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Acontecimientos (61)

  1. 636Battle of the Yarmuk: Marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia, Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid defeat the Byzantine Empire and take control of the Levant.
  2. 917Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army.
  3. 1057An army under Isaac I Komnenos defeat forces loyal to rival emperor Michael VI Bringas in the battle of Hades.
  4. 1083The first King of Hungary, Stephen I, and his son, Prince Emeric, are canonized, a date now celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
  5. 1119King Henry I of England defeats king Louis VI of France in the battle of Brémule.
  6. 1191Believing Saladin had reneged on ransom promises, Richard I of England initiates the massacre at Ayyadieh, beheading 2,700 captive Muslim soldiers and another 300 women and children seized at the Fall of Acre.
  7. 1308At the conclusion of the interrogation of the leaders of the Knights Templar, the three papal investigators, Cardinals Bérenger Frédol, Etienne de Suisy and Landolfo Brancacci, write the "Chinon Parchment", in which they affirm that the accused Templars had confessed, done penance, and were absolved of heresy.
  8. 1467The Second Battle of Olmedo takes places as part of a succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
  9. 1519On the third day of battle, philosopher and general Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
  10. 1648The Battle of Lens is the last major military confrontation of the Thirty Years' War, contributing to the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in October that year.
  11. 1672Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by a mob in The Hague.
  12. 1707The first Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
  13. 1710War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
  14. 1775The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
  15. 1794Northwest Indian War: United States troops force the United Indian Nations, a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Lenape, Wyandot, Miami, Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi warriors, into a disorganized retreat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
  16. 1852Steamboat Atlantic sinks on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
  17. 1858Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
  18. 1864Bakumatsu: Kinmon incident: The Chōshū Domain attempts to expel the Satsuma and Aizu Domains from Japan's imperial court.
  19. 1866President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
  20. 1882Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
  21. 1905Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others establish the Tongmenghui, a Republican, anti-Qing revolutionary organisation, in Tokyo, Japan.
  22. 1910Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately and killing 87 people.
  23. 1914World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
  24. 1920The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
  25. 1920The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio.
  26. 1926Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
  27. 1940In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
  28. 1940World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
  29. 1940World War II: The Eighth Route Army launches the Hundred Regiments Offensive, a successful campaign to disrupt Japanese war infrastructure and logistics in occupied northern China.
  30. 1944World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
  31. 1944World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
  32. 1948Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob M. Lomakin is expelled by the United States, due to the Kasenkina Case.
  33. 1949Hungary adopts the Hungarian Constitution of 1949 and becomes a People's Republic.
  34. 1955Battle of Philippeville: In Algeria, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
  35. 1960Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
  36. 1962The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
  37. 1968Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
  38. 1975Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
  39. 1975ČSA Flight 540 crashes on approach to Damascus International Airport in Damascus, Syria, killing 126 people.
  40. 1977Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
  41. 1986In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill shoots and kills 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
  42. 1988"Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park.
  43. 1988Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
  44. 1988The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
  45. 1989The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
  46. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
  47. 1991Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
  48. 1992In India, Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) is included in the scheduled languages' list and made one of the official languages of the Indian Government.
  49. 1995The Firozabad rail disaster kills 358 people in Firozabad, India.
  50. 1997Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
  51. 1998The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
  52. 1998U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
  53. 2002A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
  54. 2006Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
  55. 2007China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire and explodes after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
  56. 2008Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
  57. 2011First Air Flight 6560 crashes from the Resolute Bay runway, killing 12 of the 15 aboard.
