April 1st

This article treats April 1st as a date; for the joke tradition of this day see April Fool's joke .

The April 1 is the 91st day of the Gregorian calendar (92nd in leap years ), thus remain 274 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

457: Emperor Majorian

• 0457 : After his successful rebellion against Emperor Avitus , Flavius ​​Iulius Valerius Maiorianus becomes Emperor of Western Rome . The army master Ricimer , who supported the rebellion, remains a determining figure in the realm in the background.
• 0527 : The Byzantine Emperor Justin I appoints his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and heir to the throne .
• 1318 : During the Scottish Wars of Independence , the Scots succeed in conquering the strategically important city of Berwick-upon-Tweed .
• 1340 : The knight Niels Ebbesen kills Count Gerhard III in Randers . from Holstein . The deed clears the way for Waldemar IV. Atterdag to be elected King of Denmark and thus ends the period of interregnum in Denmark .
• 1389 : The old Confederation closes after its successes in the battles of Sempach , at which Duke Leopold III. fell, and Näfels with the Habsburgs under Albrecht III. a temporary peace treaty in the Sempach War .
• 1525 : The Evangelical Army , part of Florian Geyer's Black Heap , breaks out of the Odenwald in the Peasants' War . The farmers march to the Schöntal monastery , which houses supplies.
• 1572 : Brielle is the first city in the Netherlands to be conquered by the rebellious Geusen during the Eighty Years' War against Spanish rule .
• 1773 : The Christian Herrnhuter Brothers Congregation founds the town of Christiansfeld in North Schleswig on behalf of the Danish King Christian VII .

1789: Frederick Muhlenberg

• 1789 : In New York City chooses US House of Representatives with Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania its first spokesman .
• 1795 : In Paris, the Germinal revolt of the sans-culottes against the National Convention is ended bloodlessly as a result of a famine during the French Revolution .
• 1809 : The "Black Duke" Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel sets up the Black Squad , a German free corps that fought against Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in the Wars of Liberation up to 1815 .
• 1811 : The Berlin Police Regulations create the first criminal police in Germany in Berlin .
• 1865 : The Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat the Confederates under George Edward Pickett in the Battle of Five Forks , the last major battle in the Civil War . This opens the way to Richmond , the capital of the Confederate States , in the Appomattox campaign .

1867: The Straits Settlements (red)

• 1867 : The British East India Company's possessions in Southeast Asia , the Straits Settlements on the Malay Peninsula , are converted into a British Crown Colony after the company's demise . These include Penang , Malacca and Singapore , among others .
• 1897 : The Japanese city of Nagano is founded.

1899: View of German New Guinea by R. Hellgrewe

• 1899 : The German Empire takes over the possessions of the New Guinea Company under the name of German New Guinea as a regular colony .
• 1915 : During the First World War, the Frenchman Roland Garros successfully carried out the first fighter flight in aviation history against four Albatros biplanes .
• 1917 : The Danish colony of the Danish West Indies is owned by the USA for 25 million dollars and has been called the American Virgin Islands since then .
• 1918 : The Royal Air Force (RAF), the Air Force of the United Kingdom is, by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) under the command of the Air Ministry formed.
• 1920 : The law on the establishment of the Deutsche Reichsbahn comes into force. Thus, in implementation of the Weimar Constitution, the former state railways are placed under the sovereignty of the German Reich.
• 1924 : In the Hitler trial, Adolf Hitler is sentenced together with some co-defendants to a prison term of five years on the occasion of his attempted coup on November 9, 1923. Erich Ludendorff is acquitted.

1933: boycott of Jewish shops

• 1933 : With the “ Jewish boycott ” carried out across Germany , the National Socialist government tackles the ousting of German Jews from public life.
• 1933 : The Propaganda Ministry converts the international broadcasting world radio station into the German shortwave station .

1937: Hamburg before and after the law

• 1937 : The Greater Hamburg Law , with which Hamburg is enlarged by some surrounding Prussian communities, comes into force. Hamburg may lose some exclaves such as Cuxhaven , but the now unified Hamburg municipal area is almost doubled. In connection with this law, the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck goes to Prussia .
• 1937 : Aden is raised to the status of its own British crown colony and separated from the British colonial government in India.
• 1939 : In Burgos, after the defeat of the last republican forces, Francisco Franco formally declares the Spanish Civil War over. The Franco regime in Spain immediately begins the systematic persecution of dissidents, hundreds of thousands will cost you your life.
• 1941 : The badge for blockade breakers is donated in Germany during World War II . It is awarded to ship crews who were in neutral foreign countries at the time the war began and who then returned home.
• 1944 : US planes bomb the city of Schaffhausen in Switzerland during the war against Germany - probably by mistake . 37 people are killed, around 100 are injured, some seriously, and 300 homeless.
• 1944 : The mass deportation of Jews from Greece and Hungary to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp begins.

1945: The plan of attack on Okinawa

• 1945 : With the landing of the US armed forces under Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner junior on the island of Okinawa Hontō , the battle of Okinawa begins in the Pacific War, with many losses , which will last until June 30th.

1945: The Ruhr basin

• 1945 : US troops close the Ruhr basin near Lippstadt . The Kesselschlacht lasts until April 21st.
• 1946 : Under pressure from Great Britain under the leadership of Harold MacMichael , the Malay Union is founded as an amalgamation of the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements. It will only last until January 31, 1948.
• 1946 : The American occupation authorities found the Gehlen organization in the American zone of occupation in Germany . The first head of the intelligence service , which is staffed with German personnel, is Major General Reinhard Gehlen .
• 1948 : With the enactment of the law on the autonomy of the Faroe receive Faroe Islands from Denmark largely self-determination in all internal affairs.
• 1955 : The Cypriot resistance organization EOKA under Georgios Grivas starts an uprising against the British occupation of the island with the aim of enosis , unity with Greece.
• 1956 : The organization Gehlen with its leader Reinhard Gehlen is taken over into the service of the Federal Republic of Germany under the name Federal Intelligence Service .
• 1957 : The first conscripts are drafted into the German Federal Armed Forces .
• 1969 : The IXth, dominated by the military, begins in Beijing . Chinese Communist Party Congress . Marshal Lin Biao is appointed sole deputy and designated successor to party leader Mao Zedong.

1979: Ayatollah Khomeini

• 1979 : After the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Ayatollah Khomeini becomes "Supreme Leader" of the new Islamic Republic of Iran .
• 1990 : Ibrahim Böhme resigns as chairman of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR .
• 1991 : Detlev Rohwedder , head of the Berlin Treuhandanstalt , is shot dead in his Düsseldorf house, presumably by the Red Army Faction (RAF). A “Commando Ulrich Wessel” is committed to the deed.
• 1994 : The promotion of Verena von Weymarn by Federal Defense Minister Volker Rühe to general doctor , announced on March 23, comes into force. This makes her the first female general in German military history.
• 1997 : The People's Republic of China and Taiwan officially start direct shipping with each other for the first time.

