February 1st
February 1st (also February 1st in southern German-speaking countries ) is the 32nd day of the Gregorian calendar , so there are 333 days (334 days in leap years ) until the end of the year.
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events
politics and world affairs
- 1477 BC : (probably) on the 29th Mechir of the Egyptian calendar , Hatshepsut is born alongside her stepson and nephew Thutmosis III. , for whom she had reigned for two years, was crowned pharaoh of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt .
- 1168: Duke Henry the Lion married Mathilde Plantagenet , only twelve years old , daughter of King Henry II of England , in Minden Cathedral .
- 1327: After the abdication of his father Edward II , the youthful Edward III. crowned King of England . At the beginning of his reign he is under the guardianship of his mother Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March .
- 1411: The First Peace of Thorn ends the military conflict between the Teutonic Knights and the Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and his ally Grand Duke Witold of Lithuania , which culminated in the Battle of Tannenberg in July 1410.
- 1662: The Republic of the Seven United Provinces loses the island of Formosa to the forces of Chinese army leader and pirate Koxinga after 38 years of colonial rule .
- 1702: The raid from Cremona against the city held by the French, intended by Prince Eugene of Savoy in the War of the Spanish Succession , ends after initial successes with the withdrawal of his imperial troops.
- 1717: The 1717 Silent Sejm formally ended the Russian-influenced revolt of the Confederacy of Tarnogród against King Augustus II of Poland-Lithuania . In the Silent Sejm , the golden freedom of the Liberum Veto is denied to deputies of the Sejm , the Polish parliament.
- 1720: Sweden signs the Peace of Stockholm with Prussia in the Great Northern War . Prussia received Stettin , Usedom , Wolin and Western Pomerania up to the Peene for a payment of two million thalers .
- 1733: The death of King August the Strong leads to disputes over the succession to the throne, which culminate in the War of the Polish Succession in the same year. In the Electorate of Saxony , his son Friedrich August II took over the regency.
- 1793: After a declaration of war by revolutionary France , Great Britain enters the First Coalition War as an ally of the Austro - Prussian coalition against France .
- 1823: The Casa Mata plan , directed against Emperor Agustín de Iturbide , intended to result in the conversion of Mexico into a federal republic, is passed by military leaders such as Antonio López de Santa Anna and Guadalupe Victoria .
- 1856: Representatives of Great Britain, France, Turkey and Russia meet in Vienna for a conference to end the Crimean War . The negotiated paper will form the basis for the Paris Congress beginning on February 25 .
- 1861: Texas , the seventh southern state , leaves the United States of America . In March it joins the Confederate States of America .
- 1864: After the expiry of an ultimatum to withdraw the November constitution for the Danish state , which contradicts the London Protocol , Austro - Prussian troops under Friedrich von Wrangel cross the Eider and attack Denmark . This begins the German-Danish War .
- 1908: Carlos I and Luis Philippe , King and Crown Prince of Portugal respectively, were assassinated in Lisbon. The 18-year-old Manuel II is the last king to ascend the Portuguese throne.
- 1917: In the course of the First World War , the German Navy launched unrestricted submarine warfare in the restricted areas around Great Britain , France and the Mediterranean .
- 1918: On forty ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in World War I , a sailor uprising begins with the raising of red flags in the port of Kotor . The officers are disarmed and sailors' councils are formed.
- 1920: The merger of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) with the Dominion Police creates the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the nationwide federal police force.
- 1933: Two days after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, President Paul von Hindenburg dissolved the German Reichstag at his request . The National Socialists thus take a further step towards the “ seizure of power ” and the dissolution of the Weimar Republic .
- 1942: The US government broadcaster Voice of America broadcasts its first program in German via British transmitters.
- 1942: The National Socialists appoint Vidkun Quisling from the Nasjonal Samling as Prime Minister of Norway occupied during World War II , but he has hardly any powers alongside Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven .
- 1945: Communist people's courts sentence to death Bulgaria 's political, military and intellectual elite by order of Moscow, including 67 MPs, all members of the governments between 1941 and September 3, 1944, the tsar's regents ( Prince Kyril , Bogdan Filov and Nikola Mikhov ), nine state and government secretaries, the publishers of the major newspapers and magazines, 47 generals and officers.
- 1946: Norwegian Trygve Lie takes office as the first Secretary-General of the United Nations .
- 1946: The republic is proclaimed in Hungary . Zoltán Tildy is elected President of the Republic by parliamentarians.
- 1948: After the dissolution of the unpopular Malayan Union , which only came about under British pressure , the Federation of Malaya is founded. It includes the Malay States ( Federated Malay States and Unfederated Malay States ) and the two British crown colonies of Penang and Malacca .
- 1958: Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser and Syria unite in the spirit of pan- Arabism to form the United Arab Republic .
- 1959: Vaud is the first Swiss canton to introduce women's suffrage .
- 1960: African-American students host the world's first sit-in in Greensboro , North Carolina . With the sit - in protest against the reservation of a restaurant for whites only .
- 1965: The 856 km long Hamilton River in Newfoundland and Labrador is renamed the Churchill River in honor of Sir Winston Churchill , who had died a few days earlier .
- 1968: During the Vietnam War , Saigon Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan kills the arrested Vietcong Nguyễn Văn Lém by shooting him in the head in front of reporters. A photograph of this execution becomes one of the most recognizable images of the 20th century.
- 1977: South Africa releases KwaZulu as a homeland into conditional independence.
- 1977: Another 208 signatories support Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia , published earlier in the year . You are defying an intense government campaign against this petition about human rights violations by the regime.
- 1978: Urho Kekkonen is confirmed as President of Finland for the fifth time . This makes him the longest-serving head of state in a democracy.
- 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile in the wake of the Islamic Revolution after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi left the country.
- 1982: Senegal and Gambia sign a confederation treaty to form the Confederation of Senegambia . This provides for the unification of the armed forces, the currency and the economic area of the two countries.
- 1985: Ernst Zimmermann , CEO of the Motor and Turbine Union ( MTU ) , is shot dead in Gauting by RAF members in his house .
- 1991: In the Second Gulf War , after the Battle of Khafji , Iraqi forces are forced to retreat from Saudi territory after the victory of Saudi Arabian forces.
- 1999: The Lisbon Convention comes into effect. The countries that ratify them recognize academic achievements abroad in higher education in the European region.
