February 10th
The February 10 is the 41th day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 324 days (325 days in leap years) by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1258 : The Mongols under Hulagu conquered Baghdad , the capital of the Caliphate of the Abbasids .
- 1306 : At a meeting of the Scottish heir to the throne Robert Bruce and John III. Comyn, Lord of Badenoch in Dumfries Church , Bruce stabs his adversary. The seriously injured man is murdered shortly afterwards by an accompanying companion.
- 1355 : So-called riot breaks out in Oxford on Saint Scholastica Day , an armed conflict between students at the University of Oxford and residents of the city.
- 1567 : Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , second husband of Maria Stuart , is murdered near Edinburgh , probably by James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell .
- 1763 : The Peace of Paris ends the colonial war, especially the French and Indian War in North America, as part of the Seven Years' War . France loses its colony, New France, in what is now Canada, and its Indian possessions to Great Britain , whose empire is thereby massively enlarged. Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain and received the previously French Louisiana territory .
- 1798 : French troops under General Louis-Alexandre Berthier take Rome. France had declared war on the Papal States after the assassination of its military attaché. Five days after the invasion, the Roman Republic, influenced by France, comes into being .
- 1814 : In the Battle of Champaubert , a Russian coalition corps in the Wars of Liberation under the command of Sakhar Dmitrijewitsch Olsufjew is wiped out by the much larger French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte .
- 1828 : During the Cape Grim massacre in the north-west of Van Diemen's Land , four shepherds ambushed 30 Aborigines from the Pennemukeer clan from Cape Grim with muskets and threw the bodies from 60 meter high cliffs into the sea.
- 1846 : The First Sikh War ends in India with the Battle of Sobraon . British troops defeat the units of the Sikh army of the state of Punjab in battle .
- 1868 : In the election for the customs parliament in the Kingdom of Bavaria , Otto von Bismarck's opponents were victorious , and one year later they formed the Bavarian Patriot Party .
- 1873 : Spain's King Amadeus I , following massive pressure from his wife, declares his abdication after an assassination attempt that failed the previous year and decides to leave the country. Then the First Spanish Republic was formed , which lasted just under two years.
- 1878 : The Peace of Zanjón ends the Ten Years War for Cuba's independence . The insurgents capitulate to the Spanish colonial power.
- 1904 : One day after the attack on Port Arthur , Japan officially declares war on the Russian Empire .
- 1919 : The selected on January 19, Weimar National Assembly adopts the law on the provisional imperial power . It regulates the executive in the transition phase from the German Empire to the new republic. The next day the presidential election follows .
- 1920 : During the plebiscite in Schleswig , the majority of the population decides South Jutland for connection to Denmark . Since the central part of the country remains with Germany after a subsequent referendum, Schleswig (also Sønderjylland ) is divided into North Schleswig (which formed the Sønderjylland Office between 1970 and 2007 ) and South Schleswig ; the Clausen line has since formed the German-Danish border.
- 1943 : The last allied guerrilla troops are evacuated from Timor . After almost a year , the Battle of Timor ends with a Japanese victory in the Pacific War .
- 1945 : As part of several large-scale offensives by the Red Army , the Battle of East Pomerania began towards the end of World War II, which lasted until April 4 .
- 1945 : The German passenger ship Steuben with more than 4,000 refugees on board is torpedoed by the Soviet submarine S-13 off the Pomeranian coast and sinks. Around 3,500 people are killed.
- 1947 : The treaties for the Paris Peace Conference between the victors of the Second World War and the European allies of the German Reich are signed. They give the latter back full state sovereignty and enable them to become members of the United Nations. The establishment of the Free Territory of Trieste is also agreed with Italy .
- 1962 : The first exchange of captured agents - Rudolf Iwanowitsch Abel for Francis Gary Powers - between the USA and the USSR takes place on the Glienicke Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam during the Cold War .
- 1964 : Iraq under Abd al-Salam Arif concludes an armistice with the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) under Molla Barzani, which recognizes the national rights of the Kurds in southern Kurdistan .
- 2003 : Germany and the Netherlands take over the leadership of the International Security Assistance Force ISAF in Afghanistan .
economy
- 1863 : Alanson Crane receives a patent in the United States for the fire extinguisher he invented .
- 1937 : The Reichsbank and the Deutsche Reichsbahn are legally subordinated to the National Socialist Reich government.
- 1942 : In the USA, Glenn Miller is presented with a gold-plated copy of his Chattanooga Choo Choo record, published by RCA Victor in 1941 and sold around 1.2 million times by then .
- 1953 : In the GDR begins in the seaside resorts on the Baltic coast and on complaints the action rose to a nationalization amounts of hotels, taxis and service companies.
- 2011 : Disclosure of the fire engine cartel on the German market by the Federal Cartel Office .
science and technology
- 1906 : In the Naval Shipyard Portsmouth runs at the HMS Dreadnought the world's first capital ship from the deck.
- 2009 : For the first time, two artificial satellites collide in their orbit . The Strela satellite Kosmos 2251 and the Iridium satellite 33 collide over the Taimyr peninsula in northern Siberia at an altitude of around 790 kilometers.
Culture
- 1605 : The first known performance of William Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice takes place at the Palace of Whitehall in London, in the presence of King James I.
- 1673 : The Conceited Ill , a comedy in three acts by Molière , premiered in Paris with the poet in the title role . At the fourth performance a week later, Molière suffered a hemorrhage on stage and died in costume.