1999: Celebrations for the founding of Nunavut

• 1999 : With the entry into force of the Nunavut Act , the Canadian Territory of Nunavut is separated from the Northwest Territories . The government under Jean Chrétien wants to allow the Inuit , who form the majority in this territory, a relative autonomy .
• 2001 : Slobodan Milošević , wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for war crimes during the Yugoslav Wars , is arrested in Belgrade.
• 2018 : In the second round of the presidential election in Costa Rica , Carlos Alvarado Quesada of the Partido Acción Ciudadana is elected as the new president with almost 61 percent of the vote.

economy

• 1814 : The first gas lamps burn in the streets of London .

1867: Palace of the World's Fair

• 1867 : In Paris, the Emperor Napoleon III. based world exhibition its gates.
• 1876 : Benno Orenstein and Arthur Koppel found a mechanical engineering company that made a name for itself as Orenstein & Koppel .
• 1881 : The first telephone network in Germany goes into operation in Berlin with 48 subscribers.
• 1891 : William Wrigley Jr. founds the soap and baking powder company Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in Chicago .
• 1900 : Mail delivery in Germany is entrusted to the Reichspost as a monopoly , private transport of local mail is prohibited.
• 1905 : With the Prussian Water Act, the construction of the Mittelland Canal between the Rhine and the Elbe is decided.
• 1924 : The Belgian airline Sabena makes its first commercial flight. It runs from Rotterdam to Strasbourg with a stopover in Brussels.
• 1928 : Hub van Doorne founds a company in Eindhoven that became the automobile manufacturer DAF .
• 1934 : De Bornholmske Jernbaner is created through the merger of three railway companies on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea .
• 1935 : The Reserve Bank of India , India's central bank, is established.
• 1938 : The Nescafé instant coffee produced by Nestlé is sold for the first time in Switzerland .
• 1941 : The joint venture of the German Labor Front (GW) takes over the business operations of consumer cooperatives and their large purchasing companies under the GEG .

1955: Lufthansa postage stamp

• 1955 : With four Convair CV-340 aircraft , Deutsche Lufthansa resumes scheduled air traffic in West Germany, which had been inactive since the end of the war .

1976: Apple I.

• 1976 : Members of the Homebrew Computer Club , Steve Jobs , Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne , found the Apple company and introduce their first computer, the first Apple I single-board computer .
• 1997 : The German steel groups Thyssen and Krupp- Hoesch merge to form Thyssenkrupp AG .
• 2000 : The XEL code is required for British beef .

science and technology

1790: Galaxy NGC 3079

• 1790 : The German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel discovers the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3079 while observing the sky .

1893: Reichsgesetzblatt for the CET

• 1893 : The law concerning the introduction of a uniform time determination comes into force. This introduces the "mean solar time of the fifteenth degree of longitude east of Greenwich" as a uniform time throughout Germany. The purpose is the precise regulation of the railway timetable.
• 1894 : The cave explorer Max Brunello discovers the Lurgrotte , Austria's largest water cave .
• 1910 : The Institute for Bird Research is founded as the Heligoland ornithological station within the Prussian Biological Institute on Helgoland . His main task is the research of bird migration on the island.
• 1921 : The French pilot Adrienne Bolland succeeds in the first solo flight of a woman over the Andes . With a Caudron G-III she covers the flight route from Mendoza in Argentina to Santiago de Chile in 4:17 hours.
• 1939 : The largest German battleship Tirpitz is launched in Wilhelmshaven in the presence of Adolf Hitler and is christened by the daughter of the namesake, Inge von Hassel.
• 1960 : The first satellite in the TIROS series is launched in the United States . Tiros 1 helps to determine and predict the general weather situation and transmits images of the cloud cover to the earth.
• 1972 : The US company Intel introduces its first 8-bit processor, the Intel 8008 .

Culture

1792: English garden

• 1792 : The English Garden in Munich planned by Friedrich Ludwig Sckell in the style of an English landscape garden is opened to the public by the Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor .
• 1867 : The Parc des Buttes-Chaumont , an English-style public park, opens in Paris .
• 1871 : The premiere of the opera Linda d'Ispahan by Gian Francesco Malipiero takes place in the Teatro La Fenice in Venice .
• 1873 : The string quartet in E minor , the only string quartet by Giuseppe Verdi , has its world premiere in a private setting in the reception hall of the Albergo della crocelle in Naples. It is the only Italian chamber music work of the 19th century that can hold up in the concert repertoire.

1891: Paul Gauguin

• 1891 : The painter Paul Gauguin embarks from Marseille in France for Tahiti .
• 1895 : The comic opera La Vivandière of Benjamin Godard after the composer's death at the Opéra-Comique premiered in Paris.

1899: First edition Die Fackel

• 1899 : The first issue of the magazine Die Fackel , published by the 24-year-old Karl Kraus , appears in Vienna with an edition of 30,000 copies.
• 1901 : In Schwerin , the Bismarck monument designed and modeled by Wilhelm Wandschneider is unveiled as a state monument of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .
• 1907 : Saturn-Film , the first Austrian film production company, places advertisements in a film magazine for its “piquant men's evening films ” for the first time .
• 1909 : The opera Shenitba ( The Marriage ) by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky is premiered at the Court Opera in Saint Petersburg .
• 1914 : The opera Notre Dame by Franz Schmidt based on the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo is premiered with great success at the Court Opera in Vienna .

1916: Jan Brandts Buys

• 1916 : Die Schneider von Schönau , a comic opera in three acts by the Dutch composer Jan Brandts-Buys with the libretto by Ignaz Michael Welleminsky , is premiered at the Dresden Court Opera. The opera gave the composer international success.
• 1923 : The operetta Mädi by Robert Stolz had its world premiere in the Berlin Theater in Berlin. The text book comes from Alfred Grünwald and Leo Stein .
• 1924 : Max Reinhardt takes over the newly opened Viennese theater in Josefstadt .
• 1930 : The German feature film Der Blaue Engel , directed by Josef von Sternberg with Marlene Dietrich in the leading role, premieres in Berlin. The screenplay comes from Carl Zuckmayer , Karl Gustav Vollmoeller and Robert Liebmann based on the novel Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann .
• 1932 : The operetta, which is close to the operetta, when the little violets bloom by Robert Stolz is premiered at the Princess Theater in The Hague .
• 1937 : Amelia Goes to the Ball , a grotesque opera by Gian Carlo Menotti , premieres at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
• 1943 : The opera Das Schloß Dürande by Othmar Schoeck with the libretto by Hermann Burte based on the novel of the same name by Joseph von Eichendorff is premiered at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin.
• 1954 : The premiere of the opera The Tender Land by Aaron Copland takes place at the City Center Opera in New York City .

