10th of May
The May 10 is the 130th day of the Gregorian calendar (131st in leap years ), thus remain 235 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1503 : On his fourth voyage, Christopher Columbus reached the Cayman Islands , which he named Las Tortugas because of the numerous sea turtles he met .
- 1650 : During the reconquest of Ireland , the English parliamentary army under Roger Boyle defeats Irish troops at the Battle of Macroom .
- 1655 : English troops under William Penn land in the south of the Spanish colony of Jamaica . The Spanish colonial administration in Spanish Town surrenders to the attackers the next day. The Caribbean island remains in British possession until 1962.
- 1774 : With the death of Louis XV. because all his sons died before him, his grandson Louis XVI. King of France .
- 1775 : The second continental congress of all British colonies in America meets in Philadelphia . The conference takes place at changing locations until March 2, 1789.
- 1775 : At the Battle of Ticonderoga , the 52-man British garrison of the fort of the same name is captured by insurgent colonists under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold in the American War of Independence . Only one shot is fired, no one is seriously injured in the fight.
- 1794 : Élisabeth Philippe Marie Hélène de Bourbon , the younger sister of Louis XVI. , was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris during the French Revolution only 7 days after her 30th birthday and was executed on the same day.
- 1796 : The French army under Napoleon Bonaparte triumphs over Austrian troops in the battle of Lodi during the Italian campaign , after he succeeded in forcing Sardinia-Piedmont to an armistice on April 28th.
- 1849 : After the start of the Reich constitution campaign mutinies in Hagen , fearful of being used against the revolutionaries in Baden , and move to Iserlohn under the leadership of Caspar Butz . The Iserlohn uprising is put down after only a week.
- 1857 : One day after the public demotion of Indian soldiers ( Sepoys ) of the British garrison in Merath , British India , who refused to use the new Enfield rifles , begins with a massacre of 50 soldiers, civil servants, women and children of the Sepoy uprising against the British colonial rulers .
- 1865 : The Southern -President Jefferson Davis is with his family and accompanied the end of the Civil War by troops of the Union in Irvinville in Georgia captured.
- 1865 : Guerrilla leader William Clark Quantrill and his Quantrill's Raiders are ambushed by Union troops in Kentucky during the Civil War . He succumbs to his injuries on June 6th.
- 1869 : The sea battle of Hakodate, lasting several days, between ships of the Japanese Empire at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration and ships of the split-off Ezo Republic ends with a victory for Japan .
- 1871 : The Peace of Frankfurt , based on the preliminary peace of Versailles of February 26th, ends the Franco-Prussian War . France must cede Alsace and parts of Lorraine . They come to the German Empire as the realm of Alsace-Lorraine .
- 1872 : Suffragette Victoria Woodhull is proposed by the Equal Rights Party as the first woman for the office of US president , although women do not yet have the right to vote in the United States . Your opponents then revile the candidate as Mrs. Satan .
- 1877 : After the start of the Russo-Turkish War declared Romania under Carol I. its independence from the Ottoman Empire . This is recognized a year later by the Treaty of Berlin .
- 1906 : Tsar Nicholas II opens the elected first State Duma in the Russian Empire with a speech from the throne .
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- 1922 : The United States annexed the Kingman attack belonging to the Line Islands , a coral reef in the North Pacific , citing the Guano Islands Act of 1856 .
- 1924 : J. Edgar Hoover becomes head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which he initiated , a US federal agency to combat crimes in which state borders are crossed. He retained the post of director for 48 years until his death.
- 1932 : The song Het Wilhelmus , known since the 16th century , is officially designated as the national anthem of the Netherlands .
- 1933 : The Austrofascist government under Engelbert Dollfuss decrees the suspension of all elections at federal, state and municipal level, thereby consolidating the corporate state in Austria .
- 1933 : In Germany , after the seizure of power, the National Socialists and their accomplices, made up of professors and students, began burning books in over 20 cities as part of the “Against the un-German spirit” campaign . The list of books burned in 1933 includes dozens of authors who either have Jewish ancestors or who propagated pacifist or communist ideas. It is based on the black lists of the librarian Wolfgang Herrmann .
- 1933 : The National Socialists found the German Labor Front as a unified association of workers and employers with the assets of the broken trade unions . The right to strike has also been abolished.
- 1940 : The western campaign ( yellow case ) of the German Wehrmacht in World War II begins after Adolf Hitler's arrival at the Führer headquarters " Felsennest " in Rodert , Bad Münstereifel , with the invasion of the neutral states of the Netherlands , Belgium and Luxembourg .
- 1940 : German Air Force planes mistakenly bomb Freiburg im Breisgau , killing 57 people.
- 1940 : Neville Chamberlain resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain . His successor Winston Churchill forms a war coalition cabinet with all parties.
- 1940 : British troops land in Reykjavík and occupy neutral Iceland to forestall a feared invasion by the German Reich.
- 1941 : Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland on his own to start peace negotiations with Douglas Douglas-Hamilton , whom he believes to be a main representative of the British peace movement, and becomes a prisoner of war after his plane crashes.
- 1949 : The Parliamentary Council decides with a narrow majority of 33:29 votes for Bonn as the provisional capital of the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 1953 : The city of Chemnitz in Saxony is renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt . At the same time, the associated district will also be given the new name.
- 1954 : The Federal Labor Court in Kassel , which started its judicial activity in April, is officially opened with a ceremony by court president Hans Carl Nipperdey .
- 1959 : In the national elections in Austria , the SPÖ, with Bruno Pittermann , becomes the party with the highest number of votes. However, the ÖVP under Federal Chancellor Julius Raab received one more mandate due to electoral arithmetic. For the first time, the KPÖ is no longer represented in the Austrian National Council.
- 1969 : The US Army begins a major attack in Vietnam on the Dong Ap Bia hill near the Cambodian border, which is shown on the US military maps as Hill 937 . The last major US ground offensive in the Vietnam War later became known as the Battle of Hamburger Hill . It lasts until May 20th.
- 1973 : At a meeting on the Mauritanian border, the liberation movement Frente Polisario is launched. al-Wali Mustafa Sayyid is elected general secretary of the new organization aiming for the independence of the Spanish Sahara colony .
