1st of May
May 1st is the 121st day of the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years ), leaving 244 days until the end of the year. Even the Roman and the Julian calendar to know May 1 (or Maius ). Dates prior to the Gregorian calendar reform are usually given in the Julian calendar.
May 1st is celebrated today as International Labor Day in many countries.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 305 : Diocletian and Maximian , the two Augusti in the tetrarchy in the Roman Empire of late antiquity , abdicate - at Diocletian's pressure against Maximian's will. Her successors are the previous Caesars Constantius I and Galerius . Severus and Maximinus Daia become new Caesars.
- 408 : The seven-year-old Theodosius II succeeds his father Arcadius as Eastern Roman emperor on the throne. He maintains excellent relations with the Persian Empire under Yazdegerd I.
- 704 : Arnstadt , Mühlberg and Großmonra are mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation from Duke Hedan II of Thuringia to the Anglo-Saxon Bishop Willibrord of Utrecht. Arnstadt is thus the oldest German city outside of the Roman settlement areas.
- 1187 : At the Battle of Cresson, an Ayyubid army destroys a small force of crusaders from the Kingdom of Jerusalem under the command of Gérard de Ridefort .
- 1227 : Ulrich von Liechtenstein travels to Rome and, disguised as Venus, goes on a tournament tour from Venice to Bohemia .
- 1308 : Johann von Schwaben , with four companions, lies in wait for his uncle, the Roman-German King Albrecht I , and murders him near Königsfelden . The motive of the crime is primarily the failure of the king to compensate the perpetrator.
- 1464 : Contrary to the advice of confidants such as Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick , the English King Edward IV of the House of York secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville, who comes from the lower nobility . That is later one of the reasons for Warwick's change of sides and thus a turnaround in the Wars of the Roses .
- 1576 : Prince Stephan Báthory of Transylvania marries the Polish princess Anna Jagiellonica . Together they will be crowned as kings of Poland and grand dukes of Lithuania elected heads of state of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania .
- 1648 : The Ottoman Empire begins with the siege of Candia , a fortress city held by the Republic of Venice on the island of Crete . It will be more than 21 years before the Turks prevail in this longest siege in history.
- 1707 : The Kingdom of Great Britain is created through the unification of the Kingdoms of England - in union with the Principality of Wales since 1536 - and Scotland through the entry into force of the Act of Union .
- 1756 : The first Treaty of Versailles between France under Louis XV, threaded through Madame de Pompadour by Austria's Chancellor Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg . and Austria under Maria Theresa marks the " reversal of alliances " that has started.
- 1757 : As a reaction to the Third Silesian War triggered by Frederick the Great , Austria and France conclude the second Treaty of Versailles , which aims to smash Prussia .
- 1808 : With the Bavarian Constitution , the first constitutional basis of the Kingdom of Bavaria , King Maximilian I Joseph introduces the first independent popular representation in a German state.
- 1853 : The Constituent Assembly of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata pass a federal constitution in which the name Argentine Confederation is adopted. The Province of Buenos Aires does not take part in the assembly and declares itself independent as the Estado de Buenos Aires .
- 1863 : The Stars and Bars are replaced by the Stainless banner as the flag of the Confederate States of America .
- 1863 : The Civil War begins the four-day battle at Chancellorsville between the Army of Northern Virginia of Southern General Robert E. Lee and the Army of the Potomac of Major General Joseph Hooker .
- 1865 : Brazil , Argentina and Uruguay form the Triple Alliance to overthrow the aggressive Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López in the Triple Alliance War .
- 1886 : A meeting in Chicago , Illinois at which journalist August Spies of the Chicago Workers' Newspaper gives a speech begins a strike that leads to the Haymarket Riot and kills several people. This event becomes the reference date for Labor Day .
- 1890 : May Day is celebrated for the first time internationally as "Day of Struggle of the Labor Movement" in memory of the Haymarket Riot . The day of remembrance was proclaimed by the Second International .
- 1898 : In the Battle of Manila Bay , the US Asia Squadron under George Dewey defeats the Spanish Pacific Fleet in the first major combat operation in the Spanish-American War .
- 1909 : The German officer Paul Graetz arrives in Swakopmund in German South West Africa and thus ends the first crossing of Africa by car , which he began on August 10, 1907 in Dar es Salaam in German East Africa .
- 1916 : The first summer time applies in Germany . May 1st starts on April 30th at 11:00 p.m.
- 1920 : The seven Thuringian states of Saxe-Altenburg , Saxe-Gotha , Saxe-Meiningen , Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and the People's State of Reuss merge to form the State of Thuringia in the implementation of the "Small Thuringian solution" . Coburg , the majority of which has spoken out against joining, unites with Bavaria two months later .
- 1929 : The so-called Blutmai takes place in Berlin when the police shoot at a workers' demonstration organized by the Communist Party of Germany .
- 1933 : The law of April 10, 1933 by the Reich government at the instigation of the NSDAP makes May 1st a public holiday (" National Labor Day ").
- 1934 : In Austria , the May constitution enacted by the Austrofascist federal government under Engelbert Dollfuss comes into force. At the same time, the Concordat is ratified with the Holy See.
- 1945 : Karl Dönitz , appointed by Hitler in his will as President of the German Reich , declares in a radio address broadcast on the Reichsender Hamburg the continuation of the military struggle against “the advancing Bolshevik enemy”. In Berlin, Joseph Goebbels , who was appointed Reich Chancellor in a will, and his wife Magda committed suicide after their children were murdered.
- 1950 : The United Nations Aid for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) begins work. As a temporary aid program of the United Nations, it is intended to help alleviate the Palestinian refugee problem and to meet the basic needs of the Palestinian refugees.
- 1956 : The director of the Japanese Minamata Hospital , Hajime Hosokawa, reports for the first time about an epidemic of the central nervous system, later known as Minamata's disease . Around 3,000 people die of the disease caused by the uncontrolled dumping of methylmercury iodide into seawater, and over 17,000 are seriously damaged.
- 1960 : A US U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union during the Cold War . The pilot Francis Gary Powers falls into Soviet custody.
- 1960 : The Indian state of Bombay is dissolved and divided into the new states of Maharashtra and Gujarat .
- 1970 : After South Vietnamese troops had crossed the border the day before , a US invasion of Cambodia begins from South Vietnam with the aim of cutting off supply routes for the North Vietnamese in the Vietnam War .
- 1974 : In the Federal Republic of Germany, a points system is introduced in the driving license law for the first time worldwide , with which entries in the central traffic register of the Federal Motor Transport Authority in Flensburg - Mürwik are assessed. If the number of points is exceeded, the theoretical driving test must now be repeated.
- 1975 : The Vietnam War ends with the capture of Saigon , the capital of South Vietnam , by North Vietnamese troops .
- 1977 : In the largest May Day demonstration in the history of Turkey , 37 people are killed by attacks by Turkish counterguerilla forces.
