- 1690 The excellent Baroque painter Juan de Valdés Leal, nemesis of Murillo and famous for his "Vanitas" in the Hospital de la Caridad, dies in Sevilla.
- 1940 At dawn, Lluís Company y Jover, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, is shot by a picket of soldiers at Montjuic Castle for the crime of military rebellion.
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