- 1979 : The four states in the US- administered Pacific Islands trust area ratify both a constitution for the new polity, the Federated States of Micronesia, and an association treaty with the US, which assume the military protection of the area. Its independence came into effect on November 3, 1986.
- 1981 : In the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives , the CDU clearly wins with its top candidate Richard von Weizsäcker . After the failure of the Senate of Dietrich Stobbe (SPD), his successor Hans-Jochen Vogel (SPD) also failed.
- 1981 : The socialist François Mitterrand beats his conservative rival Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from the UDF in the second round of the French presidential election and becomes French president on the third attempt . He is the first socialist head of state of the Fifth Republic .
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- 1994 : Nelson Mandela , elected the day before, becomes the first black African President of South Africa and gives his inaugural address at the inauguration.
- 2005 : In Tbilisi , Georgia , an attempt is made from a crowd to throw a hand grenade at US President George W. Bush during a speech on Freedom Square . It does not detonate due to technical failure. The assassin who carried out the second attack on Bush can be identified and arrested in the following weeks.
- 2010 : The European Council decides to set up a euro rescue package with a volume of 750 billion euros . The Greek sovereign debt crisis is expanding into a euro crisis .
- 2017 : Moon Jae-in becomes the new President of the Republic of Korea following the presidential election . His predecessor, Park Geun-hye , had previously been dismissed due to a corruption scandal and a wave of protests.
economy
- 1833 : At the suggestion of Prussia the small states establish Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , Saxe-Meiningen , Sachsen-Altenburg , Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , Reuss-Greiz , Reuss-Schleiz and Reuss-Ebersdorf the customs - and trade association of the Thuringian states , which the next day joins the German customs union founded in March . Be effective both customs alliances with January 1, 1834th
- 1837 : The suspension of the convertibility of paper money into gold and silver coins by all New York banks leads to the speculatively influenced economic crisis of 1837 in the USA . Another trigger is the economic policy of the last President Andrew Jackson and the withdrawal of state funds from the Second Bank of the United States . US President Martin Van Buren's refusal to take government action to save the economy is helping to increase the damage and duration of the crisis.
- 1869 : The first transcontinental railroad in the USA is put into operation jointly by the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad . The "golden nail" will be driven into the railroad in Utah , where the Golden Spike National Historic Site is now located. A nail actually made of gold and donated by Leland Stanford and specially made is never inserted into the rails.
- 1904 : The German automobile manufacturer August Horch relocates with his company A. Horch & Cie. Founded in 1899 . from Reichenbach im Vogtland to Zwickau .
- 1950 : The automobile manufacturer SEAT is founded in Barcelona by the Spanish state holding Instituto Nacional de Industria , banks and the Italian Fiat group.
- 1993 : The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic puts the first banknotes with the national currency Som into circulation. This makes Kyrgyzstan the first Central Asian state to leave the ruble zone .
science and technology
- 1861 : The Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna is informed in a meeting about the discovery of the alkali metals cesium and rubidium by the Germans Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff .
- 1893 : According to tradition, the New York Central Railroad's NYC No. 999 steam locomotive was the first vehicle to reach speeds of more than 100 mph (about 161 km / h).
- 1927 : The Braunschweig repair shop of the Reichsbahn on Borsigstrasse starts operations. 17 days later, the first repaired locomotive leaves the factory. Around 50 years later it closes as the last steam locomotive plant on the Federal Railroad.
- 1954 : Texas Instruments provides in Dayton , Ohio, the first silicon - transistor before.
Culture
- 1725 : Johann Sebastian Bach's church cantata On Ascension Day Alone is premiered in Leipzig in his second year in office. The text is from Christiana Mariana von Ziegler .
- 1790 : The world premiere of the historical drama Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans by Rodolphe Kreutzer takes place at the Comédie Italienne in Paris .
- 1809 : In Vienna , performances of Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven have to be canceled for this day and the next, as the Napoleonic troops that have arrived in Schönbrunn threaten to bombard the city.
- 1824 : The London National Gallery , established by the British government after the purchase of the art collection of John Julius Angerstein, opens to the public in the former city palace of Angerstein, No. 100 Pall Mall .
- 1843 : The opera Die Sicilianische Vespers by Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner has its world premiere in Stuttgart.
- 1893 : The Beethoven House is opened in Bonn as part of the second chamber music festival , making the composer's birthplace a memorial .
- 1907 : The world premiere of the opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Bluebeard) by Paul Dukas based on the drama of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Representatives of the Second Viennese School subsequently expressed their enthusiasm for the work, which however never became particularly popular and remained Dukas' only opera.
- 1914 : The world premiere of the opera Die Sutlerin by Engelbert Humperdinck with the libretto by Robert Misch takes place in Cologne.
- 1922 : The opera Venus by Othmar Schoeck with the libretto by Armin Rüeger, inspired by a novella by Prosper Mérimée , has its world premiere in Zurich at the Stadttheater .
- 1935 : The political-literary cabaret Die Katakombe in Berlin is closed by the Gestapo at the instigation of Joseph Goebbels . The operator Werner Finck is temporarily interned in the Esterwegen concentration camp .
- 1967 : The song San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) , written by John Phillips and sung by Scott McKenzie , is released on Ode Records . Today it is considered the hymn of the hippie movement and of the Summer of Love that takes place in the same year .
- 1987 : The new version of the ballet Sleeping Beauty with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is premiered in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . For the first time operated Marcia Haydée as a choreographer.
- 2005 : The memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin , made up of 2,711 steles and designed by Peter Eisenman , is inaugurated.
society
- 1612 : Prince Khurram, who later became the Indian mogul Shah Jahan , marries the 19-year-old daughter of Asaf Khan , Arjumand Banu Begum, who is given the name Mumtaz Mahal . The prince's third wife subsequently becomes his favorite wife.
- 1860 : On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the poet and theologian Johann Peter Hebel , the Basler Hebelstiftung is founded in Basel . Christian Friedrich Schönbein becomes the first president of the foundation . The purpose of the foundation is a verbally transmitted wish of Lever: the oldest men in his home village Hausen im Wiesental should receive a glass of wine every year and the four best students should be given a gift.
