February 4th
February 4th is the 35th day of the Gregorian calendar , leaving 330 days (331 days in leap years ) until the end of the year.
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events
politics and world affairs
- 211: Caracalla and his brother Geta become joint rulers in the Roman Empire after the death of their father Septimius Severus .
- 900: Ludwig IV, the child is crowned king of East Franconia in Forchheim .
- 960: In the Chinese Empire , Field Marshal Song Taizu came to power in a coup and founded the Song Dynasty .
- 1194: After paying the ransom and fulfilling all conditions, including his submission to Emperor Henry VI. , the English king Richard the Lionheart , who had been in the captivity of the Austrian duke Leopold V since December 1192 , is released.
- 1454: The previous year by Emperor Friedrich III. The Prussian Union under Hans von Baysen , which had been declared illegal, renounced obedience to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , Ludwig von Erlichshausen , and the 13 Years ' War began as a result .
- 1508: Maximilian I assumes the imperial dignity in Trento Cathedral with the consent of Pope Julius II . The Republic of Venice prevented a coronation by the Pope in Rome because it refused to allow Maximilian to pass through its territory.
- 1582: The siege of Pskov in the Livonian War ends after the armistice agreed in the Treaty of Jam Zapolski with the withdrawal of the last Polish-Lithuanian units from the Russian city.
- 1722: The ukase on the table of ranks, created under the influence of Peter the Great , is published in Russia and comes into force six days later. The state career system, which will apply until the October Revolution , is structured in it.
- 1738: A large crowd of spectators watched the execution of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer on the Galgenberg just outside Stuttgart . As a financial adviser to the late Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg , he made himself unpopular in corporate circles and was sentenced to death without reason on January 9th has been. His body remains in an iron cage for several years.
- 1789: George Washington is unanimously elected the first President of the United States in the first presidential election in the United States . Vice President becomes John Adams .
- 1794: France abolishes slavery in all its territories during the French Revolution .
- 1810: The British Navy captures the French-ruled Guadeloupe archipelago in the Caribbean during the Napoleonic Wars . She remained in British possession until March 3, 1813.
- 1860: Spanish troops occupy the Moroccan city of Tétouan in the Spanish-Moroccan War .
- 1861: The southern states of South Carolina , Mississippi , Florida , Alabama , Georgia and Louisiana , which had previously left the Union , unite in Montgomery to form the Confederate States of America , making a Civil War almost inevitable.
- 1884: During the Mahdi Rebellion , a force led by the slave trader Osman Digna defeated an Anglo-Egyptian army commanded by Valentine Baker at at-Taib in eastern Sudan .
- 1890: Contrary to the advice of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and without his countersignature , the February decrees are published according to the will of Kaiser Wilhelm II . They announce an expansion of worker protection.
- 1899: A US patrol fires on Filipino soldiers, starting the Philippine-American War between the Philippines and the US , who had recently fought together for the archipelago's independence from Spain in the Spanish-American War .
- 1919: 600 volunteers under Walter Caspari , who are mainly made up of members of the Bremen No. 75 Infantry Regiment , which had just been disarmed , attack the Soviet Republic in Bremen that has existed since January 10 and smash it within a day.
- 1920: Following a regulation of the Versailles Treaty , the German authorities leave the Hultschiner Ländchen . It falls to Czechoslovakia , although an overwhelming majority of the population may remain with the German Reich, according to a survey.
- 1933: The basic rights of the Weimar Constitution , in particular freedom of assembly and freedom of the press, are restricted by the decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the German People by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg . Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick receives far-reaching powers.
- 1936: Wilhelm Gustloff , regional group leader in the NSDAP foreign organization in Switzerland, is shot by the Jewish medical student David Frankfurter , whereupon Gustloff is stylized as a “ martyr ” by the National Socialists .
- 1938: Adolf Hitler personally takes over the supreme command of the Wehrmacht by decree .
- 1942: Japan defeats the Allied ABDA Fleet at the Battle of the Makassar Straits in the War of the Pacific .
- 1945: The Yalta Conference begins on the Soviet Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, attended by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , and Soviet party and government leader Joseph Stalin . There, the reorganization of Europe after the Second World War is discussed.
- 1948: Ceylon, now Sri Lanka , becomes independent from Great Britain within the Commonwealth of Nations .
- 1949: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is slightly injured in an attack on the University of Tehran . Assassin Nasser Fakhr Araϊ is shot dead by security forces. The Shah then used the assassination to ban the Tudeh party and create a second chamber in parliament to increase his political influence.
- 1953: The German Bundestag makes the recruitment of Germans for foreign military services a punishable offense in § 109h StGB . This is to stop the influx into the French Foreign Legion .
- 1974: Patty Hearst , heiress to the Hearst press empire, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army .
- 1992: The Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario 200 under Hugo Chávez staged a coup against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez , but it was crushed after 12 hours.
- 1993: In Austria , the five MPs Heide Schmidt , Klara Motter , Friedhelm Frischenschlager , Hans Helmut Moser and Thomas Barmüller left the Austrian Freedom Party ( FPÖ ) and founded their own parliamentary group, the Liberal Forum ( LIF ).
- 2000: In Austria, the FPÖ-ÖVP government under Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel is sworn in by Federal President Thomas Klestil . Because of the approximately 10,000 demonstrators on Heroes' Square , the government team had to go through an underground passage to the Hofburg for the swearing-in ceremony .
- 2003: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is transformed into the loose state federation of Serbia and Montenegro by parliamentary decision .
- 2003: At the request of the USA, the copy of Pablo Picasso's Guernica hanging in the UN building is imposed for the presentation by US Secretary of State Colin Powell , in which weapons of mass destruction are proven in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and opponents of the war are to be convinced of the necessity of a war in Iraq .