  58. 2012A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
  59. 2014Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
  60. 2016Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
  61. 2020Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

Nacimientos (226)

  1. 1377Shahrukh Mirza, ruler of Persia and Transoxiania (died 1447)
  2. 1517Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French cardinal and art collector (died 1586)
  3. 1561Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer (died 1633)
  4. 1625Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (died 1709)
  5. 1632Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher and academic (died 1704)
  6. 1659Henry Every, English pirate (died 1696)
  7. 1710Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (died 1761)
  8. 1719Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer and educator (died 1783)
  9. 1720Bernard de Bury, French harpsichord player and composer (died 1785)
  10. 1778Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean general and politician, 2nd Supreme Director of Chile (died 1842)
  11. 1779Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (died 1848)
  12. 1785Oliver Hazard Perry, American Naval hero (died 1819)
  13. 1799James Prinsep, English orientalist and scholar (died 1840)
  14. 1833Benjamin Harrison, American general, lawyer, and politician, 23rd President of the United States (died 1901)
  15. 1845Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (died 1916)
  16. 1847Andrew Greenwood, English cricketer (died 1889)
  17. 1847Bolesław Prus, Polish journalist and author (died 1912)
  18. 1856Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (died 1909)
  19. 1857George Griffith, British writer (died 1906)
  20. 1860Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (died 1934)
  21. 1865Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer and lawyer (died 1911)
  22. 1868Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (died 1954)
  23. 1873Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (died 1950)
  24. 1881Edgar Guest, English-American poet and author (died 1959)
  25. 1881Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1943)
  26. 1884Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg (died 1976)
  27. 1885Dino Campana, Italian poet and author (died 1932)
  28. 1886Paul Tillich, German-American philosopher and theologian (died 1965)
  29. 1887Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar (died 1959)
  30. 1888Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, 2nd President of Vietnam (died 1980)
  31. 1890H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist (died 1937)
  32. 1896Gostha Pal, Indian footballer (died 1976)
  33. 1897Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (died 1970)
  34. 1898Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist, writer (died 1968)
  35. 1898Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian, journalist, author, and playwright (died 1973)
  36. 1900Freddie Moore, American jazz drummer, washboarder, and singer (died 1992)
  37. 1901Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
  38. 1905Jean Gebser, German linguist, poet, and philosopher (died 1973)
  39. 1905Mikio Naruse, Japanese director and screenwriter (died 1969)
  40. 1905Jack Teagarden, American singer-songwriter and trombonist (died 1964)
  41. 1906Vidrik Rootare, Estonian chess player (died 1981)
  42. 1908Al López, American baseball player and manager (died 2005)
  43. 1909André Morell, English actor (died 1978)
  44. 1909Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (died 1978)
  45. 1910Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, designed the Gateway Arch (died 1961)
  46. 1913Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
  47. 1915Ivo Rojnica, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent (died 2007)
  48. 1916Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player and chemist (died 1984)
  49. 1917Terry Sanford, 65th governor of North Carolina (died 1998)
  50. 1918Jacqueline Susann, American actress and author (died 1974)
  51. 1919Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and producer (died 2021)
  52. 1919Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer, educator and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2000)
  53. 1920H. R. Van Dongen, American illustrator (died 2010)
  54. 1921Keith Froome, Australian rugby league player (died 1978)
  55. 1921Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (died 1985)
  56. 1923Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (died 1964)
  57. 1926Frank Rosolino, American jazz trombonist (died 1978)
  58. 1927Yootha Joyce, English actress (died 1980)
