Russian and American scientists announce the discovery of two new chemical elements, nihonium (Uut, atomic no. 113) and ununpentium (Uup, atomic no. 115).
2004: In Saudi Arabia,a stampede during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca leaves 251 dead and 244 injured.
2004: In Iran, a hundred reformist deputies resign in protest against the Guardian Council’s rejection of open-minded candidates.
2004: In Houston, USA, during Super Bowl XXXVIII, singer Justin Timberlake inadvertently rips a section of singer Janet Jackson’s clothing , exposing one of her breasts. This causes American media to adhere more strictly to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
2005 : The genethat triggers the onset of puberty in the brain is discovered .
2005: The protein that causes insulinresistance and, consequently, the onset of type II diabetes mellitus is discovered .
2005: A molecular mechanism is identified for the first time in the liverthat is activated by saturated fats in food, increasing the production of LDL cholesterol ( low-density lipoprotein ).
2005: In Nepal, King Guianendra, mounting a moralizing speech against political corruption, abolishes democracy and assumes all powers in an atmosphere of popular approval.
2005: Youssef Belhadj, alleged spokesman for Al Qaedain Europe , is arrested in Brussels ( Belgium ) .
2005: In Leganés ( Madrid) the police arrest four Moroccans, members of the same family, for their alleged connection to the attacks of March 11, 2004 .
2005: The French National Assembly approves the constitutional reform bill to overcome incompatibilities with the European Constitution.
2005: Construction of the Burj Dubai building begins in Dubai .
2006: On the outskirts of the city of Bilbao (Spain), the terrorist group ETA detonates a bomb in a post office building, without causing significant damage.
2006: In the Madrid town of Fuenlabrada, a team of researchers discovers an important archaeological site provisionally dated between the 3rdand 6th centuries , where at least 200 Visigoth tombs , a large Roman villa and two necropolises have been located.
2006: In Rio de Janeiro( Brazil ), torrential rains cause more than a dozen deaths.
2006: The tanker Ece sinks in the English Channelwith around 10,000 tonnes of acid.
2009: In Iceland , politician Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir becomes the first female prime minister in the country’s history and the first openly gay head of government in the world.
2009: In Malaga (Spain), a tornado causes significant material damage.
2012: In Port Said ( Egypt ), clashes between the two “fan groups” during a football match leave 74 people dead and 188 injured, becoming the worst tragedy in Egyptian football.
2013 : The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, opens in London .
2019: In Mexico, a 6.5 Mw earthquake (moment magnitude seismological scale) is recorded with its epicenter in Chiapas , being felt in Guatemala and El Salvador as well as in the south and south-central Mexico without causing damage or victims.