- 1979 : Greenland receives self-government and internal autonomy from Denmark with its own parliament and government. Jonathan Motzfeldt becomes the first Prime Minister .
- 1981 : The Viennese city councilor Heinz Nittel is murdered by Hussam Rajeh on behalf of Bahij Younis, a member of the terrorist organization Abu Nidal , with several targeted shots.
- 1982 : The British Royal Air Force begins Operation Black Buck , in which extremely widespread air strikes over a distance of 6,250 km on Argentine positions in the Falkland Islands are carried out from a base on Ascension at the beginning of the Falklands War . The operation will last until June 12th.
- 1987 : Riots in Berlin-Kreuzberg with arson, looting and building barricades cause the police to lose control of the Berlin district SO 36 for one night . Since then, autonomous and antifa groups have been holding one or more so-called revolutionary May Day demonstrations under the name May Day in Kreuzberg almost every year .
- 1993 : The President of Sri Lanka , Ranasinghe Premadasa , is assassinated by the Tamil extremist LTTE in Colombo .
- 1995 : During the Croatian war, the Croatian army starts the two-day Operation Bljesak to recapture areas occupied by Serbs in western Slavonia.
- 1997 : The Labor Party under Tony Blair wins the British House of Commons elections , bringing about a change of government after 18 years. He succeeds John Major of the Conservative Party , which will lose half of its seats in the election, including all of Scotland and Wales.
- 1999 : The Nigerian asylum seeker Marcus Omofuma , tied up and gagged by the accompanying officers of the Austrian Aliens Police, dies in the plane during the forced deportation.
- 2003 : On board the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) , US President George W. Bush officially declares the end of the Iraq war with the words Mission Accomplished . The Lockheed S-3 , with which Bush lands on the aircraft carrier, is the only United States Navy aircraft to receive the Navy One radio call sign .
- 2004 : As part of the eastward expansion of the EU , 10 new states are admitted to the European Union : Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Slovakia , Slovenia , Hungary , the Czech Republic , Malta and Cyprus . In many cities there are celebrations and big fireworks, in Athens there is a big ceremony with the 25 heads of state and government. It is the largest ever enlargement of the EU .
- 2004 : In Austria , the country's oldest guard , the customs guard , is disbanded on the occasion of the EU's eastward expansion.
- 2011 : In Germany and Austria the free movement of workers applies to the 10 states of the EU enlargement from 2004 .
- 2011 : Pete Souza takes the Situation Room photo at the White House . It shows US President Barack Obama and members of his security team being briefed on the course of Operation Neptune's Spear , during which the terrorist Osama bin Laden is killed by members of a US special unit in Abbottabad , Pakistan .
economy
- 1775 : The chemist Frantz Heinrich Müller founds the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Copenhagen . The young company is initially funded by the state with the promise of a monopoly for 50 years.
- 1821 : The Bank of England exchanges its banknotes for gold again; this ends the bank-restrictio in existence since the end of 1797 because of the war against France .
- 1840 : Rowland Hill- designed One Penny Black , the world's first postage stamp, begins selling in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . The validity starts on May 6th.
- 1844 : Serious riots broke out in Munich because of a rise in the price of beer . The almost thirty percent increase in the price posted on April 30th from 5 to 6.5 cruisers enraged soldiers and workers. The riots lasted three days, but were not crowned with success.
- 1851 : The Great Exhibition , the first world exhibition , is ceremoniously opened in the Crystal Palace in London's Hyde Park , which was specially built by Joseph Paxton .
- 1851 : The Grand Duchy of Baden issues its first postage stamps. The Baden-Mehldruck 9 Kreuzer , discovered 43 years later and now one of the great rarities in philately, is also on the market .
- 1862 : After eleven years open in London in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society in South Kensington , again the gates for a World's Fair.
- 1873 : The World Exhibition in Vienna will of Emperor Franz Joseph I opened. One of the buildings that the main architect Carl von Hasenauer erected especially for this world exhibition is the rotunda in the Vienna Prater .
- 1878 : In Paris, the world exhibition, the Exposition Universelle on the Champ de Mars , opens for the first time with country pavilions . Among other things, the recently completed head of the Statue of Liberty can be viewed on June 30th .
- 1883 : At the world exhibition in Amsterdam , two French perfume manufacturers introduce the first lipstick , a stick made from colored castor oil, deer tallow and beeswax wrapped in tissue paper.
- 1892 : In Germany, the D 31/32 runs the first express train between Cologne and Berlin .
- 1893 : US President Grover Cleveland opens the 19th World's Fair in Chicago . The World's Columbian Exposition runs through October 30th. The chairwoman of the Board of Lady Managers , Bertha Honoré Palmer, has a great influence on the content of the exhibition .
- 1901 : Another World's Fair opens in Buffalo , New York. The Pan-American Exposition is mainly known from the bombing of US President William McKinley on September 6th.
- 1946 : The Pilbara Strike begins in Western Australia . 800 farm workers, mainly Aborigines , want to use the stoppage to achieve fairer wages, better working conditions and human and cultural rights for the indigenous population .
- 1950 : There are no more food stamps in the Federal Republic of Germany , food rationing is abolished.
- 1969 : The eurocheque system can be used by check issuers for the first time and across borders. Payments by check are guaranteed up to 400 German marks (or the equivalent in a foreign currency ) to the payee upon redemption by his credit institute upon presentation of his ec card .
- 1969 : The American semiconductor company AMD is founded.
- 1971 : Amtrak , a US semi-public company for national passenger rail services, begins operations. With this company, the US government wants to release private railroad companies from their obligation to operate passenger traffic while maintaining passenger traffic in the United States.
- 1995 : The Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) comes into force for Liechtenstein .
- 2000 : The German Horst Köhler , unanimously elected on March 23, moves to the helm of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as Managing Director .
- 2001 : In Guatemala , the US dollar is introduced as a second currency alongside the quetzal . It is the third Latin American country after Ecuador and El Salvador to introduce the dollar as a parallel currency.
- 2010 : The world exhibition Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai under the motto Better City, Better Life , which will last until October 31st.
- 2010 : Merger of the MAN Truck & Bus AG Military Division with Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH to form Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH in order to combine the development and manufacture of military wheeled vehicles from both groups.
science and technology
- 1567 : The newly founded academy , the forerunner of what would later become the university , begins teaching in Strasbourg .
- 1753 : The first edition of the Species Plantarum by the Swedish natural scientist Carl von Linné appears. The date is thus the beginning of the nomenclature in botany .
- 1776 : The Illuminati is by Adam Weishaupt along with two students at the University of Ingolstadt as a secret society founded to the domination of the Jesuits in science and education to oppose something.
- 1872 : The University of Strasbourg , which was re-established after the Franco-Prussian War , begins teaching.
- 1931 : The Empire State Building in New York City is opened by US President Herbert Hoover . It replaces the Chrysler Building as the tallest building in the world , a status that it only lost again in 1972 with the World Trade Center .
- 1949 : The Dutch astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper discovers the Neptune - moon Nereid .