  59. 1927Fred Kavli, Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist, founded The Kavli Foundation (died 2013)
  60. 1929Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (died 2013)
  61. 1930Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and conductor (died 2013)
  62. 1930Peter Randall, English sergeant and recipient of the George Cross (died 2007)
  63. 1931Don King, American boxing promoter
  64. 1932Anthony Ainley, English actor (died 2004)
  65. 1932Vasily Aksyonov, Russian physician, author, and academic (died 2009)
  66. 1933Ted Donaldson, American actor (died 2023)
  67. 1933George J. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
  68. 1935Ron Paul, American captain, physician, and politician
  69. 1936Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  70. 1937Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (died 2018)
  71. 1937Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian director, producer, and screenwriter
  72. 1938Jean-Loup Chrétien, French military officer and astronaut
  73. 1939Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (died 2004)
  74. 1940Rubén Hinojosa, American businessman and politician
  75. 1941Dame Anne Evans, English soprano and actress
  76. 1941Slobodan Milošević, Serbian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Serbia (died 2006)
  77. 1942Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (died 2008)
  78. 1943Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
  79. 1944Rajiv Gandhi, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of India (died 1991)
  80. 1944José Wilker, Brazilian actor and director (died 2014)
  81. 1946Mufaddal Saifuddin, 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of Fatimid Caliphate
  82. 1946Henryk Broder, Polish-German journalist and author
  83. 1946Connie Chung, American journalist
  84. 1946Laurent Fabius, French politician, 158th Prime Minister of France
  85. 1946Ralf Hütter, German singer and keyboard player
  86. 1946N. R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys
  87. 1947Larry Kudlow, American conservative news analyst, economist, and journalist
  88. 1947Alan Lee, English painter and illustrator
  89. 1947James Pankow, American musician
  90. 1947Ray Wise, American actor
  91. 1948John Noble, Australian actor and director
  92. 1948Robert Plant, English singer-songwriter
  93. 1949Nikolas Asimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1988)
  94. 1949Phil Lynott, Irish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 1986)
  95. 1951Greg Bear, American author (died 2022)
  96. 1952Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)
  97. 1952John Hiatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  98. 1953Peter Horton, American actor and director
  99. 1954Quinn Buckner, American basketball player and coach
  100. 1954Al Roker, American news anchor, television personality, and author
  101. 1955Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and author
  102. 1956Joan Allen, American actress
  103. 1956Alvin Greenidge, Barbadian cricketer
  104. 1957Simon Donaldson, English mathematician and academic
  105. 1957Cindy Nicholas, Canadian swimmer (died 2016)
  106. 1958Patricia Rozema, Canadian director and screenwriter
  107. 1958David O. Russell, American director and screenwriter
  108. 1960Dom Duff, Breton singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer
  109. 1960Sally Yates, American lawyer and former Acting Attorney General
  110. 1962James Marsters, American actor
  111. 1963Uwe Bialon, German footballer and manager
  112. 1964Azarias Ruberwa, Congolese lawyer and politician, Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  113. 1965KRS-One, American rapper and producer
  114. 1966Miguel Albaladejo, Spanish director and screenwriter
  115. 1966Colin Cunningham, American actor
  116. 1966Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2004)
  117. 1966Enrico Letta, Italian lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Italy
  118. 1966Liu Chunyan, Chinese host and voice actress
  119. 1968Abdelatif Benazzi, Moroccan-French rugby player
  120. 1968Sandy Brondello, Australian basketball player and coach
  121. 1968Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager (died 2014)
  122. 1969Billy Gardell, American comedian, actor, and producer
  123. 1969Santeri Kinnunen, Finnish actor
  124. 1970Els Callens, Belgian tennis player and sportscaster
  125. 1970Fred Durst, American singer-songwriter
  126. 1971Nenad Bjelica, Croatian footballer and manager
  127. 1971Ke Huy Quan, Vietnamese-American actor
  128. 1971Steve Stone, English footballer and coach
  129. 1971David Walliams, English comedian, actor, and author