- 1823 : The first of the festival committee of the Cologne Carnival of 1823 e. V. organized Cologne Rosenmontagszug starts under the motto accession to the throne of the hero Carneval in Cologne city center.
- 1881 : Four months after the death of the composer Jacques Offenbach's Opéra-comique Hoffmann's tales (Les contes d'Hoffmann) , in which he incorporated some melodies from his earlier opera Die Rheinnixen, premiered at the Paris Opéra-Comique . The work becomes Offenbach's only successful opera.
- 1914 : At the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, the operetta Endlich alone is premiered by Franz Lehár based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner .
- 1927 : Ernst Krenek's jazz opera Jonny plays on is premiered at the New Theater in Leipzig . The opera was a sensational success in Germany, but later performances in Germany were repeatedly disrupted by National Socialists who described the piece as " Degenerate Music ".
- 1940 : Puss Gets the Boot , the first film with the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry, hits US cinemas.
- 1949 : Arthur Miller's drama Death of a Salesman premieres on Broadway . Elia Kazan directs the play with Lee J. Cobb in the lead role.
society
- 1840 : The British Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the chapel of St. James' Palace.
- 1863 : Charles Sherwood Stratton , known as the dwarf General Tom Thumb from PT Barnum's traveling circus, marries Lavinia Warren , who is also short .
- 1910 : Virginia Stephen holds the so-called Dreadnought Prank with some of her friends .
- 1945 : Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony buries the Saxon treasure near Moritzburg Castle with two sons and a forester before he fled to Sigmaringen.
- 2008 : In Zurich, a total of four paintings by the painters Claude Monet , Vincent van Gogh , Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne with a total value of 180 million Swiss francs are stolen from the art museum Foundation EG Bührle Collection . Eight days later, the police found two plants, the whereabouts of the other two are unclear.
religion
- 1880 : In his encyclical Arcanum divinae sapientiae , Pope Leo XIII defends . the marriage as a sacrament , that alone am under the ecclesiastical supremacy, and protests against the instrument of civil marriage .
Disasters
- 1910 : Off Menorca, the French passenger ship Général Chanzy is thrown onto a reef by violent squalls and sinks after the boiler rooms explode. Only one of the 156 people on board survived.
- 1933 : A gasometer explosion in Neunkirchen (Saar) claims around 68 victims and destroys large parts of the city
- 2005 : Between 140 and 500 fatalities occurred due to days of rain when the Shadi Kaur Dam in Pakistan broke .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1910 : With a victory in the 10th and final game of the World Chess Championship 1910 for balancing stand of 5-5 the German defended Emanuel Lasker the world title in chess successfully against the Austrian challenger Carl Schlechter .
- 1929 : The first day of the Primera División , the country's highest football league, is played in Spain .
- 1949 : Basketball player Joe Fulks scores 63 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the Indiana Jets, a new NBA record.
- 1957 : The first African football championship begins in the Sudanese capital, Karthum , in which four teams take part. The South African national soccer team is excluded from the championship because of their refusal to compete with a multi-ethnic team.
- 1990 : The American boxer James "Buster" Douglas completely surprisingly defeated defending champion Mike Tyson by knocking out in the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. in the tenth round and becomes the heavyweight world champion in boxing .
- 1996 : The reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov loses the first match against the deep blue chess computer developed by IBM . The match lasted until February 17th.
- 2006 : The Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi opened in Olympic Stadium Turin the XX. Olympic Winter Games of Turin . The ski racer Giorgio Rocca and the referee Fabio Bianchetti take the oath , the former cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo lights the Olympic flame .
- 2006 : Egypt wins the African Cup of Nations for the fifth time with a 4-2 win on penalties after a goalless draw against Ivory Coast in the final of the home African Cup .
- 2007 : The German biathletes Andrea Henkel , Martina Glagow and Kati Wilhelm win gold, silver and bronze in the mass start race at the Biathlon World Championships in Antholz .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1486 : Georg von der Pfalz , Bishop of Speyer
- 1499 : Thomas Platter the Elder , Swiss writer
- 1524 : Albrecht Giese , Danzig councilor and diplomat
- 1539 : Henni Arneken , German politician
- 1606 : Christina of France , Duchess of Savoy
- 1609 : John Suckling , English courtier, poet and playwright
- 1620 : James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk , English nobleman
- 1631 : Luise von Anhalt-Dessau , Duchess of Liegnitz, Brieg, Wohlau and Ohlau
- 1637 : Henriette Catharina von Oranien-Nassau , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1646 : Hans Adam Weissenkircher , Austrian painter
