2015 Event Serbian Novak Djokovic beats Swiss Roger Federer to win his second U.S. Men's Open title; a day earlier, Italian Flavia Pennetta beat fellow Italian Roberta Vinci in the U.S. Women's Open to win her first Grand Slam, then announced her retirement 2015 Event Italian authorities arrested the captain and a crewman of a vessel that shipwrecked in the Mediterranean, drowning at least 800 people; the passengers were migrating from North Africa to Europe 2015 Event Sea incidents involving migrants continue at a steady pace in the Mediterranean, as Italian ships rescue 1,500 people from 5 separate vessels in less than 24 hours 2014 Event A ship carrying 900 Syrians is intercepted and safely brought to shore by the Italian coast guard; the ship had been manned by human traffickers who abandoned the vessel after setting the navigation system on a collision course with the Italian coast 2014 Event Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has announced his resignation; the 89-year-old president indicated after reelection in 2013 that he would retire before the end of the 7-year term 2014 Event 29-year-old Italian cyclist Vincenzo Nibali wins the Tour de France, becoming the first winner from Italy in 16 years; the victory makes Nibali one of only six cyclists to have won the Grand Tours of Italy, Spain and France 2014 Event Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez is thrown out of the World Cup for biting Italian player Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder; Suarez has also been banned from nine international matches and a four-month suspension from playing 2014 Event Italian officials announce that many of the country's public assets will be sold in an effort to reduce the country's debt; plans to sell part of the nation's air traffic control and postal services have already been approved 2014 Event The Italian government sets aside 2 million euros for repairs to the ancient city of Pompeii after damage caused by heavy rains highlights the general decay of this World Heritage site 2014 Event New Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announces plans to cut government spending and use the funds to decrease taxes on individuals and regional businesses; Italy's unemployment rate increased 0.2 percent in January to 12.9 percent 2013 Event Italian government ministers belonging to Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party resign 2013 Event Pope Francis condemns the 'global indifference' to the plight of immigrants who have drowned trying to reach Europe; he honors them in a mass held on Lampedusa, the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea 2013 Event During the new swearing in ceremony of Enrico Letta, an Italian man shoots and wounds two policemen outside Palazzo Chigi 2013 Event In Italy, a deal on forming a new government is finalized two months after the 2013 Italian parliamentary election 2012 Event Following the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Monti, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves the Parliament 2012 Event Italian voters select center-left candidate Pier Luigi Bersani as their new Prime Minister 2012 Event Following an avalanche that swept away nine climbers, Italian and French rescue crews recover the bodies of two climbers on Mont Blanc in the Alps 2011 Event Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti's proposed austerity measures are debated by the Italian senate 2011 Event Italian President Giorgio Napolitano nominates Mario Monti to be the country's new Prime Minister 2011 Event According to Bloomberg, Italian company Prada SpA is planning an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange 2011 Event The Pope, Benedict XVI, becomes the first pontiff to participate in a televised interview session, pre-recorded for Italian television 2009 Event Italian Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi is knocked to the ground and hit in the face after a political rally in Milan, Italy 2003 Death Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, ", president of the Italian branch of ""Doctors without Borders,"" died of SARS after helping to identify it, " 2003 Death Gianni Agnelli, Italian Businessman 2000 Death Vittorio Gassman, Italian Actor 2000 Death Steve Reeves, actor, Italian Hecules movies, dies at 74 1998 Death Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90 1998 Death Umberto Mastroianni, Italian sculptor, dies at 87 1997 Death Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window 1996 Event Dutch/Italian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral 1995 Death Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79 1995 Death Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79 1995 Death Massimo Pallottino, Italian archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86 1994 Death Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at 61 1994 Event Italian government of Berlusconi resigns 1994 Death Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92 1994 Death Jole Silvani, Niobe Quaiatti, Italian actress (La citta' Delle), dies 1994 Death Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67 1994 Death Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70 1994 Death Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66 1994 Death Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69 1994 Event Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced 1994 Death Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41 1994 Death Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79 1994 Event Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists 1994 Death Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53 1994 Death Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered 1994 Death Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84 1994 Event Italian government of Ciampi resigns 1994 Death Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Octopus), dies at 52 1993 Death Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist 1993 Death Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies 1993 Death Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54 1993 Death Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Don Carlos), dies at 79 1993 Event Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola 1993 Event Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists 1993 Death Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69 1993 Death Arnold Franchetti, Italian/U.S. composer, dies 1993 Death Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread and Chocolate), dies at 70 1993 Death Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura), dies 1993 Death George Wallington, Giacinto Figlia, Italian bebop-pianist, dies 1992 Death Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy), dies at 78 1992 Death Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist, dies 1992 Death Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies 1992 Death Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies 1992 Death Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia 1992 Death Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer/Claudia Cardinale's husband, dies 1992 Death Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies 1992 Event Italian government of Amato forms 1992 Event Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns 1992 Death Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies 1991 Death Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Italian Colonies 1931 - 1938, dies 1991 Death Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75 1991 Death Concetto Lo Bello, Italian International soccer judge, dies 1991 Death Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia, dies 1991 Event Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires 1991 Event Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession 1991 Event Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use 1991 Event Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW 1990 Death Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82 1990 Death Luigi Nono, Italian composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66 1989 Death Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at 59 1989 Death Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 60 1988 Event 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany 1988 Event Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50 1988 Death Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87 1987 Death Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68 1985 Event U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody 1985 Event PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro 1984 Death Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75 1984 Death Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68 1983 Death Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies 1982 Death Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53 1982 Death Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67 1982 Event U.S., Italian and French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon 1982 Death Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered 1982 Death Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74 1982 Death Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85 1981 Death Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered 1980 Death Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75 1980 Event Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone 1980 Event Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81 1980 Death Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88 1979 Death Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53 1979 Event Italian government of Cossiga begins 1979 Death Nino Rota, Italian composer (Torquemada), dies at 67 1978 Death Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist 1978 Death Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78 1978 Death Paul VI, Giovanni Montini, Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80 1978 Death Pope Paul VI, Italian Pope 1978 Birthday Silvia Colloca, Italian Actress 1977 Death Paul Hardy, Belgian designer, Italian Country, dies at 69 1977 Death Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (Roma citt aperta), dies at 71 1975 Death Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53 