  130. 1972Derrick Alston, American basketball player
  131. 1972Scott Quinnell, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster
  132. 1972Anna Umemiya, Japanese model and actress
  133. 1973Alban Bushi, Albanian footballer
  134. 1973Alexandre Finazzi, Brazilian footballer
  135. 1973Scott Goodman, Australian swimmer
  136. 1973Cameron Mather, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
  137. 1974Amy Adams, American actress
  138. 1974Misha Collins, American actor
  139. 1974Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer and coach
  140. 1974Maxim Vengerov, Russian-Israeli violinist and conductor
  141. 1975Marcin Adamski, Polish footballer and manager
  142. 1975Marko Martin, Estonian pianist and educator
  143. 1976Chris Drury, American ice hockey player
  144. 1976Cornel Frăsineanu, Romanian footballer
  145. 1976Tony Grant, Irish footballer
  146. 1976Kristen Miller, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
  147. 1976Fabio Ulloa, Honduran footballer
  148. 1977Paolo Bianco, Italian footballer
  149. 1977Wayne Brown, English footballer
  150. 1977Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player, coach, and physician
  151. 1977Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
  152. 1977Stéphane Gillet, Luxembourgish footballer
  153. 1977Aaron Hamill, Australian footballer and coach
  154. 1977Ívar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
  155. 1977James Ormond, English cricketer
  156. 1977Josh Pearce, American baseball player
  157. 1977Aaron Taylor, American baseball player
  158. 1978Alberto Martín, Spanish tennis player
  159. 1978Emir Mkademi, Tunisian footballer
  160. 1978Chris Schroder, American baseball player
  161. 1979Sarah Borwell, English tennis player
  162. 1979Jamie Cullum, English singer-songwriter and pianist
  163. 1979Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
  164. 1981Ben Barnes, English actor
  165. 1981Brett Finch, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
  166. 1981Artur Kotenko, Estonian footballer
  167. 1981Bernard Mendy, French footballer
  168. 1981Craig Ochs, American football player
  169. 1981Byron Saxton, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster
  170. 1982Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer
  171. 1982Aleksandr Amisulashvili, Georgian footballer
  172. 1982Monty Dumond, South African rugby player
  173. 1982Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
  174. 1982Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
  175. 1982Mijaín López, Cuban wrestler
  176. 1982Meghan Ory, Canadian actress
  177. 1982Richard Petiot, Canadian ice hockey player
  178. 1982Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
  179. 1982Enyelbert Soto, Venezuelan-Japanese baseball player
  180. 1983Paulo André Cren Benini, Brazilian footballer
  181. 1983Andrew Garfield, American-English actor
  182. 1983Héctor Landazuri, Colombian footballer
  183. 1983Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
  184. 1984Aílton José Almeida, Brazilian footballer
  185. 1984Pavel Eismann, Czech footballer
  186. 1984Laura Georges, French footballer
  187. 1984Ingrid Lukas, Estonian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist
  188. 1985Brant Daugherty, American actor
  189. 1985Thomas Domingo, French rugby player
  190. 1985Joe Vitale, American ice hockey player
  191. 1985Stephen Ward, Irish footballer
  192. 1986Andrew Surman, South African-English footballer
  193. 1987Stefan Aigner, German footballer
  194. 1987Gunther, Austrian wrestler
  195. 1987Vedran Janjetović, Croatian-Australian footballer
  196. 1987Sido Jombati, Portuguese footballer
  197. 1987Egon Kaur, Estonian race car driver
  198. 1988Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player
  199. 1988Sarah R, Lotfi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  200. 1988José Zamora, Spanish footballer
  201. 1989Kirko Bangz, American rapper and producer
  202. 1989Silas Kiplagat, Kenyan runner
  203. 1989Slavcho Shokolarov, Bulgarian footballer
  204. 1989Judd Trump, English snooker player
  205. 1989Dean Winnard, English footballer
  206. 1990Macauley Chrisantus, Nigerian footballer
  207. 1990Culoe De Song, South African music producer and DJ
  208. 1990Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer
  209. 1990Bradley Klahn, American tennis player
  210. 1990Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
  211. 1991Marko Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
  212. 1991Jyrki Jokipakka, Finnish hockey player
  213. 1991Cory Joseph, Canadian basketball player
  214. 1992Carolina Horta, Brazilian beach volleyball player
  215. 1992Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actress