- 1988 : The test train InterCityExperimental of the Deutsche Bundesbahn sets a new world speed record for rail vehicles with 406.9 km / h as part of the ICE world record run . The guests on board the train include Federal Transport Minister Jürgen Warnke and Federal Research Minister Heinz Riesenhuber .
- 2008 : The Hangzhou Wan Daqiao , the world's longest overseas bridge between Cixi and Jiaxing in the People's Republic of China , is opened.
Culture
- 1775 : The first performance of the melodrama Medea by Georg Anton Benda with the libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter takes place at the Theater am Rannstädter Tor in Leipzig.
- 1786 : The opera Le nozze di Figaro , KV 492, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The Italian libretto is by Lorenzo Da Ponte and is based on the comedy La Folle Journée, ou Le mariage de Figaro by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais from 1778. The opera is received very mixed by the Viennese audience.
- 1863 : The opera Le Jardinier et son seigneur by Léo Delibes has its world premiere at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris.
- 1865 : Emperor Franz Joseph I opens the four kilometer long and 57 meter wide Vienna Ringstrasse , the boulevard built in place of the previous Vienna city walls. The Ringstrasse style as a special form of historicism became the style for the architecture of the 60s to 90s of the 19th century.
- 1875 : Almost two years after it burned to the ground, the newly built Alexandra Palace in Alexandra Park in London is opened to the public again.
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- 1884 : The portrait of Madame X by John Singer Sargent causes a scandal at the Salon de Paris .
- 1899 : At the Apollo Theater in Berlin, the composer conducts the world premiere of the fantastic burlesque equipment operetta Frau Luna by Paul Lincke based on a libretto by Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers .
- 1941 : The New York Palace Theater has Orson Welles ' film Citizen Kane premiere. The film was heavily criticized when it appeared and a financial failure, but is now considered a milestone in cinema history.
- 1983 : The musical My One and Only by Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer, based on the musical Funny Face by George and Ira Gershwin , premieres at the St. James Theater in New York City.
- 2003 : Broadcasting Berlin-Brandenburg goes into operation. The rbb emerged from the merger of the Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) and the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) .
society
- 1775 : After the Prater , Emperor Joseph II also makes the Augarten in Vienna accessible to the general public. On the occasion of the event, nightingales are released and hunting them is made a criminal offense.
- 1901 : Thanks to a generous donation from the engineer and philanthropist Karl Müller, Munich receives its first public indoor swimming pool . The Mullerian Volksbad is at the opening of the world's most expensive and biggest building of its kind.
- 1915 : The passenger steamer RMS Lusitania of the Cunard Line leaves the port of New York and sets off with almost 2000 people on board for her 202nd Atlantic crossing towards Liverpool.
- 1967 : The rock star Elvis Presley marries the officer's daughter Priscilla Ann Beaulieu at the Hotel Aladdin in Las Vegas .
religion
- 1045 : Pope Benedict IX. resigns his office and sells it for 1,000 pounds of silver to the clergyman Johannes Gratianus Pierleoni, who is known as Gregory VI. comes to the Holy See .
- 1165 : Margrave Dietrich II of Landsberg and Ostmark (Lausitz), founds the Dobrilugk monastery .
- 1196 : The holy skirt is mentioned for the first time in a document. The diocese of Trier tried competing with this Fund Prüm Abbey to trump that since the 8th century belonged to the Sandals of Jesus Christ is.
- 1942 : Joseph Frings is appointed by Pope Pius XII. appointed archbishop of Cologne .
- 2011 : John Paul II is appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. beatified.
Disasters
- 1929 : An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude calls in Iran about 5,800 deaths and in Turkmenistan.
- 2003 : A 6.4 magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey kills 177.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1848 : In Esslingen is Swabian Gymnastics Federation established, the oldest trade association in Germany in sport.
- 1904 : The first continental European football match in Uccle between Belgium and France ends 3: 3.
- 1909 : SK Sturm Graz is founded as the Graz soccer club Sturm .
- 1994 : The Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna had a fatal accident at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1218 : Johann von Avesnes , Count of Hainaut
- 1218 : Rudolf I of Habsburg , Roman-German king
- 1238 : Magnus VI. , King of Norway
- 1285 : Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel , English magnate
- 1308 : Joan III. , Countess of the Free County of Burgundy
- 1326 : Irinchinbal , Emperor of China and Great Khan of the Mongols
- 1470 : Adriana von Hanau , Countess of Solms zu Lich
- 1497 : Johannes Knipstro , German Lutheran theologian and reformer
- 1503 : Celio Secondo Curione , Italian scholar and reformer
- 1517 : Svante Stensson Sture , Swedish statesman
- 1531 : Catalina Thomás , Catholic saint
- 1537 : Jacob Horst , German medic
- 1544 : Giovanni Maria Nosseni , Swiss sculptor
- 1545 : Neidhardt von Thüngen , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
- 1558 : Philipp Hahn , German Lutheran theologian
- 1575 : Wilhelm Schmuck , German legal scholar
- 1586 : Balthasar Walther , German philologist and Lutheran theologian
- 1592 : Adam Schall von Bell , German scientist and missionary
- 1610 : Gottlieb Schröffl , Mayor of Steyr, iron chairman, head of the Innerberg main trade union
- 1616 : Friedrich III. , Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- 1620 : Nikolaus Zrinski , Croatian-Hungarian general and poet
- 1623 : Hans Ernst zu Wied-Runkel , German soldier and court official
- 1645 : Johan Jacob Frissen , priest of the Teutonic Order
- 1653 : George , husband of Queen Anne of Great Britain
- 1661 : Johann Georg Neumann , German Lutheran theologian and church historian
- 1665 : John Woodward , English natural historian, geologist and physician
- 1668 : Johann Rudolf Huber , Swiss painter
- 1672 : Joseph Addison , British writer and politician
- 1697 : David Matthieu , German portrait painter
18th century
- 1726 : Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae , German writer, translator and editor as well as composer
- 1726 : Antonio Zucchi , Italian painter
- 1731 : Ulrike Luise zu Solms-Braunfels , regent of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg
- 1732 : Friedrich Christian Arnold von Jungkenn , Hessian general and minister of war
- 1735 : Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro , Spanish Jesuit and linguist
- 1735 : Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen , Dutch admiral
- 1737 : Elias Dayton , American politician
- 1740 : Josaphat Bastašić , bishop of the Greek Catholic diocese of Križevci
- 1744 : Philipp Fischer , German physician and personal physician
- 1751 : Archibald Hamilton Rowan , Irish nationalist
- 1753 : Jacques-Alexis Thuriot de la Rozière , French politician
- 1754 : Johann Caspar Häfeli , Swiss Reformed theologian
- 1754 : Bernhard Heinrich Overberg , German theologian and educator
- 1755 : Brigida Banti , Italian opera singer
- 1755 : Theodor Christoph Grotrian , German Protestant clergyman, educator and publisher
- 1756 : Niklaus Wolf von Rippertschwand , Swiss farmer and healer
- 1760 : Johanna Marianne Freystein , German painter
- 1760 : Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren , German chemist
- 1765 : Heinrich Komp , German Roman Catholic theologian
- 1769 : Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , British Field Marshal
- 1772 : Karl Friedrich von Gärtner , German botanist and doctor
- 1780 : Hubert Auer , prince-bishop delegate, provost and cathedral provost
- 1780 : Christine Friederike Auguste , Electress of Hesse
- 1780 : Philipp Konrad Marheineke , German theologian
- 1785 : Antonie van Goudoever , Dutch literary scholar and classical philologist
- 1786 : Jacob Best , German entrepreneur and brewer
- 1789 : George Fife Angas , English businessman, parliamentarian and philanthropist
- 1795 : Alexandru II Ghica , Prince of Wallachia
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Martin Disteli , Swiss painter
- 1804 : Joseph Augustin Ginzel , Austrian theologian and author
- 1805 : Johann Jacoby , Prussian politician and German radical democrat
- 1813 : Jacob Mayer , German manufacturer
- 1814 : Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Auersperg , Bohemian-Austrian politician and Prime Minister
- 1814 : Alphonse Ratisbonne , co-founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion
- 1814 : Karl von Auersperg , Prime Minister of Austria-Hungary
- 1818 : Hermann von Tresckow , Prussian general
- 1820 : Henry Yule , Scottish engineer, geographer, railroad planner , and orientalist
- 1821 : Daniel Weisiger Adams , Confederate General
- 1821 : Henry Ayers , Prime Minister of South Australia
- 1822 : Julius von Haast , German geologist, naturalist and explorer
- 1824 : Friedrich Hammacher , German lawyer, MdR and business leader
- 1825 : Johann Jakob Balmer , Swiss mathematician and physicist
- 1826 : Heinrich Bertram , German educator
- 1827 : Jules Breton , French painter
- 1829 : José de Alencar , Brazilian writer
- 1830 : Guido Gezelle , Flemish poet
- 1830 : Gustav Wallis , German botanist
- 1837 : Walter Hauser , Swiss politician
- 1839 : Adolf Guyer-Zeller , Swiss entrepreneur
- 1839 : Hilaire de Chardonnet , French chemist and industrialist
- 1842 : Janet Monach Patey , English singer
- 1844 : Jenny Longuet , daughter of Karl Marx
- 1846 : Adelsteen Normann , Norwegian painter
- 1850 : Arthur Wilhelm, Duke of Connaught , British Field Marshal and Governor General of Canada
1851-1900
- 1852 : Friedrich Philipp von Abert , German Archbishop
- 1852 : Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Spanish physician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1853 : Alexander Meyer-Cohn , German banker and autograph collector
- 1855 : Cecilia Beaux , American painter
- 1857 : Otto Sidow , newspaper publisher, German politician
- 1859 : Bohuslav Jeremiáš , Czech composer, organist, conductor and music teacher
- 1862 : Marcel Prévost , French writer
- 1863 : Stephan Kekule , German lawyer, private scholar and genealogist
- 1864 : Anna Jarvis , American initiator of Mother's Day
- 1868 : Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco , Brazilian lawyer and writer
- 1868 : Hugo Asbach , German brandy manufacturer
- 1868 : Friedrich Karl of Hesse , Prince and Landgrave of Hesse and as Väinö I. King of Finland
- 1870 : Frédéric Pelletier , Canadian music critic, choir director and composer
- 1871 : Fidelis von Stotzingen , German Benedictine, abbot of the Maria Laach monastery and abbot primate of the Benedictine Confederation
- 1872 : Hugo Alfvén , Swedish composer, conductor
- 1872 : Sidónio Pais , Portuguese officer and putschist, president
- 1873 : Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Igumnow , Russian composer and piano virtuoso
- 1874 : Romaine Brooks , American painter and sculptor
- 1875 : Heinrich von Aretin , German politician
- 1876 : Ilse Arlt , Austrian social worker
- 1877 : Otto Palandt , German lawyer and editor
- 1878 : Ida Beer-Walbrunn , German painter
- 1879 : Otto Abeles , Austrian journalist, writer and music critic
- 1880 : JO LaMadeleine , Canadian fiddle player
- 1880 : Konrad Weiß , German poet
- 1881 : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , French Jesuit, theologian and philosopher
- 1882 : Guido Heym , German politician and journalist
- 1882 : Reginald Ruggles Gates , geneticist and botanist
- 1883 : Karel Heijting , Dutch football player
- 1884 : Felipe Boero , Argentine composer
- 1884 : Siegfried Aufhäuser , German union leader
- 1884 : Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe , British officer, politician and racing car driver
- 1885 : Erich Rahn , pioneer of Jiu Jitsu and judo sports in Germany
- 1886 : Walter Cramer , participant in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944
- 1887 : Vincenzo Cardarelli , Italian journalist, writer and poet
- 1887 : Hans Demmelmeier , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1888 : John Francis O'Hara , American clergyman, Archbishop of Philadelphia, and Cardinal
- 1888 : Wilhelm Knothe , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1888 : Jan Morávek , Czech writer and journalist
- 1889 : Jakob Person , German athlete
- 1889 : Ottomar Schreiber , German-Lithuanian politician
- 1890 : Franz Wiedemeier , German politician
- 1891 : Philip Pandely Argenti , Greek diplomat, lawyer, genealogist and historian
- 1891 : Alexander Efimowitsch Rasumny , Russian film director and cameraman
- 1892 : Giovanni Vittorio Amoretti , Italian literary historian, literary scholar and Germanist
- 1892 : Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld , German aviation pioneer
- 1892 : Pierre Chayriguès , French football player
- 1894 : Ivan Yermachenka , Belarusian politician, activist and head of the Belarusian self-help organization
- 1894 : Sam McGee , American guitarist and banjo player
- 1894 : Maria Restituta Kafka , Austrian religious and nurse