1955: The Felsberg-Berus transmitter

• 1955 : The French-speaking private broadcaster Europe 1 starts broadcasting in Felsberg-Berus . The Felsberg-Berus transmitter owes its existence to the Saarland's special statute in the 1950s.
• 1957 : As an April Fool's joke, the BBC television magazine Panorama broadcasts a mockumentary about the spaghetti harvest in Ticino, Switzerland.
• 1963 : The Second German Television ( ZDF ) officially starts its nationwide television program after several days with test broadcasts in Mainz .
• 1971 : Bayern 3 starts its broadcasts in Munich as a service wave, primarily for motorists.
• 1975 : ORF eins broadcasts the first episode of its daily children's program Am dam des , which will run until 1993.
• 1990 : Private local radio in North Rhine-Westphalia starts with Radio Duisburg
• 1995 : The WDR radio station 1 Live, which is mainly aimed at a younger audience, goes on air.

society

1810: Napoleon and Marie-Louise (contemporary caricature)

• 1810 : After divorcing Joséphine de Beauharnais, Napoleon Bonaparte marries the Habsburg Marie-Louise of Austria in the chapel of the Louvre in Paris .
• 1989 : The Austrian ex-Empress Zita von Bourbon-Parma , who died at the age of 97 in Zizers (Switzerland), is buried in the Vienna Capuchin Crypt.
• 2001 : The Netherlands is the first country in the world to open marriage to same-sex partners . The Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen , married three male and one female couple shortly after midnight.
• 2002 : With the entry into force of the law presented by Health Minister Els Borst , the Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to allow euthanasia under certain conditions.

religion

1605: Leo XI.

• 1605 : Alessandro Ottaviano de 'Medici is elected Pope by the conclave as successor to Clement VIII and takes the name Leo XI. on.
• 1934 : Pope Pius XI. canonize the Italian priest and social worker Don Bosco , founder of the Salesian Co-workers of Don Bosco .
• 2002 : In Ireland , Bishop Brendan Comiskey resigns, admitting that he should have cracked down on child sexual abuse by a priest in his diocese .
• 2005 : Rosemarie Wenner succeeds Walter Klaiber as bishop of the United Methodist Church in Germany. She is the first woman outside the United States to hold this office.

Disasters

1873: RMS Atlantic

• 1873 : The sinking of the British White Star Line's passenger steamer RMS Atlantic off the coast of Nova Scotia (Canada) kills 545 passengers and crew. It is the worst shipping accident on the North Atlantic to date .
• 1946 : Hilo , Hawaii , is hit by a tsunami caused by an earthquake near the Aleutian Islands . 159 people died when a 14 meter high tidal wave washed over the country.

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

Sports

• 1888 : The Rotterdamsche Cricket & Football Club Sparta is founded, from which later the football club Sparta Rotterdam emerges.
• 1923 : The Swiss cyclist Heiri Suter wins the one-day race Paris – Roubaix , two weeks earlier he had already won the Tour of Flanders . He is the first rider to win the two cycling classics within a year .
• 1953 : The Paraguayan national soccer team wins the Copa America for the first time in Peru . Paraguay had previously finished the finals tied with Brazil , winning the decider for the title 3-2.
• 1998 : The " Torfall von Madrid " shortly before the start of the Champions League game between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium delayed the start of the game by 70 minutes.
• 2007 : The volleyball players of VfB Friedrichshafen win the final of the Champions League against the French team Tours Volley-Ball 3-1. This is the greatest success of a German volleyball club team to date.

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1220 : Go-Saga , Japanese Tenno
• 1287 : Margaret de Clare , Anglo-Irish nobleman
• 1543 : François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières , French general and equerry, governor and marshal of France

William Harvey (* 1578)

• 1578 : William Harvey , British physician and anatomist
• 1594 : Tomasz Zamoyski , Polish nobleman and statesman
• 1600 : Reinhold von Derschau , German lawyer
• 1606 : Ernst Christoph , Count of East Frisia
• 1607 : Marie Eleonore of Brandenburg , Princess of Brandenburg and Countess Palatine
• 1613 : Giulio Bartolocci , Italian theologian
• 1614 : Martin Schoock , Dutch polyhistor
• 1616 : Christian Günther II , Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen zu Arnstadt
• 1621 : Tegh Bahadur , Guru of the Sikhs
• 1624 : Marija Ilyinichna Miloslawskaja , Russian tsarina

Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (* 1629)

• 1629 : Jean-Henri d'Anglebert , French composer, harpsichordist and organist
• 1630 : Jacob Boreel , Dutch aristocrat, diplomat and statesman
• 1640 : Georg Mohr , Danish mathematician
• 1642 : Wenzel Norbert Octavian Graf Kinsky , Bohemian civil servant
• 1643 : Christian Demelius , German composer
• 1643 : Nikolaus Christoph Lyncker , German professor, Reichshofrat
• 1646 : Hermann Otto II of Limburg-Styrum , Imperial Field Marshal General
• 1647 : John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , English poet
• 1649 : Jakob Marell , German Jesuit
• 1660 : Franz Beer , Austrian architect and builder
• 1672 : Ludwig Joseph d'Albert de Luynes von Grimbergen , Bavarian diplomat
• 1693 : Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham , German-English noblewoman
• 1697 : Antoine-François Prévost , French writer
• 1700 : Ulrich von Löwendal , German general and marshal of France

18th century

• 1701 : Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , royal Danish general
• 1704 : Amalie Sophie von Wallmoden , German noblewoman and mistress of the British King George II.
• 1706 : Christian Friedrich Boetius , German painter, draftsman and engraver
• 1707 : Franz de Paula Penz , Austrian pastor and church builder
• 1721 : Pieter Hellendaal , Dutch composer, organist and violinist
• 1721 : Karl Maria Raimund , Austrian field marshal and Reichsfeldzeugmeister
• 1723 : Johann Samuel Wiesner , German Protestant theologian, educator and orientalist

Salomon Gessner (* 1730)

• 1730 : Salomon Gessner , Swiss idyllic poet, painter and graphic artist
• 1734 : Scipione Borghese , Italian cardinal
• 1738 : Juraj Papánek , Slovak clergyman and historian
• 1745 : Johann La Roche , Austrian actor
• 1750 : Étienne André François de Paule Fallot de Beaumont de Beaupré , French bishop
• 1750 : Hugo Kołłątaj , Polish politician and publicist
• 1751 : Joseph Lange , German actor, painter, composer and writer
• 1752 : Pascual Ruiz Huidobro , Spanish military, politician and governor of Montevideo
• 1754 : Ewald Georg von Massow , Prussian Minister of State and Governor of Silesia
• 1755 : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin , French writer, philosopher and gastrosoph
• 1756 : Paul Wolfgang Merkel , German businessman and politician
• 1757 : Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt , Finnish-Swedish statesman, military and diplomat
• 1757 : Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata , Maltese cardinal
• 1759 : José de Bustamante y Guerra , Spanish politician, navigator and governor of Montevideo
• 1761 : Heinrich Stephani , German theologian, educator and school reformer
• 1764 : Barbara Krafft , Austrian painter
• 1766 : François-Xavier Fabre , French painter and draftsman, etcher and art collector

Domingo Badía y Leblich (* 1767)