  216. 1992Alex Newell, American actor and singer
  217. 1992Deniss Rakels, Latvian footballer
  218. 1992Callum Skinner, Scottish track cyclist
  219. 1993Tonisha Rock-Yaw, Barbadian netball player
  220. 1994Mitchell Trubisky, American football player
  221. 1995Liana Liberato, American actress
  222. 1996Bunty Afoa, New Zealand rugby league player
  223. 1997Kaho Minagawa, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
  224. 1997Daniel Vladař, Czech ice hockey player
  225. 1998Lieke Klaver, Dutch track and field athlete
  226. 2003Prince Gabriel of Belgium

Fallecimientos (108)

  1. 535Mochta, Irish missionary and saint
  2. 651Oswine of Deira
  3. 768Eadberht of Northumbria
  4. 917Constantine Lips, Byzantine admiral
  5. 984Pope John XIV
  6. 1153Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian and saint (born 1090)
  7. 1158Rögnvald Kali Kolsson (born 1100), Earl of Orkney and Saint
  8. 1297William Fraser, bishop and Guardian of Scotland
  9. 1348Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (born 1319)
  10. 1384Geert Groote, Dutch preacher, founded the Brethren of the Common Life (born 1340)
  11. 1386Bo Jonsson, royal marshal of Sweden
  12. 1471Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (born 1413)
  13. 1528Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner (born 1473)
  14. 1572Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish navigator and politician, 1st Governor-General of the Philippines (born 1502)
  15. 1580Jerónimo Osório, Portuguese historian and author (born 1506)
  16. 1611Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish priest and composer (born 1548)
  17. 1639Martin Opitz, German poet and hymnwriter (born 1597)
  18. 1648Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English soldier and diplomat (born 1583)
  19. 1651Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Polish nobleman (born 1612)
  20. 1672Cornelis de Witt, Dutch lawyer and politician (born 1623)
  21. 1672Johan de Witt, Dutch mathematician and politician (born 1625)
  22. 1680William Bedloe, English spy (born 1650)
  23. 1701Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright and politician (born 1639)
  24. 1707Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (born 1627)
  25. 1773Enrique Flórez, Spanish historian and author (born 1701)
  26. 1785Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (born 1714)
  27. 1823Pope Pius VII (born 1740)
  28. 1825William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (born 1753)
  29. 1835Agnes Bulmer, English merchant and poet (born 1775)
  30. 1854Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (born 1801)
  31. 1859Juan Bautista Ceballos, former president of Mexico (born 1811)
  32. 1882James Whyte, Scottish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Tasmania (born 1820)
  33. 1887Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (born 1860)
  34. 1893Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (born 1827)
  35. 1897Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (born 1827)
  36. 1912William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (born 1829)
  37. 1914Pope Pius X (born 1835)
  38. 1915Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)
  39. 1917Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1835)
  40. 1919Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (born 1869)
  41. 1930Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (born 1851)
  42. 1936Edward Weston, English-American chemist (born 1850)
  43. 1939Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (born 1845)
  44. 1942István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (born 1904)
  45. 1943William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (born 1858)
  46. 1949Ragnhild Kaarbø, Norwegian painter (born 1889)
  47. 1951İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (born 1882)
  48. 1961Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
  49. 1963Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (born 1879)
  50. 1965Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (born 1939)
  51. 1971Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (born 1951)
  52. 1976Vera Lutz, British economist (born 1912)
  53. 1979Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (born 1922)
  54. 1980Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (born 1938)
  55. 1981Michael Devine, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1954)
  56. 1982Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (born 1929)
  57. 1985Donald O. Hebb, Canadian psychologist and academic (born 1904)
  58. 1985Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken, German admiral (born 1897)
