February 28

The February 28 is the 59th day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 306 days (in leap years 307 days) by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 202 BC BC : After the joint destruction of the Qin dynasty in China , the military leader Liu Bang defeated his rival Xiang Yu and founds the Han dynasty under the imperial name of Han Gaozu .
• 0380 : In the three Emperor edict Cunctos populos of Thessaloniki , the rulers Theodosius I , Gratian and Valentinian II lay the foundations for Christianity as a Roman imperial church .
• 1525 : The Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés has the last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan , Cuauhtémoc , executed for alleged high treason .

1616: The execution of Fettmilch

• 1616 : The ringleaders of the so-called Fettmilch uprising in Frankfurt am Main , Vincenz Fettmilch , Konrad Gerngroß, Konrad Schopp and Georg Ebel, are executed on the Frankfurt Roßmarkt .

1638: Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar

• 1638 : After losing the first encounter with an Imperial-Bavarian relief army in the battle of Rheinfelden , Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar had to give up the siege of the imperial city of Rheinfelden in the Thirty Years' War .
• 1653 : The Anglo-Dutch War leads to the sea ​​battle near Portland . After three days of fighting, in which the Dutch losses are higher, English supremacy in the English Channel is restored.
• 1810 : Under pressure from Napoleon Bonaparte, the Kingdom of Bavaria cedes southern Tyrol to the Kingdom of Italy in the Treaty of Paris and is compensated with extensive other territorial gains.
• 1813 : With the Treaty of Kalisch with Russia , Prussia changes to the side of the coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte .
• 1854 : The Republican Party in the USA is founded in Wisconsin to oppose the spread of slavery . You belong to many opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act .

1857: Josef Graf Radetzky

• 1857 : After 72 years of service, the Austrian field marshal Josef Wenzel Radetzky von Radetz retires at the age of 90.
• 1897 : The last Madagascan queen Ranavalona III. is deposed by the French general Joseph Gallieni and banished into exile .
• 1900 : By law in the Grand Duchy of Baden women are admitted to university without restrictions .
• 1922 : Great Britain gives Egypt an extensive independence with the Declaration to Egypt . The protecting power reserves certain rights in its former protectorate , which becomes a kingdom on March 15th.

1933: Reichstag Fire Ordinance

• 1933 : One day after the Reichstag fire of German adopts Reich President Paul von Hindenburg the Reichstag Fire Decree . This forms the basis for the later synchronization of the German Reich .
• 1933 : The writer and editor of the Weltbühne , Carl von Ossietzky , is arrested by the National Socialists and interned in Berlin-Spandau, after which he is transferred to the Sonnenburg concentration camp , later to the Esterwegen concentration camp in Emsland.

1942: Battle of the Java Sea

• 1942 : In the Battle of the Java Sea in the Pacific War, the Japanese fleet destroys the majority of the ABDA fleet of the allied ABDACOM , which had already been disbanded on February 25, and then occupies Java . The cruisers USS Houston (CA-30) and HMAS Perth (D29) managed to escape initially, but were embroiled in another sea battle and sunk on the same day in the Sunda Strait .
• 1943 : In the second shutdown action, the Reich Press Chamber orders 950 newspapers to be discontinued in Germany due to a shortage of raw materials. The Trierische Landeszeitung is one of the newspapers affected .
• 1947 : A dispute the day before over a cigarette seller in Taipei triggers a nationwide uprising against the government of the Republic of China in Taiwan , which kills over 10,000 by mid-March.
• 1961 : The German Federal Constitutional Court declares Deutschland-Fernsehen GmbH to be unconstitutional because the federal government intervenes in the competences of the states, and thus ends Konrad Adenauer's project for a private television station .
• 1977 : Der Spiegel appears in the Federal Republic of Germany with the cover story The protection of the constitution breaks the constitution - eavesdropping on citizen T. This uncovered the eavesdropping action of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) against the atomic physicist Klaus Traube , the eavesdropping affair Traube , which resulted in Interior Minister Werner Maihofer must resign.
• 1981 : The largest demonstration in the Federal Republic of Germany to date takes place in Schleswig-Holstein with the large demonstration near Brokdorf .

1986: Olof Palme

• 1986 : Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot dead on the street in Stockholm ; the circumstances remain unresolved.
• 1997 : Beginning of the “postmodern”, “soft” or “silent” coup in Turkey: At the urging of the military, the National Security Council passes an 18-point memorandum against Islamist tendencies. As a result of the process initiated by this, Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan ( Welfare Party ) , who is himself Islamist-oriented, has to resign four months later.
• 2003 : Václav Klaus is elected President of the Czech Republic with a narrow majority .

2004: 228 hand-in-hand rally

• 2004 : Over a million people in Taiwan form a 500 km human chain in memory of the February 28, 1947 incident and as a reminder for peace.
• 2005 : The pro-Syrian Prime Minister of Lebanon , Omar Karami , which occurs because of the ongoing protests Cedar Revolution following the assassination of his predecessor Rafik al-Hariri's back on 14 February.

economy

• 1827 : The State of Maryland passes the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Bill . It subsequently becomes the first railroad company in the USA for public freight and passenger transport.

1935: Wallace Hume Carothers

• 1935 : Wallace Hume Carothers patented nylon, which was invented in a DuPont laboratory .
• 1946 : The French sports newspaper L'Équipe appears with the first edition.
• 1990 : In the Soviet Union , private farmers are given the opportunity to buy land and pass it on to their descendants. This eases the land reform based on Lenin's decree on land of 1917.
• 1991 : The television broadcaster Premiere begins broadcasting as the first German pay-TV company.
• 2002 : Two months after the issuance of euro cash, the respective former national currencies in the euro zone are accepted by retailers and banks for the last time.

science and technology

1850: Brigham Young

• 1850 : Brigham Young , second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mormon prophet , founds the University of Deseret , the forerunner of today's University of Utah in Salt Lake City .