- 1895 : Nikolai Ivanovich Jeschow , head of the Soviet secret police NKVD
- 1895 : Leo Sowerby , American composer
- 1896 : Carl Abrahamsson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1896 : Herbert Backe , German Reich Minister for Nutrition
- 1896 : J. Lawton Collins , 4-star American general
- 1896 : Heinrich Danioth , Swiss painter
- 1896 : Mark W. Clark , American general
- 1897 : Otto Brües , German writer
- 1898 : Eugene Robert Black , American, President of the World Bank
- 1899 : Jón Leifs , Icelandic composer
- 1899 : Josef Lokvenc , Austrian chess player
- 1900 : Robert Lord , American screenwriter and film producer
- 1900 : Ignazio Silone , Italian writer
- 1900 : Klaus Uebe , German major general
- 1900 : Aleksander Wat , Polish writer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Robert Leibbrand , German politician
- 1901 : Antal Szerb , Hungarian writer
- 1902 : Mathias Erang , Luxembourg artistic gymnast
- 1902 : Ernst Nagelschmitz , German soccer player
- 1904 : Hans Schalla , German theater director
- 1905 : Edna Mayne Hull , Canadian writer
- 1905 : Henry Koster , German film director
- 1905 : Theodor Oberländer , German politician
- 1906 : Horst Schumann , German doctor, involved in human experiments in Auschwitz
- 1907 : Erny Pinckert , American football player
- 1907 : Theodore Roszak , American sculptor of Polish descent
- 1908 : Giovannino Guareschi , Italian journalist, caricaturist and writer
- 1908 : Hans Schubert , German mathematician
- 1909 : Giannis Ritsos , Greek writer
- 1910 : Alexander Archer , British ice hockey player and coach
- 1910 : Cliff Battles , American football player and coach
- 1910 : Roland Rainer , Austrian architect
- 1911 : Ralph Bass , American music producer
- 1911 : Louis W. Tordella , American mathematician, longtime vice director of the NSA
- 1912 : Eugene Kash , Canadian violinist, conductor and music educator
- 1912 : Otto Kretschmer , German submarine commander
- 1913 : Balraj Sahni , Indian film actor and author
- 1913 : Paul D. MacLean , American neuroscientist
- 1913 : Walter Susskind , English conductor
- 1914 : Rudolf Gellesch , German football player
- 1914 : Louis Nye , American comedian and actor
- 1914 : Ivan Prasko , Ukrainian bishop
- 1915 : Archie Williams , American sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1915 : Hanns Martin Schleyer , German lawyer and employer president
- 1916 : Glenn Ford , American film and television actor
- 1916 : Rong Yiren , Chinese businessman, politician and ex-Vice President of China
- 1917 : Aimé Barelli , French jazz trumpeter and band leader
- 1917 : Eduard Büchsel , German organist and cantor and church music director
- 1917 : Danielle Darrieux , French actress
- 1918 : Jack Paar , American presenter
- 1919 : John Meredyth Lucas , American film director and producer
- 1920 : Gerhard Klein , German director
- 1920 : Magnus von Platen , Swedish literary scholar
- 1922 : Friedrich Wilhelm Christians , German banker
- 1923 : Rosy Armen , French singer
- 1923 : Juri Bukow , Bulgarian pianist
- 1923 : Hans Bunje , German writer, stage and radio play author
- 1923 : Günter Fruhtrunk , painter and graphic artist
- 1923 : Joseph Heller , American writer
- 1923 : Milan Kangrga , Yugoslav or Croatian philosopher and politician
- 1923 : Friedrich Opferkuh , Austrian master stonemason and sculptor
- 1924 : Evelyn Boyd Granville , American mathematician and computer scientist
- 1924 : Grégoire Kayibanda , Rwandan politician
- 1924 : Viktor Petrovich Astafiev , Russian writer
- 1925 : Gabriele Amorth , Italian priest and exorcist
- 1925 : Chuck Bednarik , American football player
- 1925 : Clay Blair , American historian and non-fiction author
- 1925 : Scott Carpenter , American astronaut and aquanaut
1926-1950
- 1926 : Cheo García , Venezuelan singer
- 1926 : Peter Smith , British cyclist
- 1927 : Greta Andersen , Danish swimmer, Olympic champion
- 1927 : Gary Bertini , Israeli conductor and composer
- 1927 : Horst Drinda , German director and actor
- 1927 : Laura Betti , Italian actress
- 1927 : Walter Zeman , Austrian football player
- 1928 : Desmond Titterington , British racing car driver
- 1929 : Ralf Dahrendorf , German-British sociologist, politician and publicist
- 1929 : Sonny James , American country singer
- 1929 : Detlef Müller , German screenwriter
- 1930 : John Hirsch , Hungarian-Canadian theater director and theater director
- 1930 : Ollie Matson , American football player and track and field athlete
- 1930 : Richard Riordan , American Mayor of Los Angeles
- 1930 : Little Walter , American blues musician
- 1930 : Peter Murray Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth , English judge
- 1932 : Josef Ippers , German worker-writer
- 1933 : Wayne Williams , American rockabilly musician
- 1934 : Shirley Horn , American jazz musician
- 1934 : John Meillon , Australian actor
- 1935 : Eberhardt Renz , regional bishop of the Protestant regional church in Württemberg
- 1936 : Danièle Huillet , French director
- 1937 : Hans Henrik Andersen , Danish nuclear physicist
- 1938 : Renate Köhler , German politician
- 1938 : Erika Vötzsch , German javelin thrower
- 1939 : David Erik Aspnes , American physicist
- 1939 : Judy Collins , American folk singer
- 1939 : Johano Strasser , German political scientist, publicist and writer
- 1940 : Fakhruddin Ahmed , Bengali economist, bureaucrat and former head of the Central Bank of Bangladesh
- 1940 : Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel , Mexican bishop and cardinal
- 1940 : Franz Anatol Wyss , Swiss painter
- 1941 : Jorge Felix Arrate MacNiven , Chilean politician
- 1941 : Juraj Hatrík , Slovak composer
- 1942 : Wolf Appel , German opera singer
- 1942 : Gerald Howard Ashworth , American sprinter
- 1943 : Mohamed Askari , Egyptian musician, ethnomusicologist and music teacher
- 1943 : Claude Auclair , French comic artist
- 1943 : Franziskus Eisenbach , German Roman Catholic clergyman, titular bishop of Sigo and auxiliary bishop emeritus of Mainz
- 1943 : Willi Kraus , German soccer player
- 1943 : María Orán , Spanish singer and vocal teacher
- 1944 : Anna-Lena , Swedish pop singer
- 1944 : Costa Cordalis , Greek singer
- 1944 : Peter Bayerlein , German archaeologist and historian
- 1944 : Józef Serafin , Polish organist and music teacher
- 1945 : Rita Coolidge , American country singer
- 1945 : Peter Kiesewetter , German composer
- 1946 : René Aebi , Swiss track cyclist
- 1946 : Joanna Lumley , British actress and model
- 1946 : Rainer Slotta , German industrial archaeologist
- 1946 : John Woo , Hong Kong director and film producer
- 1946 : Peter Kostelka , Austrian politician
- 1947 : Jacob Bekenstein , Israeli physicist
- 1947 : Garvin Davis , Bahamian boxer
- 1947 : Krzysztof Knittel , Polish composer