  59. 1986Milton Acorn, Canadian poet and playwright (born 1923)
  60. 1987Walenty Kłyszejko, Estonian–Polish basketball player and coach (born 1909)
  61. 1993Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic (born 1912)
  62. 1995Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (born 1927)
  63. 1996Rio Reiser, German singer-songwriter (born 1950)
  64. 1997Norris Bradbury, American soldier, physicist, and academic (born 1909)
  65. 1997Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (born 1922)
  66. 1998Vũ Văn Mẫu, 10th and final Prime Minister of South Vietnam (born 1914)
  67. 2001Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (born 1915)
  68. 2001Kim Stanley, American actress (born 1925)
  69. 2005Thomas Herrion, American football player (born 1981)
  70. 2005Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer and songwriter (born 1970)
  71. 2006Bryan Budd, Northern Ireland-born English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1977)
  72. 2006Joe Rosenthal, American photographer and journalist (born 1911)
  73. 2006S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (born 1938)
  74. 2007Leona Helmsley, American businesswoman (born 1920)
  75. 2008Ed Freeman, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1927)
  76. 2008Hua Guofeng, Chinese politician, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1921)
  77. 2008Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American lawyer and politician (born 1949)
  78. 2008Gene Upshaw, American football player (born 1945)
  79. 2009Larry Knechtel, American keyboardist and bass player (born 1940)
  80. 2009Karla Kuskin, American author and illustrator (born 1932)
  81. 2010Đặng Phong, Vietnamese economist and historian (born 1937)
  82. 2011Ram Sharan Sharma, Indian historian and academic (born 1919)
  83. 2012Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedian (born 1917)
  84. 2012Daryl Hine, Canadian-American poet and academic (born 1936)
  85. 2012Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1916)
  86. 2012Mika Yamamoto, Japanese journalist (born 1967)
  87. 2012Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (born 1955)
  88. 2013Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (born 1936)
  89. 2013Narendra Dabholkar, Indian author and activist (born 1945)
  90. 2013Elmore Leonard, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (born 1925)
  91. 2013Marian McPartland, English-American pianist and composer (born 1918)
  92. 2013Ted Post, American director and screenwriter (born 1918)
  93. 2014Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and journalist (born 1983)
  94. 2014Lois Mai Chan, Taiwanese-American librarian, author, and academic (born 1934)
  95. 2014Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and academic (born 1946)
  96. 2014B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (born 1918)
  97. 2014Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (born 1924)
  98. 2014Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter and educator (born 1925)
  99. 2014Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (born 1927)
  100. 2015Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (born 1922)
  101. 2015Paul Kibblewhite, New Zealand chemist and engineer (born 1941)
  102. 2017Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (born 1926)
  103. 2018Uri Avnery, Israeli writer, politician and peace activist (born 1923)
  104. 2018Jennifer Ramírez Rivero, Venezuelan model (born 1978)
  105. 2020Chi Chi DeVayne, American Drag Queen (born 1985)
  106. 2021Igor Vovkovinskiy, Ukrainian-American law student and actor, American tallest person (born 1982)
  107. 2022Darya Dugina, Russian journalist (born 1992)
  108. 2024Al Attles, American basketball player and coach (born 1936)

Celebraciones (7)

  1. Feast of Asmá’ (Baháʼí Faith, only if Baháʼí Naw-Rúz falls on March 21)
  2. Indian Akshay Urja Day (India)
  3. Independence Restoration Day (Estonia), re-declaration of the independence of Estonia from the Soviet Union in 1991.
  4. Meitei Language Day, also known as Manipuri Language Day, the day on which Meitei (Manipuri) was included in the scheduled languages' list and made one of the official languages of India.
  5. Revolution of the King and the People (Morocco)
  6. Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary)
  7. World Mosquito Day

Santoral (10)

  1. Amadour
  2. Bernard of Clairvaux
  3. Blessed Georg Häfner
  4. Heliodorus of Bet Zabdai
  5. Maria De Mattias
  6. Oswine of Deira
  7. Philibert of Jumièges
  8. Samuel (prophet)
  9. William and Catherine Booth (Church of England)
  10. August 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)