- 2004: Jóannes Eidesgaard is elected Løgmaður , Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands , following the electoral victory of his party Javnaðarflokkurin .
- 2005: Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is kidnapped in Iraq .
- 2005: In the Charter of Florence , numerous regions from member states of the European Union declare that they reject the cultivation of genetically modified crops on their territory.
business
- 1862: Facundo Bacardí buys a small rum distillery at Calle Matadero N° 5 in Santiago de Cuba and founds the company Bacardi & Ca.
- 1889: The French company building the Panama Canal goes bankrupt, hurting some 85,000 creditors. The Panama scandal is brewing.
- 1941: The American Roy Plunkett received the US patent for the invention of Teflon .
- 1956: The East German airline Deutsche Lufthansa begins its first scheduled service on the Berlin-Warsaw route.
- 1963: The first international conference on development aid begins in Geneva .
- 1971: British car and engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce files for bankruptcy . The development of the Rolls-Royce RB211 jet engine overwhelms the company's finances.
- 1972: Lufthansa and Aeroflot start scheduled services between Frankfurt am Main and Moscow .
- 2000: After months of a takeover battle , the supervisory board of Mannesmann AG agrees to the takeover by the Vodafone Group , which thus becomes the world's largest mobile communications provider.
- 2004: Mark Zuckerberg starts the company Facebook as a student at Harvard University as a platform for contacts between fellow students .
- 2009: The traditional German company Märklin files for bankruptcy for the locations in Germany (Göppingen and Nuremberg).
- 2016: US$101 million is stolen from Bangladesh Bank 's account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City in a large-scale cybertheft .
science and technology
- 1600: The astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time in Benatek Castle near Prague.
- 1857: After examining fossil bones , Hermann Schaaffhausen reports on a previously unknown early human, the Neanderthal , in the Niederrheinische Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde in Bonn. There he shows a plaster cast of the skullcap found by Johann Carl Fuhlrott in the Neandertal .
- 1899: The Neuveville–Saint-Pierre funicular starts operating as a water ballast railway in Freiburg im Üechtland .
- 1935: The Reich Film Archive is opened in Berlin 's Harnack House .
- 1948: The United States Navy 's Douglas D-558-II experimental aircraft , also known as the Skyrocket , completed its maiden flight.
- 1962: The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is founded in Memphis, Tennessee .
- 2008: To mark the 50th anniversary of NASA and the 45th anniversary of NASA's "Deep Space" project , 40 years after its recording, the Beatles' song Across the Universe , encoded as an MP3 , is released by Madrid 's Deep-Space antenna radiated, it will have reached the Polarstern region, 2.5 trillion kilometers away, in the year 2439. This day has since been referred to as Across the Universe Day .
Culture
- 1697: The opera La clemenza d'Augusto by Giovanni Bononcini is premiered at the Tordinona in Rome .
- 1749: The opera Artaserse by Niccolò Jommelli is premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome .
- 1836: The premiere of Gaetano Donizetti's opera Belisario takes place at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice .
- 1864: The premiere of the romantic opera Die Rheinnixen by Jacques Offenbach takes place at the Court Opera in Vienna . The piece soon falls into oblivion, save for a few melodies which the composer uses again in Les Contes d'Hoffmann .
- 1939: The world premiere of the operetta The Hungarian Wedding by Nico Dostal takes place in Stuttgart.
- 1941: On the initiative of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , the United Service Organizations ( USO ) are founded to entertain US troops .
- 1943: Bertolt Brecht's play The Good Man by Sezuan , written with the collaboration of Ruth Berlau and Margarete Steffin , premieres at the Zurich Schauspielhaus . Leonard Steckel directs this epic play .
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- 1956: The new building for the Municipal Theater in Münster , which was destroyed in the Second World War, is opened.
society
- 1999: Unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo is killed by New York police with 41 gunshots while being arrested, prompting an outcry from the civil rights movement .
- 2013: A University of Leicester press conference announced that excavation work in Leicester had found the remains of King Richard III. identified by England .
religion
- 1442: At the Council of Florence , a union is concluded between the Roman Catholic and the Coptic Churches , which, however, remains without further consequences.
- 1555: The Protestant theologian John Rogers dies by fire as a convicted heretic at Smithfield in London .
disasters
- 1169: Etna erupts and an earthquake rocks Sicily and Calabria the same day . More detailed information about victims and damage is missing.
- 1797: The city of Riobamba in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada , today's Ecuador, is almost completely destroyed by an earthquake , half of the population dies.
- 1825: The February flood , also known as the Hallig flood , causes severe damage along the entire North Sea coast and kills around 800 people. Parts of Sylt are torn into the sea, northern Jutland becomes an island.
- 1966: A Nippon Airways Boeing 727 crashes just off the coast of Japan near Tokyo, killing all 133 people on board.
- 1975: A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in the People 's Republic of China kills around 10,000.
- 1976: An earthquake in Guatemala with hundreds of tremors kills more than 23,000 people.
- 1997: Two earthquakes in north-eastern Iran kill around 100 people and destroy several villages.
- 1998: A magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Tajikistan and Afghanistan kills around 2,300 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1897: The oldest recorded ice hockey game in Germany takes place on the Halensee in Berlin, the Akademische Sport Club Berlin wins against a student team with 11:4.
- 1899: The Werder von 1899 football club , now known as Werder Bremen , is founded by a group of high school students.
- 1904: The Hassee-Winterbek e. V. ( THW Kiel ) is founded as a gymnastics club for boys and men. He later made a name for himself as a record German handball champion.
- 1906: The 1st Schleswig sports club Schleswig 06 is founded as a football club
- 1932: The III. Winter Olympics in Lake Placid are opened by New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt .
- 1976: The XII. The Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck are opened by the Austrian Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger . Two Olympic flames will be lit at the opening ceremony . The first by Christl Haas , the second by Josef Feistmantl .
- 2007: The German men's national handball team wins the World Cup in the Cologne Arena against Poland 29:24. In the 3rd place match, Denmark defeated France 34-27.
- 2018: The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots 41-33 in Super Bowl LII , winning a Super Bowl for the first time in their history .
Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .
Born
Before the 17th century
- 1444: Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick , English noblewoman
- 1483: Ridolfo Ghirlandaio , Italian painter
- 1495: Francesco II Sforza , son of Duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
- 1504: Philipp Gallicius , Reformed theologian, hymn writer and reformer of the Engadin
- 1515: Mikołaj Radziwiłł Czarny , Lithuanian nobleman, civil servant and statesman
- 1575: Pierre de Bérulle , French theologian and cardinal
17th century
- 1627: Robert Boyle , Irish chemist and naturalist
- 1627: Ludolf Lorenz von Krosigk , Kurbrandenburg war councilor, chamberlain and colonel
- 1629: Sibylla Ursula of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
- 1646: Hans Aßmann Freiherr von Abschatz , German baroque lyric poet
- 1646: Heinrich Christoph von Wolframsdorf , Prince Provost of Ellwangen
- 1667: Hieronymus Dathe , German Lutheran theologian
- 1677: Johann Ludwig Bach , German composer
- 1682: Johann Friedrich Böttger , German naturalist and alchemist, further developer of porcelain in Europe
- 1685: Wilhelmine von Grävenitz , mistress of Duke Eberhard Ludwig of Württemberg
- 1688: Pierre Carlet de Marivaux , French writer
- 1690: Christian Müller , German-Dutch organ builder
- 1694: Georg Gottlob Richter , German physician
- 1696: Marco Foscarini , 117th Doge of Venice
- 1698: Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué , Prussian general
- 1699: Friedrich Wilhelm von Brühl , Electoral Saxon and Polish Privy Councilor, Governor of Thuringia
18th century
- 1714: Wilhelm II Roßhirt , abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Ebrach
- 1725: Dru Drury , British entomologist
- 1738: Joachim Wilhelm von Brawe , German dramatist
- 1740: Adam-Philippe de Custine , French general
- 1741: Elizabeth Batts , English landlord's daughter, wife of James Cook
- 1746: Tadeusz Kościuszko , Polish nobleman, general and national hero
- 1748: Matthias Gottfried Eichler , German draftsman and engraver
- 1750: Johanna Gabriele of Austria , Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bohemia, Hungary and Tuscany
- 1758: Ivan Prokofievich Prokofiev , Russian sculptor and university teacher
- 1761: George I , Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- 1761: Blasius Merrem , German professor of zoology and ornithology
- 1773: Ludwig von Wolzogen , Prussian general of infantry
- 1774: Frederick Traugott Pursh , German-Canadian botanist and horticulturist
- 1776: Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus , German physician and naturalist
- 1782: Carl Heinrich Aster , German military writer
- 1790: John Bachman , American naturalist and priest
- 1799: Almeida Garrett , Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and politician
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804: Ulrike von Levetzow , last love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1805: William Harrison Ainsworth , British writer of historical fiction
- 1808: Josef Kajetán Tyl , Czech theater playwright
- 1811: Aristide Cavaillé-Coll , French organ builder
- 1812: Nicolaus Zink , German-American civil engineer and farmer
- 1814: Samuel J. Tilden , American politician, governor of New York, presidential candidate
- 1815: Josip Juraj Strossmayer , Croatian politician and Catholic theologian
- 1818: Rudolf Baier , German museum founder and director
- 1818: Theodor Wilhelm Danzel , German literary historian
- 1820: Božena Němcová , Czech writer
- 1826: Halbert E. Paine , American politician and general
- 1829: Paul d'Ivry , French composer
- 1831: Oliver Ames , American politician
- 1836: Ferdinand Janner , German Roman Catholic theologian and educator
- 1838: Tomaso Benvenuti , Italian composer
- 1842: Georg Brandes , Danish writer
- 1842: Hugo Schuchardt , German Romanist
- 1844: Andreas Amrhein , Swiss Benedictine monk
- 1847: Remus von Woyrsch , German field marshal
- 1848: Jean Aicard , French poet, novelist and playwright
- 1848: Hermann von Hatzfeldt , Prussian politician and civil servant
- 1850: Karl Frohme , German politician, MdR
1851-1900
- 1855: Joseph Auer , German composer
- 1858: Carl Seitz , German physician
- 1859: Justus Strandes , German merchant and politician
- 1860: Jackson Whipps Showalter , American chess player
- 1861: Franz Winter , German archaeologist
- 1865: Abe Isoo , Japanese parliamentarian, intellectual and pacifist
- 1868: Constance Markiewicz , Irish freedom fighter, Minister
- 1869: William Dudley Haywood , American trade unionist
- 1871: Friedrich Ebert , German politician, MdR, Chancellor and President of the Weimar Republic
- 1871: Heinrich Schnee , German governor and politician, MdR, member of the Lytton Commission of the League of Nations
- 1872: James Chapman , English explorer of Africa