- 1686 : Hans Egede , Norwegian pastor, apostle of the Greenlanders
- 1695 : Daniel Triller , German medic and writer
- 1698 : Johann Simonis , German Protestant theologian and orientalist
- 1716 : Johann Daniel Müller , German violinist, violist and concert director
- 1720 : Carl De Geer , Swedish industrialist, scientist and entomologist
- 1720 : Friedrich Bernhard von Prittwitz , German landowner
- 1726 : Franz Zoller , Austrian baroque painter
- 1734 : Maximilian Thaddäus von Egger , Austrian iron industrialist and nobleman
- 1735 : Johann Heinrich Mücke , German pedagogue and philologist
- 1745 : Levin August von Bennigsen , Russian general of German origin
- 1747 : André Thouin , French botanist
- 1747 : Aida Yasuaki , Japanese mathematician
- 1748 : Benedikt Wilhelm von Ahlefeldt , master of Gut Kaden, major and district administrator
- 1754 : Carl Ahasver von Sinner , Swiss architect
- 1757 : Johann August Arens , German architect, landscape designer and painter
- 1758 : Amalia Holst , German educator and women's rights activist
- 1763 : Christian Hermann Schöne , German lawyer and local politician
- 1766 : Benjamin Smith Barton , American botanist
- 1766 : Henry Smith , American politician, governor of Rhode Island
- 1767 : Amalie Beer , German-Jewish salonnière
- 1770 : Alexandre Brongniart , French chemist, mineralogist, geologist and zoologist
- 1770 : Ferdinando Carulli , Italian composer and salon guitarist
- 1773 : Vasily Karasin , Russian statesman, writer, inventor and educator
- 1779 : Gustav von Barnekow , Prussian major general
- 1781 : Franz Seraph Bedall , Bavarian general
- 1783 : Pierre de Schiervel , Belgian politician
- 1784 : Hartwig Peters , German clergyman and publicist
- 1785 : Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier , French mathematician and physicist
- 1788 : Robert Letcher , American politician, governor of Kentucky
- 1791 : Francesco Hayez , Italian painter
- 1792 : Christian Ernst Stölzel , German painter, etcher and engraver
- 1793 : Jean Claude Eugène Péclet , French physicist
- 1795 : Ary Scheffer , French etcher and sculptor
- 1796 : Henry Thomas de la Bèche , English geologist
19th century
- 1802 : François Diday , Swiss painter
- 1802 : Ernst Helbig , German painter and court painter in Wernigerode
- 1806 : Orville Hickman Browning , American politician and home secretary
- 1807 : Hans Adolf Karl von Bülow , Prussian Minister of State
- 1808 : Georg Weber , German philologist and historian
- 1815 : Meir Auerbach , Russian scholar, rabbi and chief rabbi
- 1816 : Albert Ellmenreich , German actor and writer
- 1818 : Isham G. Harris , American politician, governor, MP, and senator from Tennessee
- 1819 : Albert Schwegler , German theologian, philosopher and historian
- 1829 : Simon Schwendener , Swiss botanist and university professor
- 1837 : Harrison Gray Otis , American publisher
- 1840 : Per Teodor Cleve , Swedish naturalist
- 1841 : Walter Parratt , British organist, music teacher, church musician and composer
- 1844 : Wendelin Foerster , Austrian Romanist
- 1845 : Josef Stübben , German architect
- 1846 : Charles Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford , British Admiral
- 1853 : Richard Leopold Oskar Anders , German sculptor and university professor
- 1853 : Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt , German mineralogist
- 1856 : Eugen Nägele , German conservationist, educator and local researcher
- 1858 : Alice Heine , Duchess of Richelieu and Princess of Monaco
- 1859 : Georg Ferdinand Dümmler , German classical philologist and archaeologist
- 1859 : Alexandre Millerand , French statesman and politician, President and multiple minister
- 1862 : Marius Anton von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian KuK governor in the Kingdom of Dalmatia and Privy Councilor
- 1863 : Hugo Berwald , German sculptor
- 1865 : Carl Markees , Swiss violinist, music teacher and composer
- 1865 : Ferdinand Zinsser , German dermatologist and rector of the University of Cologne
- 1866 : Bror Beckman , Swedish composer
- 1868 : William Allen White , American journalist, politician, and writer
- 1869 : Vasily Pavlovich Kalafati , Russian composer
- 1873 : Egon Schweidler , Austrian physicist
- 1874 : Marie Gutheil-Schoder , German opera singer (soprano)
- 1878 : Albin Frehse , German horn player and professor
- 1878 : Katayama Hiroko , Japanese poet and translator
- 1878 : Zdeněk Nejedlý , Czech historian, literary critic and musicologist
- 1879 : Gottlob Schrenk , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1882 : Alfred La Liberté , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1885 : Salvatore Aurigemma , Italian archaeologist
- 1886 : Otto Lummitzsch , German pioneer officer, architect and civil engineer, founder of the Technical Relief Organization ( THW )
- 1888 : Harry Beaumont , American film director
- 1888 : Willy Jaeckel , German expressionist painter
- 1888 : Alfredo Pacini , Vatican diplomat and cardinal
- 1888 : Wilhelm Thöny , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1888 : Giuseppe Ungaretti , Italian writer
- 1890 : Fanny Kaplan , Russian anarchist and social revolutionary, alleged assassin of Lenin
- 1890 : Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak , Russian poet and writer ( Doctor Schiwago ), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1891 : André Coyne , French dam engineer