1975 Death Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto), dies at 90 1975 Death Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71 1975 Death Carlo Levi, Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre), dies at 72 1974 Death Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director (Boccacio 70), dies 1974 Birthday Alessandro Del Piero, Italian Athlete 1974 Death Roberto Assagioli, Italian Psychologist 1974 Death Aldo Palazzeschi, Giurlani, Italian writer, dies at 89 1974 Event Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed 1974 Event Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi 1974 Event An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo 1974 Event NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km) 1973 Death Bruno Maderna, Italian composer and conductor (Satyricon), dies at 53 1973 Event In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth" 1973 Death Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79 1972 Death Antonio Segni, Italian PM/president (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81 1972 Death Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72 1972 Birthday Mariano Bombarda, Italian, soccer player, ACV, FC Groningen 1971 Death Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrial, dies at 89 1971 Death Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator, dies at 75 1971 Death Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81 1971 Death Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia 1970 Death Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41 1970 Event Italian Rumor government resigns 1969 Birthday Silvia Sommaggio, Italian 5k runner 1969 Death Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (New York Met), dies on 84th birthday 1969 Event Italian Rumor government resigns 1969 Death Piotr F. Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82 1969 Birthday Giorgio Lamberti, Italian free style swimmer, world record 200m 1968 Death Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet 1968 Death Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60 1968 Death Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 1968 Death Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87 1967 Birthday Valeria Marini, Rome, Italy, sports commentator, Italian Soccer 1967 Birthday Roberto Baggio, born in Caldogno, Italy, retired Italian footballer, greatest of 125 footballers in 2004 FIFA 100 list 1966 Birthday Alberto "La Bomba" Tomba, Italian skier, Gold Medal 1988, 1992 Olympics 1966 Birthday Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian actress, Ugly Dirty and Bad 1966 Birthday Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician 1966 Event Aldo Moro forms Italian government 1965 Death Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 1965 Death Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90 1964 Event Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples 1964 Death Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies 1963 Event Aldo Moro forms Italian government 1963 Death Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies 1963 Birthday Antonella Ella, Italian entertainer 1963 Birthday Eros Ramazotti, Italian pop musician/songwriter, Adesso Te 1963 Birthday Alessandra Martines, Italian entertainer 1963 Death Pope John XXIII, Italian Pope 1963 Death George Dolenz, Italian actor (Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 55 1962 Birthday Giulla Boschi, Italian actress, Act of Contrition, Bonus Malus 1962 Birthday Grecia Colmenares, Italian entertainer 1962 Death Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58 1962 Birthday Daria Scagliola, Italian/Dutch photographer, vuurtorenpostzegels 1962 Event French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel 1962 Event St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands 1961 Event Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots 1961 Birthday Alessandro Cecchi Paone, Italian entertainer 1961 Death Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64 1960 Event Italian government of Fanfani forms 1960 Event Italian Government Tambroni, resigns 1960 Event Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic 1960 Event Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration 1960 Death Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant 1960 Birthday Merlene Ottey, Jamaican/Italian running star, Olympics 1960 Event Italian government Tambroni forms 1960 Death Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58 1960 Event Italian government of Segni falls 1960 Death Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian poet (Una Donna), dies at 83 1960 Death Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40 1959 Birthday Gerhard Berger, formula-1 racer, Italian Grand Prix-1988 1959 Death Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 1959 Birthday Gelindo Bordin, Italian marathon runner, Gold Medal 1988 Olympics 1959 Event Antonio Segni forms Italian government 1958 Birthday Andrea Bocelli, Italian Musician 1958 Death Magdalene Szekely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58 1958 Death Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86 1957 Death Albert Ascoli, Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies 1957 Death Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author (Kaputt), dies at 59 1957 Event Adone Zoli forms Italian government 1957 Death Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Met Opera), dies 1957 Event Italian government of Segni resigns 1957 Birthday Maurizio Damilano, Italian speed walker, 30K World Record 1957 Death Arturo Toscanini, Italian U.S. conductor (NBC), dies in New York City at 89 1956 Death Pietro Badoglio, Italian general (1922-43), dies at 85 1956 Event Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm 1956 Death Giovanni Papini, Italian author and poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75 1956 Death Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61 1956 Death Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter, dies at 59 1955 Birthday Adelmo "Zucchero" Fornaciari, Italian R&B-singer, Senza una Donna 1955 Birthday Caleb Carr, born in Manhattan, New York City, author, military historian, wrote, 'The Italian Secretary', 'Casing the Promised Land', 'The Alienist' 1955 Birthday Donatella Versace, Italian Designer 1955 Death Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68 1955 Birthday Enrico Mentana, Milan Italy, Italian newscaster, RAI 1955 Death Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72 1954 Birthday Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Italian entertainer 1954 Death Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies 1954 Death Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53 1954 Death Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer, Puccini's Turandot, dies at 78 1954 Death Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73 1954 Birthday Al Dimeola, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, rocker, guitarist, Latin jazz and Italian American jazz fusion 1954 Event Fanfani forms Italian government 1953 Birthday Bertin Osborne, Italian entertainer 1953 Birthday Anna Marchesini, Italian entertainer 1952 Death Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59 1952 Birthday Sergio Vastano, Italian actor, Nightclub, Prete Bello 1952 Death Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92 1952 Death Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86 1952 Birthday Pietro Mennea, Italian runner, 200m world record 1952 Death Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60 1952 Death Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81 1951 Birthday La Cicciolina, Ilona Staller, Budapest Hungary, Italian MP 1951 Event Italian civil servants strike for pay increase 1950 Birthday Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star, French 1976, Italian 1976 1950 Death Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41 1949 Death Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63 1948 Birthday Giuliana Sgrena, Italian Journalist 1947 Event Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution 1947 Birthday Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer 1947 Birthday Mino Reitano, Italian entertainer 1947 Death Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies 1947 Event Italian government of Gasperi forms 1947 Death Alfredo Casella, Italian composer and conductor (La Giara), dies at 63 1947 Event Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems and communists 1946 Birthday Gianni Versace, Italian Designer 1946 Death Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist 1946 Event Italian Republic established 1946 Event Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy, National Day 1945 Birthday Jocelyn, Italian entertainer 1945 Birthday Ombrettqa Colli, Italian entertainer 1945 Death Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81 1945 Death Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician executed 1945 Event Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner 1945 Death Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit ), dies at 74 1944 Death Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67 1944 Birthday Fausto Leali, Italian entertainer 1944 Birthday Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber, Mount Everest 1944 Event Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing 1944 Event U.S.S.R. recognizes Italian Badoglio government 1944 Event Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns 1944 Death Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies 1944 Death Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician 1943 Event Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina 1943 Event Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice 1943 Birthday Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer 1943 Event German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government 1943 Event Italian fleet anchors at Malta 1943 Event 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome 1943 Event 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) 1943 Event Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns 1943 Event German and Italian forces in Africa surrender 1943 Birthday Mario Monti, Italian Public Servant 1943 Event Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian and Croatian 1943 Death Carlo Tresca, New York's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered 1942 Event U.S. bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II 1942 Event Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim 1942 Event German and Italian troops occupy Banghazi 1942 Event Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel 1941 Birthday Vittoria Mezzogiorno, Italian actor, L'homme blesse, Tre fratelli 1941 Birthday Franco Nero, Italian Actor 1941 Death Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83 1941 Birthday Angelo Scola, Italian Clergyman 1941 Event Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia 1941 Event Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia 1941 Event Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces 1941 Event Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed 1941 Event Italian counter offensive in Albania 1940 Death Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle 1940 Event British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet 1940 Birthday Gigi Proletti, Italian entertainer 1940 Event Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani 1940 Event Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt 1940 Event Italian troops enter Egypt 1940 Event Italian troops invade British Somalia 1940 Death Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/Governor-General of Libya, dies at 44 1940 Death Tina Modotti, Maria del Carmen, Italian/Mexican communist, dies at 46 1939 Birthday Romano Prodi, Italian Statesman 1939 Birthday Giovanni Falcone, Italian Judge 1939 Event Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania 1939 Death Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75 1939 Death Pius XI, Ambrogio D A Ratti, Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81 1938 Birthday Renata Adler, Italian Journalist 1938 Event Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews 1938 Event Great Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia 1938 Death Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74 1937 Event Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia 1937 Birthday Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Italian princess/queen of Belgium, 1993- 1937 Death Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies 1937 Death Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist, dies at 46 1937 Event Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians 1936 Death Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69 1936 Event Italian lire devalued 1936 Birthday Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Statesman 1936 Death Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64 1936 Event Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa 1936 Event Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades 1936 Death Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56 1935 Event Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia 1935 Birthday Luciano Pavarotti, born in Italy, Italian operatic tenor 1935 Event League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia 1935 Event Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia 1935 Event Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1935 Death Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90 1935 Event 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition 1934 Event Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya 1934 Birthday Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian Clergyman 1933 Birthday Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian artist, glass painter 1933 Death Giuseppe Zangara, Italian Criminal 1933 Death Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi, Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60 1932 Death Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina), dies 1932 Death Errico Malatesta, Italian Activist 1932 Birthday Graziella Sciutti, Italian opera singer 1932 Death Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46 1931 Death Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62 1930 Birthday Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici' 1930 Death Giulio Douhet, Italian Soldier 1930 Event Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto 1929 Birthday Bud Spencer, Italian actor, Aladdin, Extralarge, Go For It 1929 Event Belgium princess Marie-Jose and Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails 1929 Birthday Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist 1929 Birthday Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist 1929 Birthday Sergio Leone, Italian, director, Fist Full of Dollars 1928 Birthday Piero Angelo, Italian writer, Control 1928 Death Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal (WW I, Caporetto), dies at 78 1928 Death Italo Svevo, Ettore Schmitz, Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66 1928 Death Giovanni Giolitti, Italian Statesman 1928 Death Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69 1928 Death Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at 66 1927 Birthday Boris Porena, born in Rome, Italy, Italian composer, didactical expert, studied under Goffredo Petrassi, influenced by neoclassical poetics, wrote texts about music including Musica-Societa which includes social and political analysis 1927 Death Matilde Serao, Tuffolina, Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies 1927 Death Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47 1926 Event Italian and Albania sign peace treaty 1926 Event Italian Great Fascist Council forms 1926 Birthday Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer 1926 Death Camillo Golgi, Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81 1925 Event Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties 1925 Event Italian army takes Somalia 1925 Event Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead 1925 Event Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator 1924 Death Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer, 'Madama Butterfly', dies in Brussels at 65 1924 Death Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists 1924 Event Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists 1924 Death Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58 1924 Death Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64 1924 Death Eleonora Duse, Italian Actress 1924 Birthday Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome 1923 Death Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60 1923 Birthday Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist and baritone 1923 Event Italian troops leave occupied Korfu 1923 Event Italian parliament accepts new constitution 1923 Birthday Giovanni Testori, Italian writer, Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1923 Event Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige 1923 Event Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts) 1922 Event Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year" 1922 Event Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini 1922 Event Italian general strike broken by fascist terror 1922 Death Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81 1922 Event Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka 1922 Event Italian government of Bonomi falls 1922 Birthday Jean-Pierre Rampal, flutist, Italian Flute Concertos 1922 Death Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81 1921 Death Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48 1921 Birthday Gianni Agnelli, Italian Businessman 1920 Birthday Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian Statesman 1920 Death Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer and journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37 1920 Death Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35 1919 Death Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76 1919 Birthday Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist, world record 45,798 km 1919 Death Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62 1919 Death Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian Composer 1918 Death Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet 1918 Birthday Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party 1917 Event Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army 1917 Birthday Lou Monte, born in New Jersey, singer, Peppino the Italian Mouse 1916 Event Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol 1916 Birthday Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author, Family dictionary 1916 Event Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front 1916 Birthday Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer, Botteghe Oscure 1915 Event Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272 1915 Event Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 killed) 1915 Birthday Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone, Figaro-Barber of Seville 1915 Event Italian offensive at Isonzo 1915 Birthday Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer, Verdi/Puccini 1915 Birthday Alberto Burri, Italian physician, sculptor and abstract painter 1915 Birthday Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist 1914 Birthday Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer, Heaven Sees Red 1914 Event Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia 1914 Death Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79 1914 Birthday Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor and director, Divorce Italian Style 1914 Birthday Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass, Boris Godunov 1913 Birthday Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer, Le ragazze di San Frediano 1913 Birthday Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet, Diario d'Algeria 1912 Event Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control 1912 Birthday Michelangelo Antonioni, born in Ferrara, Italy, Italian modernist film director, 'Blow-up', 'Red Desert' 1912 Birthday Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969 1912 Event Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes 1912 Birthday Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor 1912 Birthday Afro, Italian painter 1912 Birthday Renato Guttuso, Italian painter, Flight from Etna, Crucifixion 1911 Event Italian troops occupy Tripoli 1911 