Events
Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United States for "security concerns".
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe lands on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.
A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.
The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes near Hejce, Hungary, killing 42.
British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.
Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 crashes in Bayfield, Colorado, killing nine.
Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister.
Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 crashes near Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Turkey, killing all 42 aboard.
Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, fewer than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 64 kilometres (40 mi) northeast of Falkonera.
Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, is stricken with paralysis. She dies three days later at the age of 81.
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
The British East India Company captures Aden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the Dutch Republic.
The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
Hämeenlinna (Swedish: Tavastehus) is granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia.
San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.
The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope.
John VIII Palaiologos marries Sophia of Montferrat and is then crowned Byzantine co-emperor to his father Manuel II Palaiologos.
Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
Births
Felix Afena-Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
Jonathan Taylor, American football player
Donyell Malen, Dutch footballer
Emre Guler, Australian rugby league player
Jakub Jankto, Czech footballer
Matthias Ginter, German footballer
Alfie Mawson, English footballer
Marvelous Nakamba, Zimbabwean footballer
Erick Torres Padilla, Mexican footballer
João Mário, Portuguese footballer
Ricardo Centurión, Argentine footballer
Walter Benítez, Argentine footballer
Jack Schlossberg, American writer and political candidate
Shawn Johnson East, American gymnast
Logan Lerman, American actor
Mac Miller, American rapper (died 2018)
Petra Martić, Croatian tennis player
Erin Sanders, American actress
Tatiana Búa, Argentine tennis player
Shaunette Renée Wilson, Guyanese-American actress
Tyler Breeze, Canadian wrestler
JaVale McGee, American basketball player
Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
Oleksandr Miroshnychenko, Ukrainian footballer
Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer
Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
Damien Chazelle, American film director, screenwriter, and producer
Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
Esteban Guerrieri, Argentinian racing driver
Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and actress
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nikulin, Russian footballer
Elliott Ward, English footballer
Johnny Boychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer
Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
Elvis Dumervil, American football player
Jimmy Kébé, Malian footballer
Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
Pete Buttigieg, American politician
Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
Jodie Sweetin, American actress and singer
Robin tom Rink, German singer-songwriter
Shane Tronc, Australian rugby league player
Kim Yoo-suk, South Korean pole vaulter
Paolo Bugia, Filipino basketball player
Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer
Lucho González, Argentinian footballer
Maxime Laisney, French politician
Elizabeth Tulloch, American actress
Jenson Button, English racing driver
Pasha Kovalev, Russian-American dancer and choreographer
Luke Macfarlane, Canadian-American actor and singer
Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
Michael Vandort, Sri Lankan cricketer
Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast and sportscaster
Byung-hyun Kim, South Korean baseball player
Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer
Wiley, English rapper and producer
Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor, director, and photographer
Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
Drew Powell, American actor
Marsha Thomason, English actress
Natalie Cook, Australian volleyball player
Zdeňka Málková, Czech tennis player
Dainius Adomaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Walter Jones, American football player
Ian Laperrière, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer and manager
Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer and coach
Drea de Matteo, American actress
Yoon Hae-young, South Korean actress
Sergei Zjukin, Estonian chess player and coach
Eric Mangini, American football coach
Shawn Wayans, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Phil Nevin, American baseball player and coach
Steffen Freund, German footballer and manager
Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer
Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist and short story writer
Luc Longley, Australian basketball player and coach
Trey Lorenz, American singer-songwriter and producer
Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer and manager
Junior Seau, American football player (died 2012)
Steve Staunton, Irish footballer and manager
David Bartlett, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of Tasmania
Whitfield Crane, American singer-songwriter
Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player and coach
Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer-songwriter
Janine Antoni, Bahamian sculptor and photographer
Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player
Michael Adams, American basketball player and coach
Martin Bashir, English journalist
John Bercow, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons
Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
Chris Sabo, American baseball player and coach
Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach
Paul McCrane, American actor, director, and singer
Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer, co-founded Red or Dead
William Ragsdale, American actor
Danese Cooper, American computer scientist and programmer
Jeff Pilson, American bass player, songwriter, and actor
Thomas Kinkade, American painter (died 2012)
Altemio Sanchez, Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (died 2023)
Ottis Anderson, American football player and sportscaster
Roger Ashton-Griffiths, English actor, screenwriter and film director
Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican public servant and politician, 22nd Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host (died 2021)
Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist
Simon Rattle, English-German orchestral conductor