- 1891 : William Lawrie Welsh , British aviation pioneer and general in World War II
- 1892 : Karl Arning , German officer
- 1892 : Günther Blumentritt , German general in World War II, military writer
- 1892 : Roland Rohlfs , American test pilot
- 1892 : Clive Gallop , British designer and racing car driver
- 1893 : Bill Tilden , American tennis player
- 1894 : Harold Macmillan , British politician and head of government
- 1894 : Giuseppe Morandi , Italian racing driver
- 1894 : Hermann Weinkauff , German lawyer and judge, first President of the Federal Court of Justice
- 1895 : Edmond Gaujac , French composer and music teacher
- 1895 : Hans Gustav Röhr , German designer and automobile manufacturer
- 1896 : John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton , British Field Marshal and Governor of Cyprus
- 1896 : Alister Hardy , British marine biologist
- 1896 : Willi Scharf , German geologist
- 1897 : Karl Abel , German trade unionist and politician
- 1897 : Judith Anderson , Australian actress
- 1897 : John Franklin Enders , American bacteriologist
- 1898 : Bertolt Brecht , German playwright, lyric poet and poet, founder of epic or dialectical theater
- 1898 : Elsa Chauvel , Australian actress
- 1898 : Joseph Kessel , French journalist and writer
- 1900 : Hans Gustl Kernmayr , Austrian writer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Stella Adler , American stage and film actress
- 1901 : Richard Brauer , German-American mathematician
- 1901 : Eugen Denzel , German painter, graphic artist and press illustrator
- 1901 : Arthur Jores , German medic
- 1902 : Walter Houser Brattain , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1903 : Franco Cortese , Italian racing car driver
- 1903 : Waldemar Hoven , German camp doctor in Buchenwald concentration camp , officer of the SS and Waffen-SS, responsible for human experiments and selections resulting in death, war criminal
- 1903 : Max von Mühlenen , Swiss painter
- 1903 : Matthias Sindelar , Austrian football player
- 1904 : Tito Colliander , Finnish-Swedish writer
- 1904 : Otto Dannebom , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1904 : John Farrow , Australian screenwriter and director
- 1906 : Lon Chaney Jr. , American theater, film, and television actor
- 1908 : Alfred Kranzfelder , German naval officer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1908 : Alexandre Mnouchkine , Russian-French film producer
- 1908 : Charles Plantivaux , French racing car driver
- 1909 : Holger Fransman , Finnish horn player
- 1909 : Bert Niosi , Canadian band leader, clarinetist, saxophonist and composer
- 1910 : Maria Cebotari , Moldovan opera singer
- 1910 : Jean Coulthard , Canadian composer and music teacher
- 1910 : Aloys Lenz , German politician, MdL, MdB, MdEP
- 1910 : Dominique Pire , Belgian Dominican monk, founder of aid organizations and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1911 : Mstislav Vsevolodowitsch Keldysch , Soviet-Latvian mathematician
- 1911 : Georg Kliesing , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1912 : Herbert Baum , German-Jewish resistance fighter against National Socialism (Herbert Baum group)
- 1913 : Douglas Slocombe , British cinematographer
- 1914 : Larry Adler , American harmonica player
- 1915 : Johann van Aken , German politician, MdL
- 1916 : Achiam , French-Israeli sculptor
- 1916 : Edward R. Roybal , American MP in the US House of Representatives for California
- 1917 : Danny Kladis , American racing car driver
- 1918 : James Carson , American country and old-time musician
- 1919 : Eddie Johnson , American racing car driver
- 1921 : Adrian Cruft , British composer and professor
- 1921 : Margarete Hannsmann , German writer
- 1921 : Heinz Quermann , German television entertainer in the GDR
- 1922 : Árpád Göncz , Hungarian author, politician and President
- 1922 : Harold Hughes , American politician
- 1922 : Hans Kindermann , German lawyer, judge, member of the DFB control committee
- 1923 : Ahti Karjalainen , Finnish politician
- 1924 : Günter Anlauf , German sculptor and graphic artist
- 1924 : Paolo Massimo Antici , Italian diplomat
- 1924 : Georges Hacquin , Belgian racing driver
- 1925 : Mary Elizabeth Bayer , Canadian cultural politician and author
- 1925 : Gerhard Boeden , German police officer, Vice President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
- 1925 : Pierre Mondy , French actor and director
1926-1950
- 1926 : Jakob Christ , Swiss psychiatrist
- 1926 : Hazel Court , British actress
- 1926 : Kostas Mountakis , Greek lyre player
- 1927 : Alma Adamkienė , Lithuanian first lady
- 1927 : Jakov Lind , Austro-British writer, radio play author, film director and painter
- 1927 : Leontyne Price , American opera singer (soprano), one of the first Afro-American stars in the concert and opera business
- 1928 : Walter Felke , German entrepreneur and local politician
- 1928 : Jean-Luc Lagardère , French entrepreneur
- 1928 : Nelson Pinedo , Colombian singer
- 1929 : Arne Benary , German economist, representative of the New Economic System in the GDR
- 1929 : Hallgeir Brenden , Norwegian cross-country skier, Olympic champion
- 1929 : Jerry Goldsmith , American film music composer
- 1929 : František Nepil , Czech writer, radio presenter and narrator
- 1929 : Josef Tauchner , Austrian weightlifter
- 1930 : Emil Kiess , German painter, sculptor and glass painter