- 1947 : Danilo Popivoda , Yugoslav football player
- 1948 : Pantaleón Astiazarán , Uruguayan photographer
- 1948 : Rainer Budde , German football player
- 1948 : Karl Friedrich Frey , Swiss artist, musician, author, astrologer and occultist, known as Akron
- 1948 : Carl Morten Iversen , Norwegian jazz bassist
- 1949 : Lewis Perdue , American writer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Dieter Schubert , German football player
- 1953 : Mayumi Aoki , Japanese swimmer
- 1953 : Steve Baker , British harmonica player and blues musician
- 1953 : Pierre Franckh , German actor
- 1953 : James W. Newton , American jazz flutist and conductor, composer and university professor
- 1953 : Detlev Samland , German politician
- 1953 : Joanna Szczepkowska , Polish actress
- 1953 : Klaus Wiesehügel , German trade unionist, federal chairman of the IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt, Member of the Bundestag
- 1954 : Ray Parker, Jr. , American guitarist, composer, and record producer
- 1955 : Barbara Frey , German actress
- 1955 : José Rafael Quirós Quirós , Costa Rican Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Limón
- 1955 : Thomas Wunderlich , Professor of Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich
- 1956 : Alexander Binsteiner , German geoarchaeologist
- 1956 : David T. Friendly , American film producer
- 1956 : Dirk Jung , German Taekwondo athlete and doctor
- 1956 : Zahir Tanin , Afghan diplomat and UN special envoy
- 1956 : Andreas Vitásek , Austrian cabaret artist, actor and director
- 1957 : Jo Jorgensen , American political activist
- 1958 : Marika Blossfeldt , American dancer, choreographer, non-fiction author and yoga teacher
- 1958 : Max Moor , German television presenter
- 1959 : Bea von Malchus , German actress
- 1959 : Yasmina Reza , French writer, director and actress
- 1960 : Raymond Ahoua , Ivorian bishop
- 1960 : Jorge Muñiz , Mexican actor, singer and presenter
- 1961 : Jan van Aken , German activist and politician
- 1961 : Timna Brauer , Austrian singer
- 1961 : Clint Malarchuk , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 : Remedios Amaya , Spanish flamenco singer
- 1962 : Christof Stein-Schneider , German guitarist ( Fury In The Slaughterhouse )
- 1962 : Maia Morgenstern , Romanian actress
- 1962 : Martin Preineder , member of the Austrian National Council
- 1962 : Owen Paul , British singer
- 1963 : Philip Ma , Hong Kong-Chinese racing car driver
- 1963 : Christine Rossi , French freestyle skier
- 1964 : Yvonne van Gennip , Dutch speed skater
- 1965 : Debi Diamond , American model and porn actress
- 1966 : Anne Fletcher , American actress, director and choreographer
- 1966 : Charlie Schlatter , American serial actor
- 1966 : Olaf Thon , German soccer player
- 1967 : Kendra Kobelka , Canadian ski racer
- 1967 : Tim McGraw , American country singer and actor
- 1968 : D'arcy Wretzky , American musician
- 1968 : Oliver Bierhoff , German soccer player
- 1968 : Guido Broscheit , German actor
- 1969 : Wes Anderson , American film director
- 1969 : Günther Lainer , Austrian cabaret artist
- 1971 : Stuart Appleby , Australian professional golfer
- 1971 : Amira Casar , British-French actress
- 1971 : Hasret Gültekin , Kurdish Saz player
- 1971 : Eva Lund , Swedish curler
- 1971 : Nenad Peruničić , Montenegrin-German handball player and coach
- 1971 : Renée Poetschka , Australian athlete
- 1972 : Julie Benz , American actress
- 1972 : Roland Braun , German Nordic combined athlete
- 1972 : Ilya Simin , Russian journalist
- 1973 : Seba Johnson , American ski racer, animal rights activist, and actress
- 1973 : Oliver Neuville , German soccer player
- 1974 : Klaus Eckel , Austrian cabaret artist
- 1974 : Tiffany Fallon , American model and former cheerleader
- 1974 : Marc Seliger , German ice hockey player
- 1975 : Abdi Aktaş , Turkish soccer player
- 1975 : Marc-Vivien Foé , Cameroonian football player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Anna Olsson , Swedish cross-country skier
- 1976 : Big Zis , Swiss rapper
- 1976 : Darius McCrary , American actor
- 1976 : Violante Placido , Italian actress
- 1977 : Vera Lischka , Austrian swimmer and politician
- 1978 : James Badge Dale , American actor
- 1978 : Michael Craig Russell , American tennis player
- 1979 : Mauro Bergamasco , Italian rugby player
- 1979 : Lars Berger , Norwegian biathlete
- 1979 : Ruud Janssen , Dutch chess player
- 1979 : Michelle Perry , American athlete
- 1980 : Christopher Becker , German film director
- 1980 : Myriam Atz Tammerle , Italian politician
- 1980 : Julija Gennadjewna Tabakowa , Russian sprinter
- 1980 : Ana Claudia Talancón , Mexican actress
- 1980 : Zaz , French chanson singer
- 1981 : Aljaksandr Hleb , Belarusian football player
- 1981 : Manny Acosta , Panamanian baseball player
- 1981 : Andy Dorman , English football player
- 1981 : Katie Mack , theoretical cosmologist, astrophysicist and science communicator
- 1981 : Drew Sidora , American actress and singer
- 1981 : Mirko Venturi , Italian racing car driver
- 1982 : Ambrose Akinmusire , American jazz trumpeter, band leader and composer
- 1982 : Darijo Srna , Croatian football player
- 1982 : Tommy Robredo , Spanish tennis player
- 1983 : Celso Míguez , Spanish racing driver
- 1984 : Kerry Bishé , American actress
- 1984 : Mišo Brečko , Slovenian football player
- 1984 : Juan Cáceres , Uruguayan racing driver
- 1984 : Alexander Farnerud , Swedish football player
- 1985 : Nicolás Artajo , German actor, presenter and voice actor
- 1985 : Philipp Fleischmann , Austrian actor and short film director
- 1985 : Pierre Campana , French rally driver
- 1985 : Philipp Pentke , German soccer goalkeeper
- 1986 : Christian Benítez , Ecuadorian soccer player
- 1986 : Adam Casey , Australian soccer player
- 1987 : Leonardo Bonucci , Italian football player
- 1987 : Shahar Peer , Israeli tennis player
- 1988 : Remo Schulze , German actor
- 1988 : Nicholas Braun , American actor
- 1989 : Armindo Fonseca , French racing cyclist
- 1989 : May Mahlangu , South African soccer player
- 1989 : Mitch Nichols , Australian soccer player
- 1989 : Alexander Grünwald , Austrian soccer player
- 1990 : Diego Contento , Italian-German soccer player
- 1990 : René Oosterhof , Dutch football player
- 1990 : Caitlin Stasey , Australian actress
- 1991 : Levina , German singer, songwriter and presenter
- 1991 : Bartosz Salamon , Polish football player
- 1992 : Bradley Roby , American football player
- 1993 : Jean-Christophe Bahebeck , French football player
- 1995 : Andressa Cavalari Machry , Brazilian soccer player
- 1996 : Michael Seaton , Jamaican soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 208 : Andeolus , Roman saint
- 408 : Arcadius , Roman emperor in the east
- 524 : Sigismund , King of the Burgundians