1953: Model of the DNA double helix

• 1873 : The Norwegian doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen describes his observations about the leprosy pathogen Mycobacterium leprae that he discovered .
• 1928 : The Indian physicist CV Raman experimentally proves a certain scattering of light , the Raman scattering named after the discoverer . The discovery and his work on the diffusion of light are honored with the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics .
• 1953 : The English biochemists James Watson and Francis Crick unravel the structure of the genetic material deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) on the basis of data from the X-ray structure analysis by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins .
• 1959 : With the first launch of a launcher from Vandenberg Air Force Base , California, the spy satellite Discoverer 1 is put into orbit. Discoverer is an alias for the United States' Corona program .

Culture

1835: First edition of the Kalevala

• 1835 : A first version of Elias Lönnrot's Finnish national epic Kalevala appears. In Finland today this date is celebrated as "Kalevala Day".
• 1913 : The German-language premiere at the Theater an der Wien is the basis for the worldwide success of the play Liliom by the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár , which was panned by the press and the public after its premiere in Budapest on December 7, 1909. Director Alfred Polgar has relocated the play to Vienna, director Josef Jarno and his wife Hansi Niese play the leading roles.
• 1933 : Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel go into exile in Prague.
• 1936 : The premiere of the opera Bloud (The Gate) by Josef Bohuslav Foerster takes place at the Prague National Theater .

1962: Oberhausen Manifesto

• 1962 : In the Oberhausen Manifesto the birth of beats Young German Film . At a press conference, Papa's Kino is declared dead by the Oberhausen group .
• 1971 : The ballet Carmen by John Cranko based on the novel of the same name by Prosper Mérimée with music by Wolfgang Fortner in collaboration with Wilfried Steinbrenner is premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theaters in Stuttgart . Marcia Haydée dances the title role .
• 1974 : In New York Museum of Modern Art is Pablo Picasso's famous work Guernica sprayed with a text.

1986: Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt

• 1986 : The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is opened.

society

1993: Branch Davidians flag hoisted on Mount Carmel during the siege

• 1993 : The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms attempts to search Mount Carmel, the Davidian headquarters in Waco , Texas, on suspicion of sexual abuse of minors . This leads to a firefight and a subsequent siege of the farm, which lasts until April 19.

religion

• 1870 : Through the Ferman for the establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz , the Bulgarian Orthodox Church regains its independence in the form of an exarchate .
• 1926 : In the encyclical Rerum ecclesiae , Pope Pius XI. towards the duty of missionary work. Missionaries should also arise from the mission countries themselves.

2013: Benedict XVI.

• 2013 : The pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. ends on this day at 8:00 p.m. due to his voluntary resignation on February 11, 2013.

Disasters

1890: RMS Quetta

• 1890 : The passenger ship RMS Quetta sinks in the Torres Strait on the Queensland coast after colliding with an underwater rock. 134 people are killed.
• 1997 : In an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan around 1,100 people are killed.
• 1997 : An earthquake in northern Iran kills around 3,000.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Sports

1892: Wilhelm Steinitz

• 1892 : The Austrian Wilhelm Steinitz defends his world title in chess with a victory with 12.5–10.5 points against the Russian Michail Iwanowitsch Tschigorin .
• 1904 : The Sport Lisboa e Benfica team is founded, from which the Benfica Lisbon sports club emerges.
• 1960 : The VIII Winter Olympics , which began on February 18th, end in Squaw Valley . Walt Disney is responsible for the closing ceremony.
• 1988 : With the closing ceremony, the XV. Winter Olympics in Calgary , Canada , which started on February 13th and lasted 16 days for the first time.

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1155 : Henry the Younger , English heir to the throne and co-king of his father Heinrich II.
• 1261 : Margrete Aleksandersdotter , Queen of Norway
• 1275 : Conrad IV. Von Baierbrunn , nobleman and headess of the Bavarian duke
• 1333 : William Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Groby , English nobleman
• 1409 : Elisabeth of Luxemburg , daughter of Emperor Sigismund and his wife Barbara von Cilli
• 1442 : Oswald I. von dem Bergh , Count von dem Bergh
• 1462 : Joan of Castile , Spanish noblewoman, Princess of Castile, Queen of Portugal
• 1518 : Franz III. , French heir to the throne and Duke of Brittany
• 1533 : Michel de Montaigne , French politician, philosopher and founder of essay writing

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (* 1533)

• 1552 : Jost Bürgi , Swiss-German watchmaker, instrument maker and astronomer
• 1567 : Eleonora de 'Medici , Duchess of Mantua
• 1573 : Elias Holl , German builder
• 1579 : Sigismund Weier , German mathematician, librarian and historian
• 1589 : Maarten Gerritszoon de Vries , Dutch navigator and explorer
• 1597 : Albrecht Friedrich , owner of the dominions of Rosenburg and Mühlingen, member of the Fruit-Bringing Society
• 1627 : Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford , English nobleman
• 1655 : Johann Beer , Austrian writer and composer
• 1675 : Guillaume Delisle , French cartographer
• 1683 : René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur , French natural and materials researcher, entomologist
• 1690 : Alexei of Russia , Tsarevich (Crown Prince) of Russia
• 1698 : Sigismund III. Christoph von Schrattenbach , Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Salzburg

18th century

• 1704 : Hans Hermann von Katte , Prussian officer and childhood friend of Friedrich II.