Birthday Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader, Vatican movie bureau 1911 Birthday Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant 1911 Death Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68 1910 Death Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75 1910 Death Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85 1910 Birthday Anna Magnani, Italian actress, Awakening, Roma 1910 Birthday Mario Peragallo, Italian composer 1909 Birthday Alberto Erede, Italian conductor 1909 Death Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist, dies 1909 Death Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies 1909 Event Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris 1908 Birthday Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate, Savoy 1908 Birthday Cesare Pavese, Italian writer, La belle estate 1908 Birthday Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman, Club of Rome 1908 Birthday Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer, Don Camillo, Peppone 1908 Death Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61 1908 Birthday Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer 1907 Birthday Alberto Moravia, Pincherle, Italian author, Indifferent Ones 1906 Event French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia 1906 Birthday John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language and literature 1906 Death Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies 1906 Event Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel 1906 Birthday Primo Carnera, Italian boxer, champ-1933 1905 Event British, Italian, Russisan, French and Austria-Hungary fleet attack Lesbos 1905 Birthday Franco Albini, Italian architect 1905 Birthday Isa Miranda, Ines Sampietro, Italian model/actress, La ronde 1905 Birthday Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist 1904 Birthday Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector 1904 Birthday Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate 1904 Birthday Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer 1904 Birthday Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin 1903 Death Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies 1903 Death Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25 1903 Birthday Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician 1902 Event Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist 1902 Birthday Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter, Ladri di Biciclette 1902 Birthday Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter, Bicycle Thiefs 1901 Death Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82 1901 Birthday Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director, Fietsendieven 1901 Birthday Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, typewriter 1901 Birthday Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter 1901 Death Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (Rigoletto/Traviata/Aida), dies at 87 1900 Birthday Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter, opera stars 1900 Death Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci 1900 Birthday Aimone duke of Spoleta and Aosta, Italian king of Croatia, 1941-43 1900 Birthday Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter 1900 Death Vittorio Bersezio, Carlo Nugelli, Italian playwright, dies at 71 1899 Death Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (Become his fare), dies 1899 Birthday Carel C van Essen, Dutch archaeologist, Italian and Roman art 1898 Birthday Amedeo duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia/Governor-General of Italian East-Africa 1898 Birthday Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author, Kaputt 1897 Death Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70 1897 Birthday Olga Chekova, born in Russia, actress, Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children 1897 Death Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49 1896 Birthday Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author, Il giorno del giudizio 1896 Birthday Mario Praz, Italian literary, La carne, la morte, e il diavolo 1896 Birthday Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/Governor-General of Libya, La marcia su Rome 1896 Birthday Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter 1896 Event Italian premier Crispi resigns 1896 Death ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies of injuries 1896 Death ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Death ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Death ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Event Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea 1895 Event Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out 1895 Event Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies 1895 Event Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea 1895 Birthday Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator 1895 Birthday Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer, Gente in Aspromonte 1895 Event Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1894 Death Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68 1893 Birthday Carlo Emilio Gadda, born in Milan, Italy, writer, poet, innovator of pre-war Italian language with dialects, jargon, wordplay 1893 Birthday Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic, Scrittori d'Oggi 1892 Birthday Ugo Betti, Italian playwright 1891 Birthday Alberto Savinio, Andrea de Chirico, Italian writer/composer 1891 Death Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 51 1891 Birthday Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect, Nuove Struttura 1891 Birthday Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet, La Ronda 1891 Birthday Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist 1890 Death Collodi, Carlo Lorenzini, Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies 1890 Death Carlo Collodi, Italian Writer 1890 Birthday Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist 1889 Death Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83 1889 Death Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies 1888 Birthday Henry Armetta, Italian/U.S. actor, Bell for Adano, Big Store 1888 Death Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57 1888 Birthday Roberto Assagioli, Italian Psychologist 1887 Event French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die 1887 Birthday Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic, Tramonto del grande attore 1887 Birthday Diego Valeri, Italian author and poet, Le Gaie Tristezze 1886 Birthday Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director, Chechov 1886 Death Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 1886 Death Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 1885 Birthday Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet 1885 Birthday Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, Italian marathoner, Olympic-DQ gold-1908 1885 Birthday Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer, Batture d'aspetto 1885 Birthday Dino Campana, Italian poet, Canti orfici 1885 Birthday Aldo Palazzeschi, Giurlani, Italian writer, I cavalli bianchi 1885 Birthday Umberto Nobile, Italian general 1884 Death Paul Taglioni, "the Great," Italian/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75 1883 Birthday Benito Mussolini, Il Duce, Fascist Italian dictator, 1922-43 1883 Birthday Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer and journalist, La Torre, Tre Croci 1882 Birthday Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer, Solar physics 1882 Birthday Rodolfo Graziani, Italian marschal/viceroy of Ethiopia 1882 Death Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74 1882 Birthday Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist 1882 Birthday Giovanni Amendola, Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief, Il Mondo 1881 Birthday Pope John XXIII, Italian Pope 1881 Birthday Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier, 1945 - 1953 1880 Death Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice, dies at 76 1879 Birthday Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet, Il Libro Della Giovinezza 1879 Birthday Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator, Candide 1879 Death Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80 1878 Death Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Australia poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65 1878 Birthday Gemma Galgani, Italian saint 1876 Birthday Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer, Futurism e Futurista 1876 Birthday Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian feminist/poet, Una Donna 1876 Birthday Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer, Il dottore Antonio 1876 Death Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83 1875 Birthday Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator 1875 Birthday Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit and old testament scholar 1875 Death Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68 1872 Birthday Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer 1872 Birthday Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor, Columbus monument in Argentina 1872 Death Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66 1871 Birthday Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, Dog at a Rope 1871 Death Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies 1870 Event Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital 1870 Event Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French 1870 Birthday Ada Negri, Italian poet and author, Il Libro di Mara 1869 Birthday Giulio Douhet, Italian Soldier 1869 Birthday Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general, WW I, fascist 1866 Death Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide 1866 Event Italian fleet under Admiral Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa 1866 Event 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army 1865 Birthday Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer, Amore and Amore, Top 1865 Birthday Bernard Berenson, art critic, Italian Painters of the Renaissance 1864 Birthday Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer, Roman law 1863 Birthday Alfredo Panzini, Italian author, Dizionario Moderno 1863 