February 8th Events

February 8 is the 39th (thirty-ninth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 326 days left in the year and 327 in leap years.

421– In Rome, Constantius III becomes co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire .
1238: In Russia, 185 km east of Moscow , Mongol invaders burn the city of Vladimir , 3800 km west of Ulan Bator (Mongolia).
1250: In Egypt, 122 km north of Cairo and 158 km east of coastal Alexandria , as part of the Seventh Crusade (1248–1254) crusaders engage Ayyubid forces at the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347: The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos .
1517: From Santiago de Cuba, the expedition organized by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (governor of the island) sets out with the aim of conquering Mexico .
1575: In the Netherlands , 18 km northeast of The Hague and 41 km southwest of Amsterdam, Leiden University is founded .
1587: Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of involvement in the Babington Plot to assassinate her cousin, Queen Elizabeth
1590: In the Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico), Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Spanish Inquisition , accused of covering up the practice of Judaism by his sister and her children.
1601: In England, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex , rebels against Queen Elizabeth I. The revolt is quickly crushed.
1692: In the town of Salem ( state of Massachusetts ) a religious doctor suggests that two girls from the town could be witches, leading to what would become the infamous “Salem witch trials.”
1693: The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia , receives a charter from King William III and Queen Mary II.
1762 : Catherine the Greatassumes the throne in Russia .
1807: In Poland, 272 km north of Warsaw and 1,570 km northeast of Paris (France) , after two days of fierce fighting, the Russians – led by Bennigsen – and the Prussians – led by L’Estocq – concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon .
1814 : Simón Bolívarorders that 836 Spanish prisoners be shot.
1815 : The Congress of Viennais held in Austria , where a large number of countries agree to abolish the slave trade .
1817: Argentine General Juan Gregorio de Las Heras finishes crossing the Andes mountain range with an army to join the army of General José de San Martín to definitively drive the Spanish out of Chile.
1827: On the Uruguay River (between Argentina and Uruguay), 30 km upstream from Martín García Island ―at the mouth of the Uruguay River in the Río de la Plata― the first day of the Battle of Juncal is fought in which the Argentine Navy will defeat that of the Empire of Brazil.
1849 : The New Roman Republicis established in Italy .
1835: In the city of Matanzas , the (Spanish) governor of the Captaincy General of Cuba inaugurates a public library.
1837: In the United States, Richard Johnson becomes the first vice president elected by the Senate.
1863: Russia and Prussia sign an agreement facilitating the pursuit of Polish parties on Prussian territory by the Russians.
1865: Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the 92nd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
1875 : José Martíarrives in Mexico for the first time , coming from Europe, where he had experienced his exile and his sorrows.
1878: On the road to San Ulpiano, near the town of Mayarí (which is located 90 km east of Holguín ), the third day (of five) of the Battle of San Ulpiano takes place : the mambi troops of Antonio Maceo destroy the infamous 11th Battalion of San Quintín Hunters, which in 1874 had assassinated President Carlos Manuel de Céspedes . Of 245 elite Spanish mercenaries only 25 survivors remain.
1878: The House of Representatives meets in extraordinary session at the request of the leaders, officers and enlisted men of the armed peoples of Camagüey, Occidente , Las Villas and Oriente , with the aim of definitively resolving the peace.
1879: In Montreal, Canada, Sandford Fleming first proposes the adoption of universal standard time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879: In Sydney , Australia, the England cricket team, led by Lord Harris, is attacked in a nationalist riot during a match.
1881 : The Battle of Schuinsoote (also known as Ingogo) takes place in South Africa , in which the British are defeated by the Boers .
1885: The first Japanese immigrants approved by the U.S. government arrive in Hawaii.
1887: In the United States, the Dawes Act authorizes the president to survey lands stolen from Native Americans and divide them into individual allotments, in order to weaken Native American unity.
1896: 12 km southeast of Havana , the mambi forces under the command of Adolfo del Castillo occupy the town of El Calvario (which since the end of the 20th century became a suburb of Havana).