Johann Christian Senckenberg (* 1707)

• 1707 : Johann Christian Senckenberg , German doctor, founder, natural scientist and botanist
• 1711 : Adam Friedrich von Arnstedt , Prussian colonel
• 1712 : Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , French general
• 1713 : Louis Augustin d'Affry , Swiss military
• 1714 : Gizziello , Italian soprano castrato
• 1720 : Matthias Desubas , French preacher and evangelical martyr
• 1729 : Leopold Ludwig von Anhalt , Count of Anhalt
• 1733 : Roman Anton Boos , German sculptor
• 1735 : Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde , French musician, mathematician and chemist
• 1742 : Johann Sebastian von Clais , German-Swiss watchmaker, inventor and entrepreneur
• 1743 : René-Just Haüy , French mineralogist
• 1759 : Timoteo Maria Ascensi , Italian bishop
• 1770 : Johann Ludwig von Bernuth , Prussian civil servant
• 1775 : Sophie Tieck , romantic poet and writer
• 1776 : Charles-Henri Allamand , Swiss medic
• 1776 : Jean-Pierre Boyer , President of Haiti from 1818 to 1843
• 1787 : Joseph von Armansperg , Bavarian and Greek statesman
• 1792 : Karl Ernst von Baer , Baltic German naturalist, anatomist, zoologist and discoverer of the human egg cell
• 1796 : Eduard Pistorius , German genre painter and etcher
• 1797 : Friedrich von Oranien-Nassau , second son of King Wilhelm I and Princess Wilhelmine Luise of Prussia
• 1799 : Ignaz von Döllinger , German Old Catholic theologian

19th century

1801-1850

Ernst Friedrich Zwirner (* 1802)

• 1802 : Ernst Friedrich Zwirner , German master builder and architect
• 1803 : Christian Heinrich von Nagel , German mathematician

Hercule Florence (* 1804)

• 1804 : Hercule Florence , Franco-Brazilian painter, author, inventor and photography pioneer
• 1804 : Henry S. Foote , American politician
• 1806 : Gustav Eduard Benseler , German classical philologist and lexicographer
• 1808 : Elias Parish Alvars , British harpist and composer
• 1809 : Adolf Henning , German painter
• 1812 : Berthold Auerbach , German writer
• 1813 : Pomaré IV , Tahitian queen
• 1815 : Andreas Gottschalk , German doctor
• 1817 : Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński , Polish poet
• 1817 : Eduard Pape , German theater, decoration and landscape painter
• 1819 : Johann Ulrich Wagner , Swiss Protestant clergyman

John Tenniel (* 1820)

• 1820 : John Tenniel , British illustrator
• 1823 : Friedrich Franz II. , Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• 1823 : Ernest Renan , French writer, historian, archaeologist and orientalist
• 1825 : Jean-Baptiste Arban , French composer and professor
• 1825 : Berthold Carl Seemann , German botanist
• 1827 : Stevenson Archer , American politician
• 1829 : Hermann von Vietinghoff , Prussian-German lieutenant general
• 1833 : Carl Hilty , Swiss philosopher and constitutional lawyer
• 1833 : Alfred von Schlieffen , German field marshal, chief of the general staff and author of the Schlieffen plan
• 1834 : Charles Santley , British opera and oratorio singer
• 1836 : Karl Attenhofer , Swiss lawyer and federal judge
• 1837 : Ernst Christian Carl Kruse , German doctor and politician, MdL, MdR
• 1838 : Maurice Lévy , French mathematician, physicist and engineer

Henri Duveyrier (* 1840)

• 1840 : Henri Duveyrier , French traveler to Africa

1851-1900

• 1852 : Anton Maria Schwartz , Austrian Catholic priest and founder of the order
• 1853 : Albert Koebele , German-American entomologist
• 1854 : Hugo Spieler , German sculptor
• 1860 : Ernst Borkowsky , German pedagogue, historian and literary scholar
• 1860 : Mario Ancona , Italian singer and music teacher
• 1861 : Leonhard Angerer , Austrian natural scientist
• 1861 : Julius Bergmann , German painter
• 1862 : Rudolf Huch , German lawyer and writer

Moina Mathers (* 1865)

• 1865 : Moina Mathers , British artist and occultist
• 1865 : Arnold von Rutkowski , German-Baltic clergyman, Protestant martyr
• 1867 : Thomas Theodor Heine , German painter, draftsman and satirist
• 1869 : Hans Kundt , German-Bolivian general
• 1870 : Paul Heidelbach , German writer and city archivist, editor and librarian
• 1871 : Shimamura Hōgetsu , Japanese writer, literary critic and scholar
• 1871 : Takayama Chogyū , Japanese writer
• 1872 : Marjana Domaškojc , Sorbian poet and writer
• 1874 : Johannes Ude , Roman Catholic priest
• 1875 : Viliam Figuš-Bystrý , Slovak composer
• 1875 : Christie MacDonald , American singer
• 1876 : John Alden Carpenter , American composer
• 1877 : Gonzalo Argüelles Bringas , Mexican painter
• 1877 : Sergei Eduardowitsch Bortkiewicz , Russian composer
• 1877 : Emil Teubner , German wood carver and sculptor

Stephan Angeloff (* 1878)