- 2001: José Maria Neves becomes Prime Minister of Cape Verde after the victory of the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde in the January 14 elections .
- 2005: Nepal 's King Gyanendra declares a state of emergency and deposes the government of the Himalayan state because he accuses it of failing to prepare for the April 2005 elections and fight the Communist Party of Nepal . This leads to a general strike and mass demonstrations against the monarch lasting several weeks.
- 2009: In Iceland , Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir takes over government affairs. She is the first woman to hold this position in Iceland and the first head of government in a same-sex partnership in the world .
- 2021: Military coup in Myanmar 2021 took place.
business
- 1788: Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the first steamship .
- 1827: The first city maps of the British capital can be bought in London.
- 1851: The trading house Gebrüder Volkart is founded with offices in Winterthur and in Bombay . It develops into one of the world's largest cotton traders for decades .
- 1866: The first reports of the newly founded Danish news agency Ritzau appear in the Copenhagen press .
- 1893: The first commercial motion picture studio is completed on the Edison Manufacturing Company campus in West Orange , New Jersey . The Kinetographic Theater became a household name under the name Black Maria .
- 1912: The Liechtenstein Post Office issues its first postage stamps .
- 1968: The merger of the two rival railroad companies New York Central (NYC) and Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) creates the Penn Central Company (PC), based in Philadelphia. It goes bankrupt just two years later.
- 1982: Intel introduces the 80286 microprocessor , which introduces the new "Protected Mode" operating mode and will later serve as the basis for IBM's PC AT .
- 1991: The US company id Software is founded. It is best known for its computer games and game engines developed in the 1990s , such as Doom and Quake .
- 2000: In France , the law on the 35-hour week passed under the socialist government of Lionel Jospin , mainly at the instigation of the Minister for Labor and Solidarity, Martine Aubry , comes into force.
- 2010: The Volvo Group renames its newly acquired Japanese subsidiary UD Nissan Diesel to UD Trucks Corporation .
science and technology
- 1851: The Brandtaucher , the first German submarine , designed by Wilhelm Bauer but then drastically modified , is tested in the Kiel inner fjord and crashes. The team can save itself on its own.
- 1856: The chamber musician Tröstler founds a private conservatory in Dresden , which becomes the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music .
- 1884: The first fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary appears.
- 1892: Astronomer Martin Brendel and geographer Otto Baschin take the first known photographs of the Northern Lights .
- 1954: The permafrost body of an Inca boy is discovered in the Andes near Santiago de Chile. The El Plomo boy is an archaeological sensation. He was killed as a child sacrifice in his tomb overlooking today's city, in mediation with the supernatural to give protection to the valley and consolidate the power of the Inca ruler.
- 1957: The first DKM 54 rotary piston Wankel engine developed by Felix Wankel runs on the test bench at NSU .
Culture
- 1814: The opera L'Oriflamme by Henri Montan Berton and Rodolphe Kreutzer is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
- 1828: The opera Ali Pascha by Janina by Albert Lortzing is premiered at the Stadttheater in Münster .
- 1862: At the Quai-Theater in Vienna , the last play by Johann Nestroy , the "Indian carnival burlesque" Chief Evening Wind or The Ghastly Feast , is premiered with music by Jacques Offenbach .
- 1879: The operetta Boccaccio by Franz von Suppè is premiered at the Carltheater in Vienna. The libretto is by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée .
1896: La Bohème , poster of the premiere by Adolfo Hohenstein
- 1896: The opera La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini with the libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based on the novel Les scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger has its premiere at the Teatro Regio in Turin conducted by Arturo Toscanini . The audience reacted cautiously, the criticism was mostly negative.
- 1918: The premiere of the operetta A Pacsirta ( Where the Lark Sings ) by Franz Lehár takes place at the Royal Opera in Budapest . The libretto was written by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert and is based on the play Dorf und Stadt by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer .
- 1929: The first sound film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - musical The Broadway Melody by Harry Beaumont has its premiere and celebrates a great success.
- 1945: The opera Lycksalighetens ö by Hilding Rosenberg is premiered at the Royal Opera in Stockholm .
- 1982: The first show , Late Night with David Letterman , airs on NBC .
- 1986: The opera Hunger and Thirst by Violeta Dinescu , based on the drama of the same name by Eugène Ionesco , premieres in Freiburg im Breisgau .
society
- 1186: The crusader castle of Margat in Syria is sold by the lord of the castle to the Order of St. John because the costs of maintaining it exceed his financial means.
- 1899: Lina Hähnle founds the Bund für Vogelschutz in Stuttgart , now known as the Naturschutzbund Deutschland .
- 1910: August Euler receives the first officially prescribed, internationally valid pilot's test with the pilot's license "Germany No. 1".
- 1979: After being pardoned by US President Jimmy Carter, heiress and bank robber Patty Hearst is released from federal prison in San Francisco.
religion
- 772: Hadrian I. is named as successor to Stephen III , who died on January 24th . elected pope .
disasters
- 1814: Mayon Volcano erupts in the Philippines , killing 1,200.
- 1944: An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale kills around 2,800 in Turkey .
- 1953: Many dikes in the Netherlands break during the Holland Storm Flood . 1,853 people are killed. The storm surge in Great Britain claims another 307 victims.
- 1970: In Benavidet, Argentina, an Intercity train crashes into a regional train that is standing on the track due to technical problems. 236 people die in train crash .
- 1974: A fire in the Edifício Joelma skyscraper in São Paulo , Brazil, kills 189 people.
- 1977: The Blizzard of '77 , which began on January 28 and primarily hit the Buffalo , New York area, left 29 dead and over $220 million in economic damage.
- 2003: While returning from its STS-107 mission, NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up 60 km above Texas. Crew members Rick Husband , Kalpana Chawla , William McCool , David Brown , Laurel Clark , Michael P. Anderson and Ilan Ramon all die in the process.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1907: The "Sports Club Vogelheim" (now Rot-Weiss Essen ) is founded.
- 2004: The German national team becomes European Handball Champion at the European Championships in Slovenia with a 30:25 victory over hosts Slovenia .
- 2004: The New England Patriots beat the Carolina Panthers 32-29 in Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston, Texas. During the half-time concert, Justin Timberlake bares one of Janet Jackson 's breasts , making headlines for days as " Nipplegate ".
Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1352: Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March , English nobleman
- 1394: Ikkyū Sōjun , Japanese Zen master and poet
- 1435: Amadeus IX. , Duke of Savoy
- 1447: Eberhard II , Duke of Württemberg
- 1459: Conrad Celtis , German poet and humanist
- 1462: Johannes Trithemius , German abbot, scholar and humanist
- 1471: Blasius Hölzl , Austrian financier, secretary and advisor to Emperor Maximilian I
- 1499: Valentin Kötzler , German legal scholar
- 1504: Caspar Molitoris , German Benedictine, provost, abbot and historian
- 1546: Heinrich Petreus , German jurist and humanist
- 1552: Edward Coke , English judge and politician
- 1563: Charles de Choiseul, marquis de Praslin , Marshal of France
- 1566: Barbe Acarie , French Carmelite
- 1572: Ellen Marsvin , influential mother-in-law of King Christian IV of Denmark
- 1579: Johann Gottfried von Fürstenberg , canon and president of the Electorate of Mainz
- 1595: Georg Rudolf , Duke of Legnica and Wohlau
- 1616: Sophie Elisabeth of Brandenburg , Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg
- 1628: Jan Hackaert , Dutch painter
- 1629: Thomas Bromley , English mystic
- 1633: Anton I of Aldenburg , German Imperial Count
- 1654: Johann Andreas Danz , German theologian and orientalist
- 1666: Marie Thérèse de Bourbon-Condé , Princess of Conti
- 1673: Alessandro Marcello , Italian poet, composer and philosopher
- 1690: Francesco Maria Veracini , Italian violinist and composer
18th century
- 1701: Johan Agrell , Swedish composer and conductor
- 1710: Christine Luise of East Friesland , Countess of Wied-Runkel
- 1712: Konrad Ernst Ackermann , German actor, co-founder of the German Schaubühne
- 1732: Gregers Kristian von Haxthausen , Danish nobleman and minister
- 1735: Blasius Hueber , German surveyor and farmer
- 1743: Bruno de Heceta , Spanish navigator and explorer
- 1744: Friedrich Benjamin Paul Loriol d'Anières , Prussian jurist
- 1745: Karl Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine , Archduke of Austria
- 1749: Franz II Xaver von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim , Austrian cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Gurk
- 1758: Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès , French politician
- 1758: Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten , German pastor and writer
- 1759: Karl Friedrich Hensler , German theater director
- 1761: Christian Hendrik Persoon , South African mycologist
- 1763: José Cienfuegos , Spanish officer, governor of Cuba and Minister of War
- 1768: Alexandre-Jacques-Bernard Law de Lauriston , French general, Marshal of France
- 1768: Charles Tait , American politician
- 1778: Christian Philipp Koehler , German civil servant
- 1781: Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim , German banker
- 1782: Afanassi Grigorievich Grigoriev , Russian architect
- 1787: Louis Jean Jacques Angely , German comedy poet, actor and director
- 1787: Johann Joachim Wachsmann , German choral conductor and composer
- 1789: André Hippolyte Chelard , French composer
- 1790: Franz Joseph Aloys Antony , German Catholic clergyman, church musician, educator, and author
- 1790: Carl Christian Friedrich Weckherlin , German chief magistrate
- 1792: Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach , German physician and surgeon
- 1796: Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich , Swiss Reformed theologian and writer
- 1797: Leopold Immanuel Rückert , German Protestant theologian
- 1798: Franz von Hauslab , Old Austrian general and cartographer
- 1799: Wilhelm Kunst (actor) , German actor
- 1799: James Yorke Scarlett , British general
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801: Thomas Cole , American painter of British origin, founder and representative of the Hudson River School
- 1801: Jean Théodore Lacordaire , French entomologist
- 1801: Adolf Fredrik Lindblad , Swedish composer
- 1804: Handrij Zejler , Sorbian poet, founder of modern Sorbian poetry
- 1805: Samuel Earnshaw , British clergyman, physicist and mathematician
- 1806: Ignaz Pallme , Austrian commercial traveler and explorer of Africa
- 1807: Eduard Blösch , Swiss politician
- 1807: Kaspar Leonz Bruggisser , Swiss jurist and politician
- 1807: William B. Campbell , American politician
- 1809: Rupert Jäger , German teacher and philologist
- 1819: Marie Baumeister , German actress
- 1819: Otto Ruppius , German writer
- 1823: Benno Richard von Arent , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1823: Edme Charles Philippe Lepère , French statesman
- 1825: James W. Throckmorton , American jurist and politician
- 1827: Josef Ignaz Amiet , Swiss historian, state clerk and state archivist
- 1827: Alphonse de Rothschild , French banker
- 1827: Robert Pearsall Smith , American manufacturer
- 1831: Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer , American musical instrument maker
- 1837: Gustave García , Italian opera singer (baritone) and voice teacher
- 1843: Paul Kupelwieser , Austrian industrialist
- 1843: John Isaac Thornycroft , British engineer, founder of modern torpedo boat engineering
- 1844: Granville Stanley Hall , American psychologist
- 1844: Eduard Strasburger , German botanist and professor
1851-1900
- 1853: Johann Gottlieb Schoch , German garden architect and garden director of the city of Magdeburg
- 1857: Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev , Russian neurologist, neurophysiologist and psychiatrist
- 1858: Peter Brynie Lindeman , Norwegian organist and composer
- 1860: Bertha Schmieth , German portrait and landscape painter
- 1862: Anastasius Nordenholz , German-Argentinian economic philosopher
- 1864: Theodor Taube , German-Baltic pastor and evangelical martyr
- 1865: Theodor Hoffmann , German-Baltic pastor and evangelical martyr
- 1867: Conrad Ramstedt , German physician
- 1868: Ștefan Luchian , Romanian painter
- 1868: Gustav Zeitzschel , German opera singer
- 1869: Juli Eduardowitsch Konjus , Russian violinist
- 1871: Gabriel Veyre , French filmmaker
- 1873: Joseph Allard , Canadian fiddle player and composer