- 852 : Lambert II , Count of Nantes
- 926 : Wiborada , hermit and martyr of the Catholic Church
- 991 : Friedrich I , Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1103 : Janah ad-Daula , Emir of Homs
- 1118 : Edith of Scotland , first wife of Henry I of England
- 1184 : Adelheid IV of Sommerschenburg , Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg
- 1187 : Roger de Moulins , Grand Master of the Order of St. John
- 1219 : Leo II , King of Armenia
- 1219 : Rudolf I , Lord of Issoudun and Count of Eu
- 1226 : Richard Marsh , Bishop of Durham and Lord Chancellor of England
- 1240 : Ekkehard Rabil , Bishop of Merseburg
- 1240 : Jacob von Vitry , Cardinal Bishop of Tusculum and Bishop of Acre
- 1254 : Sørle , Norwegian archbishop
- 1255 : Walter de Gray , Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York
- 1257 : Mafalda of Portugal , Queen of Castile and nun, blessed Catholic
- 1277 : Stefan Uroš I , King of the Serbs
- 1278 : Wilhelm II of Villehardouin , Prince of Achaia
- 1296 : Friedrich I , Count von Fürstenberg
- 1302 : Vidkunn Erlingsson , member of the Norwegian Imperial Council
- 1308 : Albrecht I , Roman-German King and Duke of Austria and Styria
- 1345 : Peregrinus Laziosi , saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1348 : Heinrich IV. , Count of Waldeck
- 1365 : Conrad III. , Count of Rietberg
- 1399 : Wilhelm I. zu Castell , ruler of the county of Castell
- 1402 : Olbram von Škvorec , Archbishop of Prague
- 1445 : Friedrich von Domneck , councilor of the Electoral Palatinate, cathedral dean and from 1426 to 1445 Prince-Bishop of Worms
- 1447 : Ludwig VII , Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
- 1484 : Adalbert III. , Administrator of the Archdiocese of Mainz
16th to 18th century
- 1517 : Hermann Langenbeck , lawyer and mayor of Hamburg
- 1539 : Isabella of Portugal , Roman-German Empress, wife of Emperor Charles V
- 1543 : Veit von Thümen , Lord Master of the Order of St. John
- 1555 : Marcellus II , Pope
- 1558 : Felicitas von Selmenitz , first woman of the Reformation in Halle an der Saale
- 1558 : Gabriel Zwilling , Lutheran theologian and reformer
- 1572 : Pius V , Pope
- 1578 : Wilhelm II von der Mark , Admiral der Wassergeusen and Governor of Holland
- 1613 : Abraham II of Dohna , Silesian landlord, diplomat and politician
- 1627 : Friedrich Balduin , Lutheran theologian
- 1651 : Kanō Sansetsu , Japanese painter
- 1656 : Carlo Contarini , 100th Doge of Venice
- 1666 : Christoph Notnagel , German mathematician and astronomer
- 1668 : Frans Luycx , Flemish portrait painter
- 1709 : Samuel Bachmann , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1731 : Johann Ludwig Bach , German composer
- 1733 : Nicolas Coustou , French sculptor
- 1737 : Jean-Alphonse Turrettini , Reformed theologian
- 1743 : Maria Magdalena , Archduchess of Austria, aunt Maria Theresa
- 1750 : David Stähelin , Swiss Mayor
- 1753 : Johann Gottfried von Hahn , doctor and medical advisor in Breslau, royal Prussian councilor and landowner on Leonhardwitz in the Neumarkt district
- 1760 : Christiana Mariana von Ziegler , Saxon writer
- 1772 : Gottfried Achenwall , German historian and lawyer, founder of modern statistics
- 1793 : Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae , German natural scientist, chemist and court pharmacist
- 1797 : Franz Anton von Hartig , Austrian diplomat, historian, poet and geographer
19th century
- 1809 : François d'Arlandes , French aviation pioneer
- 1809 : Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel , German writer and educator
- 1814 : Saud I ibn Abd al-Aziz , Imam of the Wahhabis
- 1816 : Justus Perthes , German bookseller and publisher, founder of a geographic-cartographic publishing house
- 1840 : Charles-Henri Allamand , Swiss physician
- 1854 : Jean Coralli , French dancer and choreographer
- 1857 : Stephen Adams , American politician
- 1861 : Michael Martin Lienau , German businessman and local politician
- 1865 : Edwin De Haven , American polar explorer
- 1870 : Gabriel Lamé , French mathematician and physicist
- 1871 : Andreas Andresen , German author of art books
- 1872 : Amalia Maria da Gloria Augusta , Princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Duchess of Saxony and Princess of the Netherlands
- 1873 : David Livingstone , Scottish missionary and African explorer
- 1874 : Vilém Blodek , Czech composer
- 1874 : Niccolò Tommaseo , Italian writer
- 1875 : Leonhard Kohl von Kohlenegg , Austrian writer and actor
- 1880 : Friedrich Adolph Mackrott , German musician
- 1881 : Romolo Gessi , Italian traveler to Africa
- 1882 : Friedrich August Abt , German lawyer and politician
- 1883 : Butrus al-Bustani , Lebanese writer, lecturer, editor and philologist
- 1888 : William Wirt Adams , American Confederate Brigadier General in the American Civil War
- 1889 : Heinrich Adolph Meyer , German marine researcher and manufacturer
- 1891 : Ferdinand Gregorovius , German writer and historian
- 1893 : Alexander Kaufmann , German writer
- 1893 : Wilhelm Schubert , businessman and politician from Baden
- 1896 : Nāser ad-Din Schāh , Shah of Persia
- 1897 : Emil Oelbermann , German industrialist
- 1899 : Ludwig Büchner , German doctor, scientist and philosopher
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Luigi Arditi , Italian violinist and composer
- 1904 : Antonín Dvořák , Czech composer
- 1907 : Karl Alfred Lanz , Swiss painter and sculptor
- 1911 : Richard Weitbrecht , German theologian and writer
- 1913 : John Barclay Armstrong , American policeman and second lieutenant
- 1914 : Hermann Frasch , German-American chemist and technologist
- 1916 : Rudolf Hirth du Frênes , German painter and brother of the writer and publisher Georg Hirth
- 1917 : William Knox D'Arcy , British entrepreneur
- 1920 : Hanuš Wihan , Czech cellist and music teacher
- 1920 : Margaret of Connaught , Crown Princess of Sweden
- 1924 : Louis Henry Davies , Canadian politician and judge
- 1927 : Oscar Swahn , Swedish marksman, Olympic champion
- 1930 : Charles Marchand , Canadian folk singer
- 1933 : Carl Roman Abt , Swiss engineer and inventor
- 1933 : Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde , British politician, entrepreneur and peer
- 1934 : Viktor Apfelbeck , Austrian-Yugoslav entomologist and museum curator
- 1935 : Henri Pélissier , French racing cyclist
- 1939 : Wilhelm Normann , German chemist
- 1940 : Leonard Leslie Brooke , British illustrator and author
- 1941 : Karl Peter Anspach , German businessman
- 1941 : Julia Claussen , Swedish singer and music teacher
- 1942 : Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen , German lawyer and statesman
- 1944 : Jizchak Katzenelson , Jewish poet and playwright
- 1945 : Wilhelm Burgdorf , German General, Chief Adjudant of the High Command of the Wehrmacht