- 1874: Johannes Gronowski , German politician, MdL
- 1874: Eduard Kohlrausch , German legal scholar specializing in criminal law
- 1875: Ludwig Prandtl , German physicist
- 1879: Jacques Copeau , French playwright, actor and theater director
- 1880: Louis Halphen , French historian
- 1881: Fernand Léger , French painter, printmaker, ceramist
- 1881: Kliment Voroshilov , Minister of Defence, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
- 1882: Erich Aschenheim , German medical councilor and university lecturer
- 1882: Raúl Borges , Colombian composer, guitarist and music educator
- 1882: E.J. Pratt , Canadian writer, college teacher, and critic
- 1883: Mary Achenbach , Anglo-German painter
- 1883: George Kennedy Allen Bell , British Anglican bishop
- 1885: Franz M. Jansen , German painter
- 1887: Erna von Abendroth , German nurse
- 1887: Stasys Šimkus , Lithuanian composer
- 1888: Paul Althaus , German Protestant theologian
- 1889: Richard Boleslawski , Polish-American director
- 1890: Horațiu Dimitriu , Romanian painter
- 1891: Christian Kuhlemann , German engineer, entrepreneur and politician, MP
- 1891: Johannes Pinsk , German Catholic theologian
- 1892: Ugo Betti , Italian playwright
- 1892: Andreu Nin , Spanish revolutionary from Catalonia
- 1893: Fritz Apelt , German politician
- 1893: Raymond Dart , Australian anatomist and paleoanthropologist
- 1893: Bernard Rogers , American composer
- 1894: Friedrich Karl Florian , Gauleiter of the NSDAP of Düsseldorf
- 1894: Nunzio Malasomma , Italian director
- 1894: Hans Wittwer , Swiss architect
- 1895: Karl Diedrichsen , German politician and MP
- 1895: Hanns Albin Rauter , Austrian General of the SS, Waffen SS and Police, war criminal
- 1896: Friedrich Glauser , Swiss crime writer
- 1896: Friedrich Hund , German physicist
- 1897: Ludwig Erhard , German politician, MP, Federal Minister, Chancellor
- 1897: Katharina Heinroth , German zoologist and director of the Berlin Zoo
- 1897: Jesus V , Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1897: Rudolf Stundl , Austrian pattern designer and tapestry artist
- 1898: Magdalena Aebi , Swiss philosopher
- 1898: Josef Blum , Austrian football player and coach
- 1899: Viktor Bolkhovichinov , Soviet aircraft designer
- 1899: Elfriede Jaeger , German politician and MP
- 1900: Rita Kurzmann- Leuchter , Austrian pianist and music teacher
- 1900: Jacques Prévert , French author, poet and chansonnier
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Katharina Winter , German entrepreneur and supporter of the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944
- 1902: Manuel Álvarez Bravo , Mexican photographer
- 1902: Charles Lindbergh , American pilot
- 1902: Willi Rose , German stage and film actor
- 1902: Hartley Shawcross , British politician, MP, Minister for Justice, chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
- 1902: Jean-Baptiste van Silfhout , Dutch rower, swimmer and water polo player
- 1904: MacKinlay Kantor , American writer
- 1904: Josef Klein , German motorcycle racer
- 1904: Teo Otto , German stage designer
- 1904: Deng Yingchao , wife of Zhou Enlai
- 1905: Irma Brandes , German journalist and writer
- 1906: Dietrich Bonhoeffer , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian of the Confessing Church , resistance fighter and victim of Nazism
- 1906: Sabine Bonhoeffer , twin sister of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- 1906: Urbain-Marie Person , Ethiopian bishop
- 1906: Clyde Tombaugh , American astronomer
- 1907: Otto Ohlendorf , German general of the SS and police, commander of the Einsatzgruppe D, chief of the Reich Security Main Office, war criminal
- 1907: Gerda Paumgarten , Austrian alpine skier
- 1907: Walter Seuffert , German lawyer, politician, MdB, MEP, Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1908: Willem Karel Hendrik Karstens , Dutch botanist
- 1909: Karl Schönböck , Austrian actor
- 1910: František Rauch , Czech pianist and music teacher
- 1912: Louis-Albert Vachon , Canadian theologian, Archbishop of Quebec, Cardinal
- 1913: Gerhard Mendelson , German music producer in Vienna
- 1913: Ady Berber , Austrian actor
- 1913: Rosa Parks , American civil rights activist
- 1913: Richard Seaman , British racing driver
- 1914: Alfred Andersch , German writer and radio editor
- 1914: Klas Anshelm , Swedish architect and artist
- 1915: Joseph Greger , German racing driver
- 1915: Walter Reder , Austrian SS-Sturmbannfuhrer and war criminal
- 1917: Franz Josef Bach , German engineer, diplomat, lobbyist and politician, MP
- 1918: Rhené Jaque , Canadian composer
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- 1918: Ida Lupino , British actress
- 1919: Krystyna Berwińska , Polish writer
- 1919: Widukind Lenz , German human geneticist
- 1921: Betty Friedan , American feminist and publicist
- 1921: Lotfi Zadeh , American computer scientist, father of fuzzy logic
- 1922: Bhimsen Joshi , Indian singer
- 1923: Raymond Arnette , French spy
- 1923: Belisario Betancur , Colombian politician, President
- 1923: Kurt Brumme , German sports presenter
- 1924: Karl Adam , German soccer player
- 1925: Arne Per Åhman , Swedish athlete
- 1925: Jutta Hipp , German jazz pianist and painter
- 1925: Russell Hoban , American writer
1926-1950
- 1926: Gyula Grosics , Hungarian footballer
- 1927: Henri d'Attilio , French politician
- 1927: Arthur Cohn , Swiss film producer