- 1994 : John Wayne Gacy is executed by lethal injection in Illinois State Prison, USA . The serial killer known as the "killer clown" was sentenced on March 13, 1980 for killing 33 people to 21 life imprisonment and twelve times the death penalty .
- 2005 : The video about the player character Leeroy Jenkins from World of Warcraft is published in an internet forum , which is developing into an internet phenomenon.
religion
- 946 : Agapitus II is appointed Pope by Alberich II , ruler of Rome and the papacy , as the successor to the late Marinus II .
- 1530 : Philipp Melanchthon finishes writing the apology of the Confessio Augustana in Augsburg , which is to be presented to the upcoming Reichstag .
Disasters
- 1996 : On Mount Everest , several commercial expeditions with a total of 30 people are surprised by a weather change with a snow storm. By the end of the following day, a total of 8 people were killed in the worst accident to date on Mount Everest . The surviving participant Jon Krakauer later recorded the events in the book Into Thin Air , in which he made serious allegations against the mountain guide Anatoly Nikolajewitsch Bukrejew , which prompted him to reply under the title The Summit .
- 1997 : An earthquake in eastern Iran , which is rated between 7.1 and 7.5 on the Richter scale , kills between 1500 and 4000 people, depending on the source.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1977 : With the Bundesliga soccer match against the FK Austria / WAC syndicate , the Weststadion is opened as the home stadium of SK Rapid Wien . The home team won 1-0. The official opening ceremony of the stadium, which also serves as a home for SC Wacker Wien for a while, will not take place until September 14th.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 850 : Seiwa , 56th Tennō of Japan
- 893 : al-Hamdānī , Arab scholar
- 1152 : Gangjong , 22nd King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
- 1265 : Fushimi , 92nd Tennō of Japan
- 1272 : Bernardo Tolomei , saint of the Roman Catholic Church and founder of the Olivetans
- 1291 : Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester , English nobleman
- 1484 : Wolfgang von Baden , Margrave of Baden
- 1491 : Suzanne de Bourbon-Beaujeu , Duchess of Bourbon and Auvergne, and Countess of Clermont
- 1521 : Johann Ernst , Duke of Saxe-Coburg
- 1548 : Antonio Priuli , 94th Doge of Venice
- 1581 : Wolfgang Kilian , German engraver
- 1635 : Benedikt Abelzhauser , Bavarian Benedictine monk and scholar
- 1645 : Johann Jakob Kees , Leipzig merchant and electoral Saxon chief postmaster
- 1653 : Leander Anguissola , Italian cartographer, educator, engineer and lieutenant colonel
- 1682 : Peter Friedrich Arpe , German lawyer
- 1697 : Jean-Marie Leclair , French composer and violinist
18th century
- 1711 : Friedrich III. , Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- 1714 : Sophie Charlotte Ackermann , German actress, wife of Konrad Ernst Ackermann
- 1718 : Angelius Johann Daniel Aepinus , German philosopher and university professor
- 1727 : Anne Robert Jacques Turgot , French statesman and economist
- 1730 : George Ross , American lawyer and politician, signatory of the American Declaration of Independence
- 1731 : Tommaso Antici , Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1737 : Franz Egon von Fürstenberg , Prince-Bishop of Paderborn and Hildesheim
- 1743 : Lucie-Madeleine d'Estaing , French nobleman and mistress of Louis XV.
- 1745 : Wilhelm Florentin von Salm-Salm , Archbishop of Prague
- 1748 : Louis Pierre Vieillot , French ornithologist
- 1752 : Maria Amalie Auguste , Countess Palatinate of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Queen of Saxony and Duchess of Warsaw
- 1752 : Pierre Riel de Beurnonville , French general and statesman, peer and marshal of France
- 1754 : Asmus Carstens , German classicist painter
- 1754 : John Sinclair , Scottish economist and politician
- 1760 : Charles de Bonchamps , French leader of the Vendée uprising
- 1760 : Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , French composer, poet and officer
- 1760 : Johann Peter Hebel , German poet, Protestant theologian and educator
- 1763 : Johann Gottlieb Blümner , German civil servant
- 1770 : Louis-Nicolas Davout , French general, Marshal of France
- 1776 : George Thomas Smart , British conductor, organist, violinist and composer
- 1780 : Angelica Catalani , Italian opera singer († 1849 )
- 1784 : Carlo Filangieri , Italian general
- 1784 : Heinrich von der Tann , German officer and member of parliament
- 1788 : Augustin Jean Fresnel , French physicist and engineer
- 1789 : Jared Sparks , American historian
- 1795 : Augustin Thierry , French historian
- 1799 : Wilhelm Adolf Lette , German social politician and lawyer
- 1800 : Nikolai Alexejewitsch Titow , Russian composer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Hugh J. Anderson , American politician
- 1805 : Alexander Braun , German botanist
- 1807 : Karl Braun , Saxon lawyer and politician, Minister and Prime Minister
- 1807 : Jean Victor Coste , French naturalist
- 1807 : Bernhard Horwitz , German-British chess player
- 1809 : Peter Tunner , Austrian mining pioneer
- 1813 : Montgomery Blair , American politician, federal prosecutor, and ministerial
- 1816 : Friedrich Gerstäcker , German adventure writer
- 1817 : Emma Herwegh , German banker's daughter, revolutionary, champion of the women's rights movement, wife of the poet Georg Herwegh
- 1818 : Johan Vilhelm Gertner , Danish painter
- 1818 : František Hegenbarth , Czech cellist and music teacher
- 1822 : August von Pettenkofen , Austrian painter and illustrator
- 1823 : John Sherman , American politician, MP, Senator, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury
- 1825 : Reinhold von Werner , German vice admiral and military writer
- 1826 : Henry Clifton Sorby , British naturalist
- 1827 : William Windom , American lawyer and politician, MP and Senator, US Treasury Secretary
- 1830 : François Marie Raoult , French physicist and chemist
- 1833 : Jakob Lindau , German politician from Baden, MdR
- 1835 : Wilhelm von Blume , Prussian infantry general
- 1838 : James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce , British lawyer, historian and politician
- 1838 : John Wilkes Booth , American stage actor and Abraham Lincoln's assassin
- 1843 : Benito Pérez Galdós , Spanish writer
- 1844 : Adolf Held , German economist
- 1847 : Mary French Sheldon , American explorer and author
- 1847 : Wilhelm Killing , German mathematician
- 1850 : Thomas Lipton , British self-made man, entrepreneur and trader ( Lipton Tea ), yacht owner ( America's Cup )
1851-1900
- 1855 : Adolf Brütt , German sculptor and stonemason, founder of the Weimar School of Sculpture
- 1855 : Yukteswar Giri , Indian yogi and guru
- 1856 : Florian Berndl , Austrian naturopath
- 1857 : Julius Smend , German theologian
- 1857 : Hendrik Zwaardemaker , Dutch physiologist
- 1858 : Willem Leonard Pieter Arnold Molengraaff , Dutch legal scholar
- 1863 : Charles-René , French composer and music teacher
- 1863 : Kaarle Krohn , Finnish folklorist
- 1866 : Bruno Ablaß , German lawyer and notary, politician, MdR
- 1867 : Samuel Robison , American admiral; Commander in Chief of the US Fleet
- 1870 : Franz Xaver Müller , Austrian composer, priest and cathedral music director
- 1872 : August Adenauer , German lawyer
- 1872 : Marcel Mauss , French ethnologist
- 1873 : Peyveste Emuhvari , tenth wife of the Turkish sultan Abdülhamid II.