• 1767 : Domingo Badía y Leblich , Spanish explorer and politician
• 1767 : Renatus Gotthelf Löbel , German lawyer, lexicographer and private scholar
• 1769 : Franz Xaver von Pflimmern , Bavarian civil servant
• 1774 : Gottfried Daniel Krummacher , Prussian theologian
• 1774 : Gustav von Rauch , Prussian general and minister of war
• 1776 : Sophie Germain , French mathematician
• 1777 : Michel Théodore Leclercq , French poet
• 1785 : Ferdinand Johann von Olivier , German painter and graphic artist
• 1791 : Franciszek Mirecki , Polish composer
• 1796 : Karl Wilhelm von Bormann , German-Belgian general
• 1799 : Daniel Jelensperger , French musicologist

19th century

1801-1850

• 1801 : Carl Anwandter , German pharmacist and politician
• 1802 : Albert von Carlowitz , Saxon politician
• 1802 : Hubert Ries , German violin player and composer
• 1803 : Miles Joseph Berkeley , British clergyman and botanist
• 1809 : Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol , Russian writer
• 1811 : Johann Heinrich Runge , German organ builder
• 1812 : Friedrich Güll , German poet
• 1813 : Carl Rammelsberg , German chemist
• 1814 : Søren Jaabæk , Norwegian politician
• 1815 : Henry B. Anthony , American politician

Otto von Bismarck (* 1815)

• 1815 : Otto von Bismarck , German politician and statesman, first Chancellor of the German Empire
• 1815 : Edward Clark , American politician, governor of Texas
• 1817 : Johannes Jacobus van Oosterzee , Dutch Reformed theologian
• 1821 : Louis-Adolphe Bertillon , French medic, anthropologist, statistician and demographer
• 1822 : Hector Giacomelli , French draftsman and illustrator
• 1822 : Augustus Charles Hobart , British-Turkish admiral
• 1824 : Eugène Ortolan , French lawyer, diplomat and composer
• 1825 : Auguste Ferdinande of Austria , Austrian Archduchess and Princess of Tuscany

Heinrich von Lehndorff (* 1829)

• 1829 : Heinrich von Lehndorff , Prussian general of the cavalry
• 1831 : Albert Anker , Swiss painter
• 1834 : James Fisk , American entrepreneur and speculator
• 1834 : Isidore Legouix , French composer
• 1834 : Josef Marastoni , Austrian painter, etcher and lithographer
• 1835 : Paul Yorck von Wartenburg , German lawyer and philosopher
• 1837 : Jorge Isaacs , Colombian writer and politician
• 1840 : Wassili Wassiljewitsch Kühner , Russian composer
• 1841 : Ahmed Urabi Pasha , Egyptian officer and leader of the Urabi movement
• 1842 : Edmund Neupert , Norwegian pianist, composer and music teacher
• 1844 : Johann Georg Eschenburg , German lawyer and notary, senate secretary, mayor of Lübeck
• 1845 : Wilhelm Meyer , German classical philologist and medievalist

1851-1900

• 1851 : Bernhard III. , Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• 1851 : Kristofer Randers , Norwegian writer
• 1852 : Edwin Austin Abbey , American painter and illustrator
• 1855 : Hüseyin Hilmi Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• 1856 : Bill Traylor , American draftsman and painter
• 1858 : Friedrich Springorum , German manager
• 1861 : Katō Tomosaburō , Japanese Prime Minister
• 1863 : Wilhelm Autenrieth , German pharmacist

Richard Zsigmondy (* 1865)

• 1865 : Richard Zsigmondy , Hungarian-Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1866 : Ferruccio Busoni , Italian pianist and composer, conductor and music teacher
• 1867 : Paul Langhans , German geographer and cartographer
• 1868 : Edmond Rostand , French playwright
• 1869 : Alexander Dreyschock , Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer
• 1871 : Auguste Friederike , Princess of Hessen-Homburg and Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• 1872 : Conrad Gröber , German bishop
• 1873 : Bibb Graves , American politician
• 1873 : Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow , Russian pianist, composer and conductor
• 1875 : Edgar Wallace , British crime novelist, screenwriter, director, journalist and playwright
• 1876 : Peter Strasser , German airship captain
• 1877 : Maurice Hankey , British Secretary of the National Defense Council
• 1878 : Carl Sternheim , German playwright and author
• 1881 : Octavian Goga , Romanian poet, author and politician
• 1881 : Wilhelm Sollmann , German journalist and politician
• 1882 : Paul Anspach , Belgian fencer
• 1883 : Karl Arnold , German painter and caricaturist

Lon Chaney (* 1883)

• 1883 : Lon Chaney sr. , US-American actor
• 1883 : Vladimir Kenig , Polish composer
• 1884 : Ernst Appel , German rabbi
• 1884 : Kurt Blaum , German politician
• 1884 : Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen , Dutch chemist
• 1885 : Wallace Beery , American actor
• 1885 : Clementine Churchill , wife of Winston Churchill
• 1886 : Robert Mehr , Austrian local politician, Mayor of Linz
• 1888 : Jean Alavoine , French cyclist
• 1888 : Terry de la Mesa Allen , American general
• 1888 : Hermann Pünder , German politician
• 1889 : Karl Arndt , German medical officer
• 1889 : Hermann Felsner , Austrian football coach
• 1890 : Heinrich Otto Meisner , German archivist and historian
• 1891 : Hans Döllgast , German architect and graphic artist
• 1891 : Bertha Dudde , German seamstress
• 1891 : Hans Kayser , German composer and music theorist
• 1892 : Anton Storch , German politician
• 1893 : Hugh Hodgson , American music educator, pianist, conductor, and composer

Alexander Aitken (* 1895)

• 1895 : Alexander Aitken , New Zealand mathematician
• 1895 : Otto-Heinrich Drechsler , Mayor of Lübeck, General Commissioner of Latvia
• 1895 : Alberta Hunter , American blues and jazz singer
• 1896 : Hanns Blaschke , Austrian politician
• 1896 : Serge Jaroff , American choir director
• 1896 : Wilhelm Sauter , German painter
• 1896 : Karl Volk , German politician and journalist, resistance fighter against the Nazi state
• 1898 : Jakob Adlhart , Austrian sculptor
• 1898 : Joe Alexander , American doctor, American football player and coach
• 1898 : William James Sidis , American genius
• 1899 : Herbert Lewin , German physician and President of the Central Council of Jews
• 1900 : Oskar Hippe , German Trotskyist and resistance fighter against National Socialism

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : William Harding Anderson , British ice hockey player
• 1901 : Francisco Ascaso , Spanish anarchist
• 1901 : Walther Böttcher , German politician

Whittaker Chambers (born 1901)