Birthday Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer/fascist, Cavalleria Rusticana 1863 Death Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77 1862 Birthday Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer 1862 Birthday Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer 1862 Death Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies at 23 1861 Birthday Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist, La Coscienza di Zeno 1861 Birthday Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War, 1922-24 1861 Death Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59 1861 Death Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman 1860 Event 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin 1858 Birthday Eleonora Duse, Italian Actress 1858 Birthday Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic 1858 Birthday Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor, portraits 1858 Event Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London 1858 Birthday Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist, Circulation of Elite 1858 Event French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed 1857 Birthday Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer, I pagliacci/Zaza 1857 Birthday Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian Composer 1856 Birthday Matilde Serao, Tuffolina, Italian writer, Land of Cockayne 1855 Birthday Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist/poet 1854 Death Filippo Traetta, Philip Trajetta, Italian composer, dies at 77 1853 Birthday Errico Malatesta, Italian Activist 1853 Death Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Potifar, Giacobbe), dies at 66 1853 Birthday Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician, tensor analysis 1852 Birthday Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer, Political Struggle in Italy 1851 Death Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76 1850 Birthday Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal/earl, WW I-Caporetto 1850 Death Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned 1850 Death Giuseppe Giusti, Italian Poet 1850 Death Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint, dies at 54 1849 Event Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic) 1848 Death P Rossi, Italian, murdered 1848 Death Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58 1848 Event 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian 1848 Birthday Vilfredo F D Pareto, Italian economist/sociologist 1848 Birthday Vilfredo Pareto, Italian Economist 1848 Death Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer, dies at 50 1847 Birthday Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist, 2-fasenmotor 1847 Birthday Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter, libretti opera Puccini 1846 Birthday Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer, Cuore 1846 Death Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73 1846 Birthday Desiderio FA Pietri, Italian baker and marathon runner Dorando's father 1845 Death Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies 1845 Death Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 60 1844 Birthday Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist 1842 Birthday Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet, Il santo/Leila 1842 Death Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81 1842 Birthday Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet 1840 Birthday Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano 1840 Birthday Giovanni Verga, Italian writer, Eros 1840 Birthday Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor 1839 Death Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies 1839 Death Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76 1838 Birthday Gabriele dell' Addolorata, Francesco Possenti, Italian priest 1837 Death Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet 1837 Death Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 1835 Birthday Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist 1835 Death Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma), dies at 33 1835 Birthday Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist 1834 Birthday Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer, I promissory note sposi 1833 Death Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26 1832 Death Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, dies at 79 1830 Birthday Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education 1830 Death Pius VIII, Francesco S Castiglioni, Italian Pope 1829 - 1830, dies at 69 1829 Death Leo XII, Annibale Sermattei, Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68 1828 Birthday Vittorio Bersezio, Carlo Nugelli, Italian playwright 1827 Death Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 76 1827 Death Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49 1827 Birthday Carlo A Alfieri, Italian MP, Liberal 1827 Death Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82 1826 Birthday Collodi, Carlo Lorenzini, Italian author, Pinocchio 1826 Birthday Carlo Collodi, Italian Writer 1826 Birthday Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, Reaction of Cannizzaro 1826 Birthday Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist 1825 Event 1st Italian opera in U.S., "Barber of Seville" premieres (New York City) 1825 Death Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74 1824 Event Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris 1824 Death Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violist/composer, dies at 70 1823 Death Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53 1822 Death Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, dies at 64 1818 Birthday Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier 1817 Death Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63 1816 Death Vincenzo Galeotti, Tomazelli, Italian dancer/choreographer, dies at 73 1816 Death Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76 1813 Death Giambattista Bodoni, Italian stamp cutter/publisher (bodoni), dies at 73 1813 Birthday Giuseppe Fortunio Francesco Verdi, Italian composer, Traviata, Aida 1812 Birthday Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet, Lettere a Maria 1811 Birthday Angelo Catelani, Italian composer and conductor 1810 Birthday Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman 1809 Birthday Giuseppe Giusti, Italian Poet 1808 Birthday Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican 1808 Event 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri 1807 Death Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian Statesman 1807 Birthday Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder, Liefdezusters 1806 Birthday Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education 1806 Birthday Giacomo Antonelli, Italian cardinal and assistant sec of state for Pius IX 1805 Birthday Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary, Il Apostolato Popolare 1805 Death Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62 1804 Death Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75 1804 Birthday Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education 1804 Death Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75 1803 Death Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54 1803 Death Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist 1803 Birthday Gugliemo Libri, della Somaia, Italian/French mathematician/book collector 1802 Death Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72 1802 Event Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1801 Birthday Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer, La Sonnambula, Norma 1801 Birthday Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing-teacher 1801 Death Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51 1800 Death Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72 1799 Death Pius VI, Giovanni A Braschi, Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71 1799 Death Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (xy=a(a-y)), dies at 80 1798 Death Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61 1798 Birthday Antonia M B Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat 1798 Birthday Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet 1795 Birthday Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint 1795 Death Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian literary, dies at 80 1793 Death Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85 1793 Death Francesco Guardi, Italian painter, dies at 80 1792 Birthday Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane 1788 Death Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86 1787 Death Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat, dies at 58 1787 Death Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 1787 Death Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 1786 Birthday Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist 1784 Birthday Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat 1782 Death Farinelli, Italian singer, dies at 77 1780 Death Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82 1779 Death Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52 1778 Death Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58 1778 Birthday Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis 1775 Death Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67 1773 Birthday Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat 1773 Death Luigi Vanvitelli, Louis van Wittel, Italian architect, dies at 72 1770 Birthday Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian, Naples Revolution 1799 1770 Death Marie AC de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60 1770 Death Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73 1770 Death Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer/violinist, dies at 77 1768 Death Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer, dies at 78 1768 Death Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70 1768 Death Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70 1767 Death Benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies 1765 Death Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73 1764 Birthday Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist, Italian 1764 Death Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53 