1898: The United States Government implements the final stage of the plan aimed at finding a pretext to justify its intervention in Cuba’s last war of independence .
1901: In Cuba, Cuban members of the Rural Guard – under the orders of the American governor (intervenor) Leonard Wood (1860-1927) – murder an undetermined number of workers from the Narcisa sugar mill (province of Sancti Spíritus), Hipólito Rojas and Antonio Cedan, and make their bodies disappear.
1904: In Port Arthur (China), a treacherous torpedo attack by the Japanese begins the Russo-Japanese War.
1904: In the North Sumatraregion of the Dutch East Indies, the Marechaussee Regiment of the Dutch Colonial Army led by General G. C. E. van Daalen launches a military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland and Batak Highland, which ends in the genocide of Acehnese and Batak civilian men, women and children.
1910: In Vigo (Spain) a fire destroys the Rosalía de Castro theatre .
1910: In the United States, William D. Boyce legalizes the Boy Scouts.
1915: W. Griffith ‘s controversial racist film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles, California . The racist American public turns this segregationist travesty into a box office hit.
1922: In Washington (United States), President Warren G. Harding makes the first radio address from the White House .
1924: In the state of Nevada (United States), the first state execution by gas chamber takes place (like the one used by the Germans from 1939 during World War II ).
1931 : The La Comercial Arenais inaugurated in Havana ; the boxing program was as follows: Tonelada Fernandez against Guillermo Cuesta , Joaquin Jorge against Laureano Verson , and Jesus R. Cobo (the Mexican Bulldog) against Gonzalo Hernandez .
1937: In Cantabria ―in the context of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ―, the Republicans establish the Interprovincial Council of Santander, Palencia and Burgos. ^[1]
1942: In the context of World War II (1939-1945) , Japan invades Singapore.
1942: In South Borneo , during the Second World War (1939-1945) , the General Destruction Unit of the Dutch Colonial Army burns the town of Banjarmasin to prevent it from being captured by the Japanese.
1945: In the context of the Second World War (1939-1945) , the United Kingdom and Canada begin Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine River (Germany).
1945: During the Second World War (1939-1945) , Mikhail Deviataev escapes with nine other Soviet prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde, on the island of Usedom, by hijacking the camp commandant’s Heinkel He 111 plane.
1946 : The first part of the Revised Standard Version of the Bibleis published in the United States , the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible .
1946: In the north of the Korean peninsula, the People’s Republic of Korea dissolves, establishing the communist-controlled Provisional People’s Committee of North Korea.
1950: In the context of the Cold War, the Stasi, the East German secret police, is established.
1954: At the Central American and Caribbean Games held in Guatemala City , Cuban Rafael Fortún wins the 100-meter dash, earning his third consecutive gold medal. He had previously won in Barranquilla (Colombia) in 1946, and in Mexico City in 1950.
1955: In Moscow (Soviet Union), Soviet Prime Minister Georgi Malenkov resigns and is succeeded by Nikolai Bulganin .
1955: The provincial government of Sindh ( Pakistan ) abolishes the Yaguirdari system (feudalism) in the province. More than 4000 km² of land will be distributed among the landless peasants.
1958 : On the northeastern central coast of Cuba, the Scapade expedition, led by Faure Chomón, arrives in the Nuevitas area (74 km northwest of Camagüey) , with men from the Cuban Revolutionary Directorate , who move towards Las Villas to foment armed struggle in the Escambray area .
1960: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an order in council, declaring that she and her family would be known as the “House of Windsor”, and that their descendants would take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
1962: In Paris, the police – at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon (then head of the Paris Police Prefecture) – murder nine trade unionists (Charonne massacre).
1963: American President John F. Kennedy , as “king of the world,” prohibits any country (including the United States) from having any commercial or financial exchange with Cuba.
1963: In Iraq , Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Baath Party.
1965 : The 2nd Cycling Tour of Cubabegins at the Border Battalion in the city of Guantánamo .
1968: In the city of Orangeburg ( state of South Carolina ), a group of religious fanatics from the Ku Klux Klan ―with the support of the state government― attacks black students at South Carolina State University who are protesting against racial segregation, and kills four of them.