• 1901 : Whittaker Chambers , American writer and editor
• 1901 : Hugo Geiger , German politician
• 1902 : Josef Averesch , German priest
• 1903 : Salo Landau , Dutch chess player
• 1904 : Nikolai Erastowitsch Bersarin , Soviet general, city commandant of Berlin
• 1905 : Gaston Eyskens , Belgian head of government
• 1905 : Paul Hasluck , Australian politician
• 1905 : Eugenio Siena , Italian racing car driver
• 1905 : Winfried Zillig , German composer and conductor
• 1906 : Lucette Descaves , French pianist
• 1906 : Josef Giggenbach , German motorcycle racer
• 1906 : Alexander Sergejewitsch Jakowlew , Soviet aircraft designer
• 1906 : Muriel Stafford , Canadian organist, choir director and music teacher
• 1907 : Günther Arndt , German choir director and producer
• 1907 : Kyozan Joshu Sasaki , Japanese monk
• 1908 : Harald Bergström , Swedish mathematician
• 1908 : Abraham Maslow , American psychologist
• 1909 : William Whitehouse , British racing car driver
• 1910 : Sergei Nikolajewitsch Anochin , Soviet test pilot
• 1910 : Ace Harris , American R&B and jazz musician
• 1911 : Adam Kozłowiecki , Polish cardinal
• 1911 : Gerardus Antonius Joseph van Os , Dutch biochemist
• 1912 : Léon Dernier , Belgian racing driver
• 1912 : Yoshida Ken'ichi , Japanese writer
• 1912 : Joseph Parecattil , Indian cardinal
• 1912 : Edmund Sundhoff , German economist
• 1914 : Willi Meinck , German writer
• 1915 : OW Fischer , Austrian actor
• 1915 : Hans Liebherr , German entrepreneur and inventor
• 1915 : Tadeusz Wroński , Polish violinist and music teacher
• 1916 : Otto Schulmeister , Austrian journalist, editor-in-chief and publisher
• 1919 : Stefi Ákos , Hungarian singer
• 1919 : Joseph Edward Murray , American surgeon, kidney transplant pioneer and Nobel Prize winner
• 1920 : Georg André , German politician
• 1920 : Toshirō Mifune , Japanese actor
• 1920 : Anton Schall , German orientalist
• 1920 : HE Erwin Walther , German composer and music teacher
• 1921 : William Bergsma , American composer
• 1921 : Frederick Fortune , American bobsledder
• 1921 : André Stil , French writer
• 1922 : Alan J. Perlis , American computer scientist
• 1923 : Brigitte A. Askonas , British immunologist
• 1923 : Don Butterfield , American jazz musician and music publisher
• 1923 : Livio Maitan , Italian politician
• 1924 : Georges Barboteu , French horn player
• 1924 : Günther Becker , German composer
• 1924 : Brendan Byrne , American politician
• 1924 : Robert Gerle , American violinist and music teacher of Hungarian origin
• 1924 : Yoshiyuki Junnosuke , Japanese writer
• 1925 : Joe Menke , German music producer and pop composer
• 1925 : Wojciech Has , Polish film director

1926-1950

Anne McCaffrey (born 1926)

• 1926 : Anne McCaffrey , American writer
• 1927 : Jacques Mayol , French diver
• 1927 : Otto Creutzfeldt , German neurologist
• 1927 : Thomas Holtzmann , German actor
• 1927 : Ferenc Puskás , Hungarian football player
• 1928 : Kiyonori Kikutake , Japanese architect
• 1929 : Michael O'Herlihy , Irish producer, film and television director
• 1929 : Milan Kundera , Czech writer
• 1930 : Grace Lee Whitney , American actress
• 1930 : Frithjof Rodi , German philosopher

Rolf Hochhuth (* 1931)

• 1931 : Rolf Hochhuth , German playwright
• 1931 : Fernando Puig Rosado , Spanish painter and graphic artist, children's book illustrator and animation filmmaker
• 1931 : Peter Stoll , German forester and conservationist
• 1932 : Norman Abramson , American engineer and computer scientist
• 1932 : Mohammad Ebrahim Ardjomandi , Persian psychoanalyst, group analyst and medical specialist
• 1932 : Debbie Reynolds , American actress and singer
• 1932 : Jiří Smutný , Czech composer, conductor and music teacher
• 1932 : Avril Elgar , British actress
• 1933 : Bengt Holbek , Danish folklorist
• 1933 : Claude Cohen-Tannoudji , French physicist
• 1933 : Dan Flavin , American artist
• 1934 : Jim Ed Brown , American country singer
• 1934 : Roberto Ciulli , Italian theater director
• 1936 : William Cox , Australian lawyer and judge
• 1936 : Jean-Pascal Delamuraz , Swiss politician
• 1937 : Mohammad Hamid Ansari , Indian politician
• 1937 : Harro Otto , German criminal law scholar
• 1937 : Sylvia Rafael , Israeli agent
• 1937 : Werner Spies , German art historian, Romanist, journalist, art educator and museum director
• 1937 : Arnold Steinhardt , American violinist and music teacher
• 1937 : Yılmaz Güney , Turkish actor and director
• 1939 : Ali MacGraw , American actress
• 1939 : Phil Niekro , American baseball player
• 1939 : Wilhelm Bungert , German tennis player
• 1939 : Vitaly Semyonovich Davydov , Russian ice hockey player
• 1939 : Binnette Lipper , American composer and music teacher
• 1939 : Fausto Tenzi , Swiss opera singer
• 1940 : Wangari Maathai , Kenyan biologist and politician, Nobel Prize winner
• 1940 : Graciela Paraskevaídis , Argentine composer
• 1941 : David Childs , American architect
• 1942 : Ingrid Ahrendt-Schulte , German historian
• 1942 : Hans Daiber , German orientalist
• 1942 : Samuel R. Delany , American writer

Mario Botta (* 1943)

• 1943 : Mario Botta , Swiss architect
• 1945 : Bjørnar Andresen , Norwegian jazz musician
• 1945 : Ib Ivan Larsen , Danish rower
• 1946 : Jürgen Büssow , German district president
• 1946 : Hermann Goltz , German theologian and Eastern church scholar
• 1946 : Helmut Kukacka , Austrian State Secretary
• 1946 : Ronnie Lane , British rock musician
• 1946 : Arrigo Sacchi , Italian football player and coach
• 1946 : Manfred Stengl , Austrian luge, bobsleigh and motorcycle racer
• 1947 : Beşir Atalay , Turkish sociologist, university professor and politician
• 1947 : Alain Connes , French mathematician
• 1947 : Philippe Kirsch , Canadian lawyer and diplomat
• 1947 : Robin Scott , British singer and musician

Ingrid Steeger (* 1947)

• 1947 : Ingrid Steeger , German actress
• 1947 : Frank Tusa , American jazz bassist
• 1948 : Urs Allemann , Swiss writer
• 1948 : Jimmy Cliff , Jamaican singer and songwriter
• 1948 : Jürgen Rynio , German football player
• 1948 : JJ Williams , Welsh rugby player
• 1949 : Reid Anderson , Canadian dancer and ballet director
• 1949 : Gil Scott-Heron , American musician
• 1949 : Franz-Georg Rips , German local politician and director of the German tenants' association
• 1950 : Samuel Alito , American lawyer, Supreme Court Justice
• 1950 : Lothar Binding , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1950 : Paolo Conti , Italian soccer player
• 1950 : Billy Currie , British musician and songwriter
• 1950 : Loris Kessel , Swiss racing car driver
• 1950 : Ed Nijpels , Dutch politician

1951-1975

Johanna Wanka (* 1951)