- 1873 : Richard Wilhelm , German sinologist, theologian and missionary
- 1874 : Martin Boelitz , German writer
- 1876 : Ivan Cankar , Slovenian writer
- 1876 : Leopold Hennet , Austrian agrarian, civil servant and minister
- 1876 : Carl Cremer , German lawyer and politician, MdL, MdR
- 1877 : Colombo Max , German painter
- 1877 : Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár , Austrian conductor, composer and playwright
- 1878 : Gustav Stresemann , German statesman, Reich Chancellor, Foreign Minister, MdR, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1879 : Hermann Andert , German paleontologist, geologist and bank director
- 1881 : Karl Brückel , German actor, theater director, singer and radio play speaker
- 1882 : Luis Subercaseaux Errázuriz , Chilean diplomat, athlete and football player
- 1882 : Edmond Pichon , French racing car driver
- 1883 : Victor Johnson , British cyclist, Olympic and world champion
- 1883 : Eugen Leviné , German communist of the Munich Soviet Republic
- 1883 : Heinz von Hennig , German chess player
- 1884 : Roberto Firpo , Argentine tango musician
- 1885 : Fritz von Unruh , German writer, painter, speaker and poet of literary expressionism
- 1886 : Frank Ahearn , Canadian owner of the Ottawa Senators
- 1886 : Karl Barth , Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian, is considered the "Church Father of the 20th Century"
- 1886 : Rosa Münch , Swiss politician
- 1886 : Olaf Stapledon , British science fiction writer
- 1887 : Günther Jachmann , German classical philologist
- 1887 : August Pepöck , Austrian composer and conductor
- 1888 : Max Steiner , Austrian composer
- 1889 : Regina Kägi-Fuchsmann , Swiss women's rights activist
- 1890 : Alfred Jodl , German Colonel General, Chief of the Wehrmacht Command Staff , major war criminal
- 1890 : Clarence Brown , American film director
- 1890 : Jan Engbertus Jonkers , Dutch criminal lawyer
- 1890 : Curt Oertel , German cameraman, film director and film producer
- 1891 : Guilherme Rebelo de Andrade , Portuguese architect
- 1891 : Anton Dostler , German officer and general in World War II
- 1892 : Arthur E. Nelson , American politician
- 1892 : Jan Weiss , Czech writer
- 1893 : György Négyesy , Hungarian chess player
- 1894 : Dimitri Tiomkin , Russian-Ukrainian-American film composer and conductor
- 1896 : Ferdinand Wedenig , Austrian politician
- 1897 : Einar Gerhardsen , Norwegian politician
- 1897 : Rudolf Henz , Austrian writer, ORF program director
- 1898 : Herbert Elwell , American composer and music teacher
- 1898 : Rudolf Schönheimer , German biochemist
- 1899 : Fred Astaire , American dancer, singer, and actor
- 1899 : Karl Hartl , Austrian film director
- 1899 : Karl Georg Pfleiderer , German politician and diplomat
- 1899 : Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg , Austrian politician
- 1900 : Ernst Ising , German mathematician and physicist
- 1900 : Adolf Jobst , Austro-Czech politician, restorer and painter
- 1900 : Karl Ernst Krafft , Swiss statistician and economic advisor
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : John Desmond Bernal , British physicist and historian of science
- 1901 : Otto Höfler , Austrian Germanist
- 1901 : Guy Dollfuss , French racing car driver
- 1902 : Anatole Litvak , filmmaker from Ukraine
- 1902 : David O. Selznick , American film producer
- 1903 : Hans Jonas , German-Jewish philosopher and ethicist
- 1903 : Otto Bradfisch , SS-Obersturmbannführer, leader of the Einsatzkommando 8
- 1903 : Kay Petre , Canadian racing car driver and journalist
- 1904 : Antonio Buenaventura , Filipino composer
- 1904 : Kuwabara Takeo , Japanese literary scholar and translator
- 1905 : Franz Xaver Meitinger , German politician
- 1905 : Markos Vamvakaris , Greek singer and composer
- 1907 : Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer , German architect and university professor
- 1908 : Carl Albert , American politician
- 1909 : Ignacio Aguirrezabala , Spanish football player
- 1909 : Maybelle Carter , American country and folk singer
- 1909 : Valentina Stepanovna Grisodubova , Soviet pilot
- 1910 : Bernard Voorhoof , Belgian football player
- 1910 : Eric Berne , Canadian doctor and psychiatrist
- 1910 : J. Allen Hynek , American astronomer
- 1911 : Alberto Soresina , Italian composer and music teacher
- 1912 : Adrian Aeschbacher , Swiss pianist
- 1913 : Hellmut Becker , German lawyer and educational researcher
- 1914 : Marcel Becquart , French racing car driver
- 1914 : Erwin Lange , German politician
- 1915 : Denis Thatcher , British businessman, husband of Margaret Thatcher
- 1915 : Monica Dickens , British writer
- 1916 : Alfred Weidenmann , German author and director for young people
- 1916 : Milton Babbitt , American composer
- 1917 : Kurt Brand , German science fiction author
- 1918 : Peter Poreku Dery , Ghanaian clergyman, Archbishop of Tamale (Ghana) and cardinal
- 1919 : Daniel Bell , American sociologist
- 1919 : Tibor Sárai , Hungarian composer
- 1920 : Theo Aaldering , German weightlifter
- 1920 : Eric Sturgess , South African tennis player
- 1921 : Oliver Hassencamp , German author of young books and novels
- 1922 : Jacques Albrespic , French composer and organist
- 1922 : Emilio Arenales Catalán , Guatemalan politician
- 1922 : Marc Drumaux , Belgian labor leader and politician
- 1923 : Gerhard Wahrig , German lexicographer