1971: South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh Trail and stop communist infiltration.
1971: The NASDAQ stock index opens for the first time.
1974: After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit the American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1975 : Boliviareestablishes its relations with Chile , broken 13 years earlier.
1977: In the city of Baracoa (Guantánamo province) the 12th (twelfth or eleventh) Vuelta Ciclística a Cuba begins , with athletes of the stature of the Soviets Alexander Averin , Vladimir Ossokin and Avvo Pikkus .
1978: In the United States, Senate proceedings are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1980: The United States Government grants a loan of 50 million dollars to the military dictatorship of El Salvador – calling itself the Second Revolutionary Government Junta – on condition that it maintains the status quo in that country, and continues the massacre (misnamed the Salvadoran Civil War) of peasants and socialist militants in that country.
1981: At the Karaiskakis Stadium, in the port of Piraeus , 7 km southwest of Athens (Greece) , 21 football spectators are trampled to death after a football match between Olympiakos F. C. and AEK Athens F. C.
1983: In Melbourne, Australia, a dust storm hits the country’s second largest city. As a result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320-metre-high dust cloud envelops the city, turning day into night.
1987: The international convention on the physical protection of nuclear materials comes into force.
1996: In the United States, Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
2001 : In France, the complete genomeof an extinct animal is sequenced for the first time .
2005: In Sri Lanka , in the midst of the civil war, former Tamil MP A. Chandra Nehru dies from wounds sustained in an ambush the previous day.
2010: A freak storm in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush Mountains triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying more than two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping more than 2,000 travelers.
2011: In Havana, the Cuban Wrestling Federation reports that Mijail López will not participate in the World Wrestling Cup to be held in the city of Minsk ( Republic of Belarus ), and will join the XLII Granma-Cerro Pelado International Wrestling Tournament
2013: A snowstorm disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without power in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
2014: In the holy city of Medina (Saudi Arabia) , a fire in a hotel kills 15 Muslim pilgrims and injures 130 others.

Births

410: Proclus , Greek philosopher (d. 485).
1291: Alfonso IV , Portuguese king (d. 1357).
1405– Constantine XI , Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453).
1552: Théodore-Agrippa d’Aubigné , French writer and poet (d. 1630).
1577– Robert Burton , British clergyman and scholar (d. 1640).
1649: Gabriel Daniel , French Jesuit historian (d. 1728).
1677: Jacques Cassini , French astronomer (d. 1756).
1700: Daniel Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician (d. 1782).
1720: Sakuramachi , Japanese emperor (d. 1750).
1741: André Ernest Modeste Grétry , Belgian composer (d. 1813)
1785: Martin Miguel de Güemes , Argentine military officer (d. 1821).
1794: Friedrich Ferdinand Runge , German analytical chemist (d. 1867).
1810: Eliphas Lévi , French occultist, writer and magician.
1814: Juan Rafael Mora Porras , Costa Rican president between 1849 and 1859 (d. 1860).
1819– John Ruskin , British writer, art critic and reformer (d. 1900).
1820: William Tecumseh Sherman , American military officer (d. 1891).
1825: Henry Walter Bates , British entomologist (d. 1892).
1828: Antonio Cánovas del Castillo , Spanish politician (d. 1897).
1828: Jules Verne, famous French science fiction novelist (d. 1905).
1834: Dimitri Mendeleyev , Russian chemist, creator of the periodic table of elements (d. 1907).
1848: Digby Mackworth Dolben , British poet (d. 1867).
1850: Kate Chopin , American writer (d. 1904).
1864: Luis Gonzaga Urbina , Mexican writer, journalist, literary critic and poet (d. 1934).
1868: Félix Díaz , Mexican military officer and politician (d. 1945).
1870: Enrique Santamarina , Argentine politician (d. 1937).
1878: Martin Buber , Israeli philosopher and writer (d. 1965).
1880: Franz Marc , German painter (d. 1916).