1764 Death Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 68 1762 Birthday Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist 1760 Birthday M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian prodigy/composer 1757 Birthday Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor 1757 Death Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71 1756 Death Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94 1755 Birthday Frederico Fiorillo, Italian violist/composer 1754 Birthday Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter, Napoleon 1754 Birthday Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator, Al Signor di Montgolfier 1752 Death Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88 1752 Birthday Muzio Clementi, Italian composer 1751 Birthday Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist, composer and conductor 1750 Death Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78 1749 Birthday Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer, Il Matrimonio Segreto 1749 Birthday Vittoria A. Alfieri, Italian count/poet, Maria Stuarda 1749 Birthday Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist 1747 Death Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76 1746 Birthday Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk, mathematician, and discoverer, discovers 1st asteroid, Ceres 1744 Birthday Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian/Russian master builder, Hermitage Theater 1744 Death Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64 1744 Death Giambattista Vico, Italian Philosopher 1743 Death Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian/France composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77 1743 Birthday [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist, Minuet 1743 Death Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer, dies at 85 1742 Death Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday 1742 Death Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 62 1742 Death Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70 1741 Death Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63 1740 Birthday Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer, Barber of Seville 1740 Death Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72 1737 Birthday Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist/physicist 1736 Death Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini), dies at 45 1736 Death Giovanni B Pergolesi, Italian composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 26 1735 Birthday Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana, Italian lawyer 1733 Birthday Vincenzo Galeotti, Tomazelli, Italian dancer/choreographer 1731 Death Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italian piano builder, dies at 75 1729 Birthday Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet, Il Giorno 1729 Birthday Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer. 1728 Birthday Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat 1728 Birthday Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright 1728 Death Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64 1728 Death Agostino Steffani, Italian/German diplomat/composer, dies at 73 1728 Birthday Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer, Buona Figliuola 1727 Birthday Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer/band leader, Farnace 1725 Birthday Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian Statesman 1723 Death Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, dies at 66 1721 Death Clement XI, Giovanni F Albani, Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71 1720 Birthday Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher 1717 Death Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies 1714 Birthday Rainieri De Calzabigi, Italian's literary, 1st European Lottery 1713 Death Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer, dies at about 49 1712 Birthday Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic, Viaggio in Russia 1712 Birthday Francesco Guardi, Italian painter 1712 Death Jean [Giovanni] D Cassini, Italian/French astronomer, dies 1711 Birthday Ruggiero G Boscovich, Rudzer J Boskovic, Italian astronomer 1710 Death Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies at 36 1710 Birthday Marie A C de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer 1710 Birthday Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, Il Prigioniero Superbo 1709 Death Giuseppi Torelli, Italian composer, dies at 50 1708 Birthday Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter 1706 Birthday Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer, opera's buffa 1703 Birthday Caffarelli, Gaetano Majorano, Italian castra singer/duke 1702 Birthday Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher 1701 Death Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75 1700 Birthday Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect 1697 Birthday Francesco A. Vallotti, Italian organist/composer/theorist 1696 Birthday Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/religious order founder 1696 Birthday Giovanni Battista Tupolo, Italian painter 1695 Birthday Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer 1694 Death Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies 1693 Death Antonio Caraffa, Italian general (Eperieser Bloedgericht), dies at 46? 1691 Birthday Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect, Cappella Corsini 1691 Death Carlo di Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect/composer, dies at 79 1691 Death Alexander VIII, Pietro Ottoboni, Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80 1690 Death Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer, dies at 63 1690 Birthday Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer 1686 Birthday Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer, Lettera Famigliare 1686 Death Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76 1686 Death Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66 1685 Death Sassoferrato, Giovanni B Salvi, Italian painter (Madonna), dies at 75 1682 Death Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37 1680 Death Giovanni L Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies 1680 Birthday Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer, Stabat mater 1679 Birthday Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius 1679 Birthday Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer 1676 Death Clement X, Emilio Altieri, Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86 1676 Death Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73 1676 Death Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian (opera)composer, dies at 73 1675 Birthday Evaristo E Felice dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer 1674 Death Giacomo Carissimi, Italian bandmaster/composer (Jephta), dies at 68 1673 Death Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57 1672 Death Orazio Benevoli, Italian composer, dies at 67 1671 Birthday Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius 1671 Birthday Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer, Adagio in G-minor 1670 Birthday Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian, opera, composer 1669 Death Clement IX, Giulio Rospigliosi, Italian Pope 1667 - 1669, dies 1669 Death Leo Allatios, Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about 82 1668 Birthday Giambattista Vico, Italian Philosopher 1667 Death Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies 1667 Death Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi, Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68 1666 Birthday Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, eardrums, glottis 1664 Birthday Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal 1663 Birthday Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic, Arcadia 1661 Death Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 1660 Death Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria), dies at 72 1657 Birthday Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer 1656 Death Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55 1654 Death Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58 1654 Death Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76 1652 Death Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67 1649 Death Famiano Strada, Italian jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77 1647 Death Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist 1646 Death Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53 1644 Birthday Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist and composer 1643 Death Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi, Italian composer (L'arianna), dies at 76 1643 Death Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59 1643 Death Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60 1642 Death Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66 1642 Death Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy 1640 Death Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63 1640 Death Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer, dies at 61 1639 Death Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 1636 Death Giovanni B Aleotti, Italian writer/theater architect, dies at about 90 1633 Death Carlo Caraffa, Italian jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72 1633 Death Jacopo Peri, Italian opera composer, dies at 71 1633 Event Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1630 Event Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface 1629 Death Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies 1629 Death Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/writer, dies at 67 1627 Death Gonzaga, Italian monarch of Mantua/Monferrato, dies 1625 Death Giulio C Procaccini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies 1625 Birthday Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor 1623 Death Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70 1620 Death Carlo Saraceni, Carlo Veniziano, Italian painter (Judith), dies 1617 Death Prosper Alpinus, Italian physician/botanist, dies at 63 1616 Death Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies 1614 Death Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies 1614 