- 1923 : Heydər Əliyev , Azerbaijani politician
- 1923 : Nicolaus Sombart , German cultural sociologist and writer
- 1925 : Nasuh Akar , Turkish wrestler
- 1925 : Hannelore Bollmann , German film actress
- 1925 : Néstor Rossi , Argentine football player and coach
1926-1950
- 1926 : Franco Angrisano , Italian actor
- 1926 : Günter Spang , German writer
- 1926 : Hugo Banzer Suárez , Bolivian officer, politician and President
- 1927 : Marcel Mart , Luxembourg Democratic Party politician
- 1927 : Senta Wengraf , Austrian film actress
- 1928 : Pierre Mouallem , Israeli Archbishop
- 1928 : Arnold Rüütel , Estonian politician and president
- 1928 : Lothar Schmid , German publisher and chess player
- 1929 : Mel Lewis , American jazz musician
- 1929 : Peter C. Newman , Canadian writer and journalist
- 1929 : Leni Statz , German humorist and children's voices imitator
- 1930 : Ernst Eichler , German linguist
- 1930 : George Elwood Smith , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1931 : Ettore Scola , Italian film director
- 1931 : Yūzō Toyama , Japanese composer and professor
- 1932 : Gottfried Aegler , Swiss musician
- 1932 : Christiane Kubrick , German painter and actress
- 1932 : Michel Leblond , French football player
- 1933 : Horst Waffenschmidt , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1934 : Jayne Cortez , American poet and improviser
- 1934 : Dmitri Nabokov , American opera singer and translator
- 1935 : Judith Beckmann , American soprano
- 1935 : Larry Williams , American singer, pianist and songwriter
- 1936 : Manfred Riedel , German philosopher
- 1937 : Tamara Press , Soviet shot putter and discus thrower
- 1937 : Enno Thümler , German politician
- 1938 : Manuel Santana , Spanish tennis player
- 1938 : Marina Vlady , French actress
- 1939 : Robert Darnton , American historian
- 1939 : Uwe Wandrey , German writer
- 1940 : Terry Trotter , American jazz and studio musician
- 1941 : Peter Franz , German author
- 1942 : Carl Douglas , Jamaican singer
- 1942 : Hans Haider , Austrian manager
- 1943 : Wolfgang Porsche , Austrian manager
- 1944 : Gunnar Asmussen , Danish racing cyclist
- 1944 : Marie-France Pisier , French actress
- 1945 : Mats Wahl , Swedish writer
- 1946 : Klaus Ager , Austrian composer and conductor
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- 1946 : Donovan , British songwriter and musician
- 1946 : Dave Mason , British musician
- 1946 : Franz-Josef Paefgen , German manager
- 1947 : Ahmed Abdullah , American jazz trumpeter
- 1947 : Rainer Fornahl , German politician
- 1947 : Angelika Graf , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1948 : Meg Foster , American actress
- 1948 : Thury Horath , Swiss country musician
- 1949 : Tapio Räisänen , Finnish ski jumper
- 1949 : Hans Reichel , German guitarist, violinist, instrument maker and typographer
- 1949 : Sylvia Renz , German writer
- 1950 : Liaty Pisani , Italian writer
- 1950 : Richard Umberg , Swiss athlete
1951-1975
- 1951 : Wolfgang Apel , German animal rights activist
- 1951 : Mevlüt Asar , Turkish-German writer and poet
- 1951 : Petra Hammesfahr , German writer
- 1952 : Mario Capezzuto , German politician, MdL
- 1952 : Sly Dunbar , Jamaican drummer and producer
- 1952 : Roland Kaiser , German pop singer
- 1952 : Vanderlei Luxemburgo , Brazilian soccer coach
- 1953 : Elena Matous , skier from San Marino
- 1953 : Ralf Rothmann , German writer
- 1953 : Silke Stokar von Neuforn , German politician
- 1954 : Sabine Postel , German actress
- 1955 : Mark David Chapman , American, murderer of John Lennon
- 1957 : Frank Dammann , German handball player
- 1957 : André Dosé , Swiss manager and sports official
- 1957 : Phil Mahre , American ski racer
- 1957 : Steve Mahre , American ski racer
- 1957 : Sid Vicious , British punk musician; Bass player
- 1958 : Harri Kirvesniemi , Finnish cross-country skier
- 1958 : Ralf Zumdick , German Bundesliga goalkeeper
- 1958 : Rick Santorum , American politician
- 1959 : Hamide Akbayir , German politician
- 1959 : Giorgi Guraspashvili , Georgian painter and sculptor
- 1959 : Peter Enders , German politician
- 1959 : Heinz Karrer , Swiss manager and handball player
- 1959 : Agustin Kola , Albanian national soccer player
- 1960 : Bono , Irish rock musician, guitarist and singer (U2)
- 1960 : Richard Graham , British actor
- 1960 : Gerry Kley , German politician
- 1960 : Harald Meller , German archaeologist
- 1960 : Klaus-Peter Nabein , German middle and long distance runner
- 1960 : Merlene Ottey , Slovenian-Jamaican athlete
- 1960 : Victoria Rowell , American actress
- 1961 : Henry Arnold , German actor, musician and director
- 1961 : Danny Carey , American drummer
- 1961 : Roberto Cotroneo , Italian writer and publicist
- 1961 : Johanna ter Steege , Dutch actress
- 1962 : John Ngugi , Kenyan athlete
- 1963 : Lisa Nowak , American astronaut
- 1964 : Mark Andre , Franco-German composer
- 1964 : Ulrike Beimpold , Austrian actress, director, voice actress and author
- 1964 : Gitta Connemann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1964 : Emmanuelle Devos , French actress
- 1965 : Michael Regener , German singer
- 1965 : Linda Evangelista , Canadian mannequin and photo model
- 1965 : Philip Harper , American jazz trumpeter
- 1966 : Mikael Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1966 : Jonathan Edwards , British triple jumper
- 1966 : Johannes Kalpers , German singer