- 1930 : Robert Wagner , American actor
- 1931 : József Ács , Hungarian sculptor and medalist
- 1932 : Roland Hanna , American jazz pianist
- 1933 : Gottfried Arnold , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1934 : Fleur Adcock , British-New Zealand poet and translator
- 1934 : Rahn Burton , American jazz pianist
- 1934 : Kirk Fordice , American politician, governor of Mississippi
- 1935 : Theodore Antoniou , Greek conductor and composer
- 1935 : Ezard Haußmann , German actor
- 1935 : Konrad Klapheck , German painter, artist and art professor
- 1935 : Tadeusz Strugała , Polish conductor and music teacher
- 1937 : Roberta Flack , American soul singer, pianist and songwriter
- 1939 : Adrienne Clarkson , Canadian journalist, author and diplomat
- 1939 : Barbara Kolb , American composer
- 1940 : Cornell Green , American football player
- 1940 : Rainer Holbe , German journalist, television presenter and author
- 1940 : Tibor Kovács , Hungarian archaeologist
- 1941 : Michael Apted , British director
- 1941 : Ray Miller , German pop singer
- 1941 : David Parnas , American pioneer of software technology
- 1941 : Eike von Savigny , German philosopher
- 1942 : Howard Mudd , American football player
- 1942 : Lawrence Weiner , American visual artist, exponent of conceptual art
- 1943 : Frank-Patrick Steckel , German theater director
- 1943 : Harald Fritzsch , German physicist
- 1944 : Petra Adam-Ferger , German politician, MdL
- 1944 : Peter Allen , Australian composer and entertainer
- 1944 : Kurt Binder , Austrian physicist
- 1944 : Jean Daniel Cadinot , French film director and producer
- 1944 : Niklot Klüßendorf , German numismatist, archivist
- 1944 : Rufus Reid , American jazz bassist
- 1945 : Gerd Lohmeyer , German actor and director
- 1945 : Karin Radermacher , German politician, MdL
- 1945 : Leopold Stiefel , German entrepreneur, founder of the electronics retail chain Media Markt
- 1946 : Dick Anderson , American football player
- 1946 : Jürgen Aretz , German civil servant
- 1947 : Louise Arbor , Canadian judge, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 1947 : Margrit Olfert , German athlete
- 1948 : Luis Armando Collazuol , Brazilian bishop
- 1948 : Peter Biesenbach , German lawyer, politician and MdL
- 1949 : Rodney Wallace , American football player
- 1950 : Horst Spengler , German handball player and coach
- 1950 : Mark Spitz , American swimmer, Olympic champion
1951-1975
- 1951 : Zeudi Araya , Eritrean actress
- 1952 : Frank Bsirske , German trade unionist and politician, chairman of the ver.di trade union
- 1953 : John Shirley , American science fiction writer
- 1953 : Carl Stone , American composer
- 1953 : Engelbert Wistuba , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1954 : Liane Deicke , German politician, MdL
- 1954 : Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen , German flautist and composer
- 1954 : Peter Ramsauer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1954 : Anna Solecka , German painter and photographer
- 1955 : Christopher Adams , English wrestler and judoka
- 1956 : Maroun Ammar , Lebanese auxiliary bishop
- 1956 : Enele Sopoaga , Tuvaluan diplomat and politician
- 1957 : Regina Ammicht Quinn , German theologian, Germanist and university professor
- 1957 : Olivier Anken , Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
- 1957 : Stephan Balkenhol , German sculptor
- 1957 : Steffen Flath , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1958 : Walter Afanasieff , American music producer and songwriter
- 1958 : Birgit Diezel , German politician, MdL, State Minister, President of the State Parliament
- 1958 : Eduard Mainoni , Austrian politician
- 1958 : Norbert Vollertsen , German emergency doctor and human rights activist
- 1960 : Robert Addie , British actor
- 1960 : Rawilja Agletdinowa , Soviet middle-distance runner
- 1960 : Jochen Schimmelschmidt , German composer
- 1961 : Paolo Fresu , Italian jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and composer
- 1961 : Alexander Payne , American film director
- 1961 : Eva Pfaff , German tennis player
- 1962 : Cliff Burton , American bassist ( Metallica )
- 1963 : Michael Applebaum , Canadian politician and entrepreneur
- 1963 : Candan Erçetin , Turkish singer
- 1963 : Alan McInally , Scottish soccer player
- 1963 : Johann Wadephul , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1964 : Sam Graddy , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1964 : Francesca Neri , Italian actress
- 1965 : Gen Getsu , Japanese writer
- 1965 : Dana Winner , Belgian singer
- 1966 : Renata Przemyk , Polish singer-songwriter
- 1967 : Patrick Bahners , German journalist
- 1967 : Laura Dern , American actress
- 1969 : Carsten Knop , German journalist and author
- 1969 : Marc Asbeck , German entrepreneur
- 1970 : Peter Boyer , American composer, music teacher and conductor
- 1970 : Marco Girnth , German actor
- 1970 : Åsne Seierstad , Norwegian writer and journalist
- 1971 : Lisa Marie Varon , American wrestler
- 1972 : Dani Felber , Swiss jazz musician
- 1974 : Elizabeth Banks , American actress
- 1975 : Kool Savas , German rap musician
1976-2000
- 1976 : Vanessa da Mata , Brazilian singer and composer
- 1976 : Keeley Hawes , British actress
- 1976 : Vedran Runje , Croatian football goalkeeper
- 1976 : Carlos Jiménez Sánchez , Spanish basketball player