• 1878 : Stephan Angeloff , Bulgarian scientist
• 1878 : Pierre Fatou , French mathematician
• 1878 : Artur Kapp , Estonian composer
• 1885 : Theodor Veidl , German composer
• 1886 : René Beeh , German painter and graphic artist
• 1886 : Victor Boin , Belgian sports journalist, athlete and sports official
• 1886 : Bede Smith , Australian rugby player
• 1888 : Eugène Bigot , French conductor and composer
• 1889 : Pawel Efimowitsch Dybenko , Russian revolutionary and Soviet naval officer
• 1889 : Koloman Wallisch , Austrian labor leader
• 1893 : Vsevolod Illarionowitsch Pudowkin , Soviet filmmaker and film theorist

Ben Hecht (* 1894)

• 1894 : Ben Hecht , American screenwriter
• 1894 : Josef Hutter , Czech musicologist and teacher
• 1894 : Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner , German lawyer, Senate President at the Federal Constitutional Court, politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1895 : Herbert Bellmer , German teacher and writer
• 1895 : Marcel Pagnol , French writer, dramaturge and director
• 1896 : Paul Haehling von Lanzenauer , German general
• 1896 : Philip Showalter Hench , American physician
• 1899 : Harold Farncomb , Australian naval officer and lawyer
• 1900 : Wolf Hirth , German glider pioneer

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Rudolf Nilsen , Norwegian poet

Linus Pauling (* 1901)

• 1901 : Linus Pauling , American chemist
• 1902 : Elsa Scholten , German actress
• 1903 : Vincente Minnelli , American director
• 1904 : Wilhelm Michels , German educator
• 1907 : Milton Caniff , American comic book artist and writer
• 1907 : Sepp Tanzer , Austrian composer for brass music
• 1908 : Alexander Golitzen , American art director
• 1908 : Albert Scherrer , Swiss racing driver
• 1909 : Stephen Spender , English poet
• 1910 : Roman Maciejewski , Polish composer, pianist and conductor
• 1911 : Jim Denny , American music manager
• 1911 : Friedrich Karl Dörner , German classical philologist and archaeologist
• 1911 : Bernd Scholz , German composer
• 1912 : Helmut Coing , German legal scholar, President of the University Rectors' Conference, Chairman of the Science Council
• 1912 : Clara Petacci , Italian lover of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini
• 1914 : Élie Bayol , French racing driver
• 1915 : Bahadır Alkım , Turkish archaeologist
• 1915 : Theophane Hytrek , American composer, church musician and music teacher
• 1915 : Karl Leisner , German Catholic priest, concentration camp victim and martyr

Peter Brian Medawar (* 1915)

• 1915 : Peter Brian Medawar , British biologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1916 : Svend Asmussen , Danish jazz musician and actor
• 1916 : Wilhelm Heidel , Romanian field handball player
• 1917 : Ernesto Alonso , Mexican actor, television director and producer
• 1917 : Max Jones , British jazz writer and journalist
• 1918 : Pepita Embil , Spanish zarzuela singer, mother of Plácido Domingo
• 1919 : Hans Nogler , Italian ski racer
• 1920 : Matthias Seefelder , German industrial manager
• 1921 : Alexander Arendt , German medic
• 1921 : August Henne , German forester
• 1921 : Willi Sitte , German painter, graphic artist, politician and party official, chairman of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR
• 1921 : Vladimír Sommer , Czech composer
• 1922 : Emilio Scanavino , Italian painter
• 1923 : Charles Durning , American actor
• 1923 : David Ricardo Williams , Canadian lawyer, historian and writer
• 1924 : Bettye Ackerman , American actress
• 1924 : Guarionex Aquino , Dominican singer
• 1924 : Christopher C. Kraft , American aerospace engineer
• 1925 : Kurt Absolon , Austrian painter and graphic artist
• 1925 : Richard Dalitz , Australian physicist

1926-1950

• 1926 : Svetlana Iossifowna Allilujewa , daughter of the Soviet head of state and party leader Josef Stalin

Ernst Waldemar Bauer (* 1926)

• 1926 : Ernst Waldemar Bauer , German publicist and nature filmmaker
• 1927 : Franz Rieser , Austrian teacher
• 1928 : Wolfgang Döbereiner , German astrologer and homeopath
• 1928 : Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi , Afghan writer and poet
• 1929 : Frank Gehry , American architect
• 1930 : Leon Neil Cooper , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1930 : Gavin MacLeod , American actor
• 1930 : Osman El-Sayed , Egyptian wrestler
• 1930 : Walter Schilling , German theologian and civil rights activist
• 1930 : Werner W. Wallroth , German film director
• 1931 : Dean Smith , American basketball coach
• 1932 : Noel Cantwell , Irish football and cricketer
• 1932 : Don Francks , Canadian actor
• 1932 : Gustav Ginzel , German globetrotter, geologist
• 1934 : Willie Bobo , American jazz percussionist
• 1934 : Bob Neyret , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1935 : Raúl Arellano , Mexican soccer player
• 1935 : Klaus Piontek , German actor
• 1938 : Machiel Kiel , Dutch Ottomanist

Klaus Staeck (* 1938)

