** Dictator Francisco Franco assumes power in Madrid.

** John Franco, American baseball player

** Franco Maria Malfatti, Italian politician.

** Francisco Franco commutes the death sentences of the Burgos Trial defendants to 30 years in prison.

** Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting Head of State after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.

** Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies in Madrid, effectively marking the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of Spain's transition to democracy.

** Adolfo Suárez, First Spanish Prime Minister after the dictatorship of Franco

** Franco Uncini, Italian motorcycle racer

** Peter Paul Rubens begins work on his famous classical tapestries, when a contract is signed in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts in Brussels, and the rich Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo.

** Franco Lucentini, Italian writer ( b. 1920 )

** Hernando Franco, Spanish composer ( d. 1585 )

** Veronica Franco, poet and courtesan ( born 1546 )

** Herbert von Karajan ( conductor ) Franco Corelli, Mirella Freni, Robert Merrill, Leontyne Price & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Bizet: Carmen

** Herbert von Karajan ( conductor ) Franco Corelli, Mirella Freni, Robert Merrill, Leontyne Price & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Bizet: Carmen

** Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Zubin Mehta conducting, Gwyneth Jones, soprano ; Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano ; Franco Corelli, tenor ; Ezio Flagello, baritone ( Myto Records )

** Arte-Public Franco / German ( see also List of German-language television channels )

** Deputy Secretary: Bobo Craxi ( 2002 – 2005 ), Mauro Del Bue ( 2003 – 2006 ), Chiara Moroni ( 2005 – 2006 ), Alessandro Battilocchio ( 2006 – 2007 ), Francesco Pizzo ( 2006 – 2007 ), Franco Spedale ( 2007 – 2010 ), Franco Caruso ( 2007 – 2011 ), Adolfo Collice ( 2007 – 2011 ), Francesco Pizzo ( 2010 – present ), Laura Schianchi ( 2011 – present )

** Deputy-Secretary: Roberto Villetti ( 1998 – 2008 ), Claudio Martelli ( 1999 – 2001 ), Gian Franco Schietroma ( 2001 – 2002 )

** In 1968, John McEnery portrayed Mercutio in Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet.

** Franco Corelli

** Round of 32 — Lost to Luis Franco of Cuba, 32-15

** Maritza Franco

** Franco Frattini, Minister for Foreign Affairs

** Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor ( tuberculosis ) ( b. 1884 )

** Modigliani, a 2004 biographical film about the painter and sculptor

** Federico Castelluccio, Italian-born actor

** José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer ( d. 2001 )

** Licia Albanese, Italian-born soprano

** Gilbert Proesch, Italian-born artist ( Gilbert and George )

** Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer ( b. 1907 )

** James Colosimo, Italian-born gangster ( b. 1877 )

** Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1912 )

** Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher ( d. 1999 )

** Lanza del Vasto, Italian-born philosopher, poet, and activist ( b. 1901 )

** Juan Zanotto, Italian-born Argentine comic book artist ( b. 1935 ).

** Nasim Pedrad is the first Iranian-American SNL cast member, the first ( and so far only ) female Asian cast member, the first ( and so far only ) full-blooded Asian cast member ( Fred Armisen is only part-Japanese, and Rob Schneider before him was half-Filipino ), and the fifth cast member to be born outside of North America ( after the Italian-born Tony Rosato, the New Zealand-born Pamela Stephenson, the England-born Morwenna Banks, and the Chilean-born Horatio Sanz ).

** Franklin Delano Roosevelt III ( b. 1938 ), American economist

** James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

** Robert Triffin, Belgian economist ( b. 1911 )

** George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

** Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1999 )

** Alice Rivlin, American economist

** Jacques Braunstein, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publiicist and disc jockey ( d. 2009 )

** Alan Greenspan, American economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

** Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2006 )

** Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist ( b. 1819 ).

** Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist ( d. 1991 )

** Austrian-born economist Friedrich Hayek publishes his book The Road to Serfdom ( in London ).

** Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author ( b. 1932 )

** Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Belgian economist

** Thorstein Veblen, Norwegian-American economist ( b. 1857 )

** Robert Heilbroner, American economist ( d. 2005 )

** Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Max Weber, German political economist ( b. 1864 )

** Herbert A. Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2001 )