1883: Joseph Alois Schumpeter , Austrian-American economist (d. 1950).
1886: Charles Ruggles , American actor (d. 1970).
1888: Edith Evans , British actress (d. 1976).
1890: Claro M. Recto , Filipino nationalist (d. 1960).
1892: Manuel Cueto (known as Melo or Patato), Cuban baseball player (d. 1942).
1893: Hermann Scherer , German sculptor (d. 1927).
1894: King Vidor , American filmmaker (d. 1982).
1894: Rosita Renard, Chilean pianist (d. 1949).
1905: Genaro Lahuerta López , Spanish painter and portrait artist (d. 1985).
1906– Chester Carlson , American physicist, inventor, and businessman (d. 1968).
1906: Pablo Palitos, Argentine actor of Spanish origin (d. 1989).
1908: Rafael Lapesa , Spanish professor, writer and academic (d. 2001).
1911: Elizabeth Bishop , American poet (d. 1979).
1913: Betty Field , American actress (d. 1973).
1915: Sergio Correa Gac , Chilean priest (d. 2007).
1918: Enrique Tierno Galván , Spanish politician (d. 1986).
1919: Peter Berglar , German historian (d. 1989).
1920– Robert William Bemer , American computing pioneer (d. 2004).
1921: Hans Albert , German philosopher.
1921: Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995).
1923: Fofó (Alfonso Aragón Bermúdez), Spanish clown (d. 1976).
1924: Khamtai Siphandon , president of Laos.
1925: Jack Lemmon , American actor (d. 2001).
1926: Neal Cassady , American writer (d. 1968).
1926: José Legrá, Cuban professional boxer.
1926: Guillermo Morón , Venezuelan writer.
1930: Manuel Castillo , Spanish composer and pianist (d. 2005).
1930: Miguel Covián Pérez, Mexican politician, intellectual and journalist (d. 2009).
1931: James Dean , American actor (d. 1955).
1932: Cliff Allison , British Formula One driver (d. 2005).
1932: Horst Eckel, German footballer.
1932: John Williams, American composer.
1933: Elly Ameling , Dutch soprano.
1935: Luis María Anson , Spanish journalist and writer.
1940: Bohdan Paczyński , Lithuanian-Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 2007).
1941: Nick Nolte , American actor, model and producer.
1942: Alberto Restuchia , Uruguayan actor, performer, playwright, theatre director and professor.
1943: Ricardo Prieto , Uruguayan playwright, poet and narrator (d. 2008).
1944: Sebastião Salgado , Brazilian photographer.
1946: Jorge Carlos Alcocer Varela , Mexican physician.
1947– John McCarthy Roll , American federal judge (d. 2011).
1949: Florinda Meza , Mexican actress and comedian.
1952: Consuelo Mariño , Spanish writer.
1952: Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014).
1953: Mary Steenburgen , British actress.
1955: John Grisham , American writer.
1957: Norberto Verea , Argentine footballer and sports journalist.
1958: Marina Silva , Brazilian politician.
1959: Mauricio Macri , Argentine businessman, smuggler, criminal and sports leader, neoliberal president of Argentina between 2015 and 2019.
1960: Benigno Aquino III , Philippine president.
1960: Alfred Gusenbauer, former Austrian chancellor.
1961: Vince Neil , American singer, of the band Mötley Crüe.
1962: Manolo Hierro , Spanish footballer.
1964: Trinny Woodall , British fashion consultant.
1965: Mathilda May , French actress.
1965: Miguel Pardeza, Spanish footballer.
1966: Hristo Stoichkov , Bulgarian footballer.
1968: Gary Coleman , American actor (d. 2010).
1969: Mary McCormack , American actress.
1970: Alonzo Mourning , American basketball player.
1972: Paul Wight , Big Show , American professional wrestler.
1973: Fanny Lu , Colombian actress and singer.
1974: Ulises de la Cruz , Ecuadorian soccer player.
1974: Seth Green, American actor.
1974: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French musician, from the band Daft Punk.
1975: Clarence Acuña , Chilean footballer.