- 1977 : Salif Diao , Senegalese soccer player
- 1977 : Endre Lund Eriksen , Norwegian writer
- 1977 : Tanja Vreden , German soccer player
- 1978 : Don Omar , Puerto Rican reggaeton musician and actor
- 1978 : Anna-Kaisa Rantanen , Finnish soccer player
- 1979 : Joey Hand , American racing driver
- 1979 : Johan Harstad , Norwegian writer
- 1979 : Ross Powers , American snowboarder
- 1980 : Marko Baacke , German Nordic combined athlete
- 1980 : Riki Flutey , English rugby player
- 1980 : Ralph Kretschmar , German actor and musician
- 1980 : Enzo Maresca , Italian football player
- 1981 : Fränzi Aufdenblatten , Swiss ski racer
- 1981 : Cho Yeo-jeong , South Korean actress
- 1981 : Dimitrios Tzimourtos , Greek handball player
- 1982 : Justin Gatlin , American athlete
- 1982 : Tom Schilling , German actor
- 1983 : Ricardo Clark , American football player
- 1984 : Sasa Patchoulia , Georgian basketball player
- 1984 : Jemma Simpson , British athlete
- 1986 : Falcao , Colombian soccer player
- 1986 : Yui Ichikawa , Japanese actress
- 1986 : Vegard Haukø Sklett , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1986 : Viktor Troicki , Serbian tennis player
- 1987 : Chaz Davies , British motorcycle racer
- 1987 : Poli Genova , Bulgarian singer
- 1987 : Yuja Wang , Chinese pianist
- 1988 : Francesco Acerbi , Italian football player
- 1989 : Rebecca Horner , Austrian actress
- 1990 : Maximilian Ahlschwede , German soccer player
- 1990 : Hajck Karapetjan , German handball player
- 1990 : Sooyoung , South Korean singer
- 1990 : Lady , Austrian rapper
- 1991 : Emma Roberts , American actress
- 1991 : Florian Schabereiter , Austrian ski jumper
- 1991 : Andreas Tiffner , Austrian soccer player
- 1992 : Sandjar Ahmadi , Afghan soccer player
- 1992 : Misha B , British singer-songwriter and rapper
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (* 1992)
- 1992 : Pauline Ferrand-Prévot , French cyclist
- 1993 : Max Kepler , German baseball player
- 1993 : Patrik Twardzik , Czech football player
- 1994 : Galina Vishnevskaya , Kazakh biathlete
- 1995 : Eva Vamberger , Slovenian soccer and futsal player
- 1995 : Florian Baumgärtner , German handball player
- 1996 : Valentin Ponkratz , German pop singer
- 1996 : Anica Röhlinger , German actress
- 1996 : Robert Vişoiu , Romanian racing car driver
- 1997 : Chloë Grace Moretz , American actress
- 1998 : Aitor Buñuel , Spanish soccer player
- 1999 : Tiffany Espensen , Chinese-American actress
- 2000 : Yara Shahidi , Iranian-American actress
Died
Before the 16th century
- 704 : Austreberta , saint of the Catholic Church
- 883 : Berthold , Archbishop of Trier
- 917 : Frederuna , Frankish queen
- 1055 : Bruno von Waldeck , Bishop of Minden
- 1126 : William IX. , Duke of Aquitaine
- 1148 : Simon of Vermandois , Bishop of Tournai and Bishop of Noyon
- 1161 : New Year's Eve , Bishop of Prague
- 1162 : Baldwin III. , King of Jerusalem
- 1164 : Hugo von Fosses , Dept.
- 1188 : Siegfried , Bishop of Paderborn
- 1199 : Albrecht III. , Count von Habsburg, Vogt von Muri and Landgrave in Alsace
- 1221 : Nicholas , Archbishop of Salerno
- 1242 : Shijō , 87th Emperor of Japan
- 1275 : Paio Peres Correia , Portuguese knight
- 1289 : John de Vescy , English nobleman, military man and diplomat
- 1306 : John III. Comyn, Lord of Badenoch , Scottish nobleman and heir to the throne
- 1307 : Timur Khan , Mongolian Khan, Chinese emperor of the Yuan dynasty
- 1344 : Heinrich V. Schenk von Reicheneck , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1367 : Boemund II of Saarbrücken , Archbishop of Trier
- 1399 : Jean de Murol , Bishop of Geneva
- 1419 : Ulrich Ensinger , German master builder of the southern German Gothic
- 1452 : Švitrigaila , Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1471 : Friedrich II. (The Iron Man) , Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg
- 1495 : William Stanley , English knight during the Wars of the Roses
16th to 18th century
- 1524 : Catherine of Saxony , second wife of Archduke Siegmund of Tyrol
- 1527 : Ludwig von Diesbach , Bernese statesman
- 1543 : Johannes Eck , German Catholic theologian and opponent of Martin Luther
- 1558 : Johann Weinlob , Brandenburg lawyer and chancellor of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg
- 1567 : John VI. von der Leyen , Archbishop and Elector of Trier
- 1567 : Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , husband of Mary Queen of Scots , Titular King of Scotland
- 1579 : Nicholas Bacon , English lawyer, judge and Lord Chancellor
- 1581 : Hans Steiger , mayor of Bern
- 1593 : Hans Burkhard von Anweil , German nobleman
- 1596 : Peter Gropper , Roman Catholic theologian and mystic
- 1598 : Anna , Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania and Queen of Sweden
- 1606 : Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo , Spanish officer, Viceroy of New Spain and Viceroy of Peru
- 1621 : Pietro Aldobrandini , Cardinal of the Roman Church and Archbishop of Ravenna
- 1632 : Müezzinzade Filibeli Hafız Ahmed Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1634 : Caspar Pezel , German lawyer, archivist and librarian
- 1642 : Juan Carlos Amat , Spanish doctor and musician
- 1645 : Dorothea Sophie von Sachsen-Altenburg , 33rd abbess of the Reichsstift von Quedlinburg
- 1645 : Conchobhar Mag Uidhir , Irish rebel leader