- 1927: Horst Ehmke , German constitutional law teacher, politician, MP, Federal Minister
- 1927: Rolf Landauer , German-American physicist and information scientist
- 1928: Gian Luigi Polidoro , Italian film director
- 1928: Kim Yŏng-nam , North Korean politician, Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly
- 1929: Jerry Adler , American theater director, theater director, television and film actor
- 1929: Friedhelm Busse , German neo-Nazi
- 1929: Dorothy Howard , Canadian singer and music teacher
- 1929: Neil Johnston , American basketball player
- 1929: Günther Kretzschmar , German composer
- 1929: Josef Starkl , Austrian gardener and entrepreneur
- 1929: Walther Tröger , German lawyer and sports official
- 1929: Eduard Zimmermann , German journalist and TV presenter
- 1931: Isabel Martínez de Perón , President of Argentina
- 1932: Robert Coover , American writer and college teacher
- 1932: Gerhard Friedrich Hund , German chess player, mathematician and computer scientist
- 1932: Jaroslav Tetiva , Czechoslovak basketball player
- 1932: Helmut Zatopek , German footballer
- 1933: Mary Frank , American painter and sculptor
- 1933: Toshi Ichiyanagi , Japanese composer
- 1933: Hans Schumi , Austrian politician
- 1935: Rex Aubrey , Australian swimmer
- 1934: Felipe Aguirre Franco , Mexican Bishop and Archbishop of Acapulco
- 1934: Bruce Malmuth , American director
- 1935: Gottfried Heller , German fund manager and author
- 1935: Konrad Porzner , German politician, MP, President of the Federal Intelligence Service
- 1936: Kiyoko Ono , Japanese gymnast and politician
- 1937: Giampaolo Calanchini , Italian saber fencer
- 1938: Ralph Bellamy , Australian engineer and racing car designer
- 1938: Birju Maharaj , Indian singer, choreographer, composer, singer, musician and lyricist
- 1940: Martin Jones , English pianist
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- 1940: George A. Romero , American director, producer
- 1941: Wolfgang Buresch , German author, puppeteer, director
- 1941: Edina Pop , German-Hungarian pop singer
- 1941: Peter Raue , German lawyer, notary public, art lover and promoter
- 1941: Hubert Straßl , Austrian writer
- 1942: Gerhard Höpp , German orientalist and Islamic scholar
- 1942: Frank Zander , German Schlager and Deutschpop musician, presenter and actor
- 1943: Tamara Asseyev , American film producer and author
- 1943: Svetlana Babanina , Soviet-Russian swimmer
- 1943: Uwe Blaurock , German legal scholar
- 1943: Franz-Josef Kniola , German stonemason and stone sculptor, politician, MdL, state minister
- 1943: Otto Lohmüller , German painter
- 1943: Ken Thompson , American computer scientist
- 1944: Candida Höfer , German photographer
- 1945: John P. Jumper , pilot, general, US Air Force Chief of Staff
- 1945: Julio Racine , Haitian composer and flutist
- 1945: Wolfgang Siemens , German painter
- 1946: Sieglinde Ammann , Swiss long jumper, discus thrower and pentathlete
- 1946: Dana Wilson , American composer and music educator
- 1947: Dan Quayle , American politician, Vice President
- 1948: Alice Cooper , American rock musician
- 1948: Martin Hohmann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag, trigger of the Hohmann affair
- 1948: Leane Suniar , Indonesian archer
- 1948: Ram Baran Yadav , first President of Nepal
- 1949: Edward Acton , British historian and university lecturer
- 1949: Michael Beck , American actor
- 1949: Helmut Heiderich , German politician and MP
- 1950: Leo Dautzenberg , German management consultant, lobbyist, politician and MP
- 1950: Freya Klier , German writer and director, civil rights activist in the GDR
1951-1975
- 1951: Ernst Dieter Rossmann , German politician, MdL, MP
- 1951: Sándor Szabó , Hungarian swimmer
- 1952: Lisa Eichhorn , American actress
- 1952: Kudsi Ergüner , Turkish nay player and composer
- 1952: Arkadiusz Godel , Polish foil fencer
- 1952: Kurt Klühspies , German handball player
- 1952: Dominique Lacaud , French automobile racer
- 1953: Kitarō , Japanese musician
- 1953: Ulrike Längle , Austrian literary scholar and writer
- 1953: Klaus Sommerfeld , German author, director, painter and actor
- 1954: Tim Caldwell , American cross-country skier
- 1955: Mikuláš Dzurinda , Slovak politician
- 1956: Dylan Fowler , Welsh guitarist, composer and arranger
- 1956: Eckhard Friauf , German biologist
- 1957: Don Davis , American composer
- 1958: Tomasz Pacyński , Polish science fiction writer
- 1958: Werner Schwab , Austrian writer
- 1959: Darryl Johansen , Australian chess grandmaster
- 1959: Cornelia Pieper , German language mediator and politician, MdL, MP
- 1959 Lawrence Taylor , American football player
- 1960: Maren Gilzer , German actress and fashion model
- 1960: Jenette Goldstein , American actress
- 1961: Stewart O'Nan , American writer
- 1962: Clint Black , American country music singer
- 1962: Žiga Turk , Slovenian politician
- 1963: Pirmin Zurbriggen , Swiss ski racer
- 1964: Volker Dehs , German literary scholar, translator and publicist
- 1964: Heike Tischler , German track and field athlete
- 1965: Myrtle Augee , British shot putter
- 1965: Frank Lelle , German soccer player
- 1966: Vyacheslav Yekimov , Russian cyclist
- 1967: Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Atavin , Russian handball player
- 1967: Lotto King Karl , German musician
- 1968: Beate Gummelt , German walker
- 1968: Astrid Klug , German politician, MP
- 1968: Michael Prus , German footballer
