January 22 Events

January 22 is the 22nd (twenty-second) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 343  days left in the year and 344 in leap years.

Events

• 1287: In the Balearic Islands, Aragonese soldiers conquer the island of Menorca , which was in the hands of the Muslims.
• 1464 : Pedro de Portugalarrives in Barcelona , ​​whom the Council of One Hundred had proclaimed king in place of Juan II of Aragon .
• 1506 : The Swiss Guardis officially founded in the Palace of the Popes (in the Vatican ) .
• 1522: In Nicaragua , Captain Gil González Dávila and pilot Andrés Niño make the first trip along the coast of this country to search for communication between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans .
• 1533: On the Caribbean coast of present-day Colombia , Pedro de Heredia and his men founded the village of Cartagena de Indias .
• 1599: La Dafne, the first opera in history, composed by the Italian composer Jacopo Peri (1561-1633), is performed for the first time in public at the Pitti Palace in Florence (Italy) . It had been performed privately for the first time at the Tornabuoni Palace in Florence a few weeks earlier (on December 26 , 1598 ). ^[1]
• 1790: In France, within the framework of the French Revolution (1789-1799), the Constituent Assembly proclaims the equality of all citizens before the law.
• 1793: In Paris , Louis XVI is executed by guillotine .
• 1795: In Amsterdam , the French army, under the command of General Jean-Charles Pichegrú, enters the city.
• 1812: The Cortes of Cádiz create the Council of State.
• 1858: In Mexico , Ignacio Comonfort , after dissolving Congress and ignoring the Constitution, abandons the presidency and leaves Mexico City for exile in the United States .
• 1875: In the province of Camagüey , Vicente García ‘s men take the town of Sibanicú .
• 1877: In Havana ( Capitanía General of Cuba , under the power of the Kingdom of Spain) the Payret theater is inaugurated .
• 1877: The city of Carhuéis founded in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) .
• 1879: At the Artistic and Literary Lyceum of Guanabacoa , José Martí gives his first speech in Cuba: the funeral oration for the poet Alfredo Torroella (1845-1879).
• 1882: In Havana, Cuban baseball player José María Teuma ―whose professional career lasted only from 1882 to 1889―, of the Carmelitas de Fe , becomes the first switch-hitting hitter to participate in the history of a Cuban Winter League tournament.
• 1885: In Havana, Dr. Ignacio Plasencia performs the first double ovariectomy .
• 1893: The Coca-Cola formula is patented .
• 1896: In Havana ( Capitanía General of Cuba , under the power of the Kingdom of Spain) the Spanish governor Valeriano Weyler issues the sinister order for the reconcentration of the peasants towards the cities to prevent them from helping the mambises.
• 1896: In Buenos Aires ( Argentina ), the Club Atlético Banfield was founded .
• 1900: At the Gijón Mercantile Circle, Leopoldo Alas Clarín gives a lecture entitled Economic Materialism in Spain.
• 1904 : The opera Jenůfaby Leoš Janáček is premiered .
• 1905: Venezuela breaks diplomatic relations with the United States and several European powers.
• 1907: Elections to the Duma begin in Imperial Russia .
• 1913: In France, Aristide Briand forms his third cabinet.
• 1916: In the Netherlands , the Zuiderzee dikes break following a violent storm.
• 1917: In Spain, the Minister of the Navy denies that the Spanish submarine Isaac Peral is in Danish waters .
• 1919: In Ireland , members of Sinn Féin (of the Irish Parliament) decide to form their own parliament (Dáil Éireann) and declare the country’s independence.
• 1921: The Italian Communist Party is founded.
• 1922: The Spanish Government negotiates with Abd el-Krim the rescue of prisoners.
• 1925: The University of Florence opens its doors in Italy .
• 1927: In New York (United States), William Fox presents the first sound film program. In a few years, silent films will disappear .
• 1928: In Havana, the Government approves decree number 77, which establishes the Carlos J. Finlay National Order of Merit .