• 1951 : Johanna Wanka , German politician, Federal Minister for Education and Research
• 1951 : John Abizaid , American general
• 1951 : Rolf Biland , Swiss motorcycle racer
• 1952 : Angelika Bahmann , German canoeist, Olympic and world champion
• 1952 : Hans-Georg Bürger , German automobile racing driver
• 1952 : Annette O'Toole , American actress
• 1952 : László Tőkés , Hungarian-Romanian bishop and politician, President of the Hungarian National Council in Transylvania
• 1953 : Hari Chand , Indian long distance runner
• 1953 : Barry Sonnenfeld , American cameraman and film director
• 1953 : Alfred Theodor Ritter , German entrepreneur ( Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG )
• 1954 : Dieter Müller , German soccer player
• 1954 : Giancarlo Antognoni , Italian football player
• 1954 : Jeff Porcaro , American drummer ( Toto )
• 1954 : Lee Chang-dong , South Korean film director and screenwriter
• 1954 : Knut Værnes , Norwegian jazz guitarist
• 1955 : Matthias Behr , German foil fencer
• 1955 : Roberto Pruzzo , Italian football player and coach
• 1955 : Pascal Witmeur , Belgian racing car driver
• 1956 : Lara Andriessen , German writer

Louis Caldera (* 1956)

• 1956 : Louis Caldera , American politician
• 1956 : Wolfgang Scherf , German economist
• 1957 : Dietmar Bartz , German journalist
• 1958 : D. Boon , American singer and guitarist
• 1958 : Toni Innauer , Austrian ski jumper and jumping coach
• 1958 : Tita , Brazilian soccer player
• 1959 : Christian Thielemann , German conductor
• 1959 : Helmuth Duckadam , Romanian football player
• 1960 : Nicola Tiggeler , German actress
• 1960 : Reijo Ruotsalainen , Finnish ice hockey player
• 1960 : Shanna McCullough , American porn actress and producer
• 1961 : Regine Mösenlechner , German ski racer
• 1961 : Susan Boyle , British singer
• 1961 : Elisabeth von Thadden , German journalist

Stefanie Tücking (* 1962)

• 1962 : Stefanie Tücking , German television and radio presenter
• 1963 : Princess Gabriele zu Leiningen , German wife of Prince Aga Khan
• 1964 : Kersten Artus , German journalist
• 1964 : John Bosch , Dutch racing driver
• 1964 : Chris Lee , American politician
• 1965 : Jane Adams , American actress
• 1965 : Thomas Schmuckert , German actor
• 1965 : Simona Ventura , Italian journalist and television presenter
• 1966 : Alberto Braida , Italian jazz pianist
• 1966 : Mesut Hastürk , Turkish poet and author
• 1966 : Oliver G. Wachlin , German author and dramaturge
• 1967 : Jacques Schulz , German sports journalist and motorsport commentator
• 1967 : Elke Walther , German soccer player and coach
• 1968 : Ingrid Klimke , German dressage and eventing rider
• 1969 : Urs Lehmann , Swiss ski racer
• 1969 : Manfred Weber-Wien , Austrian painter and draftsman
• 1969 : Jean-Michel Bayle , French motorcycle racer
• 1970 : Per-Anders Kurenbach , German keyboardist and composer
• 1970 : Anikó Nagy , Hungarian handball player
• 1971 : Christian Titz , German soccer player and coach
• 1972 : Malik Beširević , German handball player
• 1972 : Sergei Leonidowitsch Roschkow , Russian biathlete
• 1973 : Rachel Maddow , American radio and television presenter and commentator
• 1973 : Anna Carin Zidek , Swedish biathlete
• 1974 : René Andrle , Czech cyclist
• 1974 : Paolo Bettini , Italian racing cyclist
• 1974 : Tessa Mittelstaedt , German actress
• 1974 : Sandra Völker , German swimmer
• 1975 : José Antonio García Calvo , Spanish football player
• 1975 : George Bastl , Swiss tennis player
• 1975 : Singa Gätgens , German television presenter
• 1975 : Gerrit Glomser , Austrian cyclist
• 1975 : Michael Poulsen , Danish singer and guitarist ( Volbeat )
• 1975 : Shigekazu Wakisaka , Japanese racing car driver

1976-2000

• 1976 : John Elkann , Italian manager and industrialist
• 1976 : Gábor Király , Hungarian football player
• 1976 : Clarence Seedorf , Dutch football player
• 1977 : Haimar Zubeldia , Spanish cyclist
• 1978 : Anamaria Marinca , Romanian actress
• 1978 : Etan Thomas , American basketball player
• 1979 : Alex Antor , Andorran ski racer

Ivano Balić (* 1979)

• 1979 : Ivano Balić , Croatian handball player
• 1979 : Nikola Gjoševski , Macedonian football player
• 1979 : Chris Leitch , American football player
• 1980 : Danny Anclais , German handball player
• 1980 : Ismail Atalan , German soccer player and coach
• 1980 : James Auckland , British tennis player
• 1980 : Agnes Avagyan , Armenian cartoonist and illustrator
• 1980 : Dennis Kruppke , German soccer player
• 1980 : Randy Orton , American wrestler
• 1981 : Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Archipow , Russian freestyle skier
• 1981 : Bjørn Einar Romøren , Norwegian ski jumper
• 1981 : Sontje Peplow , German actress

Hannah Spearritt (* 1981)

• 1981 : Hannah Spearritt , British actress and singer
• 1982 : Kristjan Glibo , German soccer player
• 1982 : Stefan Pieper , German ski jumper
• 1982 : Andreas Thorkildsen , Norwegian athlete
• 1982 : Róbert Vittek , Slovak football player
• 1983 : Rozbeh Asmani , German-Iranian media artist
• 1983 : Christian Schulz , German soccer player
• 1983 : Amr Zaki , Egyptian soccer player
• 1983 : Sergei Vyacheslavovich Lasarew , Russian pop singer
• 1984 : Jure Dobelšek , Slovenian handball player
• 1986 : Vanessa Bürki , Swiss soccer player
• 1986 : Haminu Dramani , Ghanaian soccer player
• 1986 : Ryan Speedo Green , American opera singer
• 1986 : Marina Guerrini , Swiss actress
• 1986 : Kid Ink , American rapper
• 1986 : Philipp Pöter , German handball player
• 1986 : Ireen Wüst , Dutch speed skater

Vitorino Antunes (* 1987)