- 1969: René Bochmann , German skilled construction worker, office clerk and politician
- 1969: Brandy Ledford , American actress
- 1969: Claudia Michelsen , German actress
- 1970: Gabrielle Anwar , British actress
- 1970: Gilberto Hernández , Mexican chess player and coach
- 1970: Andreas Lichtenberger , German actor and musical performer
- 1970: Norman Ohler , German writer
- 1970: Toni Porkka , Finnish ice hockey player
- 1971: Maarten Atmodikoro , Surinamese-Dutch footballer
- 1971: Alexander Dürr , German football player and coach
- 1971: Chrischa Hannawald , German handball player and coach
- 1971: Katja Mast , German politician, MP
- 1971: Nikki Stone , American freestyle skier
- 1975: Vittorio Arrigoni , Italian reporter
- 1975: Rick Burch , American musician
- 1975: Natalie Imbruglia , Australian-British singer and actress
1976-2000
- 1976: Cam'ron , American rapper
- 1976: Vincent Capillaire , French racing driver
- 1976: Masaki Kanō , Japanese automobile racer
- 1976: Daniel Wiemer , German actor and musician
- 1977: Gavin DeGraw , American musician
- 1978: Mohamad Abd El Fatah , Egyptian wrestler
- 1978: Markus Hiden , Austrian footballer
- 1978: Harriet Hunt , English chess player
- 1979: Giorgio Pantano , Italian racing driver
- 1980: Yared Asmerom , Eritrean marathon runner
- 1980: Kabelo Mmono , Botswana high jumper
- 1981: Tommy Finke , German musician and composer
- 1981: Jason Kapono , American basketball player
- 1981: Marcus Steegmann , German footballer
- 1982: Heiner Backhaus , German soccer player
- 1982: Roman Wallner , Austrian footballer
- 1982: Kimberly Wyatt , American singer ( Pussycat Dolls )
- 1983: Miguel Garcia , Portuguese footballer
- 1983: Blerim Rrustemi , Canadian soccer player
- 1985: David Lazzaroni , French ski jumper
- 1985: Trent McClenahan , Australian footballer
- 1986: Maximilian Götz , German racing driver
- 1986: Anne Pochert , German soccer player
- 1986: Kosi Saka , Congolese footballer
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- 1987: Lucie Šafářová , Czech tennis player
- 1987: Nikita Kirillovich Vityugov , Russian chess player
- 1988: Carly Patterson , American gymnast
- 1989: Yunus Özmusul , Turkish handball player
- 1990: Marcel Kandziora , German soccer player
- 1990: Karen Knútsdóttir , Icelandic handball player
- 1990: Nairo Quintana , Colombian cyclist
- 1991: Mathew Leckie , Australian footballer
- 1992: Samin Gomez , Venezuelan automobile racer
- 1993: Isolda Dychauk , German actress
- 1995: Pione Sisto , South Sudanese Danish footballer
- 1996: Jonathan Elias Weiske , German actor
- 1998: Marin Šverko , Croatian-German footballer
- 1998: Langston Uibel , German actor
- 1998: Maximilian Wöber , Austrian footballer
- 1999: Derrick Köhn , German soccer player
- 2000: Vincent Thill , Luxembourg footballer
21st century
- 2002: Jackie R Jacobson , American actress
- 2005: Zidan Sertdemir , Danish footballer
Died
Before the 17th century
- 211: Septimius Severus , Roman Emperor
- 708: Sisinnius , Pope
- 856: Rabanus Maurus , Archbishop of Mainz, author of two Latin encyclopedias
- 1041: Fujiwara no Kintō , Japanese poet and aristocrat
- 1150: Ekbert I , Count of Tecklenburg
- 1161: Inge Krogrygg , King of Norway
- 1168: Dietrich von Alsace , Count of Flanders
- 1189: Gilbert of Sempringham , English founder of an order
- 1222: William I , Count of Holland and Crusader
- 1475: Giovanni Andrea Bussi , Italian prelate and humanist
- 1475: George I of Schaumberg , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
- 1498: Antonio Pollaiuolo , Italian sculptor, painter and engraver
- 1505: Joan of France , Duchess of Orleans and Queen of France
- 1508: Conrad Celtis , German humanist and poet
- 1513: Philipp von Rosenberg , Prince-Bishop of Speyer
- 1523: Simon Pistoris the Elder , German physician
- 1529: Ludwig Hätzer , Swiss publicist and Bible translator, martyr of the Anabaptist movement
- 1551: Johann IV , Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
- 1551: Thomas Venatorius , German mathematician, Protestant theologian and reformer
- 1553: Caspar Othmayr , German evangelical clergyman and composer
- 1563: William of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach , Archbishop of Riga
- 1580: Philipp Ludwig I , Count of Hanau-Muenzenberg
- 1590: Nicole de Savigny , Baroness of Saint-Remy and mistress of King Henry II of France
- 1597: Joachim von Beust , German jurist
- 1598: Abdullah II , Prince of the Uzbeks
17th and 18th centuries
- 1609: García Hurtado de Mendoza , Spanish governor of Chile and viceroy of Peru
- 1612: Joseph of Leonessa , Italian Capuchin missionary, saint
- 1617: Louis Elsevier , Dutch publisher, bookbinder and bookseller
- 1622: Jacob Studer , Swiss bibliophile and librarian
- 1672: Anna Maria Martinozzi , one of the Mazarinettes and Princess of Conti
- 1687: François de Créquy , French general, Marshal of France
- 1691: Paul Ammann , German physician and botanist
- 1694: Jean Louis d'Orléans-Longueville , Duke of Longueville
- 1694: Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina , Tatar noblewoman, second wife of Tsar Alexei I of Russia
- 1698: Sophie Wilhelmine of Ostfriesland , Duchess of Württemberg-Oels
- 1702: Georg Michael Heber , German legal scholar
- 1706: Johann Nikolaus Pechlin , German-Dutch physician and tutor to Karl Friedrich von Holstein-Gottorf
- 1709: Anne de Rohan-Chabot , Princess of Soubise and mistress of Louis XIV.