Katey Sagal, American actress and singer
Cindy Sherman, American photographer and director
Esther Shkalim, Israeli poet and Mizrahi feminist
Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor and singer
Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
Wayne Schimmelbusch, Australian footballer and coach
Dewey Bunnell, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Nadiuska, German television actress
Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer scientist (died 1999)
Martha Davis, American singer
Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
Jon Matlack, American baseball player
Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio host (died 2012)
Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)
Nancy Lynch, American computer scientist and academic
Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick
Mal Reilly, English rugby league player and coach
Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political scientist and academic (died 2017)
Paula Deen, American chef and author
Rod Evans, English singer-songwriter
Julian Barnes, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic
Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
Trevor Williams, English singer-songwriter and bass player
Shelley Fabares, American actress and singer
Thom Mayne, American architect and academic, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower
Dan Reeves, American football player and coach (died 2022)
Larry Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (died 1970)
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
Tony Anholt, British actor (died 2002)
Colin Gunton, English theologian and academic (died 2003)
Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler, trainer, and referee (died 2020)
Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (died 1992)
Denise Narcisse-Mair, Canadian musician (died 2010)
Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)
Princess Birgitta of Sweden (died 2024)
John Lions, Australian computer scientist and academic (died 1998)
Fred J. Lincoln, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, seventh President of Bangladesh (died 1981)
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer, harmonica player, and drummer (died 2011)
Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (died 1978)
John Richardson, English actor (died 2021)
George Coyne, American priest, astronomer, and theologian (died 2020)
Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (died 2008)
Richard Lester, American-English director, producer, and screenwriter
Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (died 2014)
Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 2024)
Tippi Hedren, American model, actress, and animal rights-welfare activist
John Waite, South African cricketer (died 2011)
Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (died 2013)
Fritz Weaver, American actor (died 2016)
Nina Bawden, English author (died 2012)
Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (died 1985)
Jean-François Revel, French philosopher (died 2006)
Dagmar Loe, Norwegian journalist (died 2024)
Bob McFadden, American singer, impressionist, and voice-over actor (died 2000)
Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (died 2013)
Guy Madison, American actor (died 1996)
Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 2015)
Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (died 1990)
Patricia Highsmith, American novelist and short story writer (died 1995)
Bernard Dunstan, English painter and educator (died 2017)
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat, 135th Prime Minister of Peru (died 2020)
John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (died 2005)
Rex Ingamells, Australian author and poet (died 1955)
Rudolf Wanderone, American professional pocket billiards player (died 1996)
Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and judge (died 2009)
Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1966)
Ish Kabibble, American comedian and cornet player (died 1994)
Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1971)
Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (died 1991)
Boris Blacher, German composer and playwright (died 1975)
Dyre Vaa, Norwegian sculptor and painter (died 1980)
Dunc Munro, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1958)
Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (died 1986)
Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (died 1964)
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1943)
Chick Gandil, American baseball player (died 1970)
Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (died 1943)
Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (died 1956)
John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (died 1957)
Boris Savinkov, Russian soldier and author (died 1925)
Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (died 1934)
Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (died 1943)
Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet and author (died 1899)
Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (died 1922)
Dame Gruev, Bulgarian educator and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (died 1906)
Harry Davenport, American stage and film actor (died 1949)
Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (died 1941)
Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (died 1909)
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1922)
Arturo Graf, Italian poet, of German ancestry (died 1913)
John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1904)
Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (died 1883)
Dethloff Willrodt, American Civil War veteran and politician (died 1932)
Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)
Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (died 1872)
Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (died 1875)
Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (died 1898)
Talhaiarn, Welsh poet and architect (died 1869)
Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (died 1849)
Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and author (died 1887)
Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (died 1870)
Sarah Helen Whitman, American poet, essayist, and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1878)
Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1857)
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet and academic (died 1855)
Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (died 1874)
Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (died 1831)
James Morris III, American captain (died 1820)
Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall (died 1808)
Giuseppe Millico, Italian soprano, composer, and educator (died 1802)
James Watt, Scottish chemist and engineer (died 1819)
Jean-Philippe Baratier, German scholar and author (died 1740)
John Weldon, English organist and composer (died 1736)
Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, English noble (died 1672)
Lucas Faydherbe, Flemish sculptor and architect (died 1697)
Francis II of France (died 1560)
Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen (died 1253)
Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (died 453)
Deaths
Valentino, Italian fashion designer, founder of Valentino (born 1932)
Jeff Torborg, American baseball player and manager (born 1941)
Miguel Ferrer, American actor (born 1955)
Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (born 1930)
Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1931)
Sheila Sim (Lady Attenborough), English actress (born 1922)
Justin Capră, Romanian engineer and academic (born 1933)
Michel Guimond, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1953)
Ward Swingle, American-French singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1927)
Azaria Alon, Ukrainian-Israeli environmentalist, co-founded the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (born 1918)
Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (born 1931)
Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (born 1940)
Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (born 1920)
Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (born 1926)
Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (born 1930)
Toktamış Ateş, Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer (born 1944)
Peter Åslin, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1962)
Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (born 1982)
Winston Riley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1943)
Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1933)
Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (born 1923)
Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (born 1937)
John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)
Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (born 1936)
Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist and activist (born 1954)
Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1940)
Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1969)
Anthony Franciosa, American actor (born 1928)
Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
K. Sello Duiker, South African author and screenwriter (born 1974)
Harry E. Claiborne, American lawyer and judge (born 1917)
David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1955)
Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (born 1974)
Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician, French Minister of Culture (born 1916)
Vavá, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1934)
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, a Baháʼí Faith Hand of the Cause of God and wife of Shoghi Effendi (born 1910)
Bettino Craxi, Italian lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1934)
Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, singer, and mathematician (born 1914)
Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (born 1967)
Robert Eugene Brashers, American serial killer and rapist (born 1958)
Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1932)
James Dickey, American poet and novelist (born 1923)
Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1943)
Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1938)
Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist and journalist (born 1918)
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru and mystic (born 1931)
Alberto Semprini, English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1908)
Herbert Wehner, German politician, sixth Minister of Intra-German Relations (born 1906)
Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1920)
Ham, chimpanzee and animal astronaut, first hominid in space (born 1957)
Elis Regina, Brazilian soprano (born 1945)
Francesca Woodman, American photographer (born 1958)
William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist, US Supreme Court associate justice (born 1898)
Moritz Jahn, German novelist and poet (born 1884)
Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (born 1886)
Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator (born 1889)
Max Adrian, Irish-English actor (born 1903)
Michael Rabin, American violinist (born 1936)
Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (born 1879)
Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (born 1905)
Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (born 1886)
Clement Smoot, American golfer (born 1884)
József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (born 1912)
Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (born 1885)
Tony Garnier, French architect and urban planner, designed the Stade de Gerland (born 1869)
Gustave Mesny, French general (born 1886)
Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (born 1864)
Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (born 1903)
Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (born 1873)
Ernest de Munck, Belgian cellist and composer (born 1840)
Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian historian and politician, sixth President of Argentina (born 1821)
António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra, Portuguese magistrate and politician (born 1798)
Henri Victor Regnault, French physicist and chemist (born 1810)
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (born 1798)
Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (born 1788)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and politician (born 1809)
Felix Zollicoffer, American newspaperman, politician, and Confederate general (born 1812)
Karl Faber, German historian and academic (born 1773)
Esteban Echeverría, Argentinian poet and author (born 1805)
Charles Bent, American soldier and politician, first Governor of New Mexico (born 1799)
Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (born 1772)
Ferdinand Hérold, French pianist and composer (born 1791)
Jonathan Toup, English scholar and critic (born 1713)
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect and painter (born 1695)
Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar and academic (born 1674)
Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (born 1683)
William Congreve, English playwright and poet (born 1670)
Thomas Venner, English rebel leader
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Flemish painter (born1561)
Maharana Pratap, Hindu Rajput king of Mewar (born1540)
Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (born 1494)
Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (born 1495)
Diego Laynez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (born 1512)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (born 1516)
Isabella of Austria, Danish queen (born 1501)
Al-Hakim I, caliph of Cairo
Kilian of Cologne, Irish abbot
García I, king of León
Dagobert I, Frankish king (born 603)
John of Cappadocia, patriarch of Constantinople