Death Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64 1612 Death Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60 1610 Death Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies 1609 Birthday Sassoferrato, Giovanni B Salvi, Italian painter, Madonna 1609 Death Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69 1608 Birthday Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist 1608 Death Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44 1607 Birthday Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist: Istoria del Concilio di Trento 1607 Death Alessandro Agnolo Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer, dies at 72 1605 Death Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 1605 Death Leo XI, Alessandro O de' Medici, Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69 1604 Death Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71 1603 Death Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62 1602 Birthday Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer 1599 Birthday Ottavio Piccolomini, Italian/Spanish marshal 1596 Death Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies 1595 Birthday Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect 1595 Death Philippus Nerius, Filippo Neri, Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79 1595 Death Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51 1595 Death Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies 1594 Death Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75 1594 Death Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68 1593 Birthday Fulvio Testi, Italian poet, Pianto d'Italia 1592 Death Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist and composer (Responsoria), dies 1592 Death Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80 1591 Death Gregory XIV, Niccolo Sfondrati, Italian Pope, dies at 56 1591 Death Aloysius [Luigi] van Gonzaga, Prince/Italian Jesuit saint, dies 1590 Death Urban VII, Giambattista Castagna, Italian Pope (1590), dies 1589 Death Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, dies at 67 1588 Death Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies 1587 Death Felix van Cantalice, Italian saint, dies 1585 Death Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies 1585 Death Gregory XIII, Ugo Buoncampagni, Italian Pope (1572-85), dies 1583 Death Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect/painter/archaeologist, dies at 83 1582 Birthday Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer 1580 Death Giovanni Morone, Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies at 71 1580 Death Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63 1578 Birthday Francesco Albana, Italian painter, Mary's Ascension 1578 Birthday Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, L'adamo 1578 Death Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies 1577 Birthday Cristofano Allori, Italian painter, Judith 1577 Birthday Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, Aanbidding of the Point 1576 Death Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74 1576 Death Titian, Tiziano Vecelli, Italian painter, dies of plague 1574 Birthday Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet 1574 Death Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54 1572 Death Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60 1571 Event Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland 1571 Death Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor/writer (Perseus), dies at 70 1570 Death Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 1568 Birthday Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, Citt del sole 1568 Birthday Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga, Italian prince, jesuit and saint 1566 Death Marcus A Vida, Marcus Hieronymus, Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies 1566 Death Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter, dies at 37 1566 Death Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies 1566 Death David Riccio, Italian singer/secretary of Mary Stuart, murdered 1565 Death Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62 1565 Death Pius IV, Gianangelo de' Medici, Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66 1564 Death Pietro P Vergerio, Italian theologist/bishop of Croatia, dies 1564 Death Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88 1563 Birthday Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, Caracciolini 1561 Birthday Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author 1561 Death Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal, dies at 41 1559 Birthday Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter/architect 1558 Death Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74 1557 Death Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies 1557 Death Il Bacchiacca, Franceso Ubertini, Italian painter, dies at 63 1556 Death Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing 1556 Death Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 1555 Death Marcellus II, Marcello Cervini, Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53 1553 Death Bonifazio Veronese/Veneziano, de' Pitati, Italian painter, dies 1552 Birthday Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary, China 1551 Death Aristotele "Basiano" da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies 1550 Death Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64 1550 Birthday Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint 1549 Death Paul III, Alessandro Farnese, Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81 1549 Death Pope Paul III, Italian Clergyman 1547 Death Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter, dies at about 46 1547 Death Pierlugi Faraese, Italian son of Pope Paul III, murdered 1547 Death Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies 1546 Death Giulio Romano, Italian painter/architect (Ondergang der Titanen), dies 1543 Death Agnolo Firenzuola, Giovannini, Italian monk (De golden ezel), dies 1542 Birthday Roberto Bellarmino, Italian theologist/diplomat 1542 Death Hieronymus Aleander, Girolamo Aleandro, Italian diplomat, dies at 61 1540 Birthday Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist, Tre libri 1540 Death Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/president of Romagna, dies at 57 1540 Death Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies 1539 Death Antonio M Zaccaria, Italian physician/saint, dies 1538 Birthday Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer, Faithfull Shepherd 1538 Birthday Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet, Trattato 1537 Death Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies 1537 Death Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated 1536 Death Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect/painter, dies 1535 Death Francesco Sforza, Italian ruler (Milan), dies 1535 Birthday Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer 1535 Death Bernardo Accolti, Unico Aretino, Italian writer (Virginia), dies 1534 Death Clement VII, Giulio de' Medici, Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56 1533 Death Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57 1531 Death Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter, dies at 44 1530 Death Andrea del Sato, d'Agnolo di Franceszo, Italian painter, dies at 44 1530 Death Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies 1529 Birthday Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter 1528 Death Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48 1527 Birthday Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor 1525 Death Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49 1522 Birthday Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical 1522 Death Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75 1521 Death Leo X, Giovanni de' Medici, Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45 1521 Birthday Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, Descrittione di Tutti 1519 Birthday Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal 1518 Birthday Tintoretto, Italian painter 1518 Death Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara 1517 Birthday Antonio Scandello, Italian composer, Passion of Johannes 1515 Death Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter, dies at 41 1515 Birthday St. Philippus Nerius, Philippo Neri, Italian merchant/priest 1513 Birthday Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian composer 1512 Death Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48 1512 Death Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60 1511 Birthday Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect 1510 Death Il Giorgione, Giorgio del Castelfranco, Italian painter, dies at 32 1509 Death Catharina Sforza, Italian duchess of Forli, dies at 45 1509 Event Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice 1509 Birthday Giovanni Morone, Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic" 1508 Death Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55 1507 Birthday Gentile Bellini, Italian artist, Sultan Mohammed II 1503 Birthday Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian, Storia Fiorentina 1503 Birthday Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist, Madonna with the Long Neck 1499 Death Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher 1499 Birthday Pius IV, Gianangelo de' Medici, Italian lawyer/pope, 1559-65 1498 Death Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77 1497 Death Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52 1497 Event Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World 1496 Death Benedetto Bonfiglio, Italian painter, dies 1495 Birthday Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet, Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione 1494 Death Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56 1494 Death Gian Galeazzo, Italian duke of Milan (1476-94), dies 1494 Birthday Il Bacchiacca, Franceso Ubertini, Italian painter 1493 Birthday Agnolo Firenzuola, Giovannini, Italian monk, Golden Donkey 1492 Death Innocent VII, Giovanni B Cibo, Italian Pope (1484-92), dies 1492 Birthday Andreas Alciatus, Giovanni Andrea-Alciato, Italian lawyer 1492 Birthday Pietro Aretino, born in Arezzo, Italy, Italian author, poet and playwright 1492 Birthday Andreas Alicatus, Italian