• 1930: In Spain, the resignation of the Minister of Finance, José Calvo Sotelo , causes the crisis of the Spanish Government of General Miguel Primo de Rivera .
• 1932: In Alto Llobregat ( Catalonia ), anarchists organize a general strike.
• 1938: In Spain , Franco ‘s troops reach the Alfambra River .
• 1939: In Spain, General Vicente Rojo Lluch, chief of staff of the Republican army, informs Juan Negrín that there is no longer a front.
• 1940: In the North Sea , Nazi destroyers destroy the British destroyers Grenville and Exmouth.
• 1941: In Romania , General Ion Antonescu calls on the Army to crush the insurrection of the ultra-nationalist Iron Guard.
• 1942 : Nazi Germany’s counteroffensive in North Africa begins .
• 1943: In Rosario (Argentina) the highest temperature in the history of that city is recorded: 42.2 °C ^[2]
• 1944: In Leningrad , the Soviets break the German siege of the city , which lasted 29 months.
• 1944: The Soviets break the blockade of Leningrad , which lasted 29 months.
• 1950 : The discovery of the 93rd chemical element, named berkelium, is announced at the University of Berkeley (California) .
• 1954: In the United States, the Nautilus, the first atomic-powered submarine, is launched .
• 1957: The Soviet ship Crimea arrives at the port of Castellón de la Plana (Spain) with 412 Spaniards repatriated from the Soviet Union .
• 1959 : Fidel Castroexplains Operation Truth to more than 300 foreign journalists , to unmask the United States campaigns against the application of revolutionary justice to the murderers of the dictatorship.
• 1966 : In a shaft 333 metres underground, in Area U3cd of the NevadaTest Site (about 100 km northwest of Las Vegas ), at 10:28 (local time) the United States detonates its 7  kiloton Dovekie atomic bomb . It is the 445th of the 1,132 bombs detonated by the United States between 1945 and 1992.
• 1968: An American B-52 bomber with four atomic bombs on board is destroyed in Greenland (Thule accident).
• 1968: In Seoul, South Korea , a North Korean commando unit attempts to assassinate Park Chung-hee at the Blue House, but fails.
• 1969: In Uruguay, a violent clash between striking officials and police occurs, resulting in 1 dead and 50 injured.
• 1970: In Chile , socialist Salvador Allende is named presidential candidate.
• 1971: In the Dominican Republic , the Basilica of Our Lady of Altagracia is inaugurated by Dr.  Joaquín Balaguer .
• 1976 : In Paris (France), the Concordesupersonic passenger plane begins its regular flights.
• 1977: At the proposal of the Spanish Government, Prince Felipe de Borbón will hold the title of Prince of Asturias .
• 1978: Fighting begins south of Harar ( Ethiopia ), between Ethiopian-Cuban forces and Somali aggressors.
• 1980 : In Spain, the Cervantes Prizeis awarded ex-aequo to writers Jorge Luis Borges and Gerardo Diego .
• 1981: In Paris (France), the writer Marguerite Yourcenar is the first woman to enter the French Academy of Letters.
• 1984: The American band Bon Jovi released their album Bon Jovi, this being the first of their career.
• 1985: The Indian government expels several Western diplomats from the United States , France and the Federal Republic of Germany for involvement in extensive espionage activity.
• 1986: The American interplanetary probe Voyager 2 passes by the planet Uranus .
• 1987: Near the city of Lautaro (Chile), 44 people die in a road accident between a bus and a truck. ^[3]
• 1988: In Spain, Banco de Bilbao and Banco de Vizcaya merge, thus creating the BBV entity.
• 1993: In northern Iraq , US aircraft fire on a radar , the first such action under the new Bill Clinton administration .
• 1994: In Mexico, the Senate ratifies the Amnesty Law for the Chiapas insurgents , approved by Congress.
• 1994: In Puerto Madryn( Argentina ) a fire ends the lives of 25 volunteer firefighters between 11 and 23 years old, an event known as the “Tragedy of the Firefighters.”
