1853 – LUDWIG TIECK (b. 1773), German poet, prose writer and dramatist, dies.
1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza signs the decree for the establishment of the Bureau of Statistics of Romania and appoints Dionisie Pop Marțian as its head.
1887 – EDGAR ISTRATTY is born (d. 1967), singer, one of the founding members of the Romanian Opera in Bucharest, on whose stage he performed the main roles of the bass repertoire.
1893 – EMMANUEL PACHE-PROTOPOPESCU (b. 1845), politician, mayor of the Capital (April 1888 – December 1891), dies.
1919 – The Paris Peace Conference approves the Covenant of the League of Nations, the fundamental act on the basis of which the League of Nations was created. Romania is, along with 26 other countries, a signatory to the Pact.
1928 – YVES KLEIN (m. 1962), French painter, considered the father of monochrome painting, is born.
1932 – ION N. OPREA, literary historian, publicist, is born in Priponeşti, Galati county.
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1974 – PENELOPE CRUZ, Spanish actress, Oscar winner, is born.
1996 – ALEXANDRU JEBELEANU (b. 1923), poet, laureate of the Writers’ Association Award from Timisoara, dies.
2000 – OVID S. CROHMĂLNICEANU (b. 1921, in Galati), literary critic and historian, prose writer, dies.
2011 – MARGARETA GIURGEA (b. 1915), physicist, member of the Romanian Academy, dies.