• 1938 : Klaus Staeck , German graphic designer, caricaturist and lawyer
• 1939 : John Aloysius Fahey , American fingerstyle guitarist and composer, musicologist and record label founder
• 1939 : Liesel Jakobi , German athlete
• 1939 : Erika Pluhar , Austrian actress and singer
• 1939 : Daniel Chee Tsui , Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1940 : Aldo Andretti , American racing car driver
• 1940 : Mario Andretti , American racing car driver
• 1940 : Jürgen Chrobog , German lawyer and diplomat
• 1940 : Joe South , American singer and songwriter
• 1942 : Stuart A. Aaronson , American cancer researcher
• 1942 : Bernardo Adam Ferrero , Spanish composer and conductor
• 1942 : Martin Aigner , Austrian mathematician
• 1942 : Brian Jones , British musician ( The Rolling Stones )
• 1942 : Dino Zoff , Italian football goalkeeper and coach
• 1943 : Barbara Acklin , American soul singer and songwriter
• 1943 : Gerda Anger-Schmidt , Austrian children's book author
• 1944 : Win Aung , Burmese politician
• 1944 : Kelly Bishop , American actress
• 1944 : Loek Dikker , Dutch film music composer and jazz musician

Sepp Maier (* 1944)

• 1944 : Sepp Maier , German football goalkeeper and coach
• 1944 : Manfred Melzer , auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Cologne / Germany
• 1946 : Robin Cook , British politician from Scotland, Foreign Secretary
• 1946 : Pierre Dørge , Danish composer and jazz guitarist
• 1946 : Don Francisco , American singer and composer
• 1946 : Ludwig Hirsch , Austrian actor and songwriter
• 1947 : Bernd Arnold , German climber and mountaineer
• 1947 : Włodzimierz Lubański , Polish football player
• 1947 : Leung Ting , Chinese martial artist
• 1948 : Steven Chu , American physicist
• 1948 : Mike Figgis , British film director
• 1948 : Mercedes Ruehl , American actress
• 1948 : Reinhard Theimer , German athlete
• 1949 : Jennifer Lamy , Australian athlete
• 1949 : Gisela Schwarz , German politician, MdL
• 1949 : Thomas M. Stein , German music producer
• 1950 : Thomas Duttenhoefer , German sculptor

1951-1975

Gustav Thöni (* 1951)

• 1951 : Gustav Thöni , Italian ski racer
• 1952 : Rudolf Bastiaan Andeweg , Dutch political scientist
• 1952 : Michel Bury , French marksman
• 1953 : Falko Daim , Austrian archaeologist
• 1953 : Gabriele Hiller-Ohm , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1953 : Jochen Kolenda , German actor
• 1953 : Paul Krugman , American economist and writer
• 1953 : Bodo Morshäuser , German writer
• 1953 : Franz Voves , Austrian politician
• 1954 : Alain Crepin , Belgian composer and professor
• 1954 : Rita Feldmeier , German actress
• 1955 : Gilbert Gottfried , American actor
• 1955 : Urs Odermatt , Swiss director and author
• 1956 : Pia Findeiß , German local politician
• 1956 : Yehuda Grünfeld , Israeli chess player
• 1956 : Knut Hoffmeister , German media artist
• 1956 : Guy Maddin , Canadian film director
• 1956 : Tommy Remengesau , President of Palau
• 1957 : Jan Ceulemans , Belgian football player
• 1958 : Christina Lathan , German athlete, Olympic champion
• 1959 : Jack Abramoff , American political lobbyist
• 1959 : Rainer Wolter , German chef
• 1960 : Dorothy Stratten , Canadian playmate and actress
• 1961 : Éric Bachelart , Belgian racing team owner and racing car driver
• 1961 : Rae Dawn Chong , Canadian actress
• 1961 : Mark Latham , Australian politician

Klaus-Peter Willsch (* 1961)

• 1961 : Klaus-Peter Willsch , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1962 : Angela Bailey , Canadian athlete, Olympian
• 1962 : Claudio Chiappucci , Italian racing cyclist
• 1962 : Evelyn Zupke , German curative nurse, opposition activist in the GDR
• 1963 : Joël Pommerat , French actor, director and playwright
• 1964 : Jamolidin Abduschaparow , Uzbek cyclist
• 1964 : Johannes Fink , German jazz bassist
• 1964 : Pierre Hantaï , French harpsichordist and conductor
• 1965 : Ken'ichirō Isozaki , Japanese writer
• 1965 : Colum McCann , Irish writer, journalist and screenwriter
• 1965 : Marko Simsa , Austrian producer and actor in children's theater
• 1966 : Paulo Futre , Portuguese soccer player
• 1967 : Andreas Broß , German soccer player
• 1967 : Andrew Tridgell , Australian programmer
• 1968 : Gregor Stähli , Swiss skeleton driver
• 1968 : Eric Van Meir , Belgian football player

Eva Glawischnig (* 1969)

• 1969 : Eva Glawischnig , Austrian politician
• 1969 : Murray Gold , British composer
• 1969 : Butch Leitzinger , American racing car driver
• 1969 : Robert Sean Leonard , American actor
• 1970 : Noureddine Morceli , Algerian athlete
• 1970 : Phil Robson , British jazz musician
• 1970 : Lemony Snicket , American novelist and screenwriter
• 1972 : Rory Cochrane , American actor
• 1973 : Eric Lindros , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 : Christine Adams , German pole vaulter
• 1974 : Janne Lahtela , Finnish freestyle skier
• 1974 : Robin Liddell , British racing car driver
• 1974 : Alexander Zickler , German soccer player
• 1975 : Charles Amoah , Ghanaian soccer player
• 1975 : Georgia Ellinaki , Greek water polo player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Geri Çipi , Albanian football player
• 1976 : Anna Disselhoff , German handball player
• 1976 : Ali Larter , American actress
• 1976 : Damian Wleklak , Polish handball player

Mirza Džomba (* 1977)