- 1966 : Mustafa Yıldızdoğan , Turkish musician
- 1967 : Antje Harvey , German biathlete
- 1968 : Emilija Kokić , Croatian pop and pop singer
- 1968 : Richard Patrick , American singer
- 1968 : Erik Palladino , American actor
- 1968 : Markus Zoecke , German tennis player
- 1969 : Dennis Bergkamp , Dutch soccer player
- 1969 : Bob Sinclar , French record producer, DJ and remixer
- 1969 : Hilary Lindh , American ski racer
- 1970 : Craig Mack , American rapper
- 1970 : Gabriela Montero , Venezuelan concert pianist
- 1971 : Kim Jong-nam , son of the former North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il
- 1971 : Monisha Kaltenborn , Austrian lawyer, motorsport official and racing team owner
- 1971 : Luan Krasniqi , German boxer
- 1971 : Doris Neuner , Austrian luge athlete
- 1971 : Tomasz Wałdoch , Polish football player
- 1971 : Katja Woywood , German actress
- 1972 : Christian Wörns , German soccer player
- 1972 : Katja Seizinger , German ski racer
- 1973 : Oliver Drechsel , German concert pianist
- 1973 : Philipp Franz zu Guttenberg , German nobleman and forest administrator
- 1973 : Rüştü Reçber , Turkish football goalkeeper
- 1973 : Wayne Mardle , British darts player
- 1974 : Séverine Caneele , French actress
- 1974 : Sylvain Wiltord , French football player
- 1975 : Hélio Castroneves , Brazilian racing driver
- 1975 : Ueli Kestenholz , Swiss snowboarder
1976-2000
- 1976 : Sven Montgomery , Swiss cyclist
- 1976 : Udo Mechels , Belgian singer
- 1977 : Nick Heidfeld , German Formula 1 racing driver
- 1977 : Jiří Štoček , Czech chess grandmaster
- 1978 : Mithat Demirel , German basketball player
- 1978 : Kenan Thompson , American actor
- 1979 : Isabel Blanco , Norwegian handball player
- 1979 : Wiradech Kothny , Thai-German fencer
- 1979 : Lee Hyori , South Korean singer
- 1979 : Marieke Vervoort , Belgian wheelchair athlete in disabled sports
- 1980 : Karoline Dyhre Breivang , Norwegian handball player
- 1980 : Ralph Näf , Swiss mountain bike professional
- 1980 : Frida Skybäck , Swedish writer
- 1981 : Péter Ács , Hungarian chess master
- 1981 : Pina Picierno , Italian politician
- 1981 : Humberto Suazo , Chilean football player
- 1982 : Eva-Maria Fitze , German figure skater
- 1982 : Marc Hennerici , German racing driver
- 1982 : Sabrina Richter , German handball player
- 1983 : Pavel Eljanow , Ukrainian chess player
- 1983 : Marcus Hanikel , Austrian soccer player
- 1983 : Zac Taylor , American football coach
- 1985 : Odette Annable , American actress
- 1985 : Jan Dose , German actor
- 1985 : Cristian Sánchez Prette , Argentine soccer player
- 1986 : Kevin Amuneke , Nigerian soccer player
- 1986 : P. Harikrishna , Indian chess grandmaster
- 1987 : Typh Barrow , Belgian singer
- 1988 : Steffi Annys , Belgian badminton player
- 1988 : Joel Miller , American racing driver
- 1988 : Elisabeth Olischar , Austrian politician
- 1988 : Cristian Pecci , Spanish soccer player
- 1990 : Ivana Španović , Serbian long jumper
- 1990 : Valentin Weckerle , German handball player
- 1991 : Tim Wellens , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1992 : Charice , Filipino singer
- 1993 : Halston Sage , American actress
- 1993 : Mohammad Soufi , Syrian pool player
- 1994 : Mitchell Gilbert , Australian racing car driver
- 1994 : Yūki Itō , Japanese ski jumper
- 1995 : Dries Van den Broecke , Belgian ski racer
- 1995 : Missy Franklin , American swimmer
- 1995 : Mikaela Tommy , Canadian ski racer
- 1997 : Richarlison , Brazilian soccer player
21st century
2001-2010
- 2001 : Lucas Légeret , Swiss racing car driver
Died
Before the 18th century
- 967 : Drogo , Bishop of Osnabrück
- 967 : Rainald , first Earl of Roucy
- 1034 : Mieszko II. Lambert , King, later Duke of Poland
- 1155 : Heinrich I von Wolfratshausen , Bishop of Regensburg
- 1206 : William de Blois , Anglo-Norman clergyman and Bishop of Lincoln
- 1239 : Agnes von Zähringen , German nobleman
- 1258 : Sewal de Bovill , Archbishop of York
- 1315 : Agnes Blannbekin , Austrian beguine, Franciscan of the Third Order and mystic
- 1318 : Richard de Clare, Lord of Thomond , Anglo-Irish nobleman
- 1340 : Henry de Beaumont, 1st Baron Beaumont , English nobleman
- 1356 : Konrad Groß , Nuremberg councilor
- 1356 : Rhys ap Gruffydd , Welsh nobleman and general
- 1363 : Aldouin Alberti , Bishop of Maguelonne and Auxerre
- 1388 : Gidō Shūshin , Japanese Buddhist monk and poet
- 1403 : Catherine Swynford , mistress and future wife of John of Gaunt
- 1424 : Go-Kameyama , 99th Tennō of Japan
- 1480 : Philip I (the elder) of Hanau-Lichtenberg , Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
- 1511 : Andreas von Sonnenberg , German nobleman from the Waldburg family and Count von Sonnenberg
- 1521 : Sebastian Brant , German humanist and lawyer, author of the late medieval moral satire Das Narrenschiff
- 1527 : Johann Hüglin , German pastor and martyr
- 1566 : Leonhart Fuchs , German doctor with knowledge of plants
- 1597 : Ulrico Aostalli , Swiss master builder
- 1605 : Casimir VI. , non-ruling Duke of Pomerania
- 1632 : Jean-Louis de Marillac , French military leader and statesman, Marshal of France
- 1632 : Mathias Tinctorius , victim of the witch hunt in Hüfingen
- 1652 : Jacques Nompar de Caumont , Marshal of France
- 1657 : Gustaf Horn , Swedish general in the Thirty Years' War
- 1667 : Luisa Maria Gonzaga , Queen of Poland
- 1696 : Jean de La Bruyère , French writer
18th century