Births

1462– Johannes Trithemius , German lexicographer, historian, and cryptographer (d. 1516).
1673: Alessandro Marcello , Italian composer (d. 1747).
1758: Agustín de Betancourt , Spanish engineer (d. 1824).
1805: Louis Auguste Blanqui , French socialist revolutionary (d. 1881).
1817: Ezequiel Zamora , Venezuelan military man and politician (d. 1860), one of the main protagonists of the Federal War.
1844: Stanley Hall , American psychologist (d. 1924).
1849: Albert Lebourg , French painter (d. 1928).
1874: Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Austrian writer, poet and playwright (d. 1929).
1884: Yevgeni Zamyatin , Russian writer (d. 1937).
1894: John Ford, American filmmaker (d. 1973).
1894: James P. Johnson, American composer and pianist (d. 1955).
1896: Anastasio Somoza , Nicaraguan military officer, politician and dictator (d. 1956).
1901: Clark Gable , American actor (d. 1960).
1902– Langston Hughes , African-American poet, novelist, playwright, and social activist (d. 1967).
1905: Emilio Gino Segrè , Italian-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1959 (d. 1989).
1907: Günter Eich , German writer and composer (d. 1972).
1914: Hernando Avilés , Puerto Rican singer (d. 1986).
1915: Stanley Matthews , British footballer (d. 2000).
1916: Alonso Zamora Vicente , Spanish philologist, dialectologist, lexicographer and writer (d. 2006).
1918: Muriel Spark , Scottish playwright and poet (d. 2006).
1922: Renata Tebaldi , Italian soprano and actress (d. 2004).
1926: Vivian Maier , American photographer (d. 2009).
1926: Noemí Simonetto, Argentine athlete (d. 2011).
1928: Stuart Whitman , American actor.
1930: María Elena Walsh , Argentine writer and singer-songwriter (d. 2011).
1931: Iajuddin Ahmed , Bangladeshi president (d. 2012).
1931: Boris Yeltsin, Soviet politician, first president of Russia (d. 2007).
1936: Clodomira Acosta , Cuban revolutionary, messenger of the Rebel Army, tortured and murdered in 1958.
1937: Alejandro (Gustavo Machín Hoed de Beche), fighter of the Revolutionary Directorate and internationalist fighter in Bolivia (d. 1967).
1939: Claude François , Egyptian-French singer and dancer (d. 1978).
1939: Ekaterina Maximova, Soviet ballet dancer (d. 2009).
1942: Rubert López Vázquez , Cuban revolutionary fighter who died in combat at the age of 16 against the Batista dictatorship (d. 1958).
1944: Horacio González , Argentine sociologist, professor and essayist (d. 2021), friend of Cuba.
1952: Rafael Castillo , Cuban boxer and trainer.
1952: Roger Y. Tsien, American scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1958: Daniel El Tuerto Wirtz , Argentine rock drummer (d. 2008).
1960: Mariano Peña , Spanish actor.
1963: Takashi Murakami , Japanese painter and sculptor.
1965: Sherilyn Fenn , American actress.
1965: Brandon Lee, American actor and judoka (d. 1993).
1965: Sherilyn Fenn, American actress.
1966: Michelle Akers , American soccer player.
1967: Meg Cabot , American writer and screenwriter.
1969: Gabriel Batistuta , Argentine footballer.
1969: Brian Krause, American actor.
1969: Alexis Miguel Pantoja Pérez, Cuban painter and teacher.
1970: Malik Sealy , American basketball player (d. 2000).
1971: Michael C. Hall , American actor and producer.
1972: Tego Calderon , Puerto Rican singer.
1972: Leymah Gbowee, Liberian activist.
1974: David Meca , Spanish swimmer.
1976: Santiago Cruz , Colombian singer-songwriter.
1979: Valentín Elizalde , Mexican singer and songwriter (d. 2006).
1979: Rachelle Lefevre, Canadian actress.
1979: Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer.
1981: Christian Giménez , Argentine footballer.
1984: Lee Thompson Young , American actor (d. 2013).
1987: Heather Morris American actress, singer and dancer.
1994: Harry Styles , British singer-songwriter of the band One Direction.