• 1977 : Mirza Džomba , Croatian handball player
• 1977 : Artur Wichniarek , Polish football player
• 1978 : Geoffrey Arend , American actor
• 1978 : Murali Perumal , German actor
• 1978 : Benjamin Raich , Austrian ski racer
• 1978 : Davy Schollen , Belgian football player
• 1979 : Ivo Karlović , Croatian tennis player
• 1979 : Primož Peterka , Slovenian ski jumper
• 1979 : Stefan Wessels , German soccer player
• 1979 : Sander van Doorn , Dutch trance DJ and producer
• 1979 : Simon Krätschmer , German television presenter
• 1980 : Sigurd Pettersen , Norwegian ski jumper
• 1980 : Christian Poulsen , Danish football player
• 1980 : Tayshaun Prince , American basketball player
• 1981 : Anke Kühn , German hockey player
• 1981 : Florent Serra , French tennis player

Axel Stein (* 1982)

• 1982 : Carlos Enrique Ávalos , Salvadoran cyclist
• 1982 : Axel Stein , German actor and comedian
• 1982 : Jelena Vladimirovna Slessarenko , Russian athlete
• 1984 : Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė , Lithuanian pentathlete
• 1984 : René Boese , German handball player
• 1984 : Noureen DeWulf , American actress
• 1984 : Mindaugas Kalonas , Lithuanian football player
• 1984 : Karolína Kurková , Czech photo model
• 1984 : Marleen Lohse , German actress
• 1984 : Audräy Tuzolana , French handball player
• 1985 : Gorica Aćimović , Bosnian-Austrian handball player
• 1985 : Diego , Brazilian soccer player
• 1985 : Fefe Dobson , Canadian singer

Jelena Janković (* 1985)

• 1985 : Jelena Janković , Serbian tennis player
• 1985 : Rok Urbanc , Slovenian ski jumper
• 1986 : Jackson Avelino Coelho , Brazilian soccer player
• 1987 : Antonio Candreva , Italian football player
• 1987 : Michelle Horn , American actress
• 1988 : Olivier Jenot , Monegasque ski racer
• 1988 : Jessica McDonald , American soccer player
• 1989 : Sanaa Atabrour , Moroccan Taekwondoin
• 1990 : Aiden Ashley , American wrestler and porn actress
• 1990 : Sebastian Rudy , German soccer player
• 1991 : Marcel Avdić , German-Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1991 : Sarah Bolger , Irish actress
• 1991 : Jack Hawksworth , British racing car driver
• 1992 : Yener Arıca , Turkish soccer player
• 1992 : Lulu Lewe , German pop singer
• 1993 : Emmelie de Forest , Danish singer
• 1993 : André Hoffmann , German soccer player
• 1993 : Marquis Teague , American basketball player
• 1994 : Jake Bugg , British singer-songwriter
• 1994 : Jeong Ha-dam , South Korean actress
• 1994 : Arkadiusz Milik , Polish football player
• 1995 : Thomas Hagn , German soccer player
• 1995 : Anne Lobenstein , German bobsleigh athlete
• 1996 : Shi Yuqi , Chinese badminton player
• 1998 : Jana Münster , German actress
• 1998 : Sophia Münster , German actress
• 1999 : Luka Dončić , Slovenian basketball player
• 2000 : Moise Kean , Italian soccer player

Died

Before the 17th century

• 0468 : Hilary , Pope
• 0911 : Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Shīʿī , Ismaili missionary and founder of Fatimid rule in North Africa
• 1022 : Rudhart , Bishop of Constance
• 1051 : Humfried , Archbishop of Magdeburg
• 1103 : Heinrich , ancestor of the Count Palatine of Tübingen
• 1105 : Raymond of Toulouse , Margrave of Provence
• 1127 : Dietrich II , Bishop of Münster
• 1159 : Sancha Raimúndez , Spanish Infanta
• 1176 : Klængur Þorsteinsson , Bishop of Skálholt
• 1256 : Sophie von Weichselburg , Countess von Stein and Margravine of Istria-Carniola
• 1261 : Henry III the Kind , Duke of Brabant
• 1326 : Leopold I , Duke of Austria from the House of Habsburg
• 1337 : William la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche of Mortimer , English nobleman
• 1358 : Fides von Klingen , abbess of the Fraumünsterkloster in Zurich
• 1425 : Vasily I , Grand Duke of Vladimir and Moscow
• 1450 : Friedrich II. Von Parsberg , Bishop of Regensburg and Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Regensburg
• 1453 : Isabella , Duchess of Lorraine and Queen of Naples
• 1469 : Niklas III. Muffel , Nuremberg patrician
• 1485 : Niclas von Abensberg , German knight and Count von Abensberg
• 1508 : Philip the Sincere , Elector of the Palatinate
• 1510 : Juan de la Cosa , Spanish navigator, cartographer and explorer
• 1525 : Cuauhtémoc , last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán
• 1544 : Francesco Maria Molza , Italian poet
• 1547 : Philippa von Geldern , Duchess of Lorraine and Bar
• 1572 : Catherine of Austria , Queen of Poland and Duchess of Mantua

Aegidius Tschudi († 1572)

• 1572 : Aegidius Tschudi , Swiss historian and politician
• 1585 : Samuel Eisenmenger , German medic, theologian and astrologer