- 1874: Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Austrian writer, playwright and lyric poet ( Vienna Modernism ), co-founder of the Salzburg Festival
- 1875: Bertha Dörflein-Kahlke , German painter
- 1876: Prosper L'Orange , German engineer and inventor of diesel engine improvements
- 1877: Thomas Dunhill , British composer
- 1877: Kurt Rosenfeld , German politician and lawyer
- 1878: Alfréd Hajós , Hungarian swimmer
- 1879: Henri Chrétien , French astronomer and inventor
- 1881: Achim Konstantin Rudolf Ferdinand von Arnim , German officer
- 1881: Otto Baer , local politician and Lord Mayor of Magdeburg
- 1881: José Ignacio Quintón , Puerto Rican composer and pianist
- 1882: Andrew of Greece , Prince of Greece
- 1882: Louis Saint-Laurent , Canadian politician
- 1883: August Schmidt , German anti-aircraft artillery general, war criminal
- 1884: Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin , Russian writer
- 1885: Camille Chautemps , French politician
- 1888: Hans Aschenborn , German animal painter, illustrator and author
- 1897: Duke Osborn , American football player
- 1887: Erich Reiß , German publisher
- 1889: Anton Cargnelli , Austrian football player and coach
- 1889: Karl Gaul , German politician, MdL, MP
- 1889: Josef Gung'l , Hungarian composer
- 1889: Crisanto Luque Sánchez , Colombian priest, Archbishop of Bogotá and cardinal
- 1891: Dietrich Klagges , German teacher and politician, MdR, Prime Minister of Braunschweig
- 1894: John Ford , American film director
- 1894: James P. Johnson , American pianist and composer
- 1894: Paul Merker , German politician and party official
- 1896: Alfonso Caso y Andrade , Mexican archaeologist, jurist and politician
- 1896: Hans Grund , German major general
- 1898: Leila Denmark , American medical doctor
- 1900: Albert Aschl , German archivist and local historian
- 1900: Joe Carstairs , British entrepreneur, social figure and powerboat racer
- 1900: Alois Kieslinger , Austrian geologist
- 1900: Georg Köhler , German football player and coach
- 1900: Joey Sternaman , American football player
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Frank Buckles , last living United States veteran of World War I
- 1901: Clark Gable , American actor
- 1902: Langston Hughes , American poet and novelist of the Harlem Renaissance
- 1902: Erich Lüth , German publicist
- 1902: Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen , German racing driver
- 1903: Franz Reinisch , German Pallottine, member of the Schoenstatt Movement, refused to take the oath of allegiance and was executed
- 1903: Georg Rendl , Austrian writer
- 1904: Joseph Asajirō Satowaki , Japanese priest, Archbishop of Nagasaki and cardinal
- 1904: Gerhard Wartenberg , German author, anarcho-syndicalist
- 1905: Lloyd Viel Berkner , American physicist
- 1905: Doris Lee , American painter
- 1905: Emilio Segrè , American physicist
- 1906: Edwin Rausch , German psychologist
- 1906: Hildegarde Sell , American cabaret singer
- 1907: Charles Brackenbury , British racing driver
- 1907: Günter Eich , German poet and radio play author
- 1907: Mozart Camargo Guarnieri , Brazilian composer
- 1908: George Pal , Hungarian film producer and director
- 1909: Cilli Wang , Austrian cabaret artist and dancer
- 1910: Wilhelm Antrup , Brigadier General of the German Army Air Force
- 1910: Michael Kanin , American screenwriter
- 1910: Artur Wilke , German village school teacher and Nazi war criminal
- 1911: Michael Murach , German amateur boxer, European champion
- 1912: Albin Kitzinger , German soccer player
- 1913: Erich Schulze , German association official, board member and director general of GEMA
- 1913: Gaynell Tinsley , American football player and coach
- 1914: Jale İnan , Turkish archaeologist
- 1914: Maria Singer , Austrian folk actress
- 1915: Artur London , Czech communist and diplomat
- 1915: Stanley Matthews , English footballer, first Europe Footballer of the Year
- 1917: Ray Bray , American football player
- 1917: Wolfried Lier , German actor
- 1918: Ray Merrick , British racing driver
- 1918: Muriel Spark , British novelist
- 1919: Eugen Stadelmann , Austrian teacher and local poet
- 1920: Mike Scarry , American football player and coach
- 1921: Winton M. Blount , American politician
- 1921: José-Maria Ibánez , Argentine auto racer
- 1921: Heinz Kluge , German handball player
- 1922: Leili Andre , Estonian poet and writer
- 1922: Renata Tebaldi , Italian soprano singer
- 1924: Eberhard Horst , German writer
- 1925: Alfred Grosser , Franco-German publicist and political scientist
- 1925: Peter Crill , Bailiff of Jersey
1926-1950
- 1926: Jan Beenakker , Dutch physicist
- 1926: Georg Espitalier , German composer and accordionist
- 1927: Jimmy Andrews , Scottish footballer
- 1927: Hans Gmür , Swiss author
- 1927: Günter Guillaume , German officer of the MfS, GDR spy in the Federal Chancellery
- 1927: Rick Wilkins , Canadian composer, arranger, saxophonist and conductor
- 1928: Jean Aubain , French composer
- 1930: Shahabuddin Ahmed , Bengali politician
- 1930: Otto Anton Eder , Austrian director and actor
- 1930: Günter Millahn , German forester, educator and hunter
- 1930: Dieter Röttger , North German painter and graphic artist
- 1931: Iajuddin Ahmed , Bengali politician, State President
- 1931: Madeleine Berthod , Swiss alpine skier
- 1931: Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin , Russian politician, first state president
- 1931: Oswald Oberhuber , Austrian artist
- 1931: Friedrich Voss , German politician, MP
- 1932: Xavier Perrot , Swiss auto racing driver
- 1933: Wendell Anderson , American politician
- 1933: Buddhadev Das Gupta , Master in Playing North Indian Classical Music (Sarod)
- 1933: Rosemarie Nitribitt , German prostitute
- 1933: Sadao Watanabe , Japanese jazz saxophonist
- 1934: Heinrich Magirius , German art historian
- 1935: Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov , Soviet cosmonaut
- 1935: Dieter Kühn , German writer
- 1936: Andreina Ardizzone Emeri , Italian politician, suffragette and lawyer
- 1936: Klaus Held , German philosopher