• 1987 : Vitorino Antunes , Portuguese football player
• 1987 : Ding Junhui , Chinese snooker player
• 1987 : Oliver Turvey , British racing driver
• 1988 : Fatmire Alushi , German soccer player
• 1988 : Friederike Gubernatis , German handball player
• 1988 : Robin Lopez , American basketball player
• 1988 : Brook Lopez , American basketball player
• 1988 : Shahak Shapira , German-Israeli artist, comedian and satirist
• 1989 : Matías Aguirregaray , Uruguayan football player
• 1989 : Jan Gardavský , Czech grass skier
• 1989 : Linus Hallenius , Swedish football player
• 1989 : Jan Hošek , Czech football player
• 1989 : Navab Nasirshelal , Iranian weightlifter
• 1989 : David N'Gog , French football player
• 1989 : Christian Vietoris , German automobile racing driver
• 1990 : PA Sports , German rapper
• 1990 : Sandrina Zander , German actress
• 1990 : Justin Hamilton , American basketball player
• 1991 : Carter Ashton , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 : Sebastian Polter , German soccer player
• 1993 : Nadine Ashraf , Egyptian badminton player
• 1993 : Julius Kühn , German handball player
• 1996 : Dennis Lippert , German motorcycle racer
• 1996 : Raphael Obermair , German soccer player
• 1996 : Lion Schweers , German soccer player
• 1997 : Morten Behrens , German football goalkeeper
• 1997 : Asa Butterfield , British actor
• 1997 : Andrea Cistana , Italian football player
• 1997 : Katharina Liensberger , Austrian ski racer
• 1998 : Patryk Szysz , Polish football player
• 1999 : Andrij Waskul , Ukrainian ski jumper

Died

Before the 17th century

• 0304 : Agape, Chione and Irene , Christian martyrs
• 0919 : Christina I , abbess of the Gandersheim canonical monastery
• 1012 : Hermann III. , Duke of Swabia
• 1085 : Song Shenzong , Chinese emperor
• 1090 : Günther I von Wettin , Bishop of Naumburg
• 1096 : Engelbert I , Margrave of Istria, Count of Spanheim and Kraichgau, Vogt of Salzburg
• 1129 : Cellach Mac Aodh , Irish Archbishop
• 1132 : Hugo of Grenoble , French bishop
• 1182 : Ulrich II von Treffen , Patriarch of Aquileia
• 1204 : Eleanor of Aquitaine , Queen of England and France
• 1205 : Amalrich I , King of Cyprus and Jerusalem
• 1206 : Simon II , Duke of Lorraine
• 1244 : Otto II , Count of Ravensberg
• 1282 : Abaqa , Mongolian Ilkhan of Persia
• 1314 : Henry III. , Abbot of St. Blasien
• 1328 : Heinrich II. Von Sternberg , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
• 1340 : Gerhard III. , Duke of Schleswig and Count of Holstein-Rendsburg
• 1353 : John Segrave , English nobleman
• 1373 : Johann Schadland , Dominican and Grand Inquisitor
• 1386 : James Audley, 3rd Baron Audley of Heleigh , English magnate
• 1413 : Agnes von Opole , Roman-German queen
• 1428 : Johann II von Streitberg , German bishop of Regensburg
• 1431 : Jean Jouvenel , French lawyer
• 1441 : Blanka of Navarre , Queen of Sicily, Aragon and Navarre
• 1450 : Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta , Italian painter
• 1455 : Zbigniew Oleśnicki , Bishop of Cracow, Cardinal, Diplomat, Duke of Siewierz and Regent of Poland
• 1455 : Gottfried IV Schenk von Limpurg , Prince-Bishop of Würzburg
• 1528 : Francisco de Peñalosa Spanish cleric, singer and composer
• 1529 : Hartmann II. Von Kirchberg , prince abbot of Fulda
• 1547 : Marie of Luxembourg , Countess of Vendôme
• 1548 : Sigismund I , King of Poland, as Sigismund II Grand Duke of Lithuania

17th and 18th centuries

• 1639 : Johann Philipp , Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• 1649 : Juan Bautista Maíno , Spanish painter
• 1651 : Johann von Hessen-Braubach , landgrave and general, member of the Fruit-Bringing Society
• 1666 : Wenceslaus Leszczynski , Bishop of Warmia, Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland-Lithuania
• 1666 : Valentin Schäfer , councilor and mayor of Dresden
• 1668 : Johannes Agricola , German doctor, alchemist and saltwork specialist
• 1680 : David Denicke , German lawyer and hymn poet
• 1682 : Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg , Bishop of Strasbourg and Prime Minister of the Electorate of Cologne
• 1694 : Gotthard Marquard , mayor of Lübeck
• 1698 : Katharina Sommermeyer , last woman accused of being a witch and burned in Braunschweig
• 1707 : Takarai Kikaku , Japanese haikai poet
• 1709 : Henri Jules de Bourbon , Prince of Condé
• 1715 : Ondraszek , "Robin Hood" of the Moravian-Silesian Beskids, robber and folk hero
• 1718 : Johann Jacob Stolterfoht , German physician and city physician from Lübeck
• 1721 : Pieter Hellendaal , Dutch composer, organist and violinist
• 1721 : Karl Maria Raimund Duke of Arenberg , Duke of Arenberg
• 1732 : Johann Burckhardt Mencke , German scholar, publisher and historian
• 1744 : Pedro Malo de Villavicencio , Spanish lawyer and colonial administrator, Viceroy of New Spain
• 1750 : William Parks , English printer and publisher
• 1766 : Johann Leonhard Dober , German bishop, missionary of the Moravian Brethren
• 1775 : Johann Friedrich Funk , Swiss sculptor
• 1793 : Ernst Bengel , German superintendent
• 1797 : Johann Peter Snell , German theologian
• 1798 : Johann Wilhelm Schmid , German Protestant theologian

19th century

• 1807 : Václav Praupner , Czech composer
• 1812 : Laurenz Janscha , Austrian-Slovenian painter and etcher
• 1838 : Johann Ernst Daniel Bornschein , German playwright and novelist
• 1840 : Rudolf von Salis-Zizers , Swiss officer
• 1843 : John Armstrong Jr. , American general, US Senator from New York, diplomat, Secretary of War

Lodovico Pavoni († 1849)

• 1849 : Lodovico Pavoni , Italian priest and founder of the order
• 1854 : Peter Motzfeldt , Norwegian State Councilor
• 1855 : Franz Joseph von Arens , German lawyer and politician
• 1859 : Amalie Sieveking , German philanthropist, co-founder of organized diakonia in Germany
• 1863 : Jakob Steiner , Swiss mathematician
• 1865 : Giuditta Pasta , Italian opera singer
• 1872 : Hugo von Mohl , German botanist
• 1874 : Carl Heinrich Arnold , German wallpaper manufacturer
• 1888 : Jean Conte , French composer
• 1897 : Thekla von Gumpert , German writer for children and young people
• 1899 : Josef Eisenkolb , Romanian-German composer

20th century

1901-1950

• 1901 : Ernst Andolt , German writer, lawyer and politician

Ferdinand Wallbrecht († 1905)

• 1905 : Ferdinand Wallbrecht , German architect, building contractor and politician, MdR
• 1906 : Cosme San Martín , Chilean painter
• 1910 : Andreas Achenbach , German landscape painter
• 1910 : Warren O. Arnold , American politician
• 1911 : Martin Greif , German poet
• 1912 : Franz Rezek , Austrian military bandmaster and composer
• 1913 : Otto March , German architect
• 1915 : Johann Joseph Abert , German-Bohemian composer, conductor and double bass player
• 1917 : Scott Joplin , American composer and pianist
• 1921 : Joseph-Daniel Dussault , Canadian organist and music teacher
• 1921 : Carl Johannes Thomae , German mathematician

Charles I of Austria († 1922)