17th and 18th centuries

• 1616 : Vinzenz Fettmilch , Frankfurt clerk and gingerbread baker, leader of the Fettmilch uprising
• 1621 : Cosimo II. De 'Medici , Grand Duke of Tuscany
• 1624 : Johann Affelmann , German theologian
• 1648 : Christian IV , King of Denmark and Norway
• 1658 : Johann Lauremberg , Low German writer
• 1665 : Ludwig von Nassau-Beverweerd , Lord of Beverweerd, Odijk and Lek
• 1668 : Otto Praetorius , German poet and historian
• 1687 : Malatyalı Süleyman Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• 1711 : Giovanni Pietro della Torre , Prague court stone mason
• 1719 : Boris Petrovich Sheremetev , Russian Field Marshal General
• 1719 : Farrukh Siyar , Mughal Mughal of India
• 1722 : William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian , British nobleman, officer and politician
• 1723 : Thomas d'Urfey , English author
• 1728 : Ogyū Sorai , Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher
• 1729 : Lovro Šitović , Croatian writer
• 1730 : Michelangelo Tamburini , General of the Societas Jesu
• 1748 : Hieronymus von Erlach , Swiss general
• 1748 : Johann Rudolf Huber , Swiss painter
• 1760 : François Thurot , French privateer and naval officer
• 1784 : Angelius Johann Daniel Aepinus , German philosopher and university professor
• 1792 : Johann Christoph Rudolph , German lawyer and university professor
• 1796 : Friedrich Wilhelm Rust , German composer

19th century

• 1801 : Joseph Anton Steiner , German Catholic theologian

Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz († 1812)

• 1812 : Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz , Prussian historian and publicist
• 1817 : Pietro Carlo Guglielmi , Italian composer
• 1836 : Friedrich August Grotefend , German classical philologist
• 1841 : Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde , French lawyer
• 1844 : Thomas Walker Gilmer , American politician
• 1844 : Abel P. Upshur , American lawyer, politician, and Secretary of State
• 1845 : Charles Duvernoy , French clarinetist, music educator and composer
• 1845 : Bernhard Sökeland , German philologist and historian
• 1848 : Anastasius Adam , Swiss clergyman and member of the Order of Minorites (Franciscan Conventuals)
• 1848 : Anton Nikolaus Martens , provost
• 1854 : Simón Rodríguez , Venezuelan educator, philosopher and utopian socialist

Beda Weber († 1858)

• 1858 : Beda Weber , German writer, theologian and politician
• 1866 : Henryk Rzewuski , Polish writer
• 1868 : Arthur Anderson , English businessman and politician
• 1868 : August Wissowa , German classical philologist and pedagogue
• 1869 : Alphonse de Lamartine , French poet, writer and politician
• 1877 : Napoleon Nolsøe , Faroese doctor
• 1883 : Louis-Adolphe Bertillon , French medic, anthropologist, statistician and demographer
• 1887 : Lodovico Jacobini , Italian cardinal and papal secretary of state
• 1891 : George Hearst , American mining magnate and senator
• 1891 : Giovanni Morelli , Italian MP and Senator, doctor and art historian
• 1894 : Janet Monach Patey , English singer
• 1899 : Georg von Apponyi , Hungarian nobleman and politician
• 1899 : José María Cabral , Dominican politician and President of the Dominican Republic
• 1900 : Georg Christian Wilhelm Meyer , German legal scholar and politician

20th century

1901-1950

• 1904 : Levegh , French racing driver

Mihály Zichy († 1906)

• 1906 : Mihály Zichy , Hungarian painter
• 1908 : Pat Garrett , American sheriff
• 1911 : Ida Baccini , Italian writer and journalist
• 1915 : Anna Stainer-Knittel , Austrian portrait and flower painter
• 1916 : Henry James , American writer
• 1918 : Otto Schill , German lawyer and local politician
• 1921 : Hermann Schmidt , German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Erfurt
• 1923 : Hugo Licht , German architect and urban planning officer

Friedrich Ebert († 1925)

• 1925 : Friedrich Ebert , German politician, MdR, Reich Chancellor and Reich President of the Weimar Republic
• 1926 : Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly , French astronomer
• 1926 : Giovanni Cagliero , Italian religious, Vatican diplomat
• 1926 : Gustav Otto , German aircraft manufacturer
• 1928 : Carl Josef Alois Bourdet , German painter and watercolorist
• 1928 : Emerenz Meier , German writer
• 1932 : Guillaume Bigourdan , French astronomer and President of the Académie des Sciences
• 1933 : Lilla Cabot Perry , American painter
• 1935 : Alexander Willem Frederik Idenburg , Dutch governor of Suriname
• 1935 : Chiquinha Gonzaga , Brazilian composer
• 1936 : Charles Nicolle , French doctor and microbiologist
• 1939 : Andri Augustin , Swiss Romanist
• 1939 : Michael Zeno Diemer , German painter
• 1940 : Andreas Heusler , Swiss old Germanist
• 1941 : Alfons XIII. , Spanish king
• 1942 : Gustav Neuhaus , German lawyer and linguist
• 1943 : Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin , Swiss-French doctor and bacteriologist, discovered the plague pathogen
• 1946 : Eriks Ādamsons , Latvian writer
• 1947 : Francis Yard , French writer
• 1948 : August Arteldt , German politician

1951-2000

• 1952 : Albert Forster , German politician, war criminal
• 1955 : August Adriaan Pulle , Dutch botanist
• 1955 : Josiah Ritchie , British tennis player

Frigyes Riesz († 1956)