- 1669 : Johann Heinrich Waser , Swiss Mayor of Zurich
- 1722 : Bartholomew Roberts , notorious Welsh pirate
- 1729 : Johann von Besser , German poet
- 1734 : Jean Raoux , French painter
- 1748 : Benedikt Wilhelm von Ahlefeldt , master of Gut Kaden, major and district administrator
- 1752 : Anne Henriette de Bourbon , Princess of France and viola player
- 1755 : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu , French writer, philosopher and state theorist of the Enlightenment
- 1766 : Andrea Gallasini , Italian-German plasterer and architect
- 1782 : Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German theologian, leading Pietist
- 1783 : James Nares , British composer and organist
- 1794 : Jacques Roux , French revolutionary
- 1800 : Vincenzo Maria Altieri , Italian cardinal
19th century
- 1810 : Karl Friedrich am Ende , Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
- 1817 : Karl Theodor von Dalberg , Archbishop of Mainz, Prince Primate, Bishop of Constance
- 1820 : Anna Elisabeth Luise von Brandenburg-Schwedt , wife of Prince Ferdinand of Prussia
- 1822 : Albert Kasimir von Sachsen-Teschen , German nobleman and art patron
- 1829 : Leo XII. , Pope
- 1834 : Johann Christian Hundeshagen , German forest scientist
- 1837 : Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin , Russian author and poet, is considered the Russian national poet and founder of modern Russian literature
- 1838 : Albert Friedrich Bach , German local politician
- 1841 : Josef Alois Gleich , Austrian civil servant and theater poet
- 1846 : Robert Henry Dick , British major general
- 1854 : José Joaquín de Herrera , Mexican President and Officer
- 1855 : Ernst Ludwig von Aster , Prussian general
- 1859 : Anna Maria von Sachsen , Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- 1864 : Antoinette de Mérode , Princess of Monaco
- 1865 : Emil Lenz , German-Baltic physicist
- 1868 : David Brewster , British physicist, rediscoverer of the kaleidoscope
- 1873 : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , Irish writer
- 1876 : Eduard von Peucker , Prussian infantry general
- 1876 : Karl Mathias Rott , Austrian comedian
- 1876 : August Söderman , Swedish Romantic composer
- 1878 : Claude Bernard , French physiologist
- 1879 : Honoré Daumier , French painter and sculptor, graphic artist and caricaturist
- 1879 : Paul Gervais , French zoologist and paleontologist
- 1888 : Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer , German Arabist
- 1891 : Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja , Russian mathematician
- 1899 : Archibald Lampman , Canadian poet
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Gottlieb Biermann , Austrian historian and educator
- 1901 : Max von Pettenkofer , German chemist and hygienist
- 1903 : Gustav von Görtz , Silesian major general and chamberlain
- 1906 : Anton Hermann Albrecht , German Protestant theologian and poet
- 1907 : Ernst Leybold , German entrepreneur
- 1912 : Joseph Lister , British medic
- 1916 : Naftali Amsterdam , Russian rabbi
- 1917 : Émile Pessard , French composer
- 1917 : John William Waterhouse , British painter
- 1918 : Abdülhamid II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1918 : Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Italian publicist and politician, President of the Lombard Peace League, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 1920 : Erwin Gross , German-Baltic clergyman and evangelical confessor
- 1923 : Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1927 : Emma Pieczynska-Reichenbach , Swiss abolitionist and women's rights activist
- 1932 : Edgar Wallace , British crime novelist, screenwriter, director, journalist and playwright
- 1933 : Carl Heinrich Becker , German orientalist, university reformer and politician, Prussian minister of education
- 1934 : Ossip Schubin , Czech-German writer
- 1934 : Fedor von Zobeltitz , German journalist and writer
- 1936 : Mary French Sheldon , American explorer and author
- 1937 : Ali-Akbar Davar , Iranian lawyer and politician
- 1938 : Alexander Jakowlewitsch Arosew , Russian-Soviet writer, politician and diplomat
- 1938 : Maxim Harezki , Belarusian writer
- 1938 : Aleksander Majkowski , Kashubian and Polish author
- 1939 : Pius XI. , Pope
- 1940 : Max Brunnow , German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1940 : Robert Leinert , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, President of the Landtag, Lord Mayor of Hanover
- 1942 : Lawrence Joseph Henderson , American chemist and biologist
- 1944 : Eugène Michel Antoniadi , Greek astronomer
- 1944 : Alfred Bachelet , French composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1944 : Alice Haubrich-Gottschalk , German pediatrician and gynecologist
- 1945 : Richard Karutz , German doctor and ethnologist
- 1945 : Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott , British architect and interior designer
- 1948 : Stephen Morehouse Avery , American screenwriter
- 1948 : Egon Schweidler , Austrian physicist
- 1949 : Abe Isoo , Japanese MP, intellectual and pacifist
- 1950 : Marcel Mauss , French social anthropologist
- 1950 : Armen Tigranjan , Armenian composer
1951-2000
- 1951 : Joseph Bovet , Swiss composer and priest
- 1952 : Macedonio Fernández , Argentine writer
- 1953 : Maria Labia , Italian opera singer
- 1954 : Robert Görlinger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1956 : Otto Müller , German-Austrian publisher