• 1996: In the Eastern Alps , a car accident claimed the lives of Edem Ephraim and Dennis Fuller, members of the dance-pop duo London Boys.
• 1998: Anti-communist Pope John Paul II arrives in Havana on a pastoral visit to the country.
• 2000: In Quito (Ecuador) , President Jamil Mahuad flees the assault on the presidential palace by a group of soldiers and thousands of indigenous people.
• 2000: In Madrid, the Basque terrorist group ETA assassinates Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Antonio Blanco after the truce is broken.
• 2001: German Jutta Kleinschmidt becomes the first woman to win the Dakar Rally .
• 2003: In Colima ( Mexico ) there is an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale , with 53 dead, 300 injured and more than 10,000 homes affected.
• 2003: In the city of Luxor(Egypt), Spanish archaeologists discover in an ancient necropolis the upper part of a sarcophagus from the Saite dynasty , which shows the carved face of the deceased girl.
• 2005: In northern Gaza , the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) deploys 3,000 police officers to prevent attacks on Jewish settlers across the border.
• 2007: In Argentina, Comet McNaught reached its perihelion on January 21.
• 2008: The Spanish stock market experiences the biggest fall in the Ibex 35 index since its creation in 1992, losing 7.54% to 12.63 points.
• 2013: In the United States , Barack Obama assumes his second term as president.
• 2019: A type of eclipse known as a “blood moon” occurs.
• 2020 : The first case of coronavirusis confirmed in the United States. The case was a 30-year-old man from Washington, C. (United States) who had recently traveled to the People’s Republic of China .
• 2022: Christina Aguilera releases the Spanish-language EP La Fuerza.

Births

• 1364: Charles V of France , King of France (d. 1338).
• 1659: Adriaen van der Werff , Dutch painter (d. 1722).
• 1717: Antonio Bucareli , Spanish aristocrat, viceroy of New Spain (d. 1779).
• 1761: Diego Muñoz-Torrero , Spanish priest and politician (d. 1829).
• 1769: Ignacio Allende , Mexican insurgent soldier (d. 1811).
• 1775: Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García , Spanish composer (d. 1832)
• 1813: John C. Frémont , American soldier and adventurer (d. 1890).
• 1824– Stonewall Jackson , American Confederate general (d. 1863).
• 1829– Oscar II , Swedish and Norwegian king (d. 1907).
• 1833: Francisco Díaz Covarrubias , Mexican engineer, geographer, scientist and diplomat (d. 1889).
• 1841: Emil Viktor Ekstrand , Swedish botanist (d. 1884).
• 1848: Henri Duparc , French composer (d. 1933).
• 1860: Karl Staaff , Swedish politician (d. 1915).
• 1867: Maxime Weygand , French soldier (d. 1965).
• 1876​​: Antonio Goicoechea y Cosculluela , Spanish politician (d. 1953).
• 1877: Francisco Contreras , Chilean poet and critic (d. 1933).
• 1879: Eduardo Marquina , Spanish dramatic poet (d. 1946).
• 1880: Menyhért Lengyel , Hungarian writer and screenwriter (d. 1974).
• 1883: Elías Alippi , Argentine filmmaker (d. 1942).
• 1883: Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929).
• 1884– Roger Nash Baldwin , American social activist (d. 1981).
• 1885: Umberto Nobile , Italian aeronautical engineer (d. 1978).
• 1895: Cristóbal Balenciaga , Spanish fashion designer (d. 1972).
• 1897: Rodolfo José Ghioldi , Argentine politician (d. 1985).
• 1897: René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954).
• 1899: Aleksandr Cherepnin , Russian composer and pianist (d. 1977).
• 1901: Ricardo Zamora , Spanish footballer (d. 1978).
• 1901: Clärenore Stinnes, German racing driver (d. 1990).
• 1904– Edris Rice-Wray , American physician, pioneer of the oral contraceptive pill (d. 1990).