• 1956 : Frigyes Riesz , Hungarian mathematician
• 1957 : Nils Åberg , Swedish archaeologist
• 1959 : Maxwell Anderson , American writer
• 1959 : Beatrix Farrand , American landscape architect
• 1960 : Lina Drechsler Adamson , Canadian violinist and music teacher
• 1960 : Walter Zawadil , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1963 : Rajendra Prasad , Indian politician and 1st President
• 1965 : Adolf Schärf , Austrian Federal President
• 1965 : Franz Reichel , German architect
• 1966 : Elliot See , American astronaut
• 1967 : Henry Luce , American publisher
• 1969 : Gustavo Testa , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat, cardinal to the Curia
• 1971 : Hans Müller , Austrian chess player and theorist
• 1972 : Victor Barna , Hungarian table tennis player
• 1973 : Terig Tucci , Argentine composer and violinist, pianist and mandolinist
• 1974 : Carlos Keller Rueff , German-Chilean journalist and writer
• 1975 : Robert Lips , Swiss comic artist
• 1977 : Eddie Rochester Anderson , American entertainer and actor
• 1978 : Philip Ahn , American actor
• 1978 : Rudolf Paul , German politician, Prime Minister of Thuringia
• 1978 : Eric Frank Russell , British writer
• 1981 : Albin Lesky , Austrian classical philologist
• 1981 : August Wilhelm Raapke , German businessman and head of authorities
• 1981 : Talbot Rothwell , British author and screenwriter
• 1981 : Walter Schmidt , German clergyman, Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church

• 1982 : Friedrich Liebling , German psychologist
• 1983 : Winifred Atwell , pianist from Trinidad
• 1983 : Sepp Tanzer , Austrian composer
• 1985 : David Byron , British musician

Olof Palme († 1986)

• 1986 : Olof Palme , Swedish politician, two-time Prime Minister and assassination victim
• 1986 : William Dollar , American ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer
• 1987 : Karl Emerich Krämer , German writer
• 1987 : Anny Ondra , German-Czech actress
• 1989 : Hermann Burger , Swiss writer
• 1989 : Wladimir Horbowski , Georgian piano teacher
• 1990 : Manuel Saber Marroquín , Mexican pianist and composer
• 1991 : Reinhard Bendix , American sociologist of German origin.

• 1992 : Arsène Becuwe , Belgian composer and conductor

• 1993 : Ishirō Honda , Japanese director
• 1993 : Karl Richard Tschon , German writer and radio play author
• 1994 : Aleksander Frączkiewicz , Polish musicologist and teacher
• 1995 : Bill Richards , Canadian violinist and composer
• 1995 : Max Rudolf , German-American conductor
• 1998 : Antonio Quarracino , Argentine Archbishop
• 1999 : Anthea Shirley Askey , British actress
• 1999 : Bill Duniven , American rock 'n' roll musician
• 1999 : Ernst Günther Schmidt , German classical philologist
• 1999 : Bill Talbert , American tennis player

21st century

Helmut Zacharias († 2002)

• 2002 : Helmut Zacharias , German violinist
• 2003 : Albert Batteux , French football player and coach
• 2003 : Chris Brasher , British athlete, Olympic champion
• 2004 : Daniel J. Boorstin , American historian and writer, director of the United States Library of Congress
• 2004 : Carmen Laforet , Spanish writer
• 2004 : Otto Steidle , German architect
• 2004 : Robin Wood , Canadian pianist and music educator
• 2005 : Chris Curtis , British musician
• 2005 : Mario Luzi , Italian poet
• 2005 : Édouard Stern , French banker and financier
• 2006 : Hans Albrecht , German forester and politician
• 2006 : Napoleón Dihmes , Dominican opera singer
• 2007 : Egon Monk , German actor, theater and film director, dramaturge and author
• 2007 : Arthur M. Schlesinger , American historian
• 2008 : Julian Rathbone , British writer
• 2008 : Mike Smith , British singer, composer and record producer
• 2009 : Max Aebischer , Swiss politician

Annie Girardot († 2011)

• 2011 : Annie Girardot , French actress
• 2011 : Günter Mast , German manager ( Mast-Jägermeister SE ), first football sponsor by means of jersey advertising in Germany
• 2011 : Jane Russell , American actress
• 2011 : Jan van Schijndel , Dutch football player
• 2012 : Karl Arnold , German weightlifter
• 2012 : José Antonio Attolini Lack , Mexican architect
• 2012 : Fritz Hakl , Austrian actor
• 2012 : Davy Jones , English singer (Monkees)
• 2012 : Armand Penverne , French football player
• 2013 : Paul Walter Fürst , German musician and composer
• 2013 : Donald Arthur Glaser , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 2013 : Bruce Reynolds , English mail robber
• 2013 : Eigo Satō , Japanese freestyle motocross pilot
• 2014 : Gerhard Grill , German handball player
• 2015 : Braulio Castillo , Puerto Rican actor
• 2015 : Yaşar Kemal , Kurdish-Turkish writer
• 2015 : Hans-Joachim Scheel , German motorcycle racer and doctor
• 2016 : George Kennedy , American actor
• 2016 : Alfred Hubertus Neuhaus , German entrepreneur and politician
• 2017 : Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov , Russian-Soviet ice hockey player and official
• 2017 : Elisabeth Waldheim , Austrian politician's wife
• 2018 : Volker Klemm , German agricultural historian and politician
• 2018 : Erwin Patzke , German botanist
• 2019 : André Previn , German-American pianist, composer and conductor
• 2020 : Freeman Dyson , British-American physicist and mathematician

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Martin Bucer , Alsatian religious and reformer (Protestant)
  • Romanus Day (Catholic)

• Name days
  • Roman , Silvana

• regional customs
  • Finland : Kalevala Day

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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