- 1945 : Joseph Goebbels , German demagogue and politician, Reich Propaganda Minister , pioneer of the Holocaust
- 1945 : Magda Goebbels , wife of Joseph Goebbels
- 1945 : Hans Krebs , German officer, most recently General of the Infantry and Chief of Staff of the Army in World War II
- 1946 : Bill Johnston , American tennis player
- 1946 : Edward Bairstow , English organist, educator, composer, choir director and conductor
- 1947 : Josef Feinhals , German entrepreneur
- 1948 : Marceli Popławski , Polish composer, violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1949 : Wilhelm Thöny , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1950 : Lothrop Stoddard , American Eugenier and author, admirer of Adolf Hitler
1951-2000
- 1951 : Georg Baesecke , German old Germanist
- 1951 : José Cavaquinho , Brazilian cavaquinho player, guitarist, flautist, conductor and composer
- 1954 : Johnny Aubert , Swiss pianist
- 1955 : Hans von der Au , German theologian and folklorist
- 1955 : Mike Nazaruk , American racing car driver
- 1956 : LeRoy Samse , American athlete
- 1960 : José María Granada , Spanish playwright, screenwriter and director
- 1963 : Veza Canetti , Austrian writer
- 1964 : Walter Assmann , German officer
- 1965 : Spike Jones , American music comedian
- 1966 : Gustav Schumm , German football player and official
- 1967 : Agapios Salomon Naoum , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1967 : Maria Probst , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, MEP, first Vice-President of the Bundestag
- 1968 : Jack Adams , Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
- 1971 : Glenda Farrell , American actress
- 1971 : Pierre Stasse , Belgian racing driver
- 1972 : Andor Mészáros , Hungarian-Australian architect, sculptor and medalist
- 1973 : Asger Jorn , Danish artist
- 1974 : Wayne Maki , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 : Aram Khachaturian , Soviet composer
- 1978 : Hans Severus Ziegler , German publicist, director, teacher and National Socialist politician
- 1981 : Edmond Romulus Amateis , American sculptor and teacher
- 1981 : Tex Hamer , American football player
- 1981 : Vern Sneider , American author
- 1981 : Robert Stauch , German politician
- 1982 : Gyula Kertész , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1982 : Wolfgang Stammberger , German politician
- 1982 : Walther Wenck , German general and manager
- 1984 : Gordon Jenkins , American musician
- 1985 : Ási í Bæ , Icelandic writer
- 1988 : Ben Lexcen , Australian yacht builder and designer
- 1989 : Antonio Janigro , Italian cellist, conductor and university professor
- 1991 : Rainer Artenfels , Austrian actor and theater director
- 1991 : Richard Thorpe , American film director
- 1992 : Luis Alfredo Torres , Dominican poet, journalist and critic
- 1993 : Pierre Bérégovoy , French politician
- 1994 : Ayrton Senna , Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver, three-time world champion
- 1996 : Herbert Brownell Jr. , American politician and attorney general
- 1996 : Irene Koss , actress and the first German television announcer
- 1997 : Bo Widerberg , Swedish film director, screenwriter and film editor
- 1998 : Eldridge Cleaver , American writer and the co-founder of the Black Panthers
- 1999 : Brian Shawe-Taylor , British racing car driver
- 2000 : Ángel E. Lasala , Argentine composer and pianist
21st century
- 2002 : Karel Ptáčník , Czech writer
- 2002 : Ursula von Wiese , German-Swiss actress, translator and writer
- 2004 : Felix Haug , Swiss pop musician
- 2004 : Irina Pabst , German fashion designer
- 2004 : Lojze Kovačič , Slovenian writer and educator
- 2006 : Raúl Francisco Primatesta , Argentine Cardinal and Bishop of Cordoba
- 2006 : John Brack , Swiss country singer
- 2006 : Big Hawk , American rapper
- 2007 : Ejnar Krantz , American composer, organist, pianist and music teacher
- 2008 : Paulo Amaral , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- 2008 : Bernard Archard , British actor
- 2008 : Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager , German nobleman and officer, resistance fighter
- 2009 : Fred Delmare , German actor
- 2011 : Claude Bobrowski , French racing car driver
- 2011 : Henry Cooper , British heavyweight boxer
- 2011 : Gene Gossage , American football player
- 2011 : Moshe Landau , Israeli lawyer, President of the Supreme Court
- 2012 : Gonçalo Amorim , Portuguese cyclist
- 2012 : Ricardo César Andreu , Argentine actor, comedian and author
- 2013 : Chris Kelly , American rapper
- 2014 : Oscar González-Ferrán , Chilean volcanologist
- 2014 : Manfred von Richthofen , German athlete, entrepreneur and sports official
- 2014 : Heinz Schenk , German showmaster and actor
- 2014 : Georg Stollenwerk , German soccer player and coach
- 2015 : Geoff Duke , British motorcycle racer
- 2015 : Lucía Huergo , Cuban composer, music producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist
- 2015 : Grace Lee Whitney , American actress
- 2016 : Niklas Feierabend , German soccer player
- 2017 : Eugene T. Gendlin , American philosopher and psychologist
- 2017 : Mohamed Talbi , Tunisian historian
- 2018 : Elmar Altvater , German political scientist and author
- 2018 : Constantin Olteanu , Romanian general and politician
- 2019 : Elisabeth Gössmann , German theologian
- 2019 : Beatrix Philipp , German politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Request day for blessed work (Protestant)
- Nikolaus Herman , German song writer (Protestant)
- St. James, son of Alphaeus , Roman martyr, apostle and national saint of Uruguay (Anglican, Protestant: ELCA , LCMS )
- St. Joseph the Worker , Roman patron saint (Catholic)
- St. Philip , Roman apostle and martyr (Anglican, Protestant: ELCA , LCMS )
- Patrona Bavariae (Catholic)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- First of May
- National holiday of Austria
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the history of the Slovenian language and literature , a rhyme report from Frauendienst is often quoted in which he quotes Slovenian words by Duke Bernhard von Spanheim . He had greeted him on his passage through Carinthia in Thörl-Maglern / Vrata Megvarje on May 1, 1227 in Slovenian with the following words: "The prince and the journeymen sin / I am welcome sin. "Buge waz primi, gralva Venus!" (The prince and his entourage welcomed me. Their greeting to me was like this: "Greetings from God, royal Venus"). Ulrich was disguised as Venus. Cf. Reginald Vospernik, Pavle Zablatnik, Erik Prunč, Florjan Lipuš: The Slovenian word in Carinthia = Slovenska beseda na Koroškem, literature and poetry from the beginning to the present = Pismenstvo in slovstvo od začetkov do danes. ÖBV, Vienna 1985, pp. 22-23. ISBN 3-215-04304-1
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