• 1905: Christian Dior , French couturier (d. 1957).
• 1905: Wanda Wasilewska, Polish writer and journalist (d. 1964).
• 1905: Enrique del Moral, Mexican architect (d. 1987).
• 1906: Igor Moiseyev , Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 2007).
• 1908: Julio Brito , Cuban visual artist, described as the “melodic painter of Cuba”.
• 1909: Calufa (Carlos Luis Fallas), Costa Rican writer and leader (d. 1966).
• 1910 – Valentin Markov , Soviet Air Forcemilitary officer (d. 1992).
• 1911: Eduardo Livas Villarreal , Mexican lawyer and politician (d. 1991).
• 1912: Konrad Bloch , German biochemist and scientist (d. 2000), Nobel Prize winner in medicine and physiology in 1964 together with German biochemist Feodor Felix .
• 1914: Rafael Santos Torroella , Spanish art critic, translator, poet and cartoonist (d. 2002).
• 1917: Jacobo Feldman , Argentine writer, lawyer and philosopher (d. 2005).
• 1918: Marcelino Camacho , Spanish trade unionist (d. 2010).
• 1918: Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist (d. 1989).
• 1918: Elisa Mújica, Colombian writer. (d. 2003).
• 1918: Richard Winters, American military officer (d. 2011).
• 1921: Rafael Gómez Nieto , Spanish military officer (d. 2020).
• 1922: Mario Petri , Italian bassist and actor (d. 1985).
• 1922: Paul Scofield, British actor (d. 2008).
• 1923: Lola Flores , Spanish flamenco singer (d. 1995).
• 1923: Alberto de Mendoza, Argentine actor (d. 2011).
• 1923: Pahiño, Spanish footballer. (d. 2012).
• 1924: Benny Hill , British comedian (d. 1992).
• 1924: Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994).
• 1924: Aldo Vivó Laurent, Cuban revolutionary martyr.
• 1926: Steve Reeves , American actor (d. 2000).
• 1928: Fernando Beorlegui , Spanish painter (d. 2008).
• 1928: János Kornai, Hungarian economist (d. 2021).
• 1928: Reynaldo Bignone, Argentine military officer and politician, president of the nation between 1982 and 1983 (d. 2018).
• 1933: Julieta Serrano , Spanish actress.
• 1936: Coco Díaz , Argentine singer-songwriter, composer and comedian (d. 2021).
• 1938: Romano Fogli , Italian football player and manager (d. 2021).
• 1940: Eduardo Barcesat , Argentine lawyer and defender of Human Rights.
• 1940: Jack Nicklaus, American golfer.
• 1941: Placido Domingo , Spanish tenor.
• 1941: Ivan Putski, Polish professional wrestler.
• 1942: Fernando Baeza Melendez , Mexican politician.
• 1942: Alberto Corazón, Spanish designer, sculptor and painter.
• 1945: Martin Shaw , British actor.
• 1946: Miguel Reina , Spanish footballer.
• 1948: Omar Gutiérrez , Uruguayan announcer, communicator and journalist (d. 2018).
• 1950: Billy Ocean , Trinidadian singer.
• 1950: Ángel María Villar, Spanish footballer and sports manager.
• 1951: Eric Holder , American politician.
• 1952: Mikhail Umansky , Russian chess player (d. 2010).
• 1953– Paul Allen , American businessman and computer scientist (d. 2018), co-founder of the computer company Microsoft .
• 1954: Lucchino (Jose Luis Medina del Corral), Spanish fashion designer.
• 1955: Jeff Koons , American artist.
• 1956: Geena Davis , American actress.
• 1957: Luis D’Elía , Argentine politician.
• 1959: Alex McLeish , Scottish footballer.
• 1962: Félix Lavilla , Spanish politician.
• 1962: Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003).
• 1963: Graciela Cimer , Argentine actress (d. 1989).
• 1963: Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player.
• 1963: Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player.