- 1717: Johann Adam Seupel , Strasbourg painter and engraver
- 1721: Heinrich Mylius , German physician
- 1738: Joseph Suss Oppenheimer , German finance broker and banker
- 1745: Georg Ermel , German educator
- 1748: Gabriel Girard , French Romanist, Slavist, grammarian and lexicologist
- 1752: Louis I de Bourbon , Duke of Orléans and Duke of Nemours, Grand Master of the Order of Lazarus
- 1753: Anna Emerentia von Reventlow , German countess, benefactor and prioress of Uetersen Abbey
- 1778: Friedrich Seltendorff , master builder of the Leipzig Baroque and Rococo
- 1780: Giovanni Battista Passeri , Italian archaeologist
- 1781: Josef Mysliveček , Czech composer
- 1784: Friederike Luise of Prussia , Princess of Prussia
- 1787: Pompeo Batoni , Italian painter
- 1792: Viktoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym , Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- 1793: Karl Blank , Russian architect
- 1800: Charlotte Sophie Bentinck , German noblewoman
19th century
- 1805: John Sloss Hobart , American jurist and politician
- 1805: Johann George Tromlitz , German flautist, flute maker and composer
- 1807: Johann Ignaz Seuffert , German organ builder
- 1810: Fyodor Gordeyevich Gordeyev , Russian sculptor and university teacher
- 1816: John Armstrong , American officer, jurist and politician
- 1816: Joachim Perinet , Austrian actor and writer
- 1819: Gaspar Smit , Spanish composer and organist
- 1822: Jean-Baptiste-Cyrus-Marie-Adélaïde de Timbrune de Thiembronne , French general
- 1823: Franz Bühler , German Benedictine monk, musician and composer
- 1824: Maria Anna of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Countess Palatine of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen and Duchess in Bavaria
- 1825: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Berg , German farmer
- 1825: Bernhard Friedrich Kuhn , Swiss politician and jurist
- 1825: Carl Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , German Police Director
- 1835: Wade Hampton I , American landowner, general and politician
- 1837: John Latham , British physician, ornithologist, naturalist and author
- 1838: Michael Oestreich , German organ builder
- 1844: Willem de Clercq , Dutch writer
- 1848: Jan Richard de Brueys , Dutch legal scholar
- 1853: Jean-Alexandre-Guillaume Leresche , Swiss Protestant clergyman, university teacher and politician
- 1854: George Watterston , US head of the US Congressional Library
- 1862: Heinrich Schmückert , Postmaster General of the Kingdom of Prussia
- 1871: Hermann von Pückler-Muskau , Prussian sovereign, lieutenant general, landscape architect, writer and world traveller
- 1874: Hartvig Nissen , Norwegian school reformer
- 1875: Josef Ettenreich , Austrian butcher, foiled a knife assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph I.
- 1877: Thomas Samuel Ashe , American jurist and politician
- 1880: François Louis Nompar de Caumont de La Force , French naturalist and explorer
- 1882: John Hiles , English organist and music teacher
- 1886: Hans Victor von Unruh , German politician and government councillor
- 1890: Antoine d'Orléans , Duke of Montpensier, French officer and pretender to the Spanish throne
- 1890: Fletcher Stockdale , American jurist, railroad official and politician
- 1895: Hugo Barthelme , German painter
- 1895: Faustina Hasse Hodges , American composer and organist
- 1897: José Miguel Blanco , Chilean sculptor
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Bernhard Schwarz , German explorer of Africa
- 1902: George N. Barnard , American photographer
- 1902: Jacob Lindboe , Norwegian jurist and politician
- 1907: Tonio Bödiker , Prussian statesman, first President of the Reich Insurance Office
- 1907: Gabriel Hubert Iser , German Reichsgerichtsrat
- 1908: Herrmann Bachstein , German railway pioneer
- 1910: Giovanni Passannante , Italian anarchist
- 1911: Piet Cronjé , commander of the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars
- 1912: Franz Reichelt , Austrian tailor and parachute designer
- 1913: Franz Xaver Nagl , Austrian Catholic archbishop and cardinal
- 1914: Wolf Dohrn , German reformer
- 1915: Franz Adickes , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
- 1915: Baldomero Aguinaldo , Philippine revolutionary leader and general
- 1917: Frédéric de Rougemont the Younger , Swiss Protestant clergyman and entomologist
- 1919: Emil Possehl , Lübeck merchant and patron
- 1921: Eugène Burnand , Swiss painter
- 1921: Carl Hauptmann , German playwright and novelist
- 1925: Paul Gilbert , German judge, local politician, local historian, club and association official
- 1925: Robert Koldewey , German architect and archaeologist
- 1926: Katharina Zitelmann , German writer
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- 1928: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz , Dutch mathematician and physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1928: Fritz Raschig , German industrialist, chemist, and politician
- 1929: Victor Michels , German scholar
- 1931: Dominique Gauchet , French admiral
- 1934: Richard von Kralik , Austrian writer and cultural philosopher
- 1936: Wilhelm Gustloff , German National Socialist, regional group leader of the NSDAP foreign organization in Switzerland
- 1936: Rudolf Heydel , German racing driver
- 1936: Hugo Krabbe , Dutch constitutional lawyer
- 1939: Henri Deterding , Dutch industrialist
- 1939: Edward Sapir , American ethnologist and linguist
- 1940: Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov , Russian head of the Soviet secret police NKVD
- 1941: Louis Lincoln Emmerson , American politician