author 1485 Birthday Veronica Gambara, Italian poet 1483 Birthday Raphael Sanzio, Italian painter and master builder, Madonna Sistina 1483 Birthday Francesco Guicciardini, Italian attorney and president of Romagna 1482 Death Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician and mapmaker, dies 1482 Death Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81 1481 Death Bartholomeus Platinum, Italian humanist/pontifical librarian, dies 1480 Birthday Hieronymus Aleander, Girolamo Aleandro, Italian diplomat/cardinal 1475 Birthday Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet, Le Api 1475 Death Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Citt di Vita), dies at 69 1474 Birthday Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter 1474 Birthday Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint 1472 Death Leon Battista Alberti, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura', dies at 68 1471 Death Paul II, Pietro Barbo, Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54 1469 Birthday Giovanni della Robbia, Italian sculptor 1468 Birthday Pope Paul III, Italian Clergyman 1466 Death Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64 1464 Death Pius II, Aenea S Piccolomini, Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58 1463 Birthday Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher 1463 Death Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65 1459 Death Pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies 1458 Birthday Bernardo Accolti, Unico Aretino, Italian writer, Virginia 1458 Death Mapheus Vegius, Maffeo Vegio, Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies 1457 Death Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50 1456 Birthday Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet, Arcadia 1455 Death Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor, dies at 77 1455 Death Nicholas V, Tommaso Parentucelli, Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 1455 Death Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies 1454 Birthday Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, America 1452 Birthday Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, 1494 . .1500 1450 Death Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70 1447 Death Eugene IV, Gabriele Condulmer, Italian Pope (1431-47), dies 1444 Death Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63 1444 Birthday Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter, Birth of Venus 1443 Death Niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies 1439 Death Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53 1438 Death Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64 1433 Birthday Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher 1431 Death Martinus V, Oddo Colonna, Italian Pope, dies 1431 Birthday Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope, 1492 - 1503 1419 Death John XXIII, Baldassare Cossa, Italian Pope (1410-15), dies 1416 Death Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Italian astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies 1406 Death Innocent VII, Cosma de' Migliorati, Italian Pope (1404-06), dies 1406 Birthday Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer, Della vita civile 1405 Birthday Pius II, Aenea S Piccolomini, Italian pope, 1458-64, Cynthia 1404 Birthday Leon Battista Alberti, born in Genoa, Italy, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura' 1399 Death Raymundus of Capua, Italian general, dies 1389 Death Urbanus VI, Bartolomeo Prignano, Italian pope (1378-89), dies 1386 Birthday Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist//sciencist/general 1380 Birthday Bernardinus of Siena, Italian saint 1380 Birthday Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint 1375 Death Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies 1374 Death Francesco Petrarca, Petracco, Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69 1374 Death Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69 1374 Death Andreas Corsini, Italian saint/bishop of Fiesole, dies 1348 Death John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies 1341 Death Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies 1337 Death Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies 1336 Event Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux 1336 Death Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71 1333 Death Nicolaas V, Pietro Rainalducci, Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies 1327 Event Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura 1324 Death Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies 1321 Death Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56 1317 Death Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies 1305 Death Nicholas van Tolentino, Italian saint, dies 1298 Death Jacob de Voragine, Italian bishop/writer (Golden Legend), dies 1287 Death Honorius IV, Giacomo Savelli, Italian Pope (1285-87), dies 1280 Death Nicholas III, Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, Italian Pope (1277-80), dies 1276 Death Adrian V, Ottobono Fieschi, Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies 1274 Death John F Bonaventura, Italian/French theologist/dominican/saint, dies 1274 Death Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48 1272 Death Zita/Cita, Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59 1272 Death Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies 1267 Death Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies 1265 Birthday Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, Divina Commedia 1253 Death Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53 1252 Death Peter of Verona, Peter Martyr, Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45 1241 Death Gregory IX, Ugolino di Segni, Italian Pope, dies 1221 Death Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) 1216 Death Innocent III, Lotario di Segni, Italian Pope (1198-1216), dies 1214 Death Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa, Italian bishop, dies 1202 Death Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies 1187 Death Gregory VIII, Alberto de Morra, Italian Pope (1187), dies 1187 Death Urbanus III, Umberto Crivelli, Italian Pope (1185-87), dies 1185 Death Lucius III, Ubaldo Allucingoli, Italian Pope (1181-85), dies 1181 Death Alexander III, Orlando Bandinelli, Italian Pope (1159-81), dies 1168 Death Paschal III, Guido di Crema, Italian anti-Pope, dies 1167 Event Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League 1164 Death Victor IV, Ottaviano Montecello, Italian antipope (1159-64), dies 1160 Death Peterus Lombardus, Italian theologist/bishop of Paris, dies 1153 Death Eugene III, Bernardo, Italian Pope (1145-53), dies 1145 Death Lucius II, Gherardo Caccianemici, Italian Pope (1144-45), dies 1144 Death Celestine II, Guido, Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle 1143 Death Innocent II, Gregorio de' Papareschi, Italian Pope 1130 - 1143, dies 1142 Death Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint, dies 1124 Death Callistus II, Guido di Borgogna, Italian Pope (1119-24), dies 1087 Death Victor III, Dauferio/Desiderius, Italian Pope (1086-87), dies 1078 Death Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies 1078 Death John of Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies 1073 Death Johannes Gualbertus, Italian monk/saint, dies 1050 Death Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies 1012 Death Sergius IV, Pietro Crescentii, Italian Pope (1009-12), dies 984 Death John XIV, Petrus Canepanova, Italian Pope (983-84), dies 983 Death Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies 966 Death Benedictus V Grammaticus, Italian Pope (5/22-6/23 964), dies 965 Death Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies 939 Death Leo VII, Italian Pope (936-39), dies 911 Death Sergius III, Italian Pope (904-11), dies 891 Death Stephen V, VI, Italian Pope (885-91), dies 882 Death John VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies 872 Death Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80 867 Death Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67), dies 858 Death Benedict III, Italian Pope (855-58), dies 855 Death Leo IV, Italian Pope (847-55), dies 824 Death Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies 816 Death Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies 795 Death Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies 767 Death Paul I, Paolo Orsini, Italian Pope (757-67), dies 701 Death Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies 685 Death Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies 678 Death Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies 676 Death Adeodatus II, Italian Pope (672-76), dies 657 Death Eugene I, Italian Pope (654-7), dies 640 Death Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies 638 Death Honorius I, dux plebis, Italian Pope, dies 625 Death Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies 618 Death Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies 607 Death Boniface III, Italian Pope (607), dies 606 Death Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies 579 Death Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies 574 Death John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies 561 Death Pelagius I, Italian Pope (547-51, 556-61), dies 555 Death Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies 537 Death Sylvester, Italian Pope (536-37), dies 536 Death Agapitus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies 535 Death John, Mercurius, Italian Pope (533-35), dies 514 Death Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies 483 Death Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies 461 Death Leo I the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies 440 Death Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies 432 Death Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies 422 Death Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies 417 Death Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies 399 Death Siricius, Italian Pope (384-99), dies 366 Death Liberius, Italian Pope (352-66), dies 365 Death Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies 273 Death Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274) 130 Birthday Claudius Galenus, Italian physician/scholar