• 1922 : Charles I , Austro-Hungarian Emperor
• 1923 : Kaspar Kögler , German painter and writer
• 1924 : Harold Jarvis , Canadian singer
• 1926 : Charles Angrand , French painter
• 1930 : Cosima Wagner , German director of the Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner's second wife
• 1931 : Henry Pels , German entrepreneur
• 1933 : Charles Andler , French German studies specialist and professor
• 1938 : Richard Du Moulin-Eckart , German historian
• 1938 : Rafaela Serrano Rodríguez , Cuban pianist and music teacher of Spanish origin
• 1939 : Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko , Soviet educator and writer
• 1940 : Friedrich von der Asseburg , Prussian major and chamberlain
• 1941 : Edmund Hauler , Austrian classical philologist
• 1944 : Charles F. Scott , American electrical engineer
• 1945 : Jakob Buchli , Swiss locomotive builder
• 1946 : Leo Reuss , German-Austrian actor and director
• 1946 : Cesare Orsenigo , apostolic nuncio in Germany
• 1947 : George II , King of Greece
• 1947 : Carl Christian Krayl , German architect
• 1947 : Franz Seldte , German co-founder of the Stahlhelm, NSDAP politician and Reich Minister of Labor
• 1950 : Charles R. Drew , American transfusion specialist

1951-2000

Ferenc Molnár († 1952)

• 1952 : Ferenc Molnár , Hungarian writer and journalist
• 1954 : Jan Thomée , Dutch football player
• 1956 : Viola Gillette , American singer
• 1958 : Břetislav Bakala , Czech conductor, choir director and composer
• 1959 : Fritz Ahrberg , German entrepreneur
• 1959 : Rudolf Kassner , Austrian cultural philosopher
• 1960 : Abdul Rahman , King of Malaysia
• 1961 : David Rivett , Australian chemist and science manager
• 1961 : William Sharp , American graphic artist, draftsman, book illustrator and caricaturist
• 1962 : Camil Ressu , Romanian painter
• 1964 : Salvatore Aurigemma , Italian archaeologist
• 1964 : Božidar Kunc , Croatian composer

Helena Rubinstein († 1965)

• 1965 : Helena Rubinstein , American cosmetics entrepreneur and patron
• 1966 : Karl Borromäus Adam , German theologian and dogmatist
• 1966 : Brian O'Nolan , Irish writer
• 1968 : Lev Dawidowitsch Landau , Russian physicist
• 1969 : Mario Gualzata , Swiss linguist and local researcher
• 1970 : Karl Heinrich Ernst Assmann , German librarian
• 1972 : Josef Ecker-Stadlmayr , Austrian politician
• 1972 : Dora Puelma , Chilean painter
• 1973 : Gus Aiken , American jazz trumpeter and cornet player
• 1974 : Ruth Abramowitsch , German dancer, choreographer and representative of modern dance
• 1974 : Josef Suttner , Bohemian horn player and professor
• 1975 : Georg Baur , German politician
• 1975 : Lorenz Jaeger , German Archbishop
• 1976 : Dimitrij Andrusov , Czechoslovak geologist
• 1976 : Max Ernst , German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
• 1977 : Fritz Walter , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1978 : Erwin Damerow , German sculptor
• 1980 : Joachim Ansorge , German voice actor and actor
• 1980 : Gomi Kōsuke , Japanese writer
• 1981 : Hans Ahrbeck , German educationalist, pedagogue and university professor
• 1983 : Marc Vaubourgoin , French composer

Marvin Gaye († 1984)

• 1984 : Marvin Gaye , American soul musician
• 1985 : Herman Roelstraete , Belgian composer, singer and organist, teacher, conductor and music historian
• 1985 : Jonny Rieger , German writer
• 1986 : Erik Bruhn , Danish ballet dancer
• 1987 : Pierre Thériault , Canadian actor
• 1989 : Richard Dennis Oliver Austin , British conductor
• 1989 : Paul Jappe , American football player
• 1989 : Erich Lüth , German publicist
• 1990 : Carlos Peucelle , Argentine soccer player and coach
• 1991 : Detlev Rohwedder , German manager and politician
• 1991 : Martha Graham , American dancer, choreographer and teacher
• 1992 : Margarethe Bence , American opera and concert singer
• 1993 : Juan de Borbón y Battenberg , Infante of Spain and Count of Barcelona
• 1993 : Alan Kulwicki , American NASCAR racing driver
• 1994 : Peter Assion , German folklorist and Germanist
• 1994 : Robert Doisneau , French engraver and photographer
• 1994 : Netty Simons , American composer
• 2000 : Jean Delire , Belgian film director

21st century

• 2001 : Martin Appelfeller , German major general
• 2002 : Elmer Angsman , American football player
• 2002 : Heinrich Popitz , German sociologist
• 2003 : Leslie Cheung , Chinese singer and actor
• 2004 : Roswitha von Bergmann , German politician, MdL
• 2004 : Karl Born , German seaman, pilot and cinema operator
• 2004 : Edgar Dören , German racing car driver
• 2004 : Enrique Grau , Colombian painter and sculptor
• 2004 : Carrie Snodgress , American actress
• 2005 : Alexander Brott , Canadian composer and conductor, violinist and music teacher
• 2005 : Harald Juhnke , German entertainer
• 2005 : Thomas Kling , German poet
• 2006 : Oscar Treadwell , American jazz radio journalist and radio host

Hans Filbinger († 2007)

• 2007 : Hans Filbinger , German lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
• 2008 : Ernst-Bernd Blümle , German-Swiss economist
• 2009 : Arne Andersson , Swedish athlete
• 2009 : Umberto Betti , Italian priest and theologian, cardinal
• 2009 : Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg , German historian
• 2009 : Helmut Seitz , German financial scientist
• 2010 : John Forsythe , American actor
• 2012 : Giorgio Chinaglia , Italian football player
• 2012 : Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado , Mexican politician, President
• 2013 : Oktay Aslanapa , Turkish art historian
• 2013 : Peter Zurek , Austrian journalist
• 2014 : Claus Arnold , German draftsman, caricaturist and painter
• 2014 : Jacques Le Goff , French historian
• 2015 : Detlef Döring , German historian
• 2016 : Kurt Stöber , German Rechtspfleger and legal specialist author
• 2017 : Ikutarō Kakehashi , Japanese entrepreneur and digital music pioneer
• 2017 : Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko , Soviet or Russian poet and writer
• 2017 : Kim Jong-gil , South Korean poet and writer
• 2017 : Giovanni Sartori , Italian political scientist
• 2018 : Efraín Ríos Montt , Guatemalan politician and president
• 2018 : Avichai Rontzki , Israeli general and rabbi
• 2019 : Jan Buck , Sorbian painter
• 2019 : Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio , Spanish writer
• 2020 : Only Hassan Hussein , Somali politician
• 2020 : Rüdiger Nehberg , German survivor, adventurer and human rights activist
• 2020 : Adam Schlesinger , American musician

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Amalie Sieveking , German benefactress (Protestant)

• Name days
  • Aurora , Daria , Hugo , Irene

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

Web links

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