- 1957 : Laura Ingalls Wilder , American writer
- 1958 : Aleksander Klumberg , Estonian athlete
- 1960 : Alojzije Stepinac , Yugoslav-Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zagreb and Cardinal
- 1961 : Jakub Deml , Czech priest, poet and writer
- 1962 : Norman Birkett , British politician, lawyer, assistant judge at the Nuremberg Trials
- 1962 : Eduard von Steiger , Swiss politician
- 1964 : Eugen Sänger , Austrian aerospace engineer
- 1965 : Bruno Leuschner , German politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and Chairman of the State Planning Commission of the GDR
- 1966 : John Frederick Charles Fuller , British major general and military historian
- 1966 : Osie Johnson , American jazz drummer
- 1966 : Billy Rose , American songwriter, show business impresario and manager
- 1970 : Abe Attell , American boxer
- 1973 : Pierre Bussienne , French racing car driver
- 1975 : Nikos Kavvadias , Greek writer
- 1977 : Sergei Wladimirowitsch Ilyushin , Russian engineer and aircraft manufacturer
- 1979 : Edvard Kardelj , Yugoslav politician
- 1979 : Henry B. Ollendorff , American lawyer and social worker
- 1982 : Georg Arnold-Graboné , German painter
- 1982 : Margrit Rainer , Swiss actress
- 1983 : Hermann Schmidt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1985 : Werner Hinz , German actor
- 1986 : Brian Aherne , British actor
- 1987 : Anton Donhauser , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1987 : Andy Linden , American Formula 1 racing driver
- 1987 : Robert O'Brien , American racing car driver
- 1987 : Hans Rosenthal , German entertainer, presenter and director
- 1987 : William Rose , American screenwriter
- 1988 : Hans Ruchti , German economist
- 1988 : Lothar Malskat , German painter and art forger
- 1990 : Josef Hindels , Austrian trade unionist, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1991 : William Joseph Foley , Australian Roman Catholic Archbishop
- 1992 : Alex Haley , American writer ( Roots )
- 1995 : Heinrich Drerup , German archaeologist
- 1997 : Brian Connolly , British musician and singer ( The Sweet )
- 1998 : Pablo Armitano , Venezuelan trumpeter, military bandmaster and music teacher
- 1998 : Erich Mückenberger , German party functionary in the GDR
- 1999 : Josef Holaubek , police chief in Vienna
- 1999 : Louise Piëch , Austrian entrepreneur
- 2000 : Ronald Roseman , American oboist, music teacher and composer
- 2000 : Androniqi Zengo Antoniu , Albanian painter
21st century
- 2001 : Abraham D. Beame , American politician, Mayor of New York City
- 2002 : Jack Henry Abbott , American capital criminal and writer
- 2002 : Dave Van Ronk , American blues musician
- 2002 : Vernon A. Walters , American officer, intelligence officer, and diplomat
- 2003 : Alfred Aston , French football player
- 2003 : Curt Hennig , American wrestler ( Mr. Perfect )
- 2003 : Hannelore Willbrandt , German resistance fighter against National Socialism ( White Rose Hamburg )
- 2003 : Ron Ziegler , US White House Press Secretary
- 2005 : Humbert Balsan , French film producer
- 2005 : Jean Cayrol , French author and publisher
- 2005 : Ben Jones , Grenadian politician
- 2005 : Arthur Miller , American writer
- 2006 : Dionis Bubani , Albanian writer
- 2006 : Norman Shumway , American cardiologist and surgeon
- 2006 : J Dilla , American hip hop musician and producer
- 2007 : Bruno Ruffo , Italian motorcycle racer
- 2008 : Wolfgang Lettl , German surrealist painter
- 2008 : Peter Marginter , Austrian author and translator
- 2008 : Inga Nielsen , Danish opera singer (soprano)
- 2008 : Roy Scheider , American film actor
- 2009 : Ida Weiss , Austrian author and radio presenter
- 2010 : Charlie Wilson , American politician
- 2010 : Bo Holmberg , Swedish politician
- 2010 : Michael Palme , German sports journalist
- 2011 : Claus Helmut Drese , German opera and theater director, director and author
- 2014 : Stuart Hall , British cultural theorist
- 2014 : Claus Arndt , German lawyer and politician
- 2014 : Reinhard Kühnl , German political scientist
- 2014 : Anna Maria Praschl , Austrian politician
- 2014 : Shirley Temple , American actress, singer, dancer and ambassador
- 2015 : Rolf Arland , German composer
- 2015 : Karl Josef Becker , German cardinal
- 2015 : Manfred Wagner , German soccer player
- 2016 : Hildesuse Gaertner , German ski racer and politician
- 2016 : Eliseo Prado , Argentine soccer player
- 2016 : Andrew L. Lewis , American economic manager, politician, and United States Secretary of Transportation
- 2017 : Högna Sigurðardóttir , Icelandic architect
- 2017 : Jan Kubr , Czech cyclist
- 2017 : Mike Ilitch , American entrepreneur
- 2017 : Edward Bryant , American author
- 2018 : Otto Gert Folberth , German physicist
- 2018 : Alan Battersby , British chemist
- 2019 : Carmen Argenziano , American actor
- 2019 : Heinz Fütterer , German athlete
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Scholastica of Nursia , Italian virgin and nun (Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox)
- Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German pastor, prelate in Murrhardt (Protestant)
- Alojzije Stepinac , Croatian Cardinal and Archbishop, Blessed Martyr (Catholic)
- Name days
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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