- 1706 : Johann Jakob Hofmann , Swiss theologian, classical philologist, historian and lexicographer
- 1706 : Simon Rettenpacher , German-speaking and neo-Latin playwright, poet and chronicler
- 1710 : Georg Dietrich Leyding , German organist and composer
- 1712 : Christian Ernst , Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- 1721 : Christian Wilhelm , Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- 1722 : Hermann Lothar von Auwach , baron and canon in the prince-bishopric of Speyer
- 1723 : Meinrad Guggenbichler , Swiss Baroque sculptor active in Austria
- 1725 : René de Froulay de Tessé , French diplomat and Camaldolese, Marshal of France
- 1733 : Jacob August Franckenstein , German legal scholar and lexical editor
- 1737 : Nakamikado , 114th Tennō of Japan
- 1739 : Cosmas Damian Asam , German sculptor, painter and builder
- 1743 : Melusine von der Schulenburg , mistress of the Brunswick-Lüneburg Elector and King George I of England
- 1751 : Johann Beyer , carpenter and astronomer in Hamburg
- 1754 : Samuel Walther , German writer, educator and historian
- 1758 : Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , German historian, librarian and lexicographer
- 1758 : Claus von Reventlow , Danish-German lawyer, president of the Højesteret and canon in Lübeck
- 1760 : Christoph Graupner , German composer
- 1764 : Christian Friedrich Henrici , German writer, poet and librettist, most important lyricist of Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1766 : Mendel Heymann , progenitor of the Mendelssohn family
- 1767 : Christian Ulrich Grupen , German lawyer, legal historian and author
- 1767 : Philipp Loth von Seers , Prussian major general, head of the engineering corps and commander of the Schweidnitz fortress and knight of the Pour le Mérite order
- 1774 : Louis XV. , King of France
- 1775 : Charlotte Ackermann , German actress
- 1775 : Caroline Mathilde , Queen of Denmark and Norway
- 1789 : Said Murad Khan Zand , ruler of Persia
- 1794 : Élisabeth Philippe Marie Hélène de Bourbon , French princess
- 1798 : George Vancouver , British Royal Navy officer and explorer
19th century
- 1805 : Johann Evangelist Haydn , Austrian tenor
- 1807 : Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur , Count of Rochambeau, Marshal of France
- 1813 : Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger , German zoologist and entomologist
- 1818 : Paul Revere , American freedom fighter
- 1819 : Eli Porter Ashmun , American politician
- 1822 : Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard , French clergyman and teacher of the deaf and mute
- 1829 : Thomas Young , British physicist
- 1833 : Friedrich Adolf Ahlert , German architect and master builder of Cologne Cathedral
- 1833 : François Andrieux , French scholar, poet and lawyer
- 1837 : Georg Karl Friedrich Emmrich , German Protestant clergyman and educator
- 1840 : Catterino Cavos , Italian-Russian composer
- 1840 : Johann Christoph Gottlob Weise , German botanist and author
- 1846 : Anton Wilhelm Möller , German Protestant clergyman
- 1848 : Caspar von Geismar , German nobleman, Imperial Russian General Adjutant to the Tsar
- 1849 : Katsushika Hokusai , Japanese representative of ukiyo-e
- 1850 : Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , French chemist and physicist ( Gay-Lussac law )
- 1859 : Bertha Arndts , German writer
- 1861 : Christian CA Lange , Norwegian historian and archivist
- 1863 : Thomas Jonathan Jackson , American officer, Confederate general in the Civil War
- 1863 : Jean-Bernard Kaupert , Swiss music teacher and composer
- 1865 : Eleonore de Ahna , German opera singer
- 1865 : William Armstrong , American politician
- 1877 : Ernst Carl von Ahlefeldt , German nobleman, district administrator, master of the Oehe and Rögen estates
- 1880 : John Goss , British organist and composer
- 1889 : Mikhail Yevgrafowitsch Saltykow-Shchedrin , Russian writer and satirist
- 1891 : Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli , Swiss botanist
- 1897 : William Thomas Best , British organist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Georg Christian Dieffenbach , German pastor and poet
- 1904 : Henry Morton Stanley , British-American journalist, African explorer and author
- 1906 : Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin , Sultan of Brunei
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- 1909 : Georg Howaldt , German entrepreneur and industrialist in shipbuilding ( Howaldtswerke AG ), Councilor of Commerce
- 1911 : La Fayette Grover , American attorney and politician, MP, governor, and senator for Oregon
- 1913 : Andreas Aubert , Norwegian art historian and art critic
- 1915 : Albert Weisgerber , German painter and graphic artist
- 1915 : Karl Lamprecht , German historian and university professor
- 1916 : Robert Kraft , German writer
- 1919 : Bruno Sauer , German archaeologist
- 1926 : Alton B. Parker , American judge and lawyer, US presidential candidate
- 1932 : Konstantin von Gebsattel , German officer and propagandist
- 1935 : Herbert Witherspoon , American singer, vocal teacher and theater manager
- 1937 : August Jacob Georg Howaldt , German entrepreneur and industrialist in shipbuilding ( Howaldtswerke AG )
- 1937 : Friedrich Uhlhorn , German Protestant theologian and church historian
- 1938 : Antoine Jean Baumgartner , Swiss Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1939 : Sigfús Einarsson , Icelandic composer