• 1964: Miguel Ángel Rodríguez , Spanish politician and journalist.
• 1965: Jam Master Jay , American musician and disc jockey (d. 2002).
• 1966: Genc Mulliqi , Albanian sculptor.
• 1969: Karina Lombard , American actress.
• 1970: Ken Leung , American actor.
• 1970: Oren Peli, Israeli-American filmmaker
• 1970: Txus di Fellatio, Spanish poet and musician from Mägo de Oz .
• 1970: Saúl Laverni, Argentine football referee.
• 1970: Alen Boksic, Yugoslavian footballer
• 1972: Alpha Acosta , Mexican actress.
• 1972: Catherine Siachoque, Colombian actress.
• 1972: Joana Benedek, Mexican actress of Romanian origin.
• 1972: Cat Power, American singer.
• 1972: Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer.
• 1972: Javier Yubero, Spanish footballer (d. 2005).
• 1972: Snorre Ruch, Norwegian black metal musician.
• 1973: Chris Kilmore , American rock DJ, from the band Incubus.
• 1973: Alpha Acosta, Mexican actress.
• 1974: Malena Alterio , Spanish-Argentine actress.
• 1975: Nicky Butt , British footballer.
• 1975: Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver.
• 1976: Emma Bunton , British singer, from the band Spice Girls.
• 1976: Giorgio Frezzolini, Italian footballer.
• 1977: Jerry Trainor , American film and television actor.
• 1977: Phil Neville, British footballer.
• 1977: Rick Ross, American rapper.
• 1977: Unai Vergara, Spanish footballer.
• 1978: Faris Al-Sultan , German triathlete.
• 1978: Raúl Estévez, Argentine footballer.
• 1978: Dario Alberto Gigena, Argentine footballer.
• 1978: Hernán Rodrigo López, Uruguayan footballer naturalized as Paraguayan.
• 1979: Brian O’Driscoll , Irish rugby player.
• 1979: Melendi, Spanish singer-songwriter.
• 1979: Antonio Robles Berengui, Spanish footballer.
• 1979: Maria Teresa Carrasco, Cuban actress.
• 1980: Isabel Cristina Estrada is a Colombian actress and model, known for her appearance in television series since 2007.
• 1980: Mari Possa , Salvadoran-American actress.
• 1980: Nana (Kondo) Mizuki, Japanese singer and voice actress.
• 1981: Ivan Ergić , Serbian footballer.
• 1981: Wilfredo Ledezma, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1981: Michel Teló, Brazilian singer.
• 1982: Simon Rolfes , German footballer.
• 1982: Nicolas Mahut, French tennis player.
• 1983: Victor Leandro Bagy , Brazilian footballer.
• 1983: Maryse Ouellet, Canadian model and professional wrestler.
• 1983: Moritz Volz, German footballer.
• 1984: Wes Morgan , Jamaican footballer.
• 1985: Jean Philippe Cretton , Chilean journalist, television host and musician.
• 1986: Walter Bruno , Argentine actor and host.
• 1986: César Arzo, Spanish footballer.
• 1987: Pablo Caballero González , Uruguayan footballer.
• 1989: Henrij Mkhitaryan , Armenian footballer.
• 1990: José Ramírez , Dominican baseball player.
• 1994: Laura Robson , British tennis player.
• 1995: Alejandro Speitzer , Mexican actor.
• 1996: Marco Asensio , Spanish footballer.
• 1996: Cristian Pavón, Argentine footballer.
• 1997: Jeremy Shada , American actor and musician.
• 1997: Ryuhei Oishi, Japanese footballer.
• 1997: Giullia Buscacio, Portuguese-Brazilian actress.
• 1997: Mikkel Honoré, Danish cyclist.
• 1998: Borna Sosa , Croatian footballer.
• 1998: Pervis Estupiñán, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1998: Salva Ferrer, Spanish footballer.
• 1998: Darryn Binder, South African motorcycle racer.