- 1944: Arsen Borisovich Kozoyev , Soviet writer
- 1945: Michel Doré , French automobile racer
- 1945: Cecil Kimber , British co-founder and managing director of the MG automobile company
- 1946: Herbert Baker , British architect
- 1947: Alwin Reinhold Korselt , German mathematician
- 1950: Walter Eli Clark , American politician
- 1950: Charlot Strasser , Swiss psychiatrist and writer
1951-2000
- 1951: Cecil Gant , American blues singer and pianist
- 1953: Antonio Conte , Italian fencer
- 1953: Emmerich David , German clergyman and vicar general in Cologne
- 1954: William Herbert Adams , American politician
- 1955: Robert Hohlbaum , Austrian librarian, novelist and playwright
- 1956: Janko Binenbaum , Turkish composer
- 1956: Peder Gram , Danish composer
- 1957: Pierre Aeby , Swiss politician
- 1957: Erich Ponto , German actor
- 1958: Monta Bell , American producer, director and screenwriter
- 1958: Henry Kuttner , American writer
- 1966: August-Martin Euler , German lawyer and politician, MdL, MP
- 1966: Robert Graf , German theater and film actor
- 1967: Martin C. Ansorge , American lawyer and politician
- 1967: Cevat Rıfat Atilhan , Turkish author, journalist, publicist and general
- 1967: Igo Etrich , Austrian pilot and aircraft designer
- 1967: Väinö Albert Nuorteva , Finnish writer and journalist
- 1968: Josef Augusta , Czech paleontologist
- 1968: Neal Cassady , American author, member of literary group The Beat Generation (Beatniks)
- 1972: Erica Pappritz , German diplomat and protocol expert under Konrad Adenauer
- 1974: Satyendranath Bose , Indian physicist
- 1974: Ozaki Kihachi , Japanese writer
- 1974: Max zu Schaumburg-Lippe , German racing driver
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- 1975: Louis Jordan , American saxophonist
- 1977: Achille Campanile , Italian journalist and playwright
- 1980: Fritz Geiger , German sports official, President of the German Skating Union
- 1982: Alex Harvey , British musician
- 1983: Karen Carpenter , American singer
- 1985: Friedrich Arndt , German puppeteer
- 1985: Mathieu Hezemans , Dutch racing driver and entrepreneur
- 1987: Liberace , American entertainer
- 1987: Carl Rogers , American psychologist and youth psychotherapist
- 1988: Willi Kollo , German composer
- 1989: Trevor Lucas , Australian-British folk singer and guitarist
- 1989: Hans Müller , Swiss civil servant
- 1989: Gustav Niermann , German farmer and politician, MdL, state minister
- 1992: Udo Tischer , German politician and trade unionist, MP
- 1995: Godfrey Brown , British athlete and Olympic gold medalist
- 1995: Patricia Highsmith , American writer
- 1995: Walter Zeller , German motorcycle racer
- 1996: Sara C. Bisel , American archaeologist and anthropologist
- 1996: Manolo Fábregas , Mexican actor, director and film producer of Spanish descent
- 1997: Alberto Beltrán , Dominican singer
- 1998: Paul Schachtschabel , German soil scientist
- 1999: Amadou Diallo , Guinean immigrant, shot dead by police officers
- 1999: Vittorio Marzotto , Italian racing driver
- 2000: Carl Albert , American politician
- 2000: Lothar Alisch , German politician
- 2000: Joachim-Ernst Berendt , German music journalist and critic
- 2000: Henry Jaeger , German writer
- 2000: Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo , Colombian politician
21st century
- 2001: JJ Johnson , American jazz musician
- 2001: Ernie McCoy , American racing driver
- 2001: Tomás Rivera Morales , Puerto Rican composer, cuatro player and music educator
- 2001: Iannis Xenakis , Greek composer and architect
- 2002: Boogaloo Ames , American jazz, blues and boogie-woogie pianist
- 2002: Inge Konradi , Austrian actress
- 2002: George Nader , American film actor
- 2003: Hasso Schützendorf , German entrepreneur
- 2004: Jacques Français , French violin maker and expert
- 2005: Ossie Davis , American actor
- 2005: Alois Rohrmoser , Austrian entrepreneur, founder of Atomic ski factory
- 2006: Betty Friedan , American feminist and publicist
- 2007: Kurt Schubert , Austrian Judaist
- 2007: Francesco Valdambrini , Italian composer and music educator
- 2008: Chris Anderson , American jazz pianist
- 2008: Tata Güines , Cuban percussionist, bandleader, composer and arranger
- 2008: Stefan Meller , Polish historian, diplomat and politician
- 2011: Michael Habeck , German actor and voice actor
- 2011: Isadore Nathaniel Parker , American jazz trumpeter
- 2012: István Csurka , Hungarian journalist, writer and politician
- 2013: Reg Presley , British singer and songwriter ( The Troggs )
- 2014: Mario Benusiglio , Italian racing driver
- 2014: Hubert Luthe , German Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Essen
- 2015: John Barber , British racing driver
- 2015: Fitzhugh Fulton , American test pilot
- 2016: Edgar Mitchell , American astronaut
- 2017: Joachim Auer , German politician
- 2018: Gregor Dorfmeister , German writer
- 2018: Martin Grüner , German politician
- 2018: John Mahoney , American actor
- 2019: Matti Nykänen , Finnish ski jumper
- 2019: Leonie Ossowski , German writer
- 2020: Kamau Brathwaite , Barbadian writer
- 2020: Daniel arap Moi , Kenyan politician
- 2021: Stanisław Wołodko , Polish track and field athlete
holidays and commemorations
- Church commemorations
- St. Rabanus Maurus (Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Jeanne de Valois , French queen, abbess and founder of a religious order (Catholic)
- St. Joseph of Leonessa (Catholic)
- State holidays and commemorations
- Sri Lanka : Independence from Britain (1948)
The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .
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