- 1943 : Siegfried Rädel , German politician, MdR, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1945 : Konrad Henlein , Sudeten German politician under National Socialism, SS general
- 1945 : Richard Glücks , German general of the SS and Waffen-SS, chief inspector of the concentration camps
- 1945 : Fritz Wehrmann , German sailor and Nazi victim
- 1950 : Vasile Aftenie , Romanian Greek Catholic auxiliary bishop
1951-2000
- 1951 : Willi Busch , German actor
- 1952 : Paul Greifzu , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver
- 1954 : Ekkehard Arendt , Austrian actor
- 1954 : Erik Reger , German writer
- 1957 : Edvardas Adamkevičius , Lithuanian general
- 1957 : Guido Ascoli , Italian mathematician
- 1957 : Kurt von Tippelskirch , German general and military historian
- 1959 : Taco Hajo van den Honert , Dutch botanist
- 1960 : Yuri Karlowitsch Olescha , Russian writer
- 1963 : Gianfranco Comotti , Italian racing car driver
- 1963 : Hermann Wopfner , Austrian historian and folklorist
- 1964 : Elfriede Jaeger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1964 : Mikhail Fyodorowitsch Larionow , Russian painter
- 1965 : Edmund Adler , Austrian artist
- 1966 : Erich Engel , German film and theater director
- 1967 : Lorenzo Bandini , Italian racing car driver
- 1967 : Arthur Carron , English opera tenor
- 1968 : Scotty Beckett , American actor
- 1968 : Hans-Joachim Rath , German major general
- 1969 : Eli Lotar , French photographer
- 1971 : Paul Abel , British lawyer
- 1971 : Mihail Jora , Romanian composer
- 1971 : Mitsukuri Shūkichi , Japanese composer
- 1974 : Roland Gregory Austin , British classical scholar
- 1974 : Hal Mohr , American cameraman
- 1975 : Ernst Farke , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1976 : Elias Aslaksen , Norwegian preacher
- 1977 : Joan Crawford , American film actress
- 1977 : Alfred Frauenfeld , Austrian National Socialist politician
- 1979 : Antun Augustinčić , Yugoslav sculptor
- 1979 : Louis Paul Boon , Belgian-Flemish writer and journalist
- 1981 : Sigurd Greven , German publisher
- 1981 : Bolesław Lewandowski , Polish composer and conductor
- 1982 : Werner Ackermann , German writer, publisher and co-owner of the Monte Verità artists' colony
- 1982 : Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern , German draftsman and painter
- 1982 : Peter Weiss , German writer, painter, graphic artist and experimental filmmaker
- 1983 : Antoine Andrieux , French politician
- 1984 : Joaquim Agostinho , Portuguese cyclist
- 1984 : Gustave Singier , Belgian painter
- 1987 : Hermann Glöckner , German painter and sculptor
- 1987 : Wilhelm Strienz , German singer
- 1988 : Joey Sternaman , American football player and coach
- 1988 : Josephus Joannes Maria van der Ven , Dutch legal scholar
- 1989 : Woody Shaw , American jazz trumpeter and composer
- 1990 : Bruno Arno , German actor, cabaret artist, choreographer and dancer
- 1990 : Therese Neudorfer , Austrian politician
- 1990 : Karl-Eduard Wilke , German major general
- 1994 : John Wayne Gacy , American serial killer
- 1994 : Lucebert , Dutch painter and writer
- 1995 : Joe Vetrano , American football player
- 1996 : Gerd Duwner , German actor and voice actor
- 1996 : Yasuko Namba , Japanese mountaineer
- 1996 : Ethel Smith , American organist
- 1997 : John P. Austin , American production designer
- 1998 : Cesare Perdisa , Italian racing car driver
- 2000 : Hans Lodermeier , German motorcycle racer
21st century
- 2001 : Werner Schuster , German doctor and politician
- 2001 : Kurt Ziesel , Austrian journalist
- 2002 : David Riesman , American sociologist
- 2003 : Heinrich Schipperges , German medical historian
- 2003 : Heinz Oestergaard , German fashion designer
- 2005 : Otto Steiger , Swiss writer
- 2006 : Soraya , Colombian-American songwriter and singer
- 2006 : Alexander Alexandrowitsch Zinoviev , Russian dissident, philosopher and writer
- 2006 : John Hicks , American jazz pianist
- 2007 : Horst Michna , German doctor and sports scientist
- 2008 : Paul Haeberlin , French three-star chef
- 2009 : Maurice Edmond Müller , Swiss surgeon
- 2010 : Ike Franklin Andrews , American politician
- 2010 : Frank Frazetta , American fantasy and science fiction illustrator
- 2012 : Horst Faas , German photographer and war correspondent
- 2012 : Günther Kaufmann , German actor
- 2012 : Carroll Shelby , American racing driver and designer
- 2012 : Gunnar Sønsteby , Norwegian resistance fighter
- 2013 : Renate Hirsch-Giacomuzzi , German society lady
- 2014 : Elisabeth Frenzel , German literary scholar
- 2014 : Gert Börnsen , German politician
- 2015 : Chris Burden , American artist
- 2015 : William Thomas Cooper , Australian painter and ornithologist
- 2016 : Ilkka Hanski , Finnish ecologist
- 2016 : Thomas Luckmann , German-American sociologist
- 2017 : Geoffrey Bayldon , British actor
- 2017 : Takeuti Gaisi , Japanese mathematical logician
- 2018 : Klaus Jung , German sports medicine specialist
- 2018 : Dieter Ruckhaberle , German museum director
- 2019 : Anatol Herzfeld , German sculptor
- 2019 : Paul-Werner Scheele , German bishop
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johann Hüglin , German martyr and pastor (Protestant)
- St. Gordanius , Roman martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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