• 1998: Cristian Martín, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1998: Maxim Nedasekau, Belarusian athlete.
• 1998: Olisa Ndah, Nigerian footballer.
• 1998: Francisco Javier Alvarez Rodriguez, Spanish footballer.
• 1998: Mamadou Fofana, Malian footballer.
• 1999: Rubina Ali , Indian actress.
• 1999: Pontus Dahlberg, Swedish footballer.
• 1999: Alisha Lehmann, Swiss footballer.
• 1999: Unai Dufur, Spanish footballer.
• 1999: Francisco Ginella, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1999: Rayan Helal, French cyclist.
• 1999: Arne Marit, Belgian cyclist.
• 1999: Ebony Carr, British athlete.
• 2000: Marco Brescianini , Italian footballer.
• 2000: Piero Guzmán, Peruvian footballer.
• 2000: Inés López Sevilla, Nicaraguan model.
• 2000: Anna Torrodà, Spanish soccer player.
• 2000: Daria Vladimirova, Russian judoka.
• 2004: Ingrid Alexandra , Princess of Norway.

Deaths

• 258: Fructuoso of Tarragona , Hispano-Roman cleric.
• 258: Augury of Tarragona, Spanish-Roman clergyman.
• 258: Eulogius of Tarragona, Hispano-Roman cleric.
• 1118: Paschal II , Italian religious and politician, Pope of the Catholic Church between 1099 and 1118 (b. 1050).
• 1188: Ferdinand II , king of Leon between 1157 and 1188 (b. 1137).
• 1330: Joan II of Burgundy , queen consort of Navarre and France (b. 1292).
• 1495: Magdalena of France , Princess of Navarre and regent of Navarre (b. 1443).
• 1527: Juan de Grijalva , Spanish military officer (b. 1490).
• 1531: Andrea del Sarto , Italian painter in the Mannerist style (b. 1531).
• 1669: Maria Magdalena of Habsburg , Austrian aristocrat (b. 1656).
• 1696: Inés de Benigánim , Spanish religious and blessed (b. 1625).
• 1789: Paul Henri Dietrich , French philosopher of German origin (b. 1723).
• 1793: Louis XVI , French aristocrat, king from 1774 to 1792 (b. 1754), executed by guillotine.
• 1795: Michel Corrette , French composer and organist (b. 1707).
• 1814: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre , French writer and botanist (b. 1737).
• 1821: José Marchena , Spanish writer and politician (b. 1768).
• 1848: Juan María Céspedes , was a Catholic priest and botanical scientist who participated as a hero of the independence of Colombia. (b. 1776).
• 1851: Albert Lortzing , German composer (b. 1801).
• 1859: Miguel Magone , Italian religious, disciple of Don Bosco (b. 1845).
• 1870: Alexander Herzen , Russian writer and revolutionary (b. 1812).
• 1872: Franz Grillparzer , Austrian writer (b. 1971).
• 1883: José de Salamanca y Mayol , Spanish aristocrat, banker and politician (b. 1811).
• 1894: Guillaume Lekeu , Belgian composer (b. 1870).
• 1901: Elisha Gray , American inventor (b. 1835).
• 1918: Eduardo Valera Zequeira , journalist from Camagüey.
• 1924: Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulianov), Russian politician, leader of the world proletariat and founder of the Soviet Union.
• 1924: Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), Russian politician (b. 1870), leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
• 1926: Camillo Golgi , Italian physician, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 (b. 1843).
• 1929: Antonio Chacón García , Spanish flamenco singer.
• 1932: Lytton Strachey , British writer (b. 1880).
• 1933: George Moore , Irish novelist, poet and playwright (b. 1852).
• 1934: Paul Ludwig Troost , German architect (b. 1878).
• 1936: Ana Cruz Agüero , Cuban patriot, captain of the Liberation Army from Las Tunas.
• 1937: Alejandro Barreiros , founder of the Communist Party of Cuba and participant in the constitution of the Workers’ Federation of Havana.