- 1936: Sigram Schindler , German university lecturer and entrepreneur
- 1936: Manfred Schott , German actor, voice actor
- 1937: Audrys Juozas Bačkis , Archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuanian theologian and cardinal
- 1937: Don Everly , American musician
- 1938: Rita Nikolayevna Achkina , Soviet cross-country skier
- 1938: Jimmy Carl Black , American drummer and singer
- 1938: Alfons Mayer , Canadian sports shooter
- 1939: Claude François , French musician
- 1939: Wolfgang Krege , German author and translator
- 1939: Joe Sample , American jazz musician, producer and pianist
- 1939: Fritjof Capra , Austrian physicist and author
- 1940: Bibi Besch , Austrian-American actress
- 1940: Erik Freitag , Austrian composer and violinist
- 1940: Henning Kaul , German politician, MdL
- 1941: Karl Dall , German television presenter and comedian
- 1941: Anatoly Vasilyevich Firsov , Russian ice hockey player
- 1941: Jerry Spinelli , American children's book author
- 1942: Hans Peter Heinzl , Austrian cabaret artist
- 1942: Terry Jones , British comedian, director and writer
- 1942: Felix Latzke , Austrian football coach
- 1942: Nené , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- 1942: Vural Öger , Turkish-German entrepreneur ( Öger Tours ) and politician, MEP
- 1942: Volker Roth , German football referee
- 1943: Linda Gaye Scott , American actress
- 1944: Uriah Ashley , Panamanian minister and auxiliary bishop
- 1944: Hans Peter Haselsteiner , Austrian entrepreneur and former politician
- 1945: Luisito Martí , Dominican musician, actor, film producer and television host
- 1945: Michel Pignard , French auto racer
- 1945: Gerhard Welz , German soccer player
- 1946: Jakob Mattner , German artist
- 1946: Elisabeth Sladen , British actress
- 1947: Gaston Rahier , Belgian motocross rider
- 1948: Rick James , American funk musician
- 1948: Waltraud Kretzschmar , German handball player
- 1948: Barry Sonshine , Canadian eventer
- 1949: Franco Causio , Italian footballer
- 1949: Jean-Marc Lelong , French comics writer
- 1949: Peter Millowitsch , German folk actor and theater entrepreneur
- 1950: Barbara Büchner , Austrian children's and young adult author
- 1950: Mike Campbell , American musician
1951-1975
- 1952: Norbert Barthle , German politician, MP
- 1952: Roger Tsien , Sino-American cell biologist, Nobel laureate
- 1953: Christian Geistdörfer , German motor sportsman
- 1953: Jerzy Potz , Polish ice hockey player and coach
- 1954: Marijke Amado , Dutch presenter
- 1954: Christoph Böhr , German politician, MdL
- 1954: Carlo Conti , Swiss politician
- 1954: Egbert Streuer , Dutch motorcycle racer
- 1955: Dieter Anhuf , German geographer
- 1955: Hans Werner Olm , German comedian, cabaret artist and entertainer
- 1956: Guo Wenjing , Chinese composer
- 1957: Andreas Anderegg , Swiss boxer
- 1957: Dennis Brown , Jamaican reggae singer
- 1957: Walter Schachner , Austrian football player and coach
- 1958: Søren Lerby , Danish football player and coach
- 1958: Ramy Zada , American actor
- 1959: Barbara Auer , German actress
- 1959: Thomas Auler , German politician
- 1959: Ottmar Liebert , German guitarist
- 1960: Andreas Asche , German footballer
- 1960: Fabrizio Pirovano , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1962: Manuel Amoros , French footballer
- 1962: Uwe Arkuszewski , German presenter, singer and entertainer
- 1962: Takashi Murakami , Japanese artist
- 1962: David Warnock , British motor racing driver
- 1963: Fausto Romitelli , Italian composer
- 1964: Christian Häckl , Austrian meteorologist
- 1964: Bugge Wesseltoft , Norwegian jazz musician and pianist
- 1965: Roberta Angelilli , Italian politician
- 1965: Adam Benzwi , American pianist
- 1965: Sherilyn Fenn , American actress
- 1965: Brandon Lee , American actor
- 1965: Stéphanie of Monaco , Monegasque princess and singer
- 1965: Tobias Pfluger , German political scientist and peace researcher
- 1966: Michelle Anne Akers , American soccer player
- 1966: Paul Dalla Lana , Canadian auto racer
- 1966: Laurent Garnier , French techno producer and DJ
- 1967: Jessica Stockmann , German actress
- 1968: Cheb Hasni , Algerian singer
- 1968: Lisa Marie Presley , American singer
- 1968: Mark Recchi , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968: Javier Sánchez , Spanish tennis player
- 1968: Hannes Trinkl , Austrian ski racer
- 1969: Dwayne Adway , American actor
- 1969: Ange Barde , French entrepreneur and racing driver
- 1969: Gabriel Batistuta , Argentine footballer
- 1969: Ulrike Frank , German actress
- 1969: Bahman Ghobadi , Iranian screenwriter and film director
- 1969: Brian Krause , American actor
- 1969: Joshua Redman , American jazz saxophonist
- 1969: Nino Salukvadze , Soviet-Georgian sports shooter, Olympic champion
- 1969: Victor Smolski , Belarusian musician
- 1970: Eric Jensen , Canadian racing driver
- 1971: Michael C Hall , American actor
- 1971: Jill Kelly , American porn star
- 1971: Christian Winninghoff , German jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
- 1971: Zlatko Zahovič , Slovenian footballer
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- 1972: Leymah Gbowee , Liberian civil rights activist, peace activist and politician, Nobel laureate
- 1972: Johan Walem , Belgium international footballer
- 1972: Christian Ziege , German footballer
- 1972: Aaron Ziercke , German handball player and handball coach
- 1973: Yuri Landman , Dutch musicologist and guitarist, singer, comic artist and musical instrument maker
- 1973: Óscar Pérez Rojas , Mexican soccer goalkeeper
- 1973: René Schneider , German footballer
- 1973: Birger Sellin , German author
- 1974: Roberto Heras , Spanish cyclist
- 1975: Big Boi , American rapper and actor
- 1975: Ekaterini Thanou , Greek track and field athlete
- 1975: Hans van de Haar , Dutch footballer
1976-2000
- 1976: Pavel Dobrý , Czech footballer
- 1977: Phil Ivey , American poker player
- 1977: Libor Sionko , Czech footballer
- 1977: Sabine Menne , German actress and singer
- 1978: K'naan , Canadian-Somali musician
- 1978: Claudia Nystad , German cross-country skier
- 1978: Marion Wagner , German track and field athlete