Deaths

583: Kan B’alam I , Mayan politician, king of Palenque (b. 524).
772: Stephen III , Roman pope (b. 720).
1328: Charles IV of France and I of Navarre , French king (b. 1294).
1691: Alexander VIII , Italian pope (b. 1610).
1743: Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni , Italian organist composer (b. 1657).
1818: Giuseppe Gazzaniga , Italian composer (b. 1743).
1851– Mary Shelley , British novelist and playwright (b. 1797).
1873: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda , Cuban novelist, playwright and poet, born in Madrid (b. 1814).
1878: Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle , Cuban botanist.
1886: Juan Esteban Pedernera , Argentine military officer (b. 1796).
1902: Aníbal Zañartu , Chilean politician (b. 1847).
1903: George Gabriel Stokes , Irish physicist (b. 1819).
1907: Léon Serpollet , French businessman (b. 1858).
1908: Charles I , Portuguese aristocrat, king of his country (b. 1863); assassination attempt.
1924: Maurice Prendergast , American painter (b. 1858).
1928– Hughie Jennings , American basketball player and coach (b. 1869).
1932: Farabundo Martí , Salvadoran revolutionary politician (b. 1893); shot.
1938: Armando Palacio Valdés , Spanish writer (b. 1853).
1939: Brigida Zaldívar Cisneros , Cuban mambisa fighter .
1944: Piet Mondrian , Dutch painter expatriated in the United States (b. 1872).
1953: Gustavo Herrera , Venezuelan lawyer and diplomat.
1957: Friedrich Paulus , German general (b. 1890).
1958: Clinton Davisson , American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 (b. 1881).
1966: Hedda Hopper , American actress and columnist (b. 1885).
1966 – Buster Keaton, American comic actor and filmmaker (b. 1895).
1976: Werner Heisenberg , German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 (b. 1901).
1976: George Hoyt Whipple, American physician, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934 (b. 1878).
1978: Jorge Cafrune , Argentine popular singer-songwriter (b. 1937), possibly murdered by the Argentine civil-military dictatorship.
1986: Alva Myrdal , Swedish politician and sociologist, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1982 (b. 1902).
1987: Alessandro Blasetti , Italian filmmaker and screenwriter (b. 1900).
1989: Eduardo Franco , Uruguayan singer (b. 1945).
1989: Miguel Ligero, Argentine actor (b. 1911).
1990: Antonio Ubieto Arteta , Spanish historian and philologist (b. 1923).
1995: Joaquin de Entrambasaguas , Spanish philologist (b. 1904).
2003: The seven astronauts on the Space Shuttle Columbia , mission STS-107:
- Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959).
- David McDowell Brown (b. 1956).
- Kalpana Chawla(b. 1961).
- Laurel Clark (b. 1961).
- Rick Husband (b. 1957).
- William McCool (b. 1961).
- Ilan Ramon (b. 1954).
2003: Ramón MongoSantamaria , Cuban percussionist (b. 1922).
2007: Gian Carlo Menotti , Italian composer expatriated in the United States (b. 1911).
2008: Daniel Wirtz , Argentine drummer (b. 1958).
2012: Sara González , Cuban singer-songwriter (b. 1949).
2012: Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize winner in literature in 1996 (b. 1923).
2014: Luis Aragonés , Spanish football player and manager (b. 1938).
2015: Aldo Ciccolini , Italian pianist expatriated to France (b. 1925).
2015: Udo Lattek, German footballer and broadcaster (b. 1935).
2016: Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores , former Guatemalan president (b.1930).
2019: March Enrique Rivero Bertot , Cuban announcer. ^[4]
2024: Maria Nini Araújo Souto (84), Brazilian politician (b. 1939).
2024: Asahi(21), Japanese wrestler (Ice Ribbon, Actwres Girl’Z), traffic collision; road accident (b. 2002).
2024: Pearl Berg(114), American supercentenarian (b. 1909).
2024: Ásmundur Bjarnason(96), Icelandic sprinter, Olympic champion in 1948 and 1952.
2024: Chang Chuan-chiung(95), Taiwanese pharmacologist, member of the Academia Sinica and founder of the Journal of Biomedical Science.
2024: Honesto Chaves Pacana(91), Filipino Catholic bishop (b. 1933).
2024: Sir Roland Franklin(97), British-born merchant banker.
2024: Mark Gustafson(63), American animator ( The PJs, Fantastic Mr. Fox ), film director ( Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio ) and screenwriter, winner of the 2022 Academy Award; heart attack (b. 1959).
2024: Patrick Hanks(83), English lexicographer and linguist, COVID-19.
2024: Michael Hicks(51), American football player (Chicago Bears).
2024: Wilburn Hollis(83), American football player (Iowa Hawkeyes).
2024: Michel Jazy(87), French athlete and middle-distance runner, Olympic champion in 1960 (b. 1936).
2024: Alonzo Johnson(60), American football player (Florida Gators, Philadelphia Eagles).
2024: Pavel Kapinos(48), Russian cinematographer (Hardcore Henry, Yolki 5, Kitchen. The Last Battle).
2024: Garth Manton(94), Australian rower, Olympic champion in 1956.
2024: Giuseppe Marcenaro, Italian writer and essayist (b. 1942)
2024: Mike Martin(79), American Hall of Fame college baseball coach (Florida State Seminoles), complications from Lewy body dementia.
2024: Gilbert Millet(93), French doctor and politician, three times member of parliament, mayor of Alès (1985-1989).
2024: Nereo Odchimar(83), Filipino Catholic bishop; metabolic encephalopathy (b. 1940).
2024: Fabiola Yazmín Ortega, Mexican actress, singer, dancer and entertainer; HELLP syndrome. ^[5]
2024: Harunur Rashid(87), Bangladeshi filmmaker ( Megher Onek Rong ) and writer.
2024: Carlota Sempé(81), Argentine archaeologist (b. 1942). ^[6]
2024: Constantinos Stathelakos(36), Cypriot athlete (hammer thrower), Olympic champion in 2012; road accident (b. 1987).
2024: Orhan Türkdoğan(95), Turkish sociologist (b. 1928).
2024: Nikos Vandoros(99), Greek actor ( Jenny Jenny, I charavgi tis nikis, The Man with the Carnation ) (b. 1924).
2024: Carl Weathers(76), American actor ( Rocky, Predator, The Mandalorian ), television director, and American football player; atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (b. 1948). ^[7]
2024: Robson Xavier(37), Brazilian footballer; cancer (b. 1986).

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