• 1938: Georges Méliès , French filmmaker (b. 1861).
• 1942: Christiaan Cornelissen , Dutch anarcho-communist trade unionist (b. 1864).
• 1948: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , Italian-German composer (b. 1876).
• 1950: Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta , Spanish politician and lawyer (b. 1875).
• 1950: George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903).
• 1955: Archie Hahn , American athlete (b. 1880).
• 1958: Ataúlfo Argenta , Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1913).
• 1959: Cecil B. DeMille , American filmmaker (b. 1881).
• 1959: Manuel Uribe y Troncoso, Mexican ophthalmologist (b. 1871).
• 1960: Lorenzo Herrera , Venezuelan singer (b. 1896).
• 1961: Blaise Cendrars , French writer (b. 1887).
• 1962: José Domínguez Olazábal , young Cuban revolutionary; fallen in combat against the bandits of Escambray .
• 1964: Luis Martín-Santos , Spanish writer (b. 1924).
• 1967: Ann Sheridan , American actress (b. 1915).
• 1973: Manuel Bastos Ansart , military doctor and prestigious Spanish surgeon (b. 1887).
• 1975: Álvaro Celedonio Casquero , Argentine anarchist payador (b. 1929).
• 1977: Sandro Penna , Italian poet (b. 1906).
• 1980: Elvira de Hidalgo , Spanish soprano (b. 1891).
• 1982: Fernando Silva , Mexican amateur driver (b. 1906).
• 1983: Pierina Dealessi , Argentine actress of Italian origin (b. 1894).
• 1984: Johnny Weissmüller , American swimmer, Olympic record holder and then the first actor to successfully embody the character of Tarzan .
• 1984: Jackie Wilson , American singer (b. 1934).
• 1987: Graciela Rincón Calcaño , Venezuelan poet, narrator, columnist and playwright (b. 1904).
• 1988: Marco Briano , Spanish chess player (b. 1903).
• 1988: Ramón Rey Ardid, Spanish chess player (b. 1903).
• 1989: Tomás Asiain , Spanish composer (b. 1923).
• 1995: Ramón Ocando Pérez , founder of the scout movement in Venezuela (b. 1899).
• 1997: Eduardo Morera , Argentine filmmaker (b. 1906).
• 1998: Yoshifumi Kondō , Japanese animator (b. 1950).
• 1999: Jacques Chailley , French composer and musicologist (b. 1910).
• 1999: Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938).
• 2001: Ricardo Castro Ríos , Argentine actor of Spanish origin (b. 1920).
• 2002: Peggy Lee , American singer (b. 1920).
• 2002: Zipacná de León, Guatemalan painter and ceramist (b. 1948).
• 2002: Adolfo Marsillach, Spanish actor and playwright (b. 1928).
• 2003: Antonio Domínguez Ortiz , Spanish historian (b. 1909).
• 2004: Luis Cuenca , Spanish actor (b. 1921).
• 2004: Carmiña Gallo, Colombian soprano (b. 1939).
• 2004: Yordán Radíchkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929).
• 2006: Ibrahim Rugova , first president of Kosovo (b. 1944).
• 2007: Peer Raben , German composer (b. 1940).
• 2009: Jaime Belmonte , Mexican soccer player (b. 1934).
• 2011: Caterina Mancini , Italian soprano (b. 1924).
• 2013: Michael Winner , British filmmaker and food critic (b. 1935).
• 2015: Leon Brittan , British politician (b. 1939).
• 2019: Henri d’Orlens , French aristocrat, Orleanist pretender to the throne of France from 1999 to 2019 (b. 1933).
• 2019: Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer (b. 1990).
• 2020: Terry Jones , British actor and comedian (b. 1942).
• 2021: Nathalie Delon , French actress and film director (b. 1941).
• 2022: Leonor Oyarzún , Chilean family counselor, First Lady of Chile from 1990 to 1994 (b. 1919).
• 2022: Louie Anderson, American comedian and television host (b. 1953).