- 1979: Aino-Kaisa Saarinen , Finnish cross-country skier
- 1979: Juan , Brazilian soccer player
- 1979: Rachelle Lefèvre , Canadian actress
- 1980: Mike Ribeiro , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980: Aleksander Šeliga , Slovenian footballer
- 1980: Paulo da Silva , Paraguayan soccer player
- 1980: Otilino Tenorio , Ecuadorian soccer player
- 1980: Ellen Trane Nørby , Danish politician
- 1982: Daisy Betts , Australian actress
- 1982: Akseli Lajunen , Finnish ski jumper
- 1982: Sara Malakul Lane , American actress of British-Thai descent
- 1983: Hamed Afagh , Iranian basketball player
- 1983: Florian Liegl , Austrian ski jumper
- 1984: Darren Fletcher , Scottish footballer
- 1986: Lauren Conrad , American television star
- 1986: Johan Vonlanthen , Swiss footballer
- 1987: Barış Ataş , Turkish footballer
- 1987: Sebastian Boenisch , German footballer
- 1987: Giuseppe Rossi , Italian footballer
- 1989: Nadine Enoch , German soccer player
- 1989: Alfreð Finnbogason , Icelandic footballer
- 1989: Jessica Kreuzer , German soccer player
- 1990: Leo Au Chun-ming , Chinese squash player
- 1990: Duje Čop , Croatian footballer
- 1991: Faouzi Ghoulam , Franco-Algerian footballer
- 1991 Andrei Lebedseu , Belarusian footballer
- 1991: Nick Weber , German handball player
- 1993: Loris Baz , French motorcycle racer
- 1993: Onel Hernández , German-Cuban soccer player
- 1993: Nico Karger , German footballer
- 1994: Jacob Gunkel , German actor
- 1994: Harry Styles , British singer ( One Direction )
- 1995: Oliver Heldens , Dutch DJ and producer
Died
Before the 16th century
- 344: Severus of Ravenna , Bishop of Ravenna
- 523: Brigida of Kildare , Irish saint
- 583: Kan Bahlam I , ruler of the Maya city of Palenque
- 656: Sigibert III. , Frankish king (Merovingian)
- 850: Ramiro I , ruler of the Kingdom of Asturias as well as Count of Castile
- 884: Egbert , Bishop of Osnabrück
- 992: Jawhar as-Siqillī , general of the Fatimids
- 997: Géza , Hungarian Grand Duke
- 1135: Shams al-Muluk Ismail , Atabeg of Damascus
- 1198: Walram I , Count of Nassau
- 1222: Alexios I , Emperor of Trebizond
- 1248: Henry II , Duke of Brabant and Lower Lorraine
- 1259: Thomas II , Lord of Piedmont, Count of Flanders and Hainaut and Count of Savoy
- 1286: Simon II de Clermont , Lord of Ailly and Nesle
- 1308: Hermann , Margrave of Brandenburg, Count of Henneberg
- 1328: Charles IV , King of France and Navarre
- 1333: Conrad IV of Baierbrunn , Bavarian nobleman
- 1346: Pål Bårdsson Archbishop of Nidaros
- 1346: Friedrich Ritzendorfer , abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Kremsmünster
- 1381: Konrad von dem Eichhorn , mayor of Aachen
- 1398: Otto III. von Schalksberg , Bishop of Minden
- 1465: Dénes Szécsi , Hungarian cardinal and first primate of Hungary
- 1478: Cristoforo della Rovere , Archbishop of Tarentaise and Cardinal
- 1489: Gerhard Buck , German friar and poet
16th to 18th centuries
- 1501: Siegmund , Duke of Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria-Dachau
- 1506: Oswald I von dem Bergh , Count von dem Bergh
- 1510: Sidonie of Bohemia , Duchess of Saxony
- 1535: Johann Klopreis , Anabaptist preacher in Munster
- 1542: Hieronymus Aleander , Italian humanist and cardinal
- 1549: Melchior Lotter the Elder , German printer and publisher
- 1563: Minas , Negus negest (emperor) of Ethiopia
- 1564: Andreas Hyperius , German theologian and reformer
- 1590: Caterina de' Ricci , Florentine prioress of the monastery of Prato in Tuscany
- 1604: Johannes Zuidlareus , German theologian and preacher of the Reformation era
- 1606: Guillaume Costeley , French organist and composer
- 1620: Elisabeth Katharina Smiřická of Smiřice , Bohemian noblewoman
- 1626: Charles de Choiseul, marquis de Praslin , Marshal of France
- 1628: Vincentius Schmuck , German Lutheran theologian and hymn writer
- 1647: Daniel Heider , German jurist and legal historian
- 1656: Rudolf von Drachenfels , German administrator and occasional poet
- 1663: Christoph Lüthardt , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university teacher
- 1666: Shah Jahan , Indian Emperor and builder of the Taj Mahal
- 1678: Timotheus Ritzsch , German printer, bookseller and publisher of the first German daily newspaper
- 1691: Alexander VIII , Pope
- 1696: Johann Peter von Burmann , German politician and auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1699: Charlotte Johanna von Waldeck-Wildungen , German noblewoman
- 1705: Sophie Charlotte of Hanover , Prussian Queen
- 1708: Ferdinand Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden , Count of Reckheim
- 1708: Wolfgang Steinböck , Austrian master stonemason and sculptor
- 1713: Michael Apafi II , Prince of Transylvania
- 1718: Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury , British politician
- 1727: Giuseppe Sala , Venetian music publisher, printer and bookseller
- 1733: August the Strong , Elector of Saxony, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1743: Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni , Italian composer
- 1743: Jacob Friedrich Reimmann , German theologian, educator, philosopher and historian
- 1749: Françoise Marie de Bourbon , Duchess of Chartres and Duchess of Orléans
- 1750: Moyse Garrigue , jeweler and court assessor of the French colony of Magdeburg
- 1756: Marie-Auguste von Thurn und Taxis , Duchess of Württemberg
- 1760: William VIII , Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- 1761: Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix , French Jesuit, traveler and historian
- 1767: Gottfried Kleiner , German evangelical clergyman and hymn writer
- 1792: Mihály Ambrosovszky , Hungarian church historian
- 1793: William Aiton , British botanist
- 1793: Jonathan Arnold , American physician and politician
- 1797: James Duane , New York State delegate to the Continental Congress
- 1797: Hans Strøm , Norwegian naturalist
- 1799: Ferdinand Kobell , German painter
19th century
- 1803: Anders Chydenius , Finnish minister, politician and philosopher
- 1812: Maria Alberti , German painter and founding superior of the Sisters of Clemens