1975: Ricardo Orrego, Colombian sports journalist.
1977: Yucef Merhi , Venezuelan artist.
1977: David Farrell, American bassist, of the band Linkin Park.
1977: Svala, Icelandic singer.
1979: Antonio Hidalgo Morilla , Spanish footballer.
1981: Myriam Montemayor Cruz , Mexican singer.
1981 – Steve Gohouri, Ivorian footballer (d. 2015)
1982: Danny Tamberelli , American actor.
1982: Gregorio Barradas Miravete, Mexican politician (d. 2010).
1982: Juan Gabriel Rufián Romero, Spanish politician.
1983: Gala Évora , Spanish actress.
1984: Sebastián Soto Chacón , Chilean music video director and musician.
1985: Jeremy Davis , American bassist.
1985: Seo Min-woo, South Korean actor and singer (d. 2018).
1987: Carolina Kostner , Italian figure skater.
1988: Geancarlo González , Costa Rican soccer player.
1988: Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese actress, singer and model.
1990: Bethany Hamilton , American surfer.
1990: Klay Thompson, American basketball player.
1991: Will Cherry , American basketball player.
1991: Michael Lang, Swiss footballer.
1993: Davit Khocholava , Georgian footballer.
1993: Sean Davis, American soccer player.
1994: Hakan Çalhanoğlu , Turkish footballer.
1995: Jordan Todosey , Canadian actress.
1995: Joshua Kimmich, German footballer.
1997: Kathryn Newton , American actress.
2000: Chris Durkin , American soccer player.

Deaths

538: Severinus of Antioch , Byzantine religious, patriarch of Antioch.
1204: Alexius IV Angelos , Byzantine Emperor (b. 1182).
1250: Robert I of Artois , French crusader (b. 1216).
1265: Hulagu Khan , Mongol governor (b. 1217).
1296: Premysław II , Polish king (b. 1257).
1529: Baldassare Castiglione , Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478).
1537: Jerome Emiliani , Italian religious (b. 1486).
1587: Mary Stuart , Scottish queen (b. 1542).
1602: Alonso Pérez HC , Jesuit brother in Christ, missionary in Mexico. (b. 1538)
1634: Theodosius III of Braganza , Portuguese aristocrat (d. 1653).
1691: Carlo Rainaldi , Italian architect (b. 1611).
1696: Ivan V , Russian Tsar (b. 1666).
1709: Giuseppe Torelli , Italian composer (b. 1658).
1725: Peter I , Russian tsar (b. 1672).
1749: Jan van Huysum , Dutch painter (b. 1682).
1772: Augusta of Saxe-Gotha , Welsh aristocrat (“princess”) (b. 1719).
1792: Hannah Snell , British soldier (b. 1723).
1829: Cristóbal Mendoza , Venezuelan politician and lawyer (b. 1772).
1849: France Prešeren , Slovenian romantic poet, author of the national anthem (b. 1800).
1849: François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (b. 1781).
1856: Agostino Bassi , Italian entomologist (b. 1773).
1894: Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish writer (b. 1825).
1898: Rafael Barrios , Guatemalan politician and president (b. 1854); assassinated.
1909: Catulle Mendès , French poet (b. 1841).
1910– Hans Jæger , Norwegian writer, philosopher and political activist (b. 1854).
1911: Joaquin Costa , Spanish politician (b. 1846).
1918: Louis Renault , French jurist, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1907 (b. 1843).
1921: Pyotr Kropotkin , Russian geographer and thinker (b. 1842), father of anarchism along with Mikhail Bakunin .
1929: Eusebio A. Morales , Panamanian politician.
1955: Federico More , Peruvian journalist and writer (b. 1889).
1957: Walther Bothe , German physicist and inventor (b. 1891).
1957: John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903).
1960: Giles Gilbert Scott , British architect (b. 1880).
1960: John L. Austin, British philosopher (b. 1911).
1962: Gabriela Ortiz , Figueroa’s widow, a Cuban citizen who – during her exile in Mexico – helped Fidel Castro and other Granma yacht expeditionaries. She died in Cuba.
1964: Ernst Kretschmer , German psychiatrist and neurologist (b. 1888).
1972: Márkos Vamvakáris , Greek musician (b. 1905).
1974: Fritz Zwicky , Bulgarian-Swiss astronomer and physicist (b. 1898).
1975: Robert Robinson , British chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1947 (b. 1886).
1977: Olinda Bozán , Argentine actress (b. 1894).
1979: Antonio Aranda Mata , Spanish military officer (b. 1888).
1980: Agustín Millares Carlo , Spanish paleographer and academic (b. 1893).
1981: María Cervantes , Cuban pianist, singer and composer (b. 1885).
1985: Hernán Figueroa Anguita , Chilean politician (b. 1897).
1987: Bronisława Wajs , Polish Romani poet (b. 1908 or 1910).
1990: Del Shannon , American singer (b. 1934).
1994: Raymond Scott , American composer (b. 1908).
1995: Józef Maria Bocheński , Polish Dominican friar, philosopher and logician (b. 1902).
1998: Halldór Laxness , Icelandic writer, poet and essayist, Nobel Prize winner in literature (b. 1902).
1998: Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912).
1998: Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist (b. 1932).
1999: Jean Iris Murdoch , Irish writer (b. 1919).
1999: Tip(Luis Sánchez Polack), Spanish comedian (b. 1926).
2000: Carlos Cores , Argentine actor (b. 1923).
2000 – Sid Abel, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1918)
2001: Luis Piñerúa Ordaz , Venezuelan politician (b. 1924).
2001: Ivo Caprino, Norwegian director and screenwriter (b. 1920).
2002: Ong Teng Cheong , Singaporean architect and politician, fifth president of Singapore (b. 1936).
2003: John Charles Cutler , American physician (b. 1915).
2003: Joseba Pagazaurtundua, Spanish police officer (b. 1957).
2005: Jimmy Smith , American jazz organist (b. 1928).
2005: Javier Tusell, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1945).
2005: Chandranehru, Sri Lankan sailor and politician (b. 1944).
2006: Elton Dean , British musician, of the band Soft Machine (b. 1945).
2006: Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914).
2007: Anna Nicole Smith , American model and actress (b. 1967).
2007: Ian Stevenson, Canadian academic (b. 1918).
2008: Josefina Ríos , Argentine actress (b. 1918).
2010: Christian Benavides Gastello , Peruvian actor (b. 1973).
2010: John Murtha, American colonel and politician (b. 1932).
2010: Abelardo Rodríguez, Cuban actor and theatre director (b. 1930), husband of actress and announcer Martha Velasco (1925-2021). ^[2]
2011: Olga Lucia de Angulo , Colombian swimmer (b. 1955). ^[3]
2011: Enrique Jaso, Mexican musician (b. 1928).
2011: Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball and water polo player (b. 1923).
2011: Maria de los Angeles Santana, Cuban actress (b. 1914).
2011: Eugenio Toussaint, Mexican musician (b. 1954).
2012: Godofredo Garabito , Spanish writer, academic and politician (b. 1932).
2012: Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentine rock guitarist, singer, lyricist and composer (b. 1950).
2012: Jimmy Sabater, Cuban musician.
2013: James DePriest , American conductor and musician (b. 1936).
2013: Ian Lister, British footballer.
2013: Knut Nesbø, Norwegian journalist, musician and footballer.
2016: Amelia Bence , Argentine actress (b. 1914).
2016: Violette Verdy, French dancer, choreographer and dance director (b. 1933).
2017: Peter Mansfield , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology in 2003 (b. 1933).
2019: John Tyler Bonner (98), American biologist (b. 1920). ^[4]
2019: Albert Finney(82), British actor (b. 1936). ^[5]
2019: René Arístides Rodríguez Muñoz(The Goblin of the Avila Landscape, 93), Cuban painter (b. 1925).
2019: Salvador Távora(88), Spanish actor and theater director (b. 1930). ^[6]
2020: Robert Conrad , American actor (b. 1935).

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