- 1824: John Lemprière , British lexicographer, clergyman and college principal
- 1825: Meinard Tydeman the Elder , Dutch legal scholar and historian
- 1829: Johann Ludwig Völkel , German classical scholar and archaeologist
- 1830: Anna Emilie , Princess of Anhalt-Köthen and heiress to the Pleß estate
- 1833: Jean Henri Pareau , Dutch orientalist and Reformed theologian
- 1837: Friedrich Franz I , Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- 1838: José Gregorio Salazar Lara , President of the Central American Confederation
- 1839: Albrecht Besserer von Thalfingen , Bavarian general and minister of war
- 1839: Giuseppe Valadier , Italian architect, town planner, archaeologist, and goldsmith
- 1841: Johann Friedemann Greiner , German glassworks owner, porcelain manufacturer and member of the Landtag
- 1851: Friedrich Wilhelm Käuffer , German jurist
- 1851: Mary Shelley , British novelist ( Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus )
- 1854: Silvio Pellico , Italian writer
- 1855: Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege , German miner, geologist and geographer
- 1855: Claus Harms , German Protestant theologian
- 1856: Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich , Russian governor of Poland and field marshal
- 1859: Johann Christoph Schröther the Younger , German organ builder
- 1863: Johann Siegmund Mann jr. , Lübeck businessman and politician
- 1864: Louise Marie Thérèse d'Artois , Duchess of Parma
- 1868: Gustav Eduard Benseler , German classical scholar and lexicographer
- 1870: Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angely , French general and statesman, Marshal of France
- 1870: Anton Martin Schweigaard , Norwegian jurist and politician
- 1871: Guillaume Lejean , French explorer and explorer
- 1871: Alexander Nikolayevich Serov , Russian composer
- 1872: Bogumil Dawison , Polish-German actor
- 1873: Matthew Fontaine Maury , US naval officer and hydrographer
- 1876: Martin Faustmann , German forest scientist and forester
- 1878: George Cruikshank , British caricaturist and illustrator
- 1878: Heinrich LXIX. , parasite lord of Reuss-Köstritz
- 1885: James Chesnut fr. , American lawyer and politician, Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War
- 1885: Sidney Thomas , British metallurgist
- 1889: Carl Leverkus , German chemical entrepreneur
- 1900: Bernard Altum , German zoologist, ornithologist and forest scientist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902: Salomon Jadassohn , German composer, pianist, music theorist and educator
- 1902: Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld , German aviation pioneer
- 1903: George Gabriel Stokes , Irish physicist and mathematician
- 1903: Rudolph von Delbrück , German and Prussian politician, MdR, Minister of State, close associate of Bismarck
- 1905: Oswald Achenbach , German painter
- 1905: Gustav Hermann von Alvensleben , Prussian general
- 1905: Heinrich Lanz , German inventor and manufacturer of agricultural machinery, traction engines and tractors
- 1905: Ludwig von Tetmajer , Austro-Swiss pioneer in materials testing and research
- 1908: Milovan Glišić , Serbian writer and translator
- 1908: Charles I , King of Portugal
- 1908: Louis Philip of Portugal , Crown Prince of Portugal
- 1909: Alexander Karl , Austrian Benedictine monk and politician
- 1910: Otto Julius Bierbaum , German author and writer
- 1910: Ernest Martin , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university teacher
- 1910: Benedikt Niese , German classical philologist and ancient historian
- 1910: Antonín Slavíček , Czech painter
- 1912: Hugo Bußmeyer , German composer
- 1912: Therese von Miltitz , Saxon lady-in-waiting
- 1913: Karl Atz , Italian art historian and priest
- 1917: Gustav Schönleber , German painter
- 1920: Adolf Albin , Romanian chess master and theorist
- 1922: Yamagata Aritomo , Japanese military leader and politician, national hero, prime minister
- 1923: Ernst Troeltsch , German theologian, cultural philosopher and liberal politician
- 1924: Max Sannemann , German composer and music teacher
- 1926: Ishibashi Ningetsu , Japanese literary critic and writer
- 1927: Heinrich Hess , German civil servant, local historian and politician
- 1928: Ah Toy , American prostitute and brothel operator
- 1929: Karl Julius Beloch , German ancient historian
- 1929: August Halm , German composer
- 1931: Emmanuel d'Orléans, duc de Vendôme , French nobleman
- 1932: Farabundo Martí , politician and revolutionary in El Salvador
- 1933: Oscar Drude , German botanist
- 1933: Gustav Lilienthal , German master builder and social reformer
- 1934: John Schehr , German politician, resistance fighter against Nazism
- 1934: Eugen Schönhaar , German resistance fighter against Nazism
- 1934: Rudolf Schwarz , German politician, resistance fighter against Nazism
- 1934: Erich Steinfurth , German politician, MdL, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1938: Julian Arendt , German man of letters
- 1938: Carl Heicke , German landscape architect
- 1940: Hedwig Bleuler-Waser , Swiss temperancer, founded the Swiss League of teetotal women
- 1940: Philip Francis Nowlan , American science fiction author
- 1941: Walter Abbott , English footballer
- 1941: Lina Hähnle , German founder of the Bund für Vogelschutz
- 1941: Karl Schapper , German resistance fighter against Nazism
- 1944: Piet Mondrian , Dutch painter
- 1945: Johan Huizinga , Dutch cultural historian
- 1946: Hans Bethge , German poet
- 1947: Detlev von Arnim-Kröchlendorff , German politician
- 1949: Nicolae Cocea , Romanian writer
- 1950: Buddy Stewart , American jazz singer
1951-2000
- 1954: Edwin Howard Armstrong , American electrical engineer and inventor
- 1954: Bernard Arens , Luxembourgish theologian and writer
- 1954: Josef Brendle , German academic painter
- 1957: Friedrich Paulus , German Field Marshal
- 1958: Lukas Christ , Swiss Protestant minister
- 1958: Clinton Davisson , American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1959: Willie Hoppe , American carom player, 51-time world champion
- 1961: Gerrit Bouwmeester , Dutch footballer
- 1961: Max Simon , General of the SS and Waffen SS, war criminal
- 1962: Miroslav Cikán , Czech film director
- 1962: Wilhelm Ohnesorge , German politician, Reich Post Minister
- 1963: John D'Alton , Irish clergyman, Archbishop of Armagh
- 1966: Buster Keaton , American actor, comedian and director
- 1968: Gerard Pieter Adolfs , Dutch East Indies painter and architect
- 1968: René Alain , Canadian accordionist
- 1968: Nguyễn Văn Lém , Vietnamese member of the NFB
- 1969: Oskar Regele , Austrian military historian
- 1970: Eugène Christophe , French cyclist
- 1970: Ernst Waldinger , German poet and essayist
- 1971: Amet-Chan Sultan , Soviet test pilot
- 1971: Hans Beyer , German chemist
- 1971: Raoul Hausmann , Austro-German Dadaist artist
- 1972: Karl Grünberg , German journalist and writer
- 1973 Dutch Sternaman , American football player and football official
- 1976: Eric Gordon England , British engineer and racing driver
- 1976: Werner Heisenberg , German physicist (Heisenberg uncertainty principle), Nobel Prize winner
- 1976: Karol Mroszczyk , Polish composer and music educator
- 1976: Hans Richter , German painter and film artist of Dadaism
- 1976: George Hoyt Whipple , American pathologist
- 1977: Maximilian Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian ambassador, economist and writer
- 1977: Edmond Hamilton , American author
- 1978: Roland Kohlsaat , German comic artist, illustrator and author
- 1979: Luise Albertz , German politician, Mayor of Oberhausen, MdL, MdB ("Mother of the Oppressed")
- 1980: Gastone Nencini , Italian cyclist
- 1981: Donald Wills Douglas , American aircraft manufacturer
- 1981: Arnold Huebner , German soldier
- 1981: Eric Hultén , Swedish botanist and phytogeographer
- 1981: Mischa Mischakoff , violinist and music teacher of Ukrainian descent
- 1981: Ernst Pepping , German composer
- 1981: Geirr Tveitt , Norwegian composer and pianist
- 1985: Anton Kutter , German director and designer of a new reflecting telescope (Kutter-Schiefspiegler)
- 1986: Dick James , British music publisher
- 1986: Alva Myrdal , Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel laureate
- 1987: Christian Broda , Austrian politician
- 1987: Gustav Knuth , German actor
- 1988: Johannes Bours , German Roman Catholic theologian and writer
- 1988: Heather O'Rourke , American film actress
- 1989: Karel Bodlák , Czech literary critic, poet and teacher
- 1989: Elaine de Kooning , American painter
- 1990: Roman Brodmann , Swiss documentary filmmaker
- 1990: Peter Racine Fricker , English composer
- 1991: Shirō Kuramata , Japanese product designer and interior designer
- 1994: Tom Kines , Canadian folk singer, folk music collector and multi-instrumentalist
- 1995: Richey James Edwards , British musician (presumed date of death)
- 1995: Karl Gruber , Austrian politician and diplomat
- 1996: Willi Bäuerle , German politician, MP
- 1997: Ed Danowski , American football player
- 1998: Marga Faulstich , German glass chemist
- 1999: Barış Manço , Turkish singer, composer and television producer
- 2000: Wilhelm Kümpel , German cathedral organist and church music director
21st century
- 2001: John Pierrakos , American psychiatrist
- 2002: Raimund Gensel , German actor
- 2002: Hildegard Knef , German actress, chanson singer and author
- 2002: Daniel Pearl , American journalist ( Wall Street Journal )
- 2002: Pierre Vago , French architect, editor and association official
- 2003: Mongo Santamaría , Cuban percussionist
- 2004: Tyoni Batsiua , Nauruan weightlifter
- 2004: Rocco Clein , German musician and music journalist
- 2004: Ally MacLeod , Scottish footballer and manager
- 2005: Werner Arnold , Swiss professional cyclist
- 2005: Anderl Heckmair , German alpinist and mountain guide
- 2005: John Vernon , Canadian actor
- 2005: Jean-Pierre Warner , British lawyer, Advocate General at the European Court of Justice
- 2007: Karl Aurand , German physicist
- 2007: Ray Berres , American baseball player and coach
- 2007: Ahmad Abu Laban , Danish Palestinian imam
- 2007: Gian Carlo Menotti , American composer
- 2007: Antonio María Javierre Ortas , Spanish Curial Cardinal
- 2007: Gerd Pfeiffer , German lawyer, President of the Federal Court of Justice
- 2008: Hans Roth , Austrian entrepreneur
- 2009: Franz Xaver Eder , German physicist
- 2009: Lukas Foss , American composer
- 2009: Jim McWithey , American racing driver
- 2010: Rodolfo de Anda , Mexican actor, film director and producer
- 2010: Dieter Meichsner , German writer, dramaturge, screenwriter and producer
- 2010: Justin Mentell , American film actor
- 2011: Heinz-Werner Arens , German politician, MdL, President of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
- 2012: Angelo Dundee , American boxing trainer
- 2012: Wisława Szymborska , Polish poet, Nobel laureate
- 2012: Elisabeth Trube-Becker , first German professor of forensic medicine
- 2013: Ed Koch , American politician
- 2014: Luis Aragonés , Spanish football player and coach
- 2014: Prospero Nale Arellano , Philippine Bishop-Prelate
- 2014: Maximilian Schell , actor, director and producer with Austrian and Swiss nationality
- 2015: Martin Ťapák , Czech actor, director, screenwriter and choreographer
- 2016: Jim Reeves , German singer, songwriter and record producer
- 2017: Kerstin Gähte , German actress
- 2017: Étienne Tshisekedi , Congolese politician
- 2018: Dennis Edwards , American singer
- 2018: Barys Kit , Belarusian mathematician, physicist, chemist and rocket scientist
- 2019: Georg-Friedrich Kahl , German physician, pharmacologist and toxicologist
- 2019: Ursula Karusseit , German actress
- 2021: Mark Jensen , Canadian luger
holidays and commemorations
- Church commemorations
- St Brigida of Kildare , Irish Abbess (Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox)
- Claus Harms , German pastor (Protestant)
- St. Severus of Ravenna , Roman bishop and patron saint (Catholic)
- Saints Perpetua and Felicitas , Martyrs (Orthodox)
- name days